Channel display device in television reservation system

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To call attention of a viewer by providing a channel display means on a television set and causing an alarm for a prescribed time independently whether a channel display is changed or not at reserved time arrives during the display. CONSTITUTION:A program of a VTR 80 is reserved manually and the input is displayed on a display section 81 and confirmed. The displayed data gives an interrupt signal by depressing a reservation button and the data is read and stored in a personal computer(PC) 82 via an interface section 85. When the reservation input is finished, the reservation data in the PC 82 is transferred to a disk 83 and stored. Then the present time in the PC 82 and the video recording start time of each program number stored in the memory are checked. When they are coincident, the relevant channel data is read from the memory and displayed on a display device 87 via an interface 86. Succeedingly, a speaker 84 is sounded in the PC 82 for several seconds to urge the viewer and when the reserved program is desired to be recorded, the video recording is manually switched.

Inventors

• 👤 Kazuo Hashimoto
• 👤 橋本　和芙

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