Page selection device for videotext system

• US 4,308,558 A
• Filed: 05/22/1980
• Issued: 12/29/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Telediffusion De France SA
• Original Assignee: Telediffusion De France SA
• Inventors: Hernandez, Charles, Marquet, Jean-Francois
• Primary Examiner(s): RICHARDSON, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US06/152,499
• Time in Patent Office: 586 Days
• Field of Search: 358/142, 358/147, 358/146
• US Class Current: 348/622
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0882 for the transmission of character code signals, e.g. for teletext circuits for the digital non-picture data signal H04N7/035

Abstract

A page selection device for a videotext system in which the incoming data are arranged in blocks comprising a data group following a prefix, some of the blocks having within said group specific codes called page headers, a page comprising the data between a page header and an end of page code, the page to be displayed being transferred to a page memory, said device comprising an input buffer having a capacity of at least one block, in which data are entered as they appear, an additional buffer with a capacity of at least one block, in which the incoming data are only entered if a page header has been detected, a main buffer with a capacity of at least one page, in which the content of the input buffer is transferred when a page header is detected, and means for comparing the page number entered in the additional buffer with the selected number and for controlling, according to whether the comparison is positive or not, either reading of the data entered in the main buffer for transfer to said memory or resetting to zero the additional and main buffers.

Claims

1. A page selection device for a videotext system in which the incoming data are arranged in blocks comprising a data group following a prefix, some of the blocks having within said group specific codes called page headers, a page comprising the data between a page header and an end of page code, the page to be displayed being transferred to a page memory, said device comprising an input buffer having a capacity of at least one block, in which data are entered as they appear, an additional buffer with a capacity of at least one block, in which the incoming data are only entered if a page header has been detected, a main buffer with a capacity of at least one page, in which the content of the input buffer is transferred when a page header is detected, and means for comparing the page number entered in the additional buffer with the selected number and for controlling, according to whether the comparison is positive or not, either reading of the data entered in the main buffer for transfer to said memory or resetting to zero the additional and main buffers.