Patent ID: 8713598
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic device, comprising: a signal transmission section configured to transmit a video signal to an external device in a differential signal via a transmission path over a plurality of channels; a communication section configured to execute bidirectional communication using a predetermined line constituting said transmission path; a signal reception section configured to receive stream data received from said external device through said communication section, said stream data having been obtained by a broadcast reception section of said external device; an image analysis section configured to execute image analysis on said stream data received by said signal reception section; and a control section configured to control an operation of at least one of own electronic device and said external device on the basis of a result of analysis obtained by said image analysis section, wherein while a first channel is a reception channel of said broadcast reception section of said external device, said image analysis section detects a start and an end of a commercial carried on the first channel based on said image analysis of the first channel, and said control section executes control such that a channel index screen is displayed on said external device during a duration of time between the start and the end of the commercial on the first channel to suppress display of commercials on the reception channel of said broadcast reception section of said external device, the index being a list or an index of channel images, and a recording section configured to record said stream data received by said signal reception section to a predetermined recording media, wherein said image analysis section executes one of ticker recognition and face recognition on the basis of the image analysis and said control section adds a result of one of said ticker recognition and said face recognition to said stream data received by said signal reception section when said stream data is recorded by said recording section.