Patent ID: 6335763
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A television receiver receiving a digitally coded compressed television signal, comprising:digital television signal analysis 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 as an additional information code; additional information recording means for recording the additional information code; additional information writing switch means for passing an additional information code corresponding to a previously input key word and blocking the additional information code that is output from the digital television signal analyzing means toward the additional information recording means, in response to a control signal; conversion means for converting the additional information code output from the digital television signal analyzing means or the additional information code reproduced from the additional information recording means into a character or an image; digital television signal decoding means for decoding the digitally coded compressed television signal and output a video signal; and signal synthesizing means for synthesizing the video signal output from the decoding means and the additional information that has been converted into a character or an image by the conversion means, and outputting the synthesized signal as a monitor output signal.