Broadcast receiving apparatus, method for setting the same, and program for setting the same

• US 20100060799A1
• Filed: 08/28/2009
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishii, Kensuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,553,158 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/731
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6112 involving terrestrial transmission, e.g. DVB-T
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control

Abstract

A broadcast receiving apparatus includes a channel scanning unit configured to perform a channel scanning process of scanning broadcast channels to be received, determining on each scanned broadcast channel whether the channel is receivable, and registering a broadcast channel determined as receivable, a function setting unit configured to perform settings of various functions, and a control unit configured to control the channel scanning unit and the function setting unit so that the channel scanning process is performed simultaneously with the settings of the various functions.

Claims

1. A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising:

a channel scanning unit configured to perform a channel scanning process of scanning broadcast channels to be received, determining on each scanned broadcast channel whether the channel is receivable, and registering a broadcast channel determined as receivable;

a function setting unit configured to perform settings of various functions; and

a control unit configured to control the channel scanning unit and the function setting unit so that the channel scanning process is performed simultaneously with the settings of the various functions.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the settings performed by the function setting unit are effective so long as the settings are performed before the start of use of the broadcast receiving apparatus.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the settings preformed by the function setting unit include setting of a power consumption control function.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the settings performed by the function setting unit include setting of a function of automatically turning off the broadcast receiving apparatus when a user does not operate the apparatus for a predetermined period of time.

5. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the function setting unit performs setting selected from a plurality of function settings in accordance with a user operation.

6. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display control unit configured to allow a display unit to display both of a progress status of the channel scanning process performed by the channel scanning unit and a setting screen for the settings of the various functions performed by the function setting unit.

7. A method for setting a broadcast receiving apparatus, the method including the steps of:

performing a channel scanning process of scanning broadcast channels to be received, determining on each scanned broadcast channel whether the channel is receivable, and registering a broadcast channel determined as receivable;

performing settings of various functions; and

performing control so that the channel scanning process is performed simultaneously with the settings of the various functions.

8. A program for setting a broadcast receiving apparatus, the program allowing the broadcast receiving apparatus to perform the steps of:

performing a channel scanning process of scanning broadcast channels to be received, determining on each scanned broadcast channel whether the channel is receivable, and registering a broadcast channel determined as receivable;

performing settings of various functions; and

performing control so that the channel scanning process is performed simultaneously with the settings of the various functions.