Patent ID: 7440400

Claim:
A transfer apparatus comprising: a detecting unit configured to detect first time adjustment information from a first transport stream (TS) packet included in an MPEG-2 transport stream, and to detect second time adjustment information from a second TS packet included in the MPEG-2 transport stream; a calculation unit configured to calculate a time interval between the first time adjustment information and the second time adjustment information; a recalculation unit configured to perform a recalculation to change the time interval calculated by the calculation unit to a recalculated time interval; a transmission timing calculation unit configured to calculate transmission timing of the first TS packet and TS packets between the first and second TS packets, in accordance with the recalculated time interval; and a transfer unit configured to transfer the first TS packet and the TS packets between the first and second TS packets, in accordance with the transmission timing calculated by the transmission timing calculation unit.