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Digital broadcast receiving terminal apparatus

CA 2194947 A1 · Owner: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · Inventors: Sakamoto, Noriya; Hirota, Atsushi; Yamada, Masahiro

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Digital broadcast receiving terminal apparatus which receives multi-channel digital broadcast signals to record the huge capacity without deteriorating the quality of signals and to visualize the digital broadcasting. The outputs form the error correction decoding circus 4 are applied to the TS processor 12 via the switches SW 1 and SW 2, at the same time they are applied to the recording program selector 11. The recording program selector 11 applies the encoded data of the predetermined program to the digital interface 13, the digital interface 13 inputs and outputs the encoded data through bus in the IEEE1394 specification for example. Thus, the encoded data are applied to the external …

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  • Filed January 13, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 13, 2017.
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FiledJanuary 13, 1997
GrantedNo grant recorded
Term endedJanuary 13, 2017
Patent numberCA 2194947 A1
Classification (IPC)H04N5/76 +2 more

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