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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Toshiyuki Itoga, Osaka, JP;
Toshiyuki Itoga, Osaka, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A PC () of the present invention comprises a one-segment broadcast tuner (), a display output I/F () for transmitting, to a TV (), data of a broadcast program received by the one-segment broadcast tuner (), and a PC-side relay coordination control section () for transmitting a channel code for (i) causing the TV () to receive, via a digital tuner () or an analog tuner (), a broadcast program containing same content as the broadcast program being received by the one-segment broadcast tuner (), and (ii) causing the TV () to output data of the broadcast program. Therefore, in a case where an output of the TV () is switched from the broadcast program being received by the one-segment broadcast tuner () to the broadcast program being received by the digital tuner () or the analog tuner (), a user of the PC () can continuously watch a broadcast program containing same content as before the output switching. This makes it possible to continuously watch, after an output switching, a broadcast program containing same content as before the output switching.