Video system, method and apparatus
Patent 4821101 Issued on April 11, 1989. Estimated Expiration Date: 
February 19, 2007. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
February 19, 2007. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesInventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 07/016671 filed on 02/19/1987US Classes:348/705, Switching348/482, Sound signal348/722STUDIO EQUIPMENTExaminersPrimary: Britton, Howard W.Assistant: Kostak, Victor R. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesG11B 27/031 (20060101)G11B 27/028 (20060101) G11B 27/10 (20060101) G11B 27/022 (20060101) G11B 27/30 (20060101) G11B 27/28 (20060101) H04N 9/82 (20060101) H04N 9/802 (20060101) H04N 5/93 (20060101) H04N 5/45 (20060101) A63F 13/00 (20060101) G11B 27/024 (20060101) G11B 27/032 (20060101) AbstractAn improved system, apparatus and method are disclosed for interleaving selected video fields of multiple displayable programs to facilitate viewer selection of which programs to display. Selected video fields are stored and continuously displayed until a new, successive video field is selected to update the currently stored video field. In this manner, a sequence of rapidly updated, fixed or frozen video fields provides the appearance of continuous movement of displayed images. Audio signals are included in the video fields of displayable programs to provide audio signals in synchronism with selected video fields. The sequence of interleaved video fields may be assembled in real time or stored as a video tape recording, and the information need to re-assemble correlated video fields of a selector displayable program from the sequence of interleaved video fields is included in the horizontal scans or traces of each video field in the sequence. | |
