Patent ID: 8442223
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A video device determining whether a digital broadcasting channel through a point of deployment (POD) is reproduced, comprising: a memory; a communicator which communicates with the POD; a controller which stores a first copy control information (CCI) value with respect to a first digital broadcasting channel in the memory in response to receiving a command to change a channel received at the video device from the first digital broadcasting channel to an analog broadcasting channel, changes the channel received at the video device from the first digital broadcasting channel to the analog broadcasting channel in response to storing the first CCI, receives a command to change the channel received at the video device from the analog broadcasting channel to a new broadcasting channel, determines whether the first digital broadcasting channel is the same as the new broadcasting channel in response to receiving the command to change the channel received at the video device from the analog broadcasting channel to the new broadcasting channel, and if a CCI value with respect to the new broadcasting channel is not received sets a second CCI value with respect to the new broadcasting channel to be equal to the first CCI value stored in the memory in response to determining that the first digital broadcasting channel is the same as the new broadcasting channel.