Patent ID: 11924496
Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A channel switching method for a display apparatus, comprising:
receiving a channel switch instruction generated from an input number via a remote control of the display apparatus, taking the input number as a digital channel number for a first round of channel search, and determining whether a first channel corresponding to the digital channel number exists in a channel table stored in the display apparatus, wherein the channel table comprises a physical channel number and one or more digital channel number corresponding to the physical channel number;
in response to the first channel not existing in the channel table, further processing the input number to obtain a processed input number and taking processed input number as a physical channel number for a second round of channel search, and determining whether a second channel corresponding to the physical channel number exists in the channel table; and
in response to the first channel existing in the channel table, control a display to play content from the first channel.