Patent ID: 8587729

Claim:
A receiver comprising: a first splitter unit operable to split analog or digital terrestrial wave broadcast signals; a second splitter unit operable to split satellite wave digital broadcast signals; a first reception unit and a second reception unit operable to receive said split analog or digital terrestrial wave broadcast signals; and one or more third reception units operable to receive said split satellite wave digital broadcast signals; wherein a first intermediate disposition reception unit and a second intermediate disposition reception unit are disposed between said first reception unit and said second reception unit as said one or more third reception units; a first input terminal to which said satellite wave digital broadcast signals are input; a second input terminal to which said analog or digital terrestrial wave broadcast signals are input; a first output terminal operable to output said satellite wave digital signals input from said first input terminal; a second output terminal operable to output said analog or digital terrestrial wave broadcast signals input from said second input terminal, wherein said first splitter is operable to: split said analog or digital terrestrial wave broadcast signals input from said second input terminal into first terrestrial wave broadcast signals and second terrestrial wave broadcast signals, and supply said input analog or digital terrestrial wave broadcast signals to said first output terminal; and wherein said second splitter unit is operable to: split said satellite wave digital broadcast signals input from said first input terminal into first satellite wave digital broadcast signals and second satellite wave digital broadcast signals, and supply said input satellite wave digital broadcast signals to said second output terminal; wherein said first intermediate disposition reception unit receives said first satellite wave broadcast signals split by said second splitter unit and performs frequency conversion thereof into first baseband signals; and wherein said second intermediate disposition reception unit receives said second satellite wave broadcast signals split by said second splitter unit and performs frequency conversion thereof into second baseband signals; and wherein said first reception unit receives said first terrestrial wave broadcast signals split by said first splitter unit and performs frequency conversion thereof into first intermediate frequency signals; and wherein said second reception unit receives said second terrestrial wave broadcast signals split by said first splitter unit and performs frequency conversion thereof into second intermediate frequency signals.