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US 2004/0019909 A1Published application
Broadcast program recording programming device and method
OwnerKen?apos;ichiro Takahashiinventor
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Abstract
In case of the occurrence of reception failure due to rain and the like during the broadcast of a reserved program, all or part of the reserved program is not successfully received. Provided is detecting means 203 of detecting the occurrence of reception failure, thereby a program which has the same title as that of the presently received program and is to be broadcast later than the presently received program is searched from a program information, then the program is automatically reserved.
Claims9
A program reserving apparatus comprising:
- specifying means of specifying a program to be reserved and thereby reserving said program;
- detecting means of detecting reception failure during the reception of said reserved program;
- searching means of searching for a program from among program information containing at least information on the channel and the broadcast time and day of broadcast programs;
- and
- reservation information controlling means in which when said detecting means has detected reception failure during the reception of said reserved program, said reservation information controlling means controls said searching means to search for the same or a similar program corresponding to said reserved program among said program information, and in which when the result of said search shows the presence of the same or a similar program corresponding to said reserved program, said reservation information controlling means reserves said same or similar program automatically.
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A program reserving method comprising:
- in case of the occurrence of reception failure during the reception of a reserved program, the step of searching for the same or a similar program corresponding to said reserved program among program information containing at least information on the channel and the broadcast time and day of broadcast programs;
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- when the result of said search shows the presence of the same or a similar program corresponding to said reserved program, the step of reserving said same or similar program automatically.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.