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Apparatus for detecting recorded data in a video tape recorder for audience rating purposes

US4792864A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 27, 1986
Grant dateDec 20, 1988
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Expiry dateJun 27, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2220/90
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system is disclosed for detecting the recording data of a video tape recorder, which is enabled to detect data concerning the time and channel a program played back was recorded at and through, by adding both calendar data such as the date and time and channel data indicating a channel to be recorded in the recording operation of the video tape recorder and by extracting the above-specified data in the playback operation.

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