AUTOMATIC INFORMATION RECEIVING TERMINAL DEVICE FOR USE IN CHARACTER/GRAPHIC INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM

摘要

An automatic information receiving terminal device in a character/graphic information network system including a videotex communication network or a public communication network (telephone network) is connected to an information center through the videotex or public communication network so that various items of image information from the information center can be received by the terminal device. The terminal device having an internal clock and a time setting unit. The terminal device can automatically receive or reproduce desired information at an each time preset by the time setting means, so that the terminal device can automatically be operated without manual intervention so as to give emergency information or the like timely to a number of people.