H04N 21/42228
The reprogrammable keys being displayed on a display screen in order to
Official title: {the reprogrammable keys being displayed on a display screen in order to reduce the number of keys on the remote control device itself}
H04N21/42228 (The reprogrammable keys being displayed on a display screen in order to) appears on 206 US grants and 275 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 206
- Published applications
- 275
- Assignees
- 104
- Inventors
- 481
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Display apparatus and display method11 Apr 2024US 2024/0121464 A1Vidaa (Netherlands) International Holdings B.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for automatically tracking a zoomed video image730US 5,610,653 A1997
- Channel bar user interface for an entertainment system386US 6,141,003 AMicrosoft Corporation · 2000
- Technique for effectively accessing programming listing information in an entertainment delivery system307US 7,174,126 B2Time Warner Interactive Video Group, Inc. · 2007
- Network based digital information and entertainment storage and delivery system187US 7,908,626 B2Time Warner Interactive Video Group, Inc. · 2011
- Virtual keypad systems and methods185US 8,065,624 B2Panasonic Corporation · 2011