Patent ID: 8320821

Claim:
A receiving apparatus having a position detecting unit for detecting its own position, a first receiving system for reproducing radio sound by receiving broadcast signals from respective broadcasting stations, and a second receiving system for receiving RDS (Radio Data System) data in each broadcast signal, wherein the second receiving system comprises: an RDS demodulating unit for demodulating the RDS data in each broadcast signal; a memory unit for storing, in association with each of one or more PI (Program Identification) codes, a counted number of alternative stations identified by that PI code and respective frequencies of those alternative stations, each of the one or more PI codes being reproduced from the RDS data in a broadcast signal received from a respective broadcasting station; a processor programmed to execute a process of: discriminating, from the RDS data of each broadcasting station searched for by frequency sweeping, the RDS data containing traffic information about the region code corresponding to the position information detected by the position detecting unit, storing step by step into the memory unit frequencies of the alternative stations and the number of the alternative stations identified by each of the one or more PI codes of the RDS data, determining which of the one or more PI codes is associated with the highest number of the alternative stations by comparing the counted numbers of the alternative stations for individual PI codes stored in the memory unit in a frequency sweeping range, sweeping all the frequencies of the alternative stations identified by the determined PI code, and receiving the traffic information from the alternative station identified by the determined PI code with the highest received electric field strength.