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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2003
Jae-hwui Bae, Daejon, KR;
Jae-hyun Seo, Daejon, KR;
Seung-won Kim, Daejon, KR;
Soo-in Lee, Daejon, KR;
Jae-Hwui Bae, Daejon, KR;
Jae-Hyun Seo, Daejon, KR;
Seung-Won Kim, Daejon, KR;
Soo-In Lee, Daejon, KR;
Abstract
There is provided to an apparatus and method for selecting a beam having an optimal channel characteristic among multiple beams, which are formed at a digital TV receiver employing a switched beamforming part. The beam selecting apparatus of the digital TV receiver having a switched beamformer and a channel equalize includes: a correlating unit for calculating cross-correlation values with respect to previous known Field Sync signals and Field Sync signals of beams having energy larger than a predefined value among beams outputted from the switched beamformer; a channel profile extracting unit for extracting multi-path channel profiles of the beams by using the cross-correlation values; an effective signal path searching unit for obtaining the number of effective signal paths having values larger than a predefined threshold based on the channel profiles; and a beam selecting unit for selecting beams of a channel profile having the smallest number of the effective signal paths among the beams outputted from the switched beamforming means as an input beam of the channel equalizer.