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US 2008/0186217 A1Published application
Low pin count high speed interface for video and audio codec applications
OwnerLei Chen, Dinesh Venkatachalaminventors
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A receiver is provided that comprises at least one tuner. The tuner comprises a housing or packaging wall inclosing at least some elements of the tuner. The tuner further comprises at least one pin or lead leading outside or away from the housing, and a sigma-delta modulator receiving an analog input stream having at least one frequency from at least one tuner and output at least 1-bit data stream, with each 1-bit data stream associated with a physical communications line terminating on the lead or pin. The receiver has at least one digital filter digitally coupled to the sigma-delta modulator for filtering the at least 1-bit data stream.
A combined interface device disposed between an analog realm and a digital realm, the interface comprising:
A tuner comprising:
A receiver comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.