Television – Receiver circuitry – Tuning
Patent
1995-02-28
1996-12-17
Kostak, Victor R.
Television
Receiver circuitry
Tuning
348 1, 348734, 348906, H04N 550
Patent
active
055858651
ABSTRACT:
A television receiver for receiving a television broadcast signal and tuning in a desired channel to receive a television signal on which a broadcast program of a predetermined genre is broadcast, and that performs the steps of entering a first genre code of a desired program, extracting a second genre code included in the television broadcast signal, making a comparison between the first genre code and the second genre code for all receivable channels, and, if a program corresponding to the first genre code is being broadcast in a plurality of channels, tuning in a channel having a past record of highest frequency of reception.
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EIA Standard-EIA 608-Sep. 1994 Recommended Practice for Line 21 Data Service.
Amano Toshio
Hattori Ai
Flynn Nathan J.
Kostak Victor R.
Maioli Jay H.
Sony Corporation
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