Patent ID: 8582949
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A video data outputting apparatus connectable to a display apparatus, both the video data outputting apparatus and the display apparatus having a receiving unit, respectively, configured to receive a broadcast signal, the video data outputting apparatus being capable of transmitting, to the display apparatus, video data generated based on the broadcast signal received by a receiving unit in the video data outputting apparatus, the receiving unit of the display apparatus being configured to receive the broadcast signal directly without receiving video data transmitted from the video data outputting apparatus, the video data outputting apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire input selection information indicating an input source of video data currently displayed by the display apparatus; and a control unit configured to transmit, to the display apparatus in a case when the input selection information indicates that the input source is the video data outputting apparatus: i) information about a broadcast channel corresponding to the broadcast signal corresponding to video data currently output by the receiving unit of the video data outputting apparatus, and ii) an instruction command to instruct the receiving unit of the display apparatus to receive the broadcast channel directly without receiving video data transmitted from the video data outputting apparatus and to display video data of the broadcast signal received by the receiving unit in the display apparatus, wherein the control unit is further configured to cause the video data outputting apparatus to enter a first low-power consumption state in which a power consumption of the video data outputting apparatus is reduced, after the instruction command is transmitted to the display apparatus.