Television viewing control device and method
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    发明授权
    Television viewing control device and method 失效
    电视观察控制装置及方法

    公开(公告)号:US5231661A

    公开(公告)日:1993-07-27

    申请号:US738514

    申请日:1991-07-31

    IPC分类号: H04N7/16

    CPC分类号: H04N7/161

    摘要: A device and method for controlling television usage by children or other users. The owner (e.g. parent) of the device establishes user access codes for authorizing multiple users and bestows a time allowance to each of the users to control viewing of any of several video signals (i.e. television, VCR, video entertainment systems). Each user who has been given an allotted time may have the time replenished periodically, i.e. weekly. Each user's coded and allotted time is decremented for each amount of actual viewing time used. An activating means controls the switches and the selected video signal, and upon matching the user entered code against the owner selected code, determines whether viewing will be blocked or unblocked. Any unmatched code switches the signal to the off-state of the device's apparatus.

    摘要翻译: 用于控制儿童或其他用户的电视使用的装置和方法。 设备的所有者(例如,父母)建立用于授权多个用户的用户接入码,并为每个用户授予时间限制,以控制观看几个视频信号(即,电视,录像机,视频娱乐系统)中的任何一个。 给予分配时间的每个用户可以定期补充时间,即每周。 每个用户的编码和分配时间对于使用的每个实际观看时间量而减少。 激活装置控制开关和所选择的视频信号,并且在将用户输入的代码与所有者所选择的代码相匹配时,确定观看是否被阻止或解除阻止。 任何不匹配的代码将信号切换到设备设备的关闭状态。