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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2010
Donald Brian Eidson, San Diego, CA (US);
Arndt Joseph Mueller, San Diego, CA (US);
Joseph B. Soriaga, San Diego, CA (US);
Itzhak Gurantz, San Diego, CA (US);
Donald Brian Eidson, San Diego, CA (US);
Arndt Joseph Mueller, San Diego, CA (US);
Joseph B. Soriaga, San Diego, CA (US);
Itzhak Gurantz, San Diego, CA (US);
Entropic Communications, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Multiple channels of received data are processed by a multiple channel demodulation and error correction decoding engine. The statistical uncertainty of processing channels with an iterative decoder are averaged across all the channels to reduce the total processing power required of the decoding engine compared to processing each channel with a separate engine. A set of input buffers holds blocks of data for each channel needing decoding. A quality measure is computed on each input block to set the priority and iteration allocation of decoding in the common decoder. The input RF signal is digitized by a broadband tuner that processes some or all of the channels to feed the multiple channel demodulator and decoder. Multiple decoded video data streams are output.