Patent ID: 6862044

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus for restoring image data and sound data from a received digital broadcast and for synchronizing a reproduced sound based on the sound data and a displayed image based on the image data for which a predetermined data processing is executed, said digital broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: storage means for storing a database that represents correlations between data processing performed for the image data and delay amounts, the correlations being based on image data formats including 480 interlaced format, 480 progressive format, 720 progressive format and 1080 interlaced format and on output terminal types including a standard monitor image output terminal, an S monitor image output terminal, and a D monitor image output terminal; and delaying means for reading one of the delay amounts from the database stored in the storing means and for performing delay processing for the sound data based on the read delay amount, wherein the read delay amount corresponds to the selected data processing performed on the image data.