Patent ID: 7382836

Claim:
A receiving device for receiving a multiplexed signal in which a first ensemble having signals of first plurality of programs and a second ensemble having signals of a second plurality of programs are frequency-multiplexed and transmitted and for extracting from the multiplexed received signal one of the signals within said signals of the first plurality of programs and said signals of the second plurality of programs, said receiving device comprising: a high-frequency amplifier for amplifying said received signal; a circuit for forming first and second local oscillation signals having frequencies at a center frequency between said first ensemble and said second ensemble and having phases that differ by 90° from each other; a first mixer circuit for frequency-converting said received signal amplified by said high-frequency amplifier into a first intermediate frequency signal in accordance with said first local oscillation signal; a second mixer circuit for frequency-converting the received signal amplified by said high-frequency amplifier into a second intermediate frequency signal in accordance with said second local oscillation signal; a first phase-shift circuit to which said first intermediate frequency signal is supplied; a second phase-shift circuit to which said second intermediate frequency signal is supplied, in which the amount of the phase shift in said second phase-shift circuit differs by 90° from an amount of phase-shift of said first phase-shift circuit; and a circuit for switchably performing one of addition and subtraction between an output signal of said first phase-shift circuit and an output signal of said second phase-shift circuit so that the first intermediate frequency signal or the second intermediate frequency signal is selectively extracted therefrom.