Apparatus for viewing television with pause capability
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1. A television comprising:
- a receiver for receiving a television signal;
a delay unit for encoding the received television signal in digital format and storing the encoded television signal in response to activation of a pause function, and decoding the stored television signal in response to deactivation of the pause function; and
a display unit for displaying the decoded television signal.
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Abstract
A television has an encoder, a random access memory buffer, and a decoder in addition to components of a conventional television receiver. The encoder encodes television signals to a digital format and the random access memory buffer stores the encoded television signal in response to activation of a pause function. The random access memory buffer outputs the stored digital television signal and the decoder decodes the digital television signal output from the random access memory buffer in response to deactivation of the pause function.
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41 Claims
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1. A television comprising:
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a receiver for receiving a television signal;
a delay unit for encoding the received television signal in digital format and storing the encoded television signal in response to activation of a pause function, and decoding the stored television signal in response to deactivation of the pause function; and
a display unit for displaying the decoded television signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A television comprising:
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a tuner for receiving a multi-channel television signal and outputting a single channel television signal selected from the multi-channel television signal;
a demodulator coupled to the tuner for demodulating the single channel television signal;
a random access memory buffer coupled to the demodulator for temporarily storing the demodulated television signal in response to activation of a pause function and for outputting the stored television signal in response to deactivation of the pause function;
a decoder coupled to the random access memory buffer for decoding the stored television signal output from the random access memory buffer; and
a display coupled to the decoder for displaying the decoded television signal. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A digital video disk (DVD) player comprising:
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a tuner for receiving a multi-channel television signal and outputting a single channel television signal selected from the multi-channel television signal;
a demodulator coupled to the tuner for demodulating the single channel television signal;
an encoder coupled to the demodulator for encoding the single channel television signal in digital format to generate digital television data;
a random access memory buffer coupled to the encoder for temporarily storing the digital television data in response to activation of a pause function and for outputting the stored digital television data in response to deactivation of the pause function;
a DVD driver for driving a digital video disk and receiving digital DVD data from the digital video disk; and
a decoder coupled to the random access memory buffer and the DVD driver for decoding the digital television data and the digital DVD data. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A video cassette recorder comprising:
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a video head for reading video data recorded on a video tape;
a tuner for receiving a television signal; and
a delay unit coupled to the tuner for encoding the television signal in digital format, storing the digitally encoded television signal, decoding the digitally encoded television signal in response to activation of a pause function, and for outputting the decoded television signal in response to deactivation of the pause function, the video cassette recorder outputting either the video data read from the video head or the decoded television signal. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method of providing a pause function in an apparatus, the method comprising:
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receiving a pause activation command;
pausing display of television scenes in response to receipt of the pause activation command;
encoding television signals received by the apparatus in digital format; and
storing the encoded television signal in the apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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