Television receiver and digital broadcast system
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorMasahiro Takatori
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Abstract
Broadcast points in a broadcaster's sole region are turned into package information by processing the contents transmitted from a broadcaster, and the package information is stored in the receiver common information region of a television broadcast receiver, and thereby, it becomes possible even for a communication browser that is an application of the television broadcast receiver to refer to and use the information of broadcast points. It is possible by using a communication browser to receive a service provided in a home page of a company other than the broadcasting company.
Claims29
A television receiver for receiving a digital television broadcast comprising:
- an inherent information memory unit for storing inherent information accessible by a broadcaster;
- a software program receiver unit for receiving a software program, the software program obtaining information from the inherent information memory unit;
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- a control unit which uses the received software program to execute control for enabling one or more other software programs to use the obtained information associated with the inherent information accessible by the broadcaster.
A digital broadcasting system for broadcasting a digital television broadcast comprising:
- a broadcasting station device for digitally broadcasting a software program for obtaining package information that can be handled as common information by using inherent information;
- a television receiver which accumulates the inherent information in a first sole region and obtains package information that can be handled as common information by using the inherent information, receiving the software program for obtaining package information by using the inherent information and obtaining package information that can be handled as common information by using the inherent information, and transmits the information to an information server connected in such manner as to enable communication which is described later;
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- an information server which receives the package information and extracts points out of the inherent information in order to provide the user of the television receiver with services corresponding to the points.
A digital broadcasting system for broadcasting a digital television broadcast comprising:
- a first information server for digitally broadcasting a software program for obtaining inherent information and package information that can be handled as common information by using the inherent information;
- a television receiver which receives the inherent information and a software program for obtaining package information by using the inherent information, accumulates the inherent information in a first sole region and the software program in a second sole region, and obtains package information that can be handled as common information by using the inherent information to transmit the information to a second information server connected in such manner as to enable communication;
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- the second information server which receives the package information and extracts conditional access software ID out of the inherent information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.