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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2005
Applicant:

Eugene Murphy O'donnell, Fishers, IN (US);

Inventor:

Eugene Murphy O'Donnell, Fishers, IN (US);

Assignee:

TTE Technology, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 5/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method that initializes a display device. An exemplary embodiment comprises scanning an input signal to determine the presence of a cable television signal, proceeding to normal operation of the display device if the cable television signal is present in the input signal, scanning the input signal for an over-the-air television signal if the cable television signal is not present in the input signal, and providing a message indicating potential inappropriate reception of over-the-air signals if the over-the-air television signal is present in the input signal.


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