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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Renesas Mobile Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshihiko Hotta, Tokyo, JP;

Seiichi Saito, Tokyo, JP;

Kazushige Yamagishi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 21/426 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H03J 3/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/50 (2013.01); H04N 21/4263 (2013.01); H04N 21/4383 (2013.01); H03J 3/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

A semiconductor device includes a one-segment tuner I/F that is connected to a one-segment tuner, a tuner I/F that is connected to a digital terrestrial tuner, a decoder that selectively decodes a first broadcast signal supplied from the one-segment tuner I/F and a second broadcast signal supplied from the tuner I/F, a general purpose processor that is provided separately from the decoder and decodes the first broadcast signal, and a switch unit that, based on signal intensity of the second broadcast wave, switches the decoding by the decoder between the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal while the general purpose processor is decoding the first broadcast signal. The one-segment tuner I/F, the tuner I/F, the decoder, the general purpose processor, and the switch unit are integrated on one chip.


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