Television receiver
CA 2113947 C · Owner: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · Inventors: Muramoto, Yoshifumi; Shimoyanagida, Susumu
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A television receiver comprising a sound muting control unit for muting sound, a means for judging whether the sound muting control unit is operated or not and a means for, commanding the displaying of audio information in the case where it is judged that the sound muting control unit was operated, whereby the audio information is displayed by a single operation of the sound muting control unit.
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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
- Filed January 21, 1994 and granted May 5, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 21, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 21, 2016.
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