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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2004
Masahiro Takatori, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Takatori, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A DTV module includes a CPU, a decoder, and a CA interface circuit. The decoder executes a decoding processing on a digital television signal inputted from a demodulator provided on a motherboard, so as to decode the digital television signal into a video signal and an audio signal, and outputs the video signal and audio signal. The CA interface circuit is connected to a CA module via a PC card socket, and executes input and output processings on signals communicated among the demodulator, CA module, decoder, and CPU. The CPU controls the CA interface circuit by switching types of the signals, so that a selected type of signal conforms to a type of the CA module, in response to a broadcasting system of a digital television signal or the type of the connected CA module.