Consumer interface for a digital television system

Details Consumer interface for a digital television system Consumer interface for a digital television system

1994-12-23

1997-06-24

Kostak, Victor R.

Television

Special applications

Manufacturing

348906, 348731, 455 42, H04N 710

Patent

active

056421532

ABSTRACT:
A television system for receiving a plurality of digitally-encoded television programs includes circuitry for selecting a particular digital data transmission channel from a plurality of digital data transmission channels containing a desired digitally-encoded television program in response to a control signal, at least one of the data transmission channels also including television program schedule data. The system also includes user-operable data entry circuitry for entering data, and a controller for generating the above-noted control signal in response to user-entered data. The controller selects a virtual channel from a plurality of virtual channels in response to user-entered data, each virtual channel being subject to reassignment to a different one of said a plurality of digital data transmission channels, the television program schedule data defining the relationship of each of the television programs to respective ones of the plurality of digital data transmission channels.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5359601 (1994-10-01), Wasilewski et al.
patent: 5418782 (1995-05-01), Wasilewski
patent: 5446450 (1995-08-01), Blahut

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