System and method for providing content list in response to selected content provider-defined word

• US 20050188412A1
• Filed: 02/10/2005
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Dacosta, Behram Mario
• Application Number:
  US11/055,214
• Publication Number:
  US 20050188412A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/110
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• 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 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A word in TV content or a word spoken by a user can be used to generate a list of auxiliary content related to the word. The user can select auxiliary content from the list.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining information based on a TV program, comprising:

receiving an electric signal representative of at least one spoken word;

displaying at least one content title based on the electric signal on at least one of;

the TV, and a remote control device associated with the TV, the content title being displayed simultaneously with a display of a regular TV program; and

permitting a user communicating with the TV to select at least one title.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a list of content titles is displayed in at least one of:

a picture-in-picture (PIP) window on the TV, and a display of the remote control device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising permitting a user to select at least one content on the list by speaking at least one word.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the content is obtained from an audio/video data storage associated with the TV.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the word is spoken by the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the word is spoken in the TV program.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein spoken words are statically displayed in a list.

8. A system for obtaining information using a TV display, comprising:

a TV receiving TV content from a source, the TV content including words;

a remote control device configured for wireless communication with the TV; and

a data structure accessible to a computer associated with at least one of;

the source, and the TV, the computer retrieving from the data structure a list of auxiliary content different from the TV content and related to at least one word, the word being at least one of;

a word spoken by a user, and a word in the content.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the list is displayed in a picture-in-picture (PIP) window on the TV.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the list is displayed on a display of the remote control device.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the word is spoken by a user.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the word is from the TV content.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the user selects auxiliary content by speaking at least one word.

14. A system for retrieving auxiliary content related to TV content, comprising:

means for generating a signal representative of an audible word; and

means for presenting a list of auxiliary content associated with the word in response to the signal.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the list is displayed in a picture-in-picture (PIP) window on a TV.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the list is displayed on a display of a remote control device.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the word is spoken by a user.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the word is a word in the TV content.