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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107016 | Display apparatus and driving method thereof A display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a channel setting storage unit which stores mode selection information about a plurality of channel designation modes each of which designates a way of setting an initial c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102474 | 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 r... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8089566 | Television tuner integrated circuit and television tuner for attenuating interference signal A tuner integrated circuit is connected, in a preceding stage thereof, to an RF amplifier including a UHF dual gate FET and a VHF dual gate FET. In the reception of a signal of the UHF band, a television signal output from the UHF dual gate FET is input to a UHF RF ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8063997 | Integrated programmable tuner An integrated tuner is programmable to optimize its components for either analog signal reception or digital signal reception. Power to the components is increased for analog operation and decreased for digital operation. The tuner also includes a selectable and int... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059212 | Television receiver and television receiving method A television receiver includes at least two tuner units that respectively connect to multidirectional antennas respectively capable of electrically switching a directivity of a receiving radio wave and that select a television broadcast signal corresponding to a cha... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059211 | System and method for changing television channels in a video signal processor A system and/or method that reduces the blanking time between changing from one video channel to another video channel, particularly from a digital video channel. The system provides as much video of the old video channel as possible for display until video from the... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049821 | Video buffer management In one embodiment a video system comprises a first tuner, a first memory buffer coupled to the first tuner to receive a first video signal from the first tuner, a second tuner, a second memory buffer coupled to the second tuner to receive a second video signal from ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040438 | Method for channel change in digital broadcasting The present invention offers a method for channel change in digital broadcasting consisting of: a step 1 for recognizing a command for a channel change while the currently connected channel is being decoded at the digital broadcasting terminal; a step 2 for completi... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8004618 | Digital broadcast receiver A broadcast channel detection system enabling search of channels providing a digital television broadcast from among a large number of channels at a high speed. This is configured by a periodic signal detecting function unit 21 receiving as input a sel... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990480 | Broadcast receiving apparatus, and a tuner and a distributor for the same Within a broadcast receiving apparatus, mounting therein two (2) pieces of tuner units, each being receivable at least three (3) kinds of broadcasting signals, and being receivable plural numbers of broadcasting signals, simultaneously, the tuner units, each capable... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7973861 | Universal tuner for mobile TV A tuner for use in mobile television devices comprises at least one RF front end component comprising a LNA adapted to amplify mobile television signals; a PLL circuit to generate signals; and a pair of mixers to receive the signals from the LNA and the PLL circuit ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7952648 | Broadcast reception module and broadcast device using the same A broadcast module includes a receiver for selecting the signal of a specific channel from the signals of a plurality of channels under control of a controller; a demodulator connected to the output of the receiver; a detector for detecting the signal-to-noise ratio... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944512 | Receiver and receiving method A receiver selecting a channel to be received based on a channel list enumerating receivable channels includes: a memory capable of storing the channel list; a first tuner configured to perform a quick scan to scan a partial frequency band out of a predetermined fre... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7936402 | Method for setting digital broadcasting channel Provided is a method for setting a digital broadcasting channel in a digital broadcasting receiver having a tuner and a demodulator. According to the method, when an automatic channel setting command is input by a user, a channel is selected using a tuner, and wheth... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7929061 | Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method An apparatus and a method for allowing a digital broadcast receiver smoothly to switch from one broadcast channel to another. In response to a reproduction output request, encoded data that are requested to be reproduced and output are selected and decoded according... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924348 | Method and apparatus for distributing multiple signal inputs to multiple integrated circuits An integrated circuit (IC) structure and method of distributing multiple broadband signal inputs to multiple integrated circuits, where each IC receives at least one original signal and outputs a replica of the original signals to other ICs and receives at least one... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7907221 | Television device A television device includes a reception device, a first decision unit, and a second decision unit. The reception device receives, from a broadcast signal of a system set, a channel which is tuned. The second decision unit, when it has been decided by the first deci... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907220 | Television broadcasting system A receiver for detecting a predetermined SD broadcast program transmitted at a high speed using an HD broadcast channel, storing the detected predetermined program in a storage, and reproducing a broadcast signal of the predetermined program stored in the storage at... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7884886 | Integrated channel filter and method of operation A system includes a filter and a tuner formed on an integrated circuit. The filter receives an input signal comprising a first number of channels and communicates an intermediate output signal comprising a second number of channels less than the first number of chan... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7872692 | Structure for switching system for signal monitoring and switch-back control A design structure for systems for switching a displayed signal for a display between a plurality of signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, the design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing an integrated circui... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872691 | Program restart and commercial ending notification method and system A method and system are provided for allowing channel surfing during the presentation of a commercial broadcast by returning the viewer to the desired program channel after the commercial broadcast has concluded. When a commercial broadcast is received that interrup... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872690 | Apparatus and method for improving channel change speed in digital broadcasting reception terminal Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for decreasing a channel change time in a digital broadcasting reception terminal. Starting time information of at least one non-reference channel is selected. When the user selects a non-reference channel, broadcast data ther... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7847866 | Method and apparatus for isolating IIC bus noise from a tuner in a television receiver A method and apparatus for isolating a noise intolerant device, e.g., a phase-lock loop of a tuner within a television receiver, from source of noise. In one embodiment, the apparatus isolates a phase-lock loop integrated circuit (IC) from the bus, by providing an i... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7830458 | Method and system for scanning video carrier channels of a television In a television having a memory storing a plurality of central frequencies of channels, a method for scanning a single video carrier channel includes: (A) entering a channel; (B) providing a frequency correction, which is set to zero in initialization; (C) reading a... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830457 | Multiple video source management Systems and techniques for managing multiple video sources are described. Video data for a first channel may be displayed and buffered, while video data for a second channel that is not being displayed or recorded is also being buffered. The second channel may be a ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7817211 | Apparatuses and methods for resolving channel information inconsistencies A host includes a controller configured to receive service information (SI) and retrieve defined channel map (DCM) information and virtual channel map (VCM) information from the SI information. The controller further configured to resolve inconsistencies between the... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7800701 | Sub-program avoidance redirection for broadcast receivers A primary broadcast receiver is automatically tuned by a secondary broadcast receiver receiving a first broadcast signal corresponding to a source of an origin program by program transition detectors detecting monochrome interprogram dead frame or closed captioning ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796197 | Electronic component allowing the decoding of digital terrestrial or cable television signals An integrated circuit includes a dual-conversion tuner, firstly upconverting so as to place a signal outside the reception band, then downconverting with zero intermediate frequency. A bulk acoustic wave type filter is calibrated in such a way as to accurately deter... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787061 | Receiving apparatus When, for any channel registered in a channel table, a detecting means detects that no program is being broadcast, a broadcast suspension setting means turns on a flag associated with that channel that indicates broadcast suspension. Also, a tuning reception prohibi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782406 | Receiving apparatus and receiving method for channel switching in both digital and analog TV reception In a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus, channel selection that switches a physical channel requires a longer period of time than analog. To solve the above problem, for example, there are provided two systems each including a digital tuner and a decoder, wher... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773159 | Switching system for signal monitoring and switch-back control Systems for switching a displayed signal for a display between a plurality of signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a microcontroller; a chooser for choosing a primary signal from a plurality of program-variable signals at the microcontroller... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7768580 | Image display delay time shortening apparatus during channel change, method thereof and broadcasting receiving apparatus thereof An image display delay time shortening apparatus during channel change, a method thereof and a broadcasting receiving apparatus thereof are disclosed. The broadcasting receiving apparatus extracts a sequence header from a video stream of the received broadcasting si... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7768581 | Tuner module A tuner module including a first carrier, a tuner, a second carrier, a tuner connector, a digital modulator, a digital decoder, an analog decoder and a display unit is provided. The tuner is disposed on the first carrier for tuning the frequency to receive a source ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7750980 | Reception system for multiple-tuner television enabling to automatically connect each tuner to at least an antenna, whatever the number of antennae it comprises A system comprising a first converter linked to a first tuner and optionally, to a second tuner via switching means, optionally a second converter linked to the second tuner means for detecting whether the second converter is in service and means suitable for actuat... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746412 | Highly integrated television tuner on a single microcircuit A broadband integrated receiver for receiving input signals and outputting composite video and audio signals is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an intermediate signal. An intermediate filter bet... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7733427 | Television receiving tuner and television receiver A television receiving tuner is provided which can smoothly designate a channel number, while preventing an unwanted search based on the channel number wrongly input. In the television receiving tuner, it is determined whether or not a numeric value input into one d... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7710503 | Apparatus and method for optimizing the level of RF signals based upon the information stored on a memory A signal processing arrangement has a signal source for providing a radio frequency (RF) signal, a signal output point, and first control means coupled between the signal source and the signal output point for controlling the selection of a low noise figure amplifie... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7701516 | Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners A system or method selects among multiple tuners to tune a particular channel. A request is received to tune a first channel. In response to this request, a first tuner is assigned to tune the first channel. A request is received to tune a second channel. If the pro... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701515 | Multi-input multi-output tuner front ends A front end circuit for a television receiver includes a demultiplexer for inputting a multi-band signal from a signal source and separating the multi-band signal into corresponding bands. A plurality of amplifiers adjust gain on signals corresponding to the bands. ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697077 | Channel number sorting for digital television Channel numbers are provided for a digital television receiver (200) that receives multiple transmissions (100, 110, 120), such as from different regions of a country or from different countries. The channel numbers for the home country transmission ar... | 04/13/2010 |
