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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2004
Applicants:
Pierre Busson, Grenoble, FR;
Pierre-oliver Jouffre, Grenoble, FR;
Bernard Louis-gavet, Noyarey, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/167 (2006.01); H04L 25/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated circuit is embodied on a monolithic substrate and incorporates a tuning module of the direct sampling type that is able to receive satellite digital television analog signals composed of several channels, as well as several channel decoding digital modules connected at the output of the tuning module so as to deliver respectively simultaneously several streams of data packets corresponding to several different selected channels.