Digital broadcast receiver

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EP 1 850 515 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	24.03.2010 Bulletin 2010/12

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	31.10.2007 Bulletin 2007/44

(21)	Application number: 07113932.3

(22)	Date of filing: 15.03.1999

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

H04H 40/27^(2008.01)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE FR GB

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Priority:

23.03.1998 JP 9402298

(62)	Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
	99301956.1 / 0946011

(71)	Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
	Meguro-ku, Tokyo (JP)

(72)	Inventor:
	Ichikawa, Toshihito c/o Pioneer Electronics Corporation, Oaza Yamada, Kawagoe-shi, Saitama (JP)

(74)	Representative: Haley, Stephen
	Gill Jennings & Every LLP Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street London EC2M 7LH London EC2M 7LH (GB)

(54)	Digital broadcast receiver

(57) A digital broadcast receiver includes an FM receiver including an RDS decoder, a DAB receiver and a controller for comparing the receive state of the FM receiver and that of the DAB receiver and controlling output regenerated by either receiver showing the more satisfactory receive state as the output of the above digital broadcast receiver, and is characterized in that the above controller is provided with first evaluation means for evaluating the receive state of the FM receiver based upon the block error rate of RDS data, second evaluation means for evaluating the receive state of the DAB receiver based upon the frame error rate of audio frames included DAB data and comparison means for comparing the result of evaluation by the first evaluation means and the result of evaluation by the second evaluation means.

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