Patent ID: 7800701

Claim:
A system for automatically tuning a primary broadcast receiver comprising: a secondary broadcast receiver configured to receive a first broadcast signal corresponding to a source of an origin program; one or more program transition detectors selected from a group comprising a monochrome interprogram dead frame detector and a closed captioning for the hearing impaired text word detector; a set of user-specified tune conditions selected from a group comprising an enable selector for interprogram monochrome dead frames and one or more words for a closed captioning for the hearing impaired text word detector; and a tuner controller configured to, upon user activation, enable the secondary broadcast receiver and program transition detector to begin monitoring a first broadcast signal currently tuned by the primary broadcast receiver, to allow tuning of the primary broadcast receiver by a user, and to automatically tune the primary broadcast receiver to the first broadcast signal upon signal by the selected program transition detector that one or more of the user-specific tune conditions have been met.