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WO1997017793A1
WO1997017793A1 PCT/IB1996/001184 IB9601184W WO9717793A1 WO 1997017793 A1 WO1997017793 A1 WO 1997017793A1 IB 9601184 W IB9601184 W IB 9601184W WO 9717793 A1 WO9717793 A1 WO 9717793A1
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Forest E. Jernigan
Stephen T. Troemel
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Philips Electronics N.V.
Philips Norden Ab
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    • 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
    • H04N5/445—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards for displaying additional information
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/57—Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set
    • H04M1/575—Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
    • 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
    • H04N21/431—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
    • H04N21/4312—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
    • H04N21/4316—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
    • 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
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/478—Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
    • H04N21/4788—Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application communicating with other users, e.g. chatting
    • 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
    • H04N5/445—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards for displaying additional information
    • H04N5/45—Picture in picture, e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen

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  • the subject invention relates to a television receiver having an input for receiving television signals, a video signal processor for processing the received television signals into video signals, a display coupled to the video signal processor for displaying the video signals, a character generator for selectively generating characters for display on the display, means for alternatively applying to the display the characters from the character generator instead of the video signal, and a microcontroller for controlling the video signal processor, the display, the character generator, and the means for alternatively applying the characters.
  • the incoming phone number is then displayed on a minimal display such as a one line LCD display.
  • a minimal display such as a one line LCD display.
  • This type of device is generally described in U.S. Patent 4,582,956 to Doughty, which is hereby incorporated by reference. More advanced devices also permit the customer to pre-program a name list with respective phone numbers so as to provide a name instead of, or in addition to, the displayed incoming phone number. Some newer available equipment will even audibly announce the name of the caller using a speech synthesizer. Television receivers are now present in most homes where there are telephones.
  • While present day television receivers include a display, memory and processing power capable for this purpose, a consumer must nonetheless acquire one of the above devices and, if the consumer is watching the television when his/her telephone rings, the consumer must leave the television receiver to find out what is being displayed on the device.
  • U.S. Patent 5,054,055 discloses a telephone system and method for the intelligent use of individual calling line identification (ICLID) information, in which the ICLID info ⁇ nation is extracted and stored in a computer for instant display on the monitor of the computer or to be processed by the computer to generate related information which may be displayed on the computer momtor.
  • ICLID individual calling line identification
  • a television receiver as set forth in the opening paragraph, characterized in that the television receiver is further capable of displaying messages in the form of frequency shift keying signals present on a telephone line relating to as specific telephone number indicative of data describing at least a telephone number of a telephone line from which a telephone call to the specific telephone number originated, said television receiver further comprising means for coupling the television receiver to the telephone line relating to said specific telephone number, means for detecting a presence of said FSK signals on said telephone line, means for demodulating said FSK signals into standard ASCII characters, processor means coupled to said demodulating means for decoding the ASCII characters to recover the data describing at least an originating telephone number; and memory means coupled to said processor for storing said data, wherein said processor means is coupled to said microcontroller to indicate me reception of said data, and said character generator is coupled to said memory means for selectively displaying on said display said data contained in said memory means under control of said microcontroller.
  • the present day television receiver includes significant data processing capabilities which are primarily used to digitally process video signals.
  • the television receiver of the subject invention may, in addition to those features provided by the stand-alone device, decode and display time and date stamps on each of the incoming calls.
  • One feature of the invention is to provide a the viewer with information about incoming calls by displaying the Caller-ID information superimposed on the main television display or in a picture-in-picture (PIP) window.
  • PIP picture-in-picture
  • each received telephone number may be captioned with the name and address of a calling party.
  • a listing of all area codes may be stored in the television receiver and the incoming call may be matched to this listing thereby giving the consumer a general location of where the incoming call originated.
  • Fig. 1 describes, in block diagram form, a preferred embodiment of the invention
  • Figure 2 shows a flowchart describing the operation of Caller-ID
  • Fig. 3 shows a flowchart describing how the Caller-ID data is processed by the television receiver
  • Fig. 4 shows a block diagram of a modification of the embodiment shown in Fig. 1.
  • Figure 1 describes, in block diagram form, a television receiver 10 comprising the invention.
  • the television receiver 10 includes a front end 12 for receiving and demodulating television signals. While Figure 1 show an antenna connected to the front end 12, other sources for the television signals include cable, a VCR, a VLP, a digital video disc player, a video camera, etc.
  • the front end 12 is coupled to a video signal processing circuit 14 for processing the television signals to provide audio signals, to be amplified in an audio signal amplifier 16 and reproduced through a speaker 18, and video signals for display on a display screen 20.
  • the video signal processing circuit 14 further provides synchronizing signals (not shown) for controlling the display screen 20.
  • the television receiver also includes a microcontroller 22 having a memory 24 coupled thereto for controlling the various components in the television receiver 10, including the video signal processing circuit 14.
  • Most present day television receivers provide for on-screen display, and therefore include a character generator 26 coupled to the microcontroller 22 for generating messages, for example, the current channel, the time of day, etc., for display on the display screen 20, and a video switch 28 coupled to the outputs of the video signal processing circuit 14 and the character generator 26 for selectively switching from the video signals to the output of the character generator 26 for application to the display screen 20.
  • the television receiver further includes a phone input jack 30, which may be connected in parallel to other telephone jacks in the user's residence. Connection is made via phone jack 30 to the Tip and Ring of the user's telephone line.
  • a protection circuit 32 is provided to isolate the telephone line from the television receiver circuitry to provide over-voltage protection thereby minimizing damage to the television receiver caused by voltage spikes on the telephone line.
  • the isolated telephone line connection from protection circuit 32 is coupled to a demodulator 34, consisting of a frequency shift keying (FSK) demodulator 36 in series with an ASCII data translator 38.
  • FSK frequency shift keying
  • the demodulator 34 is used to demodulate the Caller ID data signals which are present between the first and second rings of an incoming telephone call.
  • the FSK data stream is demodulated in FSK demodulator 36 and then converted into standard ASCII characters at a data rate of 1200 baud, in ASCII data translator 38.
  • the ASCII data is then fed to a TV interface circuit 40 consisting of a storage device 42 and an ASCII-I 2 C converter 44. It should be understood that the storage device 42 may be dispensed with and the memory 24 used instead.
  • the output from the TV interface circuit 40 is coupled to microcontroller 22 for further processing and for selective application to the character generator 26.
  • the microcontroller 22 polls the ASCII data translator 38. If a message has been received, the microcontroller 22 causes the transfer of the stored message from the storage device 42 (or memory 24) to the ASCII-I ⁇ converter 44 from which the converted information is applied back to the microcontroller 22.
  • Fig. 2 shows a flowchart describing the operation of Caller-ID as provided in the demodulator 34 and the TV interface circuit 40.
  • an incoming telephone call is detected.
  • block 52 it is determined whether the incoming call contains Caller-ID data. If not, the system reverts back to block 50 to detect another incoming call.
  • Block 54 directs the demodulator 34 to demodulate and translate the Caller-ID data.
  • this detected/translated Caller-ID data is stored in memory 42.
  • the system waits until it receives a read command from the microcontroller 22, or a new incoming call.
  • Fig. 3 shows a flowchart of the operation of the television microcontroller
  • the microcontroller 22 initiates the Caller-ID subsystem, the operation of which having been described above in relation to Fig. 2.
  • the microcontroller 22 polls the data in the ASCII translator 38 (which is also temporarily stored in memory 42).
  • the microcontroller 22 matches the Caller-ID number (read from the ASCII-I 2 C converter 44) and matches this number with associated database information, for example, a name, previously stored by the user, associated with the number, the area of the country (the memory 24 containing an area-code map) based on the area code in the Caller-ID number, etc.
  • the microcontroller 22 applies this information to the character generator 26, the output from the character generator 26 being applied to the video switch 28, which, under control of the microcontroller 22, causes the output from the character generator 26 to be displayed over an active TV video in the form of an On-Screen display.
  • Fig. 4 shows a modification of me embodiment shown in Fig.
  • the Caller-ID information is shown in a Picture-In-Picture (PIP) window formed on a portion of the display screen 20.
  • PIP Picture-In-Picture
  • a second video input signal is applied to a PIP processor 82 and the output from the PIP processor 82 is then applied to the video switch 28, for forming a PIP window on the display screen 20 within the main picture being displayed.
  • the output from the character generator 26 is also applied to the PIP processor 82.
  • the Caller-ID information is applied to the PIP processor 82 which applies its PIP signal video to the video switch 28 which then, also under control of the microcontroller 22, causes the PIP video signal to overlay the main video signal in the form of a PIP window.

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Récepteur de télévision comprenant un dispositif d'identification du demandeur, dans lequel un circuit permet de recevoir et de démoduler des données d'identification du demandeur communiquées au destinataire entre la première et la deuxième sonnerie d'un appel téléphonique. Le récepteur de télévision enregistre alors ces données d'identification du demandeur, les compare avec des données enregistrées précédemment relatives au numéro d'identification du demandeur, comprenant le nom de la personne à l'origine de l'appel, la région géographique dont provient l'appel, signalée par le code géographique, puis affiche ces informations sur l'écran de télévision, par un système d'affichage à l'écran, par exemple, ou dans une fenêtre séparée par incrustation d'image.
PCT/IB1996/001184 1995-11-06 1996-11-04 Recepteur de television avec identification du demandeur WO1997017793A1 (fr)

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