Broadcast signal receiving apparatus

• US 8,248,540 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2008
• Issued: 08/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Okada, Hirofumi, Hayashi, Takafumi, Yamaga, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Harold, Jefferey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rahman, Mustafizur
• Application Number:
  US12/204,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20090066851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,447 Days
• Field of Search: 348/734, 348/706, 348/563, 348/731, 340/12.22, 340/12.55, 340/12.52, 340/13.32, 345/169, 345/327, 345/810, 715/834
• US Class Current: 348/734
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/46 for receiving on more than one standard at will deflecting circuits of multi-standard receivers H04N3/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

In a broadcast signal receiving apparatus, a remote controller has, as one of a plurality of buttons thereof, a state changing button for instructing to change a source to be reproduced by a main body. The main body or the remote controller has a memory storing a first state changing table indicating an order in which the source is changed. When the state changing button is operated, if the broadcast signal is being received by the tuner portion and reproduced as the source, the main body performs state change such that the first source in the first state changing table is specified as the source to be reproduced by the main body.

Claims

1. A broadcast signal receiving apparatus comprising:

a reproducing-outputting portion reproducing and outputting, as a source, one of a plurality of broadcast signals and external input signals that are fed in;

a state changing button receiving an operation for changing the source; and

a memory storing a first state changing table in which an order in which to change the source is sequentially set with one of the external input signals as a first source,

wherein, when the state changing button is operated, if a broadcast signal is being reproduced and outputted, the reproducing-outputting portion performs state change such that the external input signal set as the first source in the first state changing table is reproduced and outputted,

wherein the memory further stores a unique list table in which the order in which to change the source can be set for a desired order, and

wherein,

when the unique list table is set, the reproducing-outputting portion performs state change by referring to the unique list table and,

when the unique list table is not set, the reproducing-outputting portion performs state change by referring to the first state changing table.

2. The broadcast signal receiving apparatus of claim 1,

wherein, when state change is performed by referring to the unique list table,

if a current source is not included in the unique list table, the reproducing-outputting portion performs state change such that a source set as a first source in the unique list table is reproduced and outputted and,

if the current source is included in the unique list table, the reproducing-outputting portion performs state change such that a source set as a source next to the current source in the unique list table is reproduced and outputted.