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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2004
Applicant:
Hideyuki Ota, Saitama, JP;
Inventor:
Hideyuki Ota, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/91 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to an apparatus in which recording reservation is registered by using a VPS/PDC signal and at the same time, a television broadcast program can be viewed even within the time window. Consequently, in a television broadcast signal receiving apparatus in which a television broadcast signal superimposed with broadcast start time as teletext data (VPS/PDC signal) is made possible to be recorded by reservation, a reservation recording which uses the VPS/PDC signal is registered and at the same time, channel scan off meansfor turning off the channel scan when the state is in the time window is provided.