Teletext receiver with page up and page down functions

• US 4,837,620 A
• Filed: 05/12/1988
• Issued: 06/06/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Harvey, Timothy J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Parker, Michael D.
• Application Number:
  US07/193,463
• Time in Patent Office: 390 Days
• Field of Search: 358/142, 358/146, 358/147
• US Class Current: 348/468
• 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 teletext system with multiple page teletext memory includes a page up and a page down function. Upon direct access of a page of teletext data, appropriate flags are set in the sector memory and the preceding page of data and the four successive pages of data are also acquired and stored. Corresponding page numbers are placed in the page request register and in response to a page up or page down command, a display register is incremented or decremented, respectively, to display the next page of data. The high page and low page information is recalculated by the CCU and the teletext system acquires a new page of teletext data to replace a page that is being discarded. Should a page request be made via the up/down page commands for a page that has not been completely acquired, the system reverts to a direct access mode of operation and the cycle is repeated.

Claims

1. A method of operating a teletext system comprising:

requesting a desired page of teletext data;

storing a predetermined sequence of contiguous pages of teletext data, extending on either side of and including the desired page;

displaying the desired stored page; and

displaying an adjacent stored page of stored teletext data in response to a paging command.

2. A method of operating a teletext system comprising:

requesting a desired page of teletext data;

storing a sequence of contiguous pages of teletext data including the desired page;

displaying the desired stored page;

displaying an adjacent stored page of stored teletext data in response to a paging command; and

replacing a page of stored teletext data at one end of said sequence with a new page of stored teletext data adjacent to the other end of said sequence in response to said paging command.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said sequence of contiguous pages comprise the teletext page preceding the desired page and the three pages succeeding said desired page.

4. The method of claim 3 including page number request memory means for identifying the stored teletext pages and their stored locations.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein upon receipt of a page up command, the lowest numbered page of stored teletext data is replaced with acquired teletext data corresponding to the next page higher than the highest numbered page of stored teletext data.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein upon receipt of a page down command, the highest numbered page of stored teletext data is replaced with acquired teletext data corresponding to the next page lower than the lowest numbered page of stored teletext data.

7. A method of operating a teletext system comprising:

requesting a desired page of teletext data by page number;

displaying the desired stored page of teletext data while;

acquiring and storing in memory a sequence of pages of teletext data from page P-1 to page P+4 inclusive; and

in response to a page up command;

displaying page P+1 while replacing page P-1 with page P+5.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein in response to a page down command while displaying page P+1, page P is displayed and page P+5 is replaced with page P-1.