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Television receiver for receiving multi-standards

US6137537A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 28, 1998
Grant dateOct 24, 2000
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Expiry dateSep 28, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N5/46
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A multi-standard television receiver in accordance with the present invention includes a plurality of video signal processing blocks having tristate functions at their output terminals, at least one memory block used in common for a plurality of video signal processing blocks and a video signal processing selection means for selecting one of the video signal processing blocks and independently controlling the output terminals of the video signal processing blocks using elements having a tristate function and can reduce power consumption by working only a selected video signal processing block and stopping the other video signal processing blocks. Further, using elements having a tristate function, possibility of element breakdown at selection and control of the elements can be removed.

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