Patent ID: 8533759
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A terminal device comprising: a communicator configured to send and receive data to and from an external server connected to a network and obtain a program list indicating one or more sets of program information which is to be a viewing processing target used by a third party and a timer-recording setting processing target used by a third party, from among one or more sets of program information included in first broadcast program information; a receiver configured to receive video forming a program and second broadcast program information; a broadcast program information manager configured to manage the second broadcast program information obtained from said receiver; a program list manager configured to manage the program list obtained from the external server and the viewing processing target or the timer-recording setting processing target included in the program list; a terminal setting manager configured to manage setting data of said terminal device; a program information adjuster configured to correct at least one of the viewing processing target or the timer-recording setting processing target included in the program list on the basis of the setting data; and an outputter configured to provide (i) the viewing processing target when corrected by said program information adjuster and (ii) the timer-recording setting processing target when corrected by said program information adjuster, wherein the second broadcast program information includes a title, a date, a start time, and an end time, and said program information adjuster is configured to: set at least one set of program information included in the program list as correction candidate program information; perform extraction processing to extract program information having a title corresponding to a title included in the correction candidate program information, from among one or more sets of program information included in the second broadcast program information; and correct the date, the start time, or the end time of the correction candidate program information corresponding to the program information extracted from the second broadcast program information when (i) the program information is extracted in the extraction processing and (ii) the date, the start time, or the end time of the correction candidate program information is different from the date, the start time, or the end time of the program information extracted from the second broadcast program information.