Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1997-11-25
1999-12-21
Kostak, Victor R.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 9, 348460, 380 20, H04N 710
Patent
active
060055987
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for transmitting a broadcast program selection control signal, and controlling selective viewing of a broadcast program for a video appliance in which a viewing-restriction grade is set for a broadcast program and viewing of the broadcast program is restricted in accordance with the set viewing-restriction grade. According to the apparatus, the viewing-restriction grade of the broadcast program is determined and a control signal corresponding to the determined viewing-restriction grade is transmitted along with the broadcast program signal. In a television receiver, whether to admit the viewing of the received broadcast program is discriminated by comparing the viewing-restriction grade corresponding to the control signal with that predetermined by a user.
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Kostak Victor R.
LG Electronics Inc.
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