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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
May. 22, 2002
Applicants:
Manabu Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Takahiro Katayama, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiko Tani, Osaka, JP;
Yusuke Nishida, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Manabu Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Takahiro Katayama, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiko Tani, Osaka, JP;
Yusuke Nishida, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a receiver, when a channel is registered on the channel map, the receiverregisters the channel by the unit of a physical channel, and when a channel is deleted from the channel map, the receiverdeletes the channel by the unit of a sub-channel. A common user has a tendency of watching most of a plurality of sub-channels contained in one physical channel and a tendency of not watching a portion of the plurality of sub-channels which the user does not like.