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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1995
Hitoshi Yoshinobu, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A broadcast receiving apparatus having a control signal generator for generating a channel selection control signal in response to a channel selection performed by a user. The broadcast receiving apparatus further includes a channel selector for selecting a desired program channel from broadcast waves in response to the channel selection control signal. The apparatus further comprises a channel history memory for storing program channels, which have been selected by the channel selector on several occasions during past weeks, corresponding to the days of the weeks and the hours relative to the channel selections; a decision portions for checking the stored contents of the channel history memory and making a decision as to whether any frequent reception program channel selected and received at a frequency higher than a predetermined value exists on the same day of the week and at the same hour in the past; and a controller responsive to a detection of the existence of any frequent reception program channel executed by the decision portions and generating a control signal to instruct recording of the signal of the frequent reception program channel.