Video cassette recorder having automatic time setting function

Details Video cassette recorder having automatic time setting function Video cassette recorder having automatic time setting function

1993-09-13

1994-07-12

Roskoski, Bernard

Horology: time measuring systems or devices

Combined with disparate device

368 47, G04B 4700

Patent

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053295005

ABSTRACT:
In a VCR having an automatic time setting function, a receiving circuit receives a current time signal from a broadcasting station, and a wave-shaping circuit converts the current time signal from the receiving circuit to a digital signal. A decoder decodes the digital current time data from the wave-shaping circuit, and a memory stores the decoded current time data from the decoder in frame units. A frame detector detects a starting point of each frame of the current time data from the wave-shaping circuit and resets the current time data of a frame previously stored in the memory upon detecting the starting point. A tuner tunes audio and video signals from the broadcasting station to a reference frequency, and a control unit controls the operation of the VCR and converts the current time data to the current time. An on-screen display unit superimposes a timer signal or the current time on the video signal under the control of the control unit and outputs the resultant signal to an external display unit. A character display unit displays the current time from the control unit, and a key matrix unit applies either a summer time display function signal or a time siren function signal to the control unit according to a user's selection.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4569598 (1986-02-01), Jacobs
patent: 4582434 (1986-04-01), Plangger et al.
patent: 4860268 (1989-08-01), Allgaier et al.

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