Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Richard M Miller-Smith

Bernard Hunt

David E Penna

A portable computer device has data acceptance logic () that determines whether input data items have time and location information. If not, data items are stored together with time and location information taken from clock () and location determining circuitry (), here a Global Positioning Service (GPS) system. A screen () is arranged to display data items in a time mode or a space mode. In the time mode, those data items with time information in a time interval are displayed on a time line. In a space mode, data items with time information in a display area are displayed, for example on a map of the display area. The display can be toggled between the time and space modes.

Portable computer device

An internal powerline network is provided with a routing device for routing a signal on only a part of the network. In this way the data capacity of the network is increased. The routing device is advantageously attached to the fuse box of the powerline network.

Routing device and method for a powerline network

A decoder has tuners for receiving data from different sources. Each tuner has an associated demultiplexer controlled to select a portion of a received signal corresponding to a selected channel or channels. The demultiplexer output to a remultiplexer configured to determine selected signal portions that have overlapping addresses, to reallocate addresses of the signal portions so there is no overlap, and to multiplex the signal portions for supply to a common interface slot.

Decoder supporting multiple inputs

An image control system for controlling a menu on a display, comprises a menu arranged as a plurality of simultaneously displayed menu items in a loop and a selector () to select an item from the menu, the loop and the selector being moveable with respect to each other. A user input device () comprises a control device () to generate a control signal to move the loop and the selector () relative to each other. The control device () has a loop configuration, with movement around the loop of the control device causing corresponding relative movement between the selector () and the loop of the menu. Correlation between the loop configuration of the control device and the loop of menu items enables a user to intuitively navigate around a menu of items and select a desired one.

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Lingfield, United Kingdom

Richard M Miller-Smith