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Personal channel display device in a TV program reservation system

  • US 5,179,439 A
  • Filed: 08/16/1990
  • Issued: 01/12/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. For a computer controlled TV program reservation system selecting automatically, among all TV programs based on information supplied to a central station by a viewer, a TV program which is most suitable to the viewer'"'"'s taste and storing reservation time and channel data automatically selected in a VCR, a display system, comprising:

  • a display unit at a TV set of a viewer and separate from said TV set;

    means for reading out from said VCR and displaying on said display unit for a predetermined interval of time (e.g., 15 minute interval), said stored reservation time and channel data; and

    means for determining when a recording start time of said VCR has arrived by comparing said reservation time data stored in said VCR with current real time, and in response, controlling said display unit to display the channel data of a TV program automatically selected by said reservation system and to generate an alarm signal to the viewer.

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