METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIVERSITY COMBINING FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE SIGNAL RECEPTION

摘要

A terrestrial receiver at a premises includes a plurality of antennas and a corresponding plurality of tuners. The terrestrial receiver receives terrestrial television signals via the plurality of antennas and the plurality of tuners and diversity combines a corresponding plurality of terrestrial television channels within the received terrestrial television signals, for example, based on control signals received from one or more customer premises equipment (CPE). The terrestrial receiver processes the diversity combined corresponding plurality of terrestrial television channels and communicates the processed and diversity combined corresponding plurality of terrestrial television channels to the one or more CPE. The diversity combined corresponding plurality of terrestrial television channels may be remodulated, and converted to corresponding analog signals prior to being communicated to the one or more CPE. The diversity combined corresponding plurality of terrestrial television channels may be demodulated and converted to intermediate frequency signals prior to being communicated to the one or more CPE.

主权项

1. A method for communication, the method comprising:
in a receiver comprising a plurality of tuners:
receiving one or more signals spanning a frequency range corresponding to a plurality of television channels;diversity combining the plurality of television channels;remodulating the diversity combined plurality of television channels in accordance with one or more protocols used to generate the received one or more signals, the remodulating resulting in a remodulated signal that spans the frequency range and comprises the plurality of television channels, such that customer premises equipment can receive the remodulated signal and recover content from any desired one of the plurality of television channels in the remodulated signal; andcommunicating the remodulated signal to the customer premises equipment.