Patent ID: 7221358
Filing Date: 2007-05-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital broadcast reception apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast containing image information for an input operation, wherein the image information accepts the input operation of a user, provides broadcast information reflecting an input operation result, and is prepared to presume that the user operates a key of a remote control having a predetermined function, the remote control being a device that is presumed to be located away from the digital broadcast reception apparatus and is presumed to be handled by the user for purposes of operating the digital broadcast reception apparatus, the digital broadcast reception apparatus comprising: a touch panel for enabling the user to touch a surface of the touch panel for performing the input operation, the touch panel being different from the remote control; a display unit for displaying the image information for the input operation; an analysis unit for analyzing an operation concerning the remote control contained in the image information for the input operation; converting a function, which is presumed to be performed by operating a key of the remote control and that is associated with the input operation to the remote control, into a touch panel function that is to be performed by touching the touch panel; and pseudo-assigning the function of the input operation to the remote control to a touch operation area of the touch panel on the basis of a result of the analyzing and converting; and a control unit being responsive to the touch operation to the touch panel, the control unit for making a response corresponding to a pseudo input operation to the remote control in response to a touched area of the touch panel according to an area assignment of the analysis unit.