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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2001
Akihiko Hitomi, Osaka, JP;
Akio Inoue, Nara, JP;
Yoshikazu Otsubo, Hirakata, JP;
Takayuki Hamabata, Nara, JP;
Akihiko Hitomi, Osaka, JP;
Akio Inoue, Nara, JP;
Yoshikazu Otsubo, Hirakata, JP;
Takayuki Hamabata, Nara, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a digital broadcast receiver which comprises a tunerfor selecting the desired broadcasting station from among a plurality of broadcasting stations, a demodulator circuitfor decoding a plurality of bit frames constituting the digital broadcast of the selected station, and a control circuitfor controlling the operation of the tuner and the demodulator circuit. With one broadcasting station selected, the control circuitstops decoding at least one of the bit frames, and searches for other broadcasting station or stations of satisfactory reception condition utilizing free time resulting from stopping decoding. Upon the reception condition becoming impaired, the station being received is changed over to the station of satisfactory reception condition by the control circuit
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