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...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127374 | System and Method for Providing Network Access to Antenna Feeds A method and system for capturing, storing, and streaming over the air broadcasts based on user requests is disclosed. The system and method utilize subarrays of antenna elements for receiving over the air broadcasts. Processing pipelines are used to demodulate, transco... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105734 | Multi-Panel Display Device A unitary multi-panel display device is described that includes a housing, a single inner operating component, and at least two displays installed in the housing for viewing to video or other images displayed thereon and listening to audio content played thereon. The di... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105733 | DISPLAY APPARATUS RECEIVING BROADCASTING SIGNAL THROUGH NETWORK AND BROADCASTING RECEIVING METHOD THEREOF A display apparatus and a broadcasting receiving method thereof are provided. The display apparatus which receives a broadcasting signal from an external server through a network, the display apparatus including: a communication unit which receives channel information a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105735 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER Each pixel includes two pixel electrodes connected to each other via a capacitor, and in respect to a pixel (101) that belongs to the column of pixels and to the row of pixels, a transistor (12a) connected to one of the two scanning signal lines ( 05/03/2012 | |
| 20120081610 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANNEL SCANNING Methods for channel scanning are provided. An embodiment of a method for channel scanning comprises scan progress information stored when interrupting a channel scanning process. A carrier RF subsequent to the most recently processed carrier RF is locked onto with refer... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120044427 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE When each of R, G, and B pixels continuously display identical gray scales (1023 gray scale) in a liquid crystal display device in which the thicknesses of the liquid crystal layers are of R pixel>G pixel>B pixel, the R pixel is alternately supplied with a positiv... | 02/23/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120047277 | WEB SERVER TV DONGLE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE This disclosure describes devices, systems and techniques relating to a dongle device that is designed to provide broadcast video capabilities to an electronic device. In one example, a dongle device is configured to communicatively couple to an electronic device, where... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038834 | Display Apparatus, Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus, Drive Method For Display Apparatus, And Television Receiver In at least one embodiment a ripple, generated in an electric potential of data signal lines even in long-term reversal driving, is reduced and display quality is improved. In at least one example embodiment, the liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120026407 | System and Method for Configurable Multi-standard Receiver A configurable multi-standard receiver. A receiver comprises a mixer, a processing module and an analog to digital converter is disclosed to receive multi-standard radio signals. The processing module includes a first selection switch and first parameter control, where ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120011557 | BANDWIDTH AND SERVER RESOURCE SAVINGS THROUGH USE OF LEGACY CLIENT CAPABILITY IN A REMOTE USER INTERFACE SYSTEM A server receives a request for delivery of media from a client, and determines if the client has a capability to tune to a quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM) channel carried by a first network. The server sends a message to the client to instruct the client to tune t... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008053 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE BETWEEN PROGRAMS UTILIZING A SINGLE DECODER TO CONCURRENTLY DECODE MULTIPLE PROGRAMS A video receiver comprising a single decoder may be operable to decode concurrently, by the single decoder, a plurality of received programs. The plurality of received programs may comprise a current program associated with a current channel and one or more other progra... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002115 | LOCATION-BASED TUNER A method and system of facilitating tuning to content and/or signal streams, including capabilities to facilitate tuning when traveling from one geographical location to another where the different geographical areas may be rely on different identifiers to facilitate lo... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002116 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SELECTING A DATA SOURCE BASED ON A CHANNEL IDENTIFIER Methods and systems are described for selecting a data source based on a channel identifier. Channel information identifying a first channel identifier is detected. The first channel identifier is bound to a first frequency channel accessed, via a tuner, as a first data... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110304777 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHANNEL MANAGEMENT OF A TELEVISION BASED ON MEDIA CENTER SET-TOP BOX TUNER AVAILABILITY A method and system for dynamic channel management of a television based on media center set-top box tuner availability. The method includes determining a last channel a television was tuned to prior to being turned off. Then it is determined whether the last channel is... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298990 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD A digital broadcast receiving apparatus includes a channel selection control unit selecting a channel of a digital broadcast, a demultiplexing unit and a video decoder obtaining video data and data broadcast data from electrical wave of the digital broadcast of the chan... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292297 | Signal receiving apparatus, signal receiving method, signal receiving program and signal receiving system Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including: a resonance section configured to receive an input signal at a variable resonance frequency; a signal supplying section configured to supply an electrical signal having a desired reception frequency to the reso... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292298 | INPUT TUNING CIRCUIT OF TELEVISION TUNER In an input tuning circuit, during reception of a television signal in the UHF band, a second tuning circuit unit is tuned to the UHF band by turning on a first switching diode, and a first tuning circuit unit is made to operate as a trap circuit in a frequency range lo... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110279735 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT AND TELEVISION RECEIVER Provided is an active matrix substrate including a capacitance electrode (47a) electrically connected to a pixel electrode (17a), in which a storage capacitance wiring (18p) is formed in the layer between the capacitance electro... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279733 | Method, apparatus and system for improving tuning in receivers A method, apparatus and system for reducing a time it takes for a receiver/playout device to start playing content includes providing the receiver on which content is to be played, information identifying the content. In one embodiment, such information can be included ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279736 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE TRANSCEIVER FOR COGNITIVE RADIO Embodiments of cognitive radio technology can recover and utilize under-utilized portions of statically-allocated radio-frequency spectrum. A plurality of sensing methods can be employed. Transmission power control can be responsive to adjacent channel measurements. Dig... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279734 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER With a configuration in which a first pixel electrode (17a) electrically connected to a first transistor (12) and a second pixel electrode (17b) connected to the first pixel electrode (17a) through a capacitance are provi... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110280413 | System and Method For Protecting Transmissions of Wireless Microphones Operating in Television Band White Space A wireless microphone system broadcasts a pilot tone at the designated ATSC pilot position in the TV Band channel being used by the wireless microphone system. The pilot tone is a readily detectable waveform transmitted in the ATSC pilot position. The pilot tone can be ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110267548 | RECEIVER A receiver includes a case main body with an opening for inserting an IC card; an electric power supply board provided in the case main body; a contact type IC card connector where the contact type IC card is expected to be connected; and a tuner configured to receive a... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110261268 | Liquid crystal display and television receiver A liquid crystal display of the present invention contains a first panel and a second panel being stacked. Adjacent pairs of polarizers (A to C) disposed on the panels form crossed Nicols. When the first panel produces a display according to a first display signal, the ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255011 | All Digital Front-End Architecture for Television with Sigma-Delta ADC Input A digital front-end architecture for television receivers with sigma-delta ADC input. An input digital signal is fed to the architecture and the gain is controlled by a gain stage. In the first method, the gain stage is controlled by a first AGC. Here, the gain is incre... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110242431 | TRACKING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED CALIBRATION DEVICE A tracking filter includes a first buffer, an impedance transformer, an inductor, a first capacitive unit, a second capacitive unit and a second buffer. The first buffer has an input terminal for receiving an input signal. The impedance transformer is connected with an ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234915 | DIGITAL BROADCAST REPRODUCER AND DIGITAL BROADCAST REPRODUCING METHOD A digital broadcast reproducer includes a reproduction unit for reproducing the content of a channel of digital broadcast by using plural tuners, and a controller for controlling the plural tuners and the reproduction unit. Upon detecting the initiation of a zapping ope... | 09/29/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110221971 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including a display unit having scan signal lines divided into a plurality of groups which are successively selected. While the scan signal lines belonging to the selected group are successively scanned horizont... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221973 | DIFFERENTIAL ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL SYSTEM APPLIED TO DIGITAL TV A differential antenna and associated control system applied to a digital television (TV). The control system includes a differential antenna receiving a broadcasting signal and generating a differential radio frequency (RF) signal including a positive signal and a nega... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221970 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVESION RECEIVER At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: scanning signal lines provided in a display area; and a dummy scanning signal line provided in a non-display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a pluralit... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221972 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: pixels each of which includes a plurality of sub-pixels; and scanning signal lines provided in a display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110216248 | SIGNAL RECEIVING METHODS AND DEVICES A signal receiving method for receiving a signal within a predetermined bandwidth for a broadcasting system using an embedded antenna is provided, comprising: obtaining an antenna bandwidth of the embedded antenna; dividing the predetermined bandwidth into a plurality o... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216249 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER Disclosed is an active matrix including a scanning signal line (16x), a data signal line (15x), and a first insulating film; and including, in a pixel region (101), a transistor (12a), a first pixel electrode (17 09/08/2011 | |
| 20110211130 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER Disclosed is an active matrix including: a second capacitor electrode (37) electrically connected to a first pixel electrode (17a); and a first capacitor electrode (77) electrically connected to a second pixel electrode (17b), w... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205434 | REMOTE JACK PACK A remote jack pack has a video input jack that receives a video signal, an audio input jack that receives an audio signal, a video output that transfers the video signal to a television, an audio output that transfers the audio signal to the television, and a control ou... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199543 | Electronic Apparatus, Image Display System and Image Display Method According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a display configured to display an image; a display magnification changing module configured to change display magnification of the image; a cursor display module configured to display a cursor; a receiver c... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110197214 | TRACKING USER REMOTE SIGNATURES Disclosed is an apparatus and method for identifying a particular user of an receiver, such as a set-top box or receiver. A user is identified by the manner in which she uses an input device, such a wireless remote. Each individual user of the receiver is assigned a pro... | 08/11/2011 |
