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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115876 | Apparatus and method for receiving digital broadcasting Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for receiving digital broadcasting. The method includes receiving and outputting digital broadcasting data through a selected channel based on a user request, storing channel information about the selected channel, re-selecting... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8094241 | Digital broadcast reception device and related method to determine programs included in receivable programs There is disclosed a digital broadcast reception device capable of acquiring a broadcast wave at a current position with a high probability without using position information even when moving over a broadcast area. In this device, when reservation of recording or vi... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8059213 | Systems and methods for automated channel installation consuming less time and thus increasing user convenience A method for automated channel installation comprises the following steps. In step (A), a frequency scanning operation is executed to lock on to a frequency. In step (B), it is determined whether the frequency scanning operation is complete, if so, the process proce... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045067 | Method and apparatus of locating channels in a frequency band A method for searching a frequency band to locate a channel. The method includes the steps of setting an initial frequency and a first frequency step; determining a frequency point based on the initial frequency and the first frequency step; determining whether the ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040439 | Method for station sorting and storage in a television or radio set In a method for sorting and storing stations in a television or radio broadcasting set, the received stations are firstly represented in an arbitrary order in a matrixlike list or table on a display device. An input field into which a user inputs a program location ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035755 | TV broadcast receiver In the course of the channel presetting process, the central frequency is set by a step of 1 MHz within the range from the minimum frequency in the VHF band channel plan to the maximum frequency of the VHF band adopted in the place of destination for the scheduled s... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7929062 | Channel scanning method of digital broadcast receiver having a plurality of tuners A channel scanning method is provided that is performed by a digital broadcast receiver having a plurality of tuners. The channel scanning method includes determining whether channel data exists in a channel, and if channel data exists in the channel, storing inform... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7876383 | Digital broadcasting receiver to search channels in parallel and channel searching method thereof A digital broadcasting receiver includes a RF switch to divide an entire channel range of an input broadcasting signal into at least two channel ranges for at least one of a received air broadcasting signal and a cable broadcasting signal, at least two channel searc... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7859598 | Receiving apparatus When, for any channel registered in a channel table, a detecting means detects that no program is being broadcast, a registered channel changing means changes the channel registered in the channel table to a channel for which the detecting means has detected that a ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7830459 | System and method for parallel channel scanning A system and method are disclosed for receiving a group of video channels at a client device, selecting a display set from the group of channels, and sending a communication to a display for displaying each channel in the display set in parallel wherein each one of ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7808562 | Method and device for receiving digital broadcasts The invention provides a method for receiving digital broadcast signals of a plurality of channels. The method comprises: storing a channel-parameter contrast table which includes parameter values of a plurality of parameters with which each of the plurality of chan... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7777818 | Receiving apparatus and a method for setting a receiving antenna thereof In a receiving apparatus and a method for setting a receiving antenna thereof, for dissolving a problem of necessity of a large amount of time for channel search, since it needs a time for setting up the receiving antenna at each physical channel, in the channel sea... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7692727 | Channel switch control method in digital multimedia broadcasting receiver A channel switch control method in a digital multimedia broadcasting receiver is disclosed, wherein discrimination is made as to whether a switch to the erstwhile selected channel has been completed in response to receipt of a channel switch command, and if it is de... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7663704 | Television tuner for control of directivity of antenna Disclosed is a television tuner for receiving television broadcast signals with an antenna, which is equipped with an auto-scan unit that causes a channel storing section, which stores a receiving channel at the time when the signal condition from a tuner section ma... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7643099 | Television system with controlled tuning Television systems comprising tuners (1), controllers (2) for controlling tuners (1), and stages (3) for receiving tuned signals from tuners (1) and for supplying control signals to controllers (2), use time-consuming automa... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7564503 | Television tuner for controlling directivity of an antenna Disclosed is a television tuner for receiving television broadcast signals with a smart antenna, which is equipped with an auto-scan unit that causes a channel storing section to automatically stores a receiving channel and the corresponding receiving direction at t... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7545445 | Broadcast channel change detection apparatus provided with detection device for detecting change of channel of the broadcast wave A broadcast channel change detection apparatus receives a broadcast wave including channel change information that includes a change date and time of a physical channel of the broadcast wave and physical channels before and after the change, and searches and detects... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7525603 | Television tuner for controlling directivity of an antenna Disclosed is a television tuner which receives television signals using a smart antenna. It includes an auto-scan unit which makes a channel storing section store receiving channel numbers and receiving directions for a plurality of receiving channels automatically.... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7468762 | Digital/analog TV receiver A digital/analog TV receiver is provided comprising a broadcasting signal receiver for receiving broadcasting signals of both ground wave and cable wave, a main controller which carries out the process of full-range scanning including a transmission route examining ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7420627 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver In a multi-directional antenna that is connected to a digital TV broadcast signal receiver, an RF amplifier in which its transmission gains are controlled is installed on the front of a tuner, a BER (BIT ERROR RATE) threshold is set as a reception determination stan... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7408593 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver In a digital TV broadcast signal receiver connected to a multi-directional antenna called smart antenna, even when a user reshuffles a channel frequently, it is aimed to shorten a time delay between channel choice by the user and switching operation of the multi-dir... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405772 | Broadcasting receiver Single processing of the first channel search using the analog broadcasting tuner enables not only analog broadcasting channel to be detected but also the existence of digital broadcasting channel to be estimated. Furthermore, the acquisition of information transmit... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7383567 | Method and system for creating a subset of programming channels The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for creating a subset of channels with programming from a plurality of channels and can include the steps of: receiving (210) a plurality of channels, wherein the plurality of channels compr... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380263 | Apparatus and method for use in television channel mapping A method, apparatus, and system are provided for use in performing a limited channel mapping. In some embodiments a method can select an input of a plurality of inputs, select a single modulation scheme of a plurality modulation schemes delivered through the selecte... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379122 | Digital TV and channel setting method thereof An image display apparatus equipped with an analog tuner and a digital tuner includes a key input unit for enabling a user to input an automatic channel scan command and other requests; a controller for conducting channel scan in response to the automatic channel sc... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375771 | Receiver having a function to tune and set a channel and channel setup method When channel setup is carried out under poor receiving condition, the previous channel information that has been stored on a channel map in the channel setup carried out under normal receiving condition is replaced with the later channel information that is stored o... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369744 | Signal receiving apparatus and signal recording method A signal receiving apparatus includes a tuner (102) for selecting a broadcasting station or a program, which becomes a reception subject, a program recording/playing circuit (202) for recording a received signal of the reception subject, and a control ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359336 | Simultaneous broadcasting receiver A simultaneous broadcasting receiver of this invention receives simultaneously both analog and digital broadcasts transmitting an identical content, changes input systems according to a reception status of the digital broadcast, and is configured in such a way that ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349034 | Television tuner using integrated circuit An integrated circuit is provided with a power supply terminal and an external circuit connecting terminal which is DC insulated from an internal high-frequency circuit and is connected to an external circuit. An interface is provided with an address identifying cir... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7322039 | Digital and analog broadcasting receiver A digital and analog broadcasting receiver comprises a main CPU for mainly controlling a digital broadcasting processing system and a sub-CPU for mainly performing processing such as input processing of a remote control signal by a remote control transmitter, and is... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7307671 | Device for receiving video signals and a method of controlling one such device The invention relates to a device for receiving video signals comprising a first decoding chain, a second decoding chain, a video encoder and a selection means which is used selectively to connect the first decoding chain or the second decoding chain to the video en... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7286190 | Real-time signal strength measurement and display of digital television signals An HDTV receiver coupled to a terrestrial antenna displays real-time signal strength of terrestrial digital television signals. A graphical user interface preferably displays various data relating to all terrestrial television signals in a scrollable grid format. Th... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280164 | Apparatus for channel scanning and method thereof A method for scanning at least a channel of a received signal includes scanning a plurality of frequency bands in sequence and analyzing each frequency band to determine if the frequency band holds the received signal. If it does, the method includes detecting a fre... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281259 | Channel selection device for use in a digital/analog broadcasting receiver for reception of main and sub channels A broadcasting receiver for receiving a digital broadcast of the invention has a sub-channel changing-dedicated operation key so that upon reception of an instruction sent from this operation key, such a sub-channel that is adjacent in a predetermined direction in t... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277137 | 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... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7265797 | Tuner capable of receiving analog and digital broadcasting signal and integrated DTV having the tuner, and a broadcasting signal receiving method thereof An integrated digital television for both analog and digital broadcasting can decide in accordance with a selection made by a user whether to receive the analog broadcasting signal. The integrated digital television provides menus through an option setting unit to s... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262814 | Method and device for installing broadcasting channels The invention relates to a device and a method of installing digital or analogue broadcasting channels of a frequency band, each channel being centred on a nominal frequency subject to drift or an offset. In this method, each chann... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263713 | Television signal distributor apparatus, receiver apparatus, television signal transmission system and method In a television signal transmission system, CS broadcasting signals received via a master antenna are converted into intermediate frequency signals in an LNB (Low Noise Block Down Converter). The CS intermediate frequency signals then undergo conversion of the modul... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259800 | Television signal receiver with a universal output for surface-acoustic wave filters of different types The invention relates to a television signal receiver comprising a radio-frequency tuner (1) and at least one subsequent surface-acoustic wave filter (2), in which the radio-frequency tuner (1) filters a RF television signal applied to its input... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260824 | System and method for facilitating TV channel programming To facilitate programming a TV channel list, only digital channels are presented on an edit list so that the user need not parse through analog channels but only the digital channels to edit the channels (e.g., by putting the channels on a favorite list, or a skip l... | 08/21/2007 |
