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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120036436 | CONTEXTUAL WEB PAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for controlling a media generation system where a media event may be selected via a stateless software module, the system receiving a media event protocol file corresponding to the selected media event. The media generation system generates the media... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110279731 | BEZEL COLOR COORDINATION A processor, such as a TV processor, determines which one of at least two audio-video components is sending signals to a TV for display. Based on the determining act, the processor establishes a color of a bezel of the TV.... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110302403 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING PLURAL SOFTWARE PROFILES A computer with multiple software applications has defined for it plural software profiles for selection of one of the profiles in response to a system and/or user signal. Each profile when selected enables a respective set of applications to run on the system.... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110221969 | MOBILE TV SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH FAST CHANNEL CHANGE To reduce latency during channel change, when a user changes the TV channel on a mobile TV device such as a wireless phone, the device leaves the power save mode and enters, for a limited timeout period, a fully energized mode in which the receiver and front end logic o... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110205446 | ONE BUTTON REMOTE CONTROL WITH HAPTIC FEEDBACK An input system for a TV remote control or other system has a single touch surface with a deformable haptic assembly below the touch surface such that a user placing a finger on the touch surface can feel deformation of the haptic, assembly. A pressure sensing assembly ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110107367 | System and method for broadcasting personal content to client devices in an electronic network A system and method for supporting personal content distribution in an electronic network includes a source client device that selects and transfers personal content over a back channel. A content server receives and processes the personal content according to specific ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110099065 | System and method for broadcasting advertisements to client devices in an electronic network A system and method for supporting advertisement distribution in an electronic network includes an ad server that collects statistics for specifically targeting advertisements to device users in the electronic network. A recommendation engine then analyzes the collected... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096244 | REMOTE COMMANDER INJECTING NEW USER INTERFACE (UI) INTO LEGACY CONTROLLED DEVICE TO PERMIT LEGACY CONTROLLED DEVICE TO WORK WITH NEW REMOTE COMMANDER A controlled device such as a TV is vended with a legacy remote commander (RC) and legacy user interfaces (UI), but is programmed with authentication information to accept downloaded UI updates from an authenticated after market RC with more capabilities than the legacy... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110093521 | System and method for broadcasting content items to client devices in an electronic network A system and method for supporting content distribution in an electronic network includes a high-power wireless transmitter that broadcasts content items received from a content source to target devices that are configured in a peer-to-peer network. An electronic device... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110093375 | System and method for supporting a bidding procedure in an electronic network A system for implementing an information distribution network includes an information service that is configured to provide information distribution services through the information distribution network. User devices are utilized by device users to communicate with the ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090694 | ACTIVE BEZEL EDGE LIGHTING WITH DIFFUSER LAYER A bezel for a TV display has two or more bezel elements, one being more diffusive of light from a source juxtaposed with the bezel assembly than the other element. One element can laterally border the other element or one element can be directly behind the other. More t... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110085082 | HOME NETWORK COMPONENT CONTROLLING DATA AND FUNCTION OF ANOTHER HOME NETWORK COMPONENT Aggregated service and feature sharing is provided in a home network, in which users can freely enjoy not only the shared content, but also the unique features provided by each device anywhere in the network. The service sharing feature allows one device to control and ... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110084898 | MEMORY SHAPE ELEMENT FOR FLEXIBLE OLED DISPLAY SCREEN An OLED display has one or more shape memory wires disposed along respective edges of the display and energizable under control of a processor to flatten the display from a rolled or folded configuration.... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110083127 | System and method for effectively providing software to client devices in an electronic network A system and method for effectively supporting software distribution in an electronic network includes a software server and a network of client devices. The software server stores software items received from a software provider. The software items include various type... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110082933 | AUTOMATIC INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING AMONG RELATED DEVICES Internet connection may come through a single host computer and sent to appliance computers, as in a laptop or camera. This application intends to automatically connect the appliances to the Internet established by the host computer by means of either electronic communi... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110080521 | ON-SCREEN DISPLAY TO HIGHLIGHT WHAT A DEMO VIDEO IS MEANT TO ILLUSTRATE Metadata defining an on-screen display (OSD) including text and/or symbols is embedded in a demonstration video for play on a TV in a retail outlet. The metadata is executed by the TV to overlay the OSD on the demonstration video to identify various advantages provided ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110080335 | BEDROOM PROJECTOR WITH CLOCK AND AMBIENT LIGHT CONTROL FEATURES The brightness of a bed-mounted projector that projects images on a wall or ceiling is established in proportion to the ambient light level in the room. A motion detector can be used to operate room lights in the room only at user-defined times. Keystone correction of t... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110078749 | EMBEDDED WIRELESS ANTENNA FOR NETWORK TV A WiFi chipset is integrated into a TV chassis as are wireless audio-video signal antennas that feed the chipset and that are embedded in the display bezel. The TV processor causes signals from home network components received through the antennas and chipset to be disp... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075576 | WIRELESS LINK QUALITY MONITORING IN NETWROK-ENABLED TVs A networked TV gathers information pertaining to the quality of a wireless link over which the TV receives streamed multimedia content, and presents an indication of the quality to a user, selectively blocks content from display if the quality falls below a threshold, a... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075051 | RFID-BASED WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL USING VARIABLE ID FIELD A TV remote control is powered using RFID principles from an electric field generated by the TV and so the RC requires no batteries. The RC changes the ID field of the data packet it transmits based on what button was pushed so that a first button is associated with a f... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075047 | FIREWALL PORT SELECTION USING ATSC TUNER SIGNALS Firewall ports are opened automatically and randomly by using signals received from a digital TV device such as an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) broadcast source.... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074832 | ADC CALIBRATION FOR COLOR ON LCD WITH NO STANDARDIZED COLOR BAR FOR GEOGRAPHIC AREA IN WHICH LCD IS LOCATED Instead of estimating a saturation value for an ADC color comb register of an LCD made in a region without a standard color bar, a standard color bar of another geographic region is used to calculate the saturation value for the register so as to optimize the color of i... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110065080 | TV-BASED KARAOKE Combination of TV and karaoke machine allows for a new method of obtaining karaoke songs from the Internet, storing them locally at the TV, and subsequently playing audio of the song mixed with a singer's voice inputted through a USB microphone.... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110063524 | INTEGRATED USER INTERFACE AND CONTROL IN HDMI/CEC A TV in a HDMI home network discovers other components that can source a common UI such as a cross-media bar (XMB). The XMB generated by each component is dynamically changed to include UI source icons representing components in the network discovered to have the capabi... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110055011 | System and method for supporting a consumer aggregation procedure in an electronic network A system and method for implementing an information distribution network includes an information service that is configured to provide information distribution services through the information distribution network. User devices are utilized by device users to communicat... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110050844 | PLUG-IN TO ENABLE CAD SOFTWARE NOT HAVING GREATER THAN 180 DEGREE CAPABILITY TO PRESENT IMAGE FROM CAMERA OF MORE THAN 180 DEGREES A plug-in is provided to a CAD program on a vehicle to permit the CAD program to present an image from a vehicle-mounted video camera that exceeds a 180 degree field of view, even though the core CAD program without plug-in is designed to present no more than a 180 degr... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110039504 | MATCHING CIRCUIT FOR ADAPTIVE IMPEDANCE MATCHING IN RADIO An impedance matching circuit for a radio receives antenna signals and has its matching elements, such as capacitors, progressively switched into the circuit, with the matching element configuration resulting in the highest RSSI being subsequently used until a succeedin... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110029236 | GPS-BASED WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION SELECTION AND NETWORK TOPOLOGY OVERLAY ON SATELLITE GEOGRAPHIC MAP A method enables users to automatically switch available network connections for the current position as indicated by GPS while maintaining Internet connection. The selection of the network connection depends on a network connection profile which may be built up gradual... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019103 | REMOTE ANTENNA WITH TUNER FOR TV An antenna unit for a TV. The antenna unit, which can be roof-mounted, includes a tuner and a demodulator so that it outputs a baseband signal containing IP packets representing a TV signal, requiring only a twisted pair Ethernet-type connection between the antenna unit... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110007226 | ACTIVE SUPPRESSION BY TV OF WHITE SPACE DEVICE INTERFERENCE A digital TV (DTV) incorporates a TV white space device capable of operating on plural TV frequencies and responsive to the DTV processor to send a signal to an interfering white space device nearby the DTV that is interfering with a TV channel being presented on the TV... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110001878 | EXTRACTING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FROM TV SIGNAL TO SUPERIMPOSE MAP ON IMAGE A TV uses optical character recognition (OCR) to extract text from a TV image and/or voice recognition to extract text from the TV audio and if a geographic place name is recognized, displays a relevant map in a picture-in-picture window on the TV. The user may be given... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100325680 | STEERING MIRROR FOR TV RECEIVING HIGH FREQUENCY WIRELESS VIDEO In a home system in which a TV receives video from various sources over directional wireless links such as 60 GHz links, a mirror apparatus is provided that can be configured to physically steer a signal toward a receiver on the TV to optimize received signal strength. ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100289957 | Bezel Color Coordination A processor, such as a TV processor, determines which one of at least two audio-video components is sending signals to a TV for display. Based on the determining act, the processor establishes a color of a bezel of the TV.... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289666 | BEZEL ILLUMINATION FOR DIGITAL DEVICES First, a user may select an illumination color for a bezel framing a display of an electronics device. Second, the illumination of a digital picture frame may be established based on sensed motion nearby and/or ambient light. Third, the color of a user interface present... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100258693 | MOUNTING BRACKET WITH MULTIDIMENSIONAL STABILITY A support bracket that is stable in multiple dimensions includes a flat support platform and a coupling flange connected to an end of the support platform. A mount flange is connected to an end of the coupling flange, with a hole being formed in the mount flange. An L-s... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100253844 | ESTABLISHING TV INPUT AT POWER-ON A TV presents a user interface (UI) to allow a user to select which one of plural input sources is to able used as the source of content to be presented on the TV at TV power-on.... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253612 | DYNAMICALLY ESTABLISHED BACKLIGHT FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION IN LCD Backlighting lamps in an LCD are extinguished when they are in regions beyond the area of the demanded image produced by an associated LCD cell matrix that overlays the lamps. In some cases the size of the demanded image may be reduced according to a user-input energy s... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100251785 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTAINER SECURITY A shipping container includes internal computer-operated locks that cannot be accessed from outside the container. A satellite receiver inside the container can receive position signals and other commands from a satellite to unlock the locks.... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100245667 | NON-STANDALONE TV PC A TV includes a TV processor and a TV display and a PC includes a PC processor but no PC monitor. A HDMI link is established between the processors for conveying multimedia content from the PC to the TV for display thereof on the TV display. Also, a link such as a USB l... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100236112 | STORE INFORMATION MOUNT APPARATUS A store information mount apparatus for flippably displaying substrates bearing information pertaining to a consumer electronic device. The apparatus has amount flange, a display flange made integrally with the store mount flange, a clamp flange bearing plural ring clam... | 09/23/2010 |
