Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yoshikazu Hirai

Eiichiro Naito

Yoshinori Harada

Yasushi Yoneda

Emiko Maekawa

Sozo Yamamoto

Kazuhisa Yamada

Ayako Monma

Chie Hirose

A receiving apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a reproduction apparatus which can receive and record an interactive program. Time information generated by a CPU is composed by a composition unit in a transport stream that is decoded by a transport decoder, and the time information is recorded in a DVHS recording/reproduction apparatus. The transport stream reproduced by the DVHS recording/reproduction apparatus is decoded by the transport decoder, decoded by an AV decoder, and reproduced.

Receiver, recorder and player

The present invention relates to, in a broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving broadcast in multiple channels, controllability of setting of desired programs out of multiple programs being broadcast, and various manipulations and selections about such programs, inspection of the charge amount situation, and prevention of wrong use about connection to a telephone circuit, and these manipulations are effected in an interactive manner with the screen display shown in appropriate display format, layout, shape and color, considering psychological effects, according to the natural flow of thought of general users who manipulate. More specifically, the menu panel showing manipulation items in layers is displayed characters and expression of proper size suited to the broadcast receiving apparatus, and the layer index is attached to the menu panel, so that the layer of the present manipulation may be known at a glance, and moreover in the program list display, an official program name display column is displayed in a predetermined specific position, outside of the program list display column, and the display state of this official program name display column is maintained if the picture is changed to the broadcast content briefing picture or reserve condition customize picture. In addition, the access to the modem or IC card is indicated by the indicator, and the charge amount detail can be known from the IC card.

Broadcast receiving apparatus

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshikazu Hirai