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7057670 |
Cursor control system
A method and apparatus for a novel cursor control system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention is a method of manipulating a cursor on a tv screen utilizing a wireless remote control. The...
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7051355 |
Receiving apparatus, receiving method, and providing medium
In a step S 1 , when the user executes a tuning operation (a service-number input operation) on an input section, the information is output to a control section. In a step S 3 , the control section...
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7046303 |
Digital broadcasting receiver operative for displaying picture characters in a non-central portion of a screen
A CPU carries out such control as to display a received image on the whole of a screen even when a command to acquire program information is issued by a user. In the display of the received image...
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7047548 |
Recall of previous program channel
An apparatus, program product and method for recalling a previous program channel of interest from a current program channel, where the channel of interest is determined by the amount of time a...
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7039941 |
Low distortion passthrough circuit arrangement for cable television set top converter terminals
In a cable television converter terminal, NICAM signal passthrough is achieved using an alignment-free passthrough circuit including a NICAM SAW filter. The alignment-free passthrough circuit...
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7036137 |
Method and apparatus for providing unified program guide information to a media subscriber
A system and method for providing program guide information to subscribers is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is applied to a broadcasting system having a first service network...
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7027106 |
Digital/analog broadcast receiver receiving digital/analog broadcast in range of read carrier frequency
In a digital/analog broadcast receiver, when an operating unit 11 is manipulated for tuning, an MPU reads, from a received digital broadcast, a carrier frequency that corresponds to a desired...
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7020889 |
Method for calling up information about current radio and television programmes
A method for calling up information about current radio and television programs wherein desired signals are transmitted together or separately with decodable additional information signals. The...
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7017177 |
Digital broadcasting receiver and method of controlling the same
A digital broadcasting receiver capable of receiving HD (High Definition) broadcasting, SD (Standard Definition) broadcasting and the like. In the digital broadcasting receiver, a digital...
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6993781 |
Control device, control method, electric apparatus, control method of an electric apparatus, electric apparatus system, control method of an electric apparatus system, and transmission medium
Radio waves transmitted from the antenna of a broadcasting station are received by the antenna of a television receiver. The television receiver extracts an EPG from the received radio waves and...
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6988244 |
Image generating apparatus and method
An index picture as a still picture obtained by summarizing the contents of a moving picture, which is generated by using a video browser technique can be formed in various modes. A plurality of...
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6944877 |
Closed loop addressable advertising system and method of operation
There is disclosed an addressable advertising system comprising: 1) receiver circuitry for receiving an incoming television signal from an external source, generating a original baseband video...
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6934963 |
Interactive television program guide with passive content
A hybrid passive-interactive program guide is generated by combining the features of an interactive program guide with the passive video portion of a passive program guide. The interactive guide...
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6931199 |
Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and recording medium
A digital television (DTV) operating screen is displayed on the cathode ray tube (CRT) display screen of a DTV which is the controlling apparatus of a network. In the event that the user selects a...
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6931595 |
Method for automatic extraction of semantically significant events from video
A method of determining the boundary of a slow motion replay of an event in a video includes determining a statistical measure of different portions of the video. The video may include the event...
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6928654 |
Vehicle display device for simultaneously displaying one or more video programs on separate displays
There is provided a display device for a vehicle. At least one video signal source outputs at least one video signal corresponding to at least one video program. Two or more displays receive the at...
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6927806 |
Systems, methods and apparatuses for minimizing subscriber-perceived digital video channel tuning delay
A digital STB having multiple decoders is capable of decoding multiple digital video streams simultaneously to minimize the time a subscriber waits before a new channel is tuned and displayed. The...
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6924848 |
Digital/analog television signal receiving set
The digital/analog television signal receiving set 10 includes a tuner 12 , and the tuner 12 receives television signals of ATSC system and NTSC system. In the case of automatic scanning, a...
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6920641 |
Transmit device and method thereof, record/play device and method thereof as well as recording system and media
A transmit device and method, a record/play device and method, a record system as well as a media allowing selection of the ideal record media by the receiver. The EPG data generator of a transmit...
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6883176 |
Method and apparatus for launching applications based upon electronic program guide data
Information stored in a database of an electronic program guide is utilized to launch or terminate execution of one or more applications based upon the electronic program guide information. An...
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6880171 |
Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data
The invention facilitates and enhances review of a body of information, such as a set of audio, video and text data or some combination thereof, enabling the body of information to be quickly...
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6876970 |
Voice-activated tuning of broadcast channels
A method for voice-activated tuning of broadcast programs. A system architecture of an embodiment of the present invention comprises a microphone, a signal converter, a digital signal processor...
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6839901 |
Multichannel digital television system
A digital television system including a transmission means for transmitting digital audiovisual information on a plurality of channels and means for introducing in real time an event message...
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6825874 |
Monitoring the degree of action in video transmissions
A system enables the user to monitor a number of channels to determine the degree of action occurring on each of those channels which are not currently tuned for reception. The system may develop a...
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6826775 |
System and method for providing television services
A system and method are described for providing interactive television services and for switching between television programs, such as to an interactive program session from another program. An...
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6817027 |
Display interface comprising a channel matrix
A channel matrix for use with a television receiver includes rows and columns of channel numbers, each corresponding to one channel in a group of channels. The matrix includes a group selector that...
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6807677 |
TV program usage information setting method and apparatus using the same
A TV program usage information setting method and apparatus using the same which simply reserve information of a specific TV program which is periodically broadcasted on certain day and time and...
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6804824 |
Systems and methods using multiple tuners
The present invention enhances a user experience by using multiple tuners to simultaneously tune multiple channels. The multiple tuners channels included in programming content, so that a user is...
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6802077 |
Method for a pay-per-view referral
A method for a PPV referral that provides to a subscriber the time, date, and channel of the next showing of a PPV event if the subscriber tries to purchase the PPV event after the purchase window...
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6792616 |
System and method for providing a plurality of programming services in a television system
A system and method of providing for displaying a full service cable television system. The cable television system is adapted to provide a plurality of different user services. Accordingly, the...
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6788241 |
System and method for using keystroke data to configure a remote control device
A remote control device is which key use is monitored. A command key, representative of an appliance function, may be correlated to a target appliance that is determined, as a function of the...
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6785905 |
Television transmitter, television transmitting method, television receiver and television receiving method
A television method and receiver are configured to receive a television broadcast signal that includes multimedia data files including hypertext data. The multimedia data files relate to a...
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6782549 |
Programme retrieval system and method, and storage in which programme retrieval program is stored
A programme retrieval system and method wherein a desired broadcast programme can be retrieved without fail by setting up a proper relationship between a time length of pre-registered video/audio...
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6782550 |
Program guide with a current-time bar
Improved approaches for configuration, management and operation of a media delivery system are disclosed. The media delivery system centrally manages and stores media content and also controls the...
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6775843 |
Method and apparatus for digital TV channel mapping
A mapping method and apparatus for digital television channel mapping is described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting a virtual channel selected by a user where the virtual channel...
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6772434 |
Device and method for the integrated presentation of a secondary service as a part of a primary service
A method and apparatus for providing an integrated presentation of existing media program services and secondary media program services is described. The method comprises the steps of receiving and...
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6765628 |
Method and apparatus for searching channels
A method for searching a predetermined satellite channel by making use of information available from the satellite. The method comprises three steps. The first step is searching for a service...
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6766526 |
Smart channel entry system
An interactive system is provided in which information is displayed in response to the entry of the digits of a channel number. The interactive system may be implemented on a television, a...
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6757906 |
Television viewer interface system
A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. The invention's construct allows items called video loopsets to be...
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6728965 |
Channel changer for use in a switched digital video system
A rapid channel changer for use in a digital broadband access system. The subject rapid channel changer includes a cache buffer for storing the video data and a processor for detecting and pointing...
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6721018 |
Method and apparatus for decreasing the time required to generate a channel map in a television signal receiver
In a television signal receiver having two or more tuners, initial channel mapping can be expedited by simultaneously using all tuners in parallel to map the receivable channels. A processor...
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6721952 |
Method and system for encoding movies, panoramas and large images for on-line interactive viewing and gazing
This invention discloses apparatus and a method for producing a moving picture including providing a digital image including the content of a multiplicity of individual images defining a view...
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6714722 |
Multimedia recorder with enhanced EPG-related functions
A digital multimedia recorder that makes good use of EPG data to have at least one of the following capabilities of: (a) selecting a program to be played from a displayed program guide for recorded...
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6707508 |
Channel entry for selection of a channel
A system and method for processing a channel entry is presented. In one embodiment, the receiving mode of an apparatus is first determined. A first channel entry format is then displayed, if it is...
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6701525 |
Method for operating an audio/video set as based on hierarchical menuing of selectable bulletized and stringed items and an audio/video set arranged for practicing the method
An audio/video set is operated with hierarchical menus. It displays a menu string of first items in a first coordinate direction on the screen and detects a user selecting an item thereamong. Upon...
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6691311 |
Digital signal receiving apparatus and receiving method
A digital signal receiving apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast signal having a first information table and a second information table is disclosed, the first information table representing...
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6680756 |
Receiver having a preset tuner
A receiver includes a CPU. The CPU can determine whether a variable N has reached a predetermined value X or not. The variable N is the number of channels over which broadcast signals could have...
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6621528 |
Channel control for digital television
A digital television autoprogramming and tuning method and apparatus. In a digital television which can tune both MPEG 2 and PSIP format signals, a method of tuning uses one or more tables of...
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6598233 |
Channel control apparatus of digital television and method thereof
The present invention is capable of reducing a time required for channel switching, and selecting or searching a user request channel quickly by storing a packet identifiers of a video and an audio...
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6598226 |
Apparatus and method for providing, retrieving, and using data guide information supplied in a digital vestigial sideband signal
A device for provisioning, retrieving, and using data guide information transmitted in a digital broadcast signal is disclosed. A receiver receives the digital broadcast signal which includes...
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