Patent ID: 7499683

Claim:
A wireless broadcast receiving device for a vehicle, comprising: a first receiver that wirelessly receives traffic information from one of a plurality of traffic information broadcasting stations; a second receiver that wirelessly and selectively receives one of (i) traffic information from one of the traffic information broadcasting stations and (ii) a radio program from a radio broadcasting station; a storage device that stores correspondence data that associates each of the traffic information broadcasting stations with a certain region included in a plurality of regions, wherein traffic information from the each of the traffic information broadcasting stations is receivable in the certain region; a position detector that detects a current position of the vehicle; and a controller that includes a tuning unit that tunes the first receiver and the second receiver to the traffic information broadcasting stations based on the detected current position and a determining unit that makes a determination whether or not the second receiver is in use when the vehicle approaches a border between (i) a current region including the current position and (ii) a neighboring region adjacent to the current region, while the first receiver is tuned to a first station of the traffic information broadcasting stations which is associated with the current region, wherein the tuning unit tunes one of the first receiver and the second receiver to a second station of the traffic information broadcasting stations which is associated with the neighboring region, based on the determination made by the determining unit.