Receiver having analog and digital video modes and receiving method thereof

• US 6,014,178 A
• Filed: 01/22/1998
• Issued: 01/11/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jeon, Byeungwoo, Song, Dong-il
• Primary Examiner(s): HSIA, SHERRIE Y
• Application Number:
  US09/235,402
• Time in Patent Office: 719 Days
• Field of Search: 348/553, 348/555, 348/554, 348/557, 348/558, 348/705, 348/706, 348/725, 348/728
• US Class Current: 348/554
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42638 involving a hybrid front-end, e.g. analog and digital tuners
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44004 involving video buffer management, e.g. video decoder buffer or video display buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/46 for receiving on more than one standard at will deflecting circuits of multi-standard receivers H04N3/27

Abstract

In a receiver having both an analog video service mode and a digital video mode, when the analog video mode is selected according to a mode selection signal indicating that a television channel is for the analog video mode or the digital video mode, a large-capacity memory used for the digital video-decoding may also be used as a frame memory for Y/C separation and post-processing, for enhancing picture quality, improving the efficiency of the memory and reducing the cost of a system.

Claims

1. A receiver having an analog video mode for receiving television signals analog-processed by a predetermined analog broadcasting method and a digital video mode for receiving television signals digitally processed by a predetermined digital signal format, comprising:

controlling means connected to common bus lines including at least one data line and a clock line for generating mode selection data which represents one of said analog video mode and said digital video mode;

first signal processing means connected to said common bus lines, for signal-processing an analog television signal according to the mode selection data;

second signal processing means connected to said common bus lines, for decoding a digital television signal according to the mode selection data; and

a memory connected to said common bus lines, for decoding the digital television signal from said second signal processing means, storing data processed in said first signal processing means according to said mode selection data for representing said analog video mode, and for supplying stored data to said first signal processing means.

2. The receiver according to claim 1, wherein said first signal processing means comprises:

a first tuner for selecting a channel among received analog television channels, to output an intermediate frequency signal;

a first channel demodulator for amplifying and demodulating said intermediate frequency signal of the channel selected by said first tuner to output a video signal; and

a luminance/chrominance separator for separating said video signal output from said first channel demodulator into a luminance (Y) signal and a chrominance (C) signal using correlation between adjacent pictures stored in said memory and between adjacent lines stored in said memory.

3. The receiver according to claim 2, further comprising a post-processor for post-processing said luminance signal for enhancing picture quality.

4. The receiver according to claim 2, wherein, in said analog video mode, said memory is used as a frame memory for storing data output from said first channel demodulator in a picture unit and data input from said post-processor in a picture unit.

5. The receiver according to claim 2, wherein, in said analog video mode, said memory is used as a frame memory for storing data output from said first channel demodulator in a picture unit.

6. The receiver according to claim 1, wherein said first signal processing means comprises:

a first tuner for selecting a channel among received analog television channels, to output an intermediate frequency signal;

a first channel demodulator for amplifying and demodulating said intermediate frequency signal of the channel selected by said first tuner and for outputting a video signal; and

a post-processor for post-processing using said video signal output from said first channel demodulator and data stored in said memory.

7. The receiver according to claim 6, wherein, in said analog video mode, said memory is used as a frame memory for storing data output from said first channel demodulator in a picture unit.

8. The receiver according to claim 1, wherein said second signal processing means comprises:

a second tuner for selecting a channel signal among received television signals coded by the digital signal format;

a second channel demodulator for channel-decoding the channel signal output from said second tuner;

a system decoder for outputting a video data stream from a channel-decoded signal output from said second channel demodulator; and

a video decoder for reconstructing video data from said video data stream.

9. The receiver according to claim 8, wherein, in said digital video mode, said memory is used as a channel buffer for converting the transmission rate of a constant bit rate into a variable bit rate for video-decoding and as a frame buffer for motion compensation.

10. The receiver according to claim 1, further comprising:

switching means for selecting one of the output signals from said first signal processing means and said second signal processing means according to said mode selection data; and

display control means for displaying the signal selected by said switching means on a display.