Telecommunications – Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter – Signal selection based on frequency
Patent
1995-03-08
1997-06-17
Urban, Edward F.
Telecommunications
Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter
Signal selection based on frequency
4551611, 4551613, 4551861, H04B 118
Patent
active
056406967
ABSTRACT:
An automatic station selecting and receiving apparatus mounted on a movable body is provided with: a memory unit for storing information indicating a tendency of programs and information indicating a broadcast frequency as for each of the broadcasting stations in association with a plurality of regional blocks obtained by dividing a whole region, where the broadcasting stations exist, into a plurality of blocks; an operation unit for specifying a desirable tendency of programs to be received; a current block detection unit for detecting one regional block including a position where the movable body is currently positioned; a station selection unit for selecting one of broadcasting stations, which is positioned in the detected one regional block and which has the specified tendency of programs, according to the stored information indicating the tendency of programs; and a receiving unit for receiving an electric wave of the broadcast frequency corresponding the selected one of the broadcasting stations according to the stored information indicating the broadcast frequency.
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patent: 5280642 (1994-01-01), Hirata et al.
patent: 5307513 (1994-04-01), Harada
Ishikawa Yutaro
Kimura Toshiyuki
Arthur Gertrude
Pioneer Electronic Corporation
Urban Edward F.
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