Patent ID: 7904120

Claim:
A mobile communication terminal capable of receiving Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB), comprising: a mobile communication terminal module for providing various functions of the mobile communication terminal except for DMB; a DMB module for receiving and outputting DMB; an external broadcasting output unit for outputting DMB received through the DMB module to an external Audio/Video (AV) device; a user interface unit for providing operations of the mobile communication terminal module and the DMB module and for receiving an input from the user, wherein the user interface unit comprises a mode switching key; and a controller for designating the mobile communication terminal module as a module for inputting an operating signal from and outputting the operating signal to the user interface unit if the controller senses a switching command signal for switching the module to the mobile communication terminal module through the user interface unit while DMB is output to the external AV device through the external broadcasting output unit, wherein the switching command signal is generated by the mode switching key; wherein the controller switches the module, from at least one of the mobile communication terminal module to the digital multimedia broadcasting module and the digital multimedia broadcasting module to the mobile communication terminal module, whenever the controller senses the switching command signal generated by the mode switching key.