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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Brian D. Jupin, Germantown, MD (US);
Sean S. Lee, Rockville, MD (US);
Jorge H. Guzman, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Scott D. Casavant, Germantown, MD (US);
Linh H. Nguyen, Germantown, MD (US);
Brian D. Jupin, Germantown, MD (US);
Sean S. Lee, Rockville, MD (US);
Jorge H. Guzman, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Scott D. Casavant, Germantown, MD (US);
Linh H. Nguyen, Germantown, MD (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for forming an external tuner device and initializing the external device includes an enclosed over-the-air tuner housing having a over-the-air television tuner therein, an input power connector coupled to the housing, an antenna input coupled to the housing, a tuner signal output coupled to the housing and a dual over-the-air tuner circuit module disposed within the tuner housing in communication with the input power connector, the antenna input and the tuner signal output. The dual over-the-air tuner circuit module generates a first tuner signal from a first tuner and a second tuner signal from a second tuner and communicates the first tuner signal and the second tuner signal through the tuner signal output.