Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing – Local trick play processing – With randomly accessible medium
Reexamination Certificate
1996-08-30
2001-04-10
Nguyen, Huy (Department: 2615)
Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing
Local trick play processing
With randomly accessible medium
C386S349000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06215951
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The subject invention concerns the field of VCRs and television program schedulers.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Many viewers record television programs for playback at a more convenient time. This practice is commonly-known as “time-shifting”. Unfortunately, many people nowadays have little free time in their hectic schedules to spend watching these tapes. Consequently, a sizable stack of tapes containing such time-shifted recordings can accrue before the viewer plays them. In the best of all possible worlds, the viewer would have labelled the outside of each tape with the title and date of the recorded television program. In actual practice, however, there is little chance that one is so organized. Consequently, a viewer may have accumulated three or four tapes, each containing an episode of a favorite show and, in the absence of neatly labeled tapes, the viewer must then play a portion of each tape to see if it is the desired episode.
Many camcorders include electronic titling circuitry including a keyboard for adding a text screen overlay to the image being recorded, so that the user can record a title along with the video. However, given the fact that many viewers do not even label their tapes, it is highly unlikely that a viewer would use such a time-consuming and tedious feature to title each tape electronically. Moreover, electronic titling by use of a keyboard is contrary to the current trend in the industry of making the recording of a television program a quick and easy procedure
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In a television system in which at least program title information for programs which are to be transmitted in the future is transmitted in advance to form a channel guide listing, apparatus is provided for acquiring at least one of the title information and the current date, and generating display signal comprising data representing a text screen containing at least one of the title information and the current date for recording a user-viewable screen display on a video tape ahead of the television program signal. The user-viewable title or date information then acts as a leader to the following television program. In a second embodiment of the invention, in those instances where descriptive text accompanies the program listing, apparatus of the invention records the descriptive text relating to the title, the star, the director, or the context of the program.
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Kiel Paul P.
Nguyen Huy
Thomson Licensing S.A.
Tripoli Joseph S.
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