Patent ID: 8139158

Claim:
A television broadcast signal receiving apparatus connected to an antenna apparatus including a first antenna capable of receiving a broadcast signal of a UHF band from a plurality of directions, and a second antenna capable of receiving a broadcast signal of a VHF band from a single direction wherein a directivity is changeable by a manual operation, the television broadcast signal receiving apparatus comprising: a selection section to select any one of the first antenna and the second antenna according to a frequency of a broadcast signal to be received; a detection section to detect a reception level of the broadcast signal received by the first antenna or the second antenna; a channel setting section to set, when the detected reception level of the received broadcast signal is a predetermined level or more, a channel of the received broadcast signal as a receivable channel, thereby performing channel auto scan, the reception level being detected by the detection section; a control section to control operations of the selection section, the detection section and the channel setting section; and an operation section to enable a viewer to input an operation, wherein the channel setting section includes: a reception direction switch section to switch reception directions of the first antenna; a reception direction setting section to set a reception direction in which a reception state is optimum based on the reception levels in the reception directions detected by the detection section when the reception direction switch section sequentially switches the reception directions of the first antenna; and a frequency band setting section to allow the viewer to decide whether or not to set the VHF band as a channel-auto-scan frequency band, a broadcast signal of which is subjected to the channel auto scan, wherein the frequency band setting section sets either of only the UHF band or both the UHF band and the VHF band as the channel-auto-scan frequency band based on an input signal from the operation section, the input signal corresponding to the operation input by the viewer, the control section, in accordance with the channel-auto-scan frequency band set by the frequency band setting section, allows the selection section to select the first antenna for the broadcast signal of the UHF band and allows the channel setting section to set the channel and the reception direction of the broadcast signal of the UHF band, and allows the selection section to select the second antenna for the broadcast signal of the VHF band and allows the channel setting section to set the channel of the broadcast signal of the VHF band.