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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7039933 | Enhanced TV broadcasting method and system using tags for incorporating local content into a program data stream A system, method and program product uses tags as markers for incorporating local content in a communications stream, e.g., TV broadcast, cable transmission. A transmitter generates a communication stream including program content for transmission to a receiver. The... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038581 | Method for adjusting parameters for the presentation of multimedia objects A media center operates in two modes where each mode is used for rendering a media object. When a first mode is enabled, a media object is rendered in conformance with parameters within a time duration defined for the operation of the first mode. A second mode is la... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7030753 | Information and security audio and video transmission reception system Disclosed is a transmission and reception system for security and information exchange. The system allows audio, video, and other types of monitoring of a location and the presentation of various services and forms of information to people at the location. ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031838 | System and method for a cradle-to-grave solution for investigation and cleanup of hazardous waste impacted property and environmental media A system and method for environmental data management. The system includes an application including a mapping module that a generates an interactive graphical mapping interface of the site, the interactive mapping interface including links to environmental data from... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028324 | Digital broadcasting system and event message transmission method A digital broadcasting system includes an authoring apparatus and a transmission apparatus. The authoring apparatus generates event information, which defines an event message that should be transmitted immediately after an operator's instruction to transmit the eve... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7003052 | Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus and control method thereof The present invention relates to a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus for generating a display signal from a received digital broadcasting signal. The apparatus comprises a detection section, a storage section, and a recording section. The detection section de... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6996623 | Reception display apparatus and method for displaying screen partially with certain timing even when all data for the screen has not been received, and computer-readable record medium recording such reception display program A reception display apparatus for receiving data blocks repeatedly transmitted from a broadcasting station at regular intervals and displaying a screen image based on the received data blocks. Each of the data blocks including a data section. Data to be displayed as... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993347 | Dynamic media interleaving Interleaving preferred location specific content into broadcast content including providing a location of the client device to the source of preferred location specific content; receiving broadcast content in the client device; receiving preferred location specific ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6951030 | Data broadcast apparatus capable of stopping reproduction of broadcast data in reception apparatus when an event requiring to stop the reproduction of the broadcast data occurs A data broadcast apparatus repeatedly broadcasts data using a carousel method, to a reception apparatus which stores the data into a memory and reproduces the data stored in the memory. A storing unit stores first data and second data. A detecting unit detects an ev... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944880 | Methods for audio capture and communication during television broadcasts A remote control for an interactive television system includes an integrated microphone and a wireless transmitter for transmitting audio information generated by the microphone to the interactive television system. A set top box for the interactive television syste... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6772433 | Interactive program guide for designating information on an interactive program guide display A system and method are provided for providing a full service cable television system. The cable system incorporates a digital and analog transmission architecture capable of delivering a high number of high quality television programs, advanced cable services, and ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6725460 | Multi-media data automatic delivery system A system for delivering contents includes a center system which delivers the contents, a plurality of terminal systems which receive the contents from the center system and displays the contents, and communication lines connecting the center system to the plurality ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6681394 | Broadcast transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and broadcast transmitting method, receiving method A broadcast transmitting apparatus stores and manages the material for composing a broadcast program as AV data, creates storing control information showing a process control method when storing this AV data in a broadcast receiving apparatus, and storing... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6667693 | Screen protection method for image display apparatus A technique for protecting a screen surface from being damaged due to a fixed display operation of an image display apparatus such as a projection TV. The method includes a first step for displaying an alarm message for informing no external signal input ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6601103 | Method and apparatus for providing personalized supplemental programming A method and apparatus for providing personalized supplemental programming is provided. In a first embodiment, an apparatus comprising a first component for supplying supplemental programming, a second component operative to receive primary programming fr... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6543051 | Emergency alert system A system for inputting conventional emergency alert messages into a digital subscriber television system. The method allows existing emergency alert equipment to interface with the digital system equipment in the headend of a digital subscriber television... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6498627 | Use of wideband DTV overlay signals for brevity signaling and public safety A brevity signaling module for a digital television (DTV) receiver enables the reception of emergency broadcast messages. The overlay signal received at the receiver front end is squared in a squaring loop, producing spectral lines at DC and twice the ove... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6434621 | Apparatus and method of using the same for internet and intranet broadcast channel creation and management A system for enabling Internet or intranet broadcasting that offers audio automation and webcast automation is disclosed. Multiple webcast channels, or stations, can be created and managed, including Internet Radio, Internet Television, and Scheduled Webs... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6049823 | Multi server, interactive, video-on-demand television system utilizing a direct-access-on-demand workgroup An interactive television system that renders on-demand interactive multimedia services for a community of users. The interactive multimedia is delivered to each user on a TV or on a LAN-node (Local-Area-Network) computer through an "interactive TV channe... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6037996 | Data broadcast receiving apparatus with screen display state control A data broadcast receiving apparatus used in a system is combined with another transmission line such as telephone circuit. By receiving a television broadcast having a data broadcast signal, such as a teletext signal, superposed on the television broadca... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6031578 | Apparatus for receiving and decoding a broadcast signal A data broadcast receiving apparatus used in a system is combined with another transmission line such as telephone circuit. By receiving a television broadcast having a data broadcast signal, such as a teletext signal, superposed on the television broadca... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6028644 | Data broadcast receiving apparatus receiving a television broadcast signal with a superposed data broadcast signal A data broadcast receiving apparatus used in a system is combined with another transmission line such as telephone circuit. By receiving a television broadcast having a data broadcast signal, such as a teletext signal, superposed on the television broadca... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6020913 | Emergency alert system signal handling method and apparatus A communication system includes a transmission channel, a relay having first and second states, an operating power port, a first signal input port, a second signal input port and a signal output port. A power supply supplies power to the relay to place th... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5874985 | Message delivery method for interactive televideo system The present invention includes a method of selectively delivering programming to a viewer station (e.g., a home) on an interactive television or televideo (IT) system. The method includes delivering a message to a selected viewer station having a selected... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5850218 | Inter-active program guide with default selection control A system and method are provided for providing a full service cable television system. The cable system incorporates a digital and analog transmission architecture capable of delivering a high number of high quality television programs, advanced cable ser... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5825407 | Cable television audio messaging systems A multi-channel audio messaging system for cable television, installed at the headend, enables multiple different input audio messages to be supplied to multiple different channels of a cable television system. Multiple analog audio input message sources ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5768375 | CATV system An image-data-system host computer outputs image data, the protocol of which is not disclosed. The image data outputted from the image-data-system host computer is transmitted via an image-data-system terminal and a video control unit to a data management... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5760820 | Digital signal transmission system with priority information forcing display of text on a receiver A digital signal transmission system including a transmitter and a receiver and capable of transmitting highly efficiently compressed/coded digital video signals and receiving the video signals so that the text of emergency information or the like can be ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5512935 | Apparatus and method for diplaying an alert to an individual personal computer user via the user's television connected to a cable television system A user's personal computer is coupled to a home controller which is, in turn connected to the input cable from a cable television system and to a set top box which determines the channel to be delivered to an associated television. The service provider tr... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5495283 | Cable television video messaging system and headend facility incorporating same A cable television video messaging system for selectively overlaying or substituting a desired input message, for example an Emergency Broadcast System warning, onto multiple channels of a cable television system having a headend system where multiple ext... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5481478 | Broadcast system for a facility A broadcast system for a facility including audio and video signal generators that may also include the audio output of a microphone for forming broadcast signals. The broadcast signals include a program signal, a supervisory program signal and a supervis... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5260778 | Apparatus for selective distribution of messages over a communications network Specific text and/or graphic messages for individual subscribers or groups of subscribers are distributed on a communications network such as a cable television system. An addressable controller communicates with a plurality of subscriber terminals served... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5121430 | Storm alert for emergencies A geographically specific emergency alert system includes a code generator unit in which geographic areas to be alerted and types of severity of alerts are selected and code strings generated to represent the affected areas and alert types selected. The c... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4656629 | Digital signal transmitting and/or receiving system A digital signal transmitting system includes a signal generator for producing time division-multiplexed digital audio signals and service bit signals, a modulator for modulating a carrier in accordance with the time division-multiplexed signals and a tra... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4575750 | Communications apparatus for use with cable television systems A cable television system communications apparatus comprising a transmission unit for originating various messages and message class identification signals and a receiver unit for receiving such signals and for rendering audible such messages as are autho... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4536791 | Addressable cable television control system with video format data transmission An addressable cable television control system controls television program and data signal transmission from a central station to a plurality of user stations. The data signals include both control and text signals in video line format which are inserted ... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4476488 | Control circuit for CATV alert system A circuit for controlling the operation of a cable television alarm device in accordance with an alert signal and an all-clear signal developed by a subscriber decoder in response to broadcast codes received over the cable network comprises a flip-flop re... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4155042 | Disaster alert system A disaster alert system is disclosed which consists of two major sub-systems. The first sub-system is a central disaster alert station which transmits coded R.F. activation signals specifying the geographic area and/or the official personnel to be alerted... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4015074 | Voluntary information transmitting apparatus in a wired television system Voluntary information transmitting apparatus in a wired television system comprises an information signal generator which generates a guide information signal at an ordinary time and an alarm information signal in an emergency, and a control signal genera... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3993955 | Method of and apparatus for establishing emergency communications in a two-way cable television system In a two-way cable television communications system wherein a central or master station is coupled to a plurality of remote stations through a coaxial cable network, each remote unit is provided with means for decoding an emergency alert transmission sign... | 11/23/1976 |
