Patent ID: 9538154
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A display apparatus configured to be capable of being connected to a removable external storage device, disposed external to the display apparatus through a port of the display apparatus, the display apparatus comprising: a receiving processor configured to receive at least one of a television broadcast signal and a stored digital video signal and audio signal from the external storage device; a controller that, when a user is determined to have commanded storage of the received television broadcast signal, stores the received television broadcast signal in the external storage device as the stored digital video signal and audio signal; and an output unit, including a display, to output at least one of the received television broadcast signal and a reproduction of the stored digital video signal and audio signal, wherein the controller manages the storage or reproduction of the stored digital video signal and audio signal with respect to the external storage device using a virtual file system for the display apparatus, the virtual file system having a form based on a reading of a file system of the external storage device, the virtual file system for the display apparatus being configurable to be an abstraction of one or more physical file systems.