| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D399199 |
Home theater television |
October 6, 1998 |
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| D394057 |
Projection television |
May 5, 1998 |
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| D388432 |
Cordless telephone and base unit |
December 30, 1997 |
|
| D387766 |
Remote control |
December 16, 1997 |
|
| D386763 |
Remote control unit |
November 25, 1997 |
|
| D385561 |
Radio alarm clock |
October 28, 1997 |
|
| D383126 |
Television |
September 2, 1997 |
|
| D376358 |
Television set |
December 10, 1996 |
|
| D374224 |
Television set |
October 1, 1996 |
|
| D374004 |
Television set |
September 24, 1996 |
|
| D374003 |
Television set |
September 24, 1996 |
|
| D373353 |
Television set |
September 3, 1996 |
|
| D372916 |
Radio apparatus |
August 20, 1996 |
|
| D372713 |
Video tape recorder |
August 13, 1996 |
|
| D372712 |
Video tape recorder |
August 13, 1996 |
|
| D372236 |
Television set |
July 30, 1996 |
|
| D372235 |
Television set |
July 30, 1996 |
|
| D368718 |
Remote control |
April 9, 1996 |
|
| D368093 |
Radio apparatus |
March 19, 1996 |
|
| D367061 |
Remote control unit |
February 13, 1996 |
|
| D365823 |
Combined compact disc player, radio and alarm clock |
January 2, 1996 |
|
| D365816 |
Video tape recorder |
January 2, 1996 |
|
| D365557 |
Television set |
December 26, 1995 |
|
| D363933 |
Remote control |
November 7, 1995 |
|
| D356099 |
Video camera with video tape recorder |
March 7, 1995 |
|
| 6562249 |
Method utilizing a magnetic assembly during etching thin shadow masks |
May 13, 2003 |
| In an improved method of etching apertures in a thin metal sheet to form a shadow mask for a color picture tube, the metal sheet has a first acid-resistant stencil on one major surface thereof and a second acid-resistant stencil on the other major surface thereof. At least one of the |
| 6233392 |
Constrained encoded motion vectors |
May 15, 2001 |
| A storage medium has recorded thereon a packetized digitally encoded image representative signal for forward and reverse direction reproduction. The digitally encoded signal comprises a plurality of groups of pictures, a group of the plurality of groups including at least an intra coded |
| 6229951 |
Digital video picture and ancillary data processing and storage |
May 8, 2001 |
| Video processing image manipulation and trick play modes provide seamless normal play and trick play functioning. Specifically, a system processes video data including encoded digital packetized data representative of a sequence of individual images and ancillary data identifying cha |
| 6229401 |
Horizontal frequency generation |
May 8, 2001 |
| A video display apparatus displays pictures from broadcast sources of standard or high definition pictures and may also display computer generated images. To display these sources a horizontal deflection signal generator is operable at a plurality of frequencies. The deflection signal |
| 6222979 |
Memory control in trick play mode |
April 24, 2001 |
| An apparatus for reproducing a digitally encoded signal from a disk medium, comprises a source of a bitstream representative of the digitally encoded signal. A processor is coupled to the bitstream for processing the bitstream to extract at least a first and a second data type represente |
| 6151192 |
Magneto-optic multitrack reading head with a kerr effect layer |
November 21, 2000 |
| A magneto-optic multitrack reading head which features a structure with plane layers deposited in a course of a same deposition procedure. These layers include a magnetic layer exhibiting a Kerr effect, an inter-iron gap layer and a magnetic layer for magnetic circuit closing. The magnet |
| 6111612 |
System for forming and processing text data for use in program specific information for broadcas |
August 29, 2000 |
| Packetized video program information used in video processing and storage medium formats includes program related text messages. A decoder decodes packetized video program information including program related text messages. The decoder determines a broadcast programming time segment |
| 6111611 |
System for forming and processing program specific information suitable for terrestrial, cable o |
August 29, 2000 |
| Program channels are allocated first and second identification numbers in packetized program information used in video processing and storage medium formats. Packetized program information is decoded to provide data content of a program. Channel map information in the packetized program |
| 6097832 |
Method of estimation and of hierarchised coding of the motion of image sequences |
August 1, 2000 |
| The present invention relates to a method of estimation and of hierarchised coding of the motion of image sequences, consisting in partitioning the current image into macroblocks, the macroblocks into four blocks and so on, and then determining at each level a motion-vector field associa |
| 6064724 |
Modem with automatic callback provisions |
May 16, 2000 |
| A modem is included in a television receiver for transferring data, such as "pay per view" billing information, to a modem in a billing station during periodic callback operations. The television receiver modem monitors the telephone line for predetermined conditions, such as the presenc |
| 6055023 |
Television apparatus for simultaneous decoding of auxiliary data included in multiple television |
April 25, 2000 |
| Television apparatus includes first and second auxiliary data decoders for simultaneously extracting auxiliary data from respective first and second television signals to produce first and second auxiliary data. The data decoders can selectably extract data from one or more auxiliary dat |
| 6044085 |
Method for arbitrating for access to a control channel in a data bus system |
March 28, 2000 |
| A data transfer system is disclosed which includes a plurality of nodes coupled together by a ring bus transmitting at least a bit of a control channel in each of successive bus cycles. Nodes compete for access to the control channel according to the following method. First, an encoded |
| 5953487 |
Video recording and playback apparatus |
September 14, 1999 |
| A video recording and playback device has a control track recorder for recording a control track signal including timing edges recorded on a tape or other storage medium together with the video program. A decoder is coupled to the control track signal and to the tape drive for switching |
| 5920354 |
HDTV to NTSC transcoder system |
July 6, 1999 |
| Image signals are transcoded from a first format to a second format, by employing multi-tap horizontal and vertical filters. The first format has higher horizontal and vertical resolution than the second format. The multi-tap horizontal filter filters lines of the image signals to conver |
| 5889920 |
Receiver/recorder of television transmissions |
March 30, 1999 |
| A receiver/recorder for television transmissions whereby continuous recording of television transmission occurs from at least one channel onto a random-access rewritable recording medium. At each of a plurality of predetermined locations a binary code is periodically written to represent |
| 5883750 |
Method and system for the magnetic recording of information elements and information medium by p |
March 16, 1999 |
| A method and system of magnetic recording of information elements on several parallel tracks whereby the recording of information elements on a track is accomplished by inducing a magnetic field having a predetermined direction in a zone on the track and, during this recording, inducing |
| 5838600 |
DC gain invariant filter implementation |
November 17, 1998 |
| A filtering circuit suitable for use in a video sample rate converter provides a constant direct current (DC) gain irrespective of realization errors, and reduces hardware requirements. The circuit includes an input terminal for receiving an input signal. A first delay unit delays the |
| 5825884 |
Method and apparatus for operating a transactional server in a proprietary database environment |
October 20, 1998 |
| A transactional server system for transferring subscriber information requests to information service providers, and methods of operating the same result in discouraging reconstruction of the subscriber information. The transactional server system comprises a subscriber platform which |
| 5796710 |
Information recording medium encoded to enable track following and method of recording |
August 18, 1998 |
| System for recording/writing on a recording medium in which there are distributed, on the tracks, groups (G0) of tracks with positive continuous components and groups (G1) of tracks with negative continuous components. In reading, the values of the different signals are integrated for ea |
| 5777600 |
Process for coding character colors in video systems and device using this process |
July 7, 1998 |
| The invention concerns a process for coding the colors of characters in a video system, which includes a character generator making use of character models comprising at least two zones, and wherein a single color attribute whose level is higher than page level is used to determine the c |
| 5694345 |
Hardware efficient interpolation filter |
December 2, 1997 |
| An interpolation filter includes a subtractor, a weighting circuit and an adder, wherein the subtractor is conditioned to form differences of adjacent original samples, and the weighting circuit weights the differences with a predetermined value. The adder is arranged to a) pass an o |
| 5689391 |
Magneto-optic multitrack reading head having a plurality of reflective rays |
November 18, 1997 |
| A magneto-optic multitrack reading head on which incident light impinges. The magneto-optic head includes a first layer of magnetic material exhibiting a Kerr effect and which partially reflects the incident light to generate a first reflection ray and which partially transmits the i |
| 5640285 |
Information recording medium encoded to enable track following |
June 17, 1997 |
| System for recording/writing on a recording medium in which there are distributed, on the tracks, groups (G0) of tracks with positive continuous components and groups (G1) of tracks with negative continuous components. In reading, the values of the different signals are integrated for ea |
| 5625464 |
Continuous television transmission reproduction and playback |
April 29, 1997 |
| A receiver/recorder of television transmissions is disclosed which operates automatically on a stand-by basis to record continuously television transmissions from at least one channel onto a reusable large capacity recording medium such as a magnetooptic disk. The recording is accomp |
| 5602600 |
Device for transparently displaying characters in a video system by forming a weighted average o |
February 11, 1997 |
| A device for displaying characters in a video system, the characters being able to be displayed transparently against a background consisting of the normal television image. The device inserts the text into the original video signal, then forms the weighted average of the signal includin |
