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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154662 | Television and method for providing auxiliary information A method for outputting alert information. The method includes selecting broadcasting signals by a tuner of the television in response to channel selection signals from a microprocessor of the television; determining whether digital baseband signals being received f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8120708 | Television control method A method is provided for controlling a television including a user input part for manipulating a channel adjusting item. The method includes displaying a channel map showing a predetermined number of channels including a tuned broadcast channel if the channel adjust... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7528888 | Television broadcast receiver A television broadcast receiver determines the signal strength, the desired to undesired (D/U) ratio, the carrier to noise (C/N) ratio of a received television signal. Based on these values, the television broadcast receiver determines an overall evaluation value in... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7505082 | Broadcasting receiver using a directivity-switching antenna An antenna direction allocation screen is displayed on a television connected to a broadcasting receiver. On this screen, a user allocates direction numbers “0 to 15” indicating each directivity direction of a smart antenna that is assumed in a bro... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7436459 | Digital broadcast receiving apparatus and method for receiving digital broadcast A digital broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast, includes a freeze determining section and a display control section. The freeze determining section determines whether or not a freeze process should be initiated on a basis of a receiving st... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7369823 | Reception apparatus A comparison circuit 13x compares signals from demodulator circuits 11a and 11b and thereby compares the reception condition of the antennas 1a and 1b. The tuner circuit corresponding to the anten... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365803 | Method for marking label of external AV apparatus and apparatus using the same A method for marking a label of an external AV apparatus of the present invention includes displaying an external AV signal outputted from the external AV apparatus of the plurality of external AV apparatuses, and setting and displaying one label of an external AV s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359447 | Asynchronous digital signal combiner and method of combining asynchronous digital signals in cable television return path A device for and method of combining asynchronous digital return signals from multiple nodes of a CATV return path is disclosed. The signals are digitally filtered, re-sampled at a common output rate and digitally combined (e.g., summed) without being converted to a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340230 | Receiver architectures utilizing coarse analog tuning and associated methods Receiver architectures and associated methods are disclosed that provide initial analog coarse tuning of desired channels within a received signal spectrum, such as a set-top box signal spectrum for satellite communications. These architectures provide significant a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333131 | Digital video apparatus capable of detecting its status of connection to peripheral apparatus A method and apparatus of detecting a connection status of a digital video apparatus to a peripheral apparatus includes a digital video encoder configured to receive a digital video signal, and convert and output the digital video signal into an analog video signal,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324157 | Repeat field detecting apparatus, video progressive conversion reproducing apparatus, repeat field detecting method, program, and recording medium Using an index indicating the amount of motion and noise in the video image calculated on the basis of the discrepancy pixel numbers of image two fields ago and the present image, the reliability of detection result is obtained and utilized, so as to improve the rep... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317493 | Method and apparatus for providing dual automatic gain control delay settings in a television receiver The present invention provides a method and apparatus for processing a received television signal comprising one of a first type of television signal and a second type of television signal. Specifically, the method comprises amplifying the received television signal... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317894 | Satellite digital radio broadcast receiver A satellite digital radio broadcast receiver has an integrated circuit including a first reception series for processing a satellite wave signal from a satellite and a second reception series for processing a ground wave signal from a repeater in order to receive bo... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317495 | Mobile telephone and image receiving device with reduced power consumption In a portable receiving device 1 operable with a battery 18 as power supply and capable of receiving the TV broadcast outdoors, a CPU 13 detects the receiving level of the TV receiving unit 12 at timings set in the timer 24, compar... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7304689 | Single chip tuner for multi receiver applications Tuners are adapted to accept a received signal input and provide both a desired tuner output and the received signal as an output. Accordingly, a single tuner circuit, preferably an integrated circuit, may be cascaded to provide a multiple tuner configuration. Any n... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7259482 | Distance extender and method making use of same A distance extender (100, 200) for increasing a distance between a first device (145) and a second device (150) in electrical communication with the first device includes an electrical cable (130, 230) electrically coupled between the fir... | 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 |
| 7257328 | System and method for transmitting data on return path of a cable television system An optical signal return path system includes a transmitter having a sample clock generator for generating a sample clock and an RF signal receiver for receiving and converting an analog RF data signal into a first data stream of digitized RF data samples at a rate ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254824 | Encoding optimization techniques for encoding program grid section of server-centric interactive programming guide An interactive program guide (IPG) may include a program grid section and a multimedia section. The program grid section typically contains program information organized in a grid with a time axis and a channel axis. The multimedia section may include video for adve... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245257 | Optimization of radar antenna switching hybrid in response to operating frequency A radar system operates at various different frequencies, and routes power among various antennas by use of a hybrid arrangement. The system is precalibrated at each possible operating frequency by adjusting the phase shifts associated with the hybrid in a feedback ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242438 | Image displayer with facilitated channel setting process An image displayer with a facilitated channel setting process, in which the channels are set based on a pre-stored channel information. The image displayer includes a channel information storing unit for storing the channel information, an OSD (On Screen Display) pr... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239793 | On-screen display insertion A digital apparatus for reproducing a digital video representative signal stored on a recorded medium is connected to a receiving device including a decoder. The apparatus comprises a processing means for the digital video representative signal stored on the recorde... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236213 | Receiving apparatus and receiving method of reduced power consumption for receiving a broadcast transmission A receiving apparatus that is capable of effectively reducing power consumption in the receiving state. The receiving apparatus is provided with: an RF tuner, digital-demodulation unit, error-correction unit, demultiplexing unit and decoding unit. A control unit det... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227583 | Digital TV method for switching channel automatically A digital TV and a method of switching a channel automatically thereof provides a viewer with advance notice of an automatic channel switch using linkage descriptor information on HD broadcasting. Providing the viewer with notice of the switched channel reduces view... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222358 | Cable television return link system with high data-rate side-band communication channels A Cable Television (CATV) digital return link system that provides dedicated, high-speed, full-duplex and point-to-point connections between users and the head end system is disclosed. The CATV digital return link system includes return path transmitters, intermedia... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222037 | Hybrid automatic gain control (AGC) A method of automatic gain control in both analog and digital domain is performed by receiving an incoming analog signal, determining an overall gain factor, determining a coarse analog gain control value and a fine digital gain control value, each of which, when ta... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215382 | Method and apparatus for providing status in digital television channels A method for displaying a status to a television viewer provides detailed information to a viewer. According to the method, signal strength of a received RF signal is evaluated, and an RF signal strength indicator value is created. The RF signal strength indicator v... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210159 | System and method for transmitting and utilizing electronic programs guide information Television schedule information transmission and utilization systems transmit TV schedule data and associated network control messages provided by computer as packets via the Video Blanking Interval (VBI) lines in the TV signal from various television program provid... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202913 | Controlling on-screen displays An apparatus for controlling synchronization of on-screen display information in an auto-search mode of a radio-frequency receiver (2) connected to scan an incoming signal for valid channel frequencies, includes a picture intermediate frequency phase-locked l... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196732 | Television broadcast reception device Provided is a television broadcast receiver which is further enhanced in the independency of the user application software from the hardware and can increase the development efficiency. The television broadcast receiver includes; a digital channel-selecting means; a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193661 | Two way communication using light links Two-way communications between a video system and a control device is disclosed. The communications links comprise visible light, IR light, or a combination of visible and IR light. The communications link provide a convenient route to capture data or lock system fe... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7173981 | Dual layer signal processing in a layered modulation digital signal system Systems and methods for receiving layered modulation for digital signals are presented. An exemplary apparatus comprises a tuner for receiving a layered signal and producing a layered in-phase signal and a layered quadrature signal therefrom, an analog-to-digital co... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167694 | Integrated multi-tuner satellite receiver architecture and associated method Multi-tuner receiver architectures and associated methods are disclosed that provide initial analog coarse tuning of desired channels within a received signal spectrum, such as transponder channels within a set-top box signal spectrum for satellite communications. T... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162215 | Method and system for setting user preference satellite radio music selections in a mobile vehicle A system and method is directed to setting user preference satellite radio music selections in a mobile vehicle. The method provides creating at least one vehicle preference selection list utilizing a user interface, transferring the vehicle preference selection lis... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7139029 | Methods and apparatus for correction for 2-3 field patterns Systems and methods are provided for allowing a user to correct a discontinuous 2-3 field sequence within a disrupted video signal. A 2-3 field pattern fixer can be operated in a one-pass mode and/or a two-pass mode. In the one-pass mode, the disrupted video signal ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136113 | Digital television receiver and method of controlling antenna of the same Disclosed is an antenna controller of a digital television receiver and a controlling method thereof including an antenna receiving channel signals of digital television broadcasting and having a directionality dependent on a control signal, a signal processing part... | 11/14/2006 |
