Remote control television with external data bus connection

• US 4,334,242 A
• Filed: 01/14/1980
• Issued: 06/08/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Grundig E.M.V.
• Original Assignee: Grundig E.M.V.
• Inventors: Mangold, Hans
• Primary Examiner(s): Konick, Bernard
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCELHENY JR, DONALD E
• Application Number:
  US06/112,098
• Time in Patent Office: 876 Days
• Field of Search: 358/127, 358/194.1, 358/85, 179/100.11, 179/2 TV, 455/2, 455/4, 455/151, 455/154, 455/177, 455/178, 455/344, 455/352, 455/353, 455/354, 360/14, 369/19, 369/20, 369/24, 340/147 SC, 340/694, 364/900 MS File
• US Class Current: 386/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/153 using cathode-ray tubes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/06 using single beam tubes G09G1/26, G09G1/28 take precedence, e.g. three-dimensional or perspective representation, rotation or translation of display pattern, hidden lines, shadows G09G1/28 takes precedence; stereoscopic TV-systems, details thereof H04N13/00; oscilloscopes for three-dimensional representation G01R13/206; vectorscopes G01R13/208
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/205 with control bus for exchanging commands between units

Abstract

A television receiver is provided for use as a picture display terminal for electronic peripheral equipment, where a control system with a data-bus is built into the television receiver for multitude of commands and in which the television receiver is intended to be used in addition to the normal direct reception of televised pictures for other possible applications. The television receiver can serve as a monitor for a picture tape recorder, which is equipped for recording independently of the television receiver. A complete television receiving set is provided with automatic transmitter seeking mechanism and electronic channel storage.

Claims

1. A system for the use of a television receiver for external control of electronic peripheral devices, said television being of the type including a built-in integrated circuit remote control receiver, said remote control receiver being divided into two sections, one section being allocated to the remote control of the receiving and reproduction sections of the television receiver and the other section being allocated to a databus having nothing to do with the television receiver receiving and reproduction sections;

an output terminal of said databus comprising an adaptor connector between said television receiver and an external peripheral device;

a peripheral device external to the television receiver;

cable means connecting the output of said databus with said peripheral device; and

a decoder interposed between said databus output terminal and peripheral device for converting data from said databus into a form suitable for controlling functions of said peripheral device.

2. A television receiver as a picture terminal according to claim 1, in which said external coupling includes a connecting cable between the external connections of the television set and the peripheral device forming a unitary unit together with a decoder which transforms the data from the data collector into a code which directly controls the functions of the peripheral device.

3. A television receiver as a picture terminal according to claim 1 or 2, in which the peripheral device is a picture taping device which operates for recording independently from the television set which acts as a monitor.

4. A television receiver as a picture terminal according to claim 1, in which the functions controlled by said first commands include the on-off switching, picture, sound and channel selection of the television receiver and the functions controlled by said second commands include electronic program storage and changeover functions.