ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,060, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Faster channel change time system for ATSC 3.0" was invented by Peter Shintani (San Diego) and Fred Ansfield (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Faster channel change time in ATSC such as ATSC 3.0 is effected by using the native tuner of a display device to present a currently demanded channel and a second tuner, which can be dongle-based, to tune/scan preemptively in the background based upon heuristics such as usage pattern of the user. If the user is pressing channel-up key using a remote control, the second tuner can be scanning and tuning the next channel i...