TUNING DEVICE MOUNTED ON CAR

摘要

An onboard tuning device aims at providing a user with a desired broadcast program without tuning operation of the user. It includes a program information acquiring unit 1 and 2 for obtaining program list information; a program information extracting unit 3 for extracting information on a program content and information on broadcast time for each broadcast program from the program list information acquired, and for outputting as program content information and broadcast time information on each broadcast program; a preference information retaining unit 5 for storing preference tendency of the user for broadcast programs as preference information; a preference fitness estimating unit 4 for ranking on the basis of a grade as to fitness of each broadcast program for user's preference according to the preference information and program content information, and for outputting as fitness information; and an automatic tuning unit 6 and 1 for automatically tuning to the broadcast program with the highest fitness information among the broadcast programs during a designated time slot according to the broadcast time information and fitness information.