Method of determining station status of non-audible tuner in dual-tuner system
AssigneeVisteon Global Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTheodore Charles Wingrove, Anthony Ciatti
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Abstract
A system and method of visually providing the current status of selected frequencies of particular interest to the user of an entertainment system and in particular, of a vehicle entertainment system.
Claims27
A vehicle entertainment system capable of receiving a range of wireless frequencies and providing an audio output signal associated with a particular frequency selected from the range of wireless frequencies, said vehicle entertainment system comprising:
- an operator interface including a display and a plurality of preset buttons wherein each preset button is associated with a particular stored frequency selected from the range of wireless frequencies;
- a first tuner providing the audio output signal associated with the particular frequency selected from the range of wireless frequencies;
- a second tuner capable of scanning each of the particular stored frequencies associated with each of said plurality of preset buttons and wherein said second tuner provides an output signal to a frequency analyzer and wherein said frequency analyzer provides a status signal to said operator interface related to the status of at least one of the particular stored frequencies and associated with at least one of the plurality of presets wherein the status is related to the type of content currently being broadcast on said at least one of the particular stored frequencies and wherein said operator interface provides a visual indicator associated with the at least one preset in response to said status signal.
A method of determining the status of individual selected frequencies, each individual selected frequency being associated with a preset button of an entertainment system, comprising the steps of:
- providing an output signal from a first tuner;
- analyzing the individual selected frequencies with a second tuner;
- determining the current status of content on each of said individual selected frequency analyzed during said step of analyzing the individual selected frequencies;
- providing a visual indicator output of the current status of each individual selected frequency determined during said step of determining the status of each individual selected frequency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.