Improvements in receivers for television signals
CA 2586489 C · Owner: Collins, Ellen Fiona · Inventors: Willame, Xavier; Sullivan, Brian Francis; Freeman, Benjamin Jonathan
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A television signals receiver for receives and stores television signals encoded at a variable data rate. Time information is generated based on the time of receipt of the signals that defines the duration of the television signals when output in decompressed form at a substantially constant data rate. The received signals are then written to a file on a hard disk (13) in received order together with the time information. The time information of signals stored in the file is monitored and old signals are deleted from the file such that the file stores signals corresponding to a predetermined period of time.
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- Filed November 13, 2002 and granted November 3, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 13, 2022.
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