Television receiver, information processing method and program

• US 20050128351A1
• Filed: 11/30/2004
• Published: 06/16/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Takashi, Matsumoto, Yuichi, Mori, Shigeki, Kutsuna, Masaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,716,696 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/473
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• 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 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4661 Deriving a combined profile for a plurality of end-users of the same client, e.g. for family members within a home user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A television receiver includes: broadcast wave receiving means for receiving a broadcast wave; obtaining means for obtaining information for specifying a program being a common program of programs received in accordance with first program information related to a receivable broadcast and programs received in accordance with second program information different from the first program information, said program having starting time of broadcast earlier in said first program information than in said second program information; and recording means for recording said program specified by said information.

Claims

1. A television receiver comprising:

broadcast wave receiving means for receiving a broadcast wave;

obtaining means for obtaining information for specifying a program being a common program of programs received in accordance with first program information related to a receivable broadcast and programs received in accordance with second program information different from the first program information, said program having starting time of broadcast earlier in said first program information than in said second program information; and

recording control means for controlling to record said program specified by said information.

2. A television receiver according to claim 1, wherein said first program information is carried by said broadcast wave.

3. A television receiver according to claim 1, further comprising communication means for communicating another television receiver through a network, wherein said second program information is received from said another television receiver.

4. A television receiver according to claim 1, further comprising communication means for communicating an apparatus providing program information through a network, wherein said second program information is received from said apparatus providing program information in accordance with an information of area received broadcast by another television receiver.

5. A television receiver according to claim 1, wherein said obtaining means is provided with communication means for communicating with an apparatus specifying program information through a network, and said information for specifying said program having the starting time of broadcast earlier in said first program information than in said second program information is obtained from said apparatus specifying program information.

6. A television receiver according to claim 1, wherein said television receiver detects said program having the starting time of broadcast earlier in said first program information than in said second program information, and said obtaining means obtains said information for specifying said program.

7. A television receiver according to claim 1, wherein said recording control means controls to record said program specified by said information in response to a user'"'"'s operation for determining a start of recoding of said program specified by said information.

8. A television receiver according to claim 1, wherein said recording control means limit to reproduce recorded said program before the starting time of broadcast of said common program in said second program information.

9. A television receiver according to claim 1, wherein said recording control means control to reproduce recorded said program at the starting time of broadcast of said common program in said second program information.

10. A television receiver according to claim 3, wherein said television receiver includes transmission means for transmitting a reception request to said another television receiver in order to receive said program at the starting time of broadcast in said second program information when said program recorded at the starting time of broadcast in said first program information is controlled to reproduce at the starting time of broadcast of said program in said second program information.

11. A television receiver according to claim 3, further comprising audio video input-output unit for inputting audio and video to transmit the inputed audio and video to said another television receiver as an audio video signal through a network, and for outputting audio and video from an audio video signal received from said another television receiver.

12. A television receiver, comprising:

broadcast wave receiving means for receiving a broadcast wave;

obtaining means for obtaining information for specifying a program being a common program of programs received in accordance with first program information related to a receivable broadcast and programs received in accordance with second program information different from said first program information, said program having starting time of broadcast earlier in said second program information than in said first program-information; and

transmission means for transmitting a record request signal based on said obtained information to another television receiver through a network in order to record said program specified by said information in accordance with said second program information.

13. A television receiver according to claim 12, wherein said transmission means further transmits a reproducing request signal to said another television receiver in order to reproduce said program at the starting time of broadcast of said common program in said first program information.

14. A television receiver according to claim 12, further comprising audio video input-output unit for inputting audio and video to transmit the inputted audio and video to said another television receiver as an audio video signal through said network, and for outputting audio and video from an audio video signal received from said another television receiver.

15. An information processing method comprising:

a broadcast wave receiving step of receiving a broadcast wave;

an obtaining step of obtaining information specifying a program being a common program of programs received in accordance with first program information related to a receivable broadcast and programs received in accordance with second program information different from said first program information, said program having starting time of broadcast earlier in said first program information than in said second program information; and

a recording control step of controlling to record said program specified by said information.

17. A computer-executable program comprising a program code for making a computer execute each step of an information processing method according to claim 15.

16. An information processing method comprising:

a broadcast wave receiving step of receiving a broadcast wave;

an obtaining step of obtaining information specifying a program being a common program of programs received in accordance with first program information related to a receivable broadcast and programs received in accordance with second program information different from said first program information, said program having starting time of broadcast earlier in said second program information than in said first program information; and

a transmission step of transmitting a record request signal based on said obtained information to another television receiver through a network in order to record said program specified by said information in accordance with said second program information.