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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2000
Kenji Inose, Chiba, JP;
Katsumi Oishi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
The display section connected to a control section displays, at the same time, both the contents described in the network information table of the digital broadcast data demodulated by a demodulator and complying with the first network, and also the contents described in the network information table of the digital broadcast data replaced by an NIT-replacing circuit and complying with the second network. An NIT-detecting circuit detects an NITa from an MPEG2 transport packet, i.e., digital broadcast data in the satellite broadcasting system (first network). The control section complying with a CATV system (second network) generates the data representing at least the transmission frequency of the NITa detected by the NIT-detecting circuit . The NIT-replacing circuit replaces the NITa contained in the MPEG2 transport packet, i.e., digital broadcast data in the satellite broadcasting system, with the NITb, thereby generating an MPEG2 transport packet, which will be used as digital broadcast data in the CATV system.