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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8028317 | Integrated live video production system Described is a system used in defining and producing a live television broadcast. The system includes one or more control panels, a workstation, a router, and devices. The control panels may be hard control panels or soft control panels. The control panel includes p... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7853977 | Device and method for displaying images according to wireless reception degree A display device including a communication function for performing wireless communication of data with each of a plurality of devices, and a display function for displaying and outputting information. First, reception quality of each device is obtained (S 100... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7827578 | Method and apparatus for providing simplified peer-to-peer recording A television apparatus having digital serial bus ports allows a user to select a user-designated digital video content source input such as a digital tuner of the television apparatus and digital serial bus compliant components connected to the television apparatus ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827579 | Mobile television electronic service guide delivery system Methods and systems for transmitting electronic service guide (ESG) data to a mobile terminal are described. The method for delivery of ESG data comprises steps of receiving ESG data, encapsulating metadata associated with the ESG data to generate a new ESG object, ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7496946 | System for collating data from multiple sources to form a composite program guide for display A video decoder system collates program guide information acquired from a variety of local and remote sources. Program guide information is received from a first source and a selectable program guide menu icon is displayed. A category of program guide information it... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7418672 | Integrated content guide for interactive selection of content and services on personal computer systems with multiple sources and multiple media presentation A integrated content guide for multiple sources is provided with hyper-text type links to allow for the selection of various programs. The hyper-text links are provided for a transmitted and then stored digital bit stream. This allows for the embedding within the co... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409140 | Channel buffering and display management system for multi-tuner set-top box A system is provided that resources media content of multiple display channels. The system includes a memory with logic, tuning resources to receive media content of a plurality of display channels, buffering resources for buffering the media content, display resour... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7395547 | System and method for providing user-defined media presentations A media system including memory to store media information that characterizes the media and a processor configured by the memory to provide a user interface to enable a user to define a media presentation from the media information. The processor is configured by th... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7380264 | Systems for unifying heterogeneous multimedia tuners A system for unifying heterogeneous multimedia tuners. The system produces a unified channel lineup and coordinates multiple diverse tuners to perform multimedia tasks associated with the unified lineup. In one implementation, tuner allocation policy allows behind-t... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380263 | Apparatus and method for use in television channel mapping A method, apparatus, and system are provided for use in performing a limited channel mapping. In some embodiments a method can select an input of a plurality of inputs, select a single modulation scheme of a plurality modulation schemes delivered through the selecte... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376336 | Recording apparatus and recording control method A recording apparatus is provided with a receiving device which simultaneously receives a plurality of broadcast video signals; a multiplexing device which obtains a plurality of broadcast video signals from the receiving device, putts each of the plurality of broad... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7360235 | Systems and methods for operating a peripheral record/playback device in a networked multimedia system Systems and methods are disclosed of a network including a primary device, a plurality of remote devices, and a shared peripheral device. The network allows the remote devices to operate the peripheral device, such as a DVD player, VCR, or camcorder, via the primary... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356353 | Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system A wireless communication device and wireless communication method, which can perform wireless transmission switching through simple input/output switching in communication among a plurality of wireless communication devices, are provided. A wireless communication de... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7337459 | Control method and control equipment In order to easily download a program obtained from the outside onto a connected device while a device on which a program is to be downloaded is being properly selected, when a second device connected to a first device is controlled by executing a first program inpu... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7316026 | Receiving apparatus and receiving method, and storage medium A signal receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes receiving unit for receiving a television broadcast, instruction unit for instructing change of a receiving channel of the receiving unit, and control unit for, in response to the instruction o... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7284261 | Broadcasting and processing multiple data formats A method broadcasts data. The method includes sending to a receiver scheduling information that includes a scheduled time and broadcasting data at the scheduled time. The scheduling information identifies an encoding format and one or more viewer applications capabl... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7265765 | Method and adjusting device for projection-type display An image display device including an image signal input terminal to which image signals are input, an image display system for forming an optical image based on the image signals, and a device adjusting system for adjusting internal conditions of the image display d... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265797 | Tuner capable of receiving analog and digital broadcasting signal and integrated DTV having the tuner, and a broadcasting signal receiving method thereof An integrated digital television for both analog and digital broadcasting can decide in accordance with a selection made by a user whether to receive the analog broadcasting signal. The integrated digital television provides menus through an option setting unit to s... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7260828 | Data processing apparatus, and data processing method A data processing apparatus comprises a processing unit, for performing processes related to multiple functions, an allocation unit, for allocating, to the multiple processes, different codes for performing the multiple processes, and a control unit, for controlling... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254823 | Apparatus and method for constrained selection of favorite channels An interactive program guide system is provided in which an interactive program guide is implemented on user multi-media equipment of a user for displaying programming for a plurality of channels on the user equipment, wherein each channel carries primarily one of a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7240289 | Graphical user interface for displaying and navigating in a directed graph structure An intuitive graphical user interface is based upon a geographic map structure, and includes a system for controlling remote external electronic devices. In the defined graphical user interface, each space of the geographic map structure is rendered on a touch scree... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7222354 | Dynamic composition at the set-top box A method for displaying on a viewer information processing system with an interface to a display (a device for rendering audio and video), a set of multimedia segments to form a multimedia presentation. The method comprising the steps of receiving the play-list, whe... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219367 | Backup communication modes Systems and methods for implementing a communication mode for a communication terminal are provided. An embodiment of a method for implementing a communication mode includes receiving a first type of data over a first type of communication channel, determining that ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7197713 | System and method for controlling networked devices and accessing, manipulating and viewing internet and non-internet related information through multiple sessions A system and method are disclosed for accessing, generating, presenting and manipulating Internet and non-Internet related information, data and content, including information netcast over the Internet. The system is also capable of controlling operatively connected... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196733 | Apparatus for receiving broadcast data, method for displaying broadcast program, and computer program A data broadcasting receiver apparatus includes a receiver for receiving image data of the image of an object and size information relating to the object, transmitted through data broadcasting, an input unit for inputting screen information relating to a display scr... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197715 | System and method to provide customized graphical user interfaces via an interactive video casting network A graphical user interface (GUI) for an interactive video casting network can be provided that is capable of being customized per element or as a scene of one channel or universally on all channels. For example, a user can select a desired appearance (e.g., a skin o... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194753 | System and method for efficiently tuning to channels of a variety of different broadcast types A tuning system is described that is capable of receiving a number of different broadcast types such as analog or digital satellite, cable, Internet, and terrestrial airwave broadcasts. The tuning system stores service records, each service recording containing info... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190694 | Communications system A communications system connected via a bus capable of transmitting multiplexed packets of control signals and AV signals while providing an environment, which is the same as an environment where connections are made using analog signal lines. A register with a fixe... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7178157 | Information transmission system, information output apparatus, information input apparatus, and connection relationship identification method A control section of an IRD sends an identification start request to a digital bus via a digital input/output terminal. The control section generates an identification display message by controlling an identification display message generation section, makes a super... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168050 | OSD device and method for displaying menu therein for digital TV An On Screen Display device and method for displaying a menu is disclosed. In the present invention, a plurality of OSD main menu items are displayed on a screen and a space between adjacent menu items is opened to display sub-menu items. Thus, a user can convenient... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162697 | System and method for distribution of interactive content to multiple targeted presentation platforms A text based script file describing enhancements is parsed to produce platform dependent enhancement files that may be employed to produce enhancements on a set top box, enhanced television, or computer display. A script file may be of XML format and a parser may be... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154564 | Method for controlling channel tuning of digital TV A method for controlling channel tuning of a digital TV is disclosed, in which a desired channel can easily be tuned in accordance with a user's input in a digital TV having a channel number of a major-minor type. The method for controlling channel tuning of a digit... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151771 | Communications system A communications system connected via a bus capable of transmitting multiplexed packets of control signals and AV signals while providing an environment, which is the same as an environment where connections are made using analog signal lines. A register with a fixe... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7134136 | Transmit device and method thereof, record/play device and method thereof as well as recording system and media A transmit device and method, a record/play device and method, a record system as well as a media allowing selection of the ideal record media by the receiver. The EPG data generator of a transmit device generates an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) showing the schedu... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131135 | Method for automatically determining the configuration of a multi-input video processing apparatus A method for automatically defining or learning the configuration of a television interconnected with a plurality of peripheral devices utilizes a digital control channel to define the analog interconnections. This method does not require the consumer to know the sp... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124432 | Transmit device and method thereof, record/play device and method thereof as well as recording system and media A transmit device and method, a record/play device and method, a record system as well as a media allowing selection of the ideal record media by the receiver. The EPG data generator of a transmit device generates an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) showing the schedu... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124431 | Transmit device and method thereof, record/play device and method thereof as well as recording system and media A transmit device and method, a record/play device and method, a record system as well as a media allowing selection of the ideal record media by the receiver. The EPG data generator of a transmit device generates an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) showing the schedu... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117524 | Transmit device and method thereof, record/play device and method thereof as well as recording system and media A transmit device and method, a record/play device and method, a record system as well as a media allowing selection of the ideal record media by the receiver. The EPG data generator of a transmit device generates an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) showing the schedu... | 10/03/2006 |
