Patent ID: 8402483

Claim:
A television broadcasting receiving apparatus which carries out a parental control based on rating information in a video/audio data included in a television broadcasting wave, comprising: a receiving unit to receive the television broadcasting wave; an auto preset unit to orderly tune channels in which a video/audio data of a program is viewable by scanning the television broadcasting wave; a rating table obtaining unit to obtain a rating table included in the television broadcasting wave when the channels in which the video/audio data of the program is viewable are orderly tuned by the auto preset unit; a rating table storage unit to store the rating table obtained by the rating table obtaining unit; a completion information storage unit to store a rating table obtaining completion information flag which indicates that the rating table has already been obtained by the rating table obtaining unit and stored in the rating table storage unit; a display control unit to display rating information based on the rating table stored in the rating table storage unit on the display unit; and an input unit to input setting information to set parental control information based on the rating information displayed on the display unit, wherein the rating table obtaining unit is configured to determine whether the rating table obtaining completion information flag is already stored in the completion information storage unit or not when the channels including the video/audio data of the program are orderly tuned by the auto preset unit, and obtains the rating table included in the television broadcasting wave only when it is determined that the rating table obtaining completion information flag is not already stored in the completion information storage unit; and the auto preset unit deletes the rating table obtaining completion information flag which is stored in the completion information storage unit when starting to scan the television broadcasting wave.