Patents for H04N 7 - Television systems (274,023)
01/2006
01/04/2006CN1235150C Content providing method
01/04/2006CN1234324C Device and method for displaying movable images
01/03/2006US6983484 Control device, control method, electric apparatus, control method of an electric apparatus, electric apparatus system, control method of an electric apparatus system, and transmission medium
01/03/2006US6983483 Scheduler apparatus employing a gopher agent for use in a television receiver
01/03/2006US6983482 Data broadcast content generation system
01/03/2006US6983481 Apparatus and method for blocking television commercials with a content interrogation program
01/03/2006US6983480 Method for authorizing limited programming distribution
01/03/2006US6983479 Dynamic content activation by locating, coordinating and presenting content publishing resources such that content publisher can create or change content
01/03/2006US6983478 Method and system for tracking network use
01/03/2006US6983464 Dynamic reconfiguration of multimedia stream processing modules
01/03/2006US6983426 Method and apparatus for displaying content in an array hierarchical structure
01/03/2006US6983419 Communication apparatus, its control method, and storage medium
01/03/2006US6983373 Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium therefor
01/03/2006US6983372 BIOS lock CD-ROM encode/decode driver
01/03/2006US6983327 System and method for providing statistics for flexible billing in a cable environment
01/03/2006US6983305 Systems and methods for interfacing with a user in instant messaging
01/03/2006US6983255 Television commerce payments
01/03/2006US6983225 System and method for remotely monitoring, diagnosing, intervening with and reporting problems with cinematic equipment
01/03/2006US6983123 Apparatus and method for reusing satellite broadcast spectrum for terrestrially broadcast signals
01/03/2006US6983100 Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium
01/03/2006US6983080 Resolution and image quality improvements for small image sensors
01/03/2006US6983079 Reducing blocking and ringing artifacts in low-bit-rate coding
01/03/2006US6983075 Method and apparatus for performing selective quantization by manipulation of refinement bits
01/03/2006US6983064 Method and apparatus for visualization and manipulation of real 3-D objects in networked environments
01/03/2006US6983059 Digital watermark detecting device and method thereof
01/03/2006US6983057 Methods for embedding image, audio and video watermarks in digital data
01/03/2006US6983051 Methods for audio watermarking and decoding
01/03/2006US6983050 Methods and apparatus for protecting information content
01/03/2006US6983049 Storage devices for secure scalable data streaming
01/03/2006US6983028 Carrier restoration apparatus and method
01/03/2006US6983021 Method of encoding a sequence of frames
01/03/2006US6983020 Method and apparatus for fast block motion detection
01/03/2006US6983019 Apparatus and method for converting signals
01/03/2006US6983018 Efficient motion vector coding for video compression
01/03/2006US6983017 Method and apparatus for implementing reduced memory mode for high-definition television
01/03/2006US6983016 Method for detecting errors in video information
01/03/2006US6983015 Signal processor
01/03/2006US6983014 Image encoding device and image decoding device
01/03/2006US6983013 Method and device for encoding video signal
01/03/2006US6982990 Transmitting method, transmitting apparatus, and program storage medium
01/03/2006US6982970 Data transfer method and radio terminal for executing transport layer protocol on radio network
01/03/2006US6982780 Apparatus and method for building a playlist
01/03/2006US6982764 Image enhancement
01/03/2006US6982762 Sequence adaptive bit allocation for pictures encoding
01/03/2006US6982749 Remote control camera system and image transmission method
01/03/2006US6982748 Automatically switched camera system with indicator for notifying the next subject of the camera system
01/03/2006US6982745 Antenna level display device and method, and receiving apparatus
01/03/2006US6982743 Multispectral omnidirectional optical sensor and methods therefor
01/03/2006US6982742 Hand-held computers incorporating reduced area imaging devices
01/03/2006US6982741 Method and apparatus for coding live images in microscopy
01/03/2006US6982740 Reduced area imaging devices utilizing selected charge integration periods
01/03/2006US6982697 System and process for selecting objects in a ubiquitous computing environment
01/03/2006US6982663 Method and system for symbol binarization
01/03/2006CA2395528C Access control method in communication system
01/03/2006CA2332049C Wide-band multi-format audio/video production system with frame-rate conversion
01/03/2006CA2305368C Digital video system and methods for providing same
01/03/2006CA2281538C Object-based audio-visual terminal and bitstream structure
01/03/2006CA2233233C Frequency controlling circuit for digital television transmission
01/03/2006CA2233213C Transmitting system and method
01/03/2006CA2182057C Data coding/decoding method and apparatus and coded data recording medium
12/2005
12/30/2005CA2509051A1 Method and system for avoiding undesirable portions of a recorded audiovisual program
12/29/2005WO2005125218A1 Prediction error based segmentation refinement within a forward mapping motion compensation scheme
12/29/2005WO2005125217A1 Moving picture encoding device, moving picture recording device, and moving picture reproduction device
12/29/2005WO2005125216A1 Image compression device, image compression method, and image compression program
12/29/2005WO2005125215A1 Image data encoding device and encoding method
12/29/2005WO2005125214A2 Media player
12/29/2005WO2005125213A1 Apparatus and method for generating a transmit frame
12/29/2005WO2005125212A1 Method for video encoding and decoding process
12/29/2005WO2005125211A1 Onu and method for converting/combining frequency, and apparatus and method for converting/combining frequency in catv headend system
12/29/2005WO2005125210A1 Methods and apparatus for motion capture
12/29/2005WO2005125209A1 Method and system for surveillance of vessels
12/29/2005WO2005125208A1 Monitor and vehicle periphery monitor
12/29/2005WO2005125207A2 Portable media device and method for presenting viewing content during travel
12/29/2005WO2005125206A2 System and method for providing virtual video on demand
12/29/2005WO2005125205A1 Interactive television system and method
12/29/2005WO2005125203A1 Video-on-demand system and related managing method
12/29/2005WO2005125202A2 Mobile personal video recorder
12/29/2005WO2005125201A1 Personalized summaries using personality attributes
12/29/2005WO2005125200A2 Accessing broadcast media
12/29/2005WO2005125199A1 Terminal with video telephone function
12/29/2005WO2005125198A2 Methods and apparatus to identify viewing information
12/29/2005WO2005125197A1 System for displaying character and a method thereof
12/29/2005WO2005125191A1 Video format detector and integrated circuit comprising such video format detector as well as method for distinguishing different standards and/or types of video formats
12/29/2005WO2005125190A2 System and method of anonymous settop event collection and processing in a multimedia network
12/29/2005WO2005125189A2 Method and apparatus for simplified e-commerce shopping
12/29/2005WO2005125178A1 Content display optimizer
12/29/2005WO2005125175A1 Quantization table creating device, quantization table creating method, quantization table creation program, image compression device, image compression method, and image compression program
12/29/2005WO2005125171A1 Alarm transmission system and method
12/29/2005WO2005124735A1 Image display system, image display method, and image display program
12/29/2005WO2005124694A1 Device and method for presenting an image of the surrounding world
12/29/2005WO2005124649A2 System and method for the transmission of data
12/29/2005WO2005124583A1 Methods and apparatus to verify consumption of programming content
12/29/2005WO2005122688A2 Splicing system
12/29/2005WO2005109883A3 Method for parental control and monitoring of usage of devices connected to home network
12/29/2005WO2005093661A3 Reduced resolution update mode for advanced video coding
12/29/2005WO2005076632A3 Encoder with adaptive rate control for h.264
12/29/2005WO2005067409A3 Interface device
12/29/2005WO2004093327A3 Receiver architectures utilizing coarse analog tuning and associated methods
12/29/2005WO2004068838A3 Robust mode staggercasting reduced resolution video for mobile receiver
12/29/2005US20050289656 Network apparatus