| (11) | EP 1 816 765 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Emergency information prompt report system using a broadcast system |
(57) A monitoring center (20) notifies emergency broadcast request information specifying its broadcast area to a prescribed emergency broadcast processing apparatus (21) when any sensor (191-193) detects an abnormality and determines that an emergency broadcast is needed. When acquiring the emergency broadcast request information transmitted from a plurality of monitoring centers (20), the processing apparatus (21) grasps contents specified in the request information to notify information necessary for the emergency broadcast to a broadcast station (11) covering an objective area. When a request instruction for the emergency broadcast is issued, the broadcast station (11) arranges contents of emergency information in free areas in a broadcast format, arranges control information to start receivers in the objective area and also automatically select a channel at a defined position in the broadcast format to create an emergency broadcast signal and multiplexes it with a normal broadcast signal to broadcast it.
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