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| 20080198272 | Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus - When a power source of a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is turned on, a microprocessor executes reading of a Read Data with specifying a Read Slave Address which is set by applying a prescribed electrical potential to an Address Select (AS) terminal, if the microprocessor confirms that an A/D converter (ADC) bit which is contained in the Read Data from a Mixer Oscillator PLL (MOP) IC is a ADC bit which is set by applying a prescribed electrical potential to an ADC terminal, the microprocessor transmits a tuning data of a format which corresponds to the MOP IC in which target channel is specified with specifying a Write Slave Address which is set by applying a prescribed electrical potential to the AS terminal. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080204604 | Video buffer management - In one embodiment a video system comprises a first tuner, a first memory buffer coupled to the first tuner to receive a first video signal from the first tuner, a second tuner, a second memory buffer coupled to the second tuner to receive a second video signal from the second tuner, and a controller comprising logic to direct the first video signal from the first memory buffer to an output port, receive a signal to switch the output port from the first memory buffer to the second memory buffer, and in response to the signal, couple the output port to the second memory buffer without disrupting the operations of the first memory buffer. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080218640 | Display - A display is formed such that a control portion reads second channel data corresponding to channels not displayed at start-up from a second storage portion after reading first channel data corresponding to a prescribed channel displayed on a display portion at the start-up from a first storage portion, at the start-up. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080225183 | Display Apparatus, Display Monitor and Television Receiver - When dividing one frame into a plurality of sub-frames to carry out image display, in a gradation range which is able to be displayed using only sub-frames other than the last sub-frame (for example, luminance ½ or less in the case of two-part division, and luminance ¾ or less in the case of four-part division), the luminance of the last sub-frame is set as the minimum luminance, and luminance display is carried out using the other sub-frames. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080231759 | REMOVING INTERFERING SIGNALS IN A BROADBAND RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVER - Various embodiments are directed to removing interfering signals in a broadband radio frequency (RF) receiver by implementing a silicon tuner arranged to replicate high quality factor (Q) performance without the advantages of using high Q components available for module tuners. In one or more embodiments, tuned filter elements within a broadband silicon tuner are reused to maximize the attenuation of unwanted signals while minimizing induced undesirable channel ripple. In various implementations, a number of tuned passive inductor/capacitor filter elements are combined as required such that filter elements for an unused frequency band are reconfigured to provide attenuation of and enhanced immunity to unwanted signals. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080239166 | DRIVING CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY ELEMENT, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND TELEVISION APPARATUS - A driving circuit for display elements, comprises a modulation circuit that outputs a modulating signal to be applied to wiring to which display elements are connected; and an output circuit that serializes modulation data including height value data for determining a height value of at least part of waveform of the modulating signal and pulse width data for determining a pulse width of at least part of waveform of the modulating signal so that the modulation data can be transmitted to the modulation circuit by transmission paths, the number of which is smaller than the number of bits of the modulation data, and outputs the serialized modulation data. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080266465 | Channel Scan for Terrestrial Broadcast Digital Television Receiver - A technique that allows a DTV receiver to perform a channel scan in a manner that is faster and more efficient than conventional channel scanning techniques. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the technique allows a DTV receiver to perform a scan of only those channels that are known to be available within a local terrestrial broadcast region. In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, the technique allows a DTV receiver that operates in conjunction with an antenna, such as a smart antenna designed to comply with EIA/CEA 909, to use the same antenna configuration parameters for different terrestrial broadcast signals in an instance where such signals are known to originate from the same antenna location. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080266466 | Method of playing broadcast program contents using encryption and decryption techniques - A method is provided of playing a broadcast program content, which includes: (a) producing a combination-dependent unique key which is unique to a combination of a tuner unit and a computer unit; and (b) in response to issuance of a real-time play command or a recorded-video playback command from a user, playing a broadcast program content in real-time after transmission thereof from the tuner unit to the computer unit, or playing back recorded data after retrieval thereof from a data storage. In an illustrative embodiment, the produced combination-dependent unique key is outputted into an encryptor of the tuner unit for encryption, and the encrypted digital data is inputted into the computer unit. A decryptor of the computer unit is caused to attempt decryption of the encrypted digital data, using the produced combination-dependent unique key. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080273122 | RECEPTION SYSTEM - A reception system receiving the broadcast wave of a digital broadcast to acquire the video or audio signal of the broadcast has: a tuner circuit detecting the broadcast wave at a predetermined frequency to convert it into an intermediate-frequency signal; and a receiver device having a first terminal connected to the tuner circuit to receive the intermediate-frequency signal by way of the first terminal. The receiver device has, arranged on a single circuit board: a digital demodulation circuit portion receiving the intermediate-frequency signal to demodulate it; a digital circuit portion decompressing the signal demodulated by the digital demodulation circuit portion; a video/audio output circuit portion converting the digital video or audio signal decompressed by the digital circuit portion into an analog video or audio signal; and a power supply portion supplying electric power to the digital demodulation circuit portion, the digital circuit portion, and the video/audio output circuit portion. A chassis is provided so as to cover the digital demodulation circuit portion, the digital circuit portion, the video/audio output circuit portion, and the power supply portion but not to cover the first terminal. With this construction, it is possible to minimize the entry of noise into the tuner circuit without imposing restrictions on the layout of the different components for the processing of broadcast signals and that can diminish the fabrication cost of a video display device. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080291337 | Compact digital TV tuner unit - The present invention discloses a compact digital TV tuner unit mounted on an analog receiver equipped with an analog tuner, comprising: a boxy chassis; a terminal face of the chassis facing the analog receiver; an antenna input terminal that is placed on the terminal face and that is connected to an external antenna wire; an antenna output terminal that is placed on the terminal face adjacent to the antenna input terminal and that is connected to the analog receiver; and a converter circuit whose circuit elements are placed on a loop line starting at the antenna input terminal and ending at the antenna output terminal in the chassis and that converts digital broadcast signals input from the antenna input terminal to analog broadcast signals to output the analog broadcast signals to the antenna output terminal. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080291338 | Television receiver - The present invention discloses that it enhances efficiency in detecting the color burst signal under low-power input and enables color display after confirming the presence of the color burst signal even under low-power input. The configuration includes firstly the electric field intensity judgment unit M | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080303959 | Method and Apparatus for Changing Channels in a System Operating in a Recording Mode - An apparatus and a method for selecting one of a plurality of digital video channels and analog video channels in response to user selection, in particular, when operating in a digital recording mode. The user may select the channel using either a channel scan mode, in which the user selection causes the selection of the next channel in a channel sequence, or a direct channel mode, in which the user enters a specific channel number to be selected. When operating in the recording mode, and the apparatus receives a channel selection in the channel scan mode, the apparatus selects the next digital channel in the sequence and skips any intervening analog channels. When the operating in the recording mode, and the apparatus receives a channel selection in the direct channel selection mode, the apparatus selects the channels and terminates the recording mode if the selected channel is an analog channel and maintains the recording mode if the selected channel is a digital channel. The invention also provides a method for controlling the content in the buffer of a storage device as the user scans through major and minor television channels. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080303960 | Channel setting apparatus and television - Disclosed is a channel setting processing including the steps of: generating a channel map data including physical channel information about a physical channel available to receive a broadcast signal, the physical channel information being at least a main channel number of a virtual channel, a sub channel number of the virtual channel, a broadcast station name, and a predetermined program information indicating program contents; judging whether or not there exist plural physical channels on standby for reception and capable of sharing the same program there between, based on at least two kinds of information among the physical channel information, recorded on a channel to channel basis on the channel map data; and, based on the judgment that there exit plural physical channels sharing the same program, disenabling other physical channels except one physical channel thereamong to be selected despite the instruction of physical channel selection through external manipulation. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080309827 | Filter Device, Circuit Arrangement Comprising Such Filter Device as Well as Method of Operating Such Filter Device - In order to provide a filter device ( | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080309828 | Broadcast Signal Receiving Apparatus - A broadcast signal receiving apparatus | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080309829 | FREQUENCY SELECTIVE RADIO SENSOR AND A METHOD THEREOF - An efficient radio sensor and a method thereof. The radio sensor includes a first frequency tracking block (FTB) ( | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090015724 | BROADCASTING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A broadcasting processing apparatus, includes: a receiver which receives an image signal; a storage unit; a decoder which decodes the image signal; a channel selection unit which is provided to select a channel; and a controller which determines whether sequence header information exists in the image signal received through the receiver and stores the sequence header information in the storage unit if the sequence header information exists in the image signal, and controls the decoder to decode the image signal by using sequence header information of the selected channel prestored in the storage unit if the sequence header information does not exist, if a selection signal to select the channel is inputted through the channel selection unit. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090015725 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING VIDEO FRAMES WHILE CHANGING CHANNELS WITH DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER - A method and apparatus for outputting video frames while changing channels using a digital broadcast receiver are provided. The method includes sequentially tuning to a plurality of channels and receiving a plurality of digital broadcast signals from the respective channels; extracting a plurality of video frames from the respective digital broadcast signals and storing the video frames; receiving a digital broadcast signal from a desired channel to be tuned upon receiving a channel-change command; and outputting at least one of the stored video frames before a digital broadcast signal of the desired channel is output. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090021650 | Common receiver for terrestrial TV and CATV - A tuner section | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090027563 | LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER - The present invention provides a low noise amplifier, comprising a first active element having a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal, in which the first terminal is connected to an input terminal; a second active element having a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal, wherein the first terminal is connected to another input terminal; a first adjustable attenuation device which has a first terminal connected to the first terminal of the first active element and a second terminal connected to the second terminal of the second active element; and a second adjustable attenuation device which has a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the first active element and a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the second active element. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090033805 | Tuner and portable device using the same - A tuner includes an input terminal operable to receive a high-frequency signal including a first high-frequency signal and a second high-frequency signal. The second high-frequency signal has a level larger than that of the first signal. The tuner further includes a first filter having an input port coupled to the input terminal for allowing a signal having the first frequency to pass therethrough and for attenuating a signal having the second frequency, a high-frequency amplifier coupled to an output port of the first filter, a second filter having an input port coupled to an output of the high-frequency amplifier for allowing a signal having the first frequency to pass therethrough and for attenuating the signal having the second frequency, a local oscillator, and a mixer for mixing the output of the high-frequency amplifier with an output of the local oscillator. This tuner has a high receiving sensitivity even when the tuner receives a high-power interference signal near a receiving range thereof and in a weak electric field. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090040393 | Quadrature correction method for analog television reception using direct-conversion tuners - A direct conversion radio frequency (RF) tuner includes a mixer generating I and Q quadrature components. A phase detection circuit generates a phase error measurement between the I quadrature component and the Q quadrature component. A phase correction circuit corrects a phase of the Q component based on the phase error measurement, and outputs a phase-corrected Q quadrature component. An I quadrature component gain control circuit receives the I quadrature component and outputting an amplitude corrected I quadrature component. A Q quadrature component gain control circuit receives the phase corrected Q quadrature component and outputs an amplitude corrected Q quadrature component. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090046209 | MULTI-VIDEO/AUDIO PURPOSE PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Described is a multi-video/audio purpose portable electronic device which is capable of providing both TV and broadcast functions, and even a storage function. By using the multi-video/audio purpose portable electronic device, a user can watch or listen to a TV/broadcast program received externally, store the TV/broadcast program and watch the stored TV/broadcast program on different computers at different locations. In addition, an application software necessary for operating the portable electronic device on the computer may be directly stored in the portable electronic device itself. As such, a promoted convenience and lower cost are achieved for the multi-video/audio purpose portable electronic device. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090059088 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM REFERENCE CHART DISPLAYING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a tuner selecting and receiving a broadcast signal of digital broadcast; a recording control module making video data obtained by the tuner receiving the broadcast signal recorded in a recording medium; a video reproducing module reproducing a video signal by using the video data recorded in the recording medium; a video data selecting module selecting only identical apparatus video data obtained by the tuner of the identical apparatus receiving the broadcast signal, among the video data recorded in the recording medium; and a displaying control module making a program reference chart corresponding to the identical apparatus video data selected by the video data selecting module displayed. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090066848 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A BACK-UP RECEIVER AND ENCODER IN A LOCAL COLLECTION FACILITY FROM A REMOTE FACILITY - A system and method suitable for processing television signals includes a local collection facility that has a primary receiver and a primary encoder forming a broadcast signal in response to a first channel signal received at the receiver. The system also includes a remote facility having a monitoring system monitoring the local collection facility at the remote facility. A back-up receiver at the local facility tuning to the first channel, generating a back-up receiver signal for the first channel and communicating the back-up receiver signal to the remote facility from the local collection facility. The monitoring system displays the back-up receiver signal. The remote facility switches the broadcast signal to correspond to the back-up receiver signal. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090066849 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND TV TUNER MOUNTED THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a front cover, a rear cover, and a TV tuner. The front cover and the rear cover are packaged together to form an accommodating space. The display panel and the TV tuner are accommodated in the accommodating space. The TV tuner includes a main body and an antenna input terminal. The main body has a first surface. The antenna input terminal projects from the first surface. The antenna input terminal extends downward and outward with respect to the display panel. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090066850 | SMART CHANNEL SCAN METHOD AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A smart channel scan method and associated apparatus, for searching center frequencies and symbol rates of the video signal channels. The smart channel scan method performs spectrum analysis for the video signal to generate a power spectrum density signal and obtain a plurality of center frequencies and coarse bandwidth. Symbol rates are determined according to the power spectrum density signal and the coarse bandwidth. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090066851 | BROADCAST SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS - In a broadcast signal receiving apparatus, a remote controller has, as one of a plurality of buttons thereof, a state changing button for instructing to change a source to be reproduced by a main body. The main body or the remote controller has a memory storing a first state changing table indicating an order in which the source is changed. When the state changing button is operated, if the broadcast signal is being received by the tuner portion and reproduced as the source, the main body performs state change such that the first source in the first state changing table is specified as the source to be reproduced by the main body. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090066852 | Methods for Reducing Channel Change Times in a Digital Video Apparatus - A digital video apparatus provides reduced channel change times. According to an exemplary embodiment, the digital video apparatus includes at least one receiver for receiving first and second video streams representing the same program, wherein the first video stream has at least one characteristic different from the second video stream; a first signal processor for processing the first video stream to generate a first processed video stream; a second signal processor for processing the second video stream to generate a second processed video stream having a delay with respect to the first processed video stream; a renderer for rendering the second processed video stream responsive to a channel change command; and a switch for switching from the second processed video stream to the first processed video stream after the renderer begins rendering the second processed video stream, and thereby causing the renderer to begin rendering the first processed video stream. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090079880 | Television Tuner - A correction circuit comprised of a capacitor and a switch is attached to a resonator such that a single resonance circuit is used to cover the television signals of a plurality of bands. Furthermore, the number of the components in the tuner circuit is reduced. A television tuner functions to receive a television broadcast signal divided into a plurality of frequency bands for conversion into an intermediate frequency signal of a predetermined frequency. The television tuner includes a resonance circuit controlling a frequency of a local oscillation signal which oscillates within a predetermined frequency band. During reception of a first frequency band, a tuning voltage is applied to a variable circuit element included in the resonance circuit to control the frequency of the local oscillation signal. During reception of a second frequency band, the tuning voltage is applied to the variable circuit element included in the resonance circuit and a correction control signal is applied to a non-variable circuit element connected to the variable circuit element to control the frequency of the local oscillation signal. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090079881 | Apparatus and Method for Signal Level Control - A set top box is described including multiple tuners and an apparatus and method for controlling signal level. The apparatus includes a signal splitter for splitting signal power of a signal between an input and at least two outputs, a controller coupled to an output, and a circuit controlled by the controller and selectively coupled to the signal splitter for altering a signal transfer response characteristic of the signal. The method describes controlling the signal level of signals outputted by a signal splitter including determining a signal quality characteristic of one of the output signals and altering a signal response in the signal splitter in response to comparing the signal quality characteristic to a predetermined signal quality characteristic threshold. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090086108 | Method and System for Scanning a Frequency Channel in Digital Television - One embodiment sets forth a method of scanning a frequency channel, which includes receiving a radio-frequency signal in a selected frequency channel, performing a carrier recovery process, and evaluating a control signal generated during the carrier recovery process to determine the presence of program content in the selected frequency channel. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090086109 | Television - The present invention discloses a television that includes a power circuit; a speaker; a display; a tuner for receiving television broadcasting signals and that generates first audio signals and first image signals based on the television broadcasting signals; a connecting terminal for connecting the television and a player device that is capable of playing a media file; a connection detecting unit for detecting that the player device is connected to the connecting terminal of the television; a signal accepting unit for accepting second audio signals and second image signals generated by the player device when the player device is connected to the television; and a switching unit for switching the television to a player device mode when the player device is connected to the connecting terminal, and switching the television to a normal mode when the player device is disconnected from the connecting terminal. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090096935 | Integrated Programmable Tuner - An integrated tuner is programmable to optimize its components for either analog signal reception or digital signal reception. Power to the components is increased for analog operation and decreased for digital operation. The tuner also includes a selectable and integrated low noise amplifier that may be selected for single-signal reception and bypassed for multi-signal reception. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090096936 | RECEIVING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiving device is used that includes a main tuner | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090109347 | SELF-ALIGNING RESONATOR FILTER CIRCUITS - An embodiment of a self-aligning resonator filter circuit includes a tunable resonator having a filter output node, an oscillator having an oscillator output node, a resistance element connected between the oscillator output node and the filter output node when the self-aligning resonator filter circuit is in a tuning mode, and a phase detector loop controller coupled between the oscillator output node and the filter output node. The phase detector loop controller is configured to measure a phase difference across the resistance element, and to adjust the tunable resonator in response to the phase difference. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090122204 | Receiving devices - A network includes a service provider, a plurality of transmitters and a receiving device. The receiving device identifies the frequencies at which broadcast services are provided by a transmitter local to the receiving device. A search is carried out until a signal is received by the receiving device (S | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090128713 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER AND CHANNEL SWITCHING METHOD THEREOF - A digital broadcast receiver and channel switching method are provided for minimizing channel switching latency by skipping an unnecessary PMT update and PIDs reset processes. A channel switching method for a digital broadcast receiver detects a channel-switching command for switching to a service channel, checks a first version of information of a currently received program mapping table received on the service channel upon detecting the channel-switching command, compares the first version of information with a second version of information of an previously received and stored program mapping table, configures the digital broadcast receiver with a set of packet identifiers (PIDs) associated with the service channel according to a version information comparison result, and performs channel switching to the service channel using the set of PIDs. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090135308 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND REMOTE CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR SCANNING CHANNELS THEREOF - A broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for scanning channels thereof are disclosed. The broadcast receiving apparatus receives a user command transmitted from a remote controller having a scan key, sets an interval between channels according to a time period in which a scan key is depressed, and scans the channels. Accordingly, a channel scanning is fast and conveniently performed, and thus a user selects a desired channel. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090141183 | Active Splitter Device and Method Using Diplexed Front End - A method and apparatus is presented for actively signal splitting an RF signal. Specifically, the RF signal is frequency-separated to generate a first signal including a first set of frequencies and a second signal including a second set of frequencies. The first and second signals are independently amplified to generate first and second amplified signals, respectively. The first and second amplified signals are then combined to generate a recombined signal. The recombined signal is divided to generate first and second splitter output signals. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090147147 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING CENTER FREQUENCY OF FILTER - The present invention provides a method for adjusting a center frequency of a filter utilized for extracting information carried via a target channel. The method includes: detecting adjacent channel interference (ACI) for the target channel to generate a channel interference information; and adjusting the center frequency of the filter for the target channel according to the channel interference information. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090153747 | Pre-Processing of Descrambling Data to Reduce Channel-Change Time - This invention discloses an apparatus and a method for receiving a plurality of encrypted digital video, audio and data that require an encryption key to decode before utilizing. Specifically the invention is directed toward devices such as cable and digital broadcast satellite systems that transmit multiple channel information to receivers that provide users access to the multiple channels upon particular channel selection. Such channel selection requires decrypting and formatting a new data stream through a time consuming electronic process. The invention described herein reduces channel change time, by monitoring de-scrambled data in the background, prior to a user selecting a new channel. Digital broadcast data contain input de-scrambling control words required for the decoding of N-bit de-scrambling keys for each of a multiplicity of digital data streams available. Storing the data control words or the N-bit descramble keys reduces subsequent retrieval decoding time. However, utilizing the control words to descramble the N-bit de-scrambling keys and then storing the N-bit de-scrambling keys, typically yields the greatest gain in reducing channel change time. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090161023 | SETTING TELEVISION DEFAULT CHANNEL - A television device is provided which is configured so that it will automatically cause a first predetermined television channel to be displayed on a television monitor when a television viewer sends a request signal to the television device to turn the television monitor off. The television device may be configured so that it will cause the television monitor to shut off after the first predetermined channel has been on for a dwell period of time after the request signal has been received. The dwell period of time may be approximately two seconds. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090161024 | Apparatus and Method for Sensing an ATSC Signal in Low Signal-To-Noise Ratio - A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) receiver comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprising those ones of the number of channels upon which an ATSC signal was not detected, wherein the ATSC signal detector includes a filter matched to a PN511 sequence of an ATSC signal for filtering a received signal on one of the number of channels for providing a filtered signal for use in determining if the received signal is an ATSC signal. The ATSC signal detector can be a coherent or a non-coherent ATSC signal detector. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090174822 | Multichannel Digital Cable Tuner - A method and apparatus is presented for simultaneous reception of a plurality of digital RF channels. Specifically, N amplifier-filter circuits are configured to receive and separate a multichannel analog RF input signal into N analog signals, each including a different frequency band. N analog-to-digital converters are provided, each respectively coupled to one of the N amplifier-filter circuits and configured to receive an analog signal and generate a respective digital signal. A digital tuner is coupled to receive and demultiplex the N digital signals generated by the N analog-to-digital converters thereby recovering M digital RF channels. M demodulation circuits are provided for performing demodulation and forward-error-correction of the M digital RF channels (see FIG. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090185079 | INTEGRATED ANALOG VIDEO RECEIVER - An analog video receiver implemented in an integrated circuit device. The analog video receiver includes an amplifier to amplify an analog video signal having a desired carrier frequency, and a mixing circuit to mix the amplified analog video signal with a complex sinusoid having a frequency substantially equal to the carrier frequency. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090201429 | TELEVISION TUNER - In the television tuner, between an input part of a VHF tuning circuit | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090213276 | RECEIVER HAVING A GAIN-CONTROLLABLE INPUT STAGE - A receiver has an input stage (LNA) that comprises, in a signal direction from an input (SI) to an output (SO), an input transistor (Q | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090219449 | MULTI-TUNER APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING RF SIGNALS - A multi-tuner apparatus comprises a splitter (S) for received RF signals. The splitter has a splitter output (U) for connection to a plurality of tuners. To reduce signal degradation and dissipation the output impedance of the splitter output is substantially lower than the input impedance of each of the tuners. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090219450 | Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same - A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090219451 | Broadband Integrated Television Tuner - A broadband integrated television receiver for receiving a standard antenna or cable input and outputting an analog composite video signal and composite audio signal is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an IF signal. An IF filter between the mixers performs coarse channel selection. The down-conversion mixer may be an image rejection mixer to provide additional filtering. The received RF television signals are converted to a standard 45.75 MHz IF signal for processing on-chip by additional circuitry. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090244400 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPERSION ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF IC INTERNAL COMPONENT SECTION OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IC - An electronic apparatus includes: a first integrated circuit including an internal component section capable of being adjusted with adjustment data, a nonvolatile memory in which beforehand acquired adjustment data of a result of adjustment carried out in advance for the internal component section are stored, and an interface section having a data transfer function of transferring the beforehand acquired adjustment data read out from the nonvolatile memory to the outside and a data storage function of storing actual use adjustment data sent thereto from the outside and supplying the stored actual use adjustment data to the internal component section; and a second integrated circuit including a signal processor, to which the interface section of the first integrated circuit is connected. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244401 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPERSION ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF IC INTERNAL COMPONENT SECTION OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IC - An electronic apparatus includes: a first integrated circuit including an internal component section, a nonvolatile memory, and an interface section; a test signal generation section configured to generate a test signal to be supplied to the first integrated circuit; a second integrated circuit including a processing section configured to process an output signal of the first integrated circuit, a signal processor to which the interface section of the first integrated circuit is connected and a detection section configured to detect decision information for deciding a result of the process of the test signal carried out by the processing section; and a control section configured to supply the test signal from the test signal generation section in place of the input signal to the first integrated circuit and issuing an instruction to the signal processor of the second integrated circuit to produce actual use adjustment data; | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090251618 | Integrated Wideband RF Tracking Filter for RF Front End with Parallel Band Switched Tuned Amplifiers - A wideband RF tracking filter having a set of parallel tuned resonator amplifier stages with a de-Q resistor for each subband is disclosed. The resonant amplifier contains programmable tuned LC tank impedance and an array of parallel voltage to current converters (V2I) for each subband. The de-Q resistor together with the array of V2I converters provides a flat gain over each subband and each of the other subbands covering different frequencies. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090256971 | Frequency Adjusting Apparatus and Adjusting Method Thereof - A frequency adjusting method comprises steps of: generating a first adjusting signal according to a frequency of a first output signal; adjusting a frequency of an input signal by using the first adjusting signal to generate the first output signal, so as to adjust the frequency of the first output signal into a first range; generating a second adjusting signal according to a frequency of a second output signal; adjusting the frequency of the first output signal by using the second adjusting signal to generate the second output signal, so as to adjust the frequency of the second output signal into a second range; and adjusting the first adjusting signal and the second adjusting signal according to the second adjusting signal. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090262252 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE - Aspects of a method and system for fast channel change are provided. Initial pictures of a program may be decoded earlier and displayed longer than what indicated by corresponding clock references. Additional pictures of the program may be decoded and displayed at time indicated by the clock references. Within the time period of the initial pictures, decoding timing advances of initial pictures may be reduced and corresponding picture displaying rates may converge to an intended constant frame rate used for additional pictures displaying. Pictures may be decoded and displayed when the corresponding data are available in a coded data buffer (CDB) and a decoded picture buffer (DPB), respectively. Depending on implementation, the respective previous picture may be displayed when a decoded picture may be available in the DPB. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090278995 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING - An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which the audio signal can be efficiently processed. The present invention includes obtaining start position information of a sub-frame from a header of the main frame and processing an audio signal based on the start position information of the sub-frame, wherein the main frame includes a plurality of sub-frames. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090278996 | Method and system for selecting a broadcast-signal in a multi-user environment - There is disclosed a system comprising, a source-tuner having a receiver for receiving external broadcast-signals, and a transmitter for broadcasting internal broadcast-signals to a network that communicatively links the source-tuner to a number of tuners. The source-tuner is adapted to receive control-signals from the tuners and to select external broadcast-signals as the source of the internal broadcast-signals, on the basis of the control-signal received from the tuner. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090303394 | Dual television tuner - A dual television tuner having a television tuner module and a wireless local area network module both operatively connected to an antenna for receiving a television signal from the antenna, and for passing the television signal for playing on a host to which the dual television tuner is able to be operatively connected. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090310030 | Using a Global Positioning System for Transmitter Identification in Mobile Television - A mobile digital TV (DTV) comprises a DTV receiver, a processor, a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and a memory for storing a data base of transmitter frequencies and transmitter locations for particular channels. The GPS receiver provides a location for the mobile DTV to the processor. The processor monitors distances between the location of the mobile DTV and at least two of the transmitter locations for a currently selected channel. Upon detecting that the mobile DTV is closer to a particular transmitting location than the other, the processor re-tunes the mobile DTV to the transmitter frequency of the closest transmitting for the currently selected channel. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090310031 | Tuner input filter with electronically adjustable response for adapting to antenna characteristic - A system, apparatus and/or method provides frequency response adjustment of an RF input filter of an RF tuner based on impedance of an antenna system that is providing reception of RF signals to the RF tuner. The frequency response adjustment is preferably accomplished dynamically and/or with respect to each frequency tuned. Particularly, the system, method and/or apparatus provides compensation at the RF tuner level for mistuning effects produced on the RF tuner by antenna system impedance presented at the antenna input that is other than a designed for impedance. Frequency response of an RF input filter for the RF tuner is electronically adjustable with an independent or semi-independent control voltage signal based on one or more measured parameters of a tuning frequency. Frequency response adjustment may include adjustment of a center frequency of the RF input filter bandpass frequency range and/or altering the bandpass frequency range of the RF input filter. The subject invention expands the capability of an RF signal receiver, particularly one using at least one electronically adjustable RF filter at the input of an electronic alignment type tuner. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090322964 | BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE - A broadcast receiving device capable of easily setting area information. A control unit of a DVR transmits an acquisition request for area information to a TV. When the control unit receives a response to the acquisition request from the TV, the control unit extracts area information from the received response and performs a channel presetting using the extracted area information. A control unit of the TV has area information stored therein. When the control unit receives an acquisition request for area information from the DVR, the control unit transmits, as a response to the request, the stored area information to the DVR. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090322965 | Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same - A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090322966 | TELEVISION TUNER - A television tuner capable of receiving digital television signals and analog television signals comprises: a mixer circuit that converts the received television signals into signals of an intermediate-frequency band, and an intermediate-frequency tuning circuit being connected to a rear end of the mixer circuit and set to a tuning frequency corresponding to a reception channel, wherein the intermediate-frequency tuning circuit includes: a first resonant circuit configured to have a first capacitance and to have a resonant frequency set in the intermediate-frequency band, and a second resonant circuit configured to have a second capacitance and to have a resonant frequency set substantially equal to that of the first resonant circuit, and wherein the first capacitance is smaller than the second capacitance. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100007802 | FAST STREAM SWITCHING - A method of fast stream switching including receiving at least one first stream at a device corresponding to at least one first program, wherein the device employs dynamic power management and is operating at a first power level; activating a selection panel; receiving a plurality of streams corresponding to a plurality of programs; and adjusting to a second power level. After a stream is selected, the non-selected streams may be deactivated and the device may return to the first power level. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100014003 | MOBILE MEDIA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PLAYING MEDIA STREAM - A mobile media device is disclosed. The mobile media device includes a database, a list-selecting unit, a channel-selecting unit, a tuning unit and a playing unit. The database stores several data channel lists, wherein each of the data channel lists has a location information column. The list-selecting unit selects a local channel list from the data channel lists by comparing present location information of the mobile media device with the location information columns of the data channel lists. The channel-selecting unit selects information of a channel from the local channel list. The tuning unit obtains a media stream according to the information of the channel. The playing unit plays the media stream. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100020248 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE IN WHICH AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT IS MOUNTED ON A MAIN BOARD - There is provided an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a main board formed with a cut out and comprising first and second surfaces facing each other; and an electronic component comprising a sub board and a casing and connected to the main board. A part of the electronic component is accommodated in the cut out of the main board across the first and second surfaces of the main board. The sub board and the main board are spaced from each other without overlap. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100020249 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING USERS WITH CHANNEL ENTRY - A method for assisting users with channel entry utilizes channel tuning history to simplify the channel entry process. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes steps of storing a list of channel numbers previously tuned by the apparatus; receiving a first input selecting a most significant digit of a channel number; and enabling a display of channel numbers in response to the first input, wherein the displayed channel numbers comprise at least one channel number included in the stored list and having the most significant digit and at least one other channel number not included in the stored list and having the most significant digit. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100026906 | FRONT END CIRCUIT - An IC of a front end circuit which can be ready for various television broadcasting systems is provided. The front end circuit includes tuning circuits | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100033637 | DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME WITH TELEVISION TUNING FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF - A method with television (TV) tuning function applied on a digital photo frame (DPF) is provided. The method includes: fetching a prompt time of at least one particular TV program; determining whether a prompt time of a particular TV program is about to arrive or has already arrived at the current time; fetching a prompt signal of the particular TV program whose prompt time is about to arrive or has already arrived, and outputting the prompt signal to prompt a particular TV program is being aired or about to air; switching the DPF from the DPF mode to a TV mode and providing the channel parameter of the particular TV program upon receiving a mode switching signal during the outputting of the prompt signal; and; and receiving and playing the particular TV program according to the channel parameter. A related DPF is also provided. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100045875 | ADAPTIVE TUNER - A signal tuning system including a picture-in-picture (PIP) feature includes a first and a second tuner. The first and second tuners are adapted to tune to a first and a second channel of a received signal in response to a state of the received signal. A switching device coupled to the tuners switches the tuner carrying a primary channel to a primary display area. The switching device also switches the other tuner carrying the secondary channel to a PIP display in a PIP display area. One tuner is a higher performance tuner and the other a lower performance tuner. Therefore the more sensitive tuner is tuned to the weaker one of the two received channels. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100045876 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING AN ATSC SIGNAL IN LOW SIGNAL-TO -NOISE RATIO - A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) receiver comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and a signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprising those ones of the number of channels upon which an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) signal was not detected. The WRAN receiver performs a method comprising the steps of: dividing a total observation time looking for an ATSC data segment sync signal into multiple slices; computing at least one statistic for each slice; computing at least one overall statistic from the statistics computed for each slice; determining if the at least one overall statistic is greater than a threshold; and if the overall statistic is greater than the threshold, determining that an ATSC signal is present, otherwise, determining that an ATSC signal is not present. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100053457 | NETWORK ENABLED REMOTE CONTROLS AND METHOD FOR HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE - A system and method comprises a primary remote control device and one or more secondary remote control devices. The primary remote device communicates directly with a set top tuner device to control programming between the tuner and the remote in the multiple remote system. The primary remote can communicate with the tuner and secondary remotes through local area or wide area networks. This system decentralizes control of actual broadcast or recorded program away from a set-top tuner box, to a portable decentralized electronic device such as a specialized remote control. With this system, a user can retrieve programming information without the need to be in close proximity to the tuner box. Each person has his/her own remote controller that may be used to access content permitted for that user. To prevent any user from accessing another user's remote controller along with private data or personal profile, strict access control would be implemented. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100053458 | Method and System for Network Enabled Remote Controls Using Physical Motion Detection Remote control Devices - A network enabled remote control system uses controls that detect the physical movements of the remote control devices. The system comprises a primary remote control device and one or more secondary remote control devices. The secondary remote control devices have motion-sensing capabilities that can transmit the detection of a motion of the controller to a sensing device. The motion-sensing device can have the capability to receive the transmitted detected motion and convert that detected motion into an executable command. The primary remote device can function as the sensing device. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100053459 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A liquid crystal panel ( | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100060799 | Broadcast receiving apparatus, method for setting the same, and program for setting the same - A broadcast receiving apparatus includes a channel scanning unit configured to perform a channel scanning process of scanning broadcast channels to be received, determining on each scanned broadcast channel whether the channel is receivable, and registering a broadcast channel determined as receivable, a function setting unit configured to perform settings of various functions, and a control unit configured to control the channel scanning unit and the function setting unit so that the channel scanning process is performed simultaneously with the settings of the various functions. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100060800 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A receiving apparatus includes a plurality of receivers, each including a variable gain section configured to amplify or attenuate an input signal input thereto with a gain corresponding to an AGC (Automatic Gain Control) signal, and a generator configured to generate an AGC signal in each case when an input signal input to the respective receivers is greater than a predetermined signal level, the AGC signal reducing the gain of the variable gain section in response to a signal level of the input signal. The variable gain section in each of the plurality of receivers amplifies or attenuates the input signal with a gain corresponding to the AGC signal generated by the generator, when the input signal input to the receiver is greater than the predetermined signal level. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100066917 | Multi-Tuner Variable Low IF Receiver for Multi-Channel Applications - Systems and methods for demodulating a plurality of contiguous channels contained within a bandlimited portion of a radio-frequency (RF) input signal are provided. In an embodiment, the bandlimited portion of the RF input signal is down-converted to baseband. After down-conversion, the bandlimited portion overlaps at baseband with a mirror image of the bandlimited portion. The plurality of contiguous channels within the down-converted signal similarly overlap at baseband and subsequently occupy a bandwidth substantially equal to half that required before down-converting. Image rejection is performed in the digital domain to recover each of the plurality of overlapping channels. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100073577 | PORTABLE DIGITAL ANTENNA - A lightweight and compact design provides for a portable antenna device that is able to receive over the air digital broadcasts. Such a device can receive a large number of high definition digital signals, over a wide spectrum. The device can be powered by a number of approaches, including receiving power over a USB or similar connection. Such a device thus can be used with home analog or digital televisions as well as portable digital media devices. The device includes an extendable, substantially rectangular antenna element that is shaped to receive the digital signals over a wide band. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100097530 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND RADIO TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A display device includes: a monitor and receiving set having a video signal receiving section, a display section, an image quality control section, a first control signal transceiver, and a first control section; and a control and transmission set having a television broadcast receiving section, a video signal input section, a video signal transmitting section, a second control signal transceiver, a key input section, and a second control section. The Power consumption of a first radio transmission path formed by the video signal transmitting section and the video signal receiving section is larger than that of a second radio transmission path formed by the first and second control signal transceivers. A control signal for a user interface is communicated by the first and second control signal transceivers. Only the second radio transmission path of the first and second radio transmission paths is communicable in a standby state. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100110306 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - Projecting sections controlling alignment directions of liquid crystal molecules are provided on at least one of an active matrix substrate and a counter substrate. When viewed from a direction perpendicular to a surface of the active matrix substrate or of the counter substrate, an outline shape of the projecting sections is constituted by continuously arranging a plurality of unit patterns each having a side in parallel with the polarization axis of the first polarizing plate and a side in parallel with the polarization axis of the second polarizing plate. This makes it possible to provide a liquid crystal panel that performs better display with high contrast by reducing a light leakage during a black display period and by ensuring a light transmittance during a gray level display period and a white display period. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100110307 | PROGRAMMABLE IF OUTPUT RECEIVER, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - A tuner system for receiving a plurality of frequency bands includes a low noise amplifier coupled with a band selection filter to select a desired band. The tuner system further includes a complex RF filter to produce a complex RF signal from the selected band. The tuner system includes two double-quadrature converters, the first double-quadrature converter frequency down-converts the complex RF signal to a complex baseband signal. The complex baseband signal passes through a baseband filter that contains two identical lowpass filters for obtaining a baseband in-phase (I) signal and a quadrature (Q) signal. The second double-quadrature converter up-converts the baseband I and Q signals to respective IF I and Q signals that are significantly free of the positive third IF harmonic. The third IF-harmonic free I and Q signals are further processed by a complex bandpass filter. The bandpass filter has a programmable frequency center and a programmable bandwidth. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100123832 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVE CONDITION SETTING PROGRAM, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - In one embodiment of the present invention, a liquid crystal panel driving apparatus is disclosed which sequentially receives pieces of video data for one data signal line, (i) prepares a data string by sorting, in order of outputting, a plurality of pieces of video data inputted in a predetermined period while adding a piece of dummy data to a predetermined position, (ii) assigns one horizontal scanning period to an output of a piece of video data while assigning a dummy scanning period to an output of a piece of dummy data, and (iii) sets one horizontal scanning period shorter than an interval of inputting of pieces of video data. This makes it possible to suppress an increase in vertical display period even though a piece of dummy data is added to inputted video data while a dummy scanning period is assigned thereto. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100134699 | DETECTION OF SIGNALS CONTIANING SINE-WAVE COMPONENTS THROUGH MEASURMENT OF THE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD) AND CYCLIC SPECTRUM - A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) receiver comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and a signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprising those ones of the number of channels upon which an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) DTV (digital television) broadcast signal was not detected. The signal detector performs spectrum sensing as a function of power spectral density (PSD) and cyclic spectrum. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100134700 | CHANNEL FILTER, IN PARTICULAR FOR A DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER - The channel filter includes at a least one basic bandpass filter centred on the frequency of the channel, in series with two cascade-connected reflective filters whose bandwidths are located either side of the basic bandpass filter encompassing the channels adjacent to the channel. A reflective filter can include a 90° directional coupler combined with a bandpass filter designed to ensure transfer matched to the load impedance of the coupler with the input of the bandpass filter connected to a directional coupler output port, the input of the directive filter being formed by input port of the coupler and the output of the directive filter being formed by a port recovering the bandpass filter reflection coefficient. The invention applies in particular to the implementation of the DVB-T and DVB-H standards aimed at receiving digital television programmes from fixed or mobile multistandard terminals such as mobile telephones, PDAs or other multimedia receivers. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100134701 | Non-real time services - In certain embodiments, a digital television receiver that receives non-real time (NRT) content has an IP demultiplex or a radio frequency tuner that receives a transport stream. The output transport stream contains an IP packet stream containing NRT content, a FLUTE file description table (FDT) and NRT metadata. An electronic storage medium is provided and a demultiplexer demultiplexes the IP stream of packets to produce: NRT content that is stored in the electronic storage medium, the FLUTE FDT, and NRT metadata. An FDT parser parses the FDT to produce NRT file metadata from the FLUTE FDT. An NRT metadata parser produces NRT service metadata, NRT content description text and NRT content metadata. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100141849 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A scanning signal line ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100141850 | DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE OF DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DIVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - In one embodiment of the present invention, a display device includes: a display section in which a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of scan signal lines are provided, the display section including (i) a first region including some of the plurality of scan signal lines to which a first scan signal is sequentially supplied and (ii) a second region including the others of the plurality of scan signal lines to which a second scan signal is sequentially supplied; and waveform adjusting sections for causing the first scan signal to have a waveform, during an active period, which is different from a waveform which the second scan signal has during an active period. This allows a display device, which drives a display section divided into a plurality of regions, to reduce a difference in luminance between the regions. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100149429 | BACKLIGHT APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight apparatus can avoid a situation where a light source cannot be turned on and includes a light source having a base portion, a connector member including a contact portion having a recessed shape and electrically connected to the base portion of the light source, and a contact correcting portion arranged to contact with the contact portion of the connector member, wherein the light source is arranged inside a recessed portion, having the recessed shape, of the contact portion, and the contact correcting portion is arranged to press the contact portion of the connector member toward the base portion of the light source so as to close the recessed portion on a side of open ends of the contact portion. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100149430 | Active Inductor Circuits for Filtering in a Cable Tuner Circuit - An integrated front-end filter for a tuner provides an array of from several to a multitude of passbands, each for passing at least one but less than all channels designated in a band of frequencies. Each passband is exclusively selectable. The integrated front end filter includes at least one active filter unit with an active reactance element in either of fixed and variable filter configurations and a decoder coupled to said at least one active filter unit and being responsive to a control signal for selecting a one of the passbands. In one example a multitude of active filter units of fixed filter configuration provide the multitude of passbands. Each data is stored at a predetermined location and reproduced in response to a corresponding control data signal from a tuner controller. Each data characterizes one of the plurality of passbands. The filter element is switchable from one passband to another in response to the control data signal. Lower power dissipation and lesser requirements of an on-following integrated circuitry tuner permit a reduction of “off chip” connections and cost. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100149431 | Active Inductor Circuits for Filtering in a Cable Tuner Circuit - An integrated front-end filter for a tuner provides an array of from several to a multitude of passbands, each for passing at least one but less than all channels designated in a band of frequencies. Each passband is exclusively selectable. The integrated front end filter includes at least one active filter unit with an active reactance element in either of fixed and variable filter configurations and a decoder coupled to said at least one active filter unit and being responsive to a control signal for selecting a one of the passbands. In one example a multitude of active filter units of fixed filter configuration provide the multitude of passbands. Each data is stored at a predetermined location and reproduced in response to a corresponding control data signal from a tuner controller. Each data characterizes one of the plurality of passbands. The filter element is switchable from one passband to another in response to the control data signal. Lower power dissipation and lesser requirements of an on-following integrated circuitry tuner permit a reduction of “off chip” connections and cost. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100165212 | Signal source selection techniques - Techniques for the selection of signals from multiple sources are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a first tuner module, a second tuner module, and a multiplexer. The first tuner module generates a first tuned signal from a first RF signal, and the second tuner module generates a second tuned signal from a second RF signal. The first RF signal corresponds to a first signal source, and the second RF signal corresponds to a second signal source. Based on a selection signal, the multiplexer selects one of the first tuned signal and the second tuned signal. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100165213 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE IN A MOBILE/HANDHELD COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An ATSC DTV mobile transmitter synchronizes their transmissions with other associated stations. An ATSC DTV mobile receiver hops across channels during periods of idle time for forming a program guide including program guide information from channels besides a selected channel. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100171885 | Video Decoder System for Movable Application - This invention is a digital television receiver receiving alternative broadcasts. Separate tuners receive separate broadcast signals, such as 12-segment HDTV and 1-segment QVGA. A multiplexer selects one tuner based upon receiver status of a first tuner. The selected signal is decoded and resized for a display. The decoder uses a frame buffer of images in the resized size. In the preferred embodiment the input signals are a 12-segment HDTV broadcast and a 1-segment QVGA broadcast and the resized size is VGA. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100195000 | CONTROL METHOD OF FREQUENCY VARIABLE FILTER CIRCUIT AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - Provided is a control method of a frequency variable filter circuit including a resonant circuit of an inductor and a variable capacitance unit, the method including: determining a center frequency of the frequency variable filter circuit, wherein the variable capacitance unit includes a capacitor bank, a capacitance value Y of the capacitor bank is expressed by an equation below with respect to an assigned frequency, and the center frequency thereof is determined by deciding coefficients α, β, A, B and C. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100201890 | Television channel switching method and apparatus - A broadcast data receiver apparatus and method of use thereof which reduces the perceived time that it takes to change channel by outputting the first I-frame from the newly selected channel as a still image until the data is available to allow the newly selected channel video to be fully displayed. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100214494 | TUNER - A small tuner for a receiver, for example, a TV receiver is provided which requires a reduced area for mounting on a main signal board. A tuner board is disposed perpendicularly to a connector, for example, an F connector so as to allow an output signal of the tuner board to be outputted downwardly and thereby reduce the area required to mount the tuner. With the tuner made smaller and more immune to noise, a portion facing the tuner board of the shield case for the tuner is removed and a ground pattern is formed over the tuner board surface facing the removed portion of the tuner case. The core line of the F connector is bent to be connected to an end portion of the tuner board so as to facilitate laying out the tuner board. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100225828 | AUDIO VIDEO SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - When a conventional audio video system is used, it is necessary to identify an input source of audio video information. For this reason, complicated operations and slow operation times have been a problem. A control apparatus ( | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100225829 | Tuner Unit Apparatus - A timer unit apparatus includes a main controller which controls receiving digital TV (television) signals, a sub controller which controls receiving analog TV signals, a demodulator which is located in a first communication line leading from the main controller to the tuner and switches modes of control signals transmitted from the main controller between a mode that the control signals are transmitted to the tuner via the first communication line and a mode that the control signals are not transmitted to the tuner, and a FET (field effect transistor) circuit which is located in a second communication line leading from the sub controller to the tuner and switches modes of control signals transmitted from the sub controller between a mode that the control signals are transmitted to the tuner via the second communication line and a mode that the control signals are not transmitted to the tuner. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100231809 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD - A broadcast receiving apparatus includes a channel scanner that detects presence or absence of receivable services for all channels in the reception bandwidth and that creates a first service list of receivable services, a service list storage that stores a broadcast area and at least one second service list associated with the broadcast area, and a service list integrator that integrates the first service list and the second service list so as to create an integrated service list. In a case where identical services have been registered on an identical physical channel in the first service list and the second service list, the service list integrator integrates the services into one piece of service information. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100231810 | DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION SET - A display device has a display section provided with first and second areas each having formed therein data signal lines, scanning signal lines, and pixels. The scanning signal lines are individually scanned for each area so that a part (upper field) of a frame is displayed in the first area and a remaining part (lower field) of the frame is displayed in the second area. The scanning directions in the areas are identical. In display processing of a frame 0, the scanning signal line (G | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100238360 | RADIO TUNING DEVICE THROUGH A CABLE - A radio tuning device through a cable includes an emitter and receivers. The emitter can be embedded in a wall and includes first tuning units. Each receiver is an advanced TV tuner to replace an original TV tuner; as a digital broadcast TV received by an original TV set through the TV tuner, an analog or digital TV from cables, and even an interactive digital TV are received through cables or wirelessly. Each receiver further contains a second tuning unit which can be combined with various computer interfaces or displayer interfaces, e.g. USB, PCMCIA, DVI, VGA or HDMI. The first and second tuning units are applied to a digital or analog interface, and are very highly compatible. Accordingly, the cable TV can be watched by wireless transmission without cabling in a room, which is pretty, saves time and labor work and allows cable channels to be watched on the computers. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100245679 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, TELEVISION RECEIVER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL - An active matrix substrate includes: storage capacitor line extended sections | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100265410 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - In a liquid crystal display, a first data signal line and a second data signal line are provided for each pixel column. In at least one embodiment, in a case where every two pixels in the pixel column are paired, one of two pixels in each pair is connected with the first data signal line and the other of the two pixels is connected with the second data signal line, two scanning signal lines respectively connected with the two pixels are simultaneously selected during one horizontal scanning period so that signal potentials are written into the two pixels from the first data signal line and the second data signal line, respectively, during each horizontal scanning period, supply of the signal potentials to the first data signal line and the second data signal line is performed after supply of preliminary potentials to the first data signal line and the second data signal line. This allows improving the display quality of a liquid crystal display in which a larger size, higher definition, or higher-speed driving etc. makes full charging of pixels difficult even when simultaneous scanning. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100265411 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE - Each retention capacitor line has retention capacitor line extension ( | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100265412 | 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 between the mixers performs coarse channel selection. The down-conversion mixer may be an image rejection mixer to provide additional filtering. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100283914 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - To provide a backlight device with which a color hue and a color purity of a display panel can be improved while suppressing the lowering of the brightness of the display panel. A backlight device ( | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100296007 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING A CABLE TELEVISION CHANNEL MAP - There is provided a system and method for updating a cable television channel map. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising determining whether channels in a scan list are not available to the user, marking these channels as removed, and notifying the user of the changes. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100302460 | Signal processing device and signal processing method - A signal processing device and signal processing method. A plurality of tuner circuits includes at least one that selectively provides a signal from among a plurality of signal bands potentially in an input signal in response to a control signal having a transition between a first state and a second state. A correction circuit corresponds to at least one of the plurality of tuner circuits, and is configured to receive the control signal and provide a corrected control signal for the tuner circuit. The corrected control signal has a gradual transition between the first state and the second state as compared to the transition between the first state and the second state in the control signal. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100309386 | TUNER COMPRISING AN IF FILTER WITH A CONTROLLABLE DAMPING STAGE AND RECEIVER COMPRISING A RESPECTIVE TUNER - The tuner comprises an RF input for receiving a high frequency signal, a downconverter including a mixer for downconverting the high frequency signal, an IF filter coupled to an output of the mixer, an SAW filter coupled to an output of the IF filter and a gain-controlled IF amplifier coupled to an output of the SAW filter for providing an amplified IF signal for a subsequent demodulator. The IF filter includes a controllable damping stage which is in particular usable for improving the noise performance of the tuner. The tuner is designed in a preferred embodiment for reception of analog and digital television signals and the controllable damping stage provides a damping in case of reception of an analog television signal for improving a signal/noise ratio of the analog television signal. The damping stage comprises for example a switching stage utilizing one or several varactor diodes as damping elements. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309387 | Non-real time services - In certain embodiments, a digital television receiver method for receiving non-real time (NRT) content involves receiving a transport stream containing an Internet Protocol (IP) stream of packets containing non-real time content, NRT service metadata and NRT content metadata; a demultiplexer that demultiplexes the IP stream of packets to produce: NRT content, NRT service metadata, and NRT content metadata; an NRT metadata parser that produces NRT service metadata and NRT content metadata; and where the NRT service metadata contains an indication whether or not a particular NRT service is to be offered on a subscription basis. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100321590 | System and Method for Reducing Intra-Channel Interference - The present invention provides a method for determining a local oscillator frequency for a baseband converter, comprising obtaining characteristics of a channel comprising a plurality of radio signals at corresponding radio frequencies; using the channel characteristics to select a local oscillator frequency to use in baseband conversion of the plurality of radio signals of the channel to form a first baseband converted signal and a second baseband converted signal; and programming a local oscillator to operate the selected local oscillator frequency; wherein the local oscillator frequency is selected such that an image rejection ratio of the baseband converted second signal to an image of the baseband converted first signal is above a predetermined threshold. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100328545 | RECEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECEIVING A BROADCAST TO PROVIDE A CONTENT OUTPUT - A receiver system and method of receiving a plurality of channels to provide a content output are provided, the system including at least one antenna configured to receive a plurality of channels, each channel of the plurality of channels being at a different frequency. The receiver further includes a tuner in communication with the at least one antenna, wherein the tuner is configured to receive a first channel of the plurality of channels at a first frequency during a first period of time, at least a second channel of the plurality of channels at a second frequency during a second period of time, and provide a content output based upon only the first channel substantially without interruption during both first and second periods of time. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100328546 | Tracking Filter For A Television Tuner - In one embodiment, a set of tracking filters to be coupled between an amplifier and a mixer is provided. The tracking filters may be differently configured depending on band of operation. For example, a first set of the filters can be configured to maintain a substantially constant Q value across their operating bandwidth while a second set of the filters can be configured to maintain a substantially constant bandwidth across their operating bandwidth. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110001886 | CARRIER TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for tracking a tone (carrier) within a frequency range is provided. The carrier tracking system includes a complex frequency down-converter, a waveform generator, a coordinate converter, and a control circuit. The frequency down-converter generates a Cartesian signal by mixing an input signal and sine and cosine signals. The waveform generator generates the sine and cosine signals based on a frequency bias signal. The coordinate converter converts the Cartesian signal into a polar signal having a norm signal and a phase signal. The control circuit selects a candidate frequency within a predetermined frequency range based on the norm signal and a estimated frequency deviation corresponding to the candidate frequency based on the phase signal, and generates the frequency bias signal based on the candidate frequency, the estimated frequency deviation and a loop error determined by the phase signal. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110007225 | TUNER UNIT AND FLAT-SCREEN TELEVISION RECEIVER - Provided is a tuner unit, including: a shield case ( | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110013091 | TUNER CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROADCAST RECEPTION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for controlling tuners in a broadcast reception system processing broadcast data received in real time, such as digital set-top box and television, is provided to allow a plurality of user terminals to share a limited number of tuners tuned to corresponding channels so as to effectively provide broadcast services. A tuner control method for a broadcast reception system having a plurality of tuners according to the present invention includes determining, if a channel request is received from a user terminal, whether a tuner tuned to a channel indicated by the channel request exists, connecting, if a tuner tuned to the channel exists, the tuner to the user terminal, and providing broadcast data received by means of the tuner to the user terminal | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110019104 | TELEVISION BAND (TVBD) CHANNEL QUIETING ACROSS DIVERSE RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES - Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for the communication of wireless data using diverse radio access technologies (RATs) in Television Band (TVBD) frequencies. An architecture for communicating wireless data in TVBD frequencies may include one or more network nodes that perform functions related to the coordination of channel quieting across multiple diverse RATs. Channel quieting may be performed across multiple diverse RATs by using temporary channel reassignments, by aggregating wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) that use a particular RAT onto the same channel, and/or via other techniques. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110025922 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND FRAME BODY FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a front panel that surrounds a display unit incorporated in a display device, such as a TV set, for displaying images is formed by securing a plastic frame to a metal frame. Notches provided between screw holes as fixing portions of the plastic frame and the metal frame absorb thermal deformation of the plastic frame due to a change in temperature, thereby realizing a display device and a TV set with displacement of the plastic frame and the metal frame due to the thermal deformation reduced. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110025923 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A first pixel electrode ( | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110043708 | OPTIMIZED MOBILE TELEVISION - A television (TV) receiver system includes a circuit having a TV tuner. The tuner receives a terrestrial TV broadcast and a mobile TV broadcast. A motion detection system is coupled to the tuner. The motion detection system detects a motion status of the tuner. A broadcast detection system is coupled to the tuner. The broadcast detection system identifies a source of one of the terrestrial TV broadcast and the mobile TV broadcast. A tuner switching system is coupled to the tuner. The tuner switching system causes the tuner, as a function of the motion status, to automatically select one of the terrestrial TV broadcast and the mobile TV broadcast for processing and displaying. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110051011 | LCD TELEVISION - An LCD television includes an LCD panel including a plurality of LCD units with concave structure, three sides of the LCD unit also include liquid crystal molecule (LCM), all of the first side of the LCD unit constitutes a first LCM array and forms a first display interface, all of the second side of the LCD unit constitutes a second LCM array and forms a second display interface, all of the third side of the LCD unit constitutes a third LCM array and forms a third display interface. The LCD television also includes three signal conversion modules configured to convert three TV program signals into three control signals respectively, three driving modules are configured to drive the three LCM arrays according to the control signals and cause the first display interface, the second display interface, and the third display interface to display corresponding TV programs. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110051012 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiver selecting a channel to be received based on a channel list enumerating receivable channels includes: a memory capable of storing the channel list; a first tuner configured to perform a quick scan to scan a partial frequency band out of a predetermined frequency band to obtain first service information including information of a service corresponding to the channel received by the quick scan; a channel list generation module configured to generate the channel list based on the first service information obtained by the first tuner and store the channel list in the memory; a second tuner configured to perform, in parallel with the quick scan by the first tuner, a full scan to scan the entire predetermined frequency band to obtain second service information including information of a service corresponding to the channel received by the full scan; and a channel list updating module configured to update the channel list stored in the memory based on the second service information after the full scan by the second tuner is completed. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110051013 | FRONT-END CIRCUIT, TUNER, AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING RECEIVER - A front-end circuit according to the present invention includes a VCO which oscillates a local signal, a mixer which converts an RF signal Frf into a baseband signal, a DC offset cancel circuit which detects a DC offset contained in the baseband signal and then eliminates the DC offset, and a local frequency control circuit which controls a frequency of the local signal. In a case where the RF signal is an analog television signal, the local frequency control circuit controls the frequency of the local signal so that a frequency of the baseband signal differs from each frequency spectrum of a luminance signal contained in a video signal which is generated by demodulating the baseband signal. This makes it possible to provide the front-end circuit which can prevent video distortion caused when a frequency spectrum is eliminated from the luminance signal. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110051014 | Tuner and Front-end Circuit Thereof - A tuner includes a plurality of paths, and at least one of the paths includes a front-end filter circuit, an amplifier, and a trace filter. The trace filter includes a varactor and an inductor, which are coupled to an output end of the amplifier. Further, the amplifier and the varactor of the tuner are packed in a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110051015 | TELEVISION SIGNAL RECEIVING TUNER - A television signal receiving tuner includes a mixer circuit configured to convert a frequency signal of a reception channel regarding a digital television signal or an analog television signal into an intermediate frequency signal, a first intermediate frequency amplifying circuit connected to a rear stage of the mixer circuit, a trap circuit connected between any one of an output terminal of the mixer circuit and an input terminal of the first intermediate frequency amplifying circuit and a ground, and attenuating a frequency band, which is adjacent to the intermediate frequency signal, on a basis of an attenuation point, and a tuned circuit connected between the output terminal of the mixer circuit and the input terminal of the first intermediate frequency amplifying circuit to tune the intermediate frequency signal by employing the attenuation point or a frequency band approximating to the attenuation point as a tuning point. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110069238 | EMBEDDED RECYCLE CIRCUIT FOR HARNESSING LIGHT ENERGY - In an LCD, the lamp that is used to illuminate the liquid crystals also illuminates a solar cell in the display chassis to minimize wastage of light. The solar cell can be used to charge a battery for a standby power supply. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110069239 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - There is provided a backlight device with which it is possible not only to prevent an assembly process from being complicated and the number of components from being increased, but also to connect a light source to a connector member satisfactorily and electrically. In this backlight device ( | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110075047 | FIREWALL PORT SELECTION USING ATSC TUNER SIGNALS - Firewall ports are opened automatically and randomly by using signals received from a digital TV device such as an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) broadcast source. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110075048 | RADIO FREQUENCY FRONT END FOR TELEVISION BAND RECEIVER AND SPECTRUM SENSOR - A radio frequency front end for a television band receiver and spectrum sensor includes a first plurality of adaptive matching networks connected to a signal summer that combines signals received by the first plurality of antennas respectively connected to the first plurality of adaptive matching networks and outputs a combined signal to each of a second plurality of downconverter/tuners. The downconverter/tuners are respectively or collectively connected to an analog to digital converter that converts output of the second plurality of downconverter/tuners into at least one digital signal that is output to the television band receiver and spectrum sensor. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110075049 | BROADCAST RECEIVER SYSTEM - A bridge circuit configured for connection between a tuner circuit capable of receiving broadcast analogue frequencies and a general purpose processor capable of demodulating the received broadcast signal, the circuit comprising: a tuner interface capable of receiving at least one signal component in analogue form from tuner circuitry; an analogue to digital converter connected to receive the analogue signal from the tuner interface and convert it to a digital signal for filtering; a digital filter connected to receive and filter the digital signal; an external digital interface; and a microcontroller arranged to receive control information via said external digital interface, wherein one or more or the analogue to digital converter and the digital filter is provided with a controllably variable clock input. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110075050 | BROADCAST RECEIVER SYSTEM - A broadcast receiver system comprising: a tuner circuit operable to detect a plurality of modulated radio frequency signals, including TV broadcast signals, and comprising at least one signal path each comprising an analogue mixer and analogue filter circuitry arranged respectively to frequency convert and pre-select received analogue signals; further circuitry comprising an analogue to digital converter and digital filter circuitry; a data interface to a software demodulation module operable to engage a general purpose processor of a computer in data demodulation and decoding functions; a control, interface; and a microcontroller arranged to receive control information from said computer via the control interface. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110080528 | FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER AND RELATED METHOD FOR GENERATING WIDEBAND SIGNALS - A frequency synthesizer includes a phase-locked loop circuit having an output. A frequency divider is connected to the output of the phase-locked loop circuit for receiving the signal therefrom and dividing the frequency of the signal. A tunable bandpass filter is connected to the frequency divider and is tuned for selecting a harmonic frequency to obtain a fractional frequency division for a signal output from the phase-locked loop circuit. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110096243 | Systems and Methods for Television Receiving System Setup Including Terrestrial Transmitter Locating - A television receiving device may include a tuner configured to selectively tune a television channel from a first plurality of television channels received from a primary television programming source and a second plurality received from a television programming source other than the primary source, wherein the second plurality is received as over-the-air terrestrial television signals. The device may further include a processor configured to set the tuner to receive the second plurality based on location information of the device and location information of a plurality of over-the-air terrestrial antennas. A system for receiving television signals may include a processor configured to set a television receiving device to receive over-the-air television signals from select over-the-air terrestrial antennas, and to determine the select over-the-air terrestrial antennas based on location information of one of the television receiving device and an antenna device and location information of the plurality of over-the-air terrestrial antennas. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110102683 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO PROGRAM CHANNELS - Methods and apparatus for providing access to program channels, e.g., high definition programs and program channels which corresponding to a standard definition program and/or program channels are described. In accordance with the invention, a high definition auto tune function is supported. When enabled, in one exemplary embodiment, if a user selects a standard program definition channel, a check is automatically made to determine if a corresponding high definition program channel is available. The corresponding high definition program channel is a channel which provides the same program as on the selected standard definition channel but in high definition. When the auto tune function is enabled and a corresponding high definition channel is available, the device, e.g., set to box or tuner implementing the auto tune feature of the present invention, automatically tunes to the high definition channel instead of the standard definition channel. The content from the high definition channel is then displayed instead of the content from the user selected standard definition channel. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110109810 | METHOD AN APPARATUS FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE USING A SCALABLE VIDEO CODING (SVC) STREAM - There are provided methods and apparatus for fast channel change when changing the channel from a channel being viewed full screen to a channel being viewed in a secondary display window (e.g., picture-in-picture (PIP) window). In one implementation, the base layer stream of the SVC encoded stream is used as the secondary stream for the secondary display and the corresponding enhancement layer stream is used as the corresponding regular stream. Upon channel change request, the decoded base layer picture of the SVC encoded stream is up-sampled, and the up-sampled base layer picture is displayed full screen while receiving the corresponding SVC enhancement layer stream. Then, the up-sampled base layer picture is replaced by the decoded enhancement layer picture upon confirmation of successful receiving and decoding of an enhancement layer instantaneous decode refresh (IDR) frame. In another implementation, the last GOP of enhancement layer stream corresponding to a base layer stream being viewed in the secondary display window is buffered without decoding, and upon a channel change request to the secondary video display window channel, the buffered packets are decoded and displayed immediately while the decoder continues to receive and decode all frames in the corresponding base and enhancement layer streams. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110115984 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A liquid crystal panel includes: an active matrix substrate ( | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110128450 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an illumination device including a plurality of light guides. The illumination device of the present invention can realize improved luminance uniformity. The illumination device of the present invention is a backlight (illumination device) ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110134334 | Systems and methods providing spur avoidance in a direct conversion tuner architecture - Systems and methods which provide a multimode tuner architecture implementing direct frequency conversion are shown. Embodiments provide a highly integrated configuration wherein low noise amplifier, tuner, analog and digital channel filter, and analog demodulator functionality are provided in a single integrated circuit. A LNA of embodiments implements a multi-path configuration with seamless switching to provide desired gain control while meeting noise and linearity design parameters. Embodiments of the invention implement in-phase and quadrature (IQ) equalization and a multimode channelization filter architecture to facilitate the use of direct frequency conversion. Embodiments implement spur avoidance techniques for improving tuner system operation and output using a clock signal generation architecture in which a system clock, sampling clock frequencies, local oscillator (LO) reference clock frequencies, and/or the like are dynamically movable. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110134335 | Multimode filter architecture - Systems and methods which provide a multimode tuner architecture implementing direct frequency conversion are shown. Embodiments provide a highly integrated configuration wherein low noise amplifier, tuner, analog and digital channel filter, and analog demodulator functionality are provided in a single integrated circuit. A LNA of embodiments implements a multi-path configuration with seamless switching to provide desired gain control while meeting noise and linearity design parameters. Embodiments of the invention implement in-phase and quadrature (IQ) equalization and a multimode channelization filter architecture to facilitate the use of direct frequency conversion. Embodiments implement spur avoidance techniques for improving tuner system operation and output using a clock signal generation architecture in which a system clock, sampling clock frequencies, local oscillator (LO) reference clock frequencies, and/or the like are dynamically movable. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110134336 | DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM FOR REDUCING SCAN TIME, AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - The present invention features a DMB System for reducing scan time, and a method for the same, wherein, the DBM system comprises a DMB receiving unit and a TPEG-only receiving unit, and is able to reducing scan time for total channels by performing a scanning process for total channels together by the DMB receiving unit and the TPEG-only receiving unit, respectively. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110134337 | RECEIVER APPARATUS, RECEIVNG METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Picture quality deterioration that occurs during channel transition is reduced in an apparatus having a plurality of tuners. A receiver apparatus includes a receiving unit | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110141374 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Provided is a backlight device which can suppress a damage of a display panel or a diffusion sheet while suppressing the size of the device. The backlight device ( | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141375 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND DOWNLOADING SETUP INFORMATION - Multiple channel maps are embedded in a television transmission and the appropriate channel corresponding to the particular television service used by the viewer is downloaded for use with the television receiver. Each channel map is accompanied by a channel map identifier which identifies the source of the television transmission and a geographic identifier. The source of a television transmission is automatically detected by monitoring the radio-frequency spectrum allocations of telecast stations. The geographic area identifier is determined by comparison with a user inputted geographic area identifier. The channel map having a channel map identifier corresponding to the detected television transmission source and the user inputted geographic area identifier is downloaded and stored for future use. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141376 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Each pixel region includes first and second pixel electrodes ( | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110149171 | Efficient tuning and demodulation techniques - Techniques for the reception and processing of wireless signals are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include multiple receiving paths, a content stream generation module, and a distribution module. The multiple receiving paths include a first receiving path that generates a first decoded signal from an input RF signal in accordance with a first tuning setting. The content stream generation module has first and second inputs. Based on decoded signals received at the first and second inputs, the content stream generation module may generate first and second content streams, respectively. In situations where both the first and second content streams correspond to the first tuning setting, the distribution module provides the first decoded signal to both the first and second inputs of the content stream generation module. Also, a control module may remove operational power from any of the plurality of receiving paths that are currently being unused. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149172 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Each pixel region includes first and second pixel electrodes ( | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110157476 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAVING AND RECALLING STATE DATA FOR MEDIA AND HOME APPLIANCES - A set of media playback and device settings data from each home appliance of a first set of home appliances is stored on a central server and/or sent to a remote control device upon initiation of a suspend command by a user. The stored media and devices states may be used at a later time to control the first set of home appliances, or a user may, after relocating to a second set of home appliances, initiate a resume state command whereupon media playback and device settings data from the central server and/or remote control device controls each home appliance in the second set of home appliances to bring about the same or substantially similar media and device states as in the first set of home appliances. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157477 | Display device, liquid crystal monitor, liquid crystal television receiver, and display method - A control section divides a single frame so that a ratio of a period corresponding to a latter sub-frame and a period corresponding to a former sub-frame ranges from 1:3 to 1:7. A divisional point of the frame is a point which allows each of the latter sub-frame and the former sub-frame to minimize a difference between an actual brightness and an expected brightness. The frame may thus be divided at the point where the difference is largest in the normal hold display, so that it is possible to minimize the difference at this point. On this account, it is possible to reduce the difference in a single frame substantially by half as compared with an arrangement for carrying out the normal hold display, and thereby suppress the excess brightness caused by the difference. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110170014 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A plurality of groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines are sequentially selected; a polarity of the data signal electric potentials in one (first group) of sequentially-selected groups is set to be different from that of the other (second group) of the two groups; two pieces of dummy scan periods are put between (i) a horizontal scan period corresponding to a last horizontal scan in the first group and (ii) a horizontal scan period corresponding to a first horizontal scan in the second group; dummy signal electric potentials are supplied to the data signal line in the dummy scan periods; and a time period from when a scanning pulse which corresponds to the last horizontal scan in the first group becomes nonactive to when the dummy scan period is started is set to be longer than a time period from when a scanning pulse corresponding to one of consecutive two horizontal scans becomes nonactive in the first group to when a horizontal scan period corresponding to the other of the consecutive two horizontal scans is started. This makes it possible to enhance display quality in a case where the data signal line is subjected to the block-reversal driving. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110170015 | DTV RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DTV SIGNAL - A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes an information detector, a resampler, a timing recovery unit, and a carrier recovery unit. The information detector detects a known data sequence which is periodically inserted in a digital television (DTV) signal received from a DTV transmitting system. The resampler resamples the DTV signal at a predetermined resampling rate. The timing recovery unit performs timing recovery on the DTV signal by detecting a timing error from the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence. The carrier recovery unit performs carrier recovery on the resampled DTV signal by estimating a frequency offset value of the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110176062 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRESETTING RECEPTION CHANNEL - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an input module, a tuner, an amplifier and a preset module. The input module receives a television broadcast signal. The tuner selects a television broadcast signal of a target channel from television broadcast signals of channels receivable by way of the input module. The amplifier amplifies the television broadcast signal supplied to the tuner. The preset module determines whether each of the channels is receivable or unreceivable and to turn on or turn off of the amplifier, based on a first reception status information of the television broadcast signal of the reception channel acquired from the tuner in a state that the amplifier is on and a second reception status information of the television broadcast signal of the reception channel acquired from the tuner in a state that the amplifier is off. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110181789 | VOLUME ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND VOLUME ADJUSTMENT METHOD - According to one embodiment, a volume adjustment device includes: a playback module configured to select a desired input source from among a plurality of sound input sources for each of which a volume is settable, and to play back the selected input source; and a storage module configured to store a volume at the time of an immediately preceding playback for each of the sound input sources, wherein the playback module controls a volume after switching among the sound input sources based on the value stored in the storage module. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110181790 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to provide a display apparatus or the like which can automatically switch the contents, which are displayed by a display means, in order to make it possible to continue watching a picture and to watch a desired image simultaneously with maintaining a direction of the display means. That is, a display apparatus | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110194031 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An active matrix substrate of the present invention for use in a liquid crystal panel includes a scanning signal line ( | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110199543 | Electronic Apparatus, Image Display System and Image Display Method - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a display configured to display an image; a display magnification changing module configured to change display magnification of the image; a cursor display module configured to display a cursor; a receiver configured to receive a signal indicating a movement direction; and a cursor movement control module configured to move the cursor a first distance in the movement direction when the display is displaying the image with a first display magnification, and move the cursor a second distance that is longer than the first distance in the movement direction when the display is displaying the image with a display magnification that is larger than the first display magnification. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110211130 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed is an active matrix including: a second capacitor electrode ( | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110216248 | SIGNAL RECEIVING METHODS AND DEVICES - A signal receiving method for receiving a signal within a predetermined bandwidth for a broadcasting system using an embedded antenna is provided, comprising: obtaining an antenna bandwidth of the embedded antenna; dividing the predetermined bandwidth into a plurality of subbands according to the antenna bandwidth; receiving a control signal; selecting one of the subbands according to the control signal; and receiving the signal using a match unit corresponding to the selected subband for matching the embedded antenna. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216249 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed is an active matrix including a scanning signal line ( | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110221970 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVESION RECEIVER - At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: scanning signal lines provided in a display area; and a dummy scanning signal line provided in a non-display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines, the groups being sequentially selected, signal electric potentials of an identical polarity being sequentially supplied to a data signal line while scanning signal lines belonging to a selected group are sequentially scanned horizontally, the polarity of the signal electric potentials being inverted when the selected group is changed from a preceding group to a succeeding group which is selected immediately after the preceding group, a dummy scanning period being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning in the preceding group and a horizontal scanning period corresponding to first horizontal scanning in the succeeding group, and the dummy scanning signal line being subjected to dummy scanning during the dummy scanning period. With the arrangement, it is possible to suppress horizontal-shaped unevenness that occurs in a case where block inversion driving is carried out. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221971 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including a display unit having scan signal lines divided into a plurality of groups which are successively selected. While the scan signal lines belonging to the selected group are successively scanned horizontally, signal potentials of the same polarity are successively supplied to a data signal line. The polarity of the signal potential is reversed between a preceding group and a subsequent group which are selected continuously. A plurality of dummy scan periods are inserted between the horizontal scan period corresponding to the last horizontal scan in the preceding group and the horizontal scan period corresponding to the first horizontal scan in the subsequent group. In each of the dummy scan periods, one of the scan signal lines which belong to the group selected after the preceding group is subjected to a dummy scan so that the scan signal line is maintained in an active state for a predetermined period and then deactivated so as to align the load state of a scan signal line drive circuit. This can reduce irregularities of the horizontal stripes when the data signal line is subjected to the block reverse drive. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221972 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: pixels each of which includes a plurality of sub-pixels; and scanning signal lines provided in a display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines, the groups being sequentially selected, the polarity POL of signal electric potentials being inverted when the selected group is changed from a preceding group to a succeeding group which is selected immediately after the preceding group, a plurality of (for example, two) dummy scanning periods being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning (scanning of G | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110221973 | DIFFERENTIAL ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL SYSTEM APPLIED TO DIGITAL TV - A differential antenna and associated control system applied to a digital television (TV). The control system includes a differential antenna receiving a broadcasting signal and generating a differential radio frequency (RF) signal including a positive signal and a negative signal; a control unit generating a selecting signal according to a selected channel; a switch circuit including a switch control circuit and a plurality of matching circuits. Each of the matching circuits optimizes part of the digital TV bandwidth, and the switch control circuit receives the selecting signal to control that an optimized positive signal is generated to the control unit after the positive signal passes through a first matching circuit of the matching circuits, and an optimized negative signal is generated to the control unit after the negative signal passes through a second matching circuit of the matching circuits. The first matching circuit and the second matching circuit optimize the same frequency band, and a differential optimizing signal includes the optimized positive signal and the optimized negative signal. Thus, the control unit generates a selected channel signal accordingly. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110228171 | AUTOMATICALLY SETTING AN OPERATIVE STATE OF A WIDEBAND AMPLIFIER - A multi-channel receiver ( | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110234915 | DIGITAL BROADCAST REPRODUCER AND DIGITAL BROADCAST REPRODUCING METHOD - A digital broadcast reproducer includes a reproduction unit for reproducing the content of a channel of digital broadcast by using plural tuners, and a controller for controlling the plural tuners and the reproduction unit. Upon detecting the initiation of a zapping operation, the controller controls the reproduction unit in such a manner that the reproduction unit reproduces the content of a desired channel selected by one of the plural tuners and simultaneously prepares for the reproduction of the content of the next desired channel selected by the other of the plural tuners while switching between the plural tuners at a predetermined time interval. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110242431 | TRACKING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED CALIBRATION DEVICE - A tracking filter includes a first buffer, an impedance transformer, an inductor, a first capacitive unit, a second capacitive unit and a second buffer. The first buffer has an input terminal for receiving an input signal. The impedance transformer is connected with an output terminal of the first buffer. The inductor is connected with a second terminal of the impedance transformer. The first capacitive unit is interconnected between the impedance transformer and a ground terminal. The second capacitive unit is interconnected between the inductor and the ground terminal. The second buffer is connected with the inductor for generating an output signal. When specified values of the impedance transformer, the first capacitive unit and the second capacitive unit are simultaneously increased, an operating frequency of the output signal is decreased, so that a gain value of the output signal to the input signal is maintained constant. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110255011 | All Digital Front-End Architecture for Television with Sigma-Delta ADC Input - A digital front-end architecture for television receivers with sigma-delta ADC input. An input digital signal is fed to the architecture and the gain is controlled by a gain stage. In the first method, the gain stage is controlled by a first AGC. Here, the gain is increased if the first threshold value is larger than the magnitude of a complex phase-locked loop (CPLL) output, and the gain is decreased if the first threshold value is lower than the magnitude of the CPLL output. In the second method, the gain is controlled through a second AGC. The gain is controlled by increasing the gain if the second threshold value is larger than a line peak of the moving average filter output, and the gain is decreased if the second threshold value is lower than the peak. The second threshold value and the peak are compared in a peak search block. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110261268 | Liquid crystal display and television receiver - A liquid crystal display of the present invention contains a first panel and a second panel being stacked. Adjacent pairs of polarizers (A to C) disposed on the panels form crossed Nicols. When the first panel produces a display according to a first display signal, the second panel produces a display according to a second display signal obtained from the first display signal. Each of the two joined panels is provided with a light diffusion layer having a light diffusing property. The provision of the light diffusion layers enables reducing moire pattern occurrences which would otherwise markedly increase when two liquid crystal panels are stacked. As a result, the liquid crystal display has high display quality. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110267548 | RECEIVER - A receiver includes a case main body with an opening for inserting an IC card; an electric power supply board provided in the case main body; a contact type IC card connector where the contact type IC card is expected to be connected; and a tuner configured to receive a digital broadcasting signal, wherein the contact type IC card connector is provided in a position so that an entirety of the contact type IC card is received in the case main body in a case where the contact type IC card is inserted through the inserting opening on the electric power supply board; and the tuner is situated in a position between the inserting opening and the contact type IC card connector, the position being where the tuner does not come in contact with the contact type IC card in the case where the contact type IC card is inserted. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110279733 | Method, apparatus and system for improving tuning in receivers - A method, apparatus and system for reducing a time it takes for a receiver/playout device to start playing content includes providing the receiver on which content is to be played, information identifying the content. In one embodiment, such information can be included as part of a tuning command. For example, in one embodiment, the content to be played can include audio/video content and the information identifying the content can include audio and video codec parameters. The audio and video codec parameters enable the immediate initialization of a decoder of the receiver/playout device, which reduces a tuning time in the receiver. Providing such information eliminates the need for a decoder to parse a plurality of content packets to identify an audio and video type in the content. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279734 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - With a configuration in which a first pixel electrode ( | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279735 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Provided is an active matrix substrate including a capacitance electrode ( | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279736 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE TRANSCEIVER FOR COGNITIVE RADIO - Embodiments of cognitive radio technology can recover and utilize under-utilized portions of statically-allocated radio-frequency spectrum. A plurality of sensing methods can be employed. Transmission power control can be responsive to adjacent channel measurements. Digital pre-distortion techniques can enhance performance. Embodiments of a high DNR transceiver architecture can be employed. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110292297 | Signal receiving apparatus, signal receiving method, signal receiving program and signal receiving system - Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including: a resonance section configured to receive an input signal at a variable resonance frequency; a signal supplying section configured to supply an electrical signal having a desired reception frequency to the resonance section; a mixture section configured to mix a resonance signal, which is output by the resonance section when the resonance section receives the electrical signal from the signal supplying section, with a switching signal having the desired reception frequency; and a control section configured to change a resonance characteristic of the resonance section and measure the phases of mixed signals output by the mixture section before and after the resonance characteristic changing operation to control the resonance frequency of the resonance section in order to change the resonance frequency in a direction to reduce a difference between the phases of the mixed signals before and after the resonance characteristic changing operation. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292298 | INPUT TUNING CIRCUIT OF TELEVISION TUNER - In an input tuning circuit, during reception of a television signal in the UHF band, a second tuning circuit unit is tuned to the UHF band by turning on a first switching diode, and a first tuning circuit unit is made to operate as a trap circuit in a frequency range lower than the UHF band by turning on a second switching diode. As a result, the transmission characteristics of the second tuning circuit unit become narrow and interference characteristics are improved. In addition, since a dedicated trap circuit need not be separately provided, an increase in cost is limited to a minimum and an increase in size is prevented. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110298990 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD - A digital broadcast receiving apparatus includes a channel selection control unit selecting a channel of a digital broadcast, a demultiplexing unit and a video decoder obtaining video data and data broadcast data from electrical wave of the digital broadcast of the channel selected by the channel selection control unit, a data broadcast accumulation unit accumulating the data broadcast data obtained by the acquisition unit for each channel, and a rendering unit and a video composition unit generating composite video data by reading out the data broadcast data of at least one channel that includes a channel different from a channel of the video data obtained by the acquisition unit from the data broadcast accumulation unit and combining the readout data broadcast data and the video data obtained by the acquisition unit. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110304777 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHANNEL MANAGEMENT OF A TELEVISION BASED ON MEDIA CENTER SET-TOP BOX TUNER AVAILABILITY - A method and system for dynamic channel management of a television based on media center set-top box tuner availability. The method includes determining a last channel a television was tuned to prior to being turned off. Then it is determined whether the last channel is a radio frequency remodulated (RF-remodulated) channel. If the last channel is a RF-remodulated channel, then sending a signal to indicate that the television is on line with the RF-remodulated channel. If a tuner is not available for the television, then receiving an indication of a cable channel that was last RF-remodulated to the RF-remodulated channel for the television. Finally, changing the television to the cable channel. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120002115 | LOCATION-BASED TUNER - A method and system of facilitating tuning to content and/or signal streams, including capabilities to facilitate tuning when traveling from one geographical location to another where the different geographical areas may be rely on different identifiers to facilitate locating the content and/or signaling of interest. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002116 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SELECTING A DATA SOURCE BASED ON A CHANNEL IDENTIFIER - Methods and systems are described for selecting a data source based on a channel identifier. Channel information identifying a first channel identifier is detected. The first channel identifier is bound to a first frequency channel accessed, via a tuner, as a first data source for a first presentation being presented via an output device. Second channel information identifying a second channel identifier is detected during the first presentation. A binding between the second channel identifier and second access information for accessing a second data source via a data access component other than the tuner is identified. The second data source is accessed, via the data access component, for presenting, via an output device, a second presentation based on second data from the second data source. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120008053 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE BETWEEN PROGRAMS UTILIZING A SINGLE DECODER TO CONCURRENTLY DECODE MULTIPLE PROGRAMS - A video receiver comprising a single decoder may be operable to decode concurrently, by the single decoder, a plurality of received programs. The plurality of received programs may comprise a current program associated with a current channel and one or more other programs associated with one or more corresponding other channels. The video receiver may be operable to cause display of the decoded current program associated with the current channel for viewing. The plurality of received programs may be received via a single transport stream. The plurality of received programs may be received via a plurality of transport streams. The video receiver may be operable to switch from the current channel to one of the other channels based on a received request. The video receiver may be operable to cause display of one of the decoded other programs which is associated with the switched channel. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120026407 | System and Method for Configurable Multi-standard Receiver - A configurable multi-standard receiver. A receiver comprises a mixer, a processing module and an analog to digital converter is disclosed to receive multi-standard radio signals. The processing module includes a first selection switch and first parameter control, where the first selection switch configures the processing module as a complex filter or a real-valued filter and the first parameter control configures the characteristics of the filter. Furthermore, the analog to digital converted is preferably implemented using sigma delta modulation to achieve a desired noise shaping. The sigma delta modulation comprises a second selection switch and second parameter control. The second selection switch configures the sigma delta modulation to function as a unit having a complex loop filter or a unit having real-valued loop filters. The second parameter control configures the characteristics of the loop filter. The settings for the first and second selection switches and the first and second control parameters may be stored in a control register. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120038834 | Display Apparatus, Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus, Drive Method For Display Apparatus, And Television Receiver - In at least one embodiment a ripple, generated in an electric potential of data signal lines even in long-term reversal driving, is reduced and display quality is improved. In at least one example embodiment, the liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes scanning signal lines and data signal lines, in which one scanning pulse is outputted to select one scanning signal line, each of the data signal lines receives data signals whose polarities are reversed per one vertical scanning period while in one horizontal scanning period, one of two data signal lines receives a data signal having a polarity and the other of the two data signal lines receives another data signal having another polarity, the two data signal lines being arranged adjacent to each other, scanning pulses are successively outputted in sets of two, and at a timing in which two scanning pulses fall, two scanning pulses rise. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120044427 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - When each of R, G, and B pixels continuously display identical gray scales (1023 gray scale) in a liquid crystal display device in which the thicknesses of the liquid crystal layers are of R pixel>G pixel>B pixel, the R pixel is alternately supplied with a positive signal potential (SHR1023) and a negative signal potential (SLR1023), the G pixel is alternately supplied with a positive signal potential (SHG1023) and a negative signal potential (SLG1023), and the B pixel is alternately supplied with a positive signal potential (SHB1023) and a negative signal potential (SLB1023). A first middle value (SMR1023) that between SHR1023 and SLR1023 is set higher than a second middle value (SMG1023) that is between SHG1023 and SLG1023, and second middle value (SMG1023) is set higher than a third middle value (SMB1023) that is between SHB1023 and SLB1023. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120075536 | Display Device, Liquid Crystal Display Device, Method For Driving Display Device, And Television Receiver - A display device includes: an area active backlight; a backlight control section determining and controlling light intensity of each illumination area according to input data DF; and a sub-frame data generating section generating sub-frame data according to the determined light intensity. In at least one example embodiment, one frame is divided into first and second sub-frames, and the sub-frame data generating section generates first and second sub-frame data such that at one of adjacent pixels, display luminance during the first sub-frame is not higher than display luminance during the second and at the other, display luminance during the second sub-frame is not higher than display luminance during the first. Display is performed as a sum of these displays. This provides a display device capable of simultaneously achieving improvement in moving image quality, reduction in power consumption, and improvement in display quality due to reduction in flickers. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120105733 | DISPLAY APPARATUS RECEIVING BROADCASTING SIGNAL THROUGH NETWORK AND BROADCASTING RECEIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus and a broadcasting receiving method thereof are provided. The display apparatus which receives a broadcasting signal from an external server through a network, the display apparatus including: a communication unit which receives channel information and channel data from a plurality of broadcasting signals; a display unit; a signal processor which processes the channel information and the channel data; and a controller which controls the signal processor to display the channel information on the display unit in a preset arrangement, requests channel data of a selected channel and candidate channels adjacent to the selected channel in at least two preset directions if the channel is selected by a user, and receives the channel data of the selected channel and the candidate channels from the server. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105734 | Multi-Panel Display Device - A unitary multi-panel display device is described that includes a housing, a single inner operating component, and at least two displays installed in the housing for viewing to video or other images displayed thereon and listening to audio content played thereon. The display device can be a television, a computer monitor, a handheld computing device, a handheld gaming device, a handheld multimedia device, or any other suitable device that can be used to view video or to view and listen to multimedia content. The singular device allows the viewing of the same or different programs from opposite sides of the device, for example, viewing of the at least two displays from points of view facing anterior and posterior sides of a television embodiment of the device. The single inner operating component is capable of playing the same or different audio/video sources on the at least two displays. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120105735 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Each pixel includes two pixel electrodes connected to each other via a capacitor, and in respect to a pixel ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120120323 | AUDIO VIDEO DEVICE WITH EXTERNALLY BUNDLED TV TUNER - A CE device is vended with a TV tuner module which may be provided in an envelope in the same shipping container along with instructions to the consumer to connect the tuner module to the CE device if TV capabilities are desired and to return the module for a rebate if TV capabilities are not desired. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120127374 | System and Method for Providing Network Access to Antenna Feeds - A method and system for capturing, storing, and streaming over the air broadcasts based on user requests is disclosed. The system and method utilize subarrays of antenna elements for receiving over the air broadcasts. Processing pipelines are used to demodulate, transcode and index the content transmissions to produce content data that are streamed to users. In this way, the feeds from antennas can be accessed by users over a network connection. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120154688 | TV TUNER AND THE MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A TV tuner includes an Ultra High Frequency (UHF)/Very High Frequency (VHF) tracking filter, an UHF/VHF matching circuit and a single conversion Tuner IC. The UHF/VHF tracking filter includes a first Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC) inductor, a first varactor diode and a fine-tune capacitor electrically connected to determine the maximum gain frequency of the UHF/VHF tracking filter. The UHF/VHF matching circuit includes a second LTCC inductance, a second varactor diodes and a fine-tune capacitor electrically connected to determine the maximum gain frequency of the UHF/VHF matching circuit. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120162534 | RECEIVING CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, TELEVISION TUNER, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - This receiving circuit includes a digital-control-type variable gain amplifier amplifying an RF signal for analog television broadcasting, a detection circuit detecting a level of an output signal of the amplifier and controlling gain of the amplifier such that the detected signal level attains a predetermined level, and a signal detection circuit setting a control signal (CNT) to the “H” level during a vertical blanking period in response to a vertical synchronizing signal. The detection circuit controls the gain of the amplifier during a time period in which the control signal (CNT) is set to the “H” level, and stops the control over the gain of the amplifier during the other time periods. Therefore, noise caused by gain fluctuations is created only during the vertical blanking period and does not appear on a television picture. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120162535 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING RECEIVER AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR DIGITAL BROADCASTING RECEPTION - A digital broadcasting receiver includes a nonvolatile memory, a tuner that performs a tuning process on a digital broadcasting wave signal so as to generate a transport stream, an MT obtaining portion that obtains an NIT contained in the transport stream output from the tuner, and a control portion that controls the nonvolatile memory to store a whole or a part of the NIT obtained by the NIT obtaining portion, and can determine a service to be received using the whole or the part of the MT stored in the nonvolatile memory when a tuning instruction issued. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120188464 | RADIO FREQUENCY FRONT END CIRCUIT MODULE FOR RECEIVER - A radio frequency front end circuit module for a receiver used in a digital television is disclosed. The radio frequency front end circuit module includes a switch set, a differential low noise amplifier, a filter, and a tuner. The switch set receives two differential signals. The differential low noise amplifier is electrically coupled to the switch set for amplifying the two differential signals. The filter is electrically coupled to the differential low noise amplifier for filtering out portions which are excluded in a predetermined bandwidth of the two amplified differential signals. The tuner determines how to control the switch set to select the two differential signals in the predetermined bandwidth according to the filtered differential signals. The present invention is capable of amplifying the received differential signals and rejecting noise which has the same phase as that of the received differential signals. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120200782 | HIGH FREQUENCY MODULE AND RECEIVER - There are provided a high frequency module and a receiver capable of exhausting an electric field and a magnetic field to the outside of a shield, more closely arranging electronic components inside the shield, and being downsized. The high frequency module has integrated circuits (IC) | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120206658 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An active matrix substrate including: a scanning signal line (Gn); a data signal line ( | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120206659 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY UNIT, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present active matrix substrate is arranged such that each pixel region includes two pixel electrodes ( | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120212677 | CHANNEL CONTROL TECHNIQUES - Techniques involving the reception of content are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a tuning detection module, a channel selection module, and a remote tuning module. The tuning detection module determines a local tuning of a user device. This determination may be made from a leakage signal (e.g., local oscillator (LO) leakage) generated by the user device. Based on the determined local tuning, the channel selection module selects an output channel from a remote digital tuner. The output channel may then be tuned by the remote tuning module for reception by the user device at its local tuning. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120224107 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A backlight device is provided that can prevent the number of production steps from being increased and that can reduce the unevenness of the brightness of a display panel. This backlight device ( | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120257120 | CONTENTS READ-AHEAD CONTROL DEVICE AND READ-AHEAD CONTROL METHOD - While a user is viewing a video content, a channel zapping operation prediction section ( | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120268658 | TELEVISION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing and a module. The housing includes an opening portion. The module includes a first region colored in a first color and a second region exposed from the opening portion and colored in a second color which is different from the first color. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120268659 | Slot-interleaved decoding of concatenated convolutional coding in mobile/hand-held digital television receivers - At least two turbo decoding apparatuses are used in a receiver for concatenated convolutional coding transmissions imbedded in 8-VSB digital television signals. This permits turbo decoding procedures for the M/H Groups in any Parade consisting of eight or fewer M/H Groups to be interleaved so at least one M/H Slot interval after each of those M/H Groups has been received is available for decoding that M/H Group. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120274860 | LCD DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A liquid crystal display device which carries out a single tone display with a change in pixel luminance during a single cycle composed of first to mth frame periods (m is an integer of 4 or more), includes: pixels of a first type in which when a halftone is displayed, supply of two or more kinds of data voltage during at least either the first to nth frame periods (n is an integer of 2 or more to m or less) or the (n+1)th to mth frame periods causes liquid crystal layers to produce rise responses during the first to nth frame periods and produce decay responses during the (n+1)th to mth frame periods; and pixels of a second type in which when a halftone is displayed, supply of two or more kinds of data voltage during at least either the first to nth frame periods or the (n+1)th to mth frame periods causes liquid crystal layers to produce decay responses during the first to nth frame periods and produce rise responses during the (n+1)th to mth frame periods. This makes it possible to achieve both an improvement in viewing angle characteristic and a reduction in flickers. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120274861 | MEDIA CHANNEL SELECTION - A media control system processes a numeric user input to identify a set of alphabetic letters. The media control system selects a plurality of media channel names based on the set of alphabetic letters. The media control system generates a first signal to drive a first display of the media channel names. The media control system processes additional user input to select one of the displayed media channel names. The media control system generates a second signal to drive a second display associated with a media channel identified by the selected one of the displayed media channel names. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120287349 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER AND DISPLAY METHOD EMPLOYED IN LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: pixels that are provided in a row direction and a column direction in which data signal lines extend, the pixels each including a plurality of pixel electrodes, in a pixel, in an nth frame, a pixel electrode being electrically connected to a data signal line, and in the frame, the plurality of pixel electrodes being electrically connected to each other and being electrically disconnected from the data signal line. This allows an improvement in viewing angle characteristic of a liquid crystal display device. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120293721 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed are a side light-type backlight device with high brightness and excellent light use efficiency, a liquid crystal display device and a television receiver. The disclosed backlight device has a light guide plate that emits, from the top surface, light that entered from the side surface thereof, a substrate that is disposed at the side surface of the light guide plate and that has a plurality of LEDs emitting light from the top aligned thereon, and an outer case enclosing the light guide plate and the substrate. Of the plurality of LEDs, the end LEDs are provided with inclined sections such that the illumination direction of said end LEDs intersect with that of the other LEDs. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120300133 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER - An active matrix substrate of the present invention includes: data signal lines; scanning signal lines (GLi); transistors connected with the data signal lines and the scanning signal lines (GLi); and retention capacitor lines (CSLi). One pixel region includes a plurality of pixel electrodes. A CS driver ( | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120307161 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL TV, LIQUID CRYSTAL MONITORING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image display apparatus is provided for performing image display by dividing one frame period into a plurality of sub-frame periods, determining a gradation level of each of the sub-frame periods in accordance with a gradation level of an input image signal and supplying the determined gradation level to an image display section. The image display apparatus comprises a display control section, wherein the display control section supplies a relatively largest gradation level in a relatively central sub-frame period which is at a time-wise center or closest to the time-wise center of one frame period, and supplies a sequentially lowered gradation level in a sub-frame period which is sequentially farther from the relatively central sub-frame period. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120314139 | PASS THROUGH DIGITAL TELEVISION SIGNAL THROUGH NON-TV CONSUMER ELECTRONICS (CE) DEVICE - A digital TV tuner is included in an audio or video device that typically does not have a TV tuner or is expected to have a TV tuner. Such provisioning affords a user free access to broadcast (e.g., NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, PBS, etc.) channels that may otherwise be provided by another third party via paid subscription or other service level as part of a package, thus allowing consumers the choice of bypassing their cable or satellite or other video content service provider by providing access to readily available broadcast video content services. Devices in which the digital TV tuner include but are not limited to Blu-ray players; streaming media players; audio receivers; soundbars; multi-room audio speakers or source devices; cameras; camcorders; personal audio players; and portable DVD or Blu-ray players. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130002964 | TELEVISION RECEIVER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes: a tuner; a display device; an input module; a housing; a component; a sensor; and an actuator. The input module receives input. The housing includes an opening, and houses the display device and the tuner. The component is removably housed in the opening with at least a portion thereof being exposed to outside of the housing. The sensor outputs a signal based on external force applied to the housing. The actuator restrains the component from coming out from the opening, in response to an output of the signal from the sensor. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130002965 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSFERRING VIDEO INFORMATION - Devices and methods for receiving, processing and formatting digital video. The devices may include a single semiconductor chip on which is imprinted a radio frequency signal tuner module and a display interface module. The display interface module may be configured to receive programming information from the radio frequency signal tuner module. The display interface module may be configured to communicate the programming information to a digital video recorder. The radio frequency tuner module may include a first radio frequency input channel and a second radio frequency input channel. The radio frequency signal tuner module may include a system oscillator and a phase-locked loop (“PLL”) circuit configured to generate a clock signal. The phase-locked loop circuit may be configured to transmit the signal to the display interface module and to any other suitable modules on the chip. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130033647 | Method for Switching Channels in Electronic Device - A method for switching channels in an electronic device is provided. In the method, a user may press a key to control the electronic device to mark a target channel. When the electronic device has switched channels several times, the user may press another key only once to return to the marked target channel. Furthermore, the user may set an automatic mark time to control the electronic device to automatically mark a target channel if the target channel is displayed for the automatic mark time or the user has watched the target channel for the automatic mark time. When the electronic device has switched channels several times and each switched channel is not displayed for the automatic mark time, the user may press a key only once to return to the marked target channel. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130033648 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF INFORMATION ON A TELEVISION - An apparatus for a television includes a first storage area to store a plurality of messages, a second storage area to store set-up information for messages, and a processor to perform control functions. The control functions include generating a message based on at least one command signal received through an interface and to control output of the generated message based on the set-up information stored in the second storage area. The content of the message is controlled based on the at least one command signal, and the set-up information provides a condition for outputting the message. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130044265 | TERMINAL DEVICE, TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus including an interface that receives a wireless signal, a power supply that converts an input direct current (DC) power supply into a predetermined voltage by switching the input DC power supply at a switching frequency to generate a driving power supply, and a controller that controls the switching frequency based on a condition of the interface. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130057776 | TELEVISION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a television includes: a display part; a tuner part; an electronic component; a casing including: a first wall provided with an opening part and configured to cover the electronic component; a second wall provided with a second opening part and configured to cover the electronic component; and a third wall provided with a third opening part over the first wall and the second wall; a stand part configured to support the casing; a fan accommodated within the casing; and a radiating member including regions facing the first opening part, the second opening part and the third opening part, and positioned between the fan and the third wall, wherein the second wall includes a recessed part and a projection projected toward the outside of the casing; and a part of the fan faces the recessed part from the inside of the casing. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130063667 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A display device has two data signal lines provided for each column of pixels (α, β, γ). A data signal line ( | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130070162 | Electronic Apparatus, Image Display System and Image Display Method - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a display control module, a display magnification setting module, and a receiver. The display control module includes at least one hardware processor and is adapted to display an image, including a first area and a second are, and a cursor moved in the image on a display device. The display magnification setting module is configured to set display magnification of the first area. The receiver is configured to receive a movement signal of the cursor. Herein, the display control module adjusts the cursor by (i) a first distance in response to the display magnification of the first area being set to a first display magnification and (ii) a second distance that is longer than the first distance in response to the display magnification of the first area being set to a second display magnification that is larger than the first display magnification. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130076987 | METHOD, AUDIO/VIDEO APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and apparatus reducing interference to reception of television signals received by a television receiver. The television receiver includes an antenna receiving television signals and a tuner selecting the television signals transmitted on a carrier signal. The interference is produced by a communication device transmitting radio communication signals that can be received by the television receiver when the tuner is tuned to the television signals. The method transmits a radio beacon signal from a location substantially same as a location of the television receiver, and if the radio beacon signal is detected at the communication device, adapts transmission of the radio communication signals from the communication device to reduce interference at the television receiver. As examples, the communications device is a mobile communications device, mobile telephone, personal computer, or a base station, for example disposed within a house for forming a femto cell. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130088647 | Method And System For Impairment Shifting - Methods and systems for impairment shifting may comprise receiving radio frequency (RF) signals in a receiver, downconverting the signals to baseband frequencies, and synchronizing the receiver to received signals. The frequency of a local oscillator (LO) may be adjusted to shift residual impairments to fall between desired baseband signals where they are least visible. The received RF signals may comprise analog, satellite, or cable, television signals. The LO frequency may be adjusted to configure the DC offset impairments to fall between luminance and chrominance harmonics. The LO frequency may be adjusted to configure I/Q imbalanced impairments from residual in-phase and quadrature mismatch of a picture carrier signal to fall about 300 kHz from a sound carrier signal in the analog television signals. The LO frequency may be adjusted to configure the I/Q imbalanced impairments from residual I/Q mismatch of a sound carrier signal to fall between luminance and chrominance harmonics. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130107128 | TELEVISION TUNER MODULE AND BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130120664 | APPARATUS FOR AIRCRAFT DUAL CHANNEL DISPLAY - An aircraft cockpit display includes among other things an LCD panel having a liquid crystal matrix, and an LED backlight having an array of LEDs for illuminating the liquid crystal matrix. The remainder of the display allows for single point failures within the architecture without impacting the primary display functions of the LCD panel. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130120665 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PATH VIDEO AND NETWORK CHANNELS - Methods and systems for multi-path video and network channels may comprise a communication device comprising a wideband path (WB) and a narrowband path (NB), wherein the WB may be operable to receive a plurality of channels and the NB may be operable to receive a single channel. Video channels and a network channel may be received in the WB when the device is operating in a first stage. Video channels and a network channel may be received in the WB and the network channel may also be received in the NB when the device is operating in a second stage. The network channel may be received in the NB when the device is operating in a third stage. The reception of the network channel from both the WB and the NB may enable a continuous reception of the network channel in a transition between the first and third stages. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130128126 | Smart Channel Tuning - A receiver receives channel selection related information. The receiver determines to switch to presenting content being received from a provider. Such switching may involve powering on the receiver and/or switching from other operations that do not present received content. The receiver selects a channel based at least one the information and transmits content associated with the selected channel to a presentation device. In various implementations, the information may be received from the content provider, from a user, by monitoring accessed content, and so on. In some implementations, the information may include data specifying a particular channel to select, a commonly accessed channel to select, a characteristic of commonly accessed content that may be used to select a channel associated with content with a similar characteristic, a particular specified characteristic that may be used to select a channel associated with content with a similar characteristic, and so on. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130135535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAST CHANNEL CHANGE - A device operable to handle channelized media content may generate a prediction that a first channel will be selected for presentation based on a partially-input channel identifier. The device may process the first channel while concurrently processing a second channel, the second channel having been previously selected for presentation. The prediction may be updated upon input of each character of the channel identifier. The prediction may be based on a position of a user's finger on a remote control and/or based on channels being consumed by consumers in a common demographic with the user. The processing of the first channel may comprise partially decoding the first channel and buffering the partially-decoded first channel. Upon said first channel being selected for presentation, the device may read the partially-decoded first channel from memory, further decode the partially-decoded first channel to recover content, and outputting the recovered content. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130141649 | RECEPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL INCLUDING TUNING ASSISTANT INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device and a transmission method for a digital signal including tuning assistant information capable of rapidly presenting one segment broadcasting which can be received, and a program. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130176503 | TELEVISION RECEIVER AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an apparatus, a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is attached to a surface of the apparatus. The second portion includes a first supporting portion rotatably connected to the first portion and a second supporting portion arranged alongside the first supporting portion through a slit, the second supporting portion rotatably connected to the first supporting portion at a position shifted from the slit. The electronic apparatus is configured to transform between a first form where the second portion covers the apparatus and the second form where the second supporting portion supports the first portion to hold the apparatus in a tilted state by the rotation of the first and second supporting portions. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130208190 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER EVENT DATA REDUCTION - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for reducing the amount of data associated with user events. The systems and methods are particularly applicable to cable TV, satellite TV, and other networks where user event data (e.g., clickstream) must be sent from customer premises equipment (CPE) to centralized servers and the data transmission channel is narrow. In various exemplary embodiments, CPE such as television set-top boxes may reduce requirements for data storage and network bandwidth by replacing portions of channel-number/timestamp streams with abbreviated codes representing common meta-events such as “channel surfing events” and “previous channel events.” The original channel-number/timestamp streams can be reconstituted on centralized servers. Other common sequences of events, including those involving activation of other buttons on remote controls (i.e., buttons not related to changing channels), keyboard keys, mouse pointing device controls, and the like may constitute meta-events and be similarly replaced by abbreviated codes. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130222700 | Scanning Algorithm for Embedded Network Devices - A system and method is provided for selective filtering of transmissions based on information received from a tuner. An embedded diplexer in a consumer electronic device allows the device to be used in a variety of different signal environments. For example, a television with an embedded switching filter coupled to the television tuner is operable in environments where television signals are transmitted on frequencies up to 1 GHz and in environments where MoCA signals are transmitted on 1 GHz frequencies. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130222701 | SYSTEM WITH FUNCTION OF SWITCHING CHANNELS AND METHOD THEREOF - A system with a function of switching channels of a television (TV) is provided. The system includes a processing unit and a plurality of modules to be executed by the processing unit. The plurality of modules include a collecting module, a comparing module, and a channel switching module. The collecting module collects a voice frequency of a channel being watched by user at a sampling period. The comparing module compares the voice frequency at a prior sampling period with the voice frequency at a current sampling period. The channel switching module switches the channel being watched to another channel when the voice frequency at the prior sampling period is lower than the voice frequency at the current sampling period. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130222702 | HEADSET, CIRCUIT STRUCTURE OF MOBILE APPARATUS, AND MOBILE APPARATUS - A headset, a circuit structure of a mobile apparatus, and a mobile apparatus are provided. The headset includes at least one earphone, a microphone, an audio plug, and a headset cable. The audio plug includes a connector having a plurality of contacts. The microphone and the at least one earphone is coupled to the corresponding contacts of the audio plug through the headset cable. The headset cable includes a ground line, a microphone line, at least one audio line, and an antenna for receiving a television broadcasting signal. The antenna is coupled to one of the contacts coupled to the ground line, the microphone line, and the at least one audio line. The one of the contacts to which the antenna is coupled further serves as a radio frequency contact to provide the television broadcasting signal and an audio broadcasting signal. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130242204 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes a one-segment tuner I/F that is connected to a one-segment tuner, a tuner I/F that is connected to a digital terrestrial tuner, a decoder that selectively decodes a first broadcast signal supplied from the one-segment tuner I/F and a second broadcast signal supplied from the tuner I/F, a general purpose processor that is provided separately from the decoder and decodes the first broadcast signal, and a switch unit that, based on signal intensity of the second broadcast wave, switches the decoding by the decoder between the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal while the general purpose processor is decoding the first broadcast signal. The one-segment tuner I/F, the tuner I/F, the decoder, the general purpose processor, and the switch unit are integrated on one chip. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130271671 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - To provide an electronic device capable of preventing an enclosure from falling down without providing a stand and also improving heat dissipation of the enclosure. An electronic device ( | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130278835 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A gate driver creates a dummy insertion period in which the driver does not apply a gate on pulse to a scanning signal line immediately after the time of the inversion of a data signal. When a period from the time of the application of the gate on pulse to an odd numbered or even numbered scanning signal line to which the gate on pulse is applied previously to the time of the application of the gate on pulse to an even numbered or odd numbered scanning signal line to which the gate on pulse is applied later is set as an adjacent line writing time lag period for two scanning signal lines adjacent to each other, a CS control circuit allows the polarity of every CS signal to be reversed on the same cycle at least in the adjacent line writing time lag period. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130293786 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE OF SMART TELEVISION AND SMART TELEVISION - A method for accessing a multimedia resource of a smart television, includes: receiving a channel selection signal to determine a target channel index number; querying pre-bound correspondence between a channel index number and a multimedia resource; when one multimedia resource corresponding to the target channel index number exists, starting the multimedia resource; and when multiple multimedia resources corresponding to the target channel index number exist, presenting all identifiers of the multimedia resources corresponding to the target index number, and determining a target multimedia resource according to a selection instruction of a user and starting the target multimedia resource, where the multimedia resource is a television channel or an application program. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130293787 | Fast Channel Switching - A method, a coding format and a device is provided for switching from a first data channel to a second data channel of a digital television system. At least the second data channel is coded in a multilayer scalable video coding format comprising a base layer and at least one enhancement layer. The multilayer coding is used for switching between channels, and at least one of the enhancement layers may be adapted for providing fast switching by providing it with more random access points, e.g. more IDR-frames, than the base layer. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130300943 | RECRIVER AND BROADCAST PROGRAM RECEIVING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a receiver is configured to calculate first moving average of reception quality information output within first period, to calculate second moving average of the information output within second period, to reproduce a broadcast program based on the strong-layer broadcast signal if the first moving average is lower than first threshold corresponding to the first moving average, and to reproduce a broadcast program based on the weak-layer broadcast signal if the second moving average is higher than second threshold corresponding to the second moving average. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130308062 | High Dynamic Range Transceiver for Cognitive Radio - Embodiments of cognitive radio technology can recover and utilize under-utilized portions of statically-allocated radio-frequency spectrum. A plurality of sensing methods can be employed. Transmission power control can be responsive to adjacent channel measurements. Digital pre-distortion techniques can enhance performance. Embodiments of a high DNR transceiver architecture can be employed. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130314607 | TELEVISION RECEIVER, TELEVISION CONTROLLER CIRCUITRY AND METHOD - A television receiver for receiving TV signals when unknown interference is present in a predetermined bandwidth in which the TV signals are transmitted. The TV receiver comprises an input, a tuner, a configurable filter and a controller circuitry. The input receives a radio frequency (RF) signal comprising the terrestrial TV signals. The tuner is configured to detect the terrestrial TV signals, where the terrestrial TV signals include a plurality of frequency channels within a predetermined bandwidth and the plurality of frequency channels provide TV signals which communicate TV channels. The configurable filter is configurable to suppress signals received from one or more of the plurality of frequency channels within the predetermined bandwidth. The controller circuitry is operable to form a channel map of the TV channels detected by the tuner for selection by a user of the television set and consequent upon a TV channel not being detected on a frequency channel, configure the frequency domain filter to suppress signals received from the frequency channel. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130321709 | Providing A Reset Mechanism For A Latch Circuit - In an embodiment, the present invention includes a latch circuit having a first input to receive a data signal and a second input to receive a clock signal. This latch circuit may have a first pair of transistors including a first transistor gated by the data signal and a second transistor gated by an inverted data signal and a second pair of transistors including third and fourth transistors gated by the clock signal. The first transistor may be coupled to the third transistor at a first inter-latch node and the second transistor coupled to the fourth transistor at a second inter-latch node. A reset circuit may be coupled to the latch circuit to maintain the first and second inter-latch nodes at a predetermined voltage level when the clock signal is inactive. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130321710 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An image display device has a display panel which displays an image; a first case which accommodates the display panel; an ion generating unit which generates ion mist; a second case which accommodates therein the ion generating unit; and a blower which is disposed inside the second case, and generates an air flow for emitting the ion mist generated by the ion generating unit to outside of the second case. The second case has an inlet provided upstream in the air flow relative to the ion generating unit; and an outlet for emitting air flowing in from the inlet and including the ion mist generated by the ion generating unit to the outside of the second case. The air including the ion mist and emitted from the outlet is emitted to a viewing space in front of the display panel. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130321711 | Terminal Device and Control Method Thereof - A first terminal device and a video display control method are described. The first terminal device includes at least two tuners configured to receive and decode a video; a first display unit configured to display video or image; a first communication unit configured to communicate with a second terminal device; and a first processing unit configured to control the at least two tuners, the first display unit and the first communication unit. The first processing unit chooses one of the at least two tuners as a primary tuner, and displays a first video of the primary tuner on the first display unit, and the first processing unit sets the other tuner of the at least two tuners as slave tuner, and transmits a video of the slave tuner to the second terminal device through the first communication unit so as to be displayed by the second terminal device. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130335639 | Configurable Buffer For An Integrated Circuit - In one embodiment, an internal buffer may be provided within an integrated circuit (IC) to convert a signal to an output current to be output via a pin of the IC, under control of a switch which can be controlled based on a configuration setting of the IC, and may selectively directly couple the signal to the pin when the IC is coupled to an external driver circuit. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140002751 | INTEGRATED EARBUD ANTENNA FOR RECEIVING TELEVISION BROADCASTS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140049695 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING CONTENT SOURCES FROM WHICH MEDIA ASSETS HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN VIEWED - Systems and methods for tracking content sources from which media assets have previously been viewed are provided. A user request to access a first content source is received. Content currently being presented to the user from the first content source is monitored to determine whether the content meets a criterion. An amount of time the content being presented meets the criterion is measured. In response to determining the amount of time exceeds a threshold, an identifier of the first content source is stored in a list of content sources from which content meeting the criterion was previously presented to the user. Content received from one of the content sources in the list is presented each time a user request to access a last content source is received. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140078403 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BROADCAST RECEPTION MANAGEMENT - A system and method for broadcast reception management. In some embodiments, a database is used to determine the available broadcasts and associated channel numbers for a given location. In other embodiments, a station list is determined for a specified broadcast, the station list comprising a first channel of a first station on which the specified broadcast is broadcast at a first location and a second channel of a second station on which the specified broadcast is broadcast at a second location. The communication circuitry of the wireless electronic device is tuned in accordance with the station list to the first channel in the first location to receive the specified broadcast. The communication circuitry is retuned to the second channel in the second location to continue reception of the specified broadcast. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140104499 | WIDEBAND TUNER ARCHITECTURE - A wideband receiver system is provided to concurrently receive multiple RF channels including a number of desired channels that are located in non-contiguous portions of a radio frequency spectrum and to group the number of desired channels into a contiguous frequency band. The system includes a wideband receiver having a complex mixer for down-shifting the multiple RF channels and transforming them to an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal in the baseband. The system further includes a wideband analog-to-digital converter module that digitizes the in-phase and quadrature signals and a digital frontend module that transforms the digital in-phase and quadrature signals to baseband signals that contains only the number of desired RF channels that are now located in a contiguous frequency band. An up-converter module up-shifts the baseband signals to a contiguous band in an IF spectrum so that the system can directly interface with commercially available demodulators. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140132843 | Mid-GOP Fast Channel-Change - A system comprising a decoder to receive an encoded video stream including video frames including reference and non-reference frames, and decode the reference frames, a processor to receive a request from an end-user rendering device requiring a first reference frame as part of decoding the encoded video stream of the first channel from the middle of a group of pictures of the encoded video stream, wherein a second reference frame is a reference frame for the first reference frame in the received encoded video stream, an encoder to encode the decoded first reference frame yielding a re-encoded first reference frame so that decoding the re-encoded first reference frame is not dependent upon the second reference frame, and a transmitter to transmit the re-encoded first reference frame to the end-user rendering device. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140146239 | AUTOMATIC ANTENNA REDIRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A geolocation smart antenna system is presented. In the system a database of television station information is provided. The database may include information such as channel number, broadcast frequency, network affiliation, and locations of one or more terrestrial television broadcast towers. An optimal antenna direction is determined based on a determined geographic location of an antenna and a geographic location of a broadcast tower. A system user selects a television program or television network broadcasted by a television station. A selection signal is sent to an antenna controller, and in response a television antenna is automatically oriented in an optimal direction toward a broadcast tower for the selected station. The selection signal may also be sent to a television receiver, and in response a television tuner is tuned to the station's radio frequency channel. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140146240 | CIRCUIT BOARD - Provided a circuit board including an input terminal to which a high-frequency signal is input, a high-frequency amplifier for amplifying the high-frequency signal input to the input terminal, at least one distributor distributing the high-frequency signal, a plurality of high-frequency processing circuits of which transmission path lengths for inputting each of the high-frequency signals distributed by the distributor into signal inputting sections of the plurality of high-frequency processing circuits are different from one another, and a plurality of attenuating devices which are mounted at previous stages of each of the plurality of high-frequency processing circuits and possess amounts of attenuation which increase with decrease of the transmission path lengths. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140152898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD CAPABLE OF CHANGING TV PROGRAMS - A system capable of changing TV programs includes a TV set and a remote control apparatus. The remote control apparatus includes a first user information obtaining unit mounted outside of the remote control apparatus. The TV set includes a database, a user information processing unit, and a control unit. The database pre-stores a first table recording relationships between a plurality of user information and a plurality of preferable TV programs corresponding to each of the plurality of user information. The control unit determines the preferable TV programs of the determined user information according to the first table stored in the database, and controls the display unit to display the determined preferable TV programs. A related method is also disclosed. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140168519 | TUNER MODULE AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - There is provided a tuner module of the present disclosure includes a tuner module board on which a tuner function unit is formed, a case body that holds at least the tuner module board so as to contain the board, and at least one antenna connector fixed to the case body and whose core wire is connected to the tuner module board contained in the case body. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140176806 | INTEGRATED RECEIVER AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING INTEGRATED INDUCTORS AND METHOD THEREFOR - An integrated receiver includes a first signal processing path, a second signal processing path, and a controller. The first signal processing path has an input and an output for providing a first processed signal, and comprises a first tracking bandpass filter having a first integrated inductor formed with windings in a first number of metal layers of the integrated receiver. The second signal processing path has an input and an output for providing a second processed signal, and comprises a second tracking bandpass filter having a second integrated inductor formed with windings in a second number of metal layers of the integrated receiver. The second number of windings is lower than the first number. The controller enables one of the first and second signal processing paths corresponding to a selected channel of a radio frequency (RF) input signal to provide an output signal. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140184921 | TUNER MODULE, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Provided is an LTE-system mobile communication terminal in which a reduction in terminal size and a reduction in the number of components is desired when a terrestrial digital television broadcast is to be received. Two antennas from among terrestrial digital television broadcast receiving antennas are switched and controlled so as to also be used as transmitting/receiving antennas from LTE communication, and the reception diversity is switched to either a 2-system combination or 4-system combination in accordance with whether the television broadcast is in the VHF band or UHF band. As a result, the number of antennas for example can be reduced and the terminal costs and size can be reduced. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140204277 | System and Method to Toggle Between Two or More Television Channels - Systems and methods for toggling between television channels that appear on a display. A listing of channels is received from a user, with the channels being prioritized in an order of preference. One or more toggle types are also received from the user, with each toggle type further including a toggle trigger. In use, a channel is displayed on the display until a toggle trigger is detected. Once detected, the channel on the display is changed to another channel from the list of channels. This process may continue with the detection of another toggle trigger causing another changing of the displayed channel. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140211098 | Method and System for Providing Faster Channel Switching in a Digital Broadcast System - Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for switching between channels of encoded media data involving receiving encoded media data including reference frames and dependent frames for a plurality of channels, wherein each dependent frame refers to at least one reference frame. Frames associated with a first channel from the plurality of channels are decoded to generate a decoded signal for the first channel. While decoding frames associated with the first channel, data corresponding to at least one reference frame associated with a second channel from the plurality of channels are stored. In response to a control signal for switching from the first to the second channel, at least one dependent frame associated with the second channel is decoded by utilizing the stored data corresponding to the at least one reference frame associated with the second channel, to generate a decoded signal for the second channel. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140267928 | Television Tuner To Capture A Cable Spectrum - A method includes receiving a request to tune to a first desired television channel of a cable spectrum provided in a radio frequency (RF) signal received in a multi-tuner circuit configured to receive and process the entire cable spectrum, determining a channel of the channels including the first desired television channel, disabling the channels other than the determined channel, and processing the RF signal in the determined channel. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140267929 | CHANNEL SCAN DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to a channel scan device and method, and a program configured so that high-speed channel scan is enabled. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140285723 | MULTIPLE ANTENNA ATSC HDTV RECEIVER DEVICE - A device is provided. The device comprises of Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Weighted Combining for multiple antennas, Frequency Domain Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) Equalizer, Time Domain Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) Equalizer, Equal Gain Combining Unit, and Selective Combining Slicer. The method for producing the device is also provided. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140300824 | Method of Channel Characterization for Mobile ATSC HDTV Receiver - This invention is a method to quickly characterize the time variant channel state information to enable ATSC HDTV signal reception in a mobile environment (e.g. in a moving car, walking, on a bus, etc.) by removing the Doppler interference. The invention relates to a single or multiple antenna ATSC terrestrial DTV receiver for indoor and mobile users. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140300825 | Indicia of Contact Viewing Activity - Embodiments include a television appliance configured to display a selected on-screen viewing activity, and a client application. The client application is configured to maintain a list of contacts and allow a user of the media appliance to establish communication events with contacts via a network interface and packet-based network. The client application is further configured to receive a machine-readable data item via the network interface and packet-based network from a television appliance of one or more of said contacts, the machine-readable data item indicating a current television channel being viewed by the respective contact. In at least some embodiments, the client application may control operation of said user's television appliance in relation to the contact's television appliance based on the data item. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140307172 | Channel State Information Assisted Decision Feedback Equalizer for Mobile ATSC HDTV Receiver - This invention is a fast decision feedback equalizer based on promptly updated channel characteristics to enable ATSC HDTV signal reception in a mobile environment (e.g. in a moving car, walking, on a bus, etc.) by removing the Doppler interference. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140307173 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT - Method for transmitting and receiving audiovisual content in “push” environments without a return channel, in which a transmitter composed of at least one transponder transmits, to a set of receivers, each composed of a plurality of tuners, a transport signal comprising at least one audiovisual content channel, adapted to be received and directly reproduced in each receiver by virtue of the transponder which transmits said audiovisual content channel being tuned by each receiver, and a data channel associated with each audiovisual content channel, which comprises at least one audiovisual content, for the subsequent recording thereof in a storage device of each receiver. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140327834 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE AND STATION SELECTION METHOD - A digital broadcast receiving device ( | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140340582 | Method of ATSC MH Stream Assisted Channel Characterization for Mobile ATSC TV Receiver - This invention is a method to quickly characterize the time variant channel state information to enable ATSC HDTV signal reception in a mobile environment (e.g. in a moving car, walking, on a bus, etc.) by removing the Doppler interference. The invention relates to a single or multiple antenna ATSC terrestrial DTV receiver for indoor and mobile users. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140340583 | TELEVISION AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING TELEVISION CHANNELS - A method for switching channels is applied in a television. A currently watched channel is set as a favorite channel. A return method for switching back to the favorite channel is set according to user input. A comparison object is set according to the set return method and user input. The television is switched from the favorite channel to a different channel. A time for switching back to the favorite channel is determined to whether or not arrive according to the set comparison object and the currently received content of the favorite channel. The television is switched back to the favorite channel when the time for switching back to the favorite channel arrives. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140368743 | MULTIPLE WI-FI ATSC TV ANTENNA RECEIVER - A device is provided. The device comprises of a waveform decompression decoder, Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Weighted Combining unit for multiple antennas, Frequency Domain Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) Equalizer, Time Domain Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) Equalizer, Equal Gain Combining Unit, and Selective Combining Slicer. The method for producing the device is also provided. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140368744 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND TELEVISION RECEIVING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a display apparatus, wherein a holding frame includes a placing portion which protrudes in a direction substantially perpendicular to a back surface of a display panel (a liquid crystal panel | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140375894 | VIDEO CHANNEL CHANGE SYSTEM - A video channel change system may include one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors may receive first packets including first video frames associated with a first video channel and second packets including second video frames associated with a second video channel. The one or more processors may decode the first packets and display the first video frames while buffering, in a buffer, the second packets. The one or more processors may determine that a packet of the second packets includes a random access point without decoding the packet, discard the second packets from the buffer that were received prior to the packet, buffer additional second packets received subsequent to the packet, and decode the second packets stored in the buffer and display the second video frames included therein, in response to a request to change from the first video channel to the second video channel. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150009412 | VIDEO RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A video receiving apparatus of a predetermined first group out of a plurality of groups of video receiving apparatuses which receive a broadcasting or broadcast signal from a broad cast or broadcasting signal transmitting apparatus, the video receiving apparatus including: a communication interface which receives a broadcasting signal from the broadcasting signal transmitting apparatus based on tuning information of a channel that is set for the first group separately from the other groups; a processor which processes the broadcasting signal to display a broadcasting video of the channel based on a channel map that is generated by using the tuning information; and a controller which generates and stores the channel map when receiving the broadcasting signal including one or more basic channels, and if it is determined that another video receiving apparatus included in the first group displays a broadcasting video of an additional channel that is not included in the broadcasting signal transmitted when the stored channel map is generated, updates the stored channel map by using tuning information of the additional channel. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150015795 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a communicator which is configured to transmit and receive signals to and from a signal receiver; an image processor which is configured to process an image; a display unit which configured to display the processed image; a storage which is configured to store characteristic information of a channel corresponding to the image; and a controller which is configured to transmit a control signal for changing the channel to the signal receiver, extract channel information contained in a signal received from the signal receiver after transmitting the control signal, compare the extracted channel information and the characteristic information of the channel, and control the channel to be changed based on comparison results. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150029402 | REMOTE CONTROLLER, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REMOTE CONTROLLER - A remote controller includes a touch module, a main processing unit, a communication module, and a motion sensing module. The touch module includes a touch panel and a touch signal processing unit. A method for controlling a remote controller includes steps of determining a switching behavior on the touch panel and switching the remote controller among operation modes corresponding to the switching behavior. The operation modes include a remoter mode, a touch-pad mode, and an air-mouse mode. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150029403 | UNIVERSAL TUNING MODULE - A universal tuning module may include an oscillator, a first tuner configured to process a first television signal, a second tuner configured to process a second television signal, a first switch configured to pass its input containing information associated with an output of the oscillator to said first tuner, and a second switch configured to pass its input containing information associated with the output of the oscillator to the second tuner. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150036055 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVE METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - In at least one embodiment a ripple, generated in an electric potential of data signal lines even in long-term reversal driving, is reduced and display quality is improved. In at least one example embodiment, the liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes scanning signal lines and data signal lines, in which one scanning pulse is outputted to select one scanning signal line, each of the data signal lines receives data signals whose polarities are reversed per one vertical scanning period while in one horizontal scanning period, one of two data signal lines receives a data signal having a polarity and the other of the two data signal lines receives another data signal having another polarity, the two data signal lines being arranged adjacent to each other, scanning pulses are successively outputted in sets of two, and at a timing in which two scanning pulses fall, two scanning pulses rise. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150062439 | TELEVISION SIGNAL RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WHETHER CHANNEL INCLUDES TELEVISION PROGRAM SIGNAL - A television signal receiving device and a method for determining whether a target channel includes a television program signal are provided. The television signal receiving device, including a tuner to receive a radio-frequency (RF) signal, to select the target channel from a plurality of channels in the RF signal, and to down-convert the target channel, includes: an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), configured to convert an analog signal carried in the down-converted target channel to a digital signal; an operation circuit, configured to perform an operation on the digital signal to obtain a correlation comparing result; and a control circuit, configured to determine whether the target channel includes the television program signal according to the correlation comparing result. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150085196 | APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING TELEVISION CHANNELS AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for switching television channels and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus for switching television channels includes a tuner unit, at least two video de-multiplexing modules and a switch unit. The tuner unit locks a specific frequency point in a broadcast stream, and the frequency point has at least two program channels. After the tuner unit locks the specific frequency point, each of the video de-multiplexing modules simultaneously and respectively receives the broadcast stream, and performs a de-multiplexing operation and a decoding operation to each of the program channels to generate at least two program streams. The switch unit selects and displays one of the at least two program streams corresponding to a first program channel, and when a second program channel is selected, the switch unit selects and displays the other one of the at least two program streams corresponding to the second program channel. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150131007 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device and signal processing method. A plurality of tuner circuits includes at least one that selectively provides a signal from among a plurality of signal bands potentially in an input signal in response to a control signal having a transition between a first state and a second state. A correction circuit corresponds to at least one of the plurality of tuner circuits, and is configured to receive the control signal and provide a corrected control signal for the tuner circuit. The corrected control signal has a gradual transition between the first state and the second state as compared to the transition between the first state and the second state in the control signal. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150304591 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - The present invention provides user-friendly video display apparatus and terminal apparatus. In the present invention, a terminal apparatus having a function of remotely controlling a video display apparatus includes a communication unit that transmits a command related to setting of the video display apparatus and receives status information, a signal receiving unit that receives a signal output from a broadcast station and decodes a video content, a memory unit that stores a content of a command including a channel of the video content, and a display unit that displays the video content and various types of information. In this terminal apparatus, the communication unit transmits an identification code specific to the terminal apparatus when transmitting the command, and when the status information is received after a channel of the video display apparatus is set by remote control, the video content of the channel stored in the memory unit is decoded by the signal receiving unit and is displayed on the display unit. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BAND SELECTION, SWITCHING AND DIPLEXING - Systems and methods for selecting, combining and duplexing signals in a communications network. Several configurations of diplexers and channel selectors are disclosed which use filters, combiners and splitters to select and combine which the signals to be either received or transmitted. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150312512 | SWITCHING TV CHANNELS USING A MOBILE DEVICE AND A SET-TOP BOX - A method and system for switching television channels. A mobile terminal receives channel information, and displays the channel information on a display screen, to allow a user operating the mobile terminal to submit an instruction for switching to a user desired channel. The mobile terminal transmits the user instruction to a set-top box to instruct the set-top box to switch to the user desired channel according to the user instruction. A registration code generated using IMEI or MEID of the mobile device is registered at the set-top box to verify the mobile device before receiving or executing the user instruction. The transmission or the execution of the user instruction may be delayed to a scheduled time without affecting the currently played program. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20160028563 | Method and System for Impairment Shifting - A method and system for impairment shifting is disclosed and may include receiving one or more radio frequency (RF) analog television signals in a receiver of a communication device, downconverting the received one or more received RF analog television signals to baseband frequencies, synchronizing the receiver to the one or more received RF analog television signals, and adjusting a frequency of one or more local oscillators in the receiver to configure in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) mismatch of a picture carrier signal to fall near a sound carrier signal in the received RF analog television signals. The frequency of the one or more local oscillators may be adjusted to configure a DC offset impairment to fall between luminance and chrominance harmonics at baseband in the analog television signals. I/Q imbalanced impairments may be configured with about 300 kHz separation from the sound carrier signal. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160044272 | SEARCHING FOR BROADCAST CHANNELS BASED ON CHANNEL NAMES - A device may receive a numeric code representing an alphanumeric character; and determine one or more programming channel names including the alphanumeric character represented by the numeric code. Each of the one or more channel names may be associated with a television broadcast network. The device may the one or more programming channel names; receive a selection of a particular programming channel, of the one or more programming channels; and present content associated with the selected programming channel. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160057376 | BROADCASTING SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A broadcasting signal receiving apparatus includes an input receiver configured to receive a user's input selecting a channel among a plurality of channels; a first tuner configured to tune to the channel selected by the user's input and receive a broadcast signal of the tuned channel; and a controller configured to control the first tuner to tune to a first channel and receive a broadcast signal of the first channel when a user makes the first input, and to control the first tuner to tune to a second channel and receive a broadcast signal of the second channel when a user makes a second input within a predetermined period of time after receiving the first input, wherein the first channel corresponds to the first input, and the second channel corresponds to a combination of the first input and the second input. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057486 | Dynamic Tuning in Dense Arrays of Electrically Small Elements - A system and method for dynamically tuning antenna elements is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving requests to capture over the air broadcasts; selecting an antenna element from a group of available antenna elements to capture one of the requested over the air broadcasts; applying default settings to tune the selected antenna element to capture the one of the requested over the air broadcasts; and dynamically tuning the selected antenna element to enhance reception of the one of the requested over the air broadcasts. The method may further comprise measuring parameters toward optimizing the selected antenna element. The method may also include maintaining the tuning of the selected antenna element until the received request is automatically released because time has elapsed. The method may additionally include recording and/or streaming the requested broadcast to an end-user. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160088337 | Wideband Tuner Architecture - A wideband receiver system comprises a wideband analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module and a digital frontend (DFE) module. The wideband ADC is configured to concurrently digitize a band of frequencies comprising a plurality of desired channels and a plurality of undesired channels. The DFE module is coupled to the digital in-phase and quadrature signals. The DFE module is configured to select the plurality of desired channels from the digitized band of frequencies, and generate an intermediate frequency (IF) signal comprising the selected plurality of desired channels and having a bandwidth that is less than a bandwidth of the band of frequencies, where the generation comprises frequency shifting of the selected plurality of desired channels. The IF signal may be a digital signal and the DFE is configured to output the IF signal via a serial or parallel interface. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160112670 | TELEVISION TUNER DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT - Embodiments of a device for receiving a digital terrestrial, cable, or satellite television signal are described herein. For example, a silicon tuner module may be configured to receive a digital terrestrial, cable, or satellite television signal and output a digital bitstream, the digital bitstream may include audio visual content in an encoded transport stream. In a further example, a digital audio video connector may be configured to couple with a display device, the digital audio video connector may be configured to provide the digital bitstream to the display device according to a specification. In another example, a processing module may be configured to control the silicon tuner module in response to a Consumer Electronics Control command received from the display device via the digital audio video connector. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112747 | MULTISTREAM TUNER STICK DEVICE FOR RECEIVING AND STREAMING DIGITAL CONTENT - Embodiments of a device for receiving a digital terrestrial, cable, or satellite television signal are described herein. For example, a silicon tuner module may be configured to receive a digital terrestrial, cable, or satellite television signal and output a digital bitstream, the digital bitstream may include audio visual content in an encoded transport stream. In a further example, a digital audio video connector may be configured to couple with a display device, the digital audio video connector may be configured to provide the digital bitstream to the display device according to a specification. In another example, a processing module may be configured to control the silicon tuner module in response to a Consumer Electronics Control command received from the display device via the digital audio video connector. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160165172 | HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION METHOD AND CONTROLLED TERMINAL AND REMOTE-CONTROL DEVICE UTILIZING THE SAME - A control method for a controlled terminal and the controlled terminal and a remote-control device utilizing the same are provided. According to the control method for a controlled terminal, a time interval for the controlled terminal to respond to the input operations from a remote-control device is set according to a setting instruction, and the input operations from the remote-control device are processed according to the time interval. Using the above-describe manner, the time interval of the controlled terminal to respond to input operations can be flexibly set to ensure that users can watch TV programs normally, and improve the user experience. | 06-09-2016 |
