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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2007
Kosuke Kinoshita, Daito, JP;
Kosuke Kinoshita, Daito, JP;
Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Daito-shi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A microcomputerobtains a variable RRT from a broadcast signal and stores, in a recording medium, the variable RRT in association with a physical channel; sets a viewing restriction flag for an item in the variable RRT based on an operation input from a user; applies viewing restriction to the broadcast signal when rating information indicates the level at which the viewing restriction flag has been set in the variable RRT; and, when a logical channel is not associated with the selected physical channel, tunes, as an alternative channel, a physical channel with which a logical channel has been associated in the channel map of the other tuner, and associates a variable RRT associated with the alternative channel, with the selected physical channel.