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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999

Filed:

Feb. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Kenzo Higa, Kanagawa, JP;

Hidetoshi Shimada, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348468 ; 348552 ; 348725 ; 34082526 ;
Abstract

A personal computer receives a teletext signal. A television broadcast signal received by a TV tuner unit is converted to a composite video signal and a voice signal and are then supplied to a personal computer card. The personal computer card extracts character data with a character data extracting circuit when the input composite video signal is a teletext signal and converts such character data to the code data and supplies the code data to the personal computer for display on a liquid crystal display. Moreover, when the composite video signal is a television broadcast signal, it is converted to a digital signal with a video decoder and is then supplied to the personal computer for output to the liquid crystal display.


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