Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Recording apparatus
Patent
1989-02-21
1990-12-18
Richardson, Robert L.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Recording apparatus
358165, 358908, H04N 576
Patent
active
049790471
ABSTRACT:
A commercial message timer stores data indicative of a first tuned station in response to a channel change command and begins repeatedly timing a predetermined time period. Upon each expiration of the time period, the user is reminded that the commercial message on the first tuned station may be over. In this way a user can avoid a commercial message on a first channel by setting the timer and scanning through other channels, and yet be reminded to return (e.g. by use of a PC (previous-channel) key) to the first channel at the end of a time period substantially equal to that of a typical commercial message. In another embodiment employing a videocassette recorder (VCR) the commercial timer is activated upon pressing the PAUSE key of the VCR so that the user may avoid recording the commercial message on videotape.
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Co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 261,243, (Johnson), filed Oct. 25, 1988, entitled Commercial Message Timer.
Emanuel Peter M.
Lenihan Thomas F.
RCA Licensing Corporation
Richardson Robert L.
Tripoli Joseph S.
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