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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:
Feb. 01, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1998
John R Kinghorn, Brockenhurst, GB;
David R Tarrant, Romsey, GB;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An arrangement for the control of viewing of a television program in which a classification code is transmitted with the video signal, for example, in an extension packet of a teletext signal, includes a decoder (23) which detects the received codes and passes them to a microcontroller (27). An authorized user is able to enter codes of permitted program classifications by means of a remote control unit (28). Codes representing these permitted classifications are stored in a non-volatile memory (29). The received and permitted codes are compared in the microcontroller (27) which inhibits the video (25) and/or audio (32) circuits if the received codes are not permitted codes. The non-volatile memory (29) is arranged to store a plurality of different program classifications, each of which is valid for different periods of the day.