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Patent No.:

US 7154913 B1

PDFFull Text
Expired
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2001

Decoder supporting multiple inputs

Applicant:

Richard M. Miller-smith, Lingfield, GB;

Inventor:

Richard M. Miller-Smith, Lingfield, GB;

Assignee:

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorneys:

Michael E. Belk

Paul Im

Primary Examiner:

Chau Nguyen

Assistant Examiner:

Hong Sol Cho

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.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Miller-Smith, Richard. (2006). Decoder supporting multiple inputs (U.S. Patent No. 7154913). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7154913

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