Patent ID: 7016435

Claim:
A digital/analog broadcast receiver having an automatic gain control function, comprising: an input unit for inputting a channel selection command to the receiver; a receiving unit for receiving broadcasting signals compressed in conformity with the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) standard and transmitted from a broadcasting station in response to the channel selection command via the input unit; a SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) filter for separating the broadcasting signals received by the receiving unit and passing only broadcasting signals in a desired frequency band; an A/D converter for converting the broadcasting signals passed through the SAW filter into multi-value digital signals; a demodulator for demodulating the multi-value digital signals to binary digital signals; an MPEG decoder for decoding the binary digital signals demodulated by the demodulator in conformity with the MPEG standard; a D/A converter for converting the signals decoded by the MPEG decoder into analog signals to be outputted to a display device connected to the receiver; an analog signal level detecting circuit for detecting an intensity level of the signals received by the receiving unit; a digital signal level detecting circuit for detecting an intensity level of the multi-value digital signals inputted to the demodulator; an AGC (Automatic Gain Control) circuit for receiving feedback of the broadcasting signals received by the receiving unit and of the multi-value digital signals to be demodulated by the demodulator so as to automatically control a gain of the receiving unit on the basis of the intensity levels of the signals; a memory for storing channel map information which is referred to at the time of a channel selection; and a control unit for controlling each component of the receiver, wherein, in response to a channel selection command received from the input unit, the control unit obtains a frequency of the channel selected by referring to the channel map and tunes the receiving unit to the frequency, wherein, when a broadcast channel to be received is a digital broadcast and analog broadcast channels exist adjacent to the channel to be received, the control unit outputs an instruction of making the AGC circuit control the gain of the receiving unit on the basis of the intensity level detected by the analog signal level detecting circuit, and when no analog broadcast channel exists adjacent to the channel to be received, the control unit outputs an instruction of making the AGC circuit control the gain of the receiving unit on the basis of the intensity level detected by the digital signal level detecting circuit.