Patent ID: 7568212

Claim:
A digital broadcasting receiver for receiving digital broadcasting signals, the digital broadcasting receiver being operative to alternate between a first mode and a second mode for making a channel selection of digital processing, wherein, under the first mode, the channel selection of digital broadcasting is made according to a physical channel number in which a frequency is assigned to a channel in accordance with a rule, said physical channel referencing a frequency band where television signals are embedded for transmission; wherein, under the second mode, the channel selection of digital broadcasting is made according to a virtual channel number in which a frequency corresponds to a channel on the side of the receiver, said virtual channel recognized on the side of the receiver as the single entity that will provide access to one or more digital elementary streams, and wherein either the first mode or the second mode is used as a basis to attempt to make the channel selection of digital broadcasting, considering the entered channel number as the virtual channel number when an effective transmission signal is not detected in the channel selection by the first mode on the basis of the entered channel number, while making an attempt to make channel selection of digital broadcasting, considering the entered channel number as a physical channel number when information for selecting a channel is not stored in the channel selection of digital broadcasting by the second mode on the basis of the entered channel number.