System for digitally transmitting and displaying data on television receiver screen

• US 4,361,848 A
• Filed: 05/17/1979
• Issued: 11/30/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Etablissement Public de Diffusion DIT "Telediffusion de France", L'Etat Francais Represente PAR Le Secretaire D'Etat AUX Postes et Telecommunications et A La Telediffusion
• Original Assignee: Etat Francais
• Inventors: Poignet, Alain, Fournier, Claude, Le Marouille, Martine
• Primary Examiner(s): Hecker, Stuart N.
• Application Number:
  US06/039,837
• Time in Patent Office: 1,293 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1, 358/75, 358/78, 358/81, 358/82, 358/141, 358/142, 358/146, 358/256, 358/257, 358/258, 358/280, 340/154, 340/711, 340/706
• US Class Current: 348/468
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/026 Control of mixing and/or overlay of colours in general G09G5/022 and G09G5/024 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/222 Control of the character-code memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0255 Display systems therefor

Abstract

A teletext system for broadcast of pages of magazines to be displayed on television receiver screen. A subscriber entitled to receive a magazine can select a desired page thereof by actuating a keyboard to transmit 8-bit words belonging to two groups: first properly said character words and second function words. Among the function words, there are page flag words which indicate that a page number word follows it and make the selection possible. A row flag word is followed by a row number word to indicate the vertical address of a sequence of characters in a page. Adaptation means are provided for adapting the voltage/light characteristics, as in a current gamma correction, which permits correctly displayed logic signals.

Claims

1. A teletext system for digitally transmitting and displaying text material from any of many different services on a television screen, the digital transmission being in the form of data packs randomly intermixed from several channels, whereby successive data packs may relate to any of said completely different services, each of said packs having signals constituting a magazine of several pages, wherein the data belonging to each page are grouped in rows (or page lines), the data belonging to each row being preceded by a row flag followed by a row number, and ending with the next row flag, the row number detected after each row flag determining the address at which the row data must be stored in the said memory means, and wherein the data for each page of information begins with a page flag, said system comprising keyboard means for identifying a desired page, whereby signals from said keyboard select between said different services, comparator circuit means responsive to page flags for detecting said desired page responsive to operation of said keyboard means, memory means responsive to said comparator means for storing data relative to said desired page, and character generator means for displaying said desired page on a television screen responsive to the data stored in said memory means.

2. A teletext system according to claim 1, wherein said character generator means delivers to a matching circuit means character luminance signals, and additional logic pulses concerning the presence or the absence of basic colors R (red), V (green) or B (blue), said matching circuit means transferring the luminance signal to conventional circuits of a television receiver, said matching circuit means comprising in association with each basic color logic input a first diode having a cathode connected to an input of an analog amplifier means, switching means responsive to said keyboard means for selectively connecting an output of said basic color amplifier to a corresponding chrominance television tube input, the cathode of the first diode also being connected to cathodes of a second diode and a third diode, the first diode anode being connected from the associated color input and the output of a first voltage generator means for delivering a voltage V2, the second diode anode being connected from the output of a second voltage generator means for delivering a voltage V1, and the third diode anode being connected from the output of a third voltage generator means for delivering a voltage V3, the third voltage generator means having an output which is also connected to an output of a gate, the output of said gate not being grounded when the three color inputs simultaneously receive said logic pulses and being grounded in all other cases, with V3>

V2>

V1.

3. A teletext system according to claim 1 wherein said character generator means delivers to a matching circuit means character luminance signals, and additional logic pulses concerning the presence or the absence of basic colors R (red), V (green) or B (blue), the said matching circuit means transferring the luminance signal to conventional circuits of a television receiver, said matching circuit means comprising in association with each basic color logic input a first diode having a cathode connected to an input of a basic color analog amplifier means, switching means responsive to said keyboard means for selectively connecting an output of said basic color amplifier means to the corresponding chrominance television tube input, the cathode of the first diode also being connected to the cathodes of a second diode and a third diode, the first diode anode being connected from the associated color input and the output of a first voltage generator means for delivering a voltage V2, the second diode anode being connected from the output of a second voltage generator means for delivering a voltage V1, and the third diode anode being connected from the output of a third voltage generator means for delivering a voltage V3, the third voltage generator means having an output which is also connected to the output of a gate, the output of said gate not being grounded when the three color inputs simultaneously receive said logic pulses and being grounded in all other cases, with V3>

V2>

V1.