Patents by Inventor Luke Fay

Luke Fay 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).

  • Patent number: 12108109
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol. In an ATSC 3.0 environment, receivers (including consumer and professional receivers) have signal reception parameters and antenna factors available to them. These reception parameters, together with time and location data are transmitted to one or more servers that maintain databases of reception characteristics. This data is analyzed such that a set of likely receivable signals (based on reception parameters, date/time, location, geographical features, transmitter information, etc.) is identified. Receivers query the servers to receive information indicating the set of likely receivable signals to reduce channel scan time by scanning only or first for more-receivable channels. Also, difficult reception locations identified in the data collected by the servers are used in aggregate to guide RF improvements (e.g., adding SFN transmitters).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 12081831
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol and more specifically various types of ATSC 3.0 signaling to deliver private content for signage to kiosks and other public displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift
  • Publication number: 20240281164
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. To improve robustness for datacast files to limited memory platforms, each file is divided into partitions and then the packets in a partition are arranged out of order (OOO), with the partitions then being sent in order with their respective packets OOO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Publication number: 20240283464
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. To improve robustness for datacast files, a checksum is provided for each source block in the file, allowing the receiver to discard only a portion of the data as defined by the length of a corrupted block in the AL-FEC parameters. A list of checksums for each source block can be included in the RepairFlow element of the service transport session instance description (S-TSID) since RepairFlow element and AL-FEC provide the breakdown of the data into source blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11996925
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. A receiver uses relative location and direction of motion of the receiver with respect to each broadcaster to determine which tuner/demodulator(s) to use to present a service and which to use to scan for services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Graham Clift
  • Publication number: 20240107111
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol. In an ATSC 3.0 environment, receivers (including consumer and professional receivers) have signal reception parameters and antenna factors available to them. These reception parameters, together with time and location data are transmitted to one or more servers that maintain databases of reception characteristics. This data is analyzed such that a set of likely receivable signals (based on reception parameters, date/time, location, geographical features, transmitter information, etc.) is identified. Receivers query the servers to receive information indicating the set of likely receivable signals to reduce channel scan time by scanning only or first for more-receivable channels. Also, difficult reception locations identified in the data collected by the servers are used in aggregate to guide RF improvements (e.g., adding SFN transmitters).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11895345
    Abstract: Techniques are described for concealing aspects of RC in the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In this way, by delivering information needed to play the RC very shortly before insertion is to occur, skipping strategies can be foiled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Publication number: 20230412858
    Abstract: Techniques are described for concealing aspects of RC in the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In this way, by delivering information needed to play the RC very shortly before insertion is to occur, skipping strategies can be foiled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11848716
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In a boundary region between first and second broadcast stations in which a receiver can pick up signals from both stations, a lower level signaling PLP is used to identify a channel quality metric for identifying the best frequency to receive a broadcast service on which is sent from both stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11838680
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In a boundary region between first and second broadcast stations in which a receiver can pick up signals from both stations, a lower level signaling PLP is used to identify frequencies duplicatively carrying the same service and then higher level PLPs are activated for each duplicate to determine a channel quality metric for identifying the best frequency to receive the service on, which is sent from both stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11825155
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. A receiver, to automatically switch from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, can temporarily use a satellite link or 5G wireless telephony or other over the top (OTT) source to acquire a service until an OTA link satisfies quality requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11812083
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Personalized store front ads are pushed to mobile devices passing stores associated with the ads using layered division multiplexing in an ATSC 3.0 signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11743309
    Abstract: A method of a reception apparatus for receiving transmission frames. The method includes receiving, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, the transmission frames transmitted on one millisecond boundaries. Each of the transmission frames includes a bootstrap, a preamble, and a payload. The method further includes determining, by the circuitry, an absolute point of time at a predetermined position in a stream of the transmission frames based on first time information included in a first one of the transmission frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11711568
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In a boundary region between first and second broadcast stations in which a receiver can pick up signals from both stations, a primary tuner receiving signals from plural antennae presents a demanded service while a secondary tuner uses a single antenna to scan for duplicate transmissions of the service, with handing off between the tuners being effected between scanning and service presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Publication number: 20230179835
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Reverse 911 emergency alerts are personalized to a user of each receiver in the ATSC 3.0 system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11671953
    Abstract: A media rendering device and method for scan of channels on the media rendering device is provided. The media rendering device determines a first geographical region associated with a location of the media rendering device. A first set of over-the-air (OTA) channels may be communicated in the first geographical region. The media rendering device determines a second geographical region within a threshold distance from the location of the media rendering device. A second set of OTA channels may be communicated in the second geographical region. The media rendering device receives a first user input to scan the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels, and configures the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels on the media rendering device, based on the scan of the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Loren Pineda, Max Wu, Tanmay Agnihotri, Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11647178
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Test code is embedded in ATSC 3.0 content to determine whether a receiver can render the content. The results are reported back to the broadcaster, which can alter content or perform other modifications based on aggregated rendering statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Tanmay Agnihotri
  • Publication number: 20230098458
    Abstract: A media rendering device and method for scan of channels on the media rendering device is provided. The media rendering device determines a first geographical region associated with a location of the media rendering device. A first set of over-the-air (OTA) channels may be communicated in the first geographical region. The media rendering device determines a second geographical region within a threshold distance from the location of the media rendering device. A second set of OTA channels may be communicated in the second geographical region. The media rendering device receives a first user input to scan the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels, and configures the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels on the media rendering device, based on the scan of the first set of OTA channels and the second set of OTA channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: PETER SHINTANI, LOREN PINEDA, MAX WU, TANMAY AGNIHOTRI, LUKE FAY
  • Patent number: 11611790
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. An ATSC3.0 service list table (SLT) contains correlations between service IDs and frequencies so that a receiver receiving duplicate services on different frequencies in a boundary between broadcast regions can select the best frequency to tune to in order to present the service, without having to access a database to correlate service IDs to frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift
  • Patent number: 11611792
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. A receiver, to automatically switch from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, can consider not just signal strength and error rates of two frequencies carrying the same service to select which frequency to tune to, but also relative location and direction of motion of the receiver with respect to each broadcaster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Goldberg, Brant Candelore, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda