WO2000019606A8 - Channel selection in digital television background - Google Patents

Channel selection in digital television background

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WO2000019606A8
WO2000019606A8 PCT/US1999/022514 US9922514W WO0019606A8 WO 2000019606 A8 WO2000019606 A8 WO 2000019606A8 US 9922514 W US9922514 W US 9922514W WO 0019606 A8 WO0019606 A8 WO 0019606A8
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Prior art keywords
channel
channel selection
digital television
number sequence
television background
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PCT/US1999/022514
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French (fr)
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WO2000019606A1 (en
Inventor
Peter Rae Shintani
Shigeharu Kondo
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Sony Electronics Inc
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/422—Input-only peripherals, i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
    • H04N21/42204—User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03J—TUNING RESONANT CIRCUITS; SELECTING RESONANT CIRCUITS
    • H03J1/00—Details of adjusting, driving, indicating, or mechanical control arrangements for resonant circuits in general
    • H03J1/0008—Details of adjusting, driving, indicating, or mechanical control arrangements for resonant circuits in general using a central processing unit, e.g. a microprocessor
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/426—Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/438—Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. retrieving MPEG packets from an IP network
    • H04N21/4383—Accessing a communication channel
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/443—OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
    • H04N5/44—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards
    • H04N5/50—Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for selecting a channel in a digital transmission system are described. In one implementation, the selecting of a channel includes: receiving a major and a minor channel number sequence in which a delimiter separates the major number from the minor number (502); identifying a physical channel which corresponds to the received channel number sequence by accessing a channel lookup table (505); identifying a virtual channel which corresponds to the received channel number sequence using an identified virtual channel table (505, 510); tuning a receiver to the identified physical channel (515); and decoding the identified virtual channel from the tuned signal (520).
PCT/US1999/022514 1998-09-30 1999-09-29 Channel selection in digital television background WO2000019606A1 (en)

Priority Applications (1)

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AU62728/99A AU6272899A (en) 1998-09-30 1999-09-29 Channel selection in digital television background

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US10294298P 1998-09-30 1998-09-30
US60/102,942 1998-09-30
US09/406,541 US6661472B2 (en) 1998-09-30 1999-09-27 Channel selection in digital television
US09/406,541 1999-09-27

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WO2000019606A8 true WO2000019606A8 (en) 2000-06-29

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