Patent ID: 8005117

Claim:
A wireless television system including a transmitting device that transmits by wireless transmission a digital broadcast signal obtained by receiving a digital broadcast and a wireless television receiver that receives the digital broadcast signal transmitted by wireless transmission, the wireless television system comprising: transmission signal generating means, provided in the transmitting device, for generating a transmission signal in which the digital signal obtained by receiving the digital broadcast and control data indicating at least a reception channel of the digital broadcast signal are multiplexed; wireless transmission means, provided in the transmitting device, for intermittently transmitting by wireless transmission the digital broadcast signal within the transmission signal generated by the transmission signal generating means and for transmitting by wireless transmission, between the intermittent wireless transmissions, the control data within the transmission signal generated by the transmission signal generating means; receiving means, provided in the wireless television receiver, for receiving the digital broadcast signal intermittently transmitted by wireless transmission and the control data transmitted by wireless transmission, between the intermittent transmissions, from the transmitting device; transmitting means, provided in the wireless television receiver, for transmitting by wireless transmission a request signal corresponding to the control data received by the receiving means, between the digital broadcast signal intermittently transmitted by wireless transmission from the transmitting device; and transmitting control means, provided in the transmitting device, for receiving the request signal transmitted by wireless transmission from the wireless television receiver and controlling a transmitting timing for control data transmitted by wireless transmission from the wireless transmission means.