Patent ID: 7215385

Claim:
A broadcast receiver comprising: a plurality of receiving means each of which receives an analog broadcast signal and a digital broadcast signal; a channel up/down means through which a channel is selected in ascending or descending order of channel number; a reception controlling means which, when a digital broadcast signal or an analog broadcast signal of a physical channel selected by the channel up/down means is received by anyone of the receiving means, causes another one of the receiving means to receive a digital broadcast signal of a physical channel allocated to a next rank to be selected by a channel-up or channel-down operation with respect to a currently selected physical channel; and a switching means which selects one of the receiving means to output a broadcast signal from the selected receiving means; wherein the receiving means which receives a digital broadcast signal or an analog broadcast signal of the physical channel selected by the channel up/down means is controlled to, in a case where the switching means selects the receiving means to output the broadcast signal and an input of selecting a next channel is conducted through the channel up/down means, when the next channel is an analog broadcast or a digital broadcast of the same physical channel, continue to receive the next channel; and when a digital broadcast signal or an analog broadcast signal of the physical channel selected by the channel up/down means is received by any one of the receiving means, the reception controlling means causes another one of the receiving means to receive a digital broadcast signal of a physical channel which is next in an order selected by a channel-up or channel-down operation, with respect to the currently selected physical channel.