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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2001
Eiichi Ashida, Ibaraki, JP;
Abstract
In a television set that displays images of a specified broadcast channel out of broadcast waves received by a receiving unit ( ), a channel selection number corresponding to a broadcast channel to be selected is entered by a channel entering unit ( ) through operation keys ( to ) corresponding to respective integers from 0 to 9, and then the entry is received. If the channel selection number is an integer of an even number out of 0 to 9, a channel selection controlling unit ( ) arranges entered integers including the entered even number in the order in which they were entered and confirms the channel selection number. It directs the receiving unit ( ) to select a broadcast channel corresponding to the confirmed channel selection number.