Television – Receiver circuitry
Patent
1995-02-08
1996-04-16
Kostak, Victor R.
Television
Receiver circuitry
348731, H04N 544
Patent
active
055087566
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a T.V. tuner cassette insertable into a tape player. These tape players (or recorders) normally have magnetic pick-up heads, volume controls and other signal conditioning circuitry which collect and modify an audio signal prior to application of the audio signal to one or more speakers. The T.V. tuner cassette demodulates the audio components of the received T.V. signal and applies the demodulated audio component to the electronic circuitry in the tape player by an inductive or an electromagnetic link established with the magnetic pick-up head in the tape player and an inductive transmitter in the T.V. tuner cassette. The T.V. tuner cassette is powered from a power cable extending beyond or outboard of the tape player. The power cable, at its remote end, terminates in a cigarette lighter adapter plug. This plug fits into a standard cigarette lighter outlet. Mounted on the cigarette lighter adapter plug is a tuner control such that a user can select a T.V. broadcast signals by actuating or rotating the tuner control. In addition, the power cord may include or carry an antenna for the T.V. tuner cassette. A method of detecting and reproducing the audio component of a T.V. signal is also included.
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Landy Bradford
Landy Bruce
Johnson R. Brian
Kain, Jr. Robert C.
Kostak Victor R.
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