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US008502920B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,502,920 B2 Shyshkin et al. (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 6, 2013 (54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR (56) References Cited EXTRACTING A DESRED TELEVISION SIGNAL FROMA WDEBAND FINPUT U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (76) Inventors: Vyacheslav Shyshkin, Etobicoke (CA); 3,555,182 A 1/1971 Griepentrog Larry Silver, Etobicoke (CA); Warren 25. A 78. SG tal Synnott, Palgrave (CA); Steve Selby, - I W nusni et al. Scarborough (CA); Chris Ouslis, 4,647,875 A 3, 1987 Arginian et al. Kleinburg (CA); Lance Greggain, (Continued) Woodbridge (CA) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this EP O 600 637 A1 12, 1992 past S.E. lusted under 35 EP 1032173 A2 8, 2000 .S.C. 154(b) by yS. (Continued) (21) Appl. No.: 12/041,685 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (22) Filed: Mar. 4, 2008 (65) Prior Publication Data Non-Final Office Action mailed Oct. 25, 2011 for U.S. Appl. No. 12/041,695, 21 pages. US 2008/O225175A1 Sep. 18, 2008 pag (Continued) Related U.S. Application Data (63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 12/038,781, Primary Examiner — Vivek Srivastava filed on Feb. 27, 2008. Assistant Examiner — Jason Thomas (60) Provisional application No. 60/894,832, filed on Mar. (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Trellis IP Law Group, PC 14, 2007. (57) ABSTRACT (51) Int. Cl. H04N 3/27 (2006.01) Various embodiments are described herein for a universal H04N 5/44 (2006.01) television receiver that is capable of processing television H04N 5/50 (2006.01) channel signals, that are transmitted according to a variety of H04N 7/2 (2006.01) broadcast standards, to provide video and audio information H03M I/2 (2006.01) for a desired television channel signal. 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