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| 8176517 | Automatic display of new program information during current program viewing A method and apparatus for automatic display of next or future television program information when tuned to a television channel. Acquired or received program information for a television program to be shown next or later on the currently tuned television channel is... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160526 | Filter configuration for a receiver of multiple broadcast standard signals A filter arrangement for a receiver for multiple broadcast signals includes a first filter for receiving a broadcast signal from a tuner, a second filter coupled to an output of said first filter, said second filter having a variable bandwidth response, said second ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150966 | Multi-party cooperative peer-to-peer video streaming A method and apparatus for transmitting data are described including partitioning a stream of data into a plurality of sub-streams, establishing an allocation of the plurality of sub-streams among a plurality of sending devices, enabling the plurality of sending dev... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134648 | Method for enabling user control of an apparatus A method is provided for enabling users to control various functions of an apparatus such as a television signal receiver in an easy and convenient manner. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method enables a user to control an apparatus via a user input devic... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126061 | Robust mode staggercasting reduced resolution video for mobile receiver A method and apparatus for staggercasting to a mobile receiver, includes encoding a first signal representing content at a first quality and encoding a second signal representing the content at a second quality different than the first quality. A composite signal co... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122470 | Method for providing an electronic program guide based on user preference data An apparatus such as a television signal receiver provides an electronic program guide based on user preference data collected at different time intervals in a day. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a memory operative to store first and se... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121055 | Method of collection of quality statistics and corresponding method of management of collection of quality statistics The invention relates to the field of telecommunication and more particularly, to the acquisition of a statistics related to quality related to data reception, for instance quality of service and/or quality of user experience of digital audio and/or video services. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107532 | Method and apparatus for generating/evaluating in a picture signal encoding/decoding one or more prediction information items Advanced Video Coding uses intra prediction for 4*4 pixel blocks whereby reconstructed samples from adjacent pixel blocks are used to predict a current block. Nine different intra prediction modes are available in AVC. In order to save bits for signalling the predic... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8093942 | Frequency translation module data clamp An architecture for processing signal communications between a frequency translation module and an integrated receiver decoder. According to an exemplary embodiment, the signal processing apparatus comprises a demodulator for generating a first signal responsive to ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091106 | Method and apparatus for using DVD subpicture information in a television receiver A method and apparatus for using DVD subpicture formatted information within a MPEG data stream to provide data channel information to a television receiver. More particularly, the television receiver comprises a MPEG decoder and a DVD subpicture processor. The MPEG... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085770 | Method of transporting a multipoint stream in a local area network and device for connection implementing the method Within the framework of a wireless local area network, the reliability of the transporting of the multicast streams is not enhanced by an acknowledgement of receipt mechanism. To improve this reliability the invention proposes a method of transporting packets transm... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085297 | Method for modifying a user interface of a consumer electronic apparatus, corresponding apparatus, signal and data carrier According to the invention a user interface of a consumer electronic apparatus is modified, which can be used for example to update a given basic UI functionality or to temporarily implement isolated, dedicated UI sub-domains. For this purpose side information is re... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082050 | Method and apparatus for processing two or more initially decoded audio signals received or replayed from a bitstream In the MPEG-4 standard ISO/IEC 14496:2001 several audio objects that can be coded with different MPEG-4 format coding types can together form a composed audio system representing a single soundtrack from the several audio substreams. In a receiver the multiple audio... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081628 | Multicast distribution tree establishment and maintenance in a wireless multi-hop relay communication system A method and apparatus for multicast communications in a multi-hop relay network are described including sending an extended request message, wherein the request message includes a multicast connection identification, multicast distribution tree information and a pa... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081576 | Multipath searcher results sorting method A method and apparatus for identifying valid multipath energy peaks are described including locating an energy peak in a profile of energy peaks, categorizing the located energy peak based on a plurality of thresholds and processing energy peaks in at least one of t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077260 | Co-channel interference detector A receiver processes a received signal for determining the presence of a co-channel interfering signal by (a) measuring a power level of a first signal in a first narrowband frequency region of a wideband frequency channel; (b) measuring power levels of signals in n... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074285 | Copy protection method for digital data stored on a medium A method of protection against the copying of digital data stored on an information carrier envisages, on the basis of a first identification of an encryption of the digital data and of a second identification of a watermarking of digital data, the determination of ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074015 | Method for storing files on a storage medium, storage medium, and video recording apparatus using the method In a storage medium, an address space is defined which is divided into a first area and a second area. According to the invention, at least one file is stored on the medium which is split into small data packets and large data packets. All small data packets are sto... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073982 | Method for setting an operating parameter a peripheral IC and device for carrying out said method The invention relates to a method for setting an operating parameter in a peripheral IC. In this method, the operating parameter is transmitted from a central IC via a bus connection to the peripheral IC. The method is characterized in that the operating parameter i... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068263 | Holographic storage system with reduced noise An apparatus for reading from and/or writing to transmission type holographic storage media is proposed, and more specifically a coaxial type apparatus for reading from and/or writing to transmission type holographic storage media with two or more reference beams, w... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8067079 | Optical storage medium comprising a mask layer with a super resolution near field structure The optical storage medium according to the invention uses a mask layer as a super resolution near field structure, which comprises a doped semiconductor material. The semiconductor material is n-doped particularly such that the reflectivity of the semiconductor mat... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064416 | Route selection in wireless networks A method and apparatus are described for locating a route between a source node and a destination node in an on-demand wireless network including flooding the wireless network with a route request message by the source node and receiving a route reply message respon... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063719 | Offset footprint of a connector on a printed board A printed wiring board having at least one connector includes a dielectric substrate that has, on a first face, a first ground plane, and on a second face, at least two transmission lines between which the connector and a footprint are mounted. The footprint include... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060942 | Film fingerprinting A technique for film marking includes coding a print identifier into a binary-coded serial number; identifying particular frames (bit frames) that will be used to convey the bits (binary digits) of the binary-coded serial number and marking these bit frames in accor... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059776 | Method and system for sub-chip resolution for secondary cell search A Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) receiver comprises an adjustable delay line, a secondary synchronization processor and a controller. The secondary synchronization processor performs frame synchronization on a received wireless signal that is prov... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059711 | Robust mode staggercasting A method and apparatus for staggercasting, encodes a first signal representing content and encodes a second signal representing the content using encoding relatively more robust than the encoding of the first encoded content representative signal. A composite signal... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059211 | System and method for changing television channels in a video signal processor A system and/or method that reduces the blanking time between changing from one video channel to another video channel, particularly from a digital video channel. The system provides as much video of the old video channel as possible for display until video from the... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059202 | Method for controlling electronic apparatus A method is provided for enabling users to control an electronic apparatus such as a television signal receiver, multimedia device, and/or other device in an easy and convenient manner using a single key of a user input device. According to an exemplary embodiment, ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036301 | Radio transmitter with reduced power consumption A technique for controlling a transmitter apparatus is useful for reducing power consumption, and may be particularly applicable to portable apparatuses such as mobile transceivers which employ a battery power supply. According to an exemplary embodiment, the transm... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027386 | Robust mode staggercasting without artifacts A method for staggercasting, includes encoding a first signal representing content using encoding having successive independent decoding segments and encoding a second signal representing the content using encoding having successive independent decoding segments res... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027381 | Robust mode staggercasting user controlled switching modes A method and apparatus for staggercasting includes encoding a set of signals representing content. The set of encoded signals is capable of being decoded to produce a corresponding set of decoded signals, each having a quality which is different from the qualities o... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023426 | Method to select access point and relay node in multi-hop wireless networking A method and apparatus are described for selecting an access point in a wireless network, including initializing a channel index, recording a received signal power and information contained in one of a beacon message and a probe request response message, calculating... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015411 | Active watermarks and watermark agents Techniques for protecting the security of digital representations and of analog forms made from them, including a technique for authenticating an analog form produced from the digital representation, an active watermark that contains program code that may be execute... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009640 | Method of creation of a new communication network by a wireless terminal and terminal implementing the method The invention relates to a method of creation of a new communication network by a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal is initially part of an existing centralized network that includes an access point able to control the association of wireless terminals to its... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001300 | Method and apparatus for specifying analog connections for data bus network devices having both digital and analog outputs A method and apparatus enables users to specify analog connections for devices on a data bus network such as an IEEE 1394 network in a convenient, time-efficient manner. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes steps of enabling an on-screen display... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996389 | Method and apparatus for searching a database in two search steps Search in stocks of data, particularly on optical media, is intended to be optimized in terms of the time required for the search. It is therefore proposed that the search be carried out in two steps. In a first search step, the entire database is scanned on the dis... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995147 | Apparatus and method for compensating for varying adjacent channel conditions An apparatus such as a television signal receiver is capable of removing adjacent channel energy for extremely different desired channel bandwidths and varying adjacent channel conditions. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a digital signal... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991855 | Method for assigning an identifier to a peer-group in a peer-to-peer network Networks may be implemented using peer-to-peer technology. A plurality of peers may form a peer-group, having a unique group label. To relieve the user from administrative tasks, some configuration routines for such networks may be automated. A peer-group may select... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990594 | Phase mask for holographic data storage The present invention relates to a phase mask for holographic data storage, and to a method and an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to holographic storage media using such a phase mask. According to the invention, the phase mask has a plurality of ph... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984191 | Updating parameters in a bridged multistandard home network The invention relates to the field of home networks, in particular to the connection of two home networks of different types via a gateway. The network appliances in the network of the first type are also intended to be able to control the network appliances in the ... | 07/19/2011 |
