Broadcast receiver and broadcast receiving system
AssigneeMaxell, Ltd.
InventorsYasunobu Hashimoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka
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Abstract
The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.
Claims14
A broadcast receiving apparatus configured to execute an application, the broadcast receiving apparatus comprising:
- a broadcast receiver configured to receive a broadcast wave including a digital broadcast program and application related information;
- a decoder configured to decode video image information of a broadcast program received by the broadcast receiver;
- a network interface configured to perform communication via the Internet;
- a processor configured to execute the application;
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- a display configured to display at least one of (1) a video image of the broadcast program decoded by the decoder and (2) an execution video image of the application executed by the processor,
- wherein the processor is further configured to:
- cause the display to display, in a case where the application related information includes information regarding activation of the application and when the processor determines that the application is executable, an activation prompt instructing a user to activate the application by performing a predetermined operation;
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- control the application such that the application is activated in response to the predetermined operation performed by the user, and
- wherein the processor is configured to execute the application that performs an operation that displays internet video contents acquired via the network interface while the network interface is connected to the Internet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.