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US 5,854,618 AGranted
Apparatus comprising a display screen which is active in the operating mode and in the standby mode
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsNicoline J. Kiwiet, Robbert G. Van Der Waal
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Abstract
A display apparatus includes the switching unit for switching between an operating mode and a standby mode. The apparatus generates a picture on a display screen in the standby mode. The apparatus includes, for example a microphone for measuring a sound volume in the vicinity of the apparatus. The microphone is coupled to the picture-generating unit in order to change the picture in the standby mode in response to a change of the measured sound volume.
Claims15
An apparatus which comprises:
- switching means for switching the apparatus between an operating mode and a standby mode;
- a display screen;
- picture-generating means for generating a picture on the display screen in the standby mode;
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- measuring means for measuring a value of a parameter of an environment of the apparatus, coupled to the picture-generating means, in order to change a composition of the picture on the display screen while in the standby mode in response to a change of the measured value.
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A television receiver having an operating mode and a standby mode, comprising:
- a receiver for receiving and processing video signals received by the television receiver in the operating mode,
- a display device for the display of video information,
- picture generating means for generating a picture on the display device in the standby mode,
- measuring means for measuring a value of a parameter of an environment of the television receiver and coupled to the picture generating means in order to change a composition of the picture on the display device while in the standby mode and in response to a change of the measured value, and
- switching means coupled between the receiver and the display device and between the picture generating means and the display device for switching the television receiver between the operating mode and the standby mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.