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Telediffusion de France

104Patents
3Active
104Granted
43Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 14, 1977 → Aug 26, 2011 · 2 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5446747A Error-correction coding method with at least two systematic convolutional codings in parallel, corresponding iterative decoding method, decoding module and decoder Electricity 237 Expired
US5235415A Device for the intelligible consultation of data relating to the fees programs of a subscription television and/or radio service Electricity 231 Expired
US5197061A Device for the transmission of digital data with at least two levels of protection and corresponding reception device Electricity 208 Expired
US5228025A Method for the broadcasting of digital data, notably for radio broadcasting at a high bit-rate towards mobile receivers, with time-frequency interlacing and assistance in the acquisition of automatic frequency control, and corresponding receiver Electricity 187 Expired
US4881241A Method and installation for digital communication, particularly between and toward moving vehicles Electricity 171 Expired
US5452288A Method for the transmission of digital data in radio paging systems and corresponding radio paging receiver Electricity 164 Expired
US6307939A Method and equipment for allocating to a television program, which is already conditionally accessed, a complementary conditional access Electricity 143 Expired
US5196933A Encoding and transmission method with at least two levels of quality of digital pictures belonging to a sequence of pictures, and corresponding devices Electricity 131 Expired
US4980764A Method for the encoding of data for assistance in the reconstruction of a sub-sampled moving electronic image Electricity 125 Expired
US4308558A Page selection device for videotext system Electricity 116 Expired
US5315584A System of data transmission by sharing in the time-frequency space with channel organization Electricity 102 Expired
US5130793A Reconfigurable multiple-point wired in-house network for simultaneous and/or alternative distribution of several types of signals, notably baseband images, and method for the configuration of a system such as this Electricity 101 Expired
US5696902A System for management of the usage of data consultations in a telecommunication network Electricity 69 Expired
US6151578A System for broadcast of data in an audio signal by substitution of imperceptible audio band with data Electricity 67 Expired
US5742681A Process for the broadcasting of programmes with progressive conditional access and separation of the information flow and the corresponding receiver Electricity 67 Expired
US5615265A Process for the transmission and reception of conditional access programs controlled by the same operator Electricity 62 Expired
US5610944A Process and device for segmentation into sub-bands and for reconstruction of a digital signal, and corresponding device Electricity 62 Expired
US4361853A System for reducing the visibility of the noise in television pictures Electricity 60 Expired
US7146615B1 System for fast development of interactive applications Electricity 56 Expired
US5208857A Method and device for scrambling-unscrambling digital image data Electricity 50 Expired
US4580158A Video signal combining system Electricity 47 Expired
US6810006B2 OFDM signal organized so as to simplify reception Electricity 42 Expired
US6823010B1 Method for switching a first digital audio-visual program video component(s) on a second digital audio-visual program video component(s) Electricity 42 Expired
US4989087A Multi-predictive method to estimate the motion of the points of an electronic picture Physics 35 Expired
US5031038A Process and device for the compression of image data by mathematical transformation effected at low cost, particularly for the transmission at a reduced rate of sequences of images Physics 33 Expired

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