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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:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
May. 19, 2003
Applicants:
Todd A. Toporski, Northville, MI (US);
J. William Whikehart, Novi, MI (US);
Inventors:
Todd A. Toporski, Northville, MI (US);
J. William Whikehart, Novi, MI (US);
Assignee:
Visteon Global Technologies, Inc., Van Buren Township, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A radio receiver performs a fast tune to a target frequency channel potentially containing a hybrid broadcast signal for determining whether analog signal contained in the hybrid broadcast signal contains an identifying data indicating the presence of a digital broadcast station before attempting to decode a digital signal contained in the hybrid broadcast signal.