Peter Shintani
180Patents
26h-index
76Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 7, 1994 → Sep 7, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.