Patent ID: 7286805

Claim:
An arrangement ( 1 ) for processing a signal (S) which has successive signal sections (SP), wherein each signal section (SP) comprises a useful information item (UI) and an additional information item (AI) and wherein a time-dependent occurrence of a final range (EA) of a signal section (SP) can be determined with the aid of the additional information item (AI) of this signal section (SP), which arrangement ( 1 ) has receiving means ( 2 ) which are designed for the channel-selective reception of the signal (S) via the respectively selected channel (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 ), taking account of a channel selection information item (C 1 S, C 2 S, C 3 S) which can be fed to it, and for the delivery of the received signal (S), and which arrangement ( 1 ) has additional information item extraction means ( 3 ) which are designed to extract the respective additional information item (AI) from the received signal (S) of the respectively selected channel (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 ) and to deliver the respectively extracted additional information item (AI), and which arrangement ( 1 ) has channel selection means ( 6 ) which are designed a) to generate at least two channel selection information items (C 1 S, C 2 S, C 3 S) for the selection of at least two channels (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 ), and b) to temporally successively deliver the at least two channel selection information items (C 1 S, C 2 S, C 3 S) to the receiving means ( 2 ), and c) to receive the additional information item (AI) respectively extracted and delivered by means of the additional information item extraction means ( 3 ) in accordance with the respectively selected channel (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 ), and d) using the additional information item (AI) respectively received in accordance with the respectively selected channel (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 ), to determine the time-dependent occurrence of the respective final range (EA), and e) following the determination of the time-dependent occurrence of the respective final ranges of the signal sections (SP) in at least two channels (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 ), to generate and deliver that channel selection information item (C 1 S, C 2 S, C 3 S) which can be used to select that channel (C 1 , C 2 , C 3 ) in which the signal section (SP) with the temporally next final range (EA) occurs.