Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Perry S Dunn

Michael Robert Kahn

Leonard Raymond Colavito

Matthew R Curreri

David C Goodwin

George Lownes

Sharmila Ravi

Sergei Danilchuk

A decoder of an encoded video signal representing a video image includes an apparatus for scrolling an on screen display of closed caption information that is included in the encoded video signal. The apparatus decodes the closed caption data from the encoded video signal as a sequence of lines of on screen display data. An on screen display processor alternately stores successive groups of lines of the sequence of lines in a first memory buffer and in a second memory buffer where each successive group of lines is shifted by at least one line with respect to the previous group of lines. A display processor alternately displays the on screen display data from the first memory buffer and the second memory buffer synchronized with the storage into the buffers whereby the most recently stored group of lines is displayed. Rather than using first and second buffers, lines of on screen display data may be stored in a linked list of memory storage regions. On screen display information stored in the linked list is transferred to the display processor to produce the on screen display. To scroll the on screen display, a memory region is added to one end of the linked list and a memory region is dropped from the other end of the linked list where the added memory region stores a successive line of on screen display data from the sequence of lines of on screen display data.

On screen display processor

A television receiver which receives an ATSC multi-program stream for a single major channel and generates a status display which displays the major channel identifier and a plurality of indicators, each corresponding to a respective one of the minor channels associated with the major channel. The indicator corresponding to the minor channel that is currently selected is highlighted with respect to the other indicators. The television receiver includes an image format converter and the status display also includes information concerning the format of the received signal and any format conversion that is currently being performed. The television receiver is also coupled to a digital VCR via a digital communications link. The digital television receiver generates a control panel for the digital VCR on the display device of the television receiver, and includes a facility for receiving commands for the digital VCR, sending the commands to the digital VCR via the digital communications link displaying the current status of the digital VCR. The television receiver maintains the status display for the digital VCR, by sending a status change request to the digital VCR immediately after receiving any status change information, whereby the VCR responds to the status change request only on a subsequent change in its operational status.

Digital television status display

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Woodbury, NJ, United States of America

Perry S Dunn