Patent ID: 6996623

Claim:
A reception display apparatus for receiving data blocks which are repeatedly transmitted from a broadcasting station at regular intervals and displaying a screen image based on the received data blocks, each of the data blocks including a data section, and data to be displayed as the screen image being divided into a plurality of data sections, the reception display apparatus comprising: a reception means for receiving the data blocks; a data judgment means for judging whether the data section in each received data block is normal; a storage means for storing every data section judged as normal by the data judgment means without storing data sections judged as abnormal; a condition judgment means for judging, before all data sections to be displayed as the screen image are stored in the storage means, whether a condition for displaying the screen image is satisfied; and a display means for displaying, when the condition judgment means judges that the condition is satisfied, a part of the screen image using data sections currently stored in the storage means; wherein the data judgment means generates, when having judged that a data section is not normal, information indicating that the data section is abnormal, and stores the information into the storage means; and the display means displays either a blank or a notice indicating abnormality of the data section, at a position in the screen image where the data section indicated as abnormal by the information stored in the storage means should be displayed.