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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110285918 | Television Antenna System that can Read and Play Multimedia Video and Audio Information A television antenna system includes a box-shaped television antenna receiver, an antenna mounted in the television antenna receiver and connected with a television to transmit television signals to the television, a multimedia interface mounted in the television antenn... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110249191 | COMMUNICATION VIA ADDRESS MODULATION Systems and methods are provided for communication via address modulation on an communication channel. A first processing component is configured to produce a plurality of data packets. Each data packet has an associated address from a plurality of available addresses. ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110187936 | MULTIPLE REDUCED-BANDWIDTH PROCESSING CHAINS TO ACHIEVE A FULL AND CONTINUOUS OUTPUT BAND FOR MULTIPLE CHANNEL CATV UPCONVERSION A method of channel processing is provided wherein multiple reduced-bandwidth “processing blocks” may be combined at RF to allow for the continuous and flexible placement of multiple-channels across the full or partial CATV output band. Each reduced-bandwidth proces... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110164186 | DISTINGUISHING AND COMMUNICATING BETWEEN WHITE SPACE DEVICES TRANSMITTING ATSC-COMPATIBLE SIGNALS White space signals are differentiated from licensed ATSC signals through modification of a waveform of the white space signal. White space signals may be modified by shifting the ATSC-compatible waveform so that the pilot frequency of the white space signal is at a loc... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110141364 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION Disclosed is a reception apparatus including a basic service reception unit to demodulate and channel-decode a signal received through one broadcasting channel among broadcasting channels for a basic service, and to extract a transport stream, an additional service rece... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110075044 | SUPPLYING BROADBAND HRC NETWORKS WITH NON-HARMONICALLY RELATED CARRIERS Non-harmonically related carriers may be provided for signals entering a harmonically related carrier (HRC) network. A modified carrier frequency may be assigned for any and/or all harmonics of a reference frequency. The modified carrier frequency may be computed by det... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110037903 | Terminated concatenated convolutional coding of M/H group data in 8VSB digital television signals M/H Groups each begin with a respective trellis-initialization of 2/3 trellis coding used as inner convolutional coding of concatenated convolutional coding (CCC). Concluding each M/H Group with another trellis-initialization of 2/3 trellis coding terminates the inner c... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110030025 | High speed wireless video transmission An implementation of a system and method for wirelessly communicating a digital video signal is provided. The system automatically compensates to maintain the received signal integrity as a wireless path for the transmitted digital video signal deteriorates. This method... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100328541 | UNIVERSAL TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION BANDS A universal transmitter and a universal receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals using the international television bands respectively use fixed subcarrier spacing; fixed Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)/... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100316065 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODULATING THE WIDTH OF A HIGH-SPEED LINK The described embodiments include a system that modulates the width of a high-speed link. The system includes a transmitter circuit coupled to a high-speed link that includes N serial lanes. During operation, while using a first number of lanes to transmit frames on the... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100225825 | Terminated concatenated convolutional coding of M/H group data in 8VSB digital television signals M/H Groups each begin with a respective trellis-initialization of ⅔ trellis coding used as inner convolutional coding of concatenated convolutional coding (CCC). Concluding each M/H Group with another trellis-initialization of ⅔ trellis coding terminates the inner c... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100220240 | DIGITAL TELEVISION TRANSMITTER AND METHOD OF CODING DATA IN DIGITAL TELEVISION TRANSMITTER A pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data packets by coding the enhanced data packets for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded data packets. A data formatter adds first null data into first place holders within each pre-processed enhanced data pa... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100218069 | DTV RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DTV SIGNAL A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes a tuner, a demodulator, a known data detector, an equalizer, a transmission detector, and a block decoder. The tuner receives a DTV signal having a data frame in which main and mobile service data are multiplexed. The... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100194899 | MIXED FORMAT MEDIA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Systems and methods for operating cameras are described. An image signal received from an image sensor can be processed as a plurality of video signals representative of the image signal. An encoder may combine baseband and digital video signals in an output signal for ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100188581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING VIDEO PROGRAM MATERIAL A method of distributing video program material includes encoding the program material in accordance with a first distribution constraint (CBR) to produce a first stream (A), encoding the program material in accordance with a second distribution constraint, which is mor... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100149427 | APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING RECEPTION MODES OF A MOBILE DTV RECEIVER IN RESPONSE TO SIGNALING Implementation of Fast Information Channel (FIC) signaling when Chunks of FIC information span more than one sub-Frame of an M/H Frame is described. FIC signaling is advanced further at the digital television (DTV) transmitters than originally proposed, thereby eliminat... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100111507 | MOBILE DIGITAL SIGNAL TRANSCEIVING DEVICE A mobile digital signal transceiving device comprises a multimedia interface, a processing unit and a radio frequency (RF) signal transmitter. The multimedia interface reads at least one multimedia data stored in at least one multimedia memory device. The processing uni... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100111197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE Providing a fast channel change function in a digital television system by hierarchically modulating each channel to provide both high priority (long interleave) and low priority (short interleave) signals, wherein a receiver may rapidly demodulate and use information w... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100073575 | VSB RECEPTION SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED SIGNAL DETECTION FOR PROCESSING SUPPLEMENTAL DATA A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy VSB ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100073570 | VSB RECEPTION SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED SIGNAL DETECTION FOR PROCESSING SUPPLEMENTAL DATA A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy VSB ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100073571 | VSB RECEPTION SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED SIGNAL DETECTION FOR PROCESSING SUPPLEMENTAL DATA A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy VSB ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100073576 | VSB RECEPTION SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED SIGNAL DETECTION FOR PROCESSING SUPPLEMENTAL DATA A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy VSB ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100061465 | SUB-CHANNEL ACQUISITION IN A DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER DESIGNED TO RECEIVE MOBILE/HANDHELD SIGNALS When a change in sub-channel selection is made after a mobile/handheld (M/H) Frame is begun, an M/H receiver is for some time unable to correct byte errors by transverse Reed-Solomon (TRS) decoding of turbo decoding results. Despite this, later stages of the M/H receive... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090316052 | CIRCUIT FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING VIDEO SIGNAL USING POWER LINE The present invention is relating to a circuit for transmitting and receiving an image signal using a power line, wherein the transmitting circuit comprises; a bias unit for controlling a bias voltage of an image signal taken by a CCD camera; a differential amplifier, t... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090284663 | LOW-COST ATSC-RECEIVER-COMPATIBLE DIGITAL TV MODULATOR A method and apparatus by which ATSC-receiver-compatible digital TV signals may be generated without most of the discrete and/or high-complexity components required by the ATSC specification, through the use of a precomputation of digital filter coefficients that consol... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090284662 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Robust Reception in a Wireless Communications System A transport stream for conveying a program for a particular channel includes an auxiliary channel, which conveys multiple lower resolution programs associated with other channels. When a receiver has difficulty receiving a particular channel due to the geographical loca... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090222855 | Method and apparatuses for hierarchical transmission/reception in digital broadcast In accordance with various aspects of the invention, there is being provided a method and apparatus for transmitting, and a method and apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast signal including a hierarchical modulation having a high priority stream and a low priority... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090190039 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PREAMBLES IN A DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING SYSTEM An apparatus and method for transmitting a preamble in a Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) system are provided. The apparatus includes a first processor for generating a Modulation Signaling Sequence (MSS) using a plurality of received sequences, and for outputting a mod... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090174820 | Multichannel Quadrature Modulation A method is disclosed for modulating both quadrature components of each of a plurality of RF signals with waveforms comprising time varying vectors uniquely associated with each of the RF signals, the RF signals each occupying a bandwidth of a television channel and tog... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090115911 | Methods for transmitting digital multimedia and data over the same wires A method of transmitting a data stream over a communication channel, the method comprising: providing symbol sets having different numbers of symbols; modulating data in the data stream that warrant different degrees of protection against noise onto symbols from symbol ... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090079878 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiver receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data. A known data detector detects known data from the broadcast signal. An equalizer performs channel equali... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090069021 | Method and System for Monitoring and Switching Between a First Uplink Signal Processing Circuit and a Second Uplink Signal Processing Circuit An uplink signal processing system and method of operating the same includes a primary signal processing circuit generating a primary output signal and a secondary signal processing circuit generating a secondary output signal. The uplink signal processing system includ... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20080222676 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING BROADCASTING SIGNAL AND BROADCASTING SIGNAL RECEIVER A method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal and a broadcasting signal receiver are disclosed. An identifier of a burst period is obtained from program table information of the broadcasting signal including mobile data and only the burst period in which a b... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080143885 | Television upconverter structures Upconverter structures are provided that generate selected television signals with digital upconverters that are coupled between analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters. Embodiments of the digital upconverters generally include at least one digital... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080068512 | DIGITAL RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) MODULATOR A digital radio frequency (RF) modulator provides modulation for base-band TV signals. The RF modulator provides direct conversion of digital base-band audio and video signals to a desired RF channel frequency, without any analog up conversion. The RF modulator includes... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080031349 | DTV TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST DATA A DTV transmitting system includes a frame encoder, a randomizer, a block processor, a group formatter, a deinterleaver, and a packet formatter. The frame encoder builds an enhanced data frame and encodes the frame two times for first and second error correction, respec... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20070097271 | Receiver with image rejection calibration at an undesired picture carrier and method therefor In one embodiment, a method is provided. An in-band calibration tone is generated at a frequency of an undesired interfering signal. A receiver is calibrated using the calibration tone to reject image interference caused by the undesired interfering signal. ... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070030398 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing a multi-level modulation signal A satellite communications system comprises a transmitter, a satellite transponder and a receiver. The transmitter transmits an uplink multi-level modulated signal (hierarchical modulation, layered modulation, etc.) to the satellite transponder, which broadcasts the mul... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20060253890 | System and method for providing terrestrial digital broadcasting service using single frequency network Provided is a system and method for terrestrial digital broadcasting service using a single frequency network without additional equipment. The system and method synchronizes input signals into transmitting stations by inserting a transmission synchronization signal int... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20050190304 | Radio frequency (RF) modulator with narrow bandpass filter Disclosed herein is RF modulator with a narrow bandpass filter. The RF modulator for modulating video and audio signals into RF signals corresponding to a frequency band of a predetermined channel includes an oscillation unit for generating a predetermined RF signal sui... | 09/01/2005 |
