Television receiver having the capability to associate any HDTV

Details Television receiver having the capability to associate any HDTV Television receiver having the capability to associate any HDTV

1994-06-28

1995-10-24

Groody, James J.

Television

Basic receiver with additional function

Multimode

348556, 348570, 348732, 4551862, H04N 5260, H04N 5265

Patent

active

054614279

ABSTRACT:
A television receiver system includes an HDTV tuner, and an NTSC tuner. In response to the entering of a channel number, a CHANNEL UP or CHANNEL DOWN command, or a channel label, in a channel selection mode, a controller searches a "paired channel" table for associated HDTV and NTSC channels. If an HDTV channel is associated with that channel number or channel label, the HDTV tuner is controlled to select the HDTV channel. If no HDTV channel is associated with that channel number or channel label, the NTSC tuner is controlled to select the corresponding NTSC channel. In another embodiment, the controller determines if HDTV signals are actually being received. If not, the controller causes the NTSC tuner to select the corresponding NTSC channel. In yet another embodiment, the "paired channel" data is sent via an Extended Data Services (EDS) transmission and automatically loaded into memory.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4605950 (1986-08-01), Goldberg et al.
patent: 4670783 (1987-06-01), Nadan
patent: 4694338 (1987-09-01), Tsinberg
patent: 4914517 (1990-04-01), Duffield
patent: 4959720 (1990-09-01), Duffield et al.
patent: 5045947 (1991-09-01), Beery
patent: 5083205 (1992-01-01), Arai
patent: 5122875 (1992-06-01), Raychaudhuri et al.
patent: 5134464 (1992-07-01), Basile et al.
patent: 5148272 (1992-09-01), Acampora et al.
patent: 5235424 (1993-08-01), Wagner et al.
patent: 5253067 (1993-10-01), Chaney et al.
patent: 5287180 (1994-02-01), White
U.S. Ser. No. 08/209,357, filed Mar. 14, 1994 in the name of Wang, et al., entitled Multiple QAM Digital Television Signal Decoder Sony, KW-3600HD.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Television receiver having the capability to associate any HDTV does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Television receiver having the capability to associate any HDTV , we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Television receiver having the capability to associate any HDTV will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1890040