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Apparatus and method for allowing rating level control of the viewing of a program

  • US 6,115,057 A
  • Filed: 08/22/1997
  • Issued: 09/05/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for exercising parental control over a television receiver comprising:

  • means for receiving a television signal containing a plurality of video scenes and textual data describing story lines of the respective video scenes;

    means for separating the textual data from the video scenes;

    a display monitor;

    means for displaying the video scenes on the monitor;

    a user input device; and

    means responsive to the user input device for sequentially displaying the textual data describing the story lines on the monitor as a plurality of separate screens instead of the respective video scenes to apprise a user of the story lines of the video scenes.

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