Patent ID: 8467752

Claim:
A receiving device for receiving any channel from plural channels through which broadcast is performed characterized by comprising: storing means for storing a category contained upper category information of a channel under reception when each channel is associated with one or plural category information pieces representing a category of the channel concerned, one category information piece is set as upper category information and the other category information pieces are set as lower category information; display means for displaying a category stored in the storing means; instructing means for accepting an instruction of search execution during reception of the channel; search means for searching the channel containing the category stored in the storing means as the upper category information or the lower category information when the search execution is instructed by the instructing means; tuning means for tuning and receiving the channel searched by the searching means; and control means for shifting to a state that a category as a search condition can be input when the search execution is instructed by the instructing means, storing an input category as a new search condition into the storing means when the category is input under the state, making the searching means perform a search, and making the display means display the stored category wherein the control means displays a list of categories which can be selectively input as a search condition when the search execution is instructed by the instructing means, displays categories stored in the storing means out of the categories displayed in the list so that the categories can be selected, and stores as selected category as a new search condition into the storing means when another category out of the categories of the list is selected.