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Menu-type multi-channel system having a page up/down mode feature

  • US 5,506,628 A
  • Filed: 01/04/1993
  • Issued: 04/09/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a multi-channel picture-in-picture television display system, a method for controlling a selection of television channels for display, comprising the steps of:

  • scanning a skip memory having a plurality of positions storing video information in correspondence with a plurality of television channels to be displayed on a display screen, for television channel allocations by detecting television channels with synchronization signals to be displayed on corresponding sub-screens of said display screen, and displaying the detected television channels on said sub-screens of said display screen;

    receiving a page up/down command representative of one of a page-up command and a page-down command; and

    sequentially scanning said skip memory for detecting a next sequence of television channels with synchronization signals to be displayed on said corresponding sub-screens of said display screen and displaying the detected next sequence of television channels on said corresponding sub-screens of said display screen in accordance with said page up/down command.

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