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Automatic television channel switching method and system

A technology for automatic switching of TV channels, applied to parts of TV systems, parts of color TVs, TVs, etc., can solve the problems of troublesome, unreliable, and numerous advertisements for manual channel switching, and achieve humanized and automatic switching. Switching is more efficient and easy to operate

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-03-28
KONKA GROUP
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[0004] The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method and system for automatically switching TV channels that are easy to implement, easy to operate, accurate and reliable, in view of the defects that there are many advertisements when watching TV programs, and manual channel switching is troublesome and unreliable.

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[0022] As shown in FIG. 1 , it is a flow chart of the first embodiment of the method for automatically switching television channels of the present invention. After the method starts in step 101, in step 102, channel switching and channel switching time are set. The set switching channel may be the current channel or any channel selected by the user. Now some TV stations have begun to introduce humanized prompts, that is, when advertising and some information are broadcast, a countdown of the program being broadcast will be displayed in the upper right corner of the TV screen, which is used to explain how many minutes are left in the time of the advertisement or related programs. Therefore, when setting the channel switching time, you can refer to the countdown of the broadcast program given by the TV station, and set the channel switching time to the same time value as this. Thereafter, the user can safely watch programs of other channels or do other things. In addition, al...

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The invention relates to an automatic TV channel switching approach and system. Users set switching channels and relative time on the TV set or TV remote controller, after that, it should judge whether the switching time is coming. If yes, it will switch to set channel automatically. If not, it should be waited. Users can set multi-switching channels and switching times at same time, and it can switch the channels in turn according to time costing. At a special time before switching, it can inform users by sound or caption, and users can cancel the switching. Automatic TV switching channel system contains: CPU for receiving and processing switching parameter; setting pushbutton for starting of setting switching parameter and a timer for calculating and prompting switching time.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a method and system for automatically switching television channels, more specifically, relates to a method and system for automatically switching television channels by setting switching channels and channel switching time. Background technique [0002] Along with the development of communication technology, TV broadcasting technology and the popularization of TV sets, TV programs are increasing day by day, greatly enriching people's daily life. However, there are more and more TV advertisements and some related information services, and the advertisements in TV programs take up more and more time, even to the point of being annoying. [0003] Because the user cannot control the broadcast of the TV program and can only accept it passively, when watching his favorite TV program, if there are advertisements or other programs interspersed in the program and the user does not want to miss the original TV program, he can on...

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IPC IPC(8): H04N5/44H04N5/00H04N5/50
Inventor 杜勇
Owner KONKA GROUP
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