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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105724 | TV Use Simulation A method of simulating use of a television consistent with certain implementations of the present invention involves switching a television remote controller or a television STB to an operational mode in which a simulating function is activated. While in the simulating ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105731 | BROADCAST RECEPTION MOBILE TERMINAL [Object] There is provided a broadcast reception mobile terminal capable of improving both electric power saving and user-friendliness. [Constitution] A CPU (209) detects that the lid body is opened or closed by a signal from an opening/closing detection switch. ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081613 | SIGNAL TRANSMITTER AND SIGNAL RECEIVER In a signal transmitter and a signal receiver, a multiplexing part multiplexes a video signal and a time-base-compressed audio signal on the basis of a multiplexing control signal to transmit the multiplexed signal through a data line in the signal transmitter. Further,... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081614 | LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER An LED module (MJ) includes an LED (22), a mounting substrate (21) for mounting the LED (22), a lens (24) in which light from the LED (22) is output from a lens surface (24S), and a built-in reflective sheet (11) interpos... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120050620 | RECEIVER, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMITTER, TRANSMISSION METHOD, PROGRAM AND BROADCASTING SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a receiver for receiving transmitted AV content, the receiver including an extraction section adapted to extract trigger information, transmitted together with the AV content, about control over an application program to be executed in response to th... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050621 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER A lighting device of the present invention provides substantially a uniform illumination brightness distribution without partially forming dark portions. A lighting device 12 of the present invention includes a longitudinal light source 17, a chassis 14... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050619 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND BROADCASTING SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus for receiving transmitted AV (Audio/Video) content, including: an extractor configured to extract trigger information associated with control of an application program to be executed in conjugation with the AV content; and a con... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120038833 | TELEVISION CHIP WITH A UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AND METHOD FOR WRITING THE UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION In order that a television connected to a network can be uniquely identified, a television chip with a unique identification is provided. A non-volatile storage unit is set in the television chip, and the unique identification that can be uniquely identified in a determ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033139 | FAST-BOOTING BROADCAST TELEVISION RECEIVER Boot-up delay within a television receiver IC is substantially reduced by loading a portion of an operating program into the television receiver IC to enable execution of time-consuming receiver initialization operations, and then executing the receiver initialization o... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120019730 | RECEIVER The receiver diversity-receives radio wave with a plurality of antennas. The receiver includes a conductive case having a receiving section for executing diversity-receiving processing, a first through hole and a second through hole that are disposed on the surface of t... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110310306 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY SYSTEM USING THE SAME A display apparatus includes a display part displaying a picture thereon, and a video signal processor formatting an input video signal to be displayed by the display part. The display apparatus also includes a video reproducer reproducing video data into a video signal... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HISTORY-BASED DECISION MAKING IN A TELEVISION RECEIVER Various embodiments facilitate history-based decision making in television receivers, such as set-top boxes. In one embodiment, a history-based decision facilitator (“HBDF”) is provided. The HBDF facilitates decision making in a television receiver based on device h... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110298989 | RECEIVING APPARATUS A receiving apparatus 10 efficiently receives radio waves used for wireless communication. Four sides of the periphery of a back cover 4 are bent inward. The reflector 5 formed of a metallic material is disposed on the bent portion on the inner side... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292295 | TRANSMITTER DEVICE, RECEIVER DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION METHOD, AND TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER DEVICE There is provided a transmitter device including an interface unit that is an interface for connection to a receiver device via a transmission path, a pre-emphasis unit configured to generate a pre-emphasis signal, the pre-emphasis signal being obtained by adding to an ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292296 | TELEVISION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND CIRCUIT BOARD STRUCTURE According to one embodiment, a television apparatus includes a circuit board, a pad, a heat-transfer layer, and a block. The circuit board is mounted with an electronic component. The pad is provided on a surface of the circuit board. The heat-transfer layer is formed o... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285916 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND DATA RECEPTION METHOD There is provided a data transmission device including a acquisition unit which acquires identification information indicating whether or not a data reception device operating by a first digital interface is compatible with a second digital interface other than the firs... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110267547 | METHOD & A MODULE FOR RE-GENERATING ATSC-MH BROADCASTING SIGNAL, AN ATSC-MH BROADCAST RECEIVER, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM The present invention relates to a re-generating method and module for an ATSC-MH broadcasting signal, an ATSC-MH broadcast receiver, and a storage medium. The ATSC-MH broadcast receiver includes: a main stream data generating module for receiving an ATSC-MH RF signal, ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110255007 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER A lighting device 110 includes a grounding member 150. The grounding member 150 includes a base member 151, a grounding terminal 99, light source holding conductors 152 and a wiring pattern 90. The grounding terminal 9... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249192 | DATA RATE BUFFERING IN DISPLAY PORT LINKS Rate matching for use in data links between a source device and a sink device is provided. A rate matching device includes a first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer having a write pointer and a read pointer; a write control having a write clock to write an input data stream fr... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110228171 | AUTOMATICALLY SETTING AN OPERATIVE STATE OF A WIDEBAND AMPLIFIER A multi-channel receiver (200) comprises: an input (111) for receiving a wideband signal potentially comprising multiple channels, a tuner stage (110), a wideband amplifier (201) connected between the input (111) and the tuner (110<... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110216247 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER A signal processing device includes a first and a second reconfigurable circuit whose logic configuration can be changed. With the reconfigurable circuits sequentially reconfigured, the signal processing device conducts processes regarding signals transmitted to and fro... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211117 | TECHNIQUES TO ENABLE DIGITAL TELEVISION AND GPS COEXISTENCE An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a digital television (DTV) receiver including at least a one-bit-flag such that when the flag is “on”, the DTV receiver is not allowed to start an initial acquisition process, and at least one ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110187937 | METHOD FOR FREQUENCY COMPENSATION AND RELATED APPARATUS A method for frequency compensation includes the following steps: detecting and checking if a desired frequency falls within a first detectable frequency range delimited by an initial frequency and a first specific frequency; and when the desired frequency exceeds the f... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187938 | Multistandard Receiver Circuit For Analogue And Digital Broadcasting The invention relates to a multistandard receiver circuit for analogue and digital broadcasting, particularly analogue and digital television broadcasting, having a demodulator arrangement with an input for applying digital or digitized values (d) for both analogue and ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181788 | CIRCUIT MODULE FOR USE IN DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER FOR RECEIVING DIGITAL TELEVISION BROADCASTING WAVE SIGNAL A circuit module for a digital television receiver is formed by multi-layering a decoder LSI including a CPU and a decoder, a decoder layer substrate including a CA interface circuit, a demodulation function layer substrate including a demodulator, and an extension func... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110170011 | TRANSMISSION AND DETECTION OF MULTI-CHANNEL SIGNALS IN REDUCED CHANNEL FORMAT Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to transmission and detection of multi-channel signals in reduced channel format. An embodiment of a method for transmitting data includes determining whether a first type or a second type of content data is to be tran... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110170012 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING VIDEO BY USING PATTERN INFORMATION IN HIERARCHICAL DATA UNIT Video encoding using pattern information of a hierarchical data unit includes splitting a picture into a coding unit of a predetermined maximum size, performing encoding that is accompanied by transformation based on at least one transformation unit of every coding unit... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110149170 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM According to a first aspect, a method of controlling an electronic system includes the step of receiving by a first device a plurality of receivable wireless signals that are intended to control functions of a second device. The first device transmits a wireless signal ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110154390 | DYNAMIC LIVE CONTENT PROMOTER FOR DIGITAL BROADCAST TV Methods and devices for alerting users to live programming on digital television broadcast receiver devices provide an on-screen object revealing a content item broadcast in an overhead flow portion of a broadcast signal. Information regarding programs available on othe... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110151780 | System and Method for Integration of an Antenna in an Information Handling System Housing An information handling system having an antenna disposed at an outer housing surface provides wireless information signals received by the antenna to a receiver within the housing by capacitive coupling of the signals through the housing. A capacitive pattern portion c... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141370 | Image processing circuit, image display device, and an image processing method The present invention is arranged such that interlace image data, which has been supplied, is converted to progressive image data in an I/P conversion section, and the image data converted to progressive style in the I/P conversion section is subjected to image processi... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110134333 | Inflight entertainment system video display unit with swappable entertainment processor board A video display unit (VDU) for an inflight entertainment (IFE) system, and a main circuit board and swappable entertainment processor board for use therein. The swappable entertainment processor board detachably engages with the main circuit board, allowing a main circu... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110128437 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DETACHING A PLURALITY OF MODULES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Provided are an image signal processing apparatus and a controlling method thereof. The image signal processing apparatus includes a signal decoder, an image signal processor, a display, a controller, a memory, and a power interface. The signal decoder decodes input sig... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110115978 | COORDINATED VIDEO FOR TELEVISION DISPLAY Apparatus and methods for generating coordinated video content for display. The apparatus takes video signals from independent sources and allows a user to select portions of the video signals, corresponding to desired portions of video content to be displayed, and comb... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110119727 | REMOTE CONTROL VIDEO MODULATOR A video modulator is presented. The modulator includes a video input interface, a video modulation circuit, a video output interface, a communication interface, and control circuitry. The video input interface is configured to receive a video signal to be modulated, the... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109810 | METHOD AN APPARATUS FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE USING A SCALABLE VIDEO CODING (SVC) STREAM There are provided methods and apparatus for fast channel change when changing the channel from a channel being viewed full screen to a channel being viewed in a secondary display window (e.g., picture-in-picture (PIP) window). In one implementation, the base layer stre... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110109808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE USING A SECONDARY CHANNEL VIDEO STREAM A method and apparatus for fast channel change when changing the channel from a channel being viewed full screen as a main picture to a channel being viewed in a secondary channel program display window (e.g., a picture-in-picture (PIP) window). In one implementation, d... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110109833 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHTING DEVICES A backlight unit 12 includes cold cathode tubes 17, a chassis 14, a stand 30, a stand mount 40, a power circuit board 61, an image processing circuit board 62 and a control circuit board 63. The chassis 14 h... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110096240 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE LOW-POWER DIFFERENTIAL INPUT STAGE A low-power high dynamic range RF input stage (200) with a noiseless degeneration component, such as a capacitor (201), is provided. High dynamic range means a combination of low noise contribution by the stage (200) and a low level of intermodulati... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110098083 | Large, Ultra-Thin And Ultra-Light Connectable Display For A Computing Device Methods and apparatus to create and display screen stereoscopic and panoramic images are disclosed. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a stereoscopic or a panoramic image. An image may be a static image. It may also be ... | 04/28/2011 |
