Reception device, reception method, program, and information processing system

• US 10,440,423 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2016
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitazato, Naohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Cai Y
• Application Number:
  US15/356,009
• Publication Number:
  US 20170070771A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/237 Communication with additional data server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43635 HDMI
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4383 Accessing a communication channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

A reception device including a reception unit configured to receive AV content, a feature value extraction unit configured to extract a feature value from data of the received AV content, an identification result acquisition unit configured to acquire an identification result of the AV content identified using the extracted feature value, a command acquisition unit configured to acquire a command for controlling an operation of an application program that is executed in linkage with the AV content according to the acquired identification result, a control unit configured to control the operation of the application program according to the acquired command, and a detection unit configured to detect switching of the AV content being viewed. When the switching of the AV content is detected, the control unit closes the application program that has been executed in linkage with the AV content.

Claims

1. A reception device comprising:

a receiver to receive AV content;

processing circuitry to;

extract a feature value from data of the received AV content;

acquire an identification result of the AV content identified using the extracted feature value;

acquire a command for controlling an operation of an application program that is executed in linkage with the AV content according to the acquired identification result;

control the operation of the application program according to the acquired command; and

detect switching of the AV content being viewed,

wherein, when the switching of the AV content is detected, the processing circuitry closes the application program that has been executed in linkage with the AV content, and

wherein the processing circuitry acquires an identification result of the AV content identified from the extracted feature value using an ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) technology,

wherein to detect the switching of the AV content being viewed, the processing circuitry is configured to;

extract a further feature value from further received AV content,

acquire a further identification result of the further AV content using the further extracted feature value, and

compare the identification result and the further identification result, whereby the switching of the AV content is detected if the identification result and the further identification result are different.

2. The reception device according to claim 1, wherein to detect switching of the AV content, the processing circuitry detects a possible switching of a channel from the AV content to the further AV content before extracting the further feature value.

3. The reception device according to claim 2,

wherein the receiver directly receives the AV content transmitted from a transmission device, and

wherein, according to an operation on the receiver for switching the channel from the first AV content to the second AV content, the processing circuitry detects the switching of the channel.

4. The reception device according to claim 2,

wherein the receiver receives the AV content that has been converted from an information processing device when the receiver is connected to the information processing device that converts data of the AV content transmitted from a transmission device according to the reception device in a scheme based on an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) standard, and

wherein the processing circuitry detects the switching of the channel from the first AV content to the second AV content according to an analysis result of a video signal of the AV content received from the information processing device.

5. The reception device according to claim 4,

wherein the processing circuitry detects the switching of the channel by analyzing, based on the video signal of the AV content received from the information processing device, whether a plurality of frames constituting the AV content are continuous in a predetermined section to form a same screen or whether the plurality of frames are continuous in a predetermined section to form a black screen.

6. The reception device according to claim 4, wherein the processing circuitry detects the switching of the channel from the first AV content to the second AV content according to an analysis result of an audio signal of the AV content received from the information processing device.

7. The reception device according to claim 6, wherein the processing circuitry detects the switching of the channel by analyzing, based on the audio signal of the AV content received from the information processing device, whether a sample of the audio signal is in a no signal state in a predetermined section or whether the sample is in a discontinuous state in a predetermined section.

8. The reception device according to claim 2,

wherein the receiver receives the AV content that has been converted from an information processing device when the receiver is connected to the information processing device that converts data of the AV content transmitted from a transmission device according to the reception device in a scheme based on an HDMI standard, and

wherein, according to an operation on the information processing device for switching the channel from the first AV content to the second AV content, the processing circuitry detects the switching of the channel.

9. The reception device according to claim 1,

wherein the receiver receives the AV content output from a selector when the reception unit is connected to the selector that selects desired AV content from a plurality of pieces of AV content input from a plurality of information processing devices and then outputs the desired AV content in a scheme based on an HDMI standard, and

wherein the processing circuitry detects switching of the AV content being viewed according to a selection result of the AV content provided by the selector.

10. The reception device according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry extracts the feature value from one or both of a video signal and an audio signal of the AV content.

11. The reception device according to claim 1,

wherein the command indicates any of acquisition or registration, acquisition or activation, event triggering, stopping, and closing of the application program, and

wherein the processing circuitry controls acquisition or registration, or acquisition or activation of the application program, or event triggering, pausing, or closing of the application program being executed according to each command.

15. The reception device according to claim 1, wherein the extracted feature value includes fingerprint information.

12. A reception method of a reception device, the method, which is performed by the reception device, comprising the steps of:

receiving AV content;

extracting a feature value from data of the received AV content;

acquiring an identification result of the AV content identified using the extracted feature value;

acquiring a command for controlling an operation of an application program that is executed in linkage with the AV content according to the acquired identification result;

controlling the operation of the application program according to the acquired command;

detecting switching of the AV content being viewed; and

closing the application program that has been executed in linkage with the AV content when the switching of the AV content is detected,

wherein the method further includes acquiring an identification result of the AV content identified from the extracted feature value using an ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) technology,

wherein to detect the switching of the AV content being viewed, the detecting includes;

extracting a further feature value from further received AV content,

acquiring a further identification result of the further AV content using the further extracted feature value, and

comparing the identification result and the further identification result, whereby the switching of the AV content is detected if the identification result and the further identification result are different.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium including a program that causes a computer to execute the method of claim 12.

16. The reception method according to claim 12, wherein the extracted feature value includes fingerprint information.

14. An information processing system comprising:

a reception device;

a first information processing device;

a second information processing device; and

a third information processing device,

wherein the reception device includes

a receiver configured to receive AV content, and

processing circuitry configured to

extract a feature value from data of the received AV content,

transmit the extracted feature value to the first information processing device and to thereby acquire an identification result of the AV content identified by the first information processing device using the feature value,

transmit the identification result acquired from the first information processing device to the second information processing device and to thereby acquire, from the second information processing device, a command for controlling an operation of an application program that is executed in linkage with the AV content according to the identification result,

control the operation of the application program that is acquired from the third information processing device according to the command acquired from the second information processing device, and

configured to detect switching of the AV content being viewed,

wherein, when the switching of the AV content is detected, the processing circuitry of the reception device closes the application program that has been executed in linkage with the AV content, and

wherein the processing circuitry of the reception device acquires an identification result of the AV content identified from the extracted feature value using an ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) technology

wherein the first information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to provide the identification result obtained by identifying the AV content using the feature value in response to an inquiry from the reception device,

wherein the second information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to provide the command according to the identification result in response to an inquiry from the reception device, and

wherein the third information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to provide the application program according to the command in response to an inquiry from the reception device, and

wherein to detect the switching of the AV content being viewed, the processing circuitry is configured to;

extract a further feature value from further received AV content,

acquire a further identification result of the further AV content using the further extracted feature value, and

compare the identification result and the further identification result, whereby the switching of the AV content is detected if the identification result and the further identification result are different.

17. The information processing system according to claim 14, wherein the extracted feature value includes fingerprint information.