Patents by Inventor Robert Harry Heath

Robert Harry Heath 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).

  • Fast channel change in a digital television receiver
    Patent number: 8532459
    Abstract: A multiple-tuner digital video storage device, providing live-pause television program viewing from digital television program data recorded on a storage device, reduces channel change delay when changing digital television channels. The digital video storage device processes and stores video data from a digital television channel to which a channel change expected (predicted) concurrent with storing video data from a digital television channel that is currently selected. The digital video storage device substantially simultaneously reads the stored video data for the currently selected digital television channel and the predicted digital television channel, and decodes the video data of the currently selected digital television channel for presentation to a Decoding display associated with the digital video storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Robert Harry Heath, James Edwin Hailey
  • Fast Channel Change In A Digital Television Receiver
    Publication number: 20100183285
    Abstract: A multiple-tuner digital video storage device, providing live-pause television program viewing from digital television program data recorded on a storage device, reduces channel change delay when changing digital television channels. The digital video storage device processes and stores video data from a digital television channel to which a channel change is expected (predicted) concurrent with storing video data from a digital television channel that is currently selected. The digital video storage device substantially simultaneously reads the stored video data for the currently selected digital television channel and the predicted digital television channel, and decodes the video data of the currently selected digital television channel for presentation to a Decoding display associated with the digital video storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Harry Heath, James Edwin Hailey