H04N 21/42607
For processing the incoming bitstream
Official title: {for processing the incoming bitstream}
H04N21/42607 (For processing the incoming bitstream) appears on 2,121 US grants and 2,525 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 2,121
- Published applications
- 2,525
- Assignees
- 610
- Inventors
- 3,889
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 51 | 114 |
| 2005 | 33 | 172 |
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| 2024 | 43 | 38 |
| 2025 | 36 | 26 |
| 2026 | 15 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Global intergraded tuner apparatus and method for controlling the same22 Sep 2026US 12,744,957 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Systems and methods for delivering media assets over hybrid delivery paths22 Sep 2026US 12,744,967 B1
- Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming15 Sep 2026US 12,739,430 B2Divx, LLC
- Wireless transmission device, display device and data transmission method and stream processing method thereof1 Sep 2026US 12,726,676 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving method, and contents outputting method28 Jul 2026US 12,695,938 B2Maxell, Ltd.
- Method and tuner controller for closed-loop antenna tuning based on calibration data and relative transducer gain maximization10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270499 A1Mediatek Inc.
- Conditional access system based audience measurement13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238851 A1Nagravision Sarl
- Audio video receiver (avr) architecture23 Jul 2026US 2026/0214295 A1Lenbrook Industries Limited
- User premises fiber interconnect as-a-service7 May 2026US 2026/0129256 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Control box and display device including the same2 Apr 2026US 2026/0095617 A1LG Electronics Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multimedia time warping system1,079US 6,233,389 B1TiVo Inc. · 2001
- Television viewing center system656US 4,488,179 ARobert Bosch GmbH · 1984
- Interactive computer system for providing an interactive presentation with personalized video, audio and graphics responses for multiple viewers637US 5,861,881 AACTV, Inc. · 1999
- Method and apparatus for merging television program schedule information received from multiple television schedule information sources615US 5,550,576 AStarsight Telecast, Inc. · 1996
- Compressed digital data interactive program system462US 5,724,091 AACTV, Inc. · 1998