Receiving device, receiving method, and program

• US 10,171,874 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2017
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitahara, Jun, Kitazato, Naohisa, Dewa, Yoshiharu, Yamagishi, Yasuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Peng, Hsiungfei
• Application Number:
  US15/427,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20170214971A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/82 the transmission system being the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4349 by extracting from data carousels, e.g. extraction of software modules from a DVB carousel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/643 Communication protocols network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP], H04L65/65
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a receiving device for receiving an AV content broadcast by a broadcasting wave, including: an obtaining section adapted to obtain a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content; a determining section adapted to determine whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and a controlling section adapted to control execution of the obtained description document in response to a result of the determination by the determining section.

Claims

1. A receiving device for receiving an audio/video (AV) content broadcast, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to;

obtain from an information processing device, using a first uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content;

execute the description document;

determine, based on the first URI, whether the information processing device is associated with a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content;

control execution of the description document according to a mode that is set based on the determination of whether the information processing device is associated with the broadcaster;

process a transition from the description document to a further description document; and

change between first and second modes based on a second URI of an information processing device from which the further description document is to be obtained,

wherein the processing circuitry is configured to

control the execution of the description document in the first mode in which the description document can perform a process when the information processing device is determined to be associated with the broadcaster, and

control the execution of the description document in the second mode in which the description document cannot perform the process when the information processing device is determined not to be associated with the broadcaster.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to detect trigger information transmitted with the AV content, the trigger information relating to control of the description document in an interlocked relationship with the progress of the AV content and including the URI.

3. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the description document can be executed independently of the progress of the AV content.

4. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the description document is executed by an application program.

5. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to change the mode from the second mode to the first mode if a predetermined operation is performed.

6. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to obtain the description document transmitted utilizing a predetermined broadcasting waveband of a digital television broadcasting signal.

7. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to obtain the description document via a communication network.

8. The receiving device according to claim 1, comprising a receiver configured to receive the AV content broadcast.

9. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to allow the description document to perform one or more of a channel selecting operation, a recording operation, and a bookmarking operation.

10. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the information processing device is associated with the broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content based on a domain name included in the URI.

11. A receiving method by a receiving device, comprising:

obtaining, from an information processing device, using a first uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content;

executing the description document;

determining, based on the first URI, whether the information processing device is associated with a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content;

controlling execution of the description document according to a mode that is set based on the determination of whether the information processing device is associated with the broadcaster;

processing a transition from the description document to a further description document; and

changing between first and second modes based on a second URI of an information processing device from which the further description document is to be obtained,

wherein the controlling includes

controlling the execution of the description document in the first mode in which the description document can perform a process when the information processing device is determined to be associated with the broadcaster, and

controlling the execution of the description document in the second mode in which the description document cannot perform the process when the information processing device is determined not to be associated with the broadcaster.

12. The method according to claim 11, comprising detecting trigger information transmitted with the AV content, the trigger information relating to control of the description document in an interlocked relationship with the progress of the AV content and including the URI.

13. The method according to claim 11, comprising changing the mode from the second mode to the first mode if a predetermined operation is performed.

14. The method according to claim 11, comprising obtaining the description document transmitted utilizing a predetermined broadcasting waveband of a digital television broadcasting signal.

15. The method according to claim 11, comprising obtaining the description document via a communication network.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the description document is allowed to perform one or more of a channel selecting operation, a recording operation, and a bookmarking operation.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein determining whether the information processing device is associated with the broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content is based on a domain name included in the URI.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for controlling a receiving device and causing processing circuitry of the receiving device to execute a process comprising:

obtaining, from an information processing device, using a first uniform resource identifier (URI), a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content;

executing the description document;

determining, based on the first URI, whether the information processing device is associated with a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content;

controlling execution of the description document according to a mode that is set based on the determination of whether the information processing device is associated with the broadcaster;

processing a transition from the description document to a further description document; and

changing between first and second modes based on a second URI of an information processing device from which the further description document is to be obtained,

wherein the controlling includes

controlling the execution of the description document in the first mode in which the description document can perform a process when the information processing device is determined to be associated with the broadcaster, and

controlling the execution of the description document in the second mode in which the description document cannot perform the process when the information processing device is determined not to be associated with the broadcaster.