MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE AND TELEVISION PROGRAM WATCHING SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• Main Authors: KATO, REIKO, KAMIMOTO, AKATSUKI, SUGA, HIDENORI, AIKAWA, TAKAYUKI, OHBA, KOHKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 27.09.2006
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

There are provided a mobile terminal device that makes it possible for a user to watch easily the continuation of a television program by using a television receiving/recording/ playing equipment provided separately even when user's reception is interrupted halfway while the user receives the television program where the user has gone to, and a television program watching system using the same. A mobile terminal device is constructed to include a television receiving portion for receiving a television program, a storing portion for storing any time and any channel of the television program received by the television receiving portion as a bookmark, and a transferring portion for transferring the bookmark stored in the storing portion to a television receiving/recording/playing equipment provided separately, wherein a user watches the received television program based on the bookmark by using the television receiving/recording/ playing equipment provided separately. Accordingly, the user can store any time and any channel as the bookmark in the mobile terminal device while the user receives the television program, then transfer the bookmarks to the television receiving/ recording/playing equipment provided separately, and then watch exactly the contents of the television program from that time by using the television receiving/recording/playing equipment on a basis of the bookmark.