Patent ID: 7669216

Claim:
A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: a connection module configured to connect the broadcast receiving apparatus to a network such that a client terminal for acquiring contents from servers on the network can recognize the broadcast receiving apparatus as one of the servers; a channel list transmission module configured to transmit a channel list to the client terminal by means of the connection module, the channel list being generated from service information relating to broadcasting according to a contents list acquiring request supplied from the client terminal by means of the connection module; a first GUI image display module configured to cause a video display device to display a GUI image having a channel list display region and generated by the client terminal according to the channel list transmitted from the channel list transmission module; a reference signal transmission module configured to transmit a reference signal incorporated in a video display region of the GUI image in order to identify a position and a size of the video display region in the GUI image to the client terminal by means of the connection module when a specific channel is selected by an operation relative to the client terminal from the channel list being displayed in the channel list display region of the GUI image displayed by the first GUI image display module; a detection module configured to extract the reference signal from the GUI image generated by the client terminal so as to incorporate the reference signal transmitted from the reference signal transmission module into the video display region and detect the position and the size of the video display region in the GUI image; and a second GUI image display module configured to receive the channel selected by the operation relative to the client terminal and causing the video display device to display a GUI image incorporating the image of the channel in the video display region detected by the detection module.