Information processing terminal and recorder/player

• US 20040107447A1
• Filed: 07/15/2003
• Published: 06/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Katagishi, Makoto, Takaki, Taku, Hasegawa, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US10/618,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20040107447A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/135
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4135 external recorder interface circuits between an apparatus for recording television signals and a television receiver H04N5/775
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

Disclosed is an information processing terminal that is capable of receiving television and other broadcasts and providing increased user-friendliness. The information processing terminal, which is capable of communicating with another device, comprising a broadcast receiver which receives a broadcast signal that contains program identification information for specifying a program and/or program scene identification information for specifying a scene of the program and the video information of the program; a display which outputs the broadcast signal that is received by the broadcast receiver; and a storage which extracts the program identification information and/or program scene identification information from the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiver and stores the extracted information while the display outputs the video information.

Claims

1. An information processing terminal capable of communicating with another device, comprising:

a broadcast receiver which receives a broadcast signal that contains program identification information for specifying a program and/or program scene identification information for specifying a scene of the program and the video information of the program;

a display which outputs the broadcast signal that is received by the broadcast receiver; and

a storage which extracts the program identification information and/or program scene identification information from the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiver and stores the extracted information while the display outputs the video information.

2. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a transmitter which transmits the program scene identification information stored by said storage when requesting the replay of video information stored in said another device.

3. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a recording instruction section which instructs, while the video information is being output by said display, said another device to record said video information.

4. The information processing terminal according to claim 3, further comprising a transmitter which transmits the program identification information and/or said program scene identification information stored in said storage to said another device when said recording instruction section issues a recording instruction to said another device.

7. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a program-related information acquisition section which acquires the program-related information about said program, said program-related information acquisition section acquiring the program-related information when said another device does not store the video information of said program.

8. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, wherein choices can be made to transmit the information about a program that is stored in said storage to said another device either via an external server or directly

5. An information processing terminal capable of communicating with another device, comprising:

a receiver which receives a broadcast signal which at least contains the information about a program and the video or audio signal of the program;

a storage which stores the information about the program that is received by the receiver;

a transmitter which transmits to said another device the information about the program that is stored in the storage; and

a controller which exercises control, after the transmitter transmits the information about the program, so as to receive the information about recording a rebroadcast of the program and display the information about the recording of the rebroadcast.

6. An information processing terminal capable of communicating with another device, comprising:

a receiver which receives a broadcast signal which at least contains the information about a program and the video or audio signal of the program;

a storage which stores the information about the program that is received by the receiver;

a transmitter which transmits to said another device the information about the program that is stored in the storage; and

a recording instruction section which issues an instruction for recording the video information of the program; and

a selector which chooses, when requesting the replay of the video information stored in said another device, whether to replay the video information that is recorded from the instant at which a recording instruction is issued to the recording instruction section or to replay the video information from the beginning of the program.

9. An information processing terminal, comprising:

a receiver which receives the information about a program and the video information of the program;

an instruction section which issues an instruction which stores at least either the information about the program or the video information of the program;

a storage which stores at least part of the video information of the program and the information about the program when a storage instruction is issued by the instruction section; and

a controller which exercises control so as to display the information about the program as well as at least part of the video information of the program that is stored in the storage.

10. The information processing terminal according to claim 9, wherein said controller exercises control so as to display, as the history information about a program stored via said instruction section, the information about said program as well as at least part of the video information of said program that is stored in said storage.

11. A recorder/player, comprising:

a broadcast receiver which receives a broadcast signal containing the information about a program and the video information of the program;

a storage which stores the information about the program and the video information of the program, which are received from the broadcast receiver;

a communicator which communicates with an external terminal; and

a controller which exercises control so as to conduct a search, when the information about the program that is stored in the external terminal is received from the communication section, to check whether the rebroadcast information about the program exists in a rebroadcast information database, which is stored beforehand in the storage, and schedule the recording of the rebroadcast of the program in accordance with rebroadcast information when the rebroadcast information is found to be available.

12. The recorder/player according to claim 11, wherein said controller exercises control, when the rebroadcast of said program is recorded by scheduled recording, so as to replay the rebroadcast, which is automatically recorded when the information about the program that is stored in said external terminal is received from the communication section.

13. An information processing terminal capable of communicating with another device, comprising:

a broadcast receiver which receives a broadcast signal containing the information about a program and the video information of the program;

a storage which extracts the information about a program from the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiver, and storing the extracted information;

an output section which outputs the broadcast signal which is received by the broadcast receiver; and

a transmitter which transmits the information about the program to said another device while the output section outputs the video information.

14. An information processing terminal capable of communicating with another device, comprising:

a broadcast receive means for receiving a broadcast signal that contains program identification information for specifying a program and/or program scene identification information for specifying a scene of the program and the video information of the program;

a output means for outputting the broadcast signal that is received by the broadcast receiver; and

a storage means for extracting the program identification information and/or program scene identification information from the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiver and storing the extracted information while the output means outputs the video information.

Disclosed is an information processing terminal that is capable of receiving television and other broadcasts and providing increased user-friendliness. The information processing terminal, which is capable of communicating with another device, comprising a broadcast receiver which receives a broadcast signal that contains program identification information for specifying a program and/or program scene identification information for specifying a scene of the program and the video information of the program;

a display which outputs the broadcast signal that is received by the broadcast receiver; and

a storage which extracts the program identification information and/or program scene identification information from the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiver and stores the extracted information while the display outputs the video information.