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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2002
Jens Wildnagen, Weirstadt, DE;
Rolf Nöthlings, Stuttgart, DE;
Jens Wildnagen, Weirstadt, DE;
Rolf Nöthlings, Stuttgart, DE;
Sony Deutschland GmbH, Cologne, DE;
Abstract
The bandwidth of a first variable IF filter () for a neighbour channel suppression of a currently received channel, which first variable IF filter () is arranged in a first reception path of a broadcast receiver additionally comprising at least one second reception path is controlled by obtaining at least one first quality signal corresponding to a received broadcast signal on basis of a first filtering of the received and eventually pre-processed broadcast signal with said first variable IF filter () set to a predetermined bandwidth, obtaining at least one second quality signal corresponding to said received broadcast signal on basis of at least one second filtering of the received and eventually pre-processed broadcast signal with a second variable IF filter () arranged in said at least one second reception path with a bandwidth different to the first variable IF filter () bandwidth and/or with a different filter characteristic, and controlling the bandwidth of the first variable IF filter () on basis of a the at least one first quality signal and the at least one second quality signal.