Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Peter Shintani

180Patents
26h-index
76Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 7, 1994 → Sep 7, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5808694A Electronic program guide system and electronic program guide displaying method Electricity 276 Expired
US6611958B1 Electronic program guide feature for AV system Electricity 108 Expired
US6532592B1 Bi-directional remote control unit and method of using the same Electricity 108 Expired
US5646608A Apparatus and method for an electronic device control system Electricity 104 Expired
US6661472B2 Channel selection in digital television Electricity 99 Expired
US5668591A Information terminal apparatus that is remotely programmed by radio waves and that displays input keys of program functions on a display Electricity 96 Expired
US6789106B2 Selective capture and storage of A/V objects in an interactive multimedia system Electricity 81 Expired
US5751335A Viewing restricting method and viewing restricting apparatus Electricity 80 Expired
US5751371A Picture receiving apparatus Electricity 76 Expired
US6490002B1 Supplemental data path for supporting on-screen displays from external sources in a monitor/TV receiver using a secondary analog signal path Electricity 76 Expired
US5602598A Television receiver with caption display Electricity 72 Expired
US6305018A Electronic content guide system and electronic content guide displaying method Electricity 64 Expired
US6137480A Computer system using a portable card for managing security and power-saving features Physics 63 Expired
US6037998A Electronic program guide system and electronic program guide displaying method Electricity 58 Expired
US6111677A Optical remote control interface system and method Electricity 55 Expired
US8370873B2 3D TV glasses with TV mode control Electricity 54 Active
US6839903B1 Method of selecting a portion of a block of data for display based on characteristics of a display device Electricity 51 Expired
US6075570A Electronic program guide system and electronic guide displaying method Electricity 49 Expired
US5512954A Television receiver with decoder for decoding coded data from a video signal Electricity 44 Expired
US6490001B1 Apparatus and method increasing speed of receiving television broadcasts Electricity 44 Expired
US8429713B2 Method and apparatus to speed transmission of CEC commands Electricity 41 Active
US8035656B2 TV screen text capture Electricity 37 Active
US6229480A System and method for aligning an antenna Electricity 37 Expired
US5978046A Television receiver with picture-in-picture function displays titles of reduced screen programs Electricity 32 Expired
US7996869B2 Automatically reconfigurable multimedia system with interchangeable personality adapters Electricity 30 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.