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US Patent 7343140
Issued Date
March 11, 2008
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A tuner is provided for selecting, independently of each other, a plurality of radio frequency channels for simultaneous reception. The tuner comprises a plurality of up converters whose outputs are combined in a combiner. Each up converter operates independently of the other up converters to select a channel from a multi channel input signal and to convert the selected channel to a first high intermediate frequency. The intermediate frequencies of the up converters are different from each other. The common signal from the combiner is supplied to a down converter which converts the signals at different high intermediate frequencies to signals at different lower intermediate frequencies. Thus, the signals from the combiner and from the down converter carry all of the selected channels at different intermediate frequencies. The signal from the down converter is subsequently processed to separate the selected channels and demodulate them. This may be achieved by a common demodulation circuit, which processes channels simultaneously.
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Owner
Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
Published
March 11, 2008
Application Number
10/410,915
Filed
April 10, 2003
US Classification
455/130   348/E5.097 348/E5.114 455/142 455/176.1 455/180.1 455/190.1
Int'l Classification
H04B   7/08   (20060101)  
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455/130   455/142   455/176.1   455/180.1   455/180.3   455/190.1   455/127.4   455/132  
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