Reception apparatus, signal reproducing apparatus using reception apparatus and control method thereof

• US 5,513,385 A
• Filed: 09/28/1994
• Issued: 04/30/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Yozo
• Primary Examiner(s): Safourek, Benedict V.
• Application Number:
  US08/314,081
• Time in Patent Office: 580 Days
• Field of Search: 381/2, 381/3, 381/4, 455/45, 455/58.1, 455/227, 455/228, 455/343, 370/76
• US Class Current: 455/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/20 for coupling gramophone pick-up, recorder output, or microphone to receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/13 radio data system/radio broadcast data system [RDS/RBDS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/18 Arrangements characterised by circuits or components specially adapted for receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/15 on receiving information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/16 on playing information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/47 for recognising genres
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A radio receiver continues to demodulate a broadcast signal that was modulated with a baseband signal and a data signal to obtain the data signal after the receiver circuitry unassociated with extracting the data signal has been deenergized when the receiver is set in a predetermined mode. As described, the baseband signal has a program content, while the data signal identifies the program content of the baseband signal. In accordance with the present invention, the unassociated receiver circuitry is reenergized to output an amplified baseband signal capable of driving a speaker when the program content of the data signal indicates that a preselected program is starting, and again deenergizes the unassociated receiver circuitry when the program content of the data signal indicates that the preselected program is over.

Claims

1. A signal reproducing apparatus comprising:

demodulating means for demodulating a received broadcasting signal that was modulated with a baseband signal and a data signal to obtain the baseband signal and the data signal, the baseband signal having a program content, the data signal identifying the program content of the baseband signal;

amplifying means for amplifying the baseband signal to form an amplified baseband signal, the amplified baseband signal being capable of driving an external speaker;

identifying means for

identifying the program content in the data signal; and

control means for energizing the demodulating means, and the identifying means, and for deenergizing the amplifying means when a power switch of said signal reproducing apparatus is turned off and a predetermined receiving mode is set, and for reenergizing the amplifying means when the program content in the data signal indicates that a preselected program is present.

2. The signal reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, and further comprising:

signal source means for outputting an alternate baseband signal; and

switching means for selecting either the baseband signal or the alternate baseband signal, wherein the switching means selects the baseband signal or the alternate baseband signal in response to a control signal from the control means.

3. The signal reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control means switches the switching means such that the baseband signal is supplied to the amplifying means instead of the alternate baseband signal when the identifying means determines from the program content of the data signal that the preselected program is present.

4. The signal reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control means switches the switching means such that the baseband signal is supplied to the amplifying means instead of the alternate baseband signal, and deenergizes the signal source means to temporarily stop outputting the alternate baseband signal when the identifying means determines from the program content of the data signal that the preselected program is present, and

wherein the control means switches the switching means such that the alternate baseband signal is supplied to the amplifying means, and reenergizes the signal source means to again output the alternate baseband signal when the identifying means determines from the program content of the data signal that the preselected program is finished.

5. The signal reproducing means according to claim 2, wherein the control means generates a channel selection control signal to the demodulating means so that the demodulating means demodulates a different broadcast signal to obtain a different baseband signal when the identifying means determines from the program content of the data signal that a predetermined program is present on the different broadcast signal, and switches the switching means such that the different baseband signal is output by the switching means.

6. The signal reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, and further comprising recording and/or reproducing means for recording and/or reproducing an output signal supplied thereto from the switching means.

7. A reception apparatus comprising:

receiving means for forming an intermediate frequency signal in response to a broadcasting signal that was modulated with a baseband signal and a data signal, the baseband signal having a program content, the data signal identifying the program content of the baseband signal;

demodulating means for demodulating the intermediate frequency signal to form the baseband signal and the data signal;

data extraction means for extracting program content data from the data signal; and

control means for controlling the receiving means, the demodulating means, and the data extraction means,

wherein the receiving means, the demodulating means, the data extraction means, and the control means are energized when said reception apparatus is deenergized and a predetermined receiving mode is set, and

wherein said reception apparatus is reenergized to output an amplified baseband signal capable of driving a speaker, and the control means directs the receiving means to receive a different broadcast signal when the program content data indicates that a preselected program is modulated onto the different broadcast signal.

8. A method of controlling a signal reproducing apparatus having a demodulating means, an identifying means, and an amplifying means, the demodulating means demodulating a broadcast signal that was modulated with a baseband signal and a data signal to obtain the baseband signal and the data signal, wherein the baseband signal has a program content and the data signal identifies the program content of the baseband signal, the identifying means identifying the program content in the data signal, the amplifying means amplifying the baseband signal to provide an amplified baseband signal capable of driving an external speaker, the method comprising the steps of:

energizing the demodulating means and the identifying means when said signal reproducing apparatus is de-energized and a predetermined receiving mode is set; and

energizing said signal reproducing apparatus such that the amplifying means outputs the amplified baseband signal, and directing the demodulating means to demodulate a different broadcast signal when the identifying means determines from the program content of the data signal that the preselected program is present on the different broadcast signal.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the baseband signal output from the demodulating means is supplied to the amplifying means instead of an output signal from another signal source when the identifying means determines from the program content of the data signal that the preselected program is present on the different broadcast signal.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the demodulating means demodulates a different broadcast signal to obtain a different baseband signal when the identifying means determines from the program content of the data signal that a predetermined program is present on the different broadcast signal.