Data broadcast receiving apparatus with screen display state control

• US 6,037,996 A
• Filed: 02/17/1999
• Issued: 03/14/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kandaka, Isao, Henmi, Hidemi, Maeda, Takjo
• Primary Examiner(s): HSIA, SHERRIE Y
• Application Number:
  US09/251,295
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• Field of Search: 348/563, 348/569, 348/589, 348/600, 348/468, 348/6, 348/7, 348/12, 348/13, 348/10, 348/552, 348/553, 455/3.1, 455/4.2, 455/5.1
• US Class Current: 348/563
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/006 with transmission via telephone network
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/008 with transmission via TV or radio broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6187 involving transmission via a telephone network, e.g. POTS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/088 the inserted signal being digital
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17309 Transmission or handling of upstream communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A data broadcast receiving apparatus used in a system is combined with another transmission line such as telephone circuit. By receiving a television broadcast having a data broadcast signal, such as a teletext signal, superposed on the television broadcast signal, in which a first auxilliary information signal contained in the data broadcast signal and a second auxilliary information signal from the other transmission line are extracted, a control procedure is created responsive to the first and second auxilliary information signals, and the data broadcast signal and main information from the other transmission line are processed responsive to the control procedure.

Claims

1. A data broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a television broadcast signal with a data broadcast signal superposed thereon comprising:

a data broadcast decoder unit for extracting the data broadcast signal,

a display unit including a screen display for displaying at least one of the television broadcast signal and the data broadcast signal, and

a modem connected to a telephone circuit,

wherein the screen display of the display unit is in one of a plurality of configurations and is controlled responsive to an external control signal transmitted through the telephone circuit.

2. A data broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a television broadcast signal with a data broadcast signal superposed thereon wherein said data broadcast receiving apparatus is for use with a response server comprising:

a video signal receiving unit including a channel selection unit for selecting one of a plurality of television broadcast signals,

a data broadcast decoder unit for extracting the data broadcast signal,

a display unit for displaying at least one of the selected television broadcast signals and the data broadcast signal, and

a modem connected to a telephone circuit,

wherein a user of the data broadcast receiving apparatus requests a desired program from the response server connected through the telephone circuit, and the channel selection unit is switched to a respective broadcast channel of the desired program responsive to a control signal transmitted through the telephone circuit from the response server prior to transmission of the requested program.

3. A data broadcast receiving apparatus of claim 2, wherein the display unit is switched to an initial configuration of at least one window responsive to the control signal transmitted from the response server through the telephone circuit.