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科技產業資訊室 (iKnow) - Michael 發表於 2015年7月9日
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Broadqast Solutions, LLC於2015年6月23日向美國德州東區聯邦地方法院同時控告戴爾(Dell)在內的二十二家廠商侵權。
原告是剛於今年(2015)三月於德州成立之公司,主要業務為消費性電子和個人電腦、無線通信裝置、網路和半導體產品;參照表四,被告分為兩群:
  • 第一群為包括東芝(Toshiba)在內的八家廠商,原告主張該些廠商侵害原告美國第8,290,035號專利的請求項1及美國第8,065,594號專利的請求項1,亦就是該些廠商的發射機產品侵害原告上開專利有關發射機的請求項;
  • 第二群為包括戴爾和LG在內的十四家廠商,原告主張該些廠商侵害原告美國第8,290,035號專利的請求項17及美國第8,649,429號專利的請求項7,亦就是該些廠商的接收機產品侵害原告上開專利有關接收機的請求項。
原告所主張受侵害之系爭專利共有三件,發明人皆為Limberg Allen Leroy,並皆由發明人輾轉讓與給Broadqast Solutions, LLC,並旋即提出本案訴訟。分別:
  • 美國第8,065,594號專利「8VSB DTV signals with PCCC and subsequent trellis coding」,2011年11月22日公告獲准,申請號US11/986,940,申請日2007年11月27日,優先權日2007年6月29日,共有21項專利請求項(第1、8及20項為獨立項) ,使用於通過在空間之中播送於特定殘留邊帶數位電視廣播信號中發送輔助資料之方法,優點為該方法避免了限制代碼字的長度之需求,以便使每個代碼字準確地符合於一相應的有效資料淨荷段的184個字元寬度之內,該方法決定在允許所發送碼字恢復資料之渦輪解碼過程中之迭代;
  • 美國第8,290,035號專利「Systems for reducing adverse effects of deep fades in DTV signals designed for mobile reception」,2012年10月16日公告獲准,申請號US12/218,131,申請日2008年7月11日,優先權日2007年7月11日,共有19項專利請求項(第1、6、10及17項為獨立項) ,使用於通過機動車輛中接收設備接收數位電視廣播信號,優點為在渦輪解碼之軟式決策的處理中允許使用交錯播放接收的複雜方法;
  • 美國第8,649,429號專利「Systems for reducing adverse effects of deep fades in DTV signals designed for mobile reception」,2014年2月11日公告獲准,申請號US13/619,054,申請日2012年9月10日,優先權日2007年7月11日,共有9項專利請求項(第1、6及7項為獨立項) ,使用於以殘留邊帶調幅(VSB AM)用於傳送數位電視廣播信號之發送設備,優點為發射機的效率和信號傳輸品質可以獲得改善,先進的殘留邊帶( AVSB)調幅系統的解碼性能可以通過降低先進的殘留邊帶( AVSB)調幅系統的信噪比獲得改善,於渦輪碼的解碼期間內接收機所消耗的功率可以減少,從而改進接收機記憶體中渦輪解碼的性能。 
系爭專利領域涉及用於數位電視廣播之應用的關鍵技術;並和殘留邊帶(AVSB)調幅系統相關,原告將系爭專利之請求項分成兩組,針對使用相關技術之發射機和接收機,分別控告不同的廠商,但系爭專利未經法院攻防驗證其有效性,且亦未經過如再發證(Reissue)等補強,而原告選擇同時控告如此多廠商,花費如此大成本,可確定的是原告對系爭專利應該深具信心,但被告都是身經百戰的大公司,結果是否能如原告所願,值得觀察!(1500字;表4)
 
表一、系爭專利組合基本資料及代表圖示:Broadqast Solutions, LLC v. 戴爾等被告
系爭專利1
專利名稱 8VSB DTV signals with PCCC and subsequent trellis coding  pclass_11317a_20150709.gif
公告號 US 8,065,594
公告類型 B2
申請號 US 11/986,940
公告日 2011年11月22日
申請日 2007年11月27日
優先權日 2007年06月29日
發明人 Limberg Allen Leroy
原專利權人 Limberg Allen Leroy
目前專利權人 Broadqast Solutions, LLC
專利家族  US20090003459A1
 US20090016432A1
 US20090052544A1
 US20110222609A1
 US20130002962A1
 US8290035B2
 US8290060B2
 US8386896B2
 US8649429B2
系爭專利2
專利名稱 Systems for reducing adverse effects of deep fades in DTV signals designed for mobile reception  pclass_11317b_20150709.gif
公告號 US 8,290,035
公告類型 B2
申請號 US 12/218,131
公告日 2012年10月16日
申請日 2008年07月11日
優先權日 2007年07月11日
發明人 Limberg Allen Leroy
原專利權人 Limberg Allen Leroy
目前專利權人 Broadqast Solutions, LLC
專利家族  US20090003459A1
 US20090016432A1
 US20090052544A1
 US20110222609A1
 US20130002962A1
 US8295594B2
 US8290060B2
 US8386896B2
 US8649429B2
系爭專利3
專利名稱 Elementary Stream Multiplexer  pclass_11317c_20150709.gif
公告號 US 8,649,429
公告類型 B2
申請號 US 09/265,486
公告日 2002年12月03日
申請日 1999年03月09日
發明人 Allen LeRoy Limberg
原專利權人 Allen LeRoy Limberg
目前專利權人  
專利家族  US20090003459A1
 US20090016432A1
 US20090052544A1
 US20110222609A1
 US20130002962A1
 US8295594B2
 US8640035B2
 US8290060B2
 US8386896B2
Source:科技政策研究與資訊中心—科技產業資訊室整理,2015/07
 
表二(1)、系爭專利US 8,290,035 Claim 1請求項解析 
1.  In transmitter apparatus for a digital television broadcast signal manifested as an electromagnetic wave subjected to vestigial sideband amplitude modulation in accordance with an eight-level modulating signal, said eight-level modulating signal formed by two-thirds trellis coding of convolutionally byte-interleaved 207-byte Reed-Solomon codewords generated from 187-byte packets beginning with respective 3-byte headers and concluding with respective 184-byte contents, the improvement wherein:
1.  在用作一數位電視廣播信號發送設備中顯現為根據一八電平調製信號而經過殘留邊帶調幅調制之一電磁波,該八電平調製信號由以各自3字元封包頭開始並包含相應184字元內容的從187字元封包所產生之迴旋字元交錯207位元里德所羅門碼字元的三分之二網格編碼所形成,其中改進為:

the contents of special ones of said 187-byte packets encapsulate respective segments of byte-interleaved parallel concatenated convolutional codewords;
該187字元封包之特別一些的該內容封裝字元交錯之平行串接迴旋碼字元的對應節;

the headers of said special ones of said 187-byte packets indicate their special nature;
該187字元封包之特別一些的該封包頭指示它們特別的性質;

said parallel concatenated convolutional codewords encode Reed-Solomon-coded ancillary data, time-division multiplexing bytes of said Reed-Solomon-coded ancillary data with bytes of a first parity determination and with bytes of a second parity determination; and
該平行串接迴旋碼字元編碼里德所羅門所編碼的輔助數據,以一第一奇偶判定字元與一第二奇偶判定字元分時多工該里德所羅門所編碼的輔助數據之字元;及

the byte interleaving of said parallel concatenated convolutional codewords disposes the bytes of each of them transversally within the contents of said special ones of said 187-byte packets.
該平行串接迴旋碼字元的該位元交錯橫向地放置其中每一該字元於該187字元封包之該特別一些的該內容之中。
Source:科技政策研究與資訊中心—科技產業資訊室整理,2015/07
 
表二(2)、系爭專利US 8,065,594 Claim 1請求項解析 
1.      A method for transmitting ancillary data within an 8VSB digital television broadcasting signal, said method comprising the steps of:
1.  一種用於一8殘留邊帶數位電視廣播信號內發送輔助資料的方法,所述方法包含下列步驟:

coding said ancillary data using parallelly concatenated convolutional codes, which step generates coded ancillary data;
使用平行串接迴旋碼來編碼該輔助數據,其中生成已編碼輔助數據之步驟;

placing said coded ancillary data within 1656-bit data segments;
置放該已編碼輔助數據於1656位元資料段內;

time-division multiplexing said 1656-bit data segments having said coded ancillary data placed therewithin, together with any other 1656-bit data segments to be included in said 8VSB digital television broadcasting signal, to form a stream of 1656-bit data segments;
分時多工具有該已編碼輔助數據已置放於其內之1656位元資料段,連同被包括於8殘留邊帶數位電視廣播信號之任何其他1656位元資料段,而形成1656位元資料段的一數據流;

convolutionally byte interleaving successive 8-bit bytes of said stream of 1656-bit data segments to generate byte-interleaved data;
迴旋字元交錯1656位元資料段的該數據流之連續8位元字元來生成字元交錯資料;

symbol coding said byte-interleaved data to generate symbol codes, which step includes ⅔ trellis coding said byte-interleaved data;
符號編碼該字元交錯資料來生成符號碼,其中步驟包含⅔網格編碼該字元交錯資料;

generating plural-level 8 VSB modulating signal responsive to said symbol codes ; and
響應該符號碼產生一群層次的8殘留邊帶調製信號;及

modulating a radio-frequency carrier wave responsive to said plural-level 8 VSB modulating signal to generate said 8VSB digital television broadcasting signal.
響應於該群層次的8殘留邊帶調製信號而調制一射頻載波來產生該8殘留邊帶數位電視廣播信號。
Source:科技政策研究與資訊中心—科技產業資訊室整理,2015/07
 
表二(3)、系爭專利US 8,290,035 Claim 17請求項解析 
17.  Receiver apparatus for receiving 8-VSB digital television broadcast signals each manifested as an electromagnetic wave subjected to vestigial sideband amplitude modulation in accordance with an eight-level modulating signal, said eight-level modulating signal formed by two-thirds trellis coding of 207-byte Reed-Solomon codewords generated from 187-byte packets and convolutionally byte-interleaved before said two-thirds trellis coding, the contents of special ones of said 187-byte packets each encapsulating data bits and parity bits of parallel concatenated convolutional coding of ancillary data, the headers of said special ones of said 187-byte packets indicative of their special nature, said parallel concatenated convolutional coding encoding ancillary data, said receiver apparatus comprising:
17.在用作接收一8殘留邊帶數位電視廣播信號接收設備中每一顯現為根據一八電平調製信號而經過殘留邊帶調幅調制之一電磁波,該八電平調製信號由207位元里德所羅門碼字元的三分之二網格編碼所形成,於該三分之二網格編碼之前從187位元封包和迴旋字元交錯而產生,該187字元封包之特別一該內容每一封裝輔助資料之平行串接迴旋碼的資料位元和奇偶字元,該187字元封包之特別一該封包頭指示它們特別的性質,該平行串接迴旋碼編碼輔助資料,該接收器裝置包含:

apparatus for converting a selected 8VSB digital television signal received as an amplitude-modulated radio-frequency carrier to a baseband digital television signal, which apparatus includes front-end circuitry, an analog-to-digital converter, a demodulator for 8VSB digital television signals and a channel equalization filter;
用於將一調幅射頻載波所接收之一所選定的8殘留邊帶數字電視信號轉換為一基頻數位化電視信號之裝置,其裝置包含前端電路、一類比至數位轉換器、一用於8殘留邊帶數位電視信號的解調器和一個通道等化濾波器;

a 12-phase trellis decoder connected for providing trellis decoding results that include soft decisions concerning symbols in said baseband digital television signal, said 12-phase trellis decoder connected to receive baseband digital television signal from said apparatus for converting a selected 8VSB digital television signal received as an amplitude-modulated radio-frequency carrier to a baseband digital television signal; and
一12相網格解碼器連接用於提供網格譯碼結果,其包括關於在該基頻數位化電視信號之軟式決策,該12相網格解碼器連接到從該裝置接收基頻數位化電視信號,該裝置用於將一調幅射頻載波所接收之一所選定的8殘留邊帶數字電視信號轉換為一基頻數位化電視信號之裝置;及

further apparatus connected for decoding selected portions of said trellis decoding results conveying said parallel concatenated convolutional coding that encodes said ancillary data, thus to reproduce said ancillary data in at least substantially its original form.
裝置更連接用於解碼該網格譯碼結果傳送該平行串接迴旋碼編編碼該輔助資料的該所選部分,從而至少本質地再現該輔助資料成其原來的形式。
Source:科技政策研究與資訊中心—科技產業資訊室整理,2015/07
 
表二(4)、系爭專利US 8,649,429 Claim 7請求項解析 
7.      Receiver apparatus for receiving a digital television broadcast signal manifested as an electromagnetic wave subjected to vestigial sideband amplitude modulation in accordance with an eight-level modulating signal, said eight-level modulating signal formed at least in part by 12-phase two-thirds trellis coding of convolutionally byte-interleaved 207-byte Reed-Solomon codewords generated from 187-byte packets beginning with respective 3-byte headers and concluding with respective 184-byte contents, wherein the contents of selected ones of said 187-byte packets encapsulate data bits of parallel concatenated convolutional coding of ancillary digital data, said data bits of said parallel concatenated convolutional coding being temporally interleaved with first and second sets of parity bits of said parallel concatenated convolutional coding that are also encapsulated in said selected ones of said 187-byte packets, said receiver comprising:
7.  在用作一數位電視廣播信號接收設備中顯現為根據一八電平調製信號而經過殘留邊帶調幅調制之一電磁波,該八電平調製信號由迴旋交錯之207位元里德所羅門碼字元的12相位三分之二網格編碼所形成,從以自3字元封包頭開始並包含相應184字元內容的187字元封包所產生,其中該187字元封包之所選擇一該內容封裝輔助數位化資料之平行串接迴旋碼的資料位元,該平行串接迴旋碼的該資料位元被暫時地以被封裝於該187字元封包之所選擇一內之該平行串接迴旋碼的奇偶位元之第一和第二群交錯,該接收機包括:

apparatus for converting the received improved digital television broadcast signal to a digitized baseband signal;
裝置用於轉換該所接收到改進的數位電視廣播信號為一數字化的基頻信號;

a 12-phase trellis code decoder connected for reproducing said convolutionally byte-interleaved 207-byte Reed-Solomon codewords responsive to said digitized baseband signal;
一12相網格碼解碼器連接用於再現響應於該數字化的基頻信號之該迴旋字元交錯化207字元里德所羅門碼字元;

memory operable for de-interleaving said convolutionally byte-interleaved 207-byte Reed-Solomon codewords reproduced by said 12-phase trellis code decoder, thus to supply de-interleaved 207-byte Reed-Solomon codewords;
可操作以用於解交錯由該12相網格碼解碼器所再現之該迴旋字元交錯化207字元里德所羅門碼字元之記憶體,從而提供解交錯207字元里德所羅門碼字元;

a decoder for decoding said de-interleaved 207-byte Reed-Solomon codewords to recover 187-byte packets; and
用於解碼該解交錯207字元里德所羅門碼字元來恢復187字元封包之一解碼器;及

apparatus for decoding the contents of said selected ones of said 187-byte packets that encapsulate data bits of said parallel concatenated convolutional coding of ancillary digital data temporally interleaved with first and second sets of parity bits of said parallel concatenated convolutional coding, thus to recover said ancillary digital data.
裝置,用於解碼該187字元封包之該所選擇一的該內容,其暫時地以該平行串接迴旋碼的奇偶位元之第一和第二群交錯而封裝輔助數字資料的該平行串接迴旋碼之資料位元,從而恢復該輔助數位化資料。
Source:科技政策研究與資訊中心—科技產業資訊室整理,2015/07
 
表三、專利訴訟案件基本資料:Broadqast Solutions, LLC v. 戴爾等被告
提告日期 2015/6/23
原告 Broadqast Solutions, LLC
訴訟法院 Texas Eastern District Court
系爭專利 第一組
Transmitter
US 8290035 B2 (Claim1)

US 8065594 B2 (Claim1)
第二組
Recevier
US 8290035 B2  (Claim17)

US 8649429 B2  (Claim7)
訴狀下載 download.gif
Source:科技政策研究與資訊中心—科技產業資訊室整理,2015/07
 
表四、原告Broadqast Solutions, LLC同日基於系爭專利組合向相同法院所起訴之案件
系爭專利組合 案號 被告 被控侵權產品(不限於)
Transmitter US8290035 (claim 1)
US8065594 (claim 1)
2:15-cv-01131 Belden Inc. et al Elite 1000 Transmitter
2:15-cv-01139 Toshiba International Corporation GT-Series TV Transmitter
2:15-cv-01138 Screen Service America LLC SDT 202 ARK-1 ATSC
2:15-cv-01133 Elettronika America, Inc. et al ATSC, ATSC M/H Transmitter
2:15-cv-01136 Harris Corporation Maxiva ULX and UAX UHF transmitters
2:15-cv-01140 UBS-Axcera, Inc. MHPM-A Axcera ATSC Mobile DTV Preprocessor/Multiplexer
2:15-cv-01137 Rohde & Schwarz USA, Inc. R&S NV8600 UHF Transmitter Family for TV
2:15-cv-01132 Computer Modules, Inc. DVEO eYe Grabber ATSC M/H
Recevier US8290035 (claim 17)
US8649429 (claim 7)
2:15-cv-01126 Panasonic Corporation of North America AN26072A, AN26021A VHF/UHF low-noise amplifiers for mobile devices
2:15-cv-01116 Belkin International, Inc. F5L110 Dyle mobile TV receiver
2:15-cv-01119 ESCORT Inc. Mobile TV Receiver
2:15-cv-01130 Voxx International Corporation et al
  • AVDDTV1 Audiovox Mobile DTV Tuner
  • WIDTV1 Audiovox Mobile TV Receiver
  • DTV200 Accele Digital Dual TV Tuner
2:15-cv-01120 Firebird Systems, Inc. DMT9.3 Firebird Car TV Tuner
2:15-cv-01123 LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc.
  • DP570MH Portable DVD Player with Mobile DTV 
  • 2160A, 2160R, 2161R
2:15-cv-01115 Accele Electronics, Inc. DTV200 accele digital dual TV tuner
2:15-cv-01117 Dell Inc. Inspiron Mini 10 netbook with built-in digital TV tuner
2:15-cv-01118 Elgato Systems LLC EyeTV Mobile
2:15-cv-01125 NESA International Inc. NSC-103MH Nesa Ceiling Mount Monitor with built-in DVD/USB/SD/ATSC-MH
Digital TV tuner
2:15-cv-01121 Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. 01404 WinTV-Aero-m
2:15-cv-01128 Vision Tech America, Inc. Boyo VT-MHC ATSC, ATSC M/H Tuner
Combo
2:15-cv-01127 Samsung Electronics America Inc SCH-R940 Galaxy S Lightray 4G
2:15-cv-01122 Innovative DTV Solutions, Inc.
  • DMT270R RCA 7 Mobile DTV 
  • DMT580DU RCA 8 Mobile TV Tablet
Source:科技政策研究與資訊中心—科技產業資訊室整理,2015/07
 
 
 
 
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