Receiver for Digital Audio Broadcast comprising a plurality of decoding means for independently decoding a plurality of programmes

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EP 0 905 931 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	17.03.2004 Bulletin 2004/12

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	31.03.1999 Bulletin 1999/13

(21)	Application number: 98117842.9

(22)	Date of filing: 21.09.1998

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: H04H 1/00

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

29.09.1997 JP 28131197

(71)	Applicant: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
	Iwaki-shi, Fukushima 970-1192 (JP)

(72)	Inventor:
	Kato, Takeshi Iwaki-city, Fukushima (JP)

(74)	Representative: Hirsch, Peter, Dipl.-Ing.
	Klunker Schmitt-Nilson Hirsch Winzererstrasse 106 80797 München 80797 München (DE)

(54)	Receiver for Digital Audio Broadcast comprising a plurality of decoding means for independently decoding a plurality of programmes

(57) A DAB receiver (1) includes a DAB front/end unit (4), a DAB decoder (6), two audio decoders (8, 10), two D/A converters (12, 14), a recorder (22), a controller (34), an operation unit (38), and a display unit (40). When the voice of a service of DAB is formed and output by one audio decoder (8), and a broadcast of a predetermined announcement included in the same ensemble as that of the service is started, the voice of the announcement is formed by using the other audio decoder (10). As described above, two voices can be output, and the voice of the announcement is recorded on the recorder (22) or output while overlapping the voice of the service.

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