Television receiver and control method for the same
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorKazuhito Shinokawa
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Abstract
A television receiver includes a recorder which records block log information relating to the screen block to a recording medium in relation to a first channel, when the first channel displayed on the display unit is in a screen block state, and a controller which reads out the block log information of the first channel from the recording medium and performs screen block of a program displayed on the display unit, based on the block log information, when the first channel is tuned after a second channel different from the first channel is tuned from the first channel by the tuning unit.
Claims10
A television receiver configured to extract rating information indicating a degree of extreme of a program content corresponding to a channel tuned by a tuning unit among television broadcast signals in a plurality of channels, compare the rating information to pre-registered rating information and perform screen block to make the program displayed on a display unit again impossible to be viewed, based on a comparison result, comprising:
- a recorder which records block log information relating to the screen block to a recording medium in relation to a first channel, when the first channel displayed on the display unit is in a screen block state;
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- a controller which reads out the block log information of the first channel from the recording medium and performs screen block of a program displayed on the display unit, based on the block log information, when the first channel is tuned after a second channel different from the first channel is tuned from the first channel by the tuning unit.
A television receiver comprising a first receiving unit to extract rating information indicating a degree of extreme of a program content corresponding to a channel tuned by a tuning unit among television broadcast signals in a plurality of channels, compare the rating information to pre-registered rating information and perform screen block so as to make the corresponding program displayed on a display unit impossible to be viewed on the basis of a comparison result;
- and a second receiving unit to extract rating information corresponding to a channel different form that of the first channel and compare the rating information to the pre-registered rating information comprising:
- a recorder which records block log information relating to screen block in a recording medium in relation to the first channel when a program in the first channel displayed onto the display unit is in a screen block state;
- a controller which reads out the block log information of the first channel from the recording medium and performs screen block of a program displayed on the display unit, based on the block log information, when the first channel is tuned after a second channel different from the first channel is tuned by the tuning unit;
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- an updating unit to update a recorded content of the block log information on the recording medium after recording of the block log information by the recorder, based on a comparison result of rating information acquired from an unused receiving unit among the first and the second receiving units.
A control method for television receiver which extracts rating information indicating a degree of extreme of a program content corresponding to a channel tuned by a tuning unit among television broadcast signals in a plurality of channels, compares the extracted rating information to pre-registered rating information and performs screen block to make a program displayed on a display unit impossible to be viewed, based on a comparison result, comprising:
- recording block log information relating to screen block to a recording medium in association with a first channel when the first channel displayed on the display unit is in a screen block state;
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- reading out the block log information of the first channel from the recording medium and performing screen block of a program displayed on the display unit, based on the block log information, when the first channel is tuned after a second channel different from the first channel is tuned from the first channel by the tuning unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.