Mobile FM-multiplex-broadcast receiving device

• US 6,006,076 A
• Filed: 07/22/1997
• Issued: 12/21/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Kazumasa
• Primary Examiner(s): LOOMIS, PAUL A
• Application Number:
  US08/898,475
• Time in Patent Office: 882 Days
• Field of Search: 455/161.2, 455/161.3, 455/166.2, 455/154.2, 455/155.1, 455/158.1, 455/158.4, 455/158.5, 455/184.1, 455/185.1, 455/186.1
• US Class Current: 455/186.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information

Abstract

A mobile FM-multiplex-broadcast receiving device for receiving digital information (e.g., traffic information and general information) transmitted by FM-multiplex-broadcasts, which is capable of quickly obtaining a sufficient amount of necessary information by reliably selecting an optimally receivable FM-broadcasting station. This is realized by providing the receiving device with device for determining a correct reception ratio of digital information by calculating an amount of correctly received data to a total amount for each of FM-broadcasting stations and a driver for allowing a driver to select one of stations receivable with correct reception ratios greater than a certain preset value.

Claims

1. A mobile FM-multiplex-broadcast receiving device for receiving traffic information and general information which are transmitted as digital information signals of FM-multiplex broadcasts, comprising:

means for determining a correct reception ratio for each FM-multiplex broadcast by calculating a ratio of an amount of correctly received digital information to a total amount of received digital information; and

means for allowing a user to select any one of FM-broadcasting stations having correct reception ratios higher than a specified value.

2. A mobile FM-multiplex-broadcast receiving device as defined in claim 1, further comprising means for searching FM-broadcasting stations having electric field strengths greater than a specified value, means for determining said ratio of correctly received digital-information amount to the total amount of received digital information from each of the searched stations and means for informing a user of selectable FM-broadcasting stations on the basis of the determined correct reception ratios.

3. A mobile FM-multiplex-broadcast receiving device as defined in claim 1, further comprising means for searching FM-broadcasting stations having electric field strengths greater than a specified value, means for determining said ratio of the amount of correctly received digital information to the total amount of received digital information from each of the searched stations and means for automatically receiving a FM-broadcasting station having the largest correct reception ratio.