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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159619 | Multi-standard integrated television receiver A multi-standard integrated television receiver is disclosed. According to the invention, a RF tracking filter is provided to receive a RF signal and then filter out a fifth order and above harmonics and a band-pass filter is provided to further eliminate harmonics.... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8144259 | Broadcast receiving apparatus and method for minimizing program interruption by an emergency warning signal A broadcast receiving apparatus is equipped with a plurality of tuners that can respectively receive a control signal including region information identifying a region and channel designation information designating a program broadcast channel. A channel selection a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144260 | System and apparatus for receiving digital television signals Apparatus and methods to receive and display digital television signals are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus to receive digital television signals comprises an antenna assembly coupled to the signal processing circuitry and comprising a first antenna posit... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130326 | Television broadcast signal receiving system, television broadcast signal receiving apparatus, and antenna apparatus A television broadcast signal receiving system including an antenna apparatus including a first antenna which can receive a broadcast signal in a first frequency band and a second antenna which can receive a broadcast signal in a second frequency band and a televisi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8094240 | Television receiver, image processing device, and high-quality image display system A television receiver transmits channel information obtained based on a remote control signal from a television remote controller to an image processing device through an HDMI interface section. The image processing device receives the channel information through th... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077262 | Video receiver with DC offset cancellation An analog video receiver implemented in an integrated circuit device. The analog video receiver includes a mixing circuit to mix an analog video signal with a sinusoid to generate a frequency-shifted analog video signal, and an offset cancellation circuit to obtain ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8063996 | 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 video content sources, such as a DVD player and cable/satellite box, may generate baseband signals in a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059209 | Broadcast signal receiving device and method A broadcast signal receiving device includes a receiving unit, a registering unit and a channel selection unit. The receiving unit receives digital broadcast signals including a plurality of sub-channels on each of a plurality of physical channels. The registering u... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059210 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in the digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a receiving unit, a main service data processor, a mobile service data processor, a controller, and an output controller. The r... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054385 | Digital television transmitter and method of coding data in digital television transmitter A pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data packets by coding the enhanced data packets for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded data packets. A data formatter adds first null data into first place holders within each pre-processed enhanced dat... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8035754 | Receiver apparatus and information recording/outputting apparatus First and second signal processing units are each configured by an IC, so that the circuit space occupying in a receiver apparatus can be reduced. The signal path can be shortened from a BPF section inputting a program signal coming from a broadcasting station to a ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8013941 | DTV receiver and method of processing a broadcast signal in DTV receiver A DTV receiver includes a tuner, an information detector, a demodulator, and a channel equalizer. The tuner receives a broadcast signal including valid data in which a known data sequence is periodically repeated. The information detector detects location informatio... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7982808 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast receiving system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (T... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978269 | Portable television-broadcast reception unit, television-broadcast reception method, television-broadcast reception program, and computer-readable record medium with television-broadcast reception program A portable television-broadcast reception unit is provided which is capable of changing the direction of a directional antenna easily to a direction where an enough quality to watch television can be obtained. In this unit: a television-broadcast reception section | 07/12/2011 |
| 7956933 | Tuner circuit and digital broadcast receiver with low distortion performance and low power consumption In a tuner circuit, an automatic gain control circuit generates an RF-AGC voltage for automatically controlling a gain of an RF-AGC amplifier in accordance with a level of a signal output from an IF amplifier. An emitter follower circuit includes a transistor for cu... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956934 | Digital TV equipped with universal CPU and method for signal processing therefor A digital TV equipped with a general-purpose CPU having a higher performance than that of an embedded CPU and a signal processing method thereof are provided. According to the digital TV and method, if the digital TV is turned on, digital broadcast data is received ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7944510 | Broadcast receiving apparatus for capturing broadcast signal and method thereof A broadcast receiving apparatus, and method, for capturing a broadcast signal, the apparatus including a signal processor to receive broadcast signals and process the broadcast signals, a controller to capture a certain frame data from the broadcast signals processe... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940336 | 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 ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940337 | Method and system for an integrated VSB/QAM/NTSC/OOB plug-and-play DTV receiver Systems and methods for processing signals in a communication system are disclosed and may include demodulating a wirelessly received inband signal and a wirelessly received out-of-band signal via a DTV receiver. One or more TV channels may be generated based on the... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7932957 | Receiver apparatus and receiver system A receiver apparatus 3 has a digital circuit portion 13 that converts a compressed digital signal outputted from a digital demodulating portion 12 into digital video and audio signals and a video/audio output circuit 14 that converts the ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932958 | Integrated analog video receiver An analog video receiver implemented in an integrated circuit device. The analog video receiver includes an amplifier to amplify an analog video signal having a desired carrier frequency, and a mixing circuit to mix the amplified analog video signal with a complex s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929059 | Changing channels in a digital broadcast system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for changing digital broadcast channels. In one implementation, upon receiving a request for switching to a new channel in a digital broadcast receiving device, the device switches from a power sa... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907218 | Receiver apparatus and receiver system A receiver apparatus 3 has a digital circuit portion 13 that converts a compressed digital signal outputted from a digital demodulating portion 12 into digital video and audio signals, a video/audio output circuit 14 that converts the dig... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7889281 | Digital broadcast receiver unit A video processing apparatus including: an input device which inputs an encoded video signal; a decoder which decodes the encoded video signal having a video format which is one of a plurality of video formats to produce a decoded video signal; a processor which pro... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880817 | Receiver apparatus for outputting digital video and audio signals and receiver system incorporating the receiver apparatus A receiver apparatus 3 has a digital circuit portion 13 that converts a compressed digital signal outputted from a digital demodulating portion 12 into digital video and audio signals and a video/audio output circuit 14 that converts the ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7859597 | Audio/video entertainment system and method The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for programming and/or charging one or more audio/video devices such that the audio/video devices will be programmed and charged to receive transmitted audio and video signals associated ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852415 | Digital television receiver and method of controlling antenna of the same A method of controlling an adjustable antenna of a digital television receiver including (a) storing an effective power of a channel signal received through the antenna in a memory by rotating the direction of the antenna and selecting an antenna pattern when a maxi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7847865 | Digital television broadcasting receiving apparatus, control method for digital television broadcasting receiving apparatus, and control program for the same A digital television broadcasting receiving apparatus is arranged so as to execute a process requiring to stop an image display at the time of channel change-over, without giving a user a sense of incompatibility and forcing the user to perform unnecessary operation... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7830456 | System and method for frequency multiplexing in double-conversion receivers A system and method for frequency conversion in a frequency-conversion receiver is disclosed. The frequency-conversion receiver receives input RF signals carrying multiple channels. The frequency-conversion receiver converts the input RF signals to a wide IF band. T... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825994 | Digital television transmitter and method of coding data in digital television transmitter A pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data packets by coding the enhanced data packets for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded data packets. A data formatter adds first null data into first place holders within each pre-processed enhanced dat... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7804546 | Antenna system and television receiver An antenna system including an antenna capable of responding to a horizontally-polarized-wave and a vertically-polarized-wave and receives digital television broadcasting signals. The system further includes: a memory section to store an outdoor reception program an... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7787059 | Digital television receiver A ATSC compliant digital television (DTV) receiver including an image rejection filter, an interpolator, a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO), a matched filter unit, a frequency converter, and a DC remover. The image rejection filter removes (filters out) an un... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7738046 | System and apparatus for receiving digital television signals Apparatus and methods to receive and display digital television signals are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus to receive digital television signals comprises an antenna assembly coupled to the signal processing circuitry and comprising a first antenna posit... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7724310 | High definition TV The present invention discloses an HDTV, and a method for controlling adjustment of the HDTV, which make it possible to set control information of the HDTV easily at low cost without unpacking the TV set. Adjustment data is included in an INFO frame, transmitted fro... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7705920 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast receiving system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (T... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7697076 | TV set with a parental guide mode A TV set (20) with a parental guide mode is provided in accordance with a preferred embodiment. The TV set includes: a mode switching unit (204) for switching the TV set between a normal mode and the parental guide mode, under the normal mode the TV se... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692726 | Video decoder with integrated audio IF demodulation An embodiment may include a method to convert a video signal with an analog to digital converter in a video decoder, convert an audio signal with the analog to digital converter, demodulate the audio signal with an audio demodulator and amplify the audio signal with... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7679687 | Digital terrestrial TV broadcast signal receiving system and digital terrestrial TV broadcast signal receiver In a digital terrestrial TV broadcast signal receiving system comprised of a multi-directional antenna and a TV broadcast signal receiver which are connected by a cable, even when a level of a TV broadcast signal is lower and S/N is lower, signal receiving condition... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675577 | Device and method for automatically changing broadcast channel of vehicle television with diversity antenna A device and method for automatically changing a broadcast channel of a vehicle television with a diversity antenna is provided. The device includes an antenna switching unit connected with the diversity antennas and switching one of the diversity antennas; an image... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7643097 | Multiple-TV display channel setting method and module A multiple-TV display channel setting method for synchronously a setting mapping relation between display channels and transmission channels to a first TV and a second TV is disclosed. The method includes setting the mapping relation between the display channels and... | 01/05/2010 |
