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Interactive television system for providing full motion synched compatible audio/visual displays from transmitted television signals

CA 1283202 C · Owner: Freeman, Michael J. · Inventors: Freeman, Michael J.

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An interactive television system for providing full motion synched compatible audio visual displays based on dynamic user selection of a plurality of syllable synched compatible audio choices for a common full motion video frame presentation received over a common television channel. Two or more audio channels are synched to a common video channel, with the video being compatible with all audio channels. The interactive programming is transmitted via broadcast or cable TV and received by VCR used as a tuner or by a simplified TV head-end tuner with, the transmitted television signal having the audio channels either multiplexed into the video line or the existing audio channels. The received …

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  • Granted April 16, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 16, 2008.
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FiledDecember 8, 1987
GrantedApril 16, 1991
Term endedApril 16, 2008
Patent numberCA 1283202 C
Classification (IPC)G09B7/00 +2 more

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1988199119941997200020032006Application filedDec 8, 1987Patent grantedApril 16, 1991Term endedApril 16, 2008

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