Receiving apparatus

• US 7,830,251 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2006
• Issued: 11/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishimiya, Yusaku
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland; Donnie L
• Application Number:
  US12/065,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20090135004A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,462 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.13, 340/995.13
• US Class Current: 340/539.13
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/27 specially adapted for broadcast systems covered by groups H04H20/53 - H04H20/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/51 of receiving stations

Abstract

A receiving apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving a broadcast. The apparatus further includes a location detector for detecting the location of the receiving apparatus, a moving direction calculator for calculating a moving direction of the receiving apparatus based on the location detected by the location detector, and a controller for allowing a reproducing section to reproduce a part of or all of the broadcast received by the receiving section selectively based on the moving direction calculated by the moving direction calculator.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus comprising:

a receiving section for receiving a broadcast and a location of a transmitter transmitting the broadcast;

a reproducing section for reproducing the broadcast;

a location detector for detecting a location of the receiving apparatus;

a moving direction calculator for calculating a moving direction of the receiving apparatus based on the location of the receiving apparatus; and

a controller for determining a destination area of the receiving apparatus based on the moving direction, the controller comparing the location of the transmitter to the destination area of the receiver, and based on the comparison;

allowing the reproducing section to reproduce a part of or all of the broadcast when the location of the transmitter is in the destination area of the receiving apparatus, and

preventing the reproducing section from reproducing the broadcast when the location of the transmitter is outside of the destination area of the receiving apparatus.

2. The receiving apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a registering section for registering area data of an arbitrary area from outside, wherein the controller allows the reproducing section to reproduce the part of or all of the broadcast received by the receiving section selectively based on the area data registered with the registering section.

3. The receiving apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a memory for storing a historical record of moving of the receiving apparatus detected by the location detector, wherein

the controller selects an area that the receiving apparatus often moves to based on the historical record of the moving of the receiving apparatus stored in the memory, and

the controller allows the reproducing section to reproduce the part of or all of the broadcast received by the receiving section selectively based on the area data of the area.

4. The receiving apparatus of claim 1, wherein the broadcast is an emergency broadcast interrupting to be reproduced while an ordinary broadcast is reproduced.