Signal processing apparatus, perception apparatus, printing apparatus, and broadcasting method

• US 20040103436A1
• Filed: 10/20/2003
• Published: 05/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Matsubayashi, Kazuhiro, Maruyama, Kazuna, Shikata, Yasushi
• Application Number:
  US10/687,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20040103436A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/83
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/86 Arrangements characterised by the broadcast information itself
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/32 Arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations, e.g. malfunction or breakdown of receiving stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/82 the transmission system being the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00291 with receiver circuitry television receiver circuitry per se H04N5/44
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00294 for printing images at a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00299 with a television transmission apparatus, e.g. a videophone, a teletext system or a digital television system
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4117 for generating hard copies of the content, e.g. printer, electronic paper interfaces to printers G06F3/12; printing data G06K15/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4425 Monitoring of client processing errors or hardware failure
• 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 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4784 receiving rewards
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A signal processing apparatus includes a receiving circuit for receiving data transmitted from a sender so as to be simultaneously receivable by a plurality of receivers, and a processing circuit for outputting, to a printer, print data in accordance with both of the data received by the receiving circuit and user information of a user of the signal processing apparatus.

Claims

1. A signal processing apparatus comprising:

a receiving circuit for receiving data that is transmitted from a sender such that the data can be simultaneously received by a plurality of receivers; and

a processing circuit for outputting, to a printer, print data in accordance with both of the data received by the receiving circuit and user information of a user of the signal processing apparatus.

2. A signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuit includes at least a circuit for generating the print data to be output to the printer by extracting, on the basis of user information, a part of the received data transmitted so as to be simultaneously receivable by the plurality of receivers.

3. A signal processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the data transmitted so as to be simultaneously receivable by the plurality of receivers includes data selectable as data to be used in the print data and also includes data for use in sequentially generating stimuli perceptible by a user via a perception device.

4. A signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuit includes at least a circuit for outputting, to the outside of the signal processing apparatus, a signal for requesting the print data or data from which the print data is obtainable, in accordance with data transmitted so as to be simultaneously receivable by the plurality of receivers and in accordance with information associated with a user of the signal processing apparatus.

5. A signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user information includes at least information indicating a behavior history of the user.

6. A signal processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the data transmitted so as to be simultaneously receivable by the plurality of receivers includes at least data for use in sequentially generating stimuli perceptible by a user via the perception device, and the information indicating the behavior history of the user is information indicating times at or for which the user perceived the stimuli generated on the basis of the data.

7. A signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user information includes at least information indicating a property of the user.

8. A signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user information includes at least identification information for identifying the signal processing apparatus.

9. A signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user information is acquired on the basis of data received by the receiving circuit.

10. A perception apparatus comprising a perception device and a signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data transmitted so as to be simultaneously receivable by the plurality of receivers includes at least data for use in sequentially generating stimuli perceptible by a user via the perception apparatus.

11. A printing apparatus comprising a signal processing apparatus according to claim 1 and a printer for performing printing in accordance with the print data output from the processing circuit.

12. A broadcasting method comprising the step of transmitting first data for producing print data to be printed by a printer and second data specifying signal processing to be performed on the first data to produce the print data depending on information associated with a user of a particular signal processing apparatus, in such a manner that the first data and the second data can be simultaneously received by a plurality of signal processing apparatuses.