Broadcasting receiving apparatus and broadcasting receiving method

• US 7,738,661 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2006
• Issued: 06/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Katayama, Takahiro, Takagi, Toshihiro, Inui, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand; Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): GUIRGUIS, MICHAEL M
• Application Number:
  US11/549,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136747A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,341 Days
• Field of Search: 725/37, 713/160, 380/255
• US Class Current: 380/270
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4181 for conditional access
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4405 involving video stream decryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4623 Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4627 Rights management associated to the content security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

Disclosed a digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus including: a scramble judgment member, a decode judgment member, a first registration member to register the sub-channel as a viewable channel when the decode judgment member judges that the broadcast data of the sub-channel can be decoded, a second registration member to register the sub-channel as a viewable channel when the scramble judgment member judges that the broadcast data of the sub-channel is not scrambled, a judgment member, a channel registration control member to register the sub-channel by the first registration member when the judgment member judges that the scramble judgment does not accord with the decode judgment, and registers the sub-channel by the second registration member when the judgment member judges that the judgment obtained by the scramble judgment member accords with the judgment obtained by the decode judgment member.

Claims

1. A digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus comprising:

a scanning member to scan broadcast data of each of a plurality of sub-channels included in each of a plurality of physical channels transmitted by a digital-broadcasting wave, the broadcast data being coded with an MPEG2-TS method

a decode judgment member to judge whether broadcast data of a sub-channel is scrambled data or not by judging whether the broadcast data can be decoded or not;

a first registration member to register the sub-channel as a viewable channel when a first judgment result obtained by the decode judgment member is that the broadcast data of the sub-channel is not scrambled data;

a scramble judgment member to judge whether the broadcast data of the sub-channel is scrambled data or not by referring to one of a transport scrambling control bit in a header region of video data of the sub-channel, a descriptor tag in the program map table included in the video data or audio data of the sub-channel, and a packetized elementary stream scrambling control included in the video data or the audio data of the sub-channel;

a second registration member to register the sub-channel as a viewable channel when a second judgment result obtained by the scramble judgment member is that the broadcast data of the sub-channel is not scrambled data;

a judgment member to judge whether the first judgment result accords with the second judgment result or not for the sub-channel; and

a channel registration control member to allow the first registration member to register the sub-channel when the judgment member judges that the first judgment result does not accord with the second judgment result, and to allow the second registration member to register the sub-channel when the judgment member judges that the first judgment result accords with the second judgment result.

2. A digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus comprising:

a scanning member to scan broadcast data of each of a plurality of sub-channels included in each of a plurality of physical channels transmitted by a digital-broadcasting wave;

a decode judgment member to judge whether broadcast data of a sub-channel is scrambled data or not by judging whether the broadcast data can be decoded or not;

a first registration member to register the sub-channel as a viewable channel when a first judgment result obtained by the decode judgment member is that the broadcast data of the sub-channel is not scrambled data;

a scramble judgment member to judge whether the broadcast data of the sub-channel is scrambled data or not by referring to predetermined data included in the broadcast data of the sub-channel scanned by the scanning member;

a second registration member to register the sub-channel as a viewable channel when a second judgment result obtained by the scramble judgment member is that the broadcast data of the sub-channel is not scrambled data;

a judgment member to judge whether the first judgment result accords with the second judgment result or not for the sub-channel; and

a channel registration control member to allow the first registration member to register the sub-channel when the judgment member judges that the first judgment result does not accord with the second judgment result and to allow the second registration member to register the sub-channel when the judgment member judges that the first judgment result accords with the second judgment result.

3. The digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the broadcast data of the physical channel is coded with an MPEs2-TS method, and the predetermined data is one of a transport scrambling control bit in a header region of a video data of the sub-channel, a descriptor tag in the program map table and a packetized elementary stream scrambling control included in the video data or audio data of the sub-channel.

4. A digital-broadcasting receiving method for the digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 2, comprising the steps of:

a scanning step to scan the broadcast data of the sub-channel included in the physical channel;

a scramble judging step to judge whether the broadcast data of the sub-channel is scrambled data or not by referring to the predetermined data included in the broadcast data of the sub-channel which is scanned in the scanning step;

a decode judging step to judge whether the broadcast data of the sub-channel is scrambled data or not by judging whether the broadcast data of the sub-channel can be decoded or not;

a judging step to judge whether the second judgment result obtained in the scramble judging step accords with the first judgment result obtained in the decode judging step; and

a channel registration controlling step to allow the first registration member to register the sub-channel when it is judged in the judging step that the second judgment result does not accord with the first judgment result and to allow the second registration member to register the sub-channel when it is judged in the judging step that the second judgment result accords with the first judgment result.

5. The digital-broadcasting receiving method as claimed in claim 4,

wherein the scramble judging step, the decode judging step, the judging step and the channel registration controlling step are executed for each physical channel.