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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120044426 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNAL RECEPTION AND DISTRIBUTION A system and method for receiving and distributing an over-the-air signal over a network. At least one antenna receives an over-the-air signal containing a plurality of channels, at least one tuner isolates from the over-the-air signal information associated with a sele... | 02/23/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120019731 | TUNER MODULE AND RECEIVING DEVICE A tuner module includes a tuner module substrate having a tuner function part formed thereon, a case body having a shielding function of holding and incorporating at least the tuner module substrate, a circuit board on which the tuner module substrate is mounted, and at... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110317077 | Digital Intensive Baseband Chain Of A Receiver In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to an apparatus configured to perform channel filtering operations digitally, to reduce area and power consumption as compared to analog filtering. After passive filtering of downconverted analog baseband signals, the... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110304776 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ATSC SIGNAL PROCESSING Embodiment methods and apparatus enable ATSC receiver devices to receive and process ATSC-M/H training sequences in order to improve the reception and decoding of an ATSC service. A processor within the ATSC receiver device may be configured to receive training sequence... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110255008 | SIMPLIFIED DATA INTERFACE PROTOCOL FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER Certain embodiments of the present invention encapsulate a variety of data, for example, FIC data, together with ATSC-M/H Service data, into a single IP stream, to simplify the interface between demodulator and media processor. A single data interface protocol within th... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255009 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN INTEGRATED VSB/QAM/NTSC/OOB PLUG-AND-PLAY DTV RECEIVER A method for processing signals in a communication system may include performing by one or more processors and/or circuits integrated within a single digital television (DTV) receiver chip, demodulating a wirelessly received digital inband signal and a wirelessly receiv... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249193 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER A digital broadcast receiver 1 capable of receiving a program broadcast by a plurality of services from among broadcast electric waves to which a single physical channel is assigned and provided with at least an I/O device (a display 18) is provided. The d... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110242428 | Multi-Standard Digital Demodulator For TV Signals Broadcast Over Cable, Satellite And Terrestrial Networks A multi-standard single-chip receiver for digital demodulation of TV signals broadcasted over any of multiple digital television means, e.g., satellite, cable and terrestrial, is provided. The receiver can receive and demodulate a variety of different signal types recei... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110242429 | METHOD AND RECEIVER FOR DEMODULATION A method of demodulation includes determining samples of a modulated analogue audio signal; determining at least one distorted sample of the samples depending on the signal quality of the modulated analogue audio signal; and replacing the distorted sample.... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234914 | DTV RECEIVER AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST SIGNAL IN DTV RECEIVER A DTV receiver includes a tuner tuning to a channel to receive a broadcast signal, and a demodulator demodulating the broadcast signal. The receiver further includes a first decoder which decodes main and enhanced data included in the demodulated signal by calculating s... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110221968 | RECEIVING APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL BROADCASTING SIGNAL AND RECEIVING/RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS THEREOF In a digital broadcasting signal receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus, a recorded program can be immediately reproduced without performing complicated operations. Only a desired program and information related to the desired program are separated to be extracted fr... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110205444 | RECEIVER, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS A receiver for receiving signals in a plurality of transmission schemes, reducing the circuit size thereof successfully. The receiver for receiving a baseband signal and a modulated signal, includes a first PLL circuit configured to generate a first internal clock based... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110194030 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING BROADCASTING SIGNAL A broadcasting signal transmitting device transmits a broadcasting signal including a base layer signal and an enhancement layer signal as well as an additional layer signal relating to the broadcasting signal to a broadcasting signal receiving device. The broadcasting ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110176061 | DTV TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING TELEVISION SIGNAL A digital television transmitting system includes a pre-processor, a packet generator, an RS encoder, and a trellis encoder. The pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for first forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded en... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110170013 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER Respective broadcast program videos from a plurality of broadcast reception units 10, 20 are distributed by a video distribution unit 51. Video synthesis units 54, 55 set at least one of the distributed program videos as a master screen, set another... | 07/14/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110122322 | Method and apparatus for transmission and reception using power line An apparatus for transmission and reception of video signal using power line is provided. The device include a coupler for receiving a high-frequency composite video signal from an external video signal transmitter, a first amplifier, a first low-pass filter, a second a... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110096241 | BROADCAST RECEIVER SYSTEM An interface circuit configured to connect between (a) a broadcast receiver tuner and associated circuitry for the receiving and processing of broadcast radio frequency signals, and (b) a general purpose computer device programmed with software demodulation code configu... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096234 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLEXED TRANSPORT INTERFACE BETWEEN DEMODULATORS (DEMODS) AND SET-TOP BOX (STB) SYSTEM-ON-CHIPS (SOCS) A multiplexed transport interface (MTSIF) may be utilized during communication between a demodulation module and a video processing system-on-chip (SoC). The MTSIF may enable concurrent demodulation of a plurality of input modulated video streams, via a plurality of dem... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110080517 | PHASE NOISE AND FREQUENCY ERROR RESILIENT DEMODULATION SCHEME FOR MOCA Systems and methods for demodulating signals are disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a frequency estimator, a tuner, coupled to the frequency estimator, for tuning to a frequency based on an estimate from the frequency estimator, a pha... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110075034 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT MULTI-CHANNEL RECEPTION In accordance with various aspects of the disclosure, a method and apparatus for receiving multiple channels from a broadcast source and interfacing to multiple demodulators within a common silicon implementation is disclosed. A receiver apparatus is disclosed that may ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110063519 | CARRIER RECOVERY DEVICE AND METHOD, AND DEMODULATOR A carrier recovery device includes a first carrier recovery unit configured to multiply a baseband signal by a first carrier to obtain a first demodulated signal, and generate the first carrier based on a first phase error in a pilot signal extracted from the first demo... | 03/17/2011 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20110007223 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA A digital broadcast system and method of processing data are disclosed. A channel equalizer includes a frequency domain converter receiving a known data sequence, when the known data sequence is periodically inserted and transmitted in general data, and converting the r... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007222 | Auto-Calibrating Demodulator, Associated Method and TV Receiver A demodulator comprises a reference voltage generating circuit for generating a reference voltage, a reference resistor for converting the reference voltage to a reference current, a current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC) for receiving a digital code and generating ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100328536 | Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Architecture For A Hybrid Television Tuner According to one aspect, a mixed-signal tuner for analog and digital TV reception incorporates a demodulator for analog TV, employing various features for resolving limitations of the analog circuitry and for achieving compatibility with various global TV standards. Suc... | 12/30/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100328544 | Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Architecture For A Hybrid Television Tuner According to one aspect, a mixed-signal tuner for analog and digital TV reception incorporates a demodulator for analog TV, employing various features for resolving limitations of the analog circuitry and for achieving compatibility with various global TV standards. Suc... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100321586 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RECEIVER, A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RECEIVING METHOD AND A TELEVISION RECEIVER The present invention relates to a wireless communication receiver, wireless communication receiving method and television receiver. The wireless communication receiver has signal processing circuits including a first signal processing circuit and a second signal proces... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100315561 | Robust mode staggercasting fast channel change A method and apparatus for staggercasting a plurality of content representative signals includes encoding a first and a corresponding second signal representing each of the plurality of content representative signals. A composite signal is generated comprising the plura... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100309385 | DIGITAL INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY DEMODULATOR The invention discloses a digital IF demodulator for processing a digital IF signal converted from a radio frequency (RF) signal, including an NCO, a down conversion circuit, a PIF carrier recovery circuit and a video baseband demodulator. The NCO outputs a sine value a... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100302458 | DTV TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST SIGNAL A DTV transmitting system includes a pre-processor, a block processor, and a trellis encoder. The pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data by expanding the enhanced data at an expansion rate of 1/H. The block processor includes a first converter, a symbol encoder, a sy... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100296001 | DIGITAL BROADCAST TRANSMITTER, DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER, AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING AND PROCESSING STREAMS THEREOF A method for processing a stream of a digital broadcast receiver is provided. The method which processes a stream that is divided into a first area allocated to first mobile data and a second area allocated to normal data, includes: receiving a transport stream includin... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100296006 | DIGITAL TELEVISION TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST DATA A digital television receiving system includes a first known data detector, a second known data detector, and a selector. The first known data detector detects a location of a first known data sequence in a broadcast signal by calculating a first correlation value betwe... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100283910 | DECOUPLED DATA-AIDED TIMING AND CARRIER TRACKING LOOP A receiver is an ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee)-receiver and comprises a staggered quadrature amplitude modulator for providing an staggered quadrature amplitude modulated (SQAM) signal from a received signal; a data-aided carrier tracking loop (CTL) and a... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100283911 | DECOUPLED DATA-AIDED SYMBOL TIMING RECOVERY LOOP A receiver is an ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee)-receiver and comprises a staggered quadrature amplitude modulator for providing an staggered quadrature amplitude modulated (SQAM) signal from a received signal; a data-aided carrier tracking loop (CTL) and a... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100283912 | Apparatus for Demodulating Digital Video and Associated Method An apparatus for demodulating a digital video signal applied to a receiving end of an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication system is provided. The apparatus receives a plurality of OFDM symbols, and stores a plurality of data sequences in an e... | 11/11/2010 |
