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US 2010/0304702 A1Published application
Radio receiver
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsFreddy A. Anzures, Henry Mason, Lucas Newman
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Abstract
Operating a radio receiver can include identifying a set of stations that broadcast a radio program using different frequencies or different transmission protocols at substantially the same time. Broadcast signal strength, or some other signal quality metric, of broadcast signals from the stations can be evaluated, and the radio receiver can be tuned to one of the stations in the set of stations based on the evaluation.
Claims25
A method comprising:
- identifying, at a radio receiver, a set of stations that broadcast a program using different frequencies or different transmission protocols at substantially the same time;
- evaluating broadcast signals of a plurality of the stations in the set of stations based on at least one metric;
- and
- tuning the radio receiver to one of the stations in the set of stations based on the evaluation.
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A method comprising:
- retrieving information about pre-selected radio stations;
- for each of the pre-selected stations, identifying, at a radio receiver, one or more stations that are associated with the pre-selected radio station, the one or more stations broadcasting the same program using different frequencies or different transmission protocols;
- and
- tuning the radio receiver to one of the one or more stations associated with one of the pre-selected radio stations based on an evaluation of signals from the one or more stations associated with the one of the pre-selected radio stations.
1 more element
An apparatus comprising:
- a radio receiver, comprising:
- a first tuner;
- a second tuner;
- a signal evaluator to evaluate signals from the first and second tuners based on at least one metric;
- and
- a data processor to control the first and second tuners to tune to two stations that broadcast a program on different frequencies at substantially the same time, and select one of the first and second tuners based on evaluation data provided by the signal evaluator.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a tuner;
- and
- a data processor to identify a set of stations that broadcast a radio program on different frequencies at substantially the same time, and control the tuner to tune to one of the stations based on an evaluation of signals from a plurality of the stations in the set of stations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.