APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TOTAL PARENTAL CONTROL OF TELEVISION USE

摘要

An apparatus for parental control of television use by excluding or including selected programs, channels, and/or times. The apparatus includes a command controller (36) comprising a microprocessor (50), a read only memory (52), a memory for authorized identification numbers (54), and a memory for storing the selected programs, channels, dates and times (54); a keyboard (20, 22, 24, 26, 27) or similar apparatus for use in entering an identification code into the controller; a clock (42) with an output as a function of time located in the television receiver; means (40, 36) for ordering each program, date, and time into temporal order; and, means (54) for storing the selected program, date, and time in temporal order.