Patent ID: 7827575

Claim:
A TV apparatus having a tuner for receiving image data, a storage unit for storing received image data, and a display unit for displaying the image data, said TV apparatus comprising: a leaving information receiving unit for receiving leaving information via the user's operation of said TV apparatus to discriminate movement of a user from said TV apparatus to another identified TV apparatus with interruption of the user's viewing audio-visual contents, caused by the user's movement, wherein the another TV apparatus has a display unit for displaying image data; a channel information storage unit for storing channel information regarding a channel currently selected by the user; a transmitting unit for transmitting the channel information stored in the channel information storage unit to the another TV apparatus if the leaving information receiving unit receives the leaving information input by the user; a determining unit for determining whether the another TV apparatus has a storage unit therein; and a controller unit for, if the determining unit determines that the another TV apparatus has a storage unit therein when the leaving information receiving unit receives the leaving information input by the user, controlling a tuner and the storage unit of the another TV apparatus such that a channel of the tuner is selected according to the channel information and storage is started into the storage unit of the another TV apparatus of the image data received on the selected channel by the tuner so as to display the stored image data on the display unit of the another TV apparatus when the stored image data is reproduced from the storage unit of the another TV apparatus, and if the determining unit determines that the another TV apparatus does not have a storage unit therein when the leaving information receiving unit receives the leaving information input by the user, controlling the storage unit and the transmitting unit of the TV apparatus to store image data received on the selected channel by the tuner of the TV apparatus in the storage unit thereof and transmit the image data stored in the storage unit to the another TV apparatus for display on the display unit of the another TV apparatus.