Broadcasting receiving apparatus and broadcasting receiving method

• US 7,792,299 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2006
• Issued: 09/07/2010
• 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:
  US11/549,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20070133796A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,425 Days
• Field of Search: 725/37, 713/160, 380/255
• US Class Current: 380/270
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/23 using cryptography, e.g. encryption, authentication, key distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/43 for identifying broadcast channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4405 involving video stream decryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58

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 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 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 in all kinds of the scramble judgment data, and refers to one of a plural kinds of scramble judgment data and registers the sub-channel by the second registration member when it judged that the scramble judgment obtained by referring to the one scramble judgment data accords with the decode judgment.

Claims

1. A digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus comprising:

a scanning member to scan a broadcast data of a sub-channel included in a broadcast data of a physical channel which is transmitted by a digital-broadcasting wave;

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

a decode judgment member to judge whether the broadcast data of the sub-channel is scrambled 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 the decode judgment member judges that the broadcast data 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 is not scrambled;

a judgment member to judge whether the judgment obtained by the scramble judgment member referring to one of a plural kinds of scramble judgment data accords with the judgment obtained by the decode judgment member; and

a channel registration control member to allow the first registration member to register the sub-channel when the judgment member judges that the judgment obtained by the scramble judgment member does not accord with the judgment obtained by the decode judgment member in all kinds of the scramble judgment data, and to allow the second registration member to register the sub-channel with referring to the one of the plural kinds of scramble judgment data when the judgment member judges that the judgment obtained by the scramble judgment member referring to the one scramble judgment data accords with the judgment obtained by the decode judgment member.

2. A digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus comprising:

a scanning member to scan a broadcast data of a sub-channel included in a broadcast data of a physical channel which is transmitted by a digital-broadcasting wave;

a scramble judgment member to judge whether the broadcast data is scrambled or not by referring individually to a plural kinds of scramble judgment data, which are included in the broadcast data of the sub-channel scanned by the scanning member, and are data for judging whether the broadcast data is scrambled or not;

a decode judgment member to judge whether the broadcast data is scrambled 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 the decode judgment member judges that the broadcast data 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 is not scrambled;

a judgment member to judge whether the judgment obtained by the scramble judgment member referring to one of the plural kinds of scramble judgment data accords with the judgment obtained by the decode judgment member; and

a channel registration control member to allow the first registration member to register the sub-channel when the judgment member judges that the judgment obtained by the scramble judgment member does not accord with the judgment obtained by the decode judgment member in all kinds of the scramble judgment data, and to allow the second registration member to register the sub-channel with referring to one of the plural kinds of scramble judgment data when the judgment member judges that the judgment obtained by the scramble judgment member referring to the one scramble judgment data accords with the judgment obtained by the decode judgment member.

3. The digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the scramble judgment data is one of a transport scrambling control bit in a header region of the video data of the sub-channel, a descriptor tag in the program map table and a packetized elementary stream scrambling control in the video/audio 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 broadcast data of the physical channel;

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

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

a judging step to judge whether a judgment obtained in the scramble judging step accords with a judgment 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 judgment obtained in the scramble judging step does not accord with the judgment obtained in the decode judging step in all kinds of the scramble judgment data, and to allow the second registration member to register the sub-channel with referring to one of the plural kinds of scramble judgment data when it is judged in the judging step that the judgment obtained by referring to the one scramble judgment data in the scramble judging step accords with the judgment obtained in the decode judging step.

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.