Patent ID: 6870571

Claim:
A digital broadcasting reception system comprising a receiver for receiving digital broadcasting, a display for displaying the images of the digital broadcasting received by said receiver and a printer for printing images contained in the digital broadcasting received by said receiver; said receiver, said display and said printer being connected to each other by way of a first signal transmission means for transmitting digital signals; said receiver having: a reception means for receiving digital broadcasting; an imaging means for generating video data by performing a predetermined imagine operation according to the received signals of digital broadcasting; and an output means for transmitting the video data generated by said imaging means by way of said first signal transmission means to said display and to said printer; said printer having: a reception means for receiving video data transmitted by said first signal transmission means; and a printing means for printing the images of the video data received by said reception means; said receiver and said printer are connected to each other by way of a second signal transmission means showing a data transmission rate lower than said first signal transmission means; said receiver and said printer being provided with respective transmission/reception means for transmitting and receiving code data containing a quantity of information smaller than said video data; said receiver includes: a code data generating means for generating code data containing service information and/or character information by performing a certain processing operation according to the signals of the digital broadcasting received by said reception means; said printer includes: a code data extracting means for extracting the service information and/or the character information out of the code data received by said transmission/reception means; and a synthesizing means for synthesizing the service information and/or the character information extracted by said code data extracting means and generating synthesized images; said printing means being adapted to print the synthesized images generated by said synthesizing means.