Patent ID: 8385471

Claim:
A device comprising: a receiver unit configured to operate in a single-channel mode and in a multi-channel mode, wherein in the single-channel mode the receiver unit is configured to output exactly one channel of a received signal, and in the multi-channel mode the receiver unit is configured to output at least two channels of the received signal, the receiver unit including; an input configured to receive an input signal, a shared signal path portion in communication with the input and having at least one of a shared radio frequency entity configured to receive the input signal and a shared frequency conversion entity configured to perform down-conversion of the received signal to an intermediate frequency, a first signal path portion in communication with the shared signal path portion and configured to perform single-channel reception for the single-channel mode and output a single channel signal, and a second signal path portion in communication with the shared signal path portion and configured to perform multi-channel reception for the multi-channel mode and output a multi-channel signal.