Patent · US Expired

Television receiver system having facility for storage and display of character information selected from digitally encoded broadcast transmissions

US4052719A · kind A · utility

225Cited by
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21Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMay 3, 1976
Grant dateOct 4, 1977
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Expiry dateMay 3, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N7/0882
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

According to the invention, a television receiver system comprises selector equipment for selecting information in the form of coded characters, received separately from any picture signals, from a single information channel or a small number of information channels and routing the selected information to a storage device, and a reading device operable, when actuated, to read the information from the storage device repeatedly and feed it, via a character generator, for display by an intensity modulated raster.

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