US Patent Issued to Maxell on July 28 for "Broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving method, and contents outputting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,938, issued on July 28, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving method, and contents outputting method" was invented by Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Nobuo Masuoka (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Uchiyama (Osaka, Japan) and Yasunobu Hashimoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadcast receiving includes a broadcast receiver that receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcasting service; a separator that separates coded program video data, program-cooperation data, and screen layout control information, from the broadcast wave; a video d...