Television transmitter, television transmitting method, television receiver and television receiving method

A television receiving method comprising:

• a receiving step of receiving a television broadcast signal including television program signals and multimedia data files including hyper text data, the multimedia data files relating to a television program guide, said hyper text data including address information which designates a linked multimedia data file;
• an extraction step of extracting said multimedia data files from the received television broadcast signal;
• a connecting step of connecting to a network in order to get control signals for controlling an execution of a process;
• a storage step of storing the extracted multimedia data files and said linked multimedia data file;
• a processor step of retrieving at least one of the stored multimedia data files stored in said storage step, and of interpreting the retrieved at least one of the stored multimedia data files and generating a display signal including said television program guide and link portions based on said hyper text data;
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• a user interface step of pointing to at least one of the displayed link portions,
• wherein said processor step further recognizes said address information of each pointed to link portion, retrieves said linked multimedia data file corresponding to the recognized address information stored in said storage step, interprets the retrieved linked multimedia data file, and generates said display signal.

A television receiver comprising:

• a television broadcast reception circuit configured to receive a television broadcast signal and in accordance therewith generate television program signals;
• a data broadcast reception circuit, coupled to said television broadcast reception circuit, said data broadcast reception circuit configured to receive said television broadcast signal and in accordance therewith generate multimedia data files relating to a television program guide, wherein said television broadcast signal includes said television program signals and said multimedia data files, wherein said multimedia data files includes hyper text data, and wherein said hyper text data includes address information which designates a linked multimedia data file;
• a connection mechanism configured to connect to a network so as to get control signals for controlling an execution of a process;
• a disk drive configured to store said multimedia data files and said linked multimedia data file;
• an audio-visual processing circuit, coupled to said data broadcast reception circuit and said television broadcast reception circuit, said audio-visual processing circuit configured to receive said television program signals and said multimedia data files and in accordance therewith generate a display signal including said television program guide and link portions according to said hyper text data;
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• a control microcomputer, coupled to said data broadcast reception circuit, said television broadcast reception circuit, said audio-visual processing circuit and said disk drive, said control microcomputer configured to receive an operation signal and in accordance therewith control said data broadcast reception circuit, said television broadcast reception circuit, said audio-visual processing circuit and said disk drive, wherein said operation signal further indicates selection of at least one of said link portions by a user, and in accordance therewith said audio-visual processing circuit generates said display signal.