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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7697078 | Broadcasting receiver When setting reception channels, channel information and the direction information of a smart antenna are erased from a memory, and thereafter, the broadcast of a predetermined channel is automatically received while the direction of the directivity of the smart ant... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7688389 | Receiving apparatus and image receiving apparatus directed to a user viewing analog broadcasts preferentially A receiving apparatus improving manipulability for a user who watches analog broadcasts exclusively is provided. The receiving apparatus includes a NIM, an input portion that accepts channel numbers of both of the type used for analog broadcasting and the type used ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688390 | Broadcast receiving apparatus, TV set, and control method of broadcast receiving apparatus There is provided a broadcast receiving apparatus having a broadcast receiving unit. The apparatus includes: an instruction receiving unit which receives a broadcasting type selection instruction or a channel number selection instruction, and a control unit which, w... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7671927 | Method for reducing channel switching delay in digital broadcast receiver and digital broadcast receiver using the same A method and an apparatus for reducing channel switching delay in a digital broadcast receiver are provided. The digital broadcast receiver includes a signal reception unit, which receives a broadcast signal and converts the received broadcast signal into an interme... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7663703 | Video processing apparatus and video processing method A video processing method and apparatus are provided. Video signals including channel information relating to one of a plurality of channels, and video identification information relating to an identity of a picture between signals are received. A receiving quality ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7656463 | Remote controller for broadcasting receiver, broadcasting receiver, information recorded medium, and channel setting method A paper medium having a bar code printed thereon is distributed to a viewer as a leaflet or the like. The bar code has channel setting information related to a certain area recorded thereon. The channel setting information is stored in a nonvolatile memory by readin... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7643098 | Broadcast receiving apparatus and control method thereof A broadcast receiving apparatus and a control method thereof, in which a plurality of tuners performs respectively a channel quick-searching operation and a channel fine-searching operation at the same time, so that receiving channels are quickly and accurately sear... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639311 | CMOS integrated super-heterodyne television receiver with multiple signal paths Integrated super-heterodyne television receivers with multiple signal paths implemented using CMOS technology. An integrated circuit, includes: a plurality of CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) low noise amplifiers; an adjustable frequency source; and on... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7639310 | Digital broadcasting receiver and a reception method thereof A digital physical receiving apparatus and a receiving method thereof. The digital broadcasting receiving apparatus includes a channel information storage unit to store information on a receivable physical channel among physical channels allocated to discriminate di... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7599009 | Apparatus and method for processing analog and digital signals from multiple signal sources An apparatus such as a television signal receiver employs an efficient and cost-effective signal processing architecture which enables, among other things, the reception and processing of both analog and digital signals from multiple signal sources, such as but not ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599010 | TV receiver and analog TV signal processing method The present invention provides a TV receiver and an analog TV signal processing method. The TV receiver includes a tuner, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital filter module. The tuner is utilized to receive an RF signal and generate a first signal; the anal... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7580082 | Digital broadcasting receiver A digital broadcasting receiver judges whether or not a received program is a data broadcasting program. When the received program is the data broadcasting program, processing for judging a remote control signal from a remote control transmitter is performed as usua... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7567305 | Method for selecting preference channel and digital TV using the same A method for selecting preference channels comprising the steps of initializing a digital TV(DTV) system to set an idle state of a general mode in which a channel is selected through multi-stage-input procedures; registering a preference channel set including at lea... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561214 | Two-dimensional navigation of multiplexed channels in a digital video distribution system Two-dimensional channel navigation techniques for use in a video distribution system in which broadcast providers each transmit an anchor channel. Some of the broadcast providers may transmit the anchor channel as a single HDTV channel, while the others transmit a s... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7551238 | Integrated tuner An integrated tuner comprises a step AGC amplifier (1) that is adjusted only during a vertical synchronization interval. A receiver comprises such an integrated tuner and an IF demodulation circuit (5,6) for providing a vertical sync signal to the inte... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7545444 | Receiving apparatus and television set for receiving broadcast signals A broadcast receiving apparatus includes an NIM having a digital terrestrial wave processing unit for processing a received broadcast signal as required for digital terrestrial broadcast and a digital cable processing unit for processing a received broadcast signal ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7535518 | Method and apparatus for displaying digital broadcasting A digital broadcasting method and apparatus providing digital broadcast signals based on different broadcasting standards to the audiences. The digital broadcasting apparatus includes a plurality of tuners which can receive the broadcast signals based on the differe... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7508459 | Method and apparatus for performing channel detection A technique for performing channel detection in a device such as a television signal receiver is capable of quickly determining the analog and/or digital broadcast channels available in a given area. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for performing chan... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505089 | Worldwide television tuning system with country code based tuning A worldwide television tuning system is configurable to the television standards and channel frequencies of multiple different countries based on a country's ITU long-distance country code. The tuning system maintains a country code table listing a plurality of coun... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505088 | Signal selector selecting one of a ground wave digital signal and a digital cable television signal in accordance with program selection information and transmits the selected signal to a tuner A signal selector selects one of a ground wave digital signal and a digital cable television signal in accordance with program selection information and transmits the selected signal to a shared tuner circuit. The shared tuner circuit selects only a signal of a desi... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505087 | Broadcast receiver and tuner control method therefor Embodiments of broadcasting receiver and methods for the same can operate two or more tuners or simultaneously display broadcasting signals of two or more channels. Embodiments of the invention can reduce system interference. A broadcasting receiver can include a pl... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7486338 | Fully integrated terrestrial TV tuner architecture A TV tuner consisting of a least one low-noise amplifier, one mixer and one variable-gain amplifier plus two band-pass filters, the first of which is placed after low-noise amplifier and before the mixer, and the second of which is placed after mixer and before vari... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7477327 | Analog/digital-compatible front-end module An analog/digital-compatible front-end module comprises a high frequency amplifier 9 for amplifying a high frequency signal received by an antenna 1; a frequency converter circuit 11 for frequency-converting an output signal from the high freque... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474359 | System and method of displaying a video stream The present disclosure is generally directed to a video stream processing system and to a method of displaying a video stream. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a video stream to be displayed on a display device. During a first time period, a... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7453527 | 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... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7443451 | Display device for simultaneously receiving digital signal and analog display signal A display device can simultaneously receive digital display signal and analog display signal and display a television program corresponding to one of the signals on a display panel. The display device includes the following components: a digital tuner, an analog/dig... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440736 | Intermediate frequency circuit for television tuner with improved intermediate frequency characteristic An intermediate frequency circuit includes an intermediate frequency tuning circuit which resonates parallel to an intermediate frequency signal, a N−1 channel trap circuit connected to the output of the intermediate frequency tuning circuit, for removing voice si... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432989 | Television tuner in which unnecessary radiation is reduced A television tuner includes a first high-frequency circuit for receiving VHF-band television signals, a second high-frequency circuit for receiving UHF-band television signals, and an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a first mixer, a second mixer,... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428022 | Multipath video reception system A system is presented for the multipath reception of video signals, including sound an/or image signals. The system includes at least two receivers and a diversity unit. At least one receiver receives and processes analog video signals, while the one or more remaini... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423699 | Fully integrated tuner architecture An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programable attenuation and a programable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion circu... | 09/09/2008 |
