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7610600 Television reception system, channel selection apparatus and display apparatus  
A television reception system is disclosed by which a television broadcasting program can be enjoyed at any place in a home without being influenced by connection to an antenna cable or a...
7610599 Information providing device and method for index information for scene changes  
The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Images which are consecutive in time series are sequentially enlarged and displayed such...
7607150 Information providing device and method  
The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Information for indexes is obtained through a network, and information screens are...
7603694 Virtual channel table data structure, transport stream discrimination method, and digital broadcast receiver  
The present invention provides a virtual channel table (VCT) data structure, transport stream discrimination method, and digital broadcast receiver, by which streams transferred within a channel...
7600240 Data processing apparatus and method  
Video presentation timing can match sounding timing with high accuracy. A digital broadcast receiver calculates the presentation delay time dt from the presentation time when video based on the...
7596799 System and method of communicating video content  
A system and method of communicating video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes communicating a selection of a channel from a set-top box device to at least one...
7594253 Autoprogramming 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...
7593621 Method of reserving space on a storage medium for recording audio and video content and recofding device thereof  
A method of recording audio and video content on a storage medium includes performing recording operations to record audio and video content on the storage medium; classifying the recording...
7584214 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program  
Each program content has a plurality of program states, such as “already recorded”, “not recorded”, “preset for recording”, “not preset for recording”, and “not received”...
7577715 Content providing system, receiving device and method, recording medium and program  
The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An...
7571453 Apparatus and method for constrained selection of favorite channels  
An interactive program guide system is provided in which an interactive program guide offers a user access to content from multiple available media types. The program guide system allows the...
7571450 System for and method of displaying information  
A system ( 100 ) for displaying information on a display device ( 104 ) comprises; receiving means ( 202 ) for receiving services; user interface means ( 220 ) for making a user selection of a type...
7571232 Method and apparatus for managing channel information  
A request for content associated with a particular channel is received from a client device. A system identifies service information data associated with the channel. The system then determines how...
7568212 Digital broadcasting receiver  
There is provided a digital broadcasting receiver capable of making channel selection without making a user conscious of the difference between a physical channel number and a virtual channel...
7567983 Customer feedback reporting  
Systems and methods are disclosed for reporting customer feedback. The disclosed systems and methods may include extracting data in response to content selections by the customer, wherein the...
7567565 Method and apparatus for network bandwidth conservation  
Methods and apparatus for conserving bandwidth within a network based on two or more different service levels. In an exemplary embodiment, programming that is simulcast on two or more program...
7567302 Receiving device for digital broadcasting  
A receiving device for digital broadcasting is provided. The receiving device is provided with a receiving system that receives a digital broadcast wave and obtains digital data based on the...
7562375 Fast channel change  
In an exemplary server implementation, a server is configured to retain at least one independent frame for each video channel of multiple video channels that are being distributed using multicast...
7558469 Method and apparatus to display graphically recording timer conflicts  
The present invention is a method and apparatus for displaying conflicts between two or more recording timers. These conflicts are displayed graphically for the user to resolve. Other features and...
7552463 Television receiver, receiver and program execution method  
A television receiver includes an LCD unit and an EEPROM in which broadcasting program selection information for controlling a tuner section and channel numbers are stored in a coordinated...
7552460 Modifying an electronic program guide based on viewer statistics  
Displaying the numbers of viewers who are watching currently-broadcasted television programs on electronic program guides (EPGs) using information gathered via back channels from home entertainment...
7543322 Method for enhanced event specific features on personal video recorders  
A method for enhanced presentation of sports audio video (A/V) content, the method includes: receiving a user's preferences for sports related electronic program guide (EPG) presentation, and...
7540010 Program switching device and method  
A program switching device and a method thereof which can prevent a disorder of images and an invisible state of the image when a channel (program) is switched. When it is instructed to switch a...
7535518 Method and apparatus for displaying digital broadcasting  
A digital broadcasting method and apparatus providing digital broadcast signals based on different broadcasting standards to the audiences. The digital broadcasting apparatus includes a plurality...
7530087 System for displaying programming guide information  
A method is provided for displaying programming information. A video comprising a plurality of frames is displayed on a portion of a display. A first panel is displayed in response to a first...
7530025 Systems and methods for handling time-stamped data  
Systems and methods are provided for handling time-stamped data. The one or more GUIs are used to define properties of an event and to associate the event with time-stamped data. The properties of...
7512318 Apparatus and method which enables fully recording a fragmented program even with an operation after initial few airings  
A broadcast storage unit 1 , which receives a program to be broadcasted digitally and records the program, includes a DeMUX processing unit 12 that acquires program information concerning a...
7508452 Image display control system and image display system control method with determination of whether or not download of program can be executed  
This invention discloses an arrangement allowing connection of various kinds of image displays to one supply source in an image display control system having a supply source for transmitting a...
7505089 Worldwide television tuning system with country code based tuning  
A worldwide television tuning system is configurable to the television standards and channel frequencies of multiple different countries based on a country's ITU long-distance country code. The...
7496944 Method and apparatus for maintaining a digital television receiver database  
A method and apparatus for building and maintaining a database in a digital television receiver from information received in MPEG and PSIP tables uses the MPEG tables as a master to facilitate...
7490341 System and associated terminal, method and computer program product for directional channel browsing of broadcast content  
A system for providing broadcast content includes at least one content source for broadcasting content, and at least one terminal. The terminal can receive and consume content for a selected...
7487527 Interactive television program guide with selectable languages  
An interactive television program guide is provided. The interactive television program guide provides a user with the opportunity to select a language for playing television programming and...
7480727 Method and devices for implementing highly interactive entertainment services using interactive media-streaming technology, enabling remote provisioning of virtual reality services  
The invention relates to a method for generating an interactive virtual reality with a network service using interactive media-streaming technology comprising the steps of establishing an action...
7477872 Automatic tuning system for a mobile DVB-T receiver  
An automatic tuning system for a mobile DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial) receiver includes a position detecting system, a plurality of tuners, a plurality of demodulators configured...
7471876 Terminal device for recording broadcast information and/or playing video and/audio data  
A terminal device for recording broadcast information including means to select a program to be recorded; first and second filter means for discerning program information relative to the program...
7468762 Digital/analog TV receiver  
A digital/analog TV receiver is provided comprising a broadcasting signal receiver for receiving broadcasting signals of both ground wave and cable wave, a main controller which carries out the...
7464179 Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services amongst multiple providers  
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receives a request for communications service. The request for communications service originates from...
7444664 Multi-view video format  
Interactive multi-view video presents new types of video capture systems, video formats, video compression algorithms, and services. Many video cameras are allocated to capture an event from...
7437749 Interactive subscription television terminal  
A system for providing interactive services in a subscription television system includes a system controller for controlling the interactive services, a video signal source for transmitting a video...
7437301 Information linking method, information viewer, information register, and information search equipment  
On an information registering equipment, content of interest rendered by media, such as a video image of interest distributed by TV broadcasting is captured and displayed. Position/area on the...
7426467 System and method for supporting interactive user interface operations and storage medium  
There is provided a system for supporting interactive operations for inputting user commands to a household electric apparatus such as a television set/monitor and information apparatuses....
7412716 Method and system for enabling visitors to subscribe to currently-viewed programming packages  
Methods and systems for enabling users visiting a friend or family member to subscribe to a TV programming package that the friend or family member currently subscribes to. In one embodiment, the...
7412715 Method and apparatus for displaying channel information and selecting channel on digital television  
A method for displaying channel information on a digital TV. Channel information which can know the number of programs or program numbers received through a currently selected major channel is...
7409702 Auxiliary program association table  
A method of identifying programs in a digital video communication system, consistent with certain embodiment of the present invention involve generating an auxiliary program association table (PAT)...
7386870 Broadcast video channel surfing system based on internet streaming of captured live broadcast channels  
A method for reviewing broadcast channels. The method including: capturing at least one broadcast channel at a first site at a reduced quality from its broadcast quality; receiving the at least one...
7380266 Transmission method and apparatus for optical fiber television network  
A method and apparatus by which television service is provided to the home via a two-way fiber optic link. The television set transmits to the central office the channel or channels being watched....
7376964 Master guide table for a digital broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the table  
A master guide table for a digital broadcast protocol, and a method of broadcasting and updating an electronic program guide using the table, uses identification information included in a bit...
7353529 Broadcast reception device and method capable of obtaining broadcast time information  
During an operation performed to obtain time information of a previously designated channel when an XDS scanning master detects from an interrupt that a user designates his/her favorite channel via...
7313803 Ratings control system with temporary override capability and store-recall feature  
A video signal processing system for producing an output signal suitable for coupling to a display device to produce a displayed image, the video processing system having a system which blocks...
7307671 Device for receiving video signals and a method of controlling one such device  
The invention relates to a device for receiving video signals comprising a first decoding chain, a second decoding chain, a video encoder and a selection means which is used selectively to connect...
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