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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8074255 | Analog video signal transmission over twisted-pair wires A video transmitting system may be configured to transmit, over extended length twisted-pair cables, video signals encoded in the Y/C video space. The system may comprise a source of RGB computer video signals. A video transmitter may be operable to convert the RGB ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7945939 | Method and system for analyzing cable television signal leak information A method involves identifying a leak location in a cable television system using a detection system, calculating a distance between the leak location and a plurality of shapes or points contained in map data to identify the nearest shape or point, and providing a pi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7730517 | Signalling of bouquet information in a digital transmission system A method of transmission of digital information in a digital communication network, the network comprising at least one transport stream carrying one or more bouquet related tables such as BAT tables (53, 54) containing information regarding the services prov... | 06/01/2010 |
| RE40107 | Video/audio transmission system and method The invention is a data pipeline system which synchronizes the display of digitized audio and video data regardless of the speed at which the data was recorded on its linear medium. To do this, the video data is played at a constant speed, synchronized by the audio ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7320134 | System and method for cable operator control over enhanced programming A system and method are described for allowing cable operators to actively block, pass through, modify, append, filter, or replace triggers corresponding to various forms of enhanced content being transmitted across a cable system. Accordingly, cable operators may o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310505 | Attenuation control for tuners A tuner includes an RF input with a signal level controller such as an attenuator that is provided to attenuate a signal from the RF input. A tunable RF filter provides RF band limiting and determines simultaneously the AGC bandwidth. An amplifier with resistive fee... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302021 | Digital broadcast receiving apparatus In a digital broadcast receiving apparatus for amplifying a received modulated digital signal wave with automatically adjusted gain and demodulating the modulated signal wave to a digital signal, a tuner frequency-converts the modulated digital signal wave to genera... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301936 | Ring overlay network dedicated to carry broadcast traffic to DSLAMs A broadcast overlay network has a ring topology to carry broadcast traffic from a head-end network. A digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) has a network interface in communication with the broadcast overlay network. The DSLAM is to receive a request fo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299485 | Apparatus and method for processing a program guide in a digital video system A method of processing a packetized datastream that includes program information and ancillary information used to acquire desired program information packets. The method includes the steps of identifying a first data unit that includes channel information and ident... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7274410 | Broadband integrated tuner A broadband integrated receiver for receiving input signals and outputting composite video and audio signals is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an intermediate signal. An intermediate filter bet... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7263648 | Apparatus and method for accommodating loss of signal A memory control system for a network that broadcasts to multiple terminals content data including music, video and the like, and also including commercial advertisements. A memory in the terminal unit stores content data that is played upon a loss of signal from th... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263713 | Television signal distributor apparatus, receiver apparatus, television signal transmission system and method In a television signal transmission system, CS broadcasting signals received via a master antenna are converted into intermediate frequency signals in an LNB (Low Noise Block Down Converter). The CS intermediate frequency signals then undergo conversion of the modul... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7240121 | Content providing apparatus and content providing method The present invention is applied to the distribution of music and videos via the Internet. Single stream content is divided into a plurality of parts A to D in a time-series manner, and a first part A is transmitted via stream distribution, and remaining parts B to ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239680 | Methods for performing channel diagnostics A method is used to determine information about a communication channel using an adaptive filter coupled to the channel. The adaptive filter includes adaptive filter coefficients. The filter coefficients are compared to filter coefficient thresholds. A determination... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237250 | Promotion server using video on demand channel Idle Video-On-Demand (VOD) channel capacity is used to deliver promotional content to selected set-top boxes (STBs) in a cable television network. Commercial segment cues are used to instruct a set-top box to switch away from a broadcast program to the VOD channel d... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228558 | Address assignment in digital transmission system A method of transmission of digital information in a digital broadcast system including a central transmission station and one or more decoders, the central station transmitting at least one transport stream comprising a stream of packets encapsulating data tables o... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227914 | Automatic gain control for digital signals A system and method of automatic gain control (AGC) processing of digital signals using Block AGC to acquire the signal and sample-by-sample AGC to track the signal. ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225275 | System and method for delivering high-performance online multimedia services Disclosed is a scalable, hierarchical, distributed network architecture and processes for the delivery of high-performance, end-to-end online multimedia services, including Internet services such as World Wide Web access. The network architecture connects a high-spe... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7209496 | Information transmitting apparatus and method, information receiving apparatus and method, information transmitting and receiving system and method, recording medium and program An original blanking period of a video signal is shortened to a set blanking period, and audio data is multiplexed into a resulting superimposing period. Table distinguishing data indicating the length of the superimposing period is inserted into the period as a bla... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7196810 | Printing system A camera in which is stored a unique ID is directly or indirectly connected to a printing service site, to which log-in is performed using the ID, whereupon an image from the camera is uploaded to the printing service site, and a printing server distinguishes from t... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7171606 | Software download control system, apparatus and method A system and method for downloading software updates for receivers of broadcast content data distribution has multiple memories for storing the updated version of code as well as a backup copy of the prior version of code. Code is replaced with an updated version wh... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7161557 | Selectively updating a display in a multi-display system System and method for selectively updating a display in a multiple display device system. Software executing on the computer system analyzes information associated with the display devices, e.g., respective levels of user activity (e.g., peripheral activity), graphi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149773 | System and method of automated invoicing for communications between an implantable medical device and a remote computer system or health care provider Methods, devices and systems for automatically generating invoices when medical services are provided to a patient are described. Invoices are automatically generated by the system, for example, when monitoring of certain aspects of the performance of an implantable... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149750 | Method, system and program product for extracting essence from a multimedia file received in a first format, creating a metadata file in a second file format and using a unique identifier assigned to the essence to access the essence and metadata file Provided is a method, system, and program for storing data in a data store, a first file in a first file format is received including essence, metadata objects providing information on the essence, and a unique identifier assigned to the essence. The essence is extr... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7120560 | Lamp monitoring and control system and method A system and method for remotely monitoring and/or controlling an apparatus and specifically for remotely monitoring and/or controlling street lamps. The lamp monitoring and control system comprises lamp monitoring and control units, each coupled to a respective lam... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113893 | Lamp monitoring and control unit and method A unit and method for remotely monitoring and/or controlling an apparatus and specifically for remotely monitoring and/or controlling street lamps. The lamp monitoring and control unit comprises a processing and sensing unit for sensing at least one lamp parameter o... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7079195 | Broadband integrated tuner A broadband integrated receiver for receiving input signals and outputting composite video and audio signals is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an intermediate signal. An intermediate filter bet... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076793 | Program guide information producing apparatus and related program guide information collecting/transmitting system A program guide information producing apparatus outputs self-produced program guide information and other broadcaster's program guide information. In the program guide information producing apparatus, a common program guide information producing section generates se... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075903 | Reduced power consumption in a communication device A method for controlling power consumption in a communication device is provided. The method includes powering down a receiver of the communication device for a selected period of time and, when the selected period of time expires, powering up the receiver to check ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065590 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for controlling routing of a request in an image input apparatus In an image input apparatus which can be controlled by a host computer, and has a request sending unit for sending a request input by the user to the host computer, an internal command execution unit for executing the request, and a request route flag table which st... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058951 | Method and a system for allocation of a budget to a task In consumer devices, like digital television sets or set-top boxes, there can be a problem with a sudden load increase caused by for example a scene change and user focus. During such a load increase, the quality of service of the application having the user focus w... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053697 | System for tuning a corner frequency of a low pass filter An integrated circuit formed on a semiconductor chip, comprising a low pass filter circuit having a first resistor of a first resistance value and a capacitor of a first capacitance value, wherein the first resistance value and the first capacitance value determine ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050818 | Location based service request system A wireless phone based system to accommodate users of wireless phones for providing information as to the location of certain services such as gasoline stations, movie theatres, drug stores, etc., includes the utilization of a GPS receiver and a wireless phone, with... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039933 | Enhanced TV broadcasting method and system using tags for incorporating local content into a program data stream A system, method and program product uses tags as markers for incorporating local content in a communications stream, e.g., TV broadcast, cable transmission. A transmitter generates a communication stream including program content for transmission to a receiver. The... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036137 | Method and apparatus for providing unified program guide information to a media subscriber A system and method for providing program guide information to subscribers is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is applied to a broadcasting system having a first service network broadcasting a first signal having a first set of programs, a second service net... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032235 | Recasting DVB video system to recast digital broadcasts A central controller remotely controls and configures sets of receivers to receive programs in a broadcast signal and recast selected sets of programs to selected sets of media devices over a computer network. Each receiver has an input module that receives programs... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7032239 | Providing content description and connection information in digital broadcast networks A system enables connection information and content description information to be separately transmitted from a broadcaster to a receiver. Thus, the description of the content may be provided to a receiver prior to the time that the information needed to specify the... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7002638 | Automatic gain control In a method of automatic gain control for both TV and FM radio signals, the TV and FM radio signals are controllably amplified (AGC-AMP) to obtain amplifier output signals, the amplifier output signals are tuner processed (F, MIX, IF-AMP) to obtain tuner output sign... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6980790 | Intermittent, low bandwidth, wireless data network and method of operation thereof For use in a wireless voice network, an alarm system and method of operation thereof. In one embodiment, the alarm system includes: (1) a local transceiver that, in response to a received stimulus, establishes an out-of-band wireless link of diminished bandwidth to ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6959451 | Transmission communications management An interactive transmission system having a data management module that identifies at least one transmission characteristic of at least one transmitter module. The transmitter module transmits data over a transport medium. The data management module modifies its beh... | 10/25/2005 |
