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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masataka Osaka, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 ; H04N 5/445 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 ; H04N 5/445 ;
Abstract
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus, for receiving a plurality of pieces of compressed still image data repeatedly transmitted from a digital broadcast transmitting apparatus and for outputting a still image selected by a user as a TV signal, fetches still image data into a main memory prior to a selecting operation made by the user, expands still image data of a still image selected by the user using an AV decoder of an MPEG decoder, and outputs an image signal of the selected still image according to the expanded still image data.