Patent ID: 7567303

Claim:
A television broadcast receiver connected to a multi-directional antenna having multiple receiving directions, comprising: a channel change unit for sequentially changing and setting channels received by the multi-directional antenna at the time of a channel registration; a receiving direction change unit for sequentially changing and setting receiving directions of the multi-directional antenna for each of the channels changed by the channel change unit; a channel information determination unit for determining, on the basis of receiving conditions of a television broadcast signal of each channel in respective receiving directions changed by the receiving direction change unit, whether or not the each channel is a selectable channel, and for determining a receiving direction for the each channel to give good receiving condition; and a channel information table creation and storage unit for creating and storing a channel information table containing a channel number of each selectable channel determined by the channel information determination unit and further containing a receiving condition for the each selectable channel to give good receiving condition, wherein if a channel number of any channel determined by the channel information determination unit to be selectable is absent in a channel information table created previously, the storage unit adds, to the channel information table, such channel number and a receiving direction to give good receiving condition for such channel, while if a channel number of any channel determined by the channel information determination unit to be selectable is present along with a receiving direction to give good receiving condition for such selectable channel in the channel information table created previously, the storage unit overwrites the receiving direction present in the channel information table by a receiving direction newly determined by the channel information determination unit to give good receiving condition for such channel, wherein if channels are determined as selectable channels at the time of a previous channels registration, but are determined as non-selectable channels at the time of the channels registration, data of the channels in the channel information table are retained unchanged in the channel information table.