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US6415099B1 Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Recording arrangement having keyword detection means

Assignee: Sisvel SpA
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Filing: 1999-05-21
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Granted: 2002-07-02
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Expires: 2019-05-21
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Abstract

Abstract A recording arrangement ( 1 ) for receiving and recording a television signal (F) and for receiving an information signal (I) which contains television program information (FPI), for example, title information about future television programs. The recording arrangement ( 1 ) has a keyword detector ( 54 ) which derives at least one keyword characteristic of the fields of interest of the user from title information of a television program recorded by the recording arrangement ( 1 ). A selector ( 58 ) selects, from the title information of future television programs, which is contained in the television program information (FPI), the title information containing at least one detected keyword. Selected television programs can be displayed on a display device ( 3 ) or can be recorded automatically.

Inventors

  • 👤 Gerald Berger

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N7/00; H04N7/08; H04N7/087; H04N7/088; H04N21/00; H04N21/40; H04N21/43; H04N21/433; H04N21/4334; H04N21/434; H04N21/4345; H04N21/435; H04N21/45; H04N21/4508; H04N21/4532; H04N21/466; H04N21/4668; H04N21/47; H04N21/472; H04N21/47214; H04N21/482; H04N21/4828; H04N21/80; H04N21/83; H04N21/84; H04N21/8405; H04N5/00; H04N5/76; H04N5/78; H04N5/782; H04N7/0887

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim 232 words
A recording arrangement comprising: receiving means for receiving a television signal and an information signal in which television program information can be transmitted; recording means for recording a processed received television signal of a television program; and selection means for selecting at least one television program having title information contained in the television program information, said title information comprising at least one given keyword, characterized in that said recording arrangement further comprises: keyword detection means for detecting, as a detected keyword, at least one item of title fragment information of title information of a television program recorded by the recording means as a processed received television signal, wherein said at least one detected keyword is usable as said given keyword by the selection means; and a keyword memory for storing said at least one keyword detected by the keyword detection means, wherein the keyword memory further stores a recurrence count for each detected keyword, each recurrence count being generated for each detected keyword, respectively, by said keyword detection means and incremented upon each further detection of the respective detected keyword by the keyword detection means, and wherein for the selection of television programs, the selection means uses the detected keywords having recurrence counts with values which exceed a selection threshold value, said selection threshold value being dependent on at least one other value of a recurrence count stored in the keyword memory.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 232 words
A recording arrangement comprising: receiving means for receiving a television signal and an information signal in which television program information can be transmitted; recording means for recording a processed received television signal of a television program; and selection means for selecting at least one television program having title information contained in the television program information, said title information comprising at least one given keyword, characterized in that said recording arrangement further comprises: keyword detection means for detecting, as a detected keyword, at least one item of title fragment information of title information of a television program recorded by the recording means as a processed received television signal, wherein said at least one detected keyword is usable as said given keyword by the selection means; and a keyword memory for storing said at least one keyword detected by the keyword detection means, wherein the keyword memory further stores a recurrence count for each detected keyword, each recurrence count being generated for each detected keyword, respectively, by said keyword detection means and incremented upon each further detection of the respective detected keyword by the keyword detection means, and wherein for the selection of television programs, the selection means uses the detected keywords having recurrence counts with values which exceed a selection threshold value, said selection threshold value being dependent on at least one other value of a recurrence count stored in the keyword memory.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 33 words
The recording arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that said keyword detection means periodically erases detected keywords from the keyword memory having recurrence count values below a minimum threshold value.

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