Kenneth W Maze from 7509 Welch Lake Dr, Mooresville, IN 46158, age 64

Resumes

Director Of Engineering, North America Operations At Brightpoint

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Location:

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Industry:

Consumer Electronics

Us Patents

Scheduler Apparatus Employing A Gopher Agent For Use In A Television Receiver
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US Patent:

6983483, Jan 3, 2006
Filed:

Jan 18, 2001
Appl. No.:

09/765168
Inventors:

Kenneth Wayne Maze - Indianapolis IN, US
Jeffrey Philip Reavis - Indianapolis IN, US
Robert Howard Miller - Carmel IN, US
Sheila Renee Crosby - Carmel IN, US
Keith Reynolds Wehmeyer - Fishers IN, US
Hugh Boyd Morrison - Indianapolis IN, US
Megan Louise Brown - Carmel IN, US
Assignee:

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt
International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00
H04N 5/445
US Classification:

725 53, 725 58, 707 3
Abstract:

In a television system in which at least program title information for programs which are to be transmitted in the future is transmitted in advance to form a channel guide listing, apparatus is provided for searching the listing for specific user-entered information, and upon successful conclusion to the search, the apparatus schedules the tuning of the desired program, or in the alternative, notifies the viewer of the availability of the program. In those instances where descriptive text accompanies the program listing, apparatus of the invention performs a search of the text for a particular text string which may relate to the title, the star, the director, or the context of the program, among other search criteria.

Scheduler Apparatus Employing A Gopher Recording Agent For Use In A Television Receiver
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US Patent:

8205233, Jun 19, 2012
Filed:

Jun 20, 2005
Appl. No.:

11/156897
Inventors:

Kenneth Wayne Maze - Indianapolis IN, US
Jeffrey Philip Reavis - Indianapolis IN, US
Robert Howard Miller - Carmel IN, US
Sheila Renee Crosby - Carmel IN, US
Keith Reynolds Wehmeyer - Fishers IN, US
Hugh Boyd Morrison - Indianapolis IN, US
Megan Louise Brown - Carmel IN, US
Assignee:

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt
International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00
H04N 5/445
US Classification:

725 53, 725 58
Abstract:

In a television system in which at least program title information for programs which are to be transmitted in the future is transmitted in advance to form a channel guide listing, apparatus is provided for searching the listing for specific user-entered information, and upon successful conclusion to the search, the apparatus schedules the tuning of the desired program, or in the alternative, notifies the viewer of the availability of the program. In those instances where descriptive text accompanies the program listing, apparatus of the invention performs a search of the text for a particular text string which may relate to the title, the star, the director, or the context of the program, among other search criteria.

Scheduler Apparatus Employing A Gopher Agent For Use In A Television Receiver
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US Patent:

20130125174, May 16, 2013
Filed:

May 8, 2012
Appl. No.:

13/466450
Inventors:

Kenneth Wayne Maze - Indianapolis IN, US
Jeffrey Philip Reavis - Indianapolis IN, US
Robert Howard Miller - Carmel IN, US
Sheila Renee Crosby - Carmel IN, US
Keith Reynolds Wehmeyer - Fishers IN, US
Hugh Boyd Morrison - Indianapolis IN, US
Megan Louise Brown - Carmel IN, US
International Classification:

H04N 21/482
US Classification:

725 56
Abstract:

In a television system in which at least program title information for programs which are to be transmitted in the future is transmitted in advance to form a channel guide listing, apparatus is provided for searching the listing for specific user-entered information, and upon successful conclusion to the search, the apparatus schedules the tuning of the desired program, or in the alternative, notifies the viewer of the availability of the program. In those instances where descriptive text accompanies the program listing, apparatus of the invention performs a search of the text for a particular text string which may relate to the title, the star, the director, or the context of the program, among other search criteria.

Data Transfer From An External Computer To A Television Receiver Having Picture-In-Picture Capability
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US Patent:

51132591, May 12, 1992
Filed:

Apr 19, 1990
Appl. No.:

7/511269
Inventors:

Eric D. Romesburg - Indianapolis IN
Kenneth W. Maze - Indianapolis IN
David J. Duffield - Indianapolis IN
Michael S. Deiss - Zionsville IN
Billy W. Beyers - Greenfield IN
Kevin E. Bridgewater - Indianapolis IN
Assignee:

Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. - Indianapolis IN
International Classification:

H04N 5272
US Classification:

358183
Abstract:

The digitized video image data stored in a video RAM in a pix-in-pix television receiver is modified by the addition of digital data from an external computer via a computer interface circuit under control of the pix-in-pix controller. The computer interface circuit is coupled to the internal controller of the television receiver via an external input terminal. The additional digital data received from the external computer may be representative of either text or graphics to be merged into the stored video image.

Progressive Scan Television Receiver With Adaptive Memory Addressing
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US Patent:

45730806, Feb 25, 1986
Filed:

Jun 28, 1984
Appl. No.:

6/625780
Inventors:

Kenneth W. Maze - Indianapolis IN
Assignee:

RCA Corporation - Princeton NJ
International Classification:

H04N 568
H04N 591
US Classification:

358140
Abstract:

A video input signal is stored in a memory and read twice during a line-interval to provide a processed video output signal having a doubled line rate for display on a display device having a doubled horizontal sweep rate thereby providing a progressively scanned image having reduced visibility of line structure. The last address written in memory is used to control the starting time of the second memory read operation. This reduces the tendency of visible artifacts to occur in cases where the video input signal is "non-standard" in the sense that the ratio of the color subcarrier frequency with respect to the line rate is such that the number of color subcarrier cycles per line may be subject to variation.

Television On-Screen Display System Utilizing Text Data Compression
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US Patent:

60115394, Jan 4, 2000
Filed:

Dec 3, 1996
Appl. No.:

8/757687
Inventors:

Thomas H. Hamilton - Indianapolis IN
Kenneth Wayne Maze - Indianapolis IN
Assignee:

Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. - Indianapolis IN
International Classification:

H04N 5445
US Classification:

345141
Abstract:

An on-screen display system for displaying instructions for guiding a user to utilize various features of a consumer electronics product such as a television receiver or VCR, includes a memory for storing both uncompressed text data and compressed text data, and an associated microprocessor for retrieving the text data, decompressing it if necessary, and presenting it to a display buffer. Text data compression is in part accomplished by a dictionary containing text data representing commonly used text "strings" comprising one or more words which is stored in the memory. Code words related to the location of respective dictionary entries in memory are substituted for respective uncompressed text data. Text data compression is also accomplished by substituting a format change code word indicating that adjacent text data representing a first string of text with a first format, such as all lower case or mixed case, is to be converted to text data representing a second string of text with a second format, such as all upper case or title case. In this way, text data representing text differing only in format only needs to be stored once.

Television Apparatus For Simultaneous Decoding Of Auxiliary Data Included In Multiple Television Signals
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US Patent:

60550236, Apr 25, 2000
Filed:

Dec 19, 1996
Appl. No.:

8/769329
Inventors:

Mark Francis Rumreich - Indianapolis IN
Kenneth Wayne Maze - Mooresville IN
Joseph Wayne Forler - Indianapolis IN
Assignee:

Thomson Consumer Electronics - Indianapolis IN
International Classification:

H04N 544
H04N 545
H04N 5445
US Classification:

348553
Abstract:

Television apparatus includes first and second auxiliary data decoders for simultaneously extracting auxiliary data from respective first and second television signals to produce first and second auxiliary data. The data decoders can selectably extract data from one or more auxiliary data intervals, e. g. , one or more line intervals during vertical blanking within a television signal. The first and second auxiliary data is coupled to a controller such as the main microprocessor of the television system. The second auxiliary data is coupled to the controller via an auxiliary data buffer and an I. sup. 2 C serial data bus. The television signal from which the second auxiliary data is extracted can be provided by a second television signal source such as a second tuner or an external signal source (e. g. , video cassette recorder, video disk player, and the like).

Scheduler Apparatus Employing A Gopher Agent
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US Patent:

62162640, Apr 10, 2001
Filed:

Jul 25, 1996
Appl. No.:

8/687285
Inventors:

Kenneth Wayne Maze - Indianapolis IN
Jeffrey Philip Reavis - Indianapolis IN
Robert Howard Miller - Carmel IN
Sheila Renee Crosby - Carmel IN
Keith Reynolds Wehmeyer - Fishers IN
Hugh Boyd Morrison - Indianapolis IN
Megan Louise Brown - Carmel IN
Assignee:

Thomson Licensing S.A. - Boulogne
International Classification:

H04N 710
US Classification:

725 53
Abstract:

In a television system in which at least program title information for programs which are to be transmitted in the future is transmitted in advance to form a channel guide listing, apparatus is provided for searching the listing for specific user-entered information, and upon successful conclusion to the search, the apparatus schedules the tuning of the desired program, or in the alternative, notifies the viewer of the availability of the program. In those instances where descriptive text accompanies the program listing, apparatus of the invention performs a search of the text for a particular text string which may relate to the title, the star, the director, or the context of the program, among other search criteria.