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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2004
Applicant:
Hirohide Tachikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Hirohide Tachikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A TV broadcast cooperative type data perusal apparatus is provided that can establish connection to websites in which is provided information related to the subject matter of a program that is being broadcast, and can simply peruse the information related to the subject matter from these websites, even when no website address information is appended as descriptor information for searching to the program being broadcast, provided that the information related to the subject matter in the program being broadcast is appended to the program as the descriptor information for searching.