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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1999
Hajime Inoue, Chiba, JP;
Shinji Kakuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Shimizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Susumu Nagano, Kanagawa, JP;
Hajime Inoue, Chiba, JP;
Shinji Kakuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Shimizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Susumu Nagano, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
In a broadcast-program selection history information acquisition apparatus and its method, the totalization side can easily totalize selection history information. To acquire the selection history information of a broadcast program selected out of broadcast programs of a plurality of channels, the selection information of the broadcast program is stored at a predetermined acquisition timing and the selection history information which is composed of a plurality of pieces of selection information stored every plurality of acquisition timings is transmitted to a notification destination at a predetermined transmission timing.