Stv subscriber address system
CA 1137214 A · Owner: Zenith Radio Corporation · Inventors: Hendrickson, Melvin C.
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A system for selectively addressing a plurality of television receivers, each of the receivers being identified by a unique n-bit address code, comprises means for transmitting a prefix code which is common to the p most significant bits of a group of address codes during a first horizontal scanning line of the vertical interval of a broadcast television signal. plurality of suffix codes each comprising the n-p least significant bits of a different one of the n-bit address codes of the group, are transmitted during each of a series of subsequently occurring horizontal scanning lines of the vertical interval for completely identifying the address codes of the group. Each television receiver …
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- Granted December 7, 1982. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 7, 1999.
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