Broadcast receiver
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorShingo Ikeda
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Abstract
A digital television broadcast receiver improves a convenience of a user by making a video recording reservation by using a function control mail and making the video recording reservation from a distance. The broadcast receiver has a mail receiving section, a mail type identification section to identify a normal mail and the function control mail when the mail receiving section receives a mail and a video recording reservation section to generate video recording reservation information by analyzing at least a keyword, a video recording channel and a video recording time and make a video recording reservation when the received mail is the function control mail.
Claims14
A broadcast receiver, comprising:
- a mail receiving section;
- a mail type identification section to identify a normal mail and a function control mail when the mail receiving section receives a mail;
- and
- a recording reservation section to generate recording reservation information by analyzing at least a keyword, a recording channel and a recording time in the function control mail and make a recording reservation when the received mail is the function control mail.
A broadcast receiver, comprising:
- a tuner unit to receive a broadcast signal;
- a signal processing unit to process and reproduce the broadcast signal acquired by the tuner unit;
- a graphic processing unit to superimpose a graphic signal stored in advance on a display signal acquired by the signal processing unit and output the superimposed signal to a display unit;
- a mail receiving section;
- a mail type identification section to identify a normal mail and a function control mail when the mail receiving section receives mail;
- a display processing unit to display a mail incoming icon through the graphic processing unit when the received mail is the normal mail;
- and
- a video recording reservation processing unit to omit a display of the mail incoming icon, generate video recording reservation information by analyzing at least a keyword, a video recording channel and a video recording time in the function control mail and make a video recording reservation when the received mail is the function control mail.
A method for receiving broadcast receiving a broadcast signal by a tuner unit having a network connecting terminal, an external equipment connecting terminal, and a control unit to control operations, making a signal processing unit process and reproduce the signal acquired by the tuner unit, making a graphic processing unit superimpose a graphics signal on a display signal acquired by the signal processing unit and outputting a composite signal acquired by superimposing processing to a display unit, wherein
- the control unit
- includes a mail information processing unit,
- identifies a normal mail and a function control mail when receiving a mail
- displays a mail incoming icon through the graphic processing unit when the received mail is the normal mail, and
- omits a display of the mail incoming icon, generates video recording reservation information by analyzing at least a keyword, a video recording channel and a video recording time in the function control mail and makes a video recording reservation when the received mail is the function control mail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.