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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110612 | Method and System for Providing Security within Multiple Set-Top Boxes Assigned for a Single Customer Two or more set-top boxes are installed in a household. A communications link, preferably a physical link, is provided between or among the set-top boxes. One of the boxes is designated as a “master” box while the other box or boxes are “slaves.” The slave box w... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120054806 | METHODS CIRCUITS & SYSTEMS FOR WIRELESS VIDEO TRANSMISSION Disclosed are methods, circuits & systems for transmitting a video stream over a wireless data link and devices implementing said methods, circuits & systems. A host device may include a video transmitter adapted to transmit a video stream via a shared radio-fre... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047538 | ADAPTOR DEVICE FOR SOURCE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ADAPTOR DEVICE FOR SOURCE DEVICE An object of the present invention is to provide an adaptor device for a source device that can reduce a connection time to a switching destination in the case where a connection destination is switched. For this, an adaptor device for a source device (104) inclu... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042346 | INPUT AND OUTPUT SWITCHING DEVICE AND INPUT AND OUTPUT SWITCHING METHOD In the wireless HDMI converter, appropriate audio data input switching is performed, and, when an instruction is received, an audio data extraction unit extracts audio data from video and audio data received by an HDMI input interface from an STB, and an optical audio o... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120030720 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING DATA OF A WIRELESS TERMINAL TO AN EXTERNAL DEVICE An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit to establish communication with a wireless terminal and to control reception of multimedia data wirelessly transmitted from the wireless terminal, and an output unit to display the multimedia data on an ext... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030718 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING A WIRELESS TELEVISION SYSTEM An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030719 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING DATA OF A WIRELESS TERMINAL TO AN EXTERNAL DEVICE A method for a media device is provided. The method includes establishing communication with a wireless terminal, receiving multimedia data wirelessly transmitted from the wireless terminal, and displaying the multimedia data on an external device, whereby the multimedi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120017249 | DELIVERY SYSTEM, DELIVERY METHOD, CONVERSION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM A conversion apparatus is provided for a system that delivers content to a first terminal comprising a set top box in home or the like from a delivery server apparatus over a first network. When a request for content is made from a second terminal over a second network,... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017248 | Content Delivery to a Digital TV Using a Low-Power Frequency Converted RF Signal A simple antenna is connected to the RF input port on a conventional digital TV to receive video content from a plurality of video content sources wirelessly. The wireless RF transmission by a local transmitter has a range generally limited to within a home or room. The... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110321102 | PROCESS FOR LOCALLY DIFFUSING THE AUDIO/VIDEO CONTENT BETWEEN A SOURCE DEVICE INCLUDING A HDMI CONNECTOR AND A RECEPTOR DEVICE A method for locally broadcasting audio/video content between a source device equipped with an HDMI interface and a target device, the method including: compressing the audio/video content in the source device; transmitting the compressed audio/video content over a wire... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110296464 | CONTENT ALERT UPON AVAILABILITY FOR INTERNET-ENABLED TV Internet application use and execution in an IPTV system is separated from the television to eliminate the Internet application learning curve and at the same time preserve a viewing experience.... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296472 | CONTROLLABLE DEVICE COMPANION DATA Controllable device companion data is described. In embodiments, a companion utility is executed by a portable device to interface the portable device with a controllable device via a wireless network. The portable device can communicate a request to the controllable de... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110277001 | Gateway Device Disclosed are various embodiments for a gateway device that can execute applications which can communicate with various devices in one or more home networks as well as one or more wide area networks. The gateway device can possess capabilities to communicate over variou... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271308 | Control of Data Presentation Using a Wireless Home Entertainment Hub A method for controlling presentation of data through a wireless home entertainment hub in a home entertainment system includes obtaining a registration for one or more source devices and for one or more sink devices. An indication is received at the wireless home enter... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110239258 | DISTRIBUTION AND NETWORKING OF TELEVISION, VIDEO AND OTHER SIGNALS, INSTALLATION OF SUCH DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, AND CONTROL OF TELEVISION SETS A system for distributing television/video signals to different locations comprises a server capable of providing digital television/video signals for a plurality of programmes, a plurality of receivers each at a respective one of said locations, and a network connectin... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110199538 | DIGITAL PHOTO-FRAME ANYWHERE A system for displaying digital photographs and video on the screen of a TV receiver using a digital photo-frame device connected to the TV receiver. The digital photo-frame device has a slot for receiving AC power, a USB slot for receiving digital pictures, and a slot ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110191810 | Method and System for Distribution of Computer and Entertainment Information Methods and systems provide for the distribution of both computer and home entertainment information. Computer and home entertainment audio-visual sources are distributed to displays throughout a house, and any of the sources can be viewed from any of the displays. Comp... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110167461 | MEDIA REPRODUCTION APPARATUS A media reproduction apparatus 100 comprises a media reproduction unit 106 capable of reproducing media data received by a wireless LAN interface 101 or a wired LAN interface 102; and a protocol converter 105 for performing protocol co... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110162019 | BROADCAST RETRANSMITTING METHOD, AND BROADCAST RETRANSMITTING APPARATUS, BROADCAST OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND BROADCAST RETRANSMITTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME A broadcast retransmitting method, a broadcast retransmitting apparatus, a broadcast output apparatus, and a broadcast retransmitting system using the same are provided. The broadcast retransmitting method includes receiving a broadcast signal, detecting an available fr... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110138428 | Transporting home networking frame-based communication signals over coaxial cables A method and apparatus for coupling a system propagating wireless home networking communication signals to a system propagating television signals over a coaxial cable system to a device capable of receiving television signals that includes a three-port adapter having a... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110126243 | Device, method and system for transmitting data network based data over a wireless video link Disclosed is a method, circuit and system for transmitting data network based data (e.g. TCP/IP, UDP/IP) over a wireless video link. There is provided circuitry adapted to receive network data traffic and to insert the received data traffic into a transmission signal (e... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110119718 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, CONTROLLER, CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS DETERMINATION METHOD A content reproduction apparatus, which is capable of reproducing, in accordance with an instruction from a controller, content provided from a content output apparatus via a network, includes: a first communication unit which receives a first search request; a second c... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110099591 | SECURE WIRELESS PAIRING OF DIGITAL TV SHORT-RANGE TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER Embodiments of wireless display of digital content include transmission using a television transmission standard, such as a set of standards defined by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) for digital television (TV) transmissions. The digital content is tra... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110099589 | Digital Broadcasting System and Method of Processing Data in Digital Broadcasting System A method is provided for controlling a mobile device capable of accessing an AP card of a DTV located in one independent space among a plurality of independent spaces physically separated from one another. The method includes accessing a management server using the AP c... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110099590 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM A digital broadcasting system and a method for processing data in the same are disclosed. A method for controlling a digital television (DTV) located in one independent space among a plurality of independent spaces physically separated from one another is disclosed. The... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110093903 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HOME NETWORK DEVICES USING MULTICAST ENABLED REMOTE CONTROLS A system, method, and article of manufacture for controlling home network devices using a multicast enabled remote control. The system includes a plurality of home network devices capable of receiving and/or transmitting multicast input and/or output signals and a home ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110078749 | EMBEDDED WIRELESS ANTENNA FOR NETWORK TV A WiFi chipset is integrated into a TV chassis as are wireless audio-video signal antennas that feed the chipset and that are embedded in the display bezel. The TV processor causes signals from home network components received through the antennas and chipset to be disp... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072473 | ADAPTER DEVICE FOR WIRELESSLY TRANSMITTING VIDEO SIGNAL FROM SOURCE DEVICE TO ADAPTER DEVICE FOR SINK DEVICE An adapter device connected to a source device wirelessly receives an EDID response message signal including data on a plurality of video display formats and a plurality of audio output formats of the sink device from an adapter device. Further, the adapter device selec... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110004909 | WIRELESS VIDEO TRANSMITTER A technique is offered which is applied to a system for wirelessly sending and receiving control commands and which permits mutual communications owing to the control commands between a wireless video transmitter and wireless video receivers to be operated stably with l... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100333148 | WIRELESS VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT BIT RATE CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING CONTENT BIT RATE CONTROL PROGRAM STORED THEREIN A buffer monitoring section of the display device monitors a usage status of a buffer for storing video data, and transmits this usage status information to the tuner device. A remaining buffer time estimation section estimates a remaining time of video data within the ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325672 | IN-HOME DISTRIBUTION RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY AND/OR SET TOP BOX A multimedia residential gateway device for providing video services to multiple televisions within a home. The device receives incoming video content from a DSL, DOCSIS, or Ethernet data stream and outputs selected content to individual televisions, with the content fo... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325654 | COMMUNICATING A DEVICE DESCRIPTOR BETWEEN TWO DEVICES WHEN REGISTERING ONTO A NETWORK A method for registering a first device with a second device over a wireless network includes receiving a registration request from the first device and sending one or more user input choices to the first device. The user input choices each specify a user input action a... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100319037 | Method of controlling devices and tuner device A control method for recording audio/video data streams in a display device of a wireless network comprises transmitting a Give Tuner Device Status message to a tuner device to request status information of the tuner device that senses a record command signal input from... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100319036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCASTING SIGNAL, AND BROADCASTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME A broadcast receiving method and apparatus and a broadcasting system using the same are provided. The broadcast receiving method receives a broadcasting signal of a broadcasting channel. The broadcast receiving method receives application data for a data broadcasting se... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100299712 | Dual Function Device A communication system for accessing media items via a display device. A receiver is coupled to the display device and a transmitter is coupled to a computer system. Media items stored locally on the computer system and/or remotely on a remote server may be wirelessly t... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299697 | ACCESSING CONTENT VIA A RECEIVER COUPLED TO A TRANSMITTER A communication system for accessing media items via a display device. A receiver is coupled to the display device and a transmitter is coupled to a computer system. Media items stored locally on the computer system and/or remotely on a remote server may be wirelessly t... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100214481 | O/S APPLICATION BASED MULTIPLE DEVICE ACCESS WINDOWING DISPLAY A system and method for providing access to a video display for multiple devices. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise receiving, at a video display system, a first video data signal through a first data communication interface and a second video data s... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100192184 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING A WIRELESS TELEVISION SYSTEM An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100192185 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING A WIRELESS TELEVISION SYSTEM An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100192186 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING A WIRELESS TELEVISION SYSTEM An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data ... | 07/29/2010 |
