Sony Corporation

Yoshimoto Muratsubaki

Yasuaki Yamagishi

Kazuhiro Akaike

Tsuneo Furuya

Yuriko Kishitaka

Yasuhiro Muramatsu

Masayuki Miyagawa

Mika Ito

Naoki Kigawa

Fujiyuki Fukamatsu

A reception apparatus for receiving a broadcast signal which is transmitted from a transmitting side and which includes personalized information comprising data representing information about specific programs targeted for a specific viewer. The reception apparatus comprises: an extraction unit for extracting the data representing the information about the specific programs from the broadcast signal received; and a display unit for displaying the information about the specific programs on the basis of the data representing the information about the specific programs.

Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus,

A system for transmitting a scramble signal for a sky port scramble system including an organization center for organizing data relating to customers etc. and first and second control units each having a system controller and a scrambler for performing the scramble processing on the basis of the customer data sent from the organization center. In a normal state, the organization center communicates with one of the first and second control units and each of the first and second control units is operated in the same manner. In case of the occurrence of an abnormality or a fault in the communication control unit, only the other control unit is operated and the organization center communicates with the other control unit instead.

Scramble signal transmission system for earth station of communication

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshimoto Muratsubaki