Abstract: A method for acquiring at least one signal transmitted via an electric conductor, wherein an electric and/or magnetic field of the conductor is acquired at at least two identical or different positions relative to a longitudinal coordinate of the conductor, thus obtaining two measurement signals corresponding to the respective positions, and the signal transmitted via the conductor is inferred from the measurement signals.

Abstract: A method for acquiring at least one signal transmitted via an electric conductor, wherein an electric and/or magnetic field of the conductor is acquired at at least two identical or different positions relative to a longitudinal coordinate of the conductor, thus obtaining two measurement signals corresponding to the respective positions, and the signal transmitted via the conductor is inferred from the measurement signals.

Abstract: A method for transmitting multimedia data in MPEG format between multimedia nodes of a communication system via at least one communication link of the communication system. To configure the transmission of the multimedia data in the most efficient possible manner and to reduce the number of different communication systems in a vehicle, the MPEG multimedia data is transmitted via a FlexRay communication system according to the FlexRay protocol. For this purpose, the size of the payload segments of FlexRay data frames may be adjusted to the size of the MPEG data frames. The payload segment of a FlexRay data frame may be selected to be of the same size as the MPEG data frame, in particular 188 bytes long.

Abstract: A method, a multimedia device for transmitting, and/or a multimedia device and a gateway for connecting a multimedia device to a data transmission system are provided. The multimedia data include image and/or sound data in particular. To reduce the number of bus systems used in a motor vehicle, utilize existing bus systems in a motor vehicle more efficiently, and thus contribute overall to simplification and optimization of the data transmission within a motor vehicle, the multimedia data is transmitted via a data transmission system according to the FlexRay standard. Predefinable parameters of the FlexRay data transmission system are advantageously varied as a function of the format of the multimedia data and/or a repetition rate of a multimedia source which provides the multimedia data. In this way, particularly efficient and effective transmission of the multimedia data, which conserves resources and is thus cost-effective in particular, is possible.