Combined television receiver/tape recorder/calculator
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKosuke Nishimura, Hirohide Nakagawa, Isamu Haneda
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Abstract
A new and useful combination of a radio receiver, a television receiver, a tape recorder and an electronic calculator is described. A display (for example, a cathode ray tube) of the television receiver is connected to serve also as a display for the electronic calculator. Data may be introduced into the calculator via the tape recorder and recorded into the tape recorder. The television receiver serves a display and the tape recorder serves as an external storage, with respect to the calculator.
Claims7
An entertainment combination including a television receiver, a tape recorder and an electronic calculator, said combination comprising:
- means for operating said television receiver as a display of said electronic calculator;
- means for operating said tape recorder as an external storage for said electronic calculator;
- input switch means for activating said electronic calculator and means for introducing selectively output information from said calculator and from said recorder into said television receiver for display on a television screen;
- a radio receiver;
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- means for generating audible sounds, said sound generation means being operatively associated with said television receiver, said radio receiver and said tape recorder;
- said tape recorder including means for recording and reproducing digital information and means for supplying the digital information to said sound generation means when said tape recorder is in a record or playback mode.
A combined television receiver, tape recorder, radio receiver and calculator, comprising:
- an ON/OFF switch for the calculator;
- a television selection switch;
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- means for correlating the calculator ON/OFF switch and the television selection switch such that an image is selectively displayed on a screen of said television receiver from said calculator or said television receiver;
- said television receiver being used as a display for said calculator when said television selection switch is in the television/calculator mode and a calculator mode switch is ON no matter which channel the television tuner is set at.
An entertainment combination comprising:
- a television receiver;
- a tape recorder;
- an electronic calculator;
- means for operating said television receiver as a display of said electronic calculator;
- means for operating said tape recorder as an external storage for said electronic calculator;
- input switch means for activating said electronic calculator and means for introducing selectively output information from said calculator and from said recorder into said television receiver for display on a television screen;
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- having an antenna;
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- means for generating audible sounds, said sound generation means being operatively associated with said television receiver, said radio receiver and said tape recorder;
- said tape recorder including means for recording and reproducing digital information and means for supplying the digital information to said sound generation means when said tape recorder is in a record or playback mode;
- said means for generating audible sounds including an audio amplifier and speaker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.