Patents by Inventor Yaakov MERLIN

Yaakov MERLIN 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).

  • Method of displaying internet signal on TV
    Patent number: 9794621
    Abstract: A TV-Internet Integration Box allows display of first data broadcast over a TV subscriber channel simultaneously together with second data broadcast over a digital data communications network has respective first and second inputs for receiving at a user premises the first data and the second data according to a user-profile associated with the second data. A combiner unit combines the first data and second data to form a combined video signal; and a video output coupled to the combiner unit conveys the combined video signal to a TV set in a user premises for displaying a first image corresponding to a first data and having a superimposed thereon a second image corresponding to the second data. A user at the user premises may interact with the second image for redirecting to the digital data communications network and displaying a program broadcast thereby is a least a portion of the TV set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: TVNGO LTD
    Inventor: Yaakov Merlin
  • Forming overlays at user's premises and utilizing them for selective combinations of TV broadcast channel format material and IP-format material
    Patent number: 9407969
    Abstract: A method of displaying an Internet signal on a TV. Preferably, at least a portion of the Internet signal is selectively displayed by a remote activation control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: TVGOLTD
    Inventor: Yaakov Merlin
  • TV-Internet integration circuit
    Patent number: 9392339
    Abstract: A TV system for displaying TV broadcast signal and Internet signal. Preferably, the TV system is configured to simultaneously or selectively display the TV broadcast signal and Internet signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: TVNGO LTD.
    Inventor: Yaakov Merlin
  • Integrating, at user's premises, TV channel format material with IP format material through overlays
    Patent number: 9124945
    Abstract: A method for displaying a TV broadcast signal and Internet signal on a a TV. Preferably, a Web link image is displayed on the TV, which a user can select to display IP content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: TVNGO LTD
    Inventor: Yaakov Merlin
  • TV SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING TV BROADCASTS SIGNAL AND INTERNET SIGNAL
    Publication number: 20120096507
    Abstract: A TV system for displaying TV broadcast signal and Internet signal. Preferably, the TV system is configured to simultaneously or selectively display the TV broadcast signal and Internet signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: TVNGO LTD.
    Inventor: Yaakov MERLIN