Television broadcast receiving apparatus, television broadcast reproducing method, and television broadcast reproducing program

A television broadcast receiving apparatus, comprising:

• a reproducing portion to receive television broadcast and to reproduce a video;
• a detecting portion to detect a commercial message included in the television broadcast;
• a process execution portion provided separately from said reproducing portion and to execute a process of outputting a video;
• a video signal output portion to output a video signal for displaying a video;
• an operation accepting portion to accept an operation by a user;
• and
• a restoring portion to cause said video signal output portion to output a video signal in a same display state as the video signal that was output by said video signal output portion before a start of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion, in the case where said operation accepting portion accepts an operation directed to said process execution portion during a period from a start to the end of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion and, thereafter, broadcast of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion is finished with no operation directed to said process execution portion accepted by said operation accepting portion for more than a predetermined period of time.

A television broadcast reproducing method, comprising the steps of:

• receiving television broadcast and reproducing a video;
• detecting a commercial message included in the television broadcast;
• accepting an operation by a user;
• and
• in the case where an operation for causing execution of a process of outputting a video other than said video being reproduced is accepted during a period from a start to an end of said detected commercial message, notifying the user of the end of the commercial message when broadcast of said detected commercial message is finished.

A television broadcast reproducing method, comprising the steps of:

• receiving television broadcast and reproducing a video;
• detecting a commercial message included in the television broadcast;
• accepting an operation by a user;
• outputting a video signal for displaying a video;
• and
• in the case where an operation for causing execution of a process of outputting a video other than said video being reproduced is accepted during a period from a start to an end of said detected commercial message and, thereafter, broadcast of said detected commercial message is finished with no operation for execution of the process of outputting said other video accepted for more than a predetermined period of time, outputting a video signal in a same display state as the video signal that was output in said step of outputting a video signal at the time when the broadcast of said detected commercial message was started.

A television broadcast reproducing program product causing a computer to execute the steps of:

• receiving television broadcast and reproducing a video;
• detecting a commercial message included in the television broadcast;
• accepting an operation by a user;
• and
• in the case where an operation for causing execution of a process of outputting a video other than said video being reproduced is accepted during a period from a start to an end of said detected commercial message, notifying the user of the end of the commercial message when broadcast of said detected commercial message is finished.

A television broadcast reproducing program product causing a computer to execute the steps of:

• receiving television broadcast and reproducing a video;
• detecting a commercial message included in the television broadcast;
• accepting an operation by a user;
• outputting a video signal for displaying a video;
• and
• in the case where an operation for causing execution of a process of outputting a video other than said video being reproduced is accepted during a period from a start to an end of said detected commercial message and, thereafter, broadcast of said detected commercial message is finished with no operation for execution of the process of outputting said other video accepted for more than a predetermined period of time, outputting a video signal in a same display state as the video signal that was output in said step of outputting a video signal at the time when the broadcast of said detected commercial message was started.