Patents Examined by Sihar A Karwan
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Patent number: 9088750Abstract: According to a picture-in-picture (PIP) system and method, a first image sensor device detects light from a first subject and generates a first signal indicative of image data for the first subject. A second image sensor device detects light from a second subject and generates a second signal indicative of image data for the second subject. Overlay logic combines the first and second signals to generate a picture-in-picture signal indicative of a combination of an image of the first subject and an image of the second subject, wherein the overlay logic is located within the first image sensor device. The first image sensor device generates a synchronization signal which is received by the second image sensor device and triggers the second image sensor device to generate the second signal indicative of image data for the second subject.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Wei Deng
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Patent number: 9049495Abstract: An information processing system comprising a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus, wherein the transmitting apparatus comprises: a data embedding unit configured to generate a video signal by embedding image data in an effective display portion of the video signal and embedding control data for controlling processing to be executed using the image data in a portion of the video signal in which the image data is not embedded, and wherein the receiving apparatus comprises: a dividing unit configured to receive the video signal from the transmitting apparatus and divide the video signal into the image data and the control data.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Makoto Ikeda
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Patent number: 9038111Abstract: A receiver receives channel selection related information. The receiver determines to switch to presenting content being received from a provider. Such switching may involve powering on the receiver and/or switching from other operations that do not present received content. The receiver selects a channel based at least one the information and transmits content associated with the selected channel to a presentation device. In various implementations, the information may be received from the content provider, from a user, by monitoring accessed content, and so on. In some implementations, the information may include data specifying a particular channel to select, a commonly accessed channel to select, a characteristic of commonly accessed content that may be used to select a channel associated with content with a similar characteristic, a particular specified characteristic that may be used to select a channel associated with content with a similar characteristic, and so on.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.Inventor: Sagar Bankim Zaveri
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Patent number: 9038118Abstract: A mechanism for booking events comprising an event broker, one or more event managers and one or more action handlers. In one embodiment, the event broker is configured to register a plurality of event bookings, each of which identifies an event and a corresponding action. For each event booking, the event broker notifies an event manager which is configured to detect the type of event identified in the event booking. When the event manager detects the identified event, it notifies the event broker. The broker then notifies an action handler which is configured to initiate the type of action identified in the event booking. The action handler then initiates the action. If the event booking is non-recurring and the action is complete, the event booking is unregistered by the event broker.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: OpenTV, Inc.Inventors: Ludovic Pierre, Thierry Godin, Rama Kalluri, Jino Nguyen
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Patent number: 9027045Abstract: The likelihood of consumption of a linear content stream may be determined. Information that includes data indicative of user interaction with a client device may be received. The information may correspond to a period during which the client device received linear content. The likelihood of consumption may be determined for that period based on the received information.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Eric Andrew Hansen, David H. Woolsey, Nathan A. Purser
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Patent number: 9027056Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes a content list display module, a content register and a controller. The content list display module is configured to display a list of contents capable of being acquired via a network. The content register is configured to register contents which are acquired via any of broadcasting, a recording medium and the network and on which any processing operation such as reproduction, record or reservation is performed. The controller is configured to change a display form of the contents registered in the content register into a different display form from other contents among the contents displayed in a list in the content list display module.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Masatoshi Murakami
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Patent number: 8990879Abstract: A method for providing a data application of a digital broadcasting is disclosed. In accordance with the present subject matter, a time necessary for receiving and executing the data application and a limit in a number of or a size of the data application are minimized and a personalized data application can be provided based on a receiver identification information or a viewer identification information.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wonjang Baek, John Kim, Seong Baek Lee
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Patent number: 8960922Abstract: A projector that performs light control by varying power level of a light source in response to a video signal, includes a cooling fan that cools the light source, and a control device that averages samples of the power level of the light source based on the video signal or a brightness level of the video signal acquired with respect to each unit time and performs feedback control of a rotational speed of the cooling fan based on the average value, wherein the control device varies the number of samples and calculates the average value between the cases where the power level or the brightness level is rising and falling.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shunsuke Hino
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Patent number: 8964127Abstract: A method is provided for a user-sensing remote control system including a TV and a remote control. The method includes obtaining sensing data from a plurality of sensors in the remote control related to a user of the remote control, pre-processing the sensing data, and determining a user identity space containing a plurality of possible user identities of the user using a predetermined statistical algorithm. The method also includes determining whether there is a dominant possible user identity; when it is determined that there is no dominant possible user identity, selecting one or more possible user identities from the user identity space and updating the user identity space until there is a dominant possible user identity; and when it is determined that there is a dominant possible user identity, presenting the dominant possible user identity as the identity of the user to other applications.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: TCL Research America Inc.Inventor: Haohong Wang
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Patent number: 8959564Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for creating an overlay application for use within a broadcast communications system are disclosed. A method in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention comprises collecting image data from a computer network, generating at least one selectable area within the image data, associating a function with the at least one selectable area, and selectively displaying the image data on a monitor simultaneously with a broadcast data stream, wherein selection of the at least one selectable area executes the associated function.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Thompson, Edgar C. Camacho, Manohar S. Gandla, Surya P. Dasi, Floyd Smith
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Patent number: 8937687Abstract: Systems and methods provide for graphically controlling numeric, alphanumeric or other symbol-based features on a set top box (STB) or other television receiver. A keypad image is presented on the display that includes key images corresponding to the symbol-based features. A two-dimensional input is received from the remote control that indicates one of the key images, and imagery on the display is updated in response to the received two-dimensional input.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.Inventors: Matthew Coburn, Karen Michelle Taxier, James Matthew White, Luke Vanduyn, Daniel L. Rudolph
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Patent number: 8937684Abstract: A voltage level control circuit controls a target slicing voltage level to slice a video signal by a target circuit. The voltage level control circuit includes a slicing circuit for sequentially slicing the video signal by a plurality of slicing voltage levels to correspondingly generate a plurality of first clock signals; a detection circuit for respectively detecting a plurality of phase differences between the first clock signals and a plurality of corresponding second clock signals to generate a plurality of detection signals; an oscillating circuit for generating the second clock signals according to the detection signals, respectively; and an adjusting circuit for determining whether to adjust the target slicing voltage level according to the detection signals corresponding to the slicing voltage levels.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Shao-Chih Wu, Chien-Hung Chen, Wei-Shu Wong
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Patent number: 8908092Abstract: Methods, systems and devices described herein improve vertical resolution at sides of a four cornered image produced by a scanning projector display device. In accordance with an embodiment, a first plurality of frames (e.g., odd frames) of the image are scanned back and forth from side to side starting at a first line level, in one of the corners. Additionally, a second plurality of frames (e.g., even frames) of the image are scanned back and forth from side to side, starting at a vertical offset level from the first line level, in the same one of the corners. The scanning of the first plurality of frames (e.g., the odd frames) is interleaved with the scanning of the second plurality of frames (e.g., the even frames).Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Intersil Americas LLCInventors: Morgan Tang, Peter J. Mole, Jayant Vivrekar
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Patent number: 8908110Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including an audio adjustment unit configured to adjust focus values each indicating a degree of highlighting of audio data of each content displayed in a plurality of display areas.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kosei Yamashita, Atsushi Hashizume, Hideyuki Matsunaga
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Patent number: 8891022Abstract: Boot-up delay within a television receiver IC is substantially reduced by loading a portion of an operating program into the television receiver IC to enable execution of time-consuming receiver initialization operations, and then executing the receiver initialization operations concurrently with loading the remainder of the operating program into the television receiver IC. By this operation, the time required to execute the receiver initialization operations may be at least partly hidden under the time required to load the operating program, thereby substantially reducing the boot-up delay.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Telegent Systems, Inc.Inventors: Shaori Guo, Zu Bing Yuan, Andrew J. Burstein
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Patent number: 8869187Abstract: Methods and apparatus to determine audience viewing of recorded programs are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises processing first bus information obtained by monitoring a bus of a time shifting device to determine a record time corresponding to when the time-shifting device stored data associated with first media content being recorded for later presentation, processing second bus information obtained by monitoring the bus of the time shifting device to determine a playback time corresponding to when the time-shifting device later retrieved the data to present the recorded first media content, and estimating a possible distribution time corresponding to when the first media content was initially distributed to the time-shifting device based on a difference between the playback time and the record time.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: David Howell Wright, Joseph Milavsky, Morris Lee, William A. Feininger, Charles Conklin, Vasiliki Koutsopanagos, Arun Ramaswamy
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Patent number: 8860881Abstract: A digital signage system includes at least one set of differential transmission lines, a transmitter, at least one receiver, and at least one digital signage device. Each set of differential transmission lines includes four pairs of differential transmitting lines. The transmitter converts image and/or audio signal into first to third pairs of differential signals for output to the first to third pairs of differential transmission lines, and receives remote-captured video and/or audio signal via the fourth pair of differential transmission lines. The receiver receives the first to third pairs of differential signal from the first to third pairs of differential transmission lines, and extracts the video and/or audio signal to be displayed on the digital signage device. The receiver receives and processes a remote-captured video and/or audio signal from a remote capture device, and transmits such signal back to the transmitter via the fourth pair of differential transmission lines.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Aten International Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fu-Chin Shen, Kuo-Feng Kao
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Patent number: 8836868Abstract: An information processing apparatus including an interface that receives a wireless signal, a power supply that converts an input direct current (DC) power supply into a predetermined voltage by switching the input DC power supply at a switching frequency to generate a driving power supply, and a controller that controls the switching frequency based on a condition of the interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventor: Tadashi Sasaki
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Patent number: 8730331Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display unit which displays a calibration screen divided into a plurality of areas when a calibration mode is initiated, an image generating unit which generates a guide image for displaying an arrangement position of a calibrator, and a controlling unit which controls the display unit to display a guide image on areas where calibration is to be performed of the plurality of areas. Accordingly, it becomes possible to improve user convenience and exactness of calibration.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-yong Park, Sang-kyun Im, Nam-kyun Beon, Young-hoon Cho
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Patent number: 8687068Abstract: A pattern includes a spatial configuration of color codes. Each color code is a unique configuration of colors selected from a number of basis colors. The color codes each include the same number of colors.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Nelson Liang An Chang, Suk Hwan Lim