Damien C Kessler

6373526, Apr 16, 2002

Mar 19, 1999

09/272897

Damien Kessler - San Jose CA
Mario Brotz - Mountain View CA

Sony Corporation - Tokyo
Sony Electronics Inc. - Park Ridge NJ

H04N 1100

348468, 348563, 348564

A closed caption decoder includes circuitry for processing closed caption according to the Electronic Industries Association EIA-708 and EIA-608 standards. The EIA-708 memory buffers ( ) store caption data both for the EIA-708 and the EIA-608 standards. Therefore, the decoder memory requirements are reduced.

6621528, Sep 16, 2003

May 22, 2000

09/576878

Damien Kessler - San Jose CA
David McNamara - Fremont CA

Sony Corporation - Tokyo
Sony Electronics, Inc. - Park Ridge NJ

H04N 544

348734, 725 38

A digital television autoprogramming and tuning method and apparatus. In a digital television which can tune both MPEG 2 and PSIP format signals, a method of tuning uses one or more tables of information populated during an autoprogramming process. For MPEG 2 channels, the physical channel equals the major channel number and can be directly tuned. For PSIP channels, the major channel indexes a TSID which is used to determine a physical channel. If the TSID does not correspond to the correct program, the correct TSID is determined from the Program Specific Information in the data transport stream and the system re-tunes to the correct physical channel. The autoprogramming process sequentially steps through each physical channel and populates the autoprogramming tables with information about each channel it finds, saving only a single TSID for a given major PSIP channel.

6741288, May 25, 2004

Jul 13, 2000

09/615316

Damien Kessler - San Jose CA

Sony Corporation - Tokyo
Sony Electronics, Inc. - Park Ridge NJ

H04N 712

3483851, 348554, 725 50, 725134, 725142

A method and apparatus for building and maintaining a database in a digital television receiver from information received in MPEG and PSIP tables uses the MPEG tables as a master to facilitate creating, updating, and deleting the database. Each database entry is encapsulated in a memory chain control structure such that freeing memory does not-require consideration of the specific content of data in the database.

6820196, Nov 16, 2004

Apr 9, 2001

09/827952

Damien Kessler - San Jose CA

Sony Corporation
Sony Electronics Inc. - Park Ridge NJ

G06K 15177

713 1, 713 2

A flash memory initialization sequence in a DTV set-top box of the type having a program-controlled microprocessor associated with a front panel board and a DTV board for processing at least part of an audio/visual television signal in which the sequence, upon application of start-up power, determines whether or not a selected file exists indicative of at least a partial formatting of the flash memory and causes the main DTV application to execute in the event the selected file exists. Conversely, where the selected file is not detected, the initialization sequence runs an initialization routine that at least formats a portion of the flash memory, thereafter creates the selected file indicative of the desired formating of the flash memory, and returns control to re-determine whether or not the selected file exists to cause the main DTV application to then execute.

6922846, Jul 26, 2005

Apr 9, 2001

09/827951

Damien Kessler - San Jose CA, US
Gregor Said Jackson - Los Gatos CA, US

Sony Corporation
Sony Electronics, Inc. - Park Ridge NJ

H04N007/713

725151, 725131, 725134, 725139, 713 1, 713176, 713187

An improved architecture for a set-top box that effects a reduction in memory requirements includes a front-panel board and a DTV board subject to a reset sequence and having a non-volatile memory associated therewith for storing values including a power-state value. The improved architecture eliminates the need for a non-volatile memory associated with the front-panel board by querying the power-state variable in the non-volatile memory associated with the DTV board and effecting a boot-up sequence when the power-state variable is set to ON and by effecting a reset in response to certain detected conditions.

7496944, Feb 24, 2009

Apr 29, 2004

10/821996

Damien Kessler - San Jose CA, US

Sony Corporation - Tokyo
Sony Electronics, Inc. - Park Ridge NJ

H04N 5/44

725 38, 3483851

A method and apparatus for building and maintaining a database in a digital television receiver from information received in MPEG and PSIP tables uses the MPEG tables as a master to facilitate creating, updating, and deleting the database. Each database entry is encapsulated in a memory chain control structure such that freeing memory does not require consideration of the specific content of data in the database.

7594253, Sep 22, 2009

Jul 14, 2003

10/618916

Damien Kessler - San Jose CA, US
David McNamara - Fremont CA, US

Sony Corporation - Tokyo
Sony Electronics Inc. - Park Ridge NJ

H04N 7/16

725142, 725 38, 725118, 725134, 725151, 348731, 348732, 348733, 348558, 3483881, 3483891, 3483901

A digital television autoprogramming and tuning method and apparatus. In a digital television which can tune both MPEG 2 and PSIP format signals, a method of tuning uses one or more tables of information populated during an autoprogramming process. For MPEG 2 channels, the physical channel equals the major channel number and can be directly tuned. For PSIP channels, the major channel indexes a TSID which is used to determine a physical channel. If the TSID does not correspond to the correct program, the correct TSID is determined from the Program Specific Information in the data transport stream and the system re-tunes to the correct physical channel. The autoprogramming process sequentially steps through each physical channel and populates the autoprogramming tables with information about each channel it finds, saving only a single TSID for a given major PSIP channel.

8228991, Jul 24, 2012

Sep 20, 2007

11/858672

Paul Eric Haskell - Saratoga CA, US
Andrew W. Johnson - Cupertino CA, US
Damien Kessler - Sunnyvale CA, US

Harmonic Inc. - San Jose CA

H04N 7/12

37524016

Methods and systems for video coding are provided. A method includes receiving a digital video stream. The digital video stream includes multiple sequential independent frames. The method further includes storing a first frame of the digital video stream. The method also includes encoding a second frame of the digital video stream using motion compensation with the stored first frame as a reference.