Patent ID: 7552461

Claim:
A television receiver comprising: an antenna that is capable to switch directional property when receiving a television broadcast signal; an initial settings section to conduct initial settings of an optimal receiving direction of the antenna for each channel; and an antenna system that sets directional property of the antenna to an optimal receiving direction that corresponds to a desired channel which is conducted with initial settings by the initial settings section when the desired channel is set, and receives a television broadcast signal that corresponds to the desired channel; wherein the initial settings section comprises: a switching section to switch directional property of the antenna sequentially when conducting initial settings of a first optimal receiving direction of the antenna that corresponds to one channel; a determination section to determine whether a first television broadcast signal that corresponds to the one channel is received by the antenna system or not, each time directional property of the antenna is switched by the switching section; a decision section to decide a direction of directional property of the antenna when it is determined that the first television broadcast signal that corresponds to the one channel is received by the antenna system by the determination section, as the first optimal receiving direction that corresponds to the one channel; and a storing section to store the direction that was decided as the first optimal receiving direction that corresponds to the one channel by the decision section, and number of decision times that the direction was decided as the optimal receiving direction, in correspondence with each other; wherein the switching section: switches directional property of the antenna sequentially from a receiving direction that have larger number of decision times which is stored in the storing section, until it is determined that the first television broadcast signal that corresponds to the one channel is received by the antenna system by the determination section; and switches directional property of the antenna to a receiving direction that is closest to present direction of directional property of the antenna, among a plurality of receiving directions that have the same number of decision times, in a case where there are plural receiving directions that have the same number of decision times among receiving direction stored in the storing section.