Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1992-12-01
1994-10-18
Powell, Mark R.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 12, 455 42, H04N 716, H04N 7173
Patent
active
053572769
ABSTRACT:
A near video on demand time shifting feature for a subscriber terminal emulates the video cassette recorder functions of pause, fast forward, and rewind for a NVOD service subscription. The subscriber terminal stores global transactions concerning NVOD events in an event portion of memory. The subscriber terminal provides an on screen display feature for assisting in ordering the NVOD service and a user interface which provides the functions of pause, fast forward and rewind. When viewing a NVOD event, if the subscriber selects the pause function, the subscriber terminal causes a pause on screen display to be viewed for one time increment. After the elapse of the time increment, the subscriber terminal will tune the channel of the next showing which is one time increment earlier than that presently viewed. If the subscriber selects the rewind function, the subscriber terminal will tune the channel of the next showing which is one time increment earlier than that presently viewed. If the subscriber selects the fast forward function, the subscriber terminal will tune the channel of the previous showing which is one time increment later than that presently received.
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Banker Robert O.
Godlewski Voytek E.
Hayashi Michael T.
Huppertz Jeffrey B.
Lett David B.
Grant Chris
Powell Mark R.
Powers, III Frederick W.
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
Stewart Steven C.
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