Method of sequently displaying advertisement on a television screen and a digital broadcasting set-top box for performing the same

• US 20020059646A1
• Filed: 11/07/2001
• Published: 05/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alticast Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alticast Corporation
• Inventors: Kim, Moon-Young
• Application Number:
  US10/008,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20020059646A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/139
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• 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 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

Disclosed is a method of sequently displaying advertisement on a television screen and a digital broadcasting set-top box for performing the same. The set-top box includes a tuning section for tuning a radio frequency digital broadcasting stream, a demultiplexer for separating an audio data, a video data, and an information data from the radio frequency digital broadcasting stream, a decoding section for decoding the information data, a storing section for temporary storing the decoded information data, an advertisement data processing section for searching an advertisement data among the decoded data storing in the storing section, updating the searched advertisement data, and confirming a displaying time of the advertisement data, a graphic processing section for converting the advertisement data processed by the advertisement data processing section and the information data to an image data, and a synthesizing section for synthesizing the image data and a video data decode by a media decoder.

Claims

1. A digital broadcasting set-top box comprising:

a tuning section for tuning a radio frequency digital broadcasting stream;

a demultiplexer for separating an audio data, a video data, and an information data from the radio frequency digital broadcasting stream;

a decoding section for decoding the information data;

a storing section for temporary storing the decoded information data;

an advertisement data processing section for searching an advertisement data among the decoded data storing in the storing section, updating the searched advertisement data, and confirming a displaying time of the advertisement data;

a graphic processing section for converting the advertisement data processed by the advertisement data processing section and the information data to an image data; and

a synthesizing section for synthesizing the image data and a video data decode by a media decoder.

2. The set-top box as claimed in claim 1, wherein the advertisement data processing section comprises:

an updating controller for searching whether the advertisement data is updated or not;

an advertisement data storing section for storing the advertisement data and the updated advertisement data by the updating controller; and

an advertisement data interpreter provide with a solution which interprets a displaying time and an attribute of the advertisement data stored in the advertisement data storing section.

6. A advertising method by using a digital broadcasting set-top box, comprising providing a digital broadcasting set-top box according to claims 1 or 2 in which contents of an advertisement ordered by an advertiser who paid an advertising rate is stored to a viewer by a broadcasting company, the digital broadcasting set-top box being produced by order from the broadcasting company, and the digital broadcasting set-top box including the contents of the advertisement;

and

2) seqeuntly displaying the advertisement of the advertiser on a television screen of the viewer in which the digital broadcasting set-top box is installed.

3. An advertising method comprising the steps of:

1) tuning a radio frequency digital broadcasting stream;

2) separating an audio data, a video data, and an information data from the tuned radio frequency digital broadcasting stream;

3) searching an advertisement data among the separated information data and updating the searched advertisement data;

4) converting the updated advertisement data into an image data; and

5) synthesizing the image data and a video data.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the searching and updating step comprises the steps of:

i) loading the advertisement data stored in the storing section and searching an attribute of the advertisement data;

ii) determining whether the advertisement data is updated or not by determining a version and a priority of the advertisement data by an updating program installed in a updating controller;

iii) determining whether a data owner is who has an updating authority by using a security and authentication method;

iv) determining a reliability of the advertisement data by an updating program installed in an updating controller; and

v) storing an updated advertisement data in the advertisement data storing section.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the converting step comprises the steps of:

a) reading a displaying time information of the advertisement data;

b) determining a starting time when the advertisement data is began to be displayed on a television screen in accordance with the displaying time information;

c) interpreting a data schedule, a data format and a graphic processing method of the advertisement data by a program installed in an advertisement information interpreter;

d) converting the advertisement data into an image data to be displayed on the television screen based on the interpreted information; and

e) displaying the advertisement data on the television screen so that the displaying time of the converted advertisement data is always checked.