Patent ID: 8533769
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital broadcast receiver comprising: an affiliated station storage unit that, in further association with affiliated station information associating broadcasting stations with their affiliated stations, stores tuning information, obtained from broadcast signals from the broadcasting stations and the affiliated stations and needed for tuning to the respective broadcasting stations, and reception service areas to which the respective broadcasting stations are broadcasting, the reception service areas also being obtained from the broadcast signals from the broadcasting stations and the affiliated stations; a switching history storage unit for storing a motion history of past movement among the reception service areas obtained from the broadcast signals and, in association with each of the reception service areas, switching history information associated with a priority order indicating where, from a given reception service area, the digital broadcast receiver is likely to move next, based on the motion history; and a tuning control unit for tuning to one of the broadcasting stations or one of the affiliated stations in order to receive a program, and obtaining information with which the reception service area of the tuned-in broadcasting station or affiliated station can be inferred; wherein when a received signal becomes currently unreceivable due to motion from a reception service area of one of the broadcasting stations broadcasting a currently viewed/listened to program to another reception service area, the tuning control unit: