Patent ID: 7509024
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A broadcast receiving apparatus which receives a broadcast signal and supplies a recorder, remote-controllable with a remote control signal from a remote commander, with audio information and video information in the broadcast signal which are to be recorded to the recorder, the apparatus comprising: a memory in which control signal codes possibly usable as signals for remote control of the recorder and which include information such as the manufacturer's name or model of the recorder are collected by manufacturer or model of the recorder into a group of control signal codes and the group of control signal codes is stored in correlation with the recorder manufacturer or model; a receiver which receives a remote control signal output from the remote commander and detects a control signal code included in the remote control signal; a selector which makes a comparison between the recorder manufacturer or model information included in the control signal code detected by the receiver and the recorder manufacturer or model information pre-stored in the memory and selects, in case the recorder manufacturer or model information included in the detected control signal code is stored in the memory, a group of control signal codes corresponding to the recorder manufacturer or model information included in the control signal code detected by the receiver as a group of control signal codes corresponding to the recorder; an operation controller which generates, from the group of control signal codes selected by the selector, a control signal code for remote control of the operation of the recorder; and a transmitter which sends a remote control signal to the recorder on the basis of the control signal code generated by the operation controller, wherein the remote control signal code is automatically generated without being selected by a user.