Tone-controlled video muting

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6775462
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09570080

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The present invention is a method and apparatus to control muting a video output. A tone detector detects a first tone in a control tone signal generated by a video player during playing a video program from a master medium. The control tone signal is recorded on the master medium. The video player provides a video signal corresponding to the video program. A mute controller mutes a video output representing the video signal when the first tone is detected. The video output is recorded on a duplication medium in a video recorder.

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SONY TRANS COM INC1833 ALTON AVENUE IRVINE CA 92606

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Brown, Douglas C Aliso Viejo, CA 2 70
Gutierrez, Rome Paramount, CA 1 11
Wang, Yuti Irvine, CA 1 11

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