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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
James E Hailey, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Foy E Wilkey, Fishers, IN (US);
Randall D Staggs, Carmel, IN (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358335 ; 360 331 ; 348731 ; 348725 ; 4551861 ;
Abstract
In a videocassette recorder including 'VCR PLUS+.TM.' videocassette recorder programming system capability and autoprogramming capability, it is herein recognized that the channel-mapping procedure may be greatly simplified by using the autoprogramming feature to locate and program all active channels, and then by mapping only those channels which are active, instead of requiring the user to select all 125 possible channel-programming positions.