Patent ID: 7505791

Claim:
An antenna setting apparatus comprising: a changing device for changing a direction of a smart antenna with high sensitivity; a first control unit for controlling said changing device to provide high sensitivity for a predetermined direction; a tuner extracting a signal corresponding to an electric wave received by said smart antenna; a second control unit for controlling a frequency of the signal extracted by said tuner; a first storage device for storing an image information set represented by the signal extracted by said tuner, the image information set being stored in association with said direction of the smart antenna with high sensitivity and said frequency of the signal extracted by said tuner; an output device for outputting the image information set represented by the signal extracted by said tuner, two or more image information sets with an identical corresponding frequency and different corresponding directions being output at a time; an accepting unit for accepting a selection of one of the two or more image information sets output by said output device; a second storage device for storing the direction and the frequency corresponding to the image information set designated by said selection, the direction and the frequency being stored in association with each other; and a third control unit for controlling said changing device to change said direction with high sensitivity to that of directions stored by said second storage device that corresponds to the frequency of the signal extracted by said tuner.