Television broadcast receiver

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2011-01-18

2011-01-18

Pendleton, Brian T (Department: 2425)

Interactive video distribution systems

Satellite video distribution system

Receiver

C725S072000, C725S139000, C348S732000, C348S734000, C348S570000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07873975

ABSTRACT:
A television receiver is connected to a multi-directional antenna, and stores, in a memory, a receiving direction table containing: channel numbers; best receiving directions of the multi-directional antenna for receiving the respective channels; and register channel information indicating whether the channels are registered as selectable or non-selectable. The receiving direction table is used for selecting each channel. Based on the operation of a user interface by a user (S42), the register channel information of the receiving direction table can be changed (S44, S46), so that the user can optionally set selectable channels. Best receiving directions of channels registered in the receiving direction table as non-selectable are deleted from the receiving direction table (S45), so that the amount of information stored in the memory can be reduced, thereby saving capacity of the memory.

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Office Action dated Nov. 17, 2009 in JP 2004-189977.

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