Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital broadcast receiver and receiving method
- Patent Title (中): 数字广播接收机和接收方式
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Application No.: US12279514Application Date: 2007-04-16
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Publication No.: US08614770B2Publication Date: 2013-12-24
- Inventor: Daiki Matsuura , Keiichi Shirasuka , Soichiro Matsumoto , Minoru Sota , Tadashi Sakaguchi
- Applicant: Daiki Matsuura , Keiichi Shirasuka , Soichiro Matsumoto , Minoru Sota , Tadashi Sakaguchi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2006-121516 20060426; JP2006-315530 20061122
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/058255 WO 20070416
- International Announcement: WO2007/125777 WO 20071108
- Main IPC: H04N5/64
- IPC: H04N5/64

Abstract:
An unreceivability detector (6) that, based on various information obtained from a signal received from a broadcasting station of a digital broadcast program being viewed/listened to, detects that the received signal of that broadcasting station is currently unreceivable and outputs an unreceivability notification, an affiliated station memory (8) that stores channel information of the program being viewed/listened to and channel information of a station affiliated with that broadcasting station, and a tuning control unit (7) that, when it receives an unreceivability notification from the unreceivability detector, retrieves the channel information of the affiliated station from the affiliated station memory (8) and permits the program of the affiliated station to be viewed/listened to, if it is currently in a receivable state, and outputs an instruction to make a channel search for an affiliated station if no affiliated station is stored in the affiliated station memory are provided. When the program being viewed/listened to becomes unviewable/unlistenable, the time during which program viewing/listening is interrupted can be shortened.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090021641A1 DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD Public/Granted day:2009-01-22
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