Television receiver has facility to select time and date information through power supply interruption

摘要

A television transmission is received [2] and the tuner [3] provides input to a microcontroller [8] that extracts time and date information in the stand-by mode. A memory [6] has a transmission table that relates times to a specific channel. When the mains supply [10] is switched on in the stand-by mode the actual time is related to transmission channel.