Device for recording satellite TV broadcasts

• US 4,843,482 A
• Filed: 07/27/1987
• Issued: 06/27/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Grundig EMV Elektro-Mechanische Versuchsanstalt Max Grundig Holland Stiftung & Company KG
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Hegendorfer, Max
• Primary Examiner(s): Hix, L. T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gray, David M.
• Application Number:
  US07/078,333
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• Field of Search: 455/150, 455/151, 455/171, 455/181, 455/231, 455/186, 455/66, 455/68, 455/170, 455/175, 455/177, 455/200, 455/230, 358/335, 358/142, 358/194.1, 358/191.1, 358/310, 358/349, 358/190, 340/825.22
• US Class Current: 386/213
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

A device for recording satellite television broadcasts comprises a satellite receiver for processing a satellite television signal, a video recorder for recording the satellite television signal, and a storage device which controls the video recorder and which stores the data of the broadcasts to be recorded. It is proposed to apply a control signal from the storage device to the satellite receiver briefly before the program to be recorded begins, which control signal switches the satellite receiver to the desired satellite program and, after termination of the broadcast to be recorded, to apply a further control signal which sets the satellite receiver from the switched-on condition to the stand-by mode or to a subsequent program to be recorded.

Claims

1. A device for recording satellite TV broadcasts, comprising

a satellite receiver for processing satellite television signal,

a video recorder for recording the satellite television signal, and

a storage device which controls the video recorder, which

device stores the data of the broadcast to be recorded, characterized in that before the beginning of the broadcast to be recorded a control signal is applied from the storage device to the satellite receiver (2), which control signal switches the satellite receiver (2) from a stand-by condition to a switched-on condition and to a desired satellite broadcast and after termination of the broadcast to be recorded a further control signal is applied to said receiver to switch the satellite receiver from the switchedon condition to a stand-by condition or, if desired, to a subsequent broadcast to be recorded.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the storage device is arranged in a remote-control transmitter.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the storage device is arranged in the video recorder (FIG. 2).

4. A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the storage device is arranged in the satellite receiver.

5. A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the control signals are applied via a signal connection (4) provided for this purpose (FIG. 2).

6. A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the control signals are applied via a signal connection which is present anyway.