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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7016435 | Broadcast receiver having automatic gain control function A digital broadcast receiver has a function of selecting, at the time of receiving a digital broadcast, signals to be fed back to an AGC circuit depending on whether an analog broadcast channel exists adjacent to a channel to be received or not. When an analog broad... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015981 | Television signal transmitter capable of eliminating occurrence of adverse influences caused by interference signals A television signal transmitter is arranged by a first frequency converter for up-converting an input signal into an intermediate frequency signal, and a second frequency converter for down-converting the intermediate frequency signal into a television signal of any... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013124 | Wide band tuner When changeover switch (26) selects the output of L band filter (23), changeover switch (28) is turned off and mixer (29) is operated as an amplifier such that the oscillation frequency of local oscillator (31) is controlled based ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013480 | Gateway power synchronization A system for receiving network video includes a remote control with a power control input. A video receiver, controlled by the remote control, powers up or powers down based on a control signal indicating activation of the power control input. The video receiver rec... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013478 | Method and apparatus for interactive program suggestion A method and an apparatus suggests programs for viewing by a subscriber. Terminals installed at a subscriber's home and at central locations, such as bookstores, video rental stores and libraries, provide responsive or intelligent search functions to suggest program... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012932 | Digital broadcast data receiving apparatus A digital broadcast data receiving apparatus comprises a plurality of broadcast data receiving units for receiving digital broadcast data supplied from a plurality of digital broadcast data sources, respectively and a parallel receiving unit for receiving, from the ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012653 | 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... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006158 | Process for the identification of identical television or video images In order to be able to identify television or video images (V1,V2) as identical, predeterminable parameters (H1, H2) of the images (V1, V2) to be tested are compared with each other. Images whose parameters, preferably the a... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006150 | Interface module for TV sets An interface module for receiving television signals or radio signals has several inputs and outputs for receiving and distributing picture and sound signals as well as control signals and at least one input for antenna signals. The interface module includes at leas... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006162 | Tuner An analogue single conversion tuner comprises a plurality of channels (1, 2, 3) for covering the whole of a desired reception bandwidth. Each tuner comprises an image reject mixer (18) connected to the tuner input (4) by a single tracking filter... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006160 | Television signal transmitter attenuating unwanted signal while maintaining match between circuits A signal transmitter prevented from outputting an unwanted signal to the outside, which is generated at the time of changing any of various setting parameters such as a channel through which a signal is to be transmitted and the degree of modulation of an intermedia... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006040 | Steerable antenna and receiver interface for terrestrial broadcast Antennas with steerable antenna patterns and techniques for using such antennas are described. In accordance with the invention, antenna patterns with one or more NULLs are used. Through the use of digital control signals the antenna pattern is steered so that a sou... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002638 | Automatic gain control In a method of automatic gain control for both TV and FM radio signals, the TV and FM radio signals are controllably amplified (AGC-AMP) to obtain amplifier output signals, the amplifier output signals are tuner processed (F, MIX, IF-AMP) to obtain tuner output sign... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003792 | Smart agent based on habit, statistical inference and psycho-demographic profiling A smart agent (SA) is provided which resides locally in a local client device and by iterative means integrates the habit, statistics and psycho-demographic information of a user to infer the user's preferences. The SA may also utilize the preferences to filter info... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003332 | Method and system for decreasing power-on time for software-defined radios A technique for decreasing the amount of time needed to turn on a software-defined radio provides an operator of the radio the ability to turn the radio off and subsequently turn the radio on, wherein the radio is turned on much more quickly than a radio not using t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002639 | Dual digital television tuner A dual digital television tuner includes first and second direct conversion circuits, each having a pair of mixers and a local oscillator, in which a digital television signal is input to the pair of mixers, which directly output baseband signals. The first direct c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999132 | RF/IF digital demodulation of video and audio An apparatus generally comprising a tuner circuit, an analog-to-digital circuit and a converter circuit. The tuner circuit may be configured to generate an intermediate frequency signal having a carrier signal at a first intermediate frequency in response to a first... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995809 | Automatic channel memory device In a broadcasting signal processor, an automatic channel memory device for determining whether a broadcasting signal is present in a channel tuned according to user's selection, and for automatically memorizing the tuned channel if a broadcasting signal is present i... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996627 | System and method for providing update information A system and a method for providing update information. The system includes a client computer which is operably connected to a program information server. The program information server maintains one or more program information items. The system also includes a prog... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6995808 | Television tuner A front end tuner for receiving TV signals and the like includes a frequency conversion circuit including a mixer for beating a local signal with received signals within a predetermined band of frequencies to provide selected signals within a predetermined band of f... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993782 | Program guide information and processor for providing program and channel substitution A system of defining, creating and decoding composite virtual channels advantageously supports dynamic channel and event substitution. A method, for use in a decoder for acquiring a program conveyed on more than one broadcast channel, involves generating a program g... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993781 | Control device, control method, electric apparatus, control method of an electric apparatus, electric apparatus system, control method of an electric apparatus system, and transmission medium Radio waves transmitted from the antenna of a broadcasting station are received by the antenna of a television receiver. The television receiver extracts an EPG from the received radio waves and transmits it to a remote controller via an infrared transmission/recept... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993316 | Method and apparatus for backup power in a communication system A digital receiver unit (28) having a backup energy source (214) for use in a vehicle (250) that operates on a primary energy source (216) includes a receiver (203) powered by the primary energy source when the vehicle is operating... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992728 | Broadcast receiving system with function of on-screen displaying channel information In a broadcast receiving system for receiving the digital broadcasting, when the selection of “channel addition/deletion menu” is inputted by the user, received broadcasting signals are decoded to obtain collectively the channel information of the digital/analog... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6985188 | Video decoding and channel acquisition system A digital video decoding system receives packetized video data representing programs conveyed on a plurality of video channels. The system includes a plurality of buffers for storing encoded video data representing images of video programs conveyed on a correspondin... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6985192 | Selective gain adjustment to aid carrier acquisition in a high definition television receiver In a receiver for processing a vestigial sideband modulated signal containing terrestrial broadcast high definition television information and a pilot component, and for which multipath interference can lead to significant attenuation within narrow bands of the rece... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6981273 | System, method and channel line-up processor for localizing an electronic program guide schedule A system for localizing an EPG program schedule, including an EPG service provider station including a database of channels and corresponding EPG program schedule information, a database manager identifying a plurality of channel line-ups potentially receivable at a... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980820 | Method and system for signaling in broadcast communication system A method and a system for providing signaling in cellular telephone system providing broadcast services to fully integrate broadcast services with the services provided by the cellular telephone systems. The signaling method coordinate interaction between an access ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980257 | Plural-source, selectable, combined image/text single-screen display A plural-source-capable, broadcast-reception, audio/video system and methodology which freely enable the simultaneous display, on a single television receiver screen, of different categories of these broadcast-information components which may be being broadcast at t... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978471 | System for acquiring and processing broadcast programs and program guide data Decoder system initialization involves scanning to associate a particular program guide with individual channels. A similar procedure is also performed upon introduction of a new channel. A system for acquiring program guide information conveyed on one of a pluralit... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977555 | Tuner circuit A tuner circuit includes a variable attenuator circuit including a PIN diode, disposed upstream of a variable-gain amplifier circuit and controlled according to the same AGC voltage used to control the variable-gain amplifier circuit. The operations of the variable-... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971121 | Composite buffering A system is provided for managing and accessing media content received via a plurality of display channels and stored in a plurality of buffers in a storage device. The system associates the plurality of buffers with a composite buffer file. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967693 | Television signal transmitter including a bandpass filter without tracking error A television signal transmitter includes a mixer in which an intermediate-frequency television signal is frequency-converted into a television signal on a channel used for transmission in a predetermined frequency range, a bandpass filter to which the television sig... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963623 | Multi-system correspondence receiver A carrier wave NTSC component or a VSB pilot signal in an IF signal is extracted and judged. Then, on the basis of the judgment result, either of demodulation circuit 13 and 14, which is appropriate for the received broadcast wave is switched. Informat... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963620 | Communication transmitter using offset phase-locked-loop A translational-loop transmitter generates RF signals using at most one phase-locked-loop (PLL) circuit. In one embodiment, a single PLL generates two local oscillation signals. The first oscillation signal is mixed with a baseband signal to generate an intermediate... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963611 | Process and device for switching digital television programs A process for switching television programs is wherein it detects (8, 9) and then stores (10) the appended data of intra type of programs other than the selected program, selects (10) and decodes (12), upon a command (14) for the s... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961099 | Method and apparatus for automatically switching between analog and digital input signals An entertainment system includes a digital television connected to a number of audio/video input devices. The television and at least two of the input devices support analog legacy communication schemes. The television is adapted to uniquely identify the analog outp... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961370 | Sweep method using digital signals An apparatus, system, and method, for determining the total frequency response of a communication system, include one or more testers each having a tuner, digital demodulation circuitry, and a controller that measures an absolute power level at the tester location f... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956623 | Method and system for automatically scanning television channels A method and system for automatically scanning channels of a television operable for displaying channels of a channel lineup one at a time includes a television input device. The television input device is operable for being controlled by a viewer to enable the view... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6957445 | Method, system, software, and signal for performing events for related programs A method, system, software and signal wherein a subset of program information for related programs is maintained with program information for a given program. The program information for the given program, including the subset of program information for related prog... | 10/18/2005 |
