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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159618 | Method for searching signal source and arranging signal terminals according to detected signal source A method for searching a signal source suitable for a multimedia apparatus with multiple signal terminals is disclosed. The method provides an ordered search list of the signal terminals to save the search sequence of the signal terminals. The multimedia apparatus s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8072548 | Output control apparatus controlling an output of video or audio by automatically switching an input of a reproduction device and an output control system, a reproduction apparatus and a television for performing the same An output control apparatus capable of appropriately switching screens depending on a current situation, and a reproduction apparatus and a television performing the same. The television includes a tuner receiving a television broadcast, a data input I/F receiving v... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8009235 | Auto-detection circuit and control method for video signals An auto-detection circuit for detecting video signals includes a reception end for receiving a video signal, a synchronization signal detector coupled to the reception end for generating a waveform according to voltage variation of the video signal, a peak value det... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009234 | Audio/video devices for visualizing operational states therein or thereamong into content flow and method of controlling operations thereof An audio/video (A/V) device and a method of controlling the operation thereof, which visualize operation states in or among A/V devices into a flow of content. The A/V device includes an on screen display (OSD) processing unit to OSD process information, and a contr... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004615 | Television The present invention discloses a television includes a power circuit; a power circuit; a speaker; a display; a tuner for receiving television broadcasting signals and for generating first audio signals and first image signals based on the television broadcasting si... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990478 | Information presentation apparatus and information presentation method According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information presentation apparatus including: video/audio signal input terminals to be connected to video/audio signal output terminals of a signal output apparatus; a receiving section that recei... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7911542 | Display device and method for labeling AV signal input sources A display device and a method for labeling input sources are disclosed, to set and provide label information of the input sources on a screen of the display device, for a user's convenience, in which the display device includes a plurality of input terminals respect... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7728911 | Positively indicating to user whether signal has been detected on each video input A method detects whether a signal is present on each of a plurality of video inputs. The method positively indicates to a user whether a signal has been detected on each of the plurality of video inputs. ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7636130 | Television with automatic input switching A video display device having an automatic input switching capability includes at least one input connector coupled to the video display device for accepting an external video signal, sensing means coupled to the at least one input connector for detecting the presen... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7542099 | Apparatus and method for performing internal routing and signal processing A system for performing signal processing includes a system input, wherein a first signal having a first format, and supplied on a first system input is selected by a user for format conversion. A switching circuit having plural switching circuit inputs and plural s... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7456905 | Communication apparatus and method, recording medium, and program When a DVD player is to be set as a source apparatus and a television receiver is to be set as a sink apparatus, for example, a user directs a remote control toward the DVD player and continues to depress a select button. The user then directs the remote control tow... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7423693 | Video delay stabilization system and method A video delay stabilization system configured for multiple types of video input signals, includes a plurality of video processing modules, and a variable delay module. The plurality of video processing modules include at least one module that is selectively actuable... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7372506 | Method and apparatus to display on-screen display user-guide information about status of external device A method and apparatus to display user-guide on-screen display information about a status of an external device on a display device connected with the external device may include attempting to detect a signal from the external device when the display device is in an... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372505 | Programmably controlling video formats A video controller may include at least one video input port which may be programmably configured to receive either RGB or non-RGB color space signals. The video controller may programmably operate in either an RGB or non-RGB mode. In this way, the number of color s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369184 | Digital broadcast receiving apparatus In a digital broadcast receiving apparatus, when a power source operation input is done by a user during execution of a starting sequence, a control part stops the execution of the starting sequence and counts the number of operations for a preset time. When the num... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365802 | Television receiver with isolated inputs Receivers (1) comprising television and radio inputs (11,12) for receiving television and radio signals and comprising switching circuits (2) with two first switches (21,22) to be activated in a first mode and located parallelly to the te... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362381 | Device interoperability utilizing bit-mapped on-screen display menus Interoperability for exchanging on-screen display menus and associated control between common consumer electronic (CE) devices is provided. This interoperability is based on the IEEE 1394 serial bus for the physical and link layers and makes use of AV/C or CAL as th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362383 | System, method and apparatus for utilizing a single video input of an electronic audio/visual signal receiver as an input for multiple video signal formats A system, method, and apparatus for utilizing a single video input for receiving multiple video format signals in an electronic video receiver. The single video input includes a set of inputs to accommodate a component video signal from any one of a multitude of vid... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349621 | Information recording apparatus with selective control of recording medium and recording means drive means An information recording apparatus has a stop mode in which only recording means comprised of a rotatable drum on which a recording head is mounted and recording medium driving means comprised of a capstan/pinch roller are stopped, which stop mode can be changed fro... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7305694 | Method and apparatus for remotely controlling a receiver according to content and user selection System and method for automatically controlling a media receiver by instructing the media receiver to use a particular receiver connection and to play a selected media unit using one of a plurality of play modes according to characteristics of the media unit. Media ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304689 | Single chip tuner for multi receiver applications Tuners are adapted to accept a received signal input and provide both a desired tuner output and the received signal as an output. Accordingly, a single tuner circuit, preferably an integrated circuit, may be cascaded to provide a multiple tuner configuration. Any n... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301583 | Device and method for transporting demodulated digital video data and corresponding digital television receiver A routing device is provided for transporting digital data from demodulated digital television signals. The routing device includes a network that routes the digital data to demultiplexers via at least one decoding module. The network includes means for connecting t... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301581 | Television receiver and method for receiving broadcast signal A ground wave video signal is extracted by a ground wave video decoder from a ground wave broadcast signal received by a ground wave tuner. A BS program link information signal is extracted by a BS program link information decoder from a BS broadcast signal received... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298424 | Display apparatus and method of controlling the same A display apparatus includes a signal source connecting port through which a video signal source is connected. The display apparatus includes a TV tuner connecting port to connect to a TV tuner. A selection part selects one of a video signal, transmitted from the si... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295248 | External synchronous signal generating circuit and phase difference measuring circuit An external synchronous signal circuit comprises: means for measuring a phase difference between the external frame synchronous signal (FRM_SYNC) and the frame synchronous signal (FRM) of the digital video signal; means for generating a signal (EXT_H) having the sam... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295825 | Diversity antenna arrangement A diversity antenna arrangement to reduce cost and the number of switching operations between different antennas includes an antenna changeover switch for switching between antennas, and an evaluation circuit for evaluating reception quality of a signal derived from... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295253 | Remote control device for a television receiver with user programmable means A remote control device for a television receiver having a user-controlled restore function. The remote control device has a user-programmable switch for enabling the user to store user-selected data in a memory, including TV input data and channel data. A restore s... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289828 | Method for steering a smart antenna for a WLAN using a periodic re-scan A smart antenna steering algorithm performs a periodic re-scan at an end of a sustained use period and before a next sustained use period. During a sustained use period, a re-scan of the other antenna beams is not performed. The periodic re-scan is performed on alte... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289168 | Video processing device A video processing device includes a control circuit for detecting a physical quantity related to a size of noise contained in the input video signal, and an OSD (On Screen Display) circuit for providing a user with a warning screen when the physical quantity detect... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274405 | Cable extension unit Synchronous signal overlapping and outputting means and sound signal transmitting means of a signal transmitter transmit any color signal which synchronous signals overlapped and the other color signals, and a sound signal on which polarity information of the synchr... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274360 | Multiple control system A first controller and a second controller for controlling corresponding electronic devices, which are incorporated in a composite electronic apparatus, are connected in parallel to a display driver via a serial communication line. When the first controller controls... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7250988 | Operation screen controlling method, operation screen controlling program, and display device An operation screen controlling method includes a step of specifying image signals for displaying an operation screen, according to an attribute of a remote control device, and a step of outputting the image signals. The image signal specifying step includes the ste... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7236209 | Method and apparatus for automatic selection of video interface To permit the use of a single remote control device in an AV system that can supply incompatible video signals, a switch box (18) receives composite and S-video signals from an AV receiver, transforming these signals into the component video domain, and also ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228413 | Data transmitting/receiving method and its receiver A data transmitting/receiving method for charging the reception of pay data in units of a reception or in units of a group to which receivers belong with a high degree of freedom and its receiver. The transmission side allocates the same group identification number ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225320 | Control architecture for a high-throughput multi-processor channel decoding system A multi-processor unit includes a first domain for processing data according to first configuration information and having multiple first domain processors each connected to communication apparatus and each performing a different function of the first processing. Th... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224402 | Apparatus for processing image signal and method thereof An image signal processing apparatus and method is capable of variably performing format conversion and image quality improvement according to a kind of an inputted image signal. A detecting section detects a kind of image signal inputted from an external device. A ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224410 | Remote control device for a television receiver with user programmable means A remote control device for a television receiver having a user-controlled restore function. The remote control device has a user-programmable switch for enabling the user to store user-selected data in a memory, including TV input data and channel data. The restore... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222355 | Multi-mode video processor A circuit arrangement and method are disclosed for providing a video signal to a video display from a selectable subset of a plurality of digital video data carried on a plurality of video data channels. The digital video data is generated from video signals from a ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209184 | Video apparatus with video signal detection and respective method for recognizing a video signal A video apparatus comprises an input switching matrix, to which a video input is coupled, the video input comprising a terminal for a component video signal and a CVBS terminal and/or a S-VHS terminal, a synchronization signal detector and a color decoder coupled to... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209185 | Universal mounting technique for video matrix switching with chassis volume reduction A video signal connection apparatus comprises an array of individual video signal connector contacts arranged in a matrix having connector contact rows and connector contact columns, the individual video signal connector contacts extending in a first connection ‘d... | 04/24/2007 |
