Patents by Inventor Colum H. KIRK

Colum H. KIRK has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Video test process integrated in a set-top-box
    Patent number: 8561122
    Abstract: A device, such as a set-top box, may include logic to allow television customers to automatically test and adjust the quality of the displayed video signal. A set-top box may receive a user selection of whether to perform a video test using an automatic loopback test sequence or a user subjective test sequence. The set-top box may perform, when the automatic loopback test sequence is selected, a video quality test that may include transmitting a signal from the set-top box, receiving a loopback version of the video signal, and comparing the received loopback version of the video signal to the transmitted signal. The set-top box may perform, when the user subjective test sequence is selected, a video quality test that may include displaying one or more test patterns to a user and receiving feedback from the user relating to a quality of the displayed test patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Colum H. Kirk, David Taiyung Kao
  • VIDEO TEST PROCESS INTEGRATED IN A SET-TOP-BOX
    Publication number: 20100053337
    Abstract: A device, such as a set-top box, may include logic to allow television customers to automatically test and adjust the quality of the displayed video signal. A set-top box may receive a user selection of whether to perform a video test using an automatic loopback test sequence or a user subjective test sequence. The set-top box may perform, when the automatic loopback test sequence is selected, a video quality test that may include transmitting a signal from the set-top box, receiving a loopback version of the video signal, and comparing the received loopback version of the video signal to the transmitted signal. The set-top box may perform, when the user subjective test sequence is selected, a video quality test that may include displaying one or more test patterns to a user and receiving feedback from the user relating to a quality of the displayed test patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: VERIZON BUSINESS NETWORK SERVICES INC.
    Inventors: Colum H. KIRK, David Taiyung KAO