Patent ID: 8272016
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A broadcast receiving system receiving and recording a broadcasted program in a storage device, comprising: a reservation module to register a channel and a broadcasting time zone of a program designated by a user in a reserved program database, and to register in a storage a restriction period for the program, the restriction period being selected by the user from preset restriction periods each defining a period from current time during which an alarm is to be issued when another program which may disclose contents of the program is displayed; a keyword extracting module, for each program, the channel and the broadcasting time zone of which are registered in the reserved program database, to extract keywords from broadcasted electronic program information and to register the keywords in a keyword database; a display device to acquire information from outside of said system and to display information on a screen based on the acquired information; an information analyzing module to analyze a content of the information acquired by the display device and to extract keywords from the information; a checking target determining module to determine as a checking target, each program, the channel and the broadcasting time zone of which are registered in the reserved program database and the restriction period for which has not yet expired; an associated information determining module to calculate an association level between the keywords registered in the keyword database for each program determined as the checking target by the checking target determining module and the keywords extracted by the information analyzing module, and to determine whether or not there is at least one program with the calculated association level exceeding a predetermined threshold value; and an alarm issuing module to issue an alarm when the associated information determining module determines that there is at least one program with the association level exceeding the threshold value.