US6697631B1
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Receiver for receiving broadcasting signal
Assignee: Sony Corp
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Filing: 2000-04-26
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Granted: 2004-02-24
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Expires: 2020-04-26
Abstract
Abstract A receiver is rapidly and accurately tuning a broadcast frequency and selecting a broadcast program by simple operation and also for clearly informing the user of receivable broadcast frequencies. Besides a number of broadcast programs, information indicating the transmission site position for the broadcast RF, the station name broadcasting that RF, the program name, and information showing whether or not the multiplexed program is a regional program matching a designated region, is also multiplexed on the digital audio broadcast and RF received and demodulated in a receiver section. When a broadcast radio wave is received from a tuned in station, a control section extracts the position information on the transmission site, the broadcast station name, and program name of the regional program from the radio wave and displays a mark indicating the position of the transmission site, the broadcast station name, and program name of the regional program on a map shown on an LCD display, based on the information that was extracted from the radio wave. Tuning of the desired broadcast radio wave and selection of the broadcast program is performed by the user specifying a position on a map.
Inventors
- 👤 Tadashi Okamoto
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 07:10
CPC Classifications
G; G08; G08G; G08G1/00; G08G1/09; G08G1/0962; G08G1/0968; G08G1/0969; G08G1/091; G08G1/092; H; H04; H04H; H04H60/00; H04H60/35; H04H60/49; H04H60/50; H04H60/68; H04H60/70; H04H20/00; H04H20/53; H04H20/55; H04H2201/00; H04H2201/10; H04H2201/20; H04H60/38; H04H60/41; H04H60/42
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
152 words
A receiver comprising: receiving means for receiving a digital audio broadcast radio wave containing broadcast-related information which contains at least position information about a transmission site of said broadcast radio wave; display means; map display control means for displaying a map on said display means; information extraction means for extracting said broadcast-related information including broadcast station names and associated regional program information including traffic reports from said digital audio broadcast radio wave; information display control means for displaying on said map displayed on said display means said broadcast station names and regional program information extracted from said digital audio broadcast radio wave at respective display positions determined according to said transmission site position information extracted by said information extraction means; and a touch panel overlaid on said display means, whereby a user can select a desired broadcast station or desired regional program information by touching a corresponding location on the touch panel.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
152 words
A receiver comprising: receiving means for receiving a digital audio broadcast radio wave containing broadcast-related information which contains at least position information about a transmission site of said broadcast radio wave; display means; map display control means for displaying a map on said display means; information extraction means for extracting said broadcast-related information including broadcast station names and associated regional program information including traffic reports from said digital audio broadcast radio wave; information display control means for displaying on said map displayed on said display means said broadcast station names and regional program information extracted from said digital audio broadcast radio wave at respective display positions determined according to said transmission site position information extracted by said information extraction means; and a touch panel overlaid on said display means, whereby a user can select a desired broadcast station or desired regional program information by touching a corresponding location on the touch panel.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
88 words
The receiver claimed in claim 1 , further comprising: information storage means for storing information relating to said broadcast station names and regional program information displayed on said map along with tuning information for said digital audio broadcast radio wave received by said receiving means; and tuning control means for loading, from said memory information storage means, respective tuning information matching the desired broadcast station or desired regional program information selected by the user and tuning in said digital audio broadcast radio wave based on said tuning information.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
57 words
The receiver claimed in claim 1 or 2 , further comprising position measurement means for measuring said receiver's current position by receiving a radio wave from an artificial satellite, wherein said map display control means receives said current position supplied by said position measurement means and displays said map containing said current position on said display means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
42 words
The receiver claimed in claim 1 or 2 , wherein said information display control means displays a mark indicating the transmission site position of said broadcast radio wave transmission site at a position on said map determined according to said position information.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
61 words
The receiver claimed in claim 2 , wherein an area name according to a service area of said digital audio broadcast radio wave is contained in broadcast-related information of said broadcast radio wave, and said information display control means displays said area name of said broadcast-related information extracted by said information extraction means, on said map shown on said display means.
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