Mobile and hand-held broadcast video earth station terminals and methods for communicating with earth terminals via satellites

摘要

A mobile system for transmitting live audiovisual information from a portable integrated camera and transmission unit to a communications satellites in real time is disclosed. The system includes a portable camera for capturing live audiovisual information, a digital encoder for encoding captured audiovisual information into a compressed audiovisual signal, a terminal antenna for tracking the communications satellites to determine their locations and to transmit the compressed audiovisual signal to the communications satellites in real time, and a computer for different editing and signal processing purposes.