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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Richard M. Miller-smith, Lingfield, GB;
Inventor:
Richard M. Miller-Smith, Lingfield, GB;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 1/04 (2006.01); H04J 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A decoder has tuners for receiving data from different sources. Each tuner has an associated demultiplexer controlled to select a portion of a received signal corresponding to a selected channel or channels. The demultiplexer output to a remultiplexer configured to determine selected signal portions that have overlapping addresses, to reallocate addresses of the signal portions so there is no overlap, and to multiplex the signal portions for supply to a common interface slot.