Television system, television set and remote controller

• US 10,284,803 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2017
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NL Giken, Inc.
• Original Assignee: NL Giken, Inc.
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masahide, Matsui, Tohru
• Primary Examiner(s): Teitelbaum, Michael E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Haiem, Sean N.
• Application Number:
  US15/635,266
• Publication Number:
  US 20170302999A1
• Time in Patent Office: 678 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/32 Arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations, e.g. malfunction or breakdown of receiving stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/76 Arrangements characterised by transmission systems other than for broadcast, e.g. the Internet for broadcast H04H20/65
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/80 characterised by transmission among terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/251 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

In response to an operation such as power-on or power-off, channel change and sound volume change, a television set combined with a personal computer automatically makes e-mail with information in a predetermined format indicative of the operation attached. The e-mail is automatically sent to another television set to inform the other television set of operation of the own television set. On the other hand, the e-mail can be sent to a rating company for audience share survey. The television set automatically reads the received e-mail and attachment to change the indication of display. The television set has storage of the received information for analysis of an abnormality. Abnormality can be also sensed through abnormal act on the remote controller apt to be taken by a person in panic or off the truck. The television set refuses information from unknown address for blocking an attack of a stranger.

Claims

1. An appliance having a television function and a communication function capable of sharing address registration with an outside counterpart comprising:

a television function unit;

a detector arranged to detect a cause of change in the television function;

a memory arranged to store address of a third party to which information is to be transmitted from the appliance or the outside counterpart;

a communicator arranged to communicate with the outside counterpart by means of designating an address of the counterpart to receive the address of the third party;

an input arranged to prepare a first information of a free contents;

a first designator arranged to freely designate a desired address to which the first information is sent;

a first trigger arranged to manually send the first information through the communicator;

an automatic generator of a second information of a prepared contents in response to the detector which detects a cause of a predetermined change in the television function;

a second designator arranged to automatically designate a predetermined address to which the second information is sent;

a second trigger arranged to automatically send the second information through the communicator in response to the completion of the function of the automatic generator and the second designator; and

a memory controller arranged to compare the received address of the third party with an address already stored in the memory to automatically add the received address of the third party to the memory if the received address of the third party has not been registered in the memory.

2. The appliance according to claim 1, wherein the communicator is arranged to automatically receive the address of the third party if the appliance accesses the outside counterpart.

3. The appliance according to claim 1, wherein the communicator is arranged to accesses the outside counterpart wirelessly.

4. The appliance according to claim 1 further comprising a display arranged to indicate the address of the third party received from the outside counterpart.

5. The appliance according to claim 1 further comprising a checker arranged to check whether an address already stored in the memory has not been registered in the outside counterpart.

6. The appliance according to claim 5, wherein the communicator is arranged to ask the outside counterpart whether or not to accept sharing registration of the address which is not registered in the outside counterpart but is registered in the appliance.

7. The appliance according to claim 6, wherein the communicator is arranged to transmit the address to the outside counterpart if the outside counterpart accept sharing registration of the address which is not registered in the outside counterpart but is registered in the appliance.

8. The appliance according to claim 6, wherein the communicator is arranged to automatically ask the outside counterpart whether or not to accept sharing the registration of the address if the outside counterpart is in communication with the appliance.

9. The appliance according to claim 5 further comprising a second memory for duplication of the address which is not registered in the outside counterpart but is registered in the appliance.

10. An appliance having a television function and a communication function capable of sharing address registration with an outside counterpart comprising:

a television function unit;

a detector arranged to detect a cause of change in the television function;

a memory arranged to store address of a third party to which information is to be transmitted from the appliance or the outside counterpart;

a communicator arranged to communicate with the outside counterpart by means of designating an address of the counterpart to receive the address of the third party;

an input arranged to prepare a first information of a free contents;

a first designator arranged to freely designate a desired address to which the first information is sent;

a first trigger arranged to manually send the first information through the communicator;

an automatic generator of a second information of a prepared contents in response to the detector which detects a cause of a predetermined change in the television function;

a second designator arranged to automatically designate a predetermined address to which the second information is sent;

a second trigger arranged to automatically send the second information through the communicator in response to the completion of the function of the automatic generator and the second designator; and

a display arranged to indicate the address of the third party received from the outside counterpart.

11. The appliance according to claim 10, wherein the communicator is arranged to automatically receive the address of the third party if the appliance accesses the outside counterpart.

12. The appliance according to claim 10, wherein the communicator is arranged to accesses the outside counterpart wirelessly.

13. The appliance according to claim 10 further comprising a checker arranged to check whether an address already stored in the memory has not been registered in the outside counterpart.

14. The appliance according to claim 13, wherein the communicator is arranged to ask the outside counterpart whether or not to accept sharing registration of the address which is not registered in the outside counterpart but is registered in the appliance.

15. The appliance according to claim 14, wherein the communicator is arranged to transmit the address to the outside counterpart if the outside counterpart accept sharing registration of the address which is not registered in the outside counterpart but is registered in the appliance.

16. The appliance according to claim 14, wherein the communicator is arranged to automatically ask the outside counterpart whether or not to accept sharing the registration of the address if the outside counterpart is in communication with the appliance.

17. An appliance having a television function and a communication function capable of sharing address registration with an outside counterpart comprising:

a television function unit;

a detector arranged to detect a cause of change in the television function;

a memory arranged to store address of a third party to which information is to be transmitted from the appliance or the outside counterpart;

a checker arranged to check whether an address already stored in the memory has not been registered in the outside counterpart;

a communicator arranged to communicate with the outside counterpart by means of designating an address of the counterpart to ask the outside counterpart whether or not to accept sharing registration of the address which is not registered in the outside counterpart but is registered in the appliance;

an input arranged to prepare a first information of a free contents;

a first designator arranged to freely designate a desired address to which the first information is sent;

a first trigger arranged to manually send the first information through the communicator;

an automatic generator of a second information of a prepared contents in response to the detector which detects a cause of a predetermined change in the television function;

a second designator arranged to automatically designate a predetermined address to which the second information is sent; and

a second trigger arranged to automatically send the second information through the communicator in response to the completion of the function of the automatic generator and the second designator.

18. The appliance according to claim 17, wherein the communicator is arranged to transmit the address to the outside counterpart if the outside counterpart accept sharing registration of the address which is not registered in the outside counterpart but is registered in the appliance.

19. The appliance according to claim 18, wherein the communicator is arranged to automatically ask the outside counterpart whether or not to accept sharing the registration of the address if the outside counterpart is in communication with the appliance.

20. The appliance according to claim 17, wherein the communicator is arranged to communicate with the outside counterpart wirelessly.