Broadcasting receiving apparatus, broadcasting receiving method, and broadcasting receiving system

• US 20060046640A1
• Filed: 08/30/2005
• Published: 03/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ooi, Shinichi
• Application Number:
  US11/213,956
• Publication Number:
  US 20060046640A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/3.20
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/16 on playing information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2585 Generation of a revocation list, e.g. of client devices involved in piracy acts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26606 for generating or managing entitlement messages, e.g. Entitlement Control Message [ECM] or Entitlement Management Message [EMM] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8166 involving executable data, e.g. software arrangements for executing specific programs G06F9/44; broadcasting computer programmes in broadcast systems H04H20/91; involving the movement of software or configuration parameters H04L67/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/162 Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing

Abstract

To provide a broadcasting receiving apparatus has a tuner section which selects a broadcasting signal and demodulating it to output a demodulated signal, a processing section which decodes the demodulated signal and outputs an video audio signal, and a control section which controls the broadcasting receiving apparatus to detect a stop signal for each model of a broadcasting receiving apparatus included in the broadcasting signal selected by the tuner section, and upon determining that this stop signal corresponds to the broadcasting receiving apparatus, partially interrupts the processing of the tuner section or the processing section in accordance with the detection, and outputs a message signal indicating that a receiving function of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is stopped.

Claims

1. A broadcasting receiving apparatus comprising:

a tuner section which selects a broadcasting signal and demodulates it to output a demodulated signal;

a processing section which decodes the demodulated signal; and

a control section which controls the broadcasting receiving apparatus to detect a stop signal for each model of a broadcasting receiving apparatus included in the broadcasting signal selected by the tuner section, and upon determining that this stop signal corresponds to the broadcasting receiving apparatus, partially interrupts the processing of the tuner section or the processing section in accordance with the detection, and outputs a message signal indicating that a receiving function of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is stopped.

2. The broadcasting receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the stop signal is a revoke signal, and the message signal displays that this broadcasting receiving apparatus is in a revoke condition.

3. The broadcasting receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control section, upon detecting the stop signal included in the broadcasting signal selected by the tuner section, partially interrupts the processing of the tuner section or the processing section in accordance with the detection, displays the message indicating that the receiving function of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is stopped and a message to prompt instruction for receiving program data from the outside in order to recover the apparatus from this stopped condition, and receives the program data from the outside in accordance with a user'"'"'s instruction, and recovers from the stopped condition so as to reproduce a normal broadcasting signal.

4. The broadcasting receiving apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the control section receives the program data from the outside via the Internet.

5. The broadcasting receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the stop signal is a revoke signal included in an EMM signal included in the broadcasting signal to be extracted from the tuner section.

6. The broadcasting receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the stop signal is an EMM signal included in the broadcasting signal, which disables only this broadcasting receiving apparatus when an ID signal of a broadcasting receiving apparatus other than the ID signal of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is updated and the ID signal of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is not updated.

7. The broadcasting receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the broadcasting signal received by the tuner section includes at least one of a digital terrestrial broadcasting signal, a BS broadcasting signal, and a CS broadcasting signal.

8. The broadcasting receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the tuner section, the processing section, and the control section are functions, which are arranged on a tuner module and a personal computer connected thereto to be dispersed.

9. A broadcasting receiving system comprising a broadcasting transmitting apparatus and a broadcasting receiving apparatus, comprising:

a broadcasting transmitting apparatus which transmits a broadcasting signal and a stop signal for each model of the broadcasting receiving apparatus to be superimposed on the broadcasting signal; and

a broadcasting receiving apparatus having a tuner section which selects a broadcasting signal from the broadcasting transmitting apparatus and demodulates it to output a demodulated signal;

a processing section which decodes the demodulated signal; and

a control section which controls the broadcasting receiving apparatus to detect a stop signal for each model of a broadcasting receiving apparatus included in the broadcasting signal selected by the tuner section, and upon determining that this stop signal corresponds to the broadcasting receiving apparatus, partially interrupts the processing of the tuner section or the processing section in accordance with the detection, and outputs a message signal indicating that a receiving function of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is stopped.

10. The broadcasting receiving system according to claim 9,

wherein the stop signal is a revoke signal, and the message signal displays that this broadcasting receiving apparatus is in a revoke condition.

11. The broadcasting receiving system according to claim 9,

wherein the control section, upon detecting the stop signal included in the broadcasting signal selected by the tuner section, partially interrupts the processing of the tuner section or the processing section in accordance with the detection, displays the message indicating that the receiving function of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is stopped and a message to prompt instruction for receiving program data from the outside in order to recover the apparatus from this stopped condition, and receives the program data from the outside in accordance with a user'"'"'s instruction, and recovers from the stopped condition so as to reproduce a normal broadcasting signal.

12. The broadcasting receiving system according to claim 11,

wherein the control section receives the program data from the outside via the Internet.

13. The broadcasting receiving system according to claim 9,

wherein the stop signal is a revoke signal included in an EMM signal included in the broadcasting signal to be extracted from the tuner section.

14. The broadcasting receiving system according to claim 9,

wherein the stop signal is an EMM signal included in the broadcasting signal, which disables only this broadcasting receiving apparatus when an ID signal of a broadcasting receiving apparatus other than the ID signal of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is updated and the ID signal of this broadcasting receiving apparatus is not updated.

15. The broadcasting receiving system according to claim 9,

wherein the broadcasting signal received by the tuner section includes at least one of a digital terrestrial broadcasting signal, a BS broadcasting signal, and a CS broadcasting signal.

16. The broadcasting receiving system according to claim 9,

wherein the tuner section, the processing section, and the control section are functions, which are arranged on a tuner module and a personal computer connected thereto to be dispersed.

17. A broadcasting receiving method, comprising:

selecting a broadcasting signal and demodulating it to output a demodulated signal;

decoding the demodulated signal; and

when detecting a stop signal included in the selected broadcasting signal, partially interrupting the processing of demodulation or decoding in accordance with the detection, and outputting a message signal indicating that a receiving function of a broadcasting receiving apparatus in current use is stopped.

18. The broadcasting receiving method according to claim 17,

wherein the stop signal is a revoke signal, and the message signal displays that this broadcasting receiving apparatus is in a revoke condition.

19. The broadcasting receiving method according to claim 17,

wherein the method comprises, upon detecting the stop signal included in the selected broadcasting signal, partially interrupting the processing of demodulation or decoding in accordance with the detection, and outputting a message signal indicating that a receiving function of a broadcasting receiving apparatus in current use is stopped and a message to prompt instruction for receiving program data from the outside in order to recover the apparatus from this stopped condition, and receiving the program data from the outside in accordance with a user'"'"'s instruction, and recovering from the stopped condition so as to reproduce a normal broadcasting signal.

20. The broadcasting receiving method according to claim 19,

wherein the method comprises receiving the program data from the outside via the Internet.