Patent ID: 8503854
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A broadcast receiving apparatus, which is communicatably connected to a printing device and which is capable (a) of outputting a video image to a display unit and (b) of storing a video image in a storage unit connected thereto, said apparatus comprising a processor programmed to function as a device that comprises: a receiving unit that receives a broadcast program via a broadcast signal; a state detecting unit that detects an error state of a connected printing device; a discriminating unit that discriminates, when said state detecting unit detects that an error has occurred in the printing device, whether a type of video image being output to the display unit is a moving-picture broadcast program received by the receiving unit; a superimposing unit that superimposes error information, which indicates that an error has occurred in the printing device, on the video image to be output to the display unit when said state detecting unit detects that an error has occurred in the printing device; and a control unit that, if the type of video image being output to the display unit when said state detecting unit detects that an error has occurred in the printing device is discriminated by said discriminating unit as the moving-picture broadcast program, starts to store, in the storage unit, the video image of the moving-picture broadcast program on which the error information is not superimposed by said superimposing unit, wherein if the type of video image being output to the display unit when said state detecting unit detects that an error has occurred in the printing device is discriminated by said discriminating unit as a mixture of moving picture and still picture, said control unit (a) does not start to store, in the storage unit, the video image and (b) controls said superimposing unit to superimpose the error information on a region of the video image in which the still picture is displayed and not on a region of the video image in which the moving picture is displayed, wherein the still picture and the moving picture are displayed together on a screen in separate regions.