Systems and methods for presenting a television program guide
    61.
    发明授权
    Systems and methods for presenting a television program guide 有权
    提供电视节目指南的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US6072460A

    公开(公告)日:2000-06-06

    申请号:US227481

    申请日:1999-01-07

    摘要: A system interactively controlled by a TV viewer remote control transmitter displays portions of a scroll program guide on the viewer's display screen. A tuner receives TV radio frequency or optical transmission signals in a plurality of cable channels and passes a viewer usable signal to a signal combiner. A computer receives control signals from the TV viewer remote control transmitter. It controls the tuner to pass the viewer usable signal in response to one of the control signals. It receives and stores a scroll input picture image signal containing local program guide data and generates a scroll output picture image signal consisting of at least a portion of the scroll input picture image signal. The signal combiner combines the viewer usable signal from the tuner with the output picture image signal from the computer to provide a display signal for input to the viewer's display screen. The computer is responsive to variable control signals from the remote to advance, back up, and freeze the scroll output picture image signal. It is also responsive to directional control signals from the remote to reposition a "highlight" background to corresponding program data slots on the scroll grid and to display further program information corresponding to the program of the data slot shown in "highlight". In addition, it is responsive to further directional control signals to redraw the grid to display earlier or later time segment program data than is normally displayed on the viewer's screen.

    摘要翻译: 由TV Viewer遥控发射器交互地控制的系统在观看者的显示屏幕上显示滚动节目指南的部分。 调谐器在多个有线频道中接收TV射频或光传输信号,并将观看者可用信号传递给信号组合器。 计算机从电视观众遥控发射机接收控制信号。 它响应于控制信号之一控制调谐器传递观看者可用信号。 它接收并存储包含本地节目指南数据的滚动输入图像信号,并产生由滚动输入图像信号的至少一部分组成的滚动输出图像图像信号。 信号组合器将来自调谐器的观看者可用信号与来自计算机的输出图像信号相结合,以提供用于输入到观看者的显示屏幕的显示信号。 计算机响应来自遥控器的可变控制信号来提前,备份和冻结滚动输出图像信号。 它还响应来自遥控器的方向控制信号,将“高亮”背景重新定位在滚动网格上的相应节目数据时隙,并显示对应于“高亮”中所示的数据时隙的节目的进一步节目信息。 此外,它响应于进一步的方向控制信号以重新绘制网格以显示比通常在观看者屏幕上显示的更早或更晚的时间段节目数据。

    Interactive scroll program guide
    62.
    发明授权
    Interactive scroll program guide 失效
    互动滚动程序指南

    公开(公告)号:US5892498A

    公开(公告)日:1999-04-06

    申请号:US763615

    申请日:1996-12-11

    摘要: A system interactively controlled by a TV viewer remote control transmitter displays portions of a scroll program guide on the viewer's display screen. A tuner receives TV radio frequency or optical transmission signals in a plurality of cable channels and passes a viewer usable signal to a signal combiner. A computer receives control signals from the TV viewer remote control transmitter. It controls the tuner to pass the viewer usable signal in response to one of the control signals. It receives and stores a scroll input picture image signal containing local program guide data and generates a scroll output picture image signal consisting of at least a portion of the scroll input picture image signal. The signal combiner combines the viewer usable signal from the tuner with the output picture image signal from the computer to provide a display signal for input to the viewer's display screen. The computer is responsive to variable control signals from the remote to advance, back up, and freeze the scroll output picture image signal. It is also responsive to directional control signals from the remote to reposition "highlight" background to corresponding program data slots on the scroll grid and to display further program information coresponding to the program of the data slot shown in "highlight". In addition, it is responsive to further directional control signals to redraw the grid to display earlier or later time segment program data than is normally displayed on the viewer's screen.

    摘要翻译: 由TV Viewer遥控发射器交互地控制的系统在观看者的显示屏幕上显示滚动节目指南的部分。 调谐器在多个有线频道中接收TV射频或光传输信号,并将观看者可用信号传递给信号组合器。 计算机从电视观众遥控发射机接收控制信号。 它响应于控制信号之一控制调谐器传递观看者可用信号。 它接收并存储包含本地节目指南数据的滚动输入图像信号,并产生由滚动输入图像信号的至少一部分组成的滚动输出图像图像信号。 信号组合器将来自调谐器的观看者可用信号与来自计算机的输出图像信号相结合,以提供用于输入到观看者的显示屏幕的显示信号。 计算机响应来自遥控器的可变控制信号来提前,备份和冻结滚动输出图像信号。 它还响应来自遥控器的方向控制信号,将“高亮”背景重新定位在滚动网格上的相应节目数据时隙,并显示对应于“高亮”中所示的数据时隙的节目的其他节目信息。 此外,它响应于进一步的方向控制信号以重新绘制网格以显示比通常在观看者屏幕上显示的更早或更晚的时间段节目数据。

    Video clip program guide
    63.
    发明授权
    Video clip program guide 失效
    视频剪辑节目指南

    公开(公告)号:US5523796A

    公开(公告)日:1996-06-04

    申请号:US246949

    申请日:1994-05-20

    摘要: A system interactively controlled by a TV viewer remote control transmitter displays, on demand by the viewer and on the viewer's display screen, descriptive data and a video clip related to a program identified on the program guide. A tuner receives TV radio frequency or optical transmission signals in a plurality of cable channels and passes a viewer usable signal of any selected one of the channels to a signal combiner. A computer receives any of a plurality of control signals from the TV viewer remote control transmitter. It also controls the tuner to pass the viewer usable signal of any selected channel in response to one of the control signals from the TV viewer remote control transmitter. It also receives and stores an input picture image signal containing local program guide data and descriptive data and video clips related to selected ones of the programs identified in the program guide data. The computer also generates an output picture image signal consisting of at least a portion of the input picture image signal. The viewer, by use of the remote, controls the computer to select the content of the output picture image signal to include the descriptive data and video clip of a selected program. The signal combiner combines the viewer usable signal of any selected channel from the tuner with the output picture image signal from the computer to provide a display signal with the selected descriptive data and video clip superimposed over the channel programming display for input to the viewer's display screen.

    摘要翻译: 由电视观众遥控发射机交互地控制的系统根据观众和观众的显示屏显示器显示与节目指南上标识的节目相关的描述数据和视频剪辑。 调谐器在多个有线频道中接收TV射频或光传输信号,并将任何所选频道中的观众可用信号传递给信号组合器。 计算机从TV观看者遥控发射机接收多个控制信号中的任何一个。 它还响应于来自TV观看者遥控发射器的控制信号之一,控制调谐器传递任何所选频道的观看者可用信号。 它还接收并存储包含本地节目指南数据和描述数据的输入图像图像信号以及与节目指南数据中识别的节目中选定的节目相关的视频剪辑。 计算机还产生由输入图像信号的至少一部分组成的输出图像图像信号。 观看者通过使用遥控器来控制计算机选择输出画面图像信号的内容以包括所选程序的描述数据和视频剪辑。 信号组合器将来自调谐器的任何所选频道的观看者可用信号与来自计算机的输出图像信号相结合,以提供显示信号,所选择的描述数据和视频剪辑叠加在频道编程显示器上,以输入到观众的显示屏幕 。

    Cableless seismic digital field recorder having on-site seismic data
processing capabilities
    64.
    发明授权
    Cableless seismic digital field recorder having on-site seismic data processing capabilities 失效
    具有现场地震数据处理能力的无线地震数字现场录像机

    公开(公告)号:US4885724A

    公开(公告)日:1989-12-05

    申请号:US212157

    申请日:1988-06-23

    IPC分类号: G01V1/22 G01V1/24

    CPC分类号: G01V1/247 G01V1/223

    摘要: An improved cableless seismic digital recording system is disclosed which records seismic-trace data generated by any type of seismic source, including high energy impulsive seismic sources, such as dynamite, and low energy surface seismic sources, such as vibrators and hammers. A seismometer, or geophone, is connected to a remotely deployed radio-controlled portable recorder which contains circuitry for sampling, digitizing, processing, storing, and recording seismic-trace data. Coded radio signals instruct each recorder to commence an operation or sequence of operations from a predetermined set of programmed instructions stored in program read only memory included in each recorder. Such operations include seismic-trace data acquisition; optional weighting and vertical stacking (summing); normalization; recording; and seismic source initiation.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种改进的无线地震数字记录系统,其记录由任何类型的地震源产生的地震迹线数据,包括诸如炸药的高能冲击地震源和诸如振动器和锤的低能量地震震源。 地震检波器或地震检波器连接到远程部署的无线电控制便携式记录器,其包含用于采样,数字化,处理,存储和记录地震迹线数据的电路。 编码无线电信号指示每个记录器从存储在每个记录器中包括的程序只读存储器中的预定的一组编程指令开始操作或操作序列。 这些操作包括地震跟踪数据采集; 可选加权和垂直堆叠(求和); 正常化; 记录; 和震源启动。