Receiver for receiving Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) programmes, comprising automatic selection of broadcast programmes from a plurality of multiplexed programmes

摘要

The present invention provides a digital-audio-broadcast receiver capable of extracting any arbitrary one of a plurality of broadcast programs multiplexed in a digital-audio-broadcast ensemble signal selectively received by the receiver with ease. The digital-audio-broadcast receiver comprises: a tuner for selectively receiving a digital-audio-broadcast ensemble signal conveying a plurality of broadcast programs multiplexed therein and additional identification information revealing contents of each of the broadcast programs; a program-selection-information storage unit for storing program-selection information suggesting a broadcast program to be selected on a priority basis from the broadcast programs multiplexed in the digital-audio-broadcast ensemble signal; and a program selecting unit for extracting a broadcast program from the digital-audio-broadcast ensemble signal selectively received by the tuner in accordance with the program-selection information stored in the program-selection-information storage unit and the additional identification information conveyed by the digital-audio-broadcast ensemble signal.