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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174617 | Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring the multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens retrieves the type of the screens in the device and connection relationship therebetween in order to d... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8120707 | UFD-accomodating multimedia system The present disclosure relates to display devices, external storage devices and methods of operating the same. In some embodiments, a display device that detects a coupling with an external media device is provided. Before device coupling, the display device display... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107010 | Windows management in a television environment Media content is received in a windows management application. The media content is from a set of content including zero or more television signal content and zero or more application content. The media content is incorporated into a television signal containing a w... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8009233 | Broadcasting and communication receiver apparatus A digital receiver to effect display of at least one of video or a plurality of background information blocks each indicative of a program time period, including: a display change controller provided in the digital receiver, which changes a displayed shape of a part... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7930631 | Method and system for transforming content for execution on multiple platforms A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content f... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7889277 | KVM video and OSD switch A high speed video switch in a KVM system using discrete Radio Frequency (RF) switch circuits. The RF switch circuits are configured into a multiplexed circuit to route video signals from a selected host computer to a target monitor. Voltage converters are used to p... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884883 | Receiving device, control method for the device, program, and semiconductor device A portable terminal device comprises a TV receiving unit and a TV processing unit for receiving a television broadcast, and a control unit for detecting the start and finish of channel changing, and notifying the user of a message that the channels are being changed... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7825988 | Vehicle-mounted displaying device employing TV program displaying method A vehicle-mounted device is configured to execute a predetermined function as a foreground process and a TV function as a background process. The vehicle-mounted device is provided with a displaying device. An image corresponding to the predetermined function is dis... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817208 | Signal processing apparatus and methods A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7733423 | Method for avoiding switch-over delays when changing channels in digital television transmission systems A method for avoiding switch-over delays when changing channels in digital television transmission systems is based on a television transmission system in which a plurality of channels (K1, . . . , Kn) are transmitted in time-division-multiplexed fashion in a... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7580079 | Image display device, image display method and image display system A picture display system in which a plurality of applications each render a window W on a single display includes a picture server. The picture server calculates a re-rendering range O of a window W, based on the movement, enlargement or contraction of the window W,... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7545440 | Digital multimedia broadcasting receiver, and method of using additional information thereof A method of using additional information at a DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) receiver is provided. The method includes the steps of: extracting and displaying additional information from a DMB signal; selecting and storing a desired one of the displayed addit... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7486334 | Image display system An image display system includes a display device, an input section to which video signals of an interlace scanning system are inputted, a signal converter section which increases horizontal scanning lines of the inputted video signals in number by a factor of at le... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7437301 | Information linking method, information viewer, information register, and information search equipment On an information registering equipment, content of interest rendered by media, such as a video image of interest distributed by TV broadcasting is captured and displayed. Position/area on the image are defined with a mouse or the like to obtain the target position/... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436411 | Apparatus and method for rendering a video image as a texture using multiple levels of resolution of the video image A method and apparatus to generate one or more graphics textures of a video image, wherein graphics textures have differing resolutions, and to render the video image as a graphics texture using the one or more graphics textures of differing resolutions. The one or ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7423672 | Picture data recording method, picture data storage medium, picture data playback apparatus, and picture data playback method In a picture data recording method of an aspect of this invention, main picture data having a first resolution, sub-picture data having the first resolution, and sub-picture data having a second resolution lower than the first resolution are compressed, packets are ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417689 | Apparatus for generating on-screen display in digital TV An apparatus for generating an OSD in a digital TV is provided, which comprises an OSD generator for generating an OSD associated with a digital broadcast received through a digital tuner and an OSD associated with an analog broadcast received through an analog tune... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7385649 | Video display apparatus and method In a video display apparatus and method, video data of video being displayed on a display unit are sequentially updated and temporality stored in a storage unit. The video data stored in the storage unit is written into an external storage medium according to a firs... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373650 | Apparatuses and methods to enable the simultaneous viewing of multiple television channels and electronic program guide content A Digital Home Communication Terminal (DHCT) including a plurality of tuners, each of which can select one of a plurality of transmission channels provided by a Digital Broadband Delivery System (DBDS). The multiple tuners enable the DHCT to tune to a plurality of d... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372508 | Information outputting apparatus, information reporting method and information signal supply route selecting method The present invention presents an information-outputting apparatus, an information-reporting method and an information-signal-supply-route-selecting method, which provide a digital-content utilization environment giving the user a high degree of freedom to make use ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373652 | Server-centric search function in an interactive program guide Techniques for searching a program guide database. In accordance with a method, one or more search criteria (e.g., keywords) are received and a request for a search is then sent, along with the search criteria, to a head end of an information distribution system. In... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369824 | Receiver storage system for audio program A receiver contains a demodulator system that can deliver a stream of digital data comprising at least a first and a second set of audio data. In a first time interval, a memory is used to store either the first or the second set of audio data. In a subsequent time ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367043 | System and method for generating metadata for programming events Metadata for a programming event may be generated by receiving descriptive information and timing information for the programming event and analyzing this information to determine category goodness of fit scores for the programming event corresponding to categories ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362383 | System, method and apparatus for utilizing a single video input of an electronic audio/visual signal receiver as an input for multiple video signal formats A system, method, and apparatus for utilizing a single video input for receiving multiple video format signals in an electronic video receiver. The single video input includes a set of inputs to accommodate a component video signal from any one of a multitude of vid... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360232 | System and method to subscribe to channel URL addresses and to provide non-programming-related URL addresses in an interactive video casting system A remote device is capable to receive network address information, such as uniform resource locator (URL) addresses, and other supplemental content that are available along with television signal. A set top box coupled to a television receives the network address in... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356829 | Receiving apparatus and method, transmitting apparatus and method, and transmission medium A receiving apparatus receives an image signal transmitted from a transmitting end. In the receiving apparatus, the received image signal is output to a display. Electronic program guide information (EPG) added to the received image signal is extracted. The display ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352407 | Digital photo frame device This invention provides a digital photo frame device, wherein a buffer unit temporarily stores TV signals to be displayed or processed, a compression/decompression engine is coupled to the buffer unit for compressing TV signals into an image file or decompressing an... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350157 | Filtering by broadcast or recording quality within an electronic program guide A memory associates a media quality indicator with each media program in a set of media programs. A filter selects from the set those media programs having at least a specified media quality. A display interface displays a list of the selected media programs in an e... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349552 | Connected audio and other media objects Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context inform... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340457 | Apparatus and method to facilitate the customization of television content with supplemental data An apparatus and method for customizing television content uses an application (70) operating on a computing platform (12) associated with a display device (40). The platform (12) accesses a display component database (48) containi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340761 | System and method for delivering radio programs and related schedule information An Internet-enabled television system provides an electronic program guide for the radio (radio EPG) depicting radio programs available via the Internet. The radio EPG displays the programming available for a plurality of radio stations and time slots. The radio EPG... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337456 | Advertisement method, advertisement apparatus, advertisement receiver and recording medium An advertisement method considers the circumstances of individual users. This invention comprises a received advertisement database which stores advertisement data; a time obtaining section which obtains the present time; a preference obtaining section which obtains... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7322038 | Program guide system for recording television programs An interactive program guide system is provided. The system facilitates recording of programs selected from the program guide. The system handles the recording and viewing of pay programs, parentally-controlled programs, consecutive programs on different television ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321717 | Upgradable on-screen display system The absence of MPEG processing in a consumer digital recorder player may preclude on-screen message display of recorder status. Various methods are disclosed which facilitate the on-screen display of recorder player status meassages. A first embodiment returns a rep... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319468 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus for displaying a series of consecutive output images which are based on a series of consecutive input images, with the series of consecutive input images including a first image and a second image, is arranged to split the images of the se... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317168 | Interface module for audiovisual devices An interface module for interlinking a plurality of audio visual devices with a single video monitor includes a housing having an upper end with a plurality of sets of input jacks thereon, each set for coupling with a discrete audio visual device. An output cable ex... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318197 | Apparatus for displaying internet site search menu of video apparatus having internet function and method therefor A method for displaying an Internet site search menu of a video apparatus having an Internet function, which is capable of easily selecting and editing a plurality of Internet sites on the screen of the video apparatus, is provided. The method for displaying the vid... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312832 | Sub-picture image decoder A sub-picture image decoder is disclosed, which essentially uses a sub-picture buffering unit to temporarily store at least one sub-picture data, an adjustment unit to store plural types of adjusting parameters, a control unit to compare the sub-picture data with th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310104 | Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304664 | Digital camera having a display unit to display the print status of a connected printer A digital camera and a printer are directly connected to each other, and a printing progress situation is displayed on a display unit of the digital camera while an image taken by the digital camera is being printed. Further, when a printing mode is changed to a pho... | 12/04/2007 |
