Adapter card for television reception

• US 20050114780A1
• Filed: 11/12/2003
• Published: 05/26/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: VBOX, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: VBOX, Incorporated
• Inventors: Turgeman, Shlomo
• Application Number:
  US10/704,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20050114780A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/718
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/46 for receiving on more than one standard at will deflecting circuits of multi-standard receivers H04N3/27

Abstract

An adapter card for a personal computer (PC), including an I/O element connected to a bus interface adapted to interface with PC graphics display components, and a first interface module connectable to the I/O element and adapted to receive TV signals from a first TV system and transmit the TV signals for viewing on a PC display monitor, and a second interface module connectable to the I/O element and adapted to receive TV signals from a second TV system and transmit the TV signals for viewing on the PC display monitor.

Claims

1. An adapter card for a personal computer (PC), comprising:

an input/output (I/O) element connected to a bus interface adapted to interface with PC graphics display components; and

a first interface module connectable to said I/O element and adapted to receive TV signals from a first TV system and transmit said TV signals for viewing on a PC display monitor, and a second interface module connectable to said I/O element and adapted to receive TV signals from a second TV system and transmit said TV signals for viewing on said PC display monitor.

2. The adapter card according to claim 1, wherein said interface modules are adapted to receive TV signals from at least one of a terrestrial, cable and satellite TV system.

3. The adapter card according to claim 1, further comprising PC graphics display components.

4. The adapter card according to claim 3, wherein said PC graphics display components comprise graphics processing circuitry, memory, and RGB processing circuitry.

5. The adapter card according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said interface modules comprises a front-end sub-module adapted to communicate with an antenna receiver for receiving signals from a TV broadcast provider.

6. The adapter card according to claim 5, wherein at least one of said interface modules comprises a tuner adapted to transmit data received by said front-end sub-module to a demodulator that converts received data streams into digital form for decoding by a decoder.

7. The adapter card according to claim 6, further comprising a conditional access sub-module that provides decryption capability for viewing a conditional access TV broadcast.

8. The adapter card according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said interface modules comprises a middleware module.

9. The adapter card according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said interface modules comprises an electronic program guide (EPG) module.