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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112779 | Automatic reporting of antenna installation A method for validating antenna installation to a broadcast provider to ensure proper alignment of the antenna with the broadcast provider's satellite system. The feedback provided by the customer, the installer, and signal strength and quality information communica... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8074246 | Broadcast receiving apparatus An appropriate direction and gain value of a smart antenna are efficiently searched for. The MPU 11 of the set top box functionally has the condition setting portion which selects a gain from the second predetermined number of steps of gains and sets it, and ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7945933 | Television broadcast receiver A television receiver is connected to a multi-directional antenna, and stores, in a memory, a receiving direction table containing: channel numbers; best receiving directions of the multi-directional antenna for receiving the respective channels; and register channe... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7805743 | Broadcast receiver When a channel of a digital TV broadcasting is selected, a direction information of the channel, which is stored in a channel setting table, is set in a smart antenna and then, in a case of a signal absence state of a broadcasting signal or when a reduction of recei... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7761897 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver A TV receiver preliminarily measures and stores, in a memory, data of best receiving directions, each giving maximum signal intensity, of a multi-directional antenna for receivable channels. When the antenna rotationally shifts physically for some reason, one channe... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7716706 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver A multi-directional antenna connected with a digital television broadcast signal receiver is arranged not to move one full turn instantaneously in response to an abrupt drop down in the intensity of a received signal thus to avoid any downward overshooting of the in... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7690016 | Television broadcast receiver A television receiver is connected to a multi-directional antenna having multiple receiving directions for receiving a television signal by making one receiving direction active, and comprises a clock, a tuner, a memory for storing a receiving direction table having... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685621 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver In a digital TV broadcast signal receiver connected to a multi-directional antenna called smart antenna, a time necessary for deciding an optimum signal receiving direction of each receivable channel is shortened with using local information relating to a location o... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7681218 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver When a multi-directional antenna is connected to a digital TV broadcast signal receiver, the digital TV broadcast signal receiver measures a term suitable for switching or changing an effective signal receiving direction of the multi-directional antenna correspondin... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7624414 | Broadcast reception apparatus receiving broadcast by using directional antenna A broadcast reception apparatus is connected to a directional antenna capable of changing an airwave reception direction. The broadcast reception apparatus includes a tuner selecting a frequency of airwave received by the directional antenna. When a prescribed condi... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7607155 | Verifying 22 kHz tone operation in a set-top box A set top box (100) arrangement includes transmitting circuitry (104) for transmitting a message and an emulated reply to the message, and receiver circuitry (105) for receiving the control message and comparing the control message to the emulat... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7600247 | Television tuner A television tuner that receives a television signal using a smart antenna includes a rescan unit that executes rescan; that is: that when an instruction that instructs direct selection of a reception channel on which a television signal is currently received is iss... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7559075 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver In multi-directional antennas connected to a digital TV broadcast signal receiver, when a receiving channel is selected, if an antenna is set to the same direction as a previously stored direction, and signals cannot be received, the previously stored direction data... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7552461 | Antenna system and television receiver An object is to provide antenna system capable to decide optimal receiving direction of antenna, and television receiver provided with such antenna system. The antenna system includes CPU that executes switching program to switch directional property of anten... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7509665 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver In a digital TV broadcast signal receiver connected to a multi-directional antenna called smart antenna and receivable not only digital TV broadcast signals but also analogue TV broadcast signals, an optimum signal receiving direction of an analogue TV broadcast sig... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509666 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver A TV broadcast receiver measures, at least two times, a signal intensity in a maximum receiving direction and a signal intensity in the 180 degree opposite receiving direction among 16 receiving directions of a smart antenna. If the signal intensity in the maximum r... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7430399 | Broadcast receiver receiving broadcasts utilizing variable directional antenna A broadcast receiver is connected to a variable directional antenna qualified as an antenna capable of modifying a reception direction of a broadcast wave. When arriving at a prestored timing, the broadcast receiver executes channel search utilizing the variable dir... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7420627 | Digital television broadcast signal receiver In a multi-directional antenna that is connected to a digital TV broadcast signal receiver, an RF amplifier in which its transmission gains are controlled is installed on the front of a tuner, a BER (BIT ERROR RATE) threshold is set as a reception determination stan... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333833 | Low-noise block controller within a set-top box A low-noise block (LNB) control device within a set-top box is disclosed. The LNB control device is capable of controlling modulation of an alternating waveform on a direct current (DC) voltage from a DC power supply to an LNB amplifier. The LNB control device inclu... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7302226 | Combined fixed satellite service and mobile platform satellite service communication system A communication system for a mobile platform satellite service (MPSS) system includes a receiver subsystem (RS) and a transmitter subsystem (TS). A satellite transponder is in communication with the RS and the TS of the mobile platform. A satellite service ground st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7275254 | Method and apparatus for determining and displaying the service level of a digital television broadcast signal The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and system for determining and displaying the service level of a digital television broadcast signal. A digital television receiver receives a digital television broadcast signal. The digital television broadcast s... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272189 | Method to determine the presence of multi-carrier signals A method for determining the presence of multiple carrier frequency components in an electrical signal by calculating a value for at least one characteristic of the set of peaks in a defined portion of the frequency spectrum, such as the number of peaks within a def... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262732 | Method and apparatus for fast satellite acquisition via signal identification The invention relates to a method and apparatus for fast satellite antenna acquisition via signal identification. The method and apparatus operate by positioning a satellite antenna using signal identification in order to reduce false satellite signal locks and miss... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7215281 | Wireless network assisted GPS system A method and apparatus for locating a mobile communications device such as a cell phone includes apparatus for communicating with base stations and apparatus for communicating with satellites. Signals received from satellites and the base stations are combined to pr... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215949 | Cellular subscriber radio service A method for retransmitting a received radio programming signal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving the signal over a cellular transmission network at a first transceiver station configured to output the radio programming signal; and transmitt... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7207054 | Low noise block supply and control voltage regulator A low power circuit for providing power and control signals to a low noise block converter of a satellite receiver over a single coaxial cable includes a tracking switch-mode power supply. The power and control signals have a DC voltage level selected from a plurali... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199843 | Spectral translation for VSB compensation A system for providing spectral compensation for vestigial sideband, VSB, signals with carrier frequency error. The VSB signal is sampled and digitized. The carrier frequency of the digitized signal is translated to a selected IF frequency. A fixed frequency VSB fil... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197760 | Apparatus for selecting satellite TV channels using a channel selection unit for VHF and UHF channels The invention relates to a receiving station for satellite television signals. The inventive system comprises an external unit, satellite receivers and television units for receiving both satellite signals and VHF/UHF signals under control of a common channel select... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7178160 | Device for receiving satellite broadcast and a receiving method therefor A satellite broadcast receiver comprises an antenna, a tuner, a modulator, a FEC decoder, a microprocessor, and an antenna driver. The antenna receives the satellite signal and the tuner tunes the satellite signal received by the antenna, and the modulator modulates... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7161996 | Multi-antenna wireless receiver chains with vector decoding A receiver chain is provided for use in wireless data communication including a plurality of receive antennas and a vector Barker decoder or a CCK decoder. The vector Barker decoder operates on the plurality of received signals, preferably processed through a plural... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149260 | Carrier recovery apparatus of VSB receiver and a method of recovering carrier using the same A carrier recovery apparatus includes a first LPF calculating a carrier changing in accordance with a frequency offset, by using a pilot tone included in an I-signal of a VSB broadcasting signal, a limiter limiting a size of the carrier calculated by the first LPF a... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149470 | Direct broadcast receiver utilizing LNB in cascade A direct broadcast system receiving a plurality of broadcast signals within a direct broadcast receiver having an outdoor unit (ODU) is provided. The ODU includes a first low noise block (LNB) and a second LNB. The first LNB has a housing and amplifies a first broad... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140032 | System and method for establishing TV channel A system and method for automatically establishing TV channels, based on time/date/geographic location/location of the TV within the home either entered manually or using a locater system such as GPS. ... | 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 |
| 7116998 | Subtractive multipath delay detection In a RAKE receiver delays associated with multipath signals are determined by subtracting power values associated with sidelobes of a peak value for each of the multipath signals. The determination can be performed in two stages, in the first stage the determination... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113852 | System and method for transportation vehicle monitoring, feedback and control A system provides monitoring/feedback to a transportation vehicle regarding the state of that vehicle based on, at least, information provided by sensors located on or in the transportation vehicle. Monitoring the transportation vehicle provides information about th... | 09/26/2006 |
| RE39303 | Distribution of a large number of live television programs to individual passengers in an aircraft A satellite television system that provides live television programming to passengers by integrating direct broadcast satellite services into an in-flight aircraft entertainment system. The system has an antenna disposed on the aircraft that is pointed at a pluralit... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7085529 | Method and apparatus for determining a direct-to-home satellite receiver multi-switch type The system and method described herein is used to determine the type of multi-switch connected to a direct-to-home satellite integrated receiver/decoder. The system looks for a predetermined marker pattern on the first port of a multi-switch using a first type of co... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076201 | Low cost VSAT MMIC transceiver with automatic power control A very small aperture terminal (VSAT) transceiver of a VSAT terminal has a ceramic substrate board with transmitter, receiver and local oscillator circuits, including microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) chips positioned on the ceramic substrate board. A m... | 07/11/2006 |
