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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2008
Scott Garner, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Graham Williams, Corona Del Mar, CA (US);
William L. Brown, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Scott Garner, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Graham Williams, Corona Del Mar, CA (US);
William L. Brown, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Universal Electronics Inc., Cypress, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for facilitating infrared (IR) communications from a first device, such as a set top box, to a second device, such as a remote control, in the presence of an IR noise generating device, such as a plasma television, by using at least one of the first device and the second device to actively reduce a level of IR noise being generated by the IR noise generating device during an IR transmission from the first device to the second device.