Patent Yard Sign in
Expired Canadian patentCanada

Interface module for superimposing alphanumeric characters upon rgbvideo signals

CA 1281124 C · Owner: Reali, Aldo · Inventors: Appiano, Silvano; Pozzi, Mauro; Chiarottino, Wolmer

CIPO record

Overview

Drawings and full text

Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.

Open the CIPO record

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An interface module is provided for connection to a SCART interface of a commercial television set or monitor to superimpose alphanumeric characters of video pages generated by the module as colour encoded video signals, upon an external RGB video signal by superimposition or windowing. The module has a central processing unit which processes commands from an alphanumeric keyboard, remote control and touch screen device, as well as communications exchanged with a processing centre for example via the D channel of an ISDN network), which commands and control the generation of alphanumeric characters communications. The module also generates a fast switching signal for application to the …

Read the whole patent

Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Granted March 5, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 5, 2008.
  • We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
FiledDecember 17, 1987
GrantedMarch 5, 1991
Term endedMarch 5, 2008
Patent numberCA 1281124 C
Classification (IPC)H04N7/00 +1 more

Timeline

Timeline From CIPO dates

1988199119941997200020032006Application filedDec 17, 1987Patent grantedMarch 5, 1991Term endedMarch 5, 2008

Sources & verification

Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.