Television – Receiver circuitry
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-18
2006-07-18
Natnael, Paulos M. (Department: 2614)
Television
Receiver circuitry
C348S731000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07079195
ABSTRACT:
A broadband integrated receiver for receiving input signals and outputting composite video and audio signals is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an intermediate signal. An intermediate filter between the mixers performs coarse channel selection. The down-conversion mixer may be an image rejection mixer to provide additional filtering.
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