Patent ID: 6934509

Claim:
A satellite broadcasting system for broadcasting a broadcasting program to be broadcast all at once to many and unspecified apparatus over a wide range through a satellite, comprising: a transmission apparatus; and at least one reception apparatus; said transmission apparatus including means for multiplexing an area designation part and a contents part to produce the broadcasting program, and means for transmitting the broadcasting program; said reception apparatus including a radio wave reception section for receiving a broadcasting program, a current position acquisition section for detecting a current position of said reception apparatus, an area to physical district coordination table including pairs of information each of which represents an area name and a physical district of the area name, a current area detection section for searching for an area name which includes the current position detected by said current position acquisition section from within said area to physical district coordination table and outputting the searched out area name, a broadcasting propriety discrimination section for comparing the area name outputted from said current area detection section and the area designation part of the broadcasting program received from said radio wave reception section with each other and outputting the contents part of the broadcasting program when the area name is included in the area designation part, and a reproduction section for receiving and reproducing the contents part of the broadcasting program outputted from said broadcasting propriety discrimination section.