Patent ID: 7697078

Claim:
A broadcasting receiver for receiving a broadcasting in a plurality of channels transmitted from a broadcasting station by controlling a directivity of a directivity-switching antenna in a plurality of preset directions, the broadcasting receiver comprising: a selector that selects one of the channels, a controller that controls the directivity of the directivity switching antenna to scan all of the preset directions to determine one direction in which the direetivity switching antenna receives the selected channel in the best reception level; and a memory that stores channel information indicating the selected channel and direction information indicating the determined direction of the directivity and a reception level for the selected channel in the determined direction, in association with each other, wherein in an initial auto-scanning process, the selector selects all of the channels in sequence, the controller controls the directivity of the directivity switching antenna to determine each direction in which the directivity switching antenna receives each channel in the best reception level, and the memory stores each channel information and each direction information in association with each other, and wherein in an reset auto-scanning process which is performed after the initial auto-scanning process, the memory first erases all of the channel information and all of the direction information which have been stored in the memory in association with each other, and then the selector, the controller, and the memory perform the same operations as those of the initial auto-scanning process.