Information display and information providing device

• US 20030058367A1
• Filed: 09/20/2002
• Published: 03/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Kosuke, Harada, Tadanori
• Application Number:
  US10/239,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20030058367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/563
• 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 21/4348 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 21/4622 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 21/4856 for language selection, e.g. for the menu or subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

An information display apparatus operable in such a case wherein the information for specifying the picture information to be displayed is distributed along with the main display information and wherein the picture information specified is acquired through a path different from the supply path of the main display information. The information display apparatus includes an information extraction unit and a display controller. The information extraction unit extracts, from the main display information, the picture specifying information and the picture information, the main display information and the picture specifying information, while acquiring, from an information source lying in a separate information path of a transmission form different from the form in which the main display information is transmitted, the picture information including the related information corresponding to the picture specifying information. The display controller displays, in combination, a first management area for displaying a first picture, a second management area and the main display information extracted from the information extraction unit.

Claims

1. (Amended) An information display apparatus comprising:

an information extraction unit for extracting, from an information set including at least the main display information and a first information picture having as a unite picture information and related information constituting a basis for performing an operation when there is a command for operation, said main display information and said first picture; and

a display controller;

said display controller displaying a first management area for displaying a first picture, a second management area and the main display information extracted by said information extraction unit;

said display controller determining a second picture when an operator has specified a first picture, based on said first picture specified, to display said second picture in said second management area;

said display controller displaying the related information included in an information entity pertinent to said second picture when a specifying operation is performed on said second picture to make the related information selectable.

2. (Amended) An information display apparatus comprising:

an information extraction unit for extracting, from an information set including at least the main display information, the information specifying a first picture and the first information picture having as a unite picture information and related information constituting a basis for performing an operation when there is a command for operation, said main display information and said first picture specifying information, and for acquiring the first picture based on said first picture specifying information; and

a display controller;

said display controller displaying a first management area for displaying a first picture, a second management area and the main display information extracted by said information extraction unit, said display controller determining a second picture when an operator has specified a first picture, based on said first picture specified, to display said second picture in said second management area, said display controller displaying the related information included in an information entity pertinent to said second picture when a specifying operation is made on said second picture to render the related information selectable.

3. (Amended) An information display apparatus comprising:

an information extraction unit for acquiring the main display information and the information specifying a first picture from a first information path and for acquiring the first information picture, which has as a unite picture information and related information constituting a basis for performing an operation when there is a command for operation, from a second information path based on said first picture specifying information; and

a display controller;

said display controller displaying a first management area for displaying a first picture, a second management area and the main display information extracted by said information extraction unit;

said display controller determining a first picture when an operator has specified the first picture, based on said first picture specified, to display said second picture in said second management area;

said display controller displaying the related information included in an information entity pertinent to said second picture when a specifying operation is made on said second picture to render the related information selectable.

4. (Amended) An information purveying apparatus for sending, in superposed state, the main display information and the information corresponding to said main display information and which is adapted for specifying a first picture including the related information therein, to an information display apparatus displaying a first management area for displaying a first picture, a second management area and the main display information, said information display apparatus determining a second picture when an operator has specified an information picture having as a unite picture information and related information constituting a basis for performing an operation when there is a command for operation, based on said picture information specified, to display said second picture in said second management area, said information display apparatus displaying the related information included in an information entity pertinent to said second picture when a specifying operation is made on said second picture to render the related information selectable.