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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1993
Tomoaki Nakade, Saitama, JP;
Hitoshi Komatsu, Saitama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A channel selecting apparatus includes a broadcast signal selector provided with a plurality of channels corresponding to respective broadcast stations for selecting a channel among the plurality of channels, channel selecting keys for directly selecting one channel among regular channels, a channel increasing key for establishing at least one auxiliary channel other than the regular channels, a channel shift key for selecting one of the regular channels while sequentially shifting a current channel among the regular channels and the auxiliary channels for generating instructions corresponding to respective keys whenever the channel selecting key, the channel increasing key and the channel shift key are operated, a storage device for storing a plurality of regular channel data corresponding to the respective regular channel auxiliary channel data other than the regular channel data, and a controller for defining storage areas and for controlling the channel shift operation by the channel selector while referring to the regular channel data and the auxiliary channel data based on the operating instruction.