Content Receiving apparatus

• US 20040139479A1
• Filed: 12/23/2003
• Published: 07/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Masaru, Ieda, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US10/745,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20040139479A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/132
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4333 Processing operations in response to a pause request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A content receiving apparatus includes a television broadcast receiving circuit. The television broadcast receiving circuit turns on a power of a tuner before a start of a broadcast of a desired television program, and fetches a standard time from a broadcast signal of a television broadcast. As a result, in a case that a local time is delayed than the standard time, information on the delay is stored in a memory. Next, when the standard time is rendered a television program starting time, a switch of the tuner is turned on so as to start recording the television program. Furthermore, an after-recording reproduction is performed from a time that the local time is rendered the television program starting time. This allows a user to watch/listen to the television program while the recording is being continued. In addition, when the user has no time to watch/listen to the television program by the after-recording reproduction, the recording is continued until a television program ending time. In this case, the use can watch/listen to the recorded television program when the user has the time.

Claims

1. A content receiving apparatus provided with a clock circuit keeping a local time, and receiving a desired content signal transmitted using a standard time as a reference, comprising:

a specifier for specifying a transmission starting time of said desired content signal;

an issuer for issuing a message at said transmission starting time when said local time is faster than said standard time; and

a recorder for starting recording said desired content signal from said transmission starting time when said local time is delayed than said standard time.

2. A content receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a received content signal includes standard time information,

said specifier includes a detector for detecting the standard time information from said content signal transmitted prior to said desired content signal, and

a time specifier for specifying said transmission starting time based on a time included in the standard time information detected by said detector, and said local time.

3. A content receiving apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said content receiving apparatus is a handheld type.

4. A content receiving apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said desired content signal includes a video content, further comprising:

a video monitor for outputting said video content.

5. A receiving method by a content receiving apparatus provided with a clock circuit keeping a local time, and receiving a desired content signal transmitted using a standard time as a reference, comprising following steps of:

a specifying step for specifying a transmission starting time of said desired content signal;

an issuing step for issuing a message at said transmission starting time when said local time is faster than said standard time; and

a recording step for starting recording said desired content signal from said transmission starting time when said local time is delayed than said standard time.

6. A receiving method of a content receiving apparatus according to claim 5, wherein a received content signal includes standard time information,

said specifying step includes a detecting step for detecting the standard time information from said content signal transmitted prior to the desired content signal, and

a time specifying step for specifying said transmission starting time based on a time included in the standard time information detected by said detecting step, and said local time.