Patent ID: 7688726

Claim:
A broadcast reception apparatus comprising: a reception module configured to receive a broadcast signal, and to output a transport stream; a first determination module configured to receive the transport stream from the reception unit as Transport Stream (TS) packets, and to determine whether a Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) header exists in one TS packet; a second determination module configured to determine whether the PES header comprises an error, when the first determination module detects the PES header; a search module configured to detect a payload start position by searching the TS packet sequentially from an end and configured to detect a beginning of remaining payloads, when the second determination module determines that the PES header comprises the error; a separator configured to separate the remaining payloads at and after the payload start position detected by the search module; a decoder configured to decode the remaining payloads of the TS packets separated by the separator, and to output video and audio signals; and a controller configured to supply error information to a decoder in a stage, when an error flag in a next TS packet continued to a last payload in the TS packet comprising the PES header is set, and error flags in subsequent TS packets are also set.