Telecommunications device having a remote controller

• US 6,041,159 A
• Filed: 06/04/1996
• Issued: 03/21/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt Gmbh (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt Gmbh (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Platte, Hans-Joachim
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUY THANH
• Application Number:
  US08/658,138
• Time in Patent Office: 1,386 Days
• Field of Search: 386/46, 386/83, 386/95, 386/96, 386/65, 386/52, 358/908, 348/907, 348/734, 360/721
• US Class Current: 386/234
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/023 remotely controlled
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/026 by using processor, e.g. microcomputer
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/087 by sensing recorded signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/1816 Programmed access in sequence to indexed parts of operating tapes cooperating with rotating heads see provisional also G11B15/005
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/1875 adaptations for special effects or editing signal processing or indexing therefor G11B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/6656 using two-sided extraction, i.e. "M-type"
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/655 Memory in cassette [MIC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/91 Helical scan format, wherein tracks are slightly tilted with respect to tape direction, e.g. VHS, DAT, DVC, AIT or exabyte
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/007 reproducing continuously a part of the information, i.e. repeating
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/028 with computer assistance
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/107 of operating tapes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/324 Duty cycle modulation of control pulses, e.g. VHS-CTL-coding systems, RAPID-time code, VASS- or VISS-cue signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/10 Indicating arrangements; Warning arrangements G11B15/04, G11B19/04, G11B27/34, G11B27/36 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 358/908 Pause control, i.e. "commercial killers"

Abstract

A telecommunications device having a remote controller, which device contains a circuit arrangement for automatic identification of additional information in a program channel by means of which circuit arrangement a transmission of the program channel is classified into a first type for a desired transmission and into a second type for additional information. An additional button on the remote controller gives a user of the remote controller the capability to correct an incorrect classification of the transmission by means of the circuit arrangement. The circuit arrangement can be equipped with automatic-learning logic which, when a button is operated, revises previous decisions relating to the classification and redefines its criteria for the correct changeover time.

Claims

1. Telecommunications device comprising:

a circuit arrangement for distinguishing between information and program sections of a transmission in a program channel, wherein said circuit arrangement classifies said transmission of said program channel into a first type of a desired transmission and into a second type of additional information, said circuit arrangement evaluating a plurality of parameters to decide whether said first type of a desired transmission or said second type of additional information is being transmitted; and

a remote controller having a button which, when operated, causes said circuit arrangement to correct a previous transmission classification which is inappropriate or undesired from the point of view of a user, wherein said circuit arrangement works out again decisions that have taken place in a time period shortly before said button is operated and relate to said previous transmission classification with the aim of correction, defines a closest probable time for the decision for the preceding changeover between said two types in this time period as a new changeover time, and redefines parameters on which future transmission classification is based by matching the parameters to conditions of said new changeover time.

2. Telecommunications device according to claim 1, wherein said circuit arrangement matches and redefines said plurality of parameters in the sense of an automatic-learning system, said plurality of parameters being used for deciding whether said first type of a desired transmission or said second type of additional information is currently being transmitted and to determine changeover times.

3. Telecommunications device comprising:

a circuit arrangement for distinguishing between information and program sections of a transmission in a program channel, wherein said circuit arrangement classifying said transmission of said program channel into a first type of a desired transmission and into a second type of additional information, said circuit arrangement evaluating a plurality of parameters to decide whether said first type of a desired transmission or said second type of additional information is currently being transmitted;

a storage medium for storing a transmission; and

a remote controller having a button which, when operated, causes said circuit arrangement to correct a prior transmission classification which is inappropriate or undesired from the point of view of a user wherein said circuit arrangement

works out again decisions that have taken place in a time period shortly before the operation of said button and relate to said classification with the aim of correction, and

defines a closest probable time for the decision for the preceding changeover between said two types in said time period as a new changeover time,

wherein when a stored transmission is replayed, said circuit arrangement reclassifies a portion of said stored transmission, when said button is operated, in a time period shortly before said button is operated, whereby decisions which have taken place in said time period are re-evaluated and the closest probable time for a changeover as a changeover time between said first and second type is defined, and the storage medium is reset to said probable time and said probable time is stored on said storage medium.

4. Telecommunications device according to claim 3, wherein said button is provided with a second function, said second function being activated by a double click on said button, by means of which said circuit arrangement is informed of a change which has just taken place between said first and second types of transmission.

5. Telecommunications device according to claim 3, wherein said circuit arrangement matches and redefines said plurality of parameters in the sense of an automatic-learning system, said plurality of parameters being used for deciding whether said first type of a desired transmission or said second type of additional information is currently being transmitted and to determine changeover times.