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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2006
Applicants:
David Alan Bryan, Carmel, NY (US);
Nicol SO, Newton, PA (US);
Inventors:
David Alan Bryan, Carmel, NY (US);
Nicol So, Newton, PA (US);
Assignee:
Time Warner Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2011.01); H04N 11/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A simple, cost-effective, and robust method and system to obstruct crawls, logos, and other annoying and distracting images overlaid on a video signal and displayed on a TV set or monitor is provided. The method and system may detect the presence of the unwanted images and block them automatically, or they may accept manual input from the user via a handheld control device to block or obstruct these images.