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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8104067 | Apparatus for receiving and playing back data An apparatus to reduce effects on playback of moving picture data caused by variations in data transmission rate that occur on a communication line, a receiving and playing back apparatus includes a receiver for receiving moving picture data transmitted over a commu... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8015591 | Video signal transceiver A video signal transceiver has a triax port, a baseband port, a demodulator for converting a HF video signal received at said triax port into a baseband video signal for outputting at said baseband port and at least one modulator for converting a baseband control si... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7926085 | System and method for providing an interactive, visual complement to an audio program A system and method for providing an interactive, visual complement to one or more audio programs. In one aspect, the system comprises an audio subsystem for generating an audio signal corresponding to a sound recording. The system also comprises a video subsystem f... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7818779 | Digital broadcast transmission device and method thereof, and digital broadcast reception device and method thereof According to the present invention, in a content delivery managing section 16, transmission channels and transmission timing are allocated to contents layered according to content properties or respective contents constituting a program. In a content transmis... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7797723 | Packet scheduling for video transmission with sender queue control A transmission systems suitable for video. ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7694325 | Information broadcasting system The instant invention provides a system and method of broadcasting audio and visual information to a plurality of audio reproduction devices and visual display devices utilizing a plurality of control computers linked thereto by a communications network. The inventi... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7373414 | Multi-media system and method for simultaneously delivering multi-media data to multiple destinations A multimedia system and method that provides easy universal text searching for non-technical users, is disclosed. A configuration of the multimedia system and method of the present invention also facilitates content delivery through multiple, independent, simultaneo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7360000 | Information transmitting/receiving system, information transmitting apparatus, information receiving apparatus, and information transmitting/receiving method An information transmitting/receiving system is disclosed which includes a base station apparatus and a monitor apparatus, the system being arranged to let the base station apparatus offer more content information to the monitor apparatus than before. On receiving a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353009 | Combined transmitter A combined transmission unit for TMDS signals and LVDS signals. First (LVDS) and second (TMDS) transmission units are both coupled to a first set of input terminals. A switching controller, according to a mode selection signal, enables the first transmission unit to... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349386 | Method and apparatus for transporting MPEG streams on IP networks including removing null packets An encapsulation method and an apparatus for encapsulating compressed media packet into IP packets. The encapsulating method includes accepting a compressed media data stream that may include null packets. The method further includes identifying any null packets in ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339959 | Signal transmitter and signal receiver A signal transmitter and a signal receiver comprises a time base compression part (101) for compressing an audio signal on a time base to output the compressed signal as a time base compressed audio signal and a multiplexing part (102) for multiplexing... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340766 | System and method for controlling a digital camera provided with a WWW server function A control system for digital camera makes it possible to control a digital camera from a personal computer and to operate the digital camera simultaneously from both of the digital camera side and the personal computer side by means of performing a communication bet... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334057 | Method and device for transmission of video data A video device is provided that reduces an original frame rate of video frames by grabbing only every nth video frame and substantially restoring the original video frame rate by reproducing a video frame up to n times or increasing the video frame rate b... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330635 | Storage-type broadcast service system and reception storage unit The object of the invention is to assure storage of data in information delivery services using storage media and providing services that promises the viewer's convenience. Receiving/storage apparatus (11) according to the invention holds exclusive sto... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324003 | Emergency alert message data structure, emergency alert message processing method and broadcast receiver An emergency alert message data structure, an emergency alert message processing method and a broadcast receiver are disclosed. When a state of emergency where a channel change to an emergency broadcast channel is required occurs, a transmitting stage includes infor... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313811 | Optical conversion device A residential gateway (RG) for distributing video, data and telephony services to multiple devices within a residence is disclosed. The RG receives signals from a telecommunications network, converts the signals to formats compatible with the multiple devices, and t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7277958 | Re-assembly of streaming files from separate connections The invention is a technique and apparatus for re-assembling transmitted portions of files or sub-files (410, 420, 430, 440), into a viewable file (400). The transmitting device passes the information regarding the file dividing process to the receiver... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275256 | System and method for providing an interactive, visual complement to an audio program A system and method for providing an interactive, visual complement to one or more audio programs. In one aspect, the system comprises an audio subsystem for generating an audio signal corresponding to a sound recording. The system also comprises a video subsystem f... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271826 | Communications installation for aircraft An arrangement for audio, video and/or data communication between a ground station and an aircraft, having at least one communications channel and a monitoring device provided on board the aircraft includes at least one audio, video or flight data recording apparatu... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266598 | Programmable data center Techniques are disclosed for providing a programmable data center, which includes a plurality of computers, a plurality of computing devices or resources, a programmable service fabric, and an operation controller. The computers act as computing hosts; the resources... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257821 | Accessing an in home network through the internet A communication system includes a HAVi-based in-home network 140 and a remote device 110 operative to communicate with an intermediate device 130 of the in-home network via Internet. The remote device loads a HAVi applet (Havlet) 238 for ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7230954 | Cross link intra-vehicular data communication using a field coupled transmission line A vehicular communications network is disclosed. The network comprises a communications channel for propagating a signal therealong; a nodal communications system; and a signal coupling system coupled to the communications channel and to the nodal communications sys... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209942 | Information providing method and apparatus, and information reception apparatus By moving image analysis, acoustic/speech analysis, or text analysis for multimedia information in a database, feature data representing the type of information is acquired, and the feature data is stored into the database added to the multimedia information. A sear... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200842 | Object-oriented instruction set for resource-constrained devices A resource-constrained device such as a smart card or the like includes memory for storing an application software program comprising an object-oriented, verifiable, platform-independent, type-safe and pointer-safe sequence of instructions. The device can also inclu... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194039 | Method for peak power reduction in multiple carrier communications systems A system and method for signal peak reduction in a multiple carrier communication system where the individual carriers are produced from input symbols that are filtered to reduce individual carrier bandwidths, offset in frequency, and combined into an output signal.... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188085 | Method and system for delivering encrypted content with associated geographical-based advertisements A method, a system and computer readable medium at an electronic digital content store, such as a web site, for associating advertisement with digital content. The geographic location of the end user device receiving the encrypted digital content is determined using... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188139 | Portable information processing terminal, information input/output system and information input/output method Each device arranged in an information space and a computer are sustainedly connected and the connection can be visually recognized on the display screen of the computer. More specifically, there is provided a feature of “gaze-link” metaphor with which connectio... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7159230 | 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 system. A ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7146630 | Broadband system with intelligent network devices Hybrid fiber/coax networks employ the existing cable plant used for cable TV and transmit data signals in a frequency bandwidth above that which is used for cable TV. As this cable plant was deployed in a tree and branch topology, data transmissions may be susceptib... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133896 | Providing a presentation on a network A presentation system is disclosed for distributing a performance of a presentation synchronously to a plurality of client nodes on a network such as the Internet. The presentation system distributes presentation content data to a plurality of network server nodes, ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120203 | Dual link DVI transmitter serviced by single Phase Locked Loop A dual link transmitter constructed according to the present invention employs a single Phase Locked Loop (PLL) to service both a primary link and a secondary link during dual link mode operations. The structure of the dual link transmitter includes both a primary l... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7099098 | Preamplifier circuit and method for a disk drive device An amplifying circuit and method are disclosed for amplifying electrical signals, such as electrical signals generated by the read head of a disk drive. The circuit includes a pair of cross-coupled differential amplifier circuits. Each differential amplifier circuit... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086083 | Noise measurement system A method of determining noise in a CATV channel, wherein the CATV channel comprises a predetermined frequency band, that employs digital signal processing to isolate the noise signal from an in-service television signal. The method includes an initial step of obtain... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080181 | Hot-pluggable video architecture A hot-pluggable video architecture system is disclosed. The system includes one or more computers, where each of the computers includes a system bus for carrying signals, such as video bus cycles, a hot-pluggable bus, and a hot-pluggable host controller coupled to t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080042 | Method of and a system for distributing digital contents In a digital content distribution method to distribute digital contents via a network, distribution of a digital content is instructed according to a distribution schedule, the digital content is distributed according to the distribution schedule indicated, and a pa... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075513 | Zooming and panning content on a display screen A method and system for manipulating content displayed on a display screen is disclosed. A data processing device has two attached user input controls, such as touch pads, joysticks, and the like. One of the controls may be used for panning (i.e. scrolling up and do... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7051170 | Method and system for scheduled activation of system information tables in digital transport streams A method and system for decoding a transport stream are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a system information table in the transport stream, reading an activation time from the system information table, storing the table in a memory withou... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050918 | Digital group delay compensator A digital group delay compensation system comprising a digital allpass filter that is utilized in an implementation phase; and a system that generates coefficients for the allpass filter used in the implementation phase such that the overall performance of a system ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7015947 | Measurement of performance of communications systems The subjective quality of an audio-visual stimulus is measured by measuring the actual synchronisation errors between the audio and visual elements of the stimulus, identifying characteristics of audio and visual cues in the stimulus, and generating a measure of sub... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7007295 | System and method for Internet streaming of 3D animated content A system and method facilitating the production, processing, and Internet distribution of 3D animated movies including 3D multipath movies. A key reduction algorithm reduces the keyframes associated with the 3D movie to facilitate the streaming of the data over the ... | 02/28/2006 |
