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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7161637 | Program restart and commercial ending notification method and system A method and system are provided for allowing channel surfing during the presentation of a commercial broadcast by returning the viewer to the desired program channel after the commercial broadcast has concluded. When a commercial broadcast is received that interrup... | 01/09/2007 |
| 6163316 | Electronic programming system and method An electronic programming guide (70) operates on a computing platform (12) associated with a television (40). The platform (12) accesses a program listing database (48) containing program listing information (6) for a plurality of television programs. The... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5519454 | Luma/chroma separation filter with common delay element for comb filter separation and recursive noise reduction of composite video input signal A composite video input signal is combined with a noise reduction signal to form a noise reduced first video signal which is delayed by multiple time periods of (i) one line less one-half color cycle, (ii) one line and (iii) one line plus one-half color c... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5119195 | Video noise reduction system employing plural frequency bands An input filter separates a luminance input signal into a high frequency component that is noise reduced by coring and a low frequency component that is noise reduced by a frame recursive filter preceded by sub-sampling and followed by sample rate restora... | 06/02/1992 |
