Patent ID: 8391512

Claim:
A broadcast wave receiving system, comprising: a broadcast wave receiving unit that receives a carrier signal that has been modulated based on a sound signal broadcasted from a broadcasting station, and that demodulates and outputs the sound signal; a signal transformation processing unit that generates a reference clock and carries out a predetermined signal transformation process by a switching operation based on the reference clock; and a controlling unit that controls a carrier frequency of the carrier signal received by the broadcast wave receiving unit and a clock frequency of the reference clock generated by the signal transformation processing unit, wherein the signal transformation processing unit includes: a reference clock generating unit capable of generating a reference clock with a clock frequency that is one of multiple clock frequencies that have been previously set, and the controlling unit includes: a memory unit that stores information including the multiple clock frequencies, wherein the multiple clock frequencies satisfy conditions for predetermined reception interferences so that, for each of multiple carrier frequencies included in a band frequency of the broadcast wave, not all clock frequencies satisfy the conditions for the reception interferences, the information indicating a relation between each clock frequency and the carrier frequency that includes the reception interference; a reception frequency setting unit that sets the carrier frequency to be received to the broadcast wave receiving unit; a clock frequency determining unit that refers to the information stored in the memory unit and determines a clock frequency that does not include a reception interference to the carrier frequency that is set by the reception frequency setting unit, the determined clock frequency being out of the multiple clock frequencies; and a clock frequency setting unit that sets the clock frequency determined by the clock frequency determining unit to the reference clock generating unit, so that the reference clock generating unit generates a reference clock having the determined clock frequency, wherein the broadcast wave receiving unit receives the carrier frequency based on a superheterodyne principle, and conditions for the reception interference are expressed as follows, when the carrier frequency is f 0 , a bandwidth to the carrier frequency is ΔF, ΔF′(<ΔF), the clock frequency is fmc, an intermediate frequency is fIF, a bandwidth to the intermediate frequency is ΔfIF, image frequency is fimg, and a bandwidth to the image frequency is Δfimg: 2 ×n×fmc=f 0 ±ΔF : carrier interference; 2 ×n×fmc=fIF±ΔfIF : intermediate frequency interference; 2 ×n×fmc=fimg±Δfimg : image frequency interference; m×fmc=f 0 ±ΔF ′: carrier interference; and m×fmc=f 0+2 ×fIF : image interference, where n and m are integers not less than one.