Video recording and display equipment

• US 4,543,616 A
• Filed: 05/05/1982
• Issued: 09/24/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomson Multimedia Sales UK Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Thomson Multimedia Sales UK Ltd.
• Inventors: Brooks, David
• Primary Examiner(s): McElheny, Jr., Donald
• Application Number:
  US06/375,315
• Time in Patent Office: 1,238 Days
• Field of Search: 358/142, 358/146, 358/147, 358/335, 360/9.1, 360/33.1
• US Class Current: 386/245
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9207 for teletext

Abstract

In the recording of broadcast television text, the text is separated from the video signal and formed into blocks at slicer and then is fed into shift register. It is then taken out at a data rate lower than that when broadcast and coding is assigned to at least some of the blocks prior to recording onto a video cassette tape recorder. Retrieval and display incorporate similar functions in reverse order. In another embodiment data in block form is stored on a video disk for similar retrieval and display.

Claims

1. Video recording equipment comprising:

means to receive a composite signal having standard video information and teletext data, the teletext data occupying a predetermined number A of television line periods in the field blanking period of the standard video information;

a signal encoder;

means in the encoder, to separate out teletext data from a received composite signal;

means, in the encoder, to reduce the rate of the teletext data from its value at the reception means;

adding means, in the encoder, to combine the output of the receiving means and the output of the rate-reducing means in order to insert the reduced rate teletext data in a number, corresponding to N×

A (where N>

1), of line periods in the field blanking period of the composite signal;

means to record the combined signal output from the mixing means.

2. Video recording equipment according to claim 1, wherein the rate-reducing means comprises storage means with clocking means to effect output from the storage means at a rate less than that of input.

3. Video recording equipment according to claim 1, wherein the rate-reducing means effects a reduction to a value such that the teletext data rate in the composite is an integral multiple of the reduced value.

4. Video display equipment comprising:

means to derive, from a recording, a combined signal having standard video information and teletext data, the teletext data occupying a predetermined number A of television line periods in the field blanking period of the standard video information and the teletext data being at a rate reduced in comparison to the rate of broadcast-teletext;

a signal decoder;

means, in the decoder, to separate out the teletext data from the combined signal;

means, in the decoder, to increase the rate of the teletext data to a value substantially corresponding to that of broadcast-teletext;

adding means, in the decoder, to combine the output of the derivation means and the output of the rate increasing means in order to insert the teletext data, which is at broadcast rate, in a number, corresponding to N×

A (where N>

1), of line periods in the field blanking period of the combined signal, thereby to form a composite signal; and

means to display the composite signal.

5. Video display equipment according to claim 4, wherein the rate-increasing means comprises storage means with clocking means to effect output from the storage means at a rate greater than that of input.

6. Video display equipment according to claim 4, wherein the rate-increasing means effects an increase to a value corresponding to an integral multiple of the teletext data rate of the recording.

7. Video recording equipment comprising:

means to receive, e.g. by broadcast, a composite signal having standard video information and teletext data, the teletext data occupying a predetermined number A of television line periods in the field blanking period of the standard video information;

a signal encoder;

means in the encoder, to separate out teletext data from a received composite signal;

means, in the encoder, to reduce the rate of the teletext data from its value at the reception means;

adding means, in the encoder, to combine the output of the receiving means and the output of the rate-reducing means in order to insert the reduced rate teletext data in a number, corresponding to N×

A (where N>

1), of line periods in the field blanking period of the composite signal;

means to record the combined signal output from the mixing means;

means to playback a recording of a combined signal having standard video information and teletext data, the teletext data occupying a predetermined number A of television line perods in the field blanking period of the standard video information and the teletext data being at a rate reduced in comparison to the rate of broadcast-teletext;

a signal decoder;

means, in the decoder, to separate out the teletext data from the combined signal;

means, in the decoder, to increase the rate of the teletext data to a value substantially corresponding to that of broadcast-teletext;

adding means, in the decoder, to combine the output of the derivation means and the output of the rate-increasing means in order to insert the teletext data, which is at broadcast rate, in a number, corresponding to N×

A (where N>

1), of line periods in the field blanking period of the combined signal thereby to form a composite signal for display.