Tommy W Cook

US Patent:

43039375, Dec 1, 1981

Filed:

Jul 30, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/061857

Inventors:

Tommy D. Cook - Gadsden AL

International Classification:

H04N 710

US Classification:

358 86

Abstract:

A communication system which supplements a hotel's in-house cable or off-air TV signal distribution network for permitting locally originated video messages, which may be commercial in nature, to automatically interrupt the regular TV signals on each of the TV receivers in the rooms of the hotel. The local signal may be generated by means of pre-recorded tapes played on a video tape player or, alternatively, may be generated from a live broadcast using a TV camera located, for example, in the lounge of the hotel. The locally generated TV signal, which is of a predetermined frequency, is frequency converted into as many frequencies as may be received by the TV receivers in the hotel establishment. An electronic timer may automatically and periodically interrupt the regular TV signals being received with the locally generated signal for a predetermined time period which may be set, for example, to correspond with the regular network commercial interruptions.