Patent ID: 7978269

Claim:
A portable television-broadcast reception unit, comprising: a broadcast reception section which receives a broadcast wave using a directional antenna; a direction measurement section which measures the direction of the directional antenna; a quality measurement section which measures information on the quality of a broadcast wave received by the directional antenna; a storage section which stores measurement information including a direction measured by the direction measurement section and information on a quality measured by the quality measurement section; a control section which controls the measurement of a direction by the direction measurement section and the measurement of information on a quality by the quality measurement section, updates the measurement information stored in the storage section, and selects the direction where the best quality is obtained; an image turn section which turns an image received by the broadcast reception section, so that the upper part of the image is oriented to the direction selected by the control section where the best quality is obtained; and a display section which displays an image turned by the image turn section.