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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7433424 | Signal receiving apparatus and method and recording medium The present invention relates to signal receiving apparatus and method for efficiently transmitting a digital satellite broadcast signal received, and recording medium. A DSS broadcast signal from an antenna is subjected to station selection in a front end circuit, ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7363645 | Interactive electronic program guide for use with television delivery system An interactive electronic program guide is disclosed for use with a television delivery system. The guide is generated by a set top terminal that receives a television signal from an operations center and extracts from the signal individual programs for display on a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7312830 | Decoding information for interlaced to progressive scan conversion A method of converting interlaced video to progressive video can include a series of steps. The method can include receiving a video signal representative of at least one picture and determining whether the picture is progressive. If the picture is progressive, a ve... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7283570 | Receiving apparatus for digital broadcasting signal and receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus thereof In a digital broadcasting signal receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus, a recorded program can be immediately reproduced without performing complicated operations. Only a desired program and information related to the desired program are separated to be extracte... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266835 | Method and apparatus for secure transactions in an interactive television ticker A user can perform secure transactions via an interactive television ticker. While viewing an advertisement scrolling in the ticker, the user can select that advertisement to initiate an on-line transaction. That resulting transaction can be performed within the tic... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266291 | Method for processing audio/video data within an audio/video disk drive, and corresponding drive A disk drive is equipped with an electronic chip that includes a main processor capable of decoding data compressed according to a first compression standard and an input/output interface, for example an external memory interface with a predetermined maximum data tr... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256840 | Digital television signal translator A tuner of a digital television signal translator tunes to receive an RF digital television signal on a first selected television channel. A demodulator provides a baseband digital television signal from the RF digital television signal to which the tuner is tuned. ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257156 | Systems and methods for equalization of received signals in a wireless communication network An equalizer comprises a hard decision block which feeds an FEC block and a shift register, which uses past estimates during a first iteration. The output of the FEC block is fed back to the shift register during a subsequent iteration to fully remove any inter chip... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7237252 | Method and apparatus to invoke a shopping ticker A shopping ticker can be invoked when the viewer presses a BUY button on a remote control while a television program is being shown. The television program, which can be a commercial, may not necessarily have an interactive commerce opportunity originally associated... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7224837 | Digital video broadcasting A method is provided for transmitting a plurality of informational video programs over a single digital transport stream to a plurality of receivers, wherein the receivers are operative to select from the transport stream data identified with any given program and t... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221406 | Data creation method and data transfer method and apparatus A method of producing digital data, which comprises the steps of making first arrangements for 12-bit word digital data constituting a digital video signal, which include a frame rate of 24 Hz, 25 Hz, 30 Hz, 50 Hz or 60 Hz, 1125 lines per frame, 1080 active lines pe... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218759 | Face detection in digital images A method and apparatus for the detection of faces in a digital image captured under a variety of lighting conditions are provided. Rather than subjecting an entire image to computationally intensive face detection analysis, the image is subjected to computationally ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209110 | Active matrix type display device In an active matrix type display device including two source line side drivers for driving a plurality of pixel TFTs, one gate line side driver, two line memories respectively including at least first and second memories, and a controller for controlling the first a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7188298 | Error correction encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses for DVI audio data An error-correction coding method and an error-correction decoding method utilize error detection and error correction for an audio signal when a video signal and the audio signal are multiplexed and transmitted by a DVI. After an error correction code is added to e... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184600 | Video coding and video decoding apparatus A video encoding apparatus is provided with a resolution converting section, an encoding section, and a transmitting section. The resolution converting section enlarges or reduces a binary picture which represents the shape of an object. The encoding section encodes... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173973 | Multiple-antenna partially coherent constellations for multi-carrier systems A multi-level space time signal constellation that is optimized for use with a multi-carrier, multi-path communication scheme includes points on a first level separated from points on a mutually exclusive second level by a minimum distance that is based on a conditi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164511 | Distinguishing positive and negative films system and method A system and method for scanning a photographic film using a scanner automatedly identifies the film as either a positive or negative and controls the scanner settings to perform the scan accordingly. The method includes performing a pre-scan of the film, sampling a... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7138991 | Lighting apparatus, communication method, display unit, communication circuit and terminal adaptor A display data packet contains identification information. A display unit communication system includes a control unit, a terminal adaptor to which a terminal adaptor ID is assigned and which is connected to the control unit, and a display unit to which a display un... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7137890 | Modifying game image from wide to normal screen using moving or eye direction of character A game apparatus, a storage medium, a transmission medium and a program correspond to a normal screen and a wide screen. An image generation unit 150 comprises a wide image data generation unit 152, an image data conversion unit 160 and a render... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139319 | Wireless RF link for uncompressed transmission of HDTV signals A method for transmitting and receiving an uncompressed HDTV signal over a wireless RF link includes steps of: providing a clock signal synchronized to the uncompressed HDTV signal; and providing a stream of regenerated data from the uncompressed HDTV signal, with t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136432 | Robust burst detection and acquisition system and method A method of parameter estimation in a shared channel communications system includes the steps of receiving a preamble including a first sequence corresponding to a sequence having zero autocorrelation, a second sequence having zero autocorrelation, and a third seque... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7129992 | Method and system for video display with automatic reframing A system and method are provided for displaying a video composed of images each comprising a predetermined number M of lines and, a predetermined number N of pixels in each line. Values of a predetermined number P of reference pixels for each line of a current image... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123631 | Receiving apparatus for digital broadcasting signal and receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus thereof In a digital broadcasting signal receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus, a recorded program can be immediately reproduced without performing complicated operations. Only a desired program and information related to the desired program are separated to be extracte... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116827 | Video coding and video decoding apparatus A video encoding apparatus is provided with a resolution converting section, an encoding section, and a transmitting section. The resolution converting section enlarges or reduces a binary picture which represents the shape of an object. The encoding section encodes... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116372 | Method and apparatus for deinterlacing An apparatus and method for improving the VT filter performance for moving pictures by deinterlacing. A VT filter unit receives data of a deinterlacing target field (field #n) and data of forward and backward fields of the target field (fields #nā1 and #n+1). A di... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110048 | Digital signal transmitter synchronization system Methods, and apparatus for carrying out the methods, are disclosed for synchronizing a plurality of RF transmitters that are supplied with a common digital information signal for carrier modulation and subsequent transmission on a common channel throughout a prescri... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7088784 | Coded modulation for partially coherent systems A signal constellation is optimized for trellis coded modulation in fast fading channels, where the receiver does not have perfect knowledge of the channel parameters. Specifically, the signal constellation is partitioned into 2n mutually exclusive subset... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085377 | Information delivery in a multi-stream digital broadcasting system Audio or other information is delivered to a user via a multi-stream digital broadcasting system in a partially-encrypted form. The information is encoded and separated into multiple bitstreams, at least a subset of which are left unencrypted. Both the encrypted and... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079586 | Systems and methods for optimal distribution of symbols in a fixed size data packet to improve receiver performance There is disclosed a transmitter for transmitting a stream of known symbols and unknown symbols through a transmission channel to a first receiver that receives the transmitted stream of known symbols and unknown symbols distorted by intersymbol interference (ISI) a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079192 | Letter box line blackener for the HDTV/conventional-analog hybrid system A blackener for letter box lines associated with a HDTV/conventional-analog hybrid television transmission where the blackener counts horizontal sync pulses contained in the HDTV/conventional-analog hybrid television transmission and determines when the HDTV/convent... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079752 | Process for recording a scrambled MPEG stream A process whereby scrambled data of the stream are, in parallel with their recording (6), descrambled (2, 3) so as to extract (4) therefrom additional data corresponding to information required by at least one function of the special mode or ā... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075582 | Methods for identifying and using MarR family polypeptide binding compounds Methods for identifying MarR family inhibiting compounds are described. The methods include the use of computer aided rational based drug design programs and three dimensional structures of MarR family polypeptides. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069573 | Personal broadcasting and viewing method of audio and video data using a wide area network A method for transmitting audio/video data from a web site to viewing devices, e.g., personal digital assistant, cellular phone. The method includes prompting at least two selections on a viewing device, which is coupled to a worldwide network of computers through a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068847 | High-resolution still picture decoding device A high-resolution still picture decoding device is disclosed, which has a memory device, an image decoder, and a decoding controller. The memory device has a bit-stream buffer, a frame buffer and a temporary buffer. The image decoder and decoding controller decode t... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061937 | Communication system A transmission schedule table of program data to be transmitted from a video server to a client is previously transmitted to a filter unit. The filter unit receives program information concerning a currently received program, from the client. Based on a transmission... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051247 | Coding system and decoding system In a coding system wherein an error correction/detect-ion coding is combined with a synchronization recovering technique using a synchronization code, the problems of a pseudo synchronization and a step out due to error detect-ion are solved. There is provided a cod... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051248 | Coding apparatus and decoding apparatus for transmission/storage of information An output coding apparatus includes a coder for coding an inputted bitstream to an error correction and/or detection code composed of information bits and check bits; and a bitstream assembling section for assembling an outputted bitstream by inserting a synchroniza... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038516 | Current-controlled CMOS logic family Various circuit techniques for implementing ultra high speed circuits use current-controlled CMOS (C3MOS) logic fabricated in conventional CMOS process technology. An entire family of logic elements including inverter/buffers, level shifters, NAND, NOR, X... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032137 | Coding system and decoding system In a coding system wherein an error correction/detect-ion coding is combined with a synchronization recovering technique using a synchronization code, the problems of a pseudo synchronization and a step out due to error detect-ion are solved. There is provided a cod... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7032236 | Multimedia system for processing program guides and associated multimedia objects A program guide information data structure and processing system facilitates both decoding and selectable program guide generation by a decoder. A decoder acquires a directory of object files associated with program guide information items and a map for associating ... | 04/18/2006 |
