Patent ID: 7707611

Claim:
A time division multiplexing (TDM) mobile television (TV) receiver comprising: an antenna that receives radio frequency (RF) signals associated with TV channels; a RF front end section directly connected to said antenna; an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter directly connected to said RF front end section; a demodulator directly connected to said A/D converter, wherein said demodulator extracts all of the received RF signals associated with the TV channels; and a video decoder directly connected to said demodulator, wherein said video decoder parses video frames of each TV channel; lowers a visual resolution level of the parsed video frames from said each TV channel according to an available processing power level associated with said video decoder; decodes all of the received RF signals corresponding to the lower visual resolution level of said parsed video frames from said each TV channel simultaneously; and creates a visual program guide comprising a consolidated view of said each TV channel at said lower visual resolution level, wherein said video decoder comprises processing power that decodes multiple TV channels simultaneously at said lower visual resolution level, wherein said video decoder comprises memory capabilities that decodes multiple TV channels simultaneously, and wherein said video decoder lowers a visual resolution level of all parsed video frames except for reference video frames from said each TV channel.