Patents Assigned to Imagine Communications Corp.
  • Patent number: 8952754
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for adaptive linearization of an amplifier system having a plurality of heterogeneous amplifier paths. An amplifier system includes a plurality of amplifier paths, each configured to provide an amplified output signal from an input signal, and a signal combiner configured to combine the amplified output signals from the plurality of amplifier paths to provide a system output, such that the system output is a non-linear function of the amplified output signals. A monitoring system is configured to sample the system output and normalize the sampled output to a signal level associated with the input signal. A signal processing component is configured to characterize the amplifier paths via an iterative adaptive linearization process, such that the system output is linear with respect to the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Kevin J. Berndsen, Dmitri Borodulin
  • Patent number: 8887154
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic partitioning of computing applications that involves partitioning a computing application based on processing requirements and available hardware resources to optimize resource usage and security across multiple platforms, and handle interprocess communications across the platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Brick Eksten, Craig White, Cristian Saceanu, Frank Belme
  • Patent number: 8819476
    Abstract: A disaster recovery system can include a plurality of resources arranged in a cloud computing environment. Each of the resources can be assignable to function within the cloud computing environment as part of one or more media systems. A content intake service can be programmed to control delivery of an incoming media asset to the cloud computing environment. A monitoring and recovery process can be programmed to monitor a primary media system to which the incoming media asset is being provided and, in response to detecting a disaster recovery condition, the monitoring and recovery process can intelligently manage selected resources of the plurality of resources based on the incoming media asset being delivered to the primary media system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Todd Stuart Roth, Stanley Robert Moote
  • Patent number: 8811499
    Abstract: A video multiviewer system may include a plurality of video inputs and a multiviewer video processor coupled to the plurality of video inputs for generating video data based upon the plurality of video inputs. The system may further include a display coupled to the multiviewer video processor for displaying multiple video windows based upon the video data, and at least one user input device. The multiviewer video processor may permit scrolling among the multiple video windows displayed on the display at a given instant and at least one other video window not displayed on the display at the given instant based upon the at least one user input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Stanley R. Moote, Daniel Mance, Chad Faragher
  • Patent number: 8803505
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for calibrating a transmitter system. A directional coupler is configured to provide a first signal representative of a forward power of an RF signal and a second signal representative of a reflected power of the RF signal. A splitting assembly is configured to generate respective third and fourth signals, each representative of the forward power, from the first signal. A switching assembly is configured to select between the second signal and the third signal. A system control is configured to determine an associated power of each of the fourth signal and a signal provided by the switching assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: William T. Chizevsky, Tracee Worel
  • Patent number: 8806534
    Abstract: Systems and/or methods are disclosed herein to identify a user interacting with a content presentation system, adaptively learn, in a passive manner, a user's pattern of accessing content over time, and globally store the user's identifying and use information. Specifically, disclosed are systems and/or methods for creating a smart channel tuner list, including determining an identity of a user interacting with a content presentation system, collecting channel switching information from the first channel to each of a plurality of second channels from the user's interaction with the content presentation system, determining a value for each of the plural second channels as a function of the channel switching information, and creating a smart channel tuner list as a function of the determined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Edward R. Beadle, John L. DeLay
  • Patent number: 8782703
    Abstract: Systems and/or methods are disclosed herein to identify a user interacting with a content presentation system, adaptively learn, in a passive manner, a user's pattern of accessing content over time, and globally store the user's identifying and use information. Specifically, disclosed are systems and/or methods for switching from a first signal provided to a second signal, including identifying a user of a first content presentation system, creating a first preferred channel list which includes channel information for each of select ones of plural signals, where the preferred channel list is created based on the identity of the user and based on channel use information for the user during a recurring first time period, presenting substantially simultaneously to the user a first signal of the select ones of plural signals in a first frame and a second signal of the select ones of plural signals in a second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Edward R. Beadle, John L. DeLay
  • Patent number: 8773469
    Abstract: A video multiviewer system may include a plurality of video scalers operating in parallel for generating initially scaled video streams by performing video scaling in at least one dimension on a plurality of video input streams. The video multiviewer system may also include at least one video cross-point switcher coupled downstream from the video scalers, and a processing unit coupled downstream from the video cross-point switcher for generating additionally scaled video streams by performing additional video scaling on the initially scaled video stream. The video scalers and the processing unit may communicate through the video cross-point switcher using a serial digital interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Marcin Andrzej Komorowski, Cristian Camer, Anthony Singh
  • Patent number: 8767778
    Abstract: A system for synchronizing unrelated information or reference signals originating from multiple sources. The signals may be in different signal formats or subject to different delays at a receiving device. The system may include a master reference time generator connected to at least one of a plurality of slave reference signal generators via a packet network. The master reference time generator may include a master reference time counter and a sampling device for sampling the master reference time counter. The master reference time generator may encode time data in master reference time packets and feed these packets into the packet network. The slave reference signal generator(s) is adapted to accept the encoded time data as an input to generate a reference signal, the phase of which is calculated based on the time elapsed since an initial time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Paul E. Briscoe, Leigh A. Whitcomb, Michel A. Poulin
  • Patent number: 8745671
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed for receiving and providing an aggregate video feed on a mobile platform. The apparatus can include a receiver configured to receive a mobile digital television signal. A file assembler is configured to provide a broadcast media stream and at least one media file from the mobile video television signal. A media library stores the at least one media file. A media player configured to selectively retrieve the at least one media file from the media library, to construct an aggregate video feed from the retrieved at least one media file and the broadcast media stream, and to output the aggregate video feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Jay C. Adrick, Robert Samuel Matheny, Jr.