| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 725153000 | With diverse device (e.g., personal computer, game player, VCR, etc.) | 29 |
| 20080282312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING TUNER AND/OR RECORDING RESOURCES - A system and method of implementing a distributed recording capability may be employed to allocate tuner resources among connected recorder devices, including digital video recorder (DVR) devices. In accordance with one aspect, a server may receive a request to record a multimedia broadcast from a user. The server may search a network for a recorder device having an available tuner from among a plurality of recorder devices connected to the network using predetermined search criteria. The server may transmit a command over the network to the identified recorder device to record the requested multimedia broadcast. The identified recorder device may automatically transfer the recorded multimedia broadcast over the network to a user-associated recorder device. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080295143 | MULTIMEDIA TELEVISION SYSTEM | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090055886 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes a reception unit for receiving a broadcast signal which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, an extractor for extracting transmission parameter channel signaling information and fast information channel signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, an acquirer for acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and a service of an ensemble by using the extracted fast information channel signaling information, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, a detector for detecting a descriptor defining a telephone number system corresponding to the mobile service data by using the acquired program table, and a controller for controlling such that a telephone number of the telephone number system of the detected descriptor and the mobile service data are displayed. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090064269 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes a reception unit for receiving a broadcast signal which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, an extractor for extracting transmission parameter channel signaling information and fast information channel signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, an acquirer for acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and a service of an ensemble by using the extracted fast information channel signaling information, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, a detector for detecting a descriptor defining a destination telephone number of a message service by using the acquired program table, and a controller for controlling such that the destination telephone number of the message service of the detected descriptor and the mobile service data are displayed. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090125971 | Systems and Method of Controlling Access to Media Content - A system and method of controlling access to media content are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a viewing request at a set-top box device at a user premises. The method also includes retrieving a permission policy stored at the set-top box device and identifying a wireless device associated with the permission policy. Further, the method includes fulfilling the viewing request when the wireless device is present at the user premises and is within a first relative proximity to the set-top box device, and not fulfilling the viewing request when the wireless device is present at the user premises and is within a second relative proximity to the set-top box device. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090150967 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING WIRELESS BROADCAST SIGNALS - A method and a device for receiving wireless broadcast signals are provided. The device includes a positioning module, a memory storing therein a first information table and a second information table, a signal-receiving and processing module, a processor and a client terminal. The method includes steps of: receiving a first wireless broadcast signal at a first frequency contained in the first information table and presenting contents represented by the first wireless broadcast signal when the device is positioned in a first broadcast area; automatically searching for a second frequency in the second information table when the device is positioned in a second broadcast area wherein the second frequency corresponds to the information associated with the first frequency in the first information table; and receiving a second wireless broadcast signal at the second frequency and presenting contents represented by the second wireless broadcast signal. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090165075 | Landline Telephony Alternative for Service in a Satellite System or Other Conditional Access System - Conditional access for a service, such as a premium satellite service or other type of service, is provided using a non-landline telephone connection between a set top box and a service provider. An event requiring transmission of information to the service provider from a set top box is detected. A non-landline telephone connection between the set top box and the service provider is established. The information is sent to the service provider via the non-landline telephone connection. A service is received via the set top box in response to sending the information. The service is provided via a medium different than the non-landline connection. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090282456 | Digital broadcasting receiver - A digital broadcasting receiver temporarily stores data about a digital broadcasting program currently being viewed and listened-to at a time when the reception state thereof is good in the form of transport packets or packets of a data broadcasting content, or in the form of a screen still image, and, when the reception state has gotten worse, plays back the stored data as an alternative image. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090328127 | System and method for implementing a personal information mode in an electronic device - A system and method for implementing a personal information mode in a television device includes personal information data that is selectably accessed from at least one remote information source. A display of the television device is configured to display a personal information interface to a system user. A personal information module of the television then automatically displays the personal information to the system user on the personal information interface. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090328128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTERACTIVE BROADBAND SYSTEM-ON-CHIP WITH A RECONFIGURABLE INTERFACE - A method and apparatus are disclosed, in an interactive broadband set-top box receiving broadband signals from a headend, to facilitate communications with an installed card within the set-top box using a single IC chip that processes the broadband signals. The single IC chip is configured to a PCMCIA PC-card mode such that PC card signals are multiplexed to certain I/O pins of the single IC chip. In the PCMCIA PC-card mode, the single IC chip attempts to detect the presence of and identify an installed card in the set-top box. If an installed card is present and is identified as a POD module, then the single IC chip is reconfigured from the PCMCIA PC-card mode to a POD mode such that POD-compatible signals are multiplexed to certain existing I/O pins of the single IC chip when operating in the POD mode. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100077443 | Electronic System and Method for Driving Electronic Device - An electronic system and a method for driving an electronic device are disclosed. The method for driving the electronic device includes steps as follows. A storage medium is provided. The storage medium has a file system accessible by a BIOS and stores program codes for driving the electronic device. Then, the electronic device is driven by a driver stored in the storage medium. Afterwards, stream data transmitted by the electronic device is received and outputted. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100205648 | Secure Integrated Media Center - A set-top media system is disclosed which can be combined with an open architecture personal computer (PC) to provide a feature-rich secure integrated media center while meeting security rules of most major conditional access and content protection industry rules such as Cable Labs DFAST and PHILA agreements; and DTLA agreements for 5C-DTCP for IEEE1394, USB, and IP. The set-top media center and PC share common resources such as high definition display, remote control, hard disk drive, and other external unsecure storage devices. All media content is available seamlessly using a PC user interface, including controlled-content media such as high definition TV, within a PC desktop window. All controlled-content media is manipulated and managed within the set-top media system in a seamless manner. A mechanism is disclosed to allow controlled-content media to be stored on unsecure devices in encrypted form while overcoming the disk cloning attack problem for move operations. One embodiment utilizes a “grey list” of available programs to keep track of controlled-content media which is allowed to be played, while another embodiment utilizes a “black list” of programs no longer available to keep track of controlled-content media which is forbidden from being played. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100263015 | Wireless Interface for Set Top Box - A method includes receiving data from a service provider, where the data includes an interactive element. The method may also include outputting the data to an output device and receiving a voice command from a user, where the voice command is associated with the interactive element. The method may further include transmitting, via a wireless protocol, an instruction to a user device associated with the user, where the instruction indicates that a telephone call is to be placed from the user device or a text message is to be transmitted from the user device. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100263016 | DATA SUPPLY DEVICE, DATA OUTPUT DEVICE, DATA OUTPUT SYSTEM, DATA DISPLAY SYSTEM, DATA SUPPLY METHOD, DATA OUTPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110093912 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus and image playing method thereof, are provided. The display apparatus includes a broadcasting receiver which receives a broadcasting signal; a communication unit which communicates with an external device comprising a storage medium; a first buffer which buffers the broadcasting signal to store the received broadcasting signal in the storage medium; a second buffer which buffers a broadcasting signal input from the external device to play the broadcasting signal stored in the storage medium; and a controller which outputs a control signal to the external device to control a broadcasting signal reception volume received from the external device based on at least one buffer volume of the first buffer and the second buffer upon execution of a broadcasting recording and playing function which stores the broadcasting signal in the storage medium and plays the stored broadcasting signal. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110154430 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND HOME NETWORK SYSTEM - An image display device and a home network system are provided. The image display device transmits a broadcasting signal including at least one of a video data, an audio data, and an additional data according to predetermined transmission conditions. The home network system includes at least one external device connected to the image display unit through a wire or wireless network to output the transmitted broadcasting signal. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110191816 | COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ABLE TO SYNCHRONISE THE RECEIVED STREAM WITH THAT SENT TO ANOTHER DEVICE - An audio stream is to be synchronized with a video stream. Therefore a system that comprises a first device ( | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120005717 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE PRESENTATION OF MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box having a controller to receive a single video stream comprising two-dimensional image content and a depth map of the two-dimensional image content, generate three-dimensional image content in real-time from the two-dimensional image content and the depth map where the three-dimensional image content is generated when a display device operably coupled with the set top box is determined to be capable of presenting the three-dimensional image content, and provide either the two-dimensional image content or the three-dimensional image content to the display device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120017257 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A system and method of establishing a connection between a wireless terminal and a display apparatus of a display system includes comparing a signal strength of signals transmitted and received between the wireless terminal and the display apparatus, and automatically establishing the connection if it is determined that the signal strength is greater than or equal to a threshold value based on connection parameters in the signals. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120036549 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTING WITH A SET-TOP BOX BASED ON SENSOR EVENTS FROM A USER DEVICE - An approach is provided for controlling a set-top box based on sensor triggered events on a user device. A set-top box receives a control message from a user device, wherein the control message specifies an event corresponding to one or more sensors of the user device. The set-top box maps the event to an activity associated with an application that is executed by the set-top box. Also, the set-top box presents media content provided by the application according to the mapped activity. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120240180 | SET-TOP BOX, EARPHONE, AND MULTIMEDIA PLAYING METHOD - A set-top box receives a multimedia program from a headend server. The multimedia program includes a video content and a plurality of corresponding audio contents each corresponding to a sign. The set-top box transmits the video content and one of the audio contents to a multimedia playing device. The set-top box connects to each earphone, transmits the signs corresponding to the audio contents to each earphone, and receives one of the signs and the corresponding unique identifier from each earphone. The set-top box transmits one of the audio contents corresponding to the received sign to one of the earphones according to the received corresponding unique identifier. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20130081098 | Audio/video storage/retrieval system and method - An audio/video storage/retrieval system and method that permits efficient and cost-effective simultaneous recording of multi-channel A/V information from a variety of sources is disclosed. The system/method may be broadly described as generally incorporating baseband conversion of source RF modulated A/V information followed by analog-to-digital conversion and storage on a storage device utilizing a dual port interface that incorporates an additional computer access port to permit transparent storage access by a computer system. Retrieval of stored A/V programming from the storage device via the dual port interface permits the stored A/V data to be converted to analog and RF modulated for presentation to an A/V presentation device. Additional A/V source and/or target selectors may be incorporated into the system/method to permit recording a plethora of A/V sources such as raw A/V signaling, OTA broadcasts, clear/encrypted cable QAM broadcasts, cable set top boxes (STBs), and the like. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130152152 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT BASED ON USER PREFERENCES - An approach is provided for enabling viewers to control the depth of three-dimensional content rendered via a set-top box. A 3D content platform receives a user input for specifying a user identifier and a mode of operation of a set-top box. A depth setting parameter is determined based on user profile information related to the user identifier. Content is then presented for display via the set-top box at the dept setting corresponding to the parameter. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130263204 | AURAL INDICATION OF REMOTE CONTROL COMMANDS - A disclosed set top box or other multimedia receiver suitable for use in a multimedia distribution network includes a remote control interface operable to receive a signal from a remote control device and extract a remote control command from the signal, a processor coupled to the remote control interface and operable to detect the remote control command, and a machine readable storage resource containing computer executable instructions operable to: invoke an aural indication application that returns an audio stream suitable for processing by an audio output device, wherein the audio stream, when processed by the audio output device, causes the audio output device to produce an audibly detectable signal indicative of a function corresponding to the remote control command. The application may generate the audio stream by invoking a speech synthesis module or by retrieving an audio file. The application may retrieve electronic programming guide (EPG) data associated with a remote control command and incorporate at least some of the EPG data in the audibly detectable output. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20140059639 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Control of Devices - Methods, systems, and products control external devices during presentation of multimedia content. When a description of the multimedia content is received, the description includes control data for controlling an external device. The control data is stripped therefrom and sent to the external device to alter a presentation of the multimedia content | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140075491 | ERROR PROOF METHOD FOR RECORDING AND RECORDING DEVICE - The method is applied to the recording device, and the recording device is connected to a set-top box. The error proof method includes following steps. In the beginning, whether a startup process of the set-top box has been finished is determined according to a video signal and an audio signal outputted from the set-top box. After the startup process of the set-top box is finished, the video signal outputted from the set-top box is analyzed to determine whether an image of the video signal is covered by an information window. If the image of the video signal is not covered by any information window, then a channel changing signal is transmitted to the set-top box, to change a channel of the set-top box to a reserved recording channel. After that, a television program of the reserved recording channel is recorded. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140090007 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, PLAYBACK APPARATUS, BROADCAST COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - A broadcast receiving apparatus capable of playing back, with another apparatus, a broadcast content item and a communication content item in synchronization with each other is a broadcast receiving apparatus that receives a broadcast content item to be broadcast, and includes: a first information obtaining unit configured to obtain synchronization information for playing back, in synchronization with playback of the broadcast content item, a communication content item to be distributed through communication other than broadcasting; an information notifying unit configured to notify a playback apparatus that plays back the communication content item of the synchronization information; and a broadcast receiving and playback unit configured to receive and play back the broadcast content item. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20150128203 | ENERGY SAVING SET TOP BOX - A system includes a satellite receiver and a set top box. The set top box is configured to receive signals from the satellite receiver and output a signal to a display device. The set top box detects whether at least one mobile device is near the set top box and enables a standby mode when no mobile devices are detected. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20160119668 | SET-TOP BOX AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING DISCRETE-TYPE CARD PORTION, AND CARD PORTION-MOUNTING METHODS THEREOF - Disclosed are a set-top box and display apparatus having a discrete-type card portion and card portion-mounting methods thereof, in which the card portion with a card such as a cable card for descrambling a scrambled signal is readily detached and attached from the outside. The set-top box includes: a signal receiver configured to receive a scrambled signal; a card portion configured to include a card slot portion to which a cable card for descrambling the received scrambled signal is mountable; a substrate configured to include the signal receiver and electrically connect with the card portion; and a housing configured to support and surround the substrate, the housing including a first opening formed on a surface parallel with the substrate, and the card slot portion of the card portion being disposed to face the substrate with the first opening of the housing therebetween. | 04-28-2016 |
