Patent ID: 8457590
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. An emergency information reporting system which promptly reports emergency information to a specified area by utilizing a broadcast system in which broadcast stations broadcast digital broadcast signals of normal programs, comprising: a plurality of emergency information requesting apparatuses configured to send requests to broadcast reports of the emergency information, the requests including information identifying objective areas; an emergency broadcast processing apparatus configured to: in-station processing apparatuses, which are installed in the one or more broadcast stations determined to be associated with the specified area, wherein the in-station processing apparatuses multiplex the emergency information with the digital broadcast signals of the normal programs for the objective areas by placing contents of an emergency broadcast descriptor on an auxiliary channel (AC) carrier and placing the emergency information on a transmission stream (TS) signal and the AC carrier, and wherein the multiplexing is performed in response to instructions received from the plurality of emergency broadcast processing apparatuses for the one or more broadcast stations determined to be associated with the specified area.