(19)
(11) EP 2 632 065 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
06.08.2014 Bulletin 2014/32

(43) Date of publication A2:
28.08.2013 Bulletin 2013/35

(21) Application number: 13156787.7

(22) Date of filing: 26.02.2013
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
H04H 60/41(2008.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
Designated Extension States:
BA ME

(30) Priority: 27.02.2012 JP 2012039833

(71) Applicant: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
Tokyo Tokyo 151-8501 (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Take, Shuji
    Fukushima (JP)

(74) Representative: Klunker . Schmitt-Nilson . Hirsch 
Patentanwälte Destouchesstraße 68
80796 München
80796 München (DE)

   


(54) Reception apparatus and method of displaying broadcasting station


(57) A radio reception apparatus (20) that receives an RDS broadcast scans a frequency band in a background operation with one tuner while outputting the radio broadcast with the other tuner to create a frequency table in which receivable frequencies are registered and display a broadcasting station list on the basis of the frequency table. A process (A) of extracting RDS data during the scanning, a process (B) of determining whether each frequency in the frequency table is receivable, and so on are performed in the radio reception apparatus. The broadcasting station corresponding to the frequency determined not to be receivable in the process (B) is immediately deleted from the broadcasting station list.










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