Arrangement for automatically switching a videorecorder on and off in the absence of a code signal but in presence of a FBAS signal

• US 4,991,025 A
• Filed: 05/26/1989
• Issued: 02/05/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt Gmbh (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt Gmbh (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Eigeldinger, Norbert
• Primary Examiner(s): PSITOS, ARISTOTELIS
• Application Number:
  US07/357,674
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 300/83.1, 300/5, 358/310, 358/335, 358/86, 358/349, 358/908, 358/26, 358/142, 358/147, 369/19, 340/309.15, 368/10, 368/107, 368/108, 455/18, 455/70, 455/181, 455/186, 380/20
• US Class Current: 386/296
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 15/006 for operating at a number of different times cigar or cigarette receptacles or boxes with means for limiting the frequency of smoking A24F15/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0887 for the transmission of programme or channel identifying signals

Abstract

The disclosed device enables the recording of television broadcasts which are preprogrammed in a memory. The presence of data lines of the television signal in combination with the presence of a color television signal is checked. When the data lines stop, the video recorder is switched on in real time by a clock time signal.

Claims

1. An arrangement for automatically switching on and off the recording system of a videorecorder having a real-time calendar clock, a memory, and a data comparator;

means for entering reference data in form of the time and date corresponding to the commencement of a desired television-program as a reference value for storage in said memory;

a data line source;

means for receiving a cyclically simultaneously transmitted static actual value in form of an identification signal in a data line within a corresponding television signal for the duration of the program;

comparing means connected to said means for receiving said transmitted static actual value and for comparing said identification signal with the stored reference data, said comparing means switching on said recording system when said identification signal coincides with said stored referenced data;

means for activating reception of said actual-value identification signal and its comparison with the stored-reference data at a predetermined advanced time interval prior to the instant of real time corresponding to the stored reference time and to the stored reference date;

means for testing for the presence of the data line and means for testing for the presence of a color television signal;

said means for testing for the presence of the data line being connected to said data line source;

means for comparing the stored reference time with the real time present in the calendar clock;

said means for testing the presence of said data line activating said means for testing for the presence of a color television signal upon detecting absence of the data line;

said means for testing for the presence of a color television signal activating said means for comparing the stored reference time with the real time present in the calendar clock upon detecting the presence of a color television signal and switching on the videorecorder when the stored reference time coincides with the real time present in the calendar clock;

motor means for driving said videorecorder;

means for measuring a predetermined time interval for switching off said motor means; and

means for switching off said motor means subsequent to said predetermined interval of time in the absence of a transmitted color television signal and switching the videorecorder over to standby so that the next stored point of switch-on time can be tested for.