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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1998
Takeo Ohishi, Yokohama, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
When a received broadcast signal is received in a digital broadcast signal receiving apparatus, an entitlement management message EMM representing broadcast-watching enabling information is extracted from the received digital broadcast signal in an EMM extracting unit regardless of any operation. An extracted digital broadcast signal already descrambled in a preceding step is recorded in a recording unit. When a user selects a reproducing operation in a current step, particular digital broadcast information indicating a particular television program is extracted from the extracted digital broadcast signal in a packet extracting unit. Therefore, the particular television program can be reproduced. When a user selects a receiving operation in the current step, pieces of digital broadcast information indicating television programs are extracted from the received digital broadcast signal in the packet extracting unit and are descrambled according to the message EMM, and the pieces of digital broadcast information are recorded as an extracted digital broadcast signal of the current step in the recording unit. Accordingly, because the message EMM is extracted regardless of any operation, the pieces of digital broadcast information indicating television programs can be reliably extracted from the digital broadcast signal in the receiving operation.