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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1994
Kenichiro Toyoshima, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Usui, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for entering channel representative information provided by a broadcasting signal that has been received by a television signal receiving apparatus and setting a plurality of channels in response thereto is disclosed. The method includes a first step for initiating channel setting by a CPU contained in a television signal receiving apparatus in response to an initiating signal; a second step for setting a start channel number in a counter; a third step for selecting a channel from the broadcast signal in accordance with the channel number in the counter; a fourth step for judging whether the selected channel is an active channel; a fifth step for extracting an information signal from the selected channel if the selected channel has been judged active in the prior step; and a sixth step for writing information represented by the information signal and the channel number of the selected channel to a memory.