| TAIPEI (30 TH August 2005) - Taiwan Intellectual Property Office granted patent on AVerMedia's Cardbus TV tuners, the devices that enable both digital and analog video /audio data to flow into notebook computers via PCMCIA, Cardbus or Express Card interfaces. The patented devices provide the transmission of video and audio signals to a Notebook.
This patent innovates the structure and processing procedure of video/audio data transmission between TV tuners and notebook computers. The devices transform video/audio signals to digital video/audio data, and then transmit these data to the notebook computers via PCMCIA, Cardbus or Express Card high speed interface. The patented designs fully utilize the high-speed data transmission capability of PCMCIA, CardBus and Express Card interface to transmit digital video/ audio data to notebook computers, and make use of processing ability of notebook to encode the video/audio data to MPEG-2 compressed format.
”Notebook computers have rapidly become more popular than desktops in the past few years. As the coverage of digital TV broadcast becomes more widely available, we expect great demands of using notebooks as a portable TV and digital TV recorders.” said Dr. Yang, CTO of AVerMedia. AVerMedia was the first to develop CardBus TV tuners in early 2004 and had filed patent applications for the innovative designs. In August 2005, the Intellectual Property Office of Ministry of Economics Affairs in Taiwan granted the patent which cover both digital and analog TV tuners and capture cards with PCMCIA, CardBus and Express Card interfaces.
In order to maintain the best video and audio quality and reduce power consumption and overheating, AverMedia designed in top quality silicon tuner and advanced power saving technology with gold-plated SMB RF connectors. The design can minimize the loss of TV signals and preserve stable video and audio signals. AVerTV Hybrid+FM CardBus is one of the recent popular products that applies the technology protected by this patent. |
