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Title:
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONIZING CONTROL FUNCTION WITH VIDEO SIGNAL OF TELEVISION RECEIVER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3464229
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To lower the cost of the control function and to improve the reliability by controlling several functions for suppression of menu recording, etc., and synchronizing the control with a video signal displayed on a screen.
CONSTITUTION: A storage device 32 consists of P identical circuits which constitute P identical pages, each corresponds to pixels of N rows by M columns of a video image, and can store at least M×N bits. Then the storage device 32 has its address specified by a row counter 33 and a column counter 34. Further, the storage device 32 receives an instruction signal from a data separator so as to store a subtitle when it is present. The output of the storage device 32 is connected to a decoding circuit 35, which separates signals different from the output P of the storage device 32. The separated signals are an instruction CV for displaying the subtitle or a menu on the receiver screen and a recording instruction CE for starting the storage of the subtitle in a video cassette recorder.


Inventors:
Jean-Claude, Guyon
Application Number:
JP35576591A
Publication Date:
November 05, 2003
Filing Date:
December 21, 1991
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Thomson Multimedia Society Anonym
International Classes:
H04N5/04; H04N5/445; H04N5/66; H04N5/765; H04N5/907; H04N9/00; (IPC1-7): H04N5/04; H04N5/445; H04N5/66; H04N9/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP31777A
JP5399826A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kazuo Sato (3 others)