Receiver
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsManabu Yamamoto, Takahiro Katayama, Kazuhiko Tani, Yusuke Nishida
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Abstract
In a receiver, when a channel is registered on the channel map 15, the receiver 1 registers the channel by the unit of a physical channel, and when a channel is deleted from the channel map 15, the receiver 1 deletes the channel by the unit of a sub-channel. A common user has a tendency of watching most of a plurality of sub-channels contained in one physical channel and a tendency of not watching a portion of the plurality of sub-channels which the user does not like.
Claims5
A receiver for receiving a digital broadcast comprising:
- a channel-up/channel-down means for switching a receiving channel in the order of increasing or decreasing a channel registered on a channel map, the channel map including a registration channel map for registering a sub-channel in which a program is being broadcast, and a skip channel map for registering a sub-channel to be skipped when a receiving channel is switched by the channel-up/channel-down means;
- a channel registration means for registering a sub-channel on the registration channel map by the unit of a physical channel;
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- a skip channel registration means for registering a sub-channel to be skipped on the skip channel map by the unit of a sub-channel.
A receiver for receiving a digital broadcast comprising:
- a channel-up/channel-down means for switching a receiving channel in the order of increasing or decreasing a channel registered on a channel map;
- a channel registration means for registering a channel on the channel map;
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- a channel deletion means for deleting a channel registered on the channel map, wherein the channel registration means is a means for registering a sub-channel by the unit of a physical channel, and
- wherein the channel deletion means is a means for deleting a sub-channel registered by the unit of a sub-channel.
A receiver for receiving a digital broadcast comprising:
- a channel-up/channel-down means for switching a receiving channel in the order of increasing or decreasing a channel registered on a channel map, the channel map including a registration channel map for registering a sub-channel in which a program is being broadcast, the channel map further including a skip channel map for registering a sub-channel to be skipped when a receiving channel is switched by the channel-up/channel-down means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.