Abstract: A television receiver including a teletext decoder is adapted to search and display a teletext subtitling page in response to a display command supplied for this purpose. If there are more subtitling pages, their page numbers are stored in a memory from which they can be selectively requested. For each receivable television station the page number used by said station is fixed in a non-volatile memory.
Abstract: A number of domestic audio/video apparatuses (10,12,14) are interconnected by a Domestic Digital Bus (16) for the exchange of control information. A User I/O subdevice (41) in one apparatus is addressable by a control subdevice (22) of another apparatus to allow the display of menu items defined by the control subdevice. The User I/O subdevice returns user control signals by reference to the defined menu items. The right of menu control can be transferred via the User I/O subdevice to and from other control subdevices (20 etc.) to allow integration of the menu control functions of the different apparatuses.
Abstract: Multi-user communication system which combines means that implement the spread spectrum coding technique SSC with means that implement the modulation technique of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing OFDM. This makes it possible to inhance the performance of the SSC system by simplifying certain data processing and data acquisition mechanisms.A preferred use is the use in telephone communication systems between mobile stations and base stations.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 1994
Date of Patent:
April 2, 1996
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation
Inventors:
Antoine Chouly, Americo Brajal, Sabine Jourdan
Abstract: A sensing circuit for a non-volatile memory operating from a supply voltage and comprising non-volatile memory cells and a non-volatile reference cell maintained in an un-programmed condition, the sensing circuit comprising means for determining the sensed current of a memory cell when accessed and comparing it with the reference current to determine whether the accessed memory cell is programmed or un-programmed. To allow opertion over a wide range of supply voltages, the sensing circuit comprises a scalable current mirror circuit connected to the reference and memory cells and providing a ratio, M, of reference current to sensed current that, in response to changes in the supply voltage, varies.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 16, 1994
Date of Patent:
January 23, 1996
Assignee:
Philips Electroics North America Corporation
Abstract: Sound is processed for therein enhancing wanted sound with respect to unwanted sound. The sound is distributed over a plurality of parallel pass bands. In each channel, possibly with excepting the lowest frequency channels, the envelope of the respective signals in that frequency band is detected. Next, the envelope, or in the lowest frequency channels, the signal itself is preferentially filtered for enhancing signals at the fundamental frequency of the wanted sound. Subsequently, as far as applicable, the signal filtered is modulated with the envelope found for the channel in question and all channel outputs are summed.