Abstract: An encoder receives a video input that includes initial video data and encodes the initial video data as encoded video data, such that the encoded video data comprises fewer bytes than the initial video data. The encoded video data is transmitted through a computer network to a decoder that receives the encoded video data and reconstructs an image representative of the video input for viewing on a display. A sensor senses at least one of viewer information representative of at least one of a location and movement of a viewer, and display information identifying the display. Viewer data representative of the at least one of the viewer information and the display information is transmitted to the encoder to modify the method of encoding the initial video data.

Abstract: The system for viewing color video "automatically" enables and disables a color killer circuit (monochrome/color mode) so that the color video may be viewed in monochrome. Enabling and disabling the color killer circuit for the current system may be accomplished, in part, by dynamic operation of the television. In operation the user may select one of three methods of activating the monochrome/color mode to enable the color killer circuit. First, the monochrome/color mode may be activated for one or more preselected channels. Second, the monochrome/color mode may be activated for all channels. Third, the monochrome/color mode may be activated if a control signal is included within the television broadcast indicating that the particular video being received is a colorized monochrome video. To deactivate the monochrome/color mode may be accomplished by any of four deactivation methods that disable the color killer circuit. First, the monochrome/color mode may be deactivated by turning the television off and on.

Abstract: An interconnect assembly for evaluating a probe measurement network includes a base, respective inner and outer probing areas in mutually coplanar relationship on the upper face of the base, a reference junction, and a high-frequency transmission structure connecting the probing areas and the reference junction so that high-frequency signals can be uniformly transferred there-between despite, for example, variable positioning of the device-probing ends of the network on the probing areas. A preferred method for evaluating the signal channels of the network includes connecting a reference unit to the reference junction and successively positioning each device-probing end that corresponds to a signal channel of interest on the inner probing area.