Display apparatus, content displaying method, and non-transitory recording medium

• US 10,701,445 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2018
• Issued: 06/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nishiura, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Davis, Chenea
• Application Number:
  US15/921,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20180278998A1
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• 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 21/4586 Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6547 comprising parameters, e.g. for client setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a display controller that displays, on the basis of a display schedule, content included in distribution data distributed from a content distribution apparatus. The display apparatus determines whether or not content that matches the replacement rule is included in the distribution data. When displaying content included in the distribution data on the basis of the display schedule, if it is determined that content that matches the replacement rule is included in the distribution data, the display apparatus replaces the content with the replacement content and displays the replacement content.

Claims

1. A display apparatus that displays content, the display apparatus comprising:

a controller that receives distribution data including a plurality of display schedules and content from a content distribution apparatus; and

a storage that stores the distribution data, wherein

the controller;

prepares a playlist based on the distribution data,

determines whether or not replacement rule data that is information regarding replacement content is stored in the storage,

determines whether or not one or more of the content that matches the replacement rule data is included in the playlist when the replacement rule data is stored in the storage,

replaces the one or more of the content with one or more of the replacement content, the replacement content being stored in the storage where the replacement rule data is stored, and updates the playlist, when the one or more of the content that matches the replacement rule data is included in the playlist,

displays the one or more of the replacement content based on an updated playlist,

when the replacement rule data is not stored in the storage, displays the one or more of the content included in the distribution data,

when a file name includes a time representing character string regarding a display duration, displays the replacement content on a basis of the display duration determined by the time representing character string,

when the replacement content has an attribute regarding the display duration, displays the replacement content on a basis of the display duration indicated by the attribute, and

when the replacement content does not have the attribute regarding the display duration, and the time representing character string is included in a file name stored in the replacement rule data, displays the replacement content for the display duration determined by the time representing character string.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the replacement rule data includes information regarding a file name, and

the controller determines whether or not content including a file name stored in the replacement rule data is included in the distribution data.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the replacement rule data includes information regarding a folder, and

when displaying content included in the distribution data on the basis of the display schedule, if the controller determines that content that matches the replacement rule data is included in the distribution data, the controller replaces the content with a content file included in the folder and displays the content file.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein:

the distribution data includes information regarding a program including one or more items of content,

when the replacement rule data includes information regarding a program, the controller determines whether or not a program that matches the program included in the replacement rule data is included in the distribution data, and

when the controller determines that the program that matches the replacement rule data is included in the distribution data, the controller replaces the program with a content file included in the folder and displays the content file.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the distribution data further includes information specifying a display frame for displaying the content, and

when the replacement rule data further includes information regarding the display frame, the controller determines content that matches the display frame included in the replacement rule data.

6. A non-transitory recording medium storing a program that causes a computer mounted on a display apparatus to execute a process comprising:

displaying on a display, on a basis of a display schedule, content included in distribution data;

receiving the distribution data including a plurality of display schedules and the content from a content distribution apparatus;

storing the distribution data in a storage;

preparing a playlist based on the distribution data;

determining whether or not replacement rule data that is information regarding one or more replacement content is stored in the storage;

determining whether or not one or more of the content that matches the replacement rule data is included in the distribution data when the replacement rule data is stored in the storage;

replacing the one or more of the content with the one or more replacement content, the replacement content being stored in the storage where the replacement rule data is stored, and updating the playlist when the one or more of the content that matches the replacement rule data is included in the playlist;

displaying the one or more replacement content on a basis of an updated playlist;

displaying the one or more of the content included in the distribution data when the replacement rule data is not stored in the storage;

when a file name includes a time representing character string regarding a display duration, displaying the replacement content on a basis of the display duration determined by the time representing character string;

when the replacement content has an attribute regarding the display duration, displaying the replacement content on a basis of the display duration indicated by the attribute; and

when the replacement content does not have the attribute regarding the display duration, and the time representing character string is included in a file name stored in the replacement rule data, displaying the replacement content for the display duration determined by the time representing character string.