Patent ID: 7366162
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: G11B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A receiving apparatus comprising: receiving means for receiving a transmission signal of stream data, as converted to a predetermined packet configuration, transmitted selectively according to a plurality of predetermined signal types including a first signal type, the stream data including a real data stream and invalid data streams placed before and after the real data stream; signal processing means for processing the transmission signal received means in a manner compatible with the stream data in a signal type of the stream data, and for outputting the processing signal; and control means, responsive to the detection of a stream change in the transmission signal received by said receiving means to an invalid data stream of the first signal type, for controlling said signal processing means to have a setting compatible with the first signal type and, responsive to the detection of a stream change to a real data stream and a conformation that the real data stream is of the first signal type, for controlling said receiving means to have a setting compatible with the first signal type of said real data stream.