Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6763223 | Low noise converting apparatus A reception signal of a horizontally polarized wave and a reception signal of a vertically polarized wave from one satellite are amplified by a first pair of low noise amplifiers, and a reception signal of a horizontally polarized wave and a reception signal of a ve... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6751801 | Aircraft in-flight entertainment system having enhanced antenna steering and associated methods An aircraft in-flight entertainment system includes a satellite TV receiver, at least one video display connected to the receiver, and a multi-beam antenna on the aircraft for receiving signals from a plurality of satellite TV transponders. The multi-beam antenna ma... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6745005 | Method and apparatus for reducing signal interference in satellite broadcast systems employing terrestrial repeater stations A method and apparatus for reducing deep fading of signals in satellite-based communications systems employing terrestrial repeater stations by shifting the phase of the signals transmitted from each terrestrial repeater station by a different amount so that the sig... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6745017 | Timing recovery switching for an adaptive digital broadband beamforming (antenna diversity) for ATSC terrestrial DTV based on a differentiator A synchronization system within a dual antenna receiver employs two timing recovery loops each coupled to a different antenna input. The timing error computed within each timing recovery loop is differentiated by a high pass filter and compared to a predefined thres... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6738983 | Video pedestal network An architecture for distributing digital information to subscriber units wherein selection from among multiple digital services is accomplished by transmitting a tuning command from a subscriber unit to an intermediate interface. The intermediate interface selects t... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6735416 | Receiver architecture for SDARS full band signal reception having an analog conversion to baseband stage A receiver adapted to receive a signal having at least first and second carrier frequencies on which first and second information signals are modulated, respectively. The inventive receiver further includes circuitry for converting the received signal to a complex b... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6735450 | Method and apparatus for wireless outdoor environment communications networks An access point that is operable under outdoor or industrial environmental conditions may be provided. The access point may include a casing in which an indoor environment access point may be received. The casing may be substantially water-proof and may have rugged ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6731613 | Power management using a bandwidth control mechanism A buffered packet switching network component provides a communication path between a packet source and a packet destination. The packet switching network component includes a bandwidth control mechanism that reduces communication traffic in response to buffer conge... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6728513 | Receiving apparatus shared by multiple tuners In a signal processing circuit of an LNB (Low Noise Block down converter), a power supply circuit is driven by DC voltage applied from four tuners via four signal input/output terminals to generate supply voltage for the LNB and equally distribute consumption curren... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6724737 | System for controlling communications between a terminal and satellite and method therefore The invention is a system for transmitting data packets from a ground based sending terminal to a receiving ground based terminal via a satellite, In detail, the system includes each terminal having a processor for generating data packets for transmission to the sat... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6725013 | Communication system having frequency reuse in non-blocking manner A communications system (10) and method of operating the communications system includes a high altitude communication device (12) that communicates with a plurality of user terminals and a gateway station (30). The gateway station (30) co... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6721536 | On-demand type radio transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for car user In an on-demand type radio transmitting/receiving apparatus, a commercial program stores commercial broadcasting information. A commercial broadcasting device always continuously periodically broadcasts a plurality of commercial programs as a unit. A taste storage d... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6721538 | Time-offset distribution to ensure constant satellite power An approach for minimizing variation in transmit power of synchronized signals that are destined to a satellite is disclosed. A gateway station system for communicating with a communication satellite includes a multiple signal sources which generate the synchronized... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6714759 | Method and apparatus for limiting access to signals delivered via the internet An apparatus for controlling the reception of electronic digital signals, which could include internet signals as a function of the location of a receiver for receiving the internet signals and further as a function of the signal strength of a terrestrially broadcas... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6714760 | Multi-mode satellite and terrestrial communication device The present invention provides a multiple band mobile radio (also referred to as a Wireless Communication Device (WCD)) capable of communicating with both a satellite communication system and a terrestrial communication system. The satellite communication system can... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711379 | Digital broadcasting system and terminal therefor The terminal device is equipped with a location judgment database which stores setting data indicating the relationships between the location of the self device and the corresponding object to be presented to the user. On the basis of the location detection data obt... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6690926 | Apparatus and method for receiving multiple data streams A multiple data stream processing arrangement includes a receiver/signal processor (14) and a plurality of signal input paths (11, 12) which meet at a junction (36). A junction output from the junction (36) provides a single input to the receiver/signal p... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6687308 | Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method The display section 35 connected to a control section 31 displays, at the same time, both the contents described in the network information table of the digital broadcast data demodulated by a demodulator 42 and complying with the first network, and also ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6671621 | System and method of a GPS control system with communication function A GPS control system is disclosed, which is installed in a vehicle. The GPS control system will select a proper base station to provide communications, so the communication quality is improved and the communication costs are reduced. A current location co... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668158 | Control method, control apparatus, data receiving and recording method, data receiver and receiving method The present invention is to make it possible to easily download a program obtained from outside to a connected equipment. A first storage unit (58a) storing a first program inputted from an outside, a second storage unit (58b) storing a second program pre... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6658232 | Method and system for transmitting audio data together with other data, comprising addressing data, to a receiver The present invention concerns a method for transmitting audio information to a receiver, in which first audio information is transmitted from a first source to the receivertogether with other information comprising addressing data and a data signal depen... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6640085 | Electronically steerable antenna array using user-specified location data for maximum signal reception based on elevation angle An apparatus and method are provided for adjusting the gain characteristics of an antenna array in accordance with elevation angle with respect to a satellite for optimum signal reception. The antenna elements of the antenna array are electronically steer... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6636727 | Phase locked loop system A phase locked loop system for tuning the reception frequency of a receiver for digitally modulated received signals and analog-modulated received signals has at least one voltage controlled oscillator for producing an oscillator signal for a reception fr... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6634027 | Communications circuitry for combining terrestrial and satellite signals Communications circuitry comprising integration circuitry coupled to interface circuitry. The integration circuitry is configured to convert at least a portion of a terrestrial signal into a satellite channel frequency and to combine the converted terrest... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6625464 | Codeable programmable receiver and point to multipoint messaging system A point to multipoint messaging system includes utilizing the FM 57 kHz Radio Broadcast Data System (RBDS) standard and a novel receiver. A single broadcast source sends messages from multiple senders, in a variety of manners including automatically and s... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6622007 | Datacast bandwidth in wireless broadcast system A network datacast system includes a plurality of transmission facilities. Each transmission facility receives primary programs from one or more media studios. Each transmission facility also receives ancillary data programs from a network datacast center... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6622004 | Data transceiving system and method An object is to make efficient pre-reading possible even in receivers having little memory for receiving. A CPU 147 acquires data size in each module by referring module control information for a received DII, (step S39). The data sizes of the modules are... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6618585 | Internet-enable broadcast receiving apparatus A broadcast receiving apparatus, related apparatus and operation methods, and broadcast and telecommunications signals arranged to support selection and receipt of both radio frequency broadcast and webcast channels in a single device. Handoff between rad... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6600897 | Satellite-broadcasting receiving converter with a plurality of output terminals A satellite-broadcasting receiving converter includes a plurality of output terminals each of which is connected to an external receiver, to each of which a selection control voltage in which a high-frequency voltage is superposed on a DC voltage is sent ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600730 | System for distribution of satellite signals from separate multiple satellites on a single cable line A system for distributing separate multiple satellite communication services signals to receivers at a local earth site on a single cable line. A dual satellite antenna receives the signals from two separate satellites, each of which can correspond to a r... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6584082 | Apparatus, method and article of manufacture for transmitting data over a satellite Calls are routed in a hybrid telecommunications system including a switched communications network and a packet transmission network. A gateway server provides file transfer services in response to a user initiating a call. Calls and data are routed over ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6580452 | Satellite signal loss on-screen notification An apparatus for displaying a received signal strength includes means for detecting a received signal strength of a signal received at an antenna. Coupled to the detecting means are means for automatically generating a display signal indicative of the rec... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6563805 | Digital radio prepaid music recording system A device for prepaid recording of digital audio signals. In a system where digital radio signals are received in an encoded format, a digital converter that is enabled by a smartcard module is employed to convert encoded digital signals to decoded digital... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6556807 | Antenna receiving system A receiving antenna system includes an antenna unit, a receiver unit, a down converter and a DC power/control supply. The antenna unit includes a parabolic reflector, a feed horn and an orthomode transducer, which are configured to capture, isolate, and o... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6549754 | Passenger entertainment system having downconverter control signals and power supplied over output cables An in-flight entertainment system provides live video/audio programming to passengers and operators over an aircraft video/audio distribution system. The programming signals are derived from intermediate frequency (IF) signals that are produced by frequen... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549753 | Signalling method in a digital radio system wherein signaling data is placed in the signal based on control information The invention relates to a signalling method and a transmitter, used in a digital radio system wherein the signals transmitted comprise data and signalling. The transmitter comprises control means for placing the signalling in a signal to be transmitted o... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6519294 | BS digital broadcasting receiver A digital broadcasting receiver in which one decoder decodes both Reed-Solomon codes for TMCC and Reed-Solomon codes of an MPEG2-TS packet of a main signal. The received data is divided into a main signal and a TMCC signal. When the separated main signal ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6519446 | Apparatus and method for reusing satellite broadcast spectrum for terrestrially broadcast signals A satellite receiving antenna (16) at a user location (14) receives satellite signals at a first frequency from a satellite (12). The satellite signals travel along a satellite signal route (42) within a look angle about the centerline (28) of the antenna... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6510317 | Satellite digital audio radio service tuner architecture for reception of satellite and terrestrial signals A satellite digital audio radio receiver system and method. The inventive receiver includes a circuit for down-converting a first ensemble in a received combined signal in a first mode of operation and for down-converting a second ensemble from the receiv... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6509934 | Directing an antenna to receive digital television signals An antenna is directed to optimally receive an advanced television signal. First, the strength of the signal is measured as a function of the azimuth angle of the antenna, and second the flatness of the signal is measured as a function of the azimuth angl... | 01/21/2003 |
