RECEIVING APPARATUS

• US 20080056662A1
• Filed: 08/24/2007
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Onishi, Manabu, Nishikata, Natsuko, Ikeda, Kazuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,392,960 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21815 comprising local storage units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/438 Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. retrieving encoded video stream packets from an IP network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8355 involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/169 Systems operating in the time domain of the television signal

Abstract

A receiving apparatus contains a local area network interface for communication, a signal-processing device that decodes program information received by the local area network interface, and an encoding device that encodes the decoded program information to reconstitute program information to which a synchronizing signal is added and to generate any one of a composite signal and a separate signal. The receiving apparatus also contains an output terminal that the encoding device supplies with any one of a composite signal and a separate signal.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus comprising:

a local area network interface for communication;

a signal-processing device that decodes grogram information received by the local area network interface;

an encoding device that encodes the decoded program information to reconstitute program information to which a synchronizing signal is added and to generate any one of a composite signal and a separate signal; and

an output terminal that the encoding device supplies with any one of a composite signal and a separate signal.

2. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the program information includes image information.

3. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

accompanying-information-reproducing device that receives the decoded program information and reproduces accompanying information; and

synthesizing device that receives output from the accompanying-information-reproducing device and any one of a composite signal and a separate signal,

wherein the synthesizing device synthesizes the accompanying information reproduced in the accompanying-information-reproducing device to any one of a composite signal and a separate signal when the program information includes the accompanying information to control the program information.

4. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the program information received by the local area network interface is compressed, encoded, and packetized.

5. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the local area network interface contains a wired LAN interface conforming to IEEE802.3 standard and a wireless LAN interface conforming to IEEE802.11 a/b/g standard.