Patent ID: 7657152

Claim:
A fixed form data broadcast transmitting apparatus, comprising: a fixed form data storage that stores fixed form data for displaying a screen of a data broadcast; a fixed form data broadcast transmitter which receives the fixed form data from the fixed form data storage, comprising: a data inserter that inserts predetermined data in a rewriting object data portion of the fixed form data, the predetermined data showing an internal state of the fixed form data broadcast transmitting apparatus, the fixed form data comprising prescribed form data of the data broadcast that is arranged in a structure wherein each rewriting object data portion has a fixed length area corresponding to the rewriting object data portion; and an MPEG transport streamer that makes the fixed form data having the predetermined data inserted thereto into an MPEG transport stream in such a manner as a carousel system and transmits the resultant to a digital broadcast receiver as playback data of the fixed form data broadcast via a digital interface connected to the digital broadcast receiver; and a state transition controller, separate from the fixed form data broadcasting transmitter, that controls display content of the transmitted fixed form broadcast data by transmitting a control code to the digital broadcast receiver via the digital interface.