Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Specific signal processing circuitry
Patent
1982-05-18
1985-07-09
Buczinski, S. C.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Specific signal processing circuitry
34082533, 34082534, 360 15, 360 60, 369 84, H04N 716, G11B 586, G11B 1504
Patent
active
045285888
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION
This invention is directed to a method for processing a coded information signal which may comprise video and/or audio information, when transmitted from a signal source to a signal receiver in order to prevent an unauthorized use of the information content of the signal. The signal source may comprise a record carrier of the type magnetic tape or a disc which may be read optically/capacitively. The invention is also directed to a device for carrying out the method and a device for the playback of a record carrier, a television set and a data carrier for carrying out the method.
It is observed that the method according to the invention is useful also for record carriers comprising audio information only. Furthermore it should be observed that the signal source may comprise a radio or a television transmitter station and that the signal receiver may comprise a radio receiver or a television receiver. In this respect is referred to what follows. One further possible application of the method is the protection of computer software, for example software for so called personal computers.
However, in order to make the following description clearer it will be directed on the first hand to the use of the invention for record carriers of the type mentioned above, that is magnetic tape and optically/capacitively readable discs, and then the actual record carriers will be named video tape and video disc, respectively, said record carriers comprising prerecorded video and audio information.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
Consumer devices for recording and playback of video tape, that is video tape recorders, have been available on the market for some years, However, said devices have not as yet become so popular on the market, which of course has to do with the fact that a video tape recorder is an apparatus which is comparatively complicated and which demands a purchase price which is relatively high. A video tape recorder intended for private use is used in two ways mainly, that is on the first hand for a private recording/playback of TV-programmes, and on the other hand for playback of pre-recorded video tapes containing preferably films of so called B- and C-class. Generally it is considered that the slow development of the market for video tape recorders to a significant extent depends on the fact that the offer of pre-recorded programmes is limited and often of a low quality. Today the so called video disc is introduced on some markets, said disc being in one shape named as VLP, the playback of which requires a so called video disc player. The situation of the video disc is the same, that is the difficulty to provide a good programme software. The relatively low interest from the side of the programme producers for the markets of video tapes and video discs, respectively, may be explaned to a significant extent probably by the fact that a production of a video programme requires considerable economic resources and that a programme, being recorded on a video tape or a video disc and being offered for rent or sale, may be reproduced very easily to another video tape. These reproductions, so called "pirate copies", may afterwards be offered at a price which is a fraction only of the price to be paid for the original tape or disc. As a consequence the programme producer is not guaranteed a necessary return. Already on the limited market of today the problem of pirate copes is significant.
From the side of the film producers has been announced an interest for a novel use of the video disc or the video tape, meaning that in parallel with the introduction of a new film at the cinemas the one and same film should also be kept available on a video disc or a video tape. Instead of visiting the cinema it will then be possible to rent a film on a video disc or a video tape and to watch it at home. It may be expected that this possibility will be of special interest for persons who may not go to the cinema for practical reasons. Then the video discs or video tapes may be distributed for example via the ticket
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