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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2010
Applicants:
Yutaka Maruyama, Ichikawa, JP;
Yoshiyuki Takagi, Nagoya, JP;
Inventors:
Yutaka Maruyama, Ichikawa, JP;
Yoshiyuki Takagi, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Buffalo Inc., Nagoya-shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 5/268 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The digital broadcast receiverincludes the first tunerand the second tuner. The first tunerreceives a certain channel, whereas the second tunerperforms channel detection at a predetermined cycle. If the reception level of the certain channel currently received by the first tunerbecomes lower than a threshold, the digital broadcast receiverswitches the channel received by the first tunerto a channel whose reception level is equal to or higher than the threshold among channels detected by the second tuner