| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a radio receiver which displays characters on a display means on the basis of a character data signal extracted from a broadcast radio wave which is transmitted by RDS, and it is a primary object of the present invention to obtain a radio receiver capable of discriminating whether a character displayed on the display means represents an alphabetic capital letter or a small letter of some language even if the display means is of a cheap and simple structure, and in order to attain this object, the radio receiver comprises: a data extracting means for extracting a character data from a broadcast radio wave currently being received; means for detecting the signal strength of a broadcast radio wave currently being received; a character pattern generating means for generating a character pattern common to both an alphabetic capital and a small letters of English or of some other language in accordance with the character data signal; a character discriminating means for discriminating a capital and a small letter in accordance with the character data signal; and a display means for displaying a character pattern outputted from the character pattern generating means in different displaying modes depending on which of a capital letter and a small letter should be displayed in accordance with the output from the control means. <IMAGE> |
