Receiver, portable terminal and receiving system

• US 20040067766A1
• Filed: 07/14/2003
• Published: 04/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Kakuya
• Application Number:
  US10/466,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20040067766A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/514
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/95 characterised by a specific format, e.g. an encoded audio stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/80 characterised by transmission among terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2662 Controlling the complexity of the video stream, e.g. by scaling the resolution or bitrate of the video stream based on the client capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• 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 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/38 Transmitter circuitry for the transmission of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• 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 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A receiving system for the purpose of making it possible to receive radio wave broadcast with high sensitivity irrespective of the location of a portable terminal, and comprising a receiver and a portable terminal. If command means of the portable terminal issues a specific command, control means of the receiver at least selects a signal which communication means sends on the basis of that command information. Furthermore, conversion means of the receiver converts information of a specific form into information of another specific form adapted for reproduction at the portable terminal. Hereby, the portable terminal can receive from the receiver information adapted for the portable terminal and reproduce the information.

Claims

1. A receiver which comprises:

conversion means for converting information of a specific form into information of another specific form,

communication means for sending to a portable terminal the information converted by said conversion means and receiving a command information from the portable terminal, and

control means for at least selecting information sent by said communication means on the basis of a command information from the portable terminal received by said communication means.

2. The receiver of claim 1 wherein said communication means receives terminal information on characteristics or state of the portable terminal and said conversion means makes a conversion according to said terminal information.

3. The receiver of claim 2 wherein said terminal information indicates at least one out of the resolution of display means of the portable terminal, the total capacity of storage means of the portable terminal, the available capacity of storage means of the portable terminal, number of colors to be displayed by display means of the portable terminal, and data format adapted for the portable terminal.

4. The receiver of claim 1 wherein said communication means receives communication path information on characteristics or state of a communication path from the portable terminal and said conversion means makes a conversion according to said communication path information.

5. The receiver of claim 4 wherein said communication information indicates at least one out of the communication speed and communication quality level.

6. The receiver of claim 1 which further comprises storage means for storing information of a specific form and sending said stored information to said conversion means.

7. A portable terminal which comprises:

command means for issuing a specific command,

communication means for sending the command information from said command means to the receiver and receiving information from the receiver, and

reproduction means for reproducing the information from the receiver which is received by said communication means, and

display means for displaying the information reproduced by said reproduction means.

8. The portable terminal of claim 7 wherein said communication means sends to the receiver terminal information on the characteristics or state about said portable terminal.

9. The portable terminal of claim 8 wherein said terminal information indicates at least one out of the resolution of display means of said portable terminal, the total capacity of storage means of said portable terminal, the available capacity of storage means of said portable terminal, the number of colors to be displayed by display means of the portable terminal, and data format adapted for the portable terminal.

10. The portable terminal of claim 7 wherein said communication means sends to the receiver communication path information on the characteristics or state about the communication path.

11. The portable terminal of claim 10 wherein said communication path information indicates at least one out of the communication speed and the communication quality level.

12. The portable terminal of claim 7 which further comprises storage means for storing the information received by said communication means and sending the stored information to said reproduction means.

13. A receiving system comprising a receiver and a portable terminal wherein said receiver comprises:

conversion means for converting information of a specific form into information of another specific form,

communication means for sending to the portable terminal the information converted by said conversion means and for receiving command information from the portable terminal, and

control means for at least selecting information sent by said communication means on the basis of the command information received by said communication means from the portable terminal, and

said portable terminal comprises;

command means for issuing a specific command,

communication information for sending to the receiver a command information from said command means and for receiving information from the receiver, and

display means for displaying information reproduced by reproduction means.