Method of displaying an interactive content

• US 20060075458A1
• Filed: 08/22/2003
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Lucas, Michel, Margerand, Bruno
• Application Number:
  US10/526,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20060075458A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/139
• 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 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• 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 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of displaying elements (31, 32, 33, 34) of an interactive content on a screen intended to display data transmitted in a digital television format comprising subtitles, by means of a command interface comprising a plurality of inputs. The elements of the interactive content are comprised in interactive subtitles, an interactive subtitle being associated with a link table indicating at least one correspondence between an input of the command interface and another subtitle. A subtitle based on an interactive subtitle is displayed by activating the input of the command interface corresponding to this subtitle.

Claims

1. A method of displaying at least one element of an interactive content on a screen intended to display data transmitted in a digital television format comprising subtitles, by means of a command interface comprising a plurality of inputs, said method being characterized in that an element of the interactive content is comprised in an interactive subtitle, an interactive subtitle being associated with a link table indicating at least one correspondence between an input of the command interface and another subtitle, a subtitle being displayed from an interactive subtitle by activating the input of the command interface corresponding to this subtitle.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the digital television format is the DVB format and the interactive subtitles are DVB subtitles.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least one of the elements of the interactive content is a permanent page, said permanent page being defined by a particular page type.

4. A method as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that said permanent page is transmitted in turns.

5. An audiovisual device for conceiving an interactive content in a digital television format comprising subtitles, said audiovisual device comprising means for inserting the interactive content in interactive subtitles and means for associating an interactive subtitle with a link table indicating at least one correspondence between an input of the command interface and another subtitle.

6. A system for processing data transmitted in a digital television format comprising subtitles, said processing system comprising means for decoding at least an interactive subtitle comprising an element of an interactive content, an interactive subtitle being associated with a link table indicating at least one correspondence between an input of a command interface and another subtitle, and means for displaying a subtitle on a screen as a function of an input of the command interface.

7. A data processing system as claimed in claim 6, said processing system also comprising means for storing at least one element of the interactive content.

8. A set top box comprising a processing system as claimed in claim 6 or 7.

9. A communication network comprising at least a transmitter suitable for transmitting signals representing at least an interactive content, a transmission network, a receiver suitable for receiving said signals and a data processing system as claimed in claim 6.

10. A digital television signal comprising elements of an interactive content in the form of interactive subtitles, an interactive subtitle being associated with a link table indicating at least one correspondence between an input of a command interface and another subtitle.