Patent ID: 6577347
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A television receiver receiving a digitally coded compressed television signal, comprising:digital television signal analyzing means for analyzing the digitally coded compressed television signal, separating and extracting additional information from the digitally coded compressed television signal, and outputting the additional information; image signal outputting means for decoding the digitally coded compressed television signal with reference to the additional information output from the analyzing means, and outputting detailed information relating to the additional information as an image signal; image signal recording means for recording the image signal output from the image signal outputting means; image signal writing switch means for passing and blocking the image signal that is output from the image signal outputting means toward the image signal recording means, in response to a control signal; digital television signal decoding means for decoding the digitally coded compressed television signal and outputting a video signal; and signal synthesizing means for synthesizing the video signal output from the decoding means and the image signal output from the image signal outputting means or the image signal read from the image signal recording means, and outputting the synthesized signal as a monitor output signal.