Patent ID: 7593424

Claim:
A transmission and reception system comprising: a transmission apparatus configured to transmit content; and a reception apparatus configured to receive said content, said transmission apparatus comprises a coding section configured to code said content into hierarchy codes and output coded data of a plurality of layers, a packet generation section configured to generate packets including said coded data of the plurality of layers and a timestamp and output packets from low-level information of said coded data, and a transmission section configured to transmit said packets, and said reception apparatus comprises a reception section configured to receive said packets transmitted from said transmission apparatus, a holding section configured to hold said packets received by said reception section, a writing control section configured to control the writing of said packets received by said reception section into said holding section, and a determination section configured to determine whether there is packet loss in said packets transmitted from said transmission apparatus, and when there is packet loss within one frame of said content, said writing control section is further configured to write into the holding section said packets received up to a time said packet loss within one frame has occurred based on the timestamp in said packets, and not to write the remaining packets of said one frame into said holding section.