Television receiver including a teletext decoder for selectively choosing a particular teletext broadcast

• US 5,644,362 A
• Filed: 06/26/1996
• Issued: 07/01/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Cornelis, Ronny M. P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Peng, John K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miller, John W.
• Application Number:
  US08/668,307
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• Field of Search: 348/461, 348/465, 348/467, 348/468, 348/589
• US Class Current: 348/468
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0885 for the transmission of subtitles

Abstract

A television receiver including a teletext decoder is adapted to search and display a teletext subtitling page in response to a display command supplied for this purpose. If there are more subtitling pages, their page numbers are stored in a memory from which they can be selectively requested. For each receivable television station the page number used by said station is fixed in a non-volatile memory.

Claims

1. A television receiver for receiving a composite video signal, said composite video signal including a plurality of video information signals and a plurality of teletext information signals, each of said teletext information signals stored as a teletext page, said receiver comprising:

recognition means for identifying all teletext pages within said composite video signal which correspond to a predetermined one of said video information signals;

selection means for selecting one of said identified teletext pages in response to a single control signal; and

decoding means for decoding said selected teletext page.

2. The television receiver of claim 1, wherein at least one of said teletext information signals includes subtitling information.

3. The television receiver of claim 1, further including a memory and wherein said selection means selects between a plurality of page numbers stored in said memory and applies said selected page number to said decoding means.

4. The television receiver of claim 3, wherein said recognition means detects a recognition indicator of said identified subtitled teletext page and stores a page number corresponding to said identified teletext information signal in said memory.

5. The television receiver of claim 4, wherein said recognition means allocates a priority indication to said page number of a teletext information signal having a predetermined repetition frequency and wherein said selection means applies said page number having said priority indication to said decoding means.

6. The television receiver of claim 5, wherein said selection means generates a storage signal by displaying one of said teletext pages for a predetermined period of time.

7. The television receiver of claim 6, further including a further memory and wherein said selection means stores said page number of a displayed teletext page in said further memory in response to said storage signal and applies said page number to said decoding mean in response to said control signal.

8. The television receiver of claim 3, wherein said selection means generates a storage signal by displaying one of said teletext pages for a predetermined period of time.

9. The television receiver of claim 8, further including a further memory and wherein said selection means stores said page number of a displayed teletext page in said further memory in response to said storage signal and applies said page number to said decoding means in response to said control signal.

10. A television receiver for receiving a composite video signal, said composite video signal including non-video data and a plurality of video information signals, said receiver comprising:

recognition means for identifying the non-video data in said composite video signal which corresponds to a predetermined one of said video information signals;

selection means for selecting said identified non-video data in response to a single. control signal;

decoding means for decoding said selected non-video data; and

display means for displaying the decoded non-video data.

11. A television receiver for receiving a composite video signal, said composite video signal including a plurality of video information signals and a plurality of teletext information signals, each of said teletext information signals stored as a teletext page, said receiver comprising:

a recognition cimuit for identifying all teletext pages within said composite video signal which correspond to a predetermined one of said video information signals;

a selection circuit for selecting one of said identified teletext pages in response to a single control signal; and

a decoding circuit for decoding said selected teletext page.

12. A teletext decoder for receiving a composite video signal, said composite video signal including a plurality of video information signals and a plurality of teletext information signals, each of said teletext information signals stored as a teletext page, said decoder comprising:

a recognition circuit for identifying all teletext pages within said composite video signal which correspond to a predetermined one of said video information signals;

a selection circuit for selecting one of said identified teletext pages in response to a single control signal; and

a decoding circuit for decoding said selected teletext page.