Patent ID: 8155631

Claim:
A multichannel scanning method for a dual broadcast system-enabled mobile phone, comprising: determining whether broadcast signals for a terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) system and a satellite DMB system are simultaneously received; determining whether a key input is entered activating a multi picture presentation function, when the broadcast signals for the terrestrial DMB system and the satellite DMB system are simultaneously received; setting the multi picture presentation function for simultaneously displaying a broadcast channel of the terrestrial DMB system and a broadcast channel of the satellite DMB system on a display, when the key input is entered activating the multi picture presentation function; simultaneously displaying the broadcast channel of the terrestrial DMB system as one of a main channel picture and a sub channel picture and the broadcast channel of the satellite DMB system as a remaining main channel picture or sub channel picture according to a user's display setting; determining if an incoming call is received while displaying the main and sub channel pictures; if an incoming call is received, displaying incoming call-related information as the main channel picture; and displaying the main channel as the sub channel picture.