Apparatus and method for receiving identical broadcasting program
OwnerHwa Young Yuninventor
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Abstract
A method for receiving an identical broadcasting program automatically searches broadcasting channels to which an identical broadcasting program corresponding to a program of the channel selected by a user is transmitted from multiplex broadcasting media in case the broadcasting signals are poor or the broadcasting signals have high sound quality or picture quality while the user transmits a broadcasting program through a medium so that the user can watch the identical broadcasting program continuously. In order to achieve this, the present invention searches and outputs a broadcasting program identical to the multiplex broadcasting program from multiplex broadcasting media on the basis of a source ID of the broadcasting program received from broadcasting media.
Claims21
A method for receiving an identical broadcasting program comprising the steps of searching and outputting a broadcasting program identical to a multiplex broadcasting program from multiplex broadcasting media on the basis of a source ID of the broadcasting program received from broadcasting media.
A method for receiving an identical broadcasting program, comprising:
- reading a source ID of a broadcasting program transmitted from broadcasting media;
- searching whether the broadcasting program having an identical source ID as the source ID is on the air from multiplex media;
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- selecting whether the media would be converted or not by reporting the searching result to the user.
An apparatus for receiving an identical broadcasting program, in an apparatus for outputting an image signal or voice signal by receiving broadcasting signal through multiplex broadcasting media, comprising:
- an identical broadcasting program searching unit for searching a channel to which a same broadcasting program as a program of a channel selected by a user;
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- a channel selection unit for selecting a broadcasting signal corresponding to the searched channel.
An apparatus for receiving an identical broadcasting program, comprising:
- a channel selection unit for selecting a broadcasting signal of a channel to which an identical broadcasting program corresponding to a broadcasting program selected by a user is transmitted from a multiplex broadcasting media according to a control signal;
- a demultiplexer for separating image and voice signals in the selected broadcasting signal;
- a decoding unit for decoding and outputting the separated image and voice signals;
- a channel information database for storing channel information corresponding to the multiplex broadcasting media;
- an identical broadcasting program searching unit for searching channels to which an identical broadcasting program corresponding to the program of the channel selected by a user is transmitted from the multiplex broadcasting media by comparing the channel selected by the user and the channel information stored in the channel information database;
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- a microcomputer for outputting the control signal for converting the channel selected by the user into the searched channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.