Digital broadcast receiving apparatus

• US 20070019663A1
• Filed: 06/27/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Takagi, Toshihiro, Kawai, Masanori
• Application Number:
  US11/475,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20070019663A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/41 for identifying broadcast space, i.e. broadcast channels, broadcast stations or broadcast areas
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream demultiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4384 involving operations to reduce the access time, e.g. fast-tuning for reducing channel switching latency
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control

Abstract

A digital broadcast receiving apparatus is provided with an operating portion, a selected channel table, and a buffer memory. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus is also provided with a packet ID acquisition portion that executes a packet ID acquisition mode when a channel has been selected with the operating portion, and a packet extraction portion that, from before the packet ID acquisition portion acquires a packet ID, stores packets that agrees with a packet ID of the selected channel table in the buffer memory.

Claims

1. A digital broadcast receiving apparatus comprising:

an operating portion that selects a channel;

a control data acquisition portion that acquires control data transmitted from a broadcast station;

a channel table in which, based on the control data acquired by the control data acquisition portion, a channel and acquisition information for acquiring a packet ID that identifies a packet of that channel are stored associated with each other, and these are newly stored when television broadcast signals are received;

a packet ID acquisition portion that, when a channel has been selected with the operating portion, executes a packet ID acquisition mode that refers to the acquisition information for the channel selected with the operating portion in the channel table and acquires a packet ID from the control data acquired by the control data acquisition portion;

a selected channel table in which the channel selected with the operating portion and the packet ID acquired by the packet ID acquisition portion that corresponds to that channel are stored associated with each other;

a buffer memory that stores packets; and

a packet extraction portion that receives the television broadcast signals, extracts one of the television broadcast signals according to the channel selected with the operating portion, and acquires a transport stream from the extracted signal, wherein

the packet extraction portion, when a channel stored in the selected channel table is selected with the operating portion, based on a first packet ID,stored in the selected channel table, that corresponds to the selected channel, from before the packet ID acquisition portion acquires the packet ID, extracts first packets with which the first packet ID agrees from the transport stream and stores the first packets in the buffer memory,

the packet ID acquisition portion, when a channel stored in the selected channel table is selected with the operating portion, acquires a second packet ID by executing the packet ID acquisition mode, and judges whether or not the second packet ID agree with the first packet ID, and

the packet extraction portion, when the packet ID acquisition portion judges that both of these packet IDs agree, reads the first packets stored in the buffer memory.

2. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the packet ID acquisition portion judges that both of these packet IDs do not agree, the packet extraction portion, based on the second packet ID, extracts second packets with which the second packet ID agrees from the transport stream, records the second packets again in the buffer memory, and reads the second packets stored in the buffer memory.

3. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the channel is selected with the operating portion, the packet ID acquisition portion refers to the acquisition information of a channel with the same television broadcast signal demodulation frequency as the selected channel in the channel table, and acquires a third packet ID from the control data acquired by the control data acquisition portion, and

in the channel table, a channel with the same television broadcast signal demodulation frequency as the channel selected with the operating portion, and the third packet ID acquired by the packet ID acquisition portion that corresponds to that channel with the same demodulation frequency, are stored associated with each other.