Patent ID: 7042514

Claim:
A receiver for receiving a television broadcast and for synthesizing plural received images, comprising: a reception antenna for receiving the television broadcast; wherein the television broadcast is formatted as a hybrid signal comprising compressed motion picture data and multiplexed letter information; demultiplexing means for demultiplexing the multiplexed letter information from the compressed motion picture data in the hybrid signal; decoding means for decoding the compressed motion picture data into images for display; multiplexing means for multiplexing the images of the decoded motion picture data with the letter information; display data outputting means for outputting the multiplexed images of the decoded motion picture data to a picture display device; a data frame memory for transiently storing therein one image of the decoded motion picture data from the decoding means, in which said one image is the same as that currently displayed by said picture display device; printing command inputting means for inputting a command for printing a desired image selected from the images displayed on said picture display device; printing command outputting means for reading out the desired image from the data frame memory to a printing device; and picture data synthesis means for synthesizing the multiplexed images of the decoded motion picture data with the desired image, thereby generating synthesized image data for display on the picture display device; wherein said picture display device is connected over a first external bus to said display data outputting means and said printing device is connected over a second external bus to said printing command outputting means.