Method for time-shifted reproduction of broadcast audio/video information

• US 20030067562A1
• Filed: 09/10/2002
• Published: 04/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TRW Automotive Electronics & Components GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: TRW Automotive Electronics & Components GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Gotz, Matthias, Bubb, Peter, Hafner, Ernst
• Application Number:
  US10/238,528
• Publication Number:
  US 20030067562A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/838
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence

Abstract

For time-shifted reproduction of broadcast audio/video information that is received continuously and, from case to case, suppressed from reproduction by information of a higher priority such as a traffic announcement, the temporarily suppressed information continues to be received and is buffered on a storage medium. The stored information is kept on standby for time-shifted reproduction at the user'"'"'s discretion.

Claims

1. A method for time-shifted reproduction of broadcast audio/video information that is received continuously for reproduction in a vehicle, but occasionally and temporarily suppressed from reproduction, the improvement wherein the temporarily suppressed information is stored on a storage medium and kept on standby for time-shifted retrieval and reproduction.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said suppressed information is replaced with audio information of a higher priority for reproduction in place of the suppressed information.

3. The mothod of claim 2, wherein the information of a higher priority is a traffic announcement.

4. The method according to claim 1, in which the continuously received information is a television broadcast, the sound of the television broadcast being constantly reproduced and the image is blanked out when the vehicle is moving, but it is stored on the storage medium.

5. The method according to any of the preceding claims, in which the storage on the storage medium is made in a compressed format.