Data receiving apparatus and method

• US 20060136984A1
• Filed: 07/26/2005
• Published: 06/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohkita, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US11/189,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20060136984A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/137
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/18 Arrangements characterised by circuits or components specially adapted for receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/68 Systems specially adapted for using specific information, e.g. geographical or meteorological information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4351 involving reassembling additional data, e.g. rebuilding an executable program from recovered modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4385 Multiplex stream processing, e.g. multiplex stream decrypting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/08 Systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal, e.g. additional information signals, the signals occupying wholly or partially the same frequency band , e.g. by time division H04N7/007 takes precedence

Abstract

A data receiving apparatus of this invention includes an antenna which receives at least one of broadcast audiovisual data and non-audiovisual data, a data monitoring unit which detects the non-audiovisual data received by the antenna, a related information acquiring unit which acquires information corresponding to predetermined items in accordance with the type of detected non-audiovisual data, a channel assigning unit which assigns an identification number to the non-audiovisual data from which the information is acquired, and a communication unit which notifies a client device for viewing of audiovisual data of the assigned identification number and the information acquired by the related information acquiring unit from the non-audiovisual data assigned the identification number.

Claims

1. A data receiving apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive at least one of broadcast audiovisual data and non-audiovisual data;

a detecting unit configured to detect the non-audiovisual data received by the receiving unit;

an acquiring unit configured to acquire information corresponding to a predetermined item from the non-audiovisual data detected by the detecting unit in accordance with a type of the data;

an assigning unit configured to assign an identification number to the non-audiovisual data from which the information is acquired by the acquiring unit; and

a notifying unit configured to notify a client device for viewing of the audiovisual data of the identification number assigned by the assigning unit and the information acquired by the acquiring unit from the non-audiovisual data assigned the identification number.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a distributing unit configured to distribute non-audiovisual data corresponding to the notified identification number to the client device when the identification number is notified and a distribution request for the non-audiovisual data is issued from the client device.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein non-audiovisual data to be distributed to the client device is predetermined, the apparatus further comprising:

a determining unit configured to determine whether or not non-audiovisual data detected by the detecting unit is included in the predetermined non-audiovisual data; and

a distributing unit configured to distribute the non-audiovisual data detected by the detecting unit to the client device when the determining unit determines that the non-audiovisual data detected by the detecting unit is included in the predetermined non-audiovisual data.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the non-audiovisual data is a program or data which is used in the client device.

5. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the non-audiovisual data is a program or data which is used in the client device.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the non-audiovisual data is a program or data which is used in the client device.

7. A data receiving method comprising:

receiving at least one of broadcast audiovisual data and non-audiovisual data;

detecting the received non-audiovisual data;

acquiring information corresponding to a predetermined item from the detected non-audiovisual data in accordance with a type of the data;

assigning an identification number to the non-audiovisual data from which the information is acquired; and

notifying a client device for viewing of the audiovisual data of the assigned identification number and the information acquired from the non-audiovisual data assigned the identification number.

8. A method according to claim 7, further comprising distributing non-audiovisual data corresponding to the notified identification number to the client device when the identification number is notified and a distribution request for the non-audiovisual data is issued from the client device.

9. A method according to claim 7, further comprising:

predetermining non-audiovisual data to be distributed to the client device;

determining whether or not the detected non-audiovisual data is included in the predetermined non-audiovisual data; and

distributing the detected non-audiovisual data to the client device when it is determined that the detected non-audiovisual data is included in the predetermined non-audiovisual data.

10. A method according to claim 9, wherein the non-audiovisual data is a program or data which is used in the client device.

11. A method according to claim 8, wherein the non-audiovisual data is a program or data which is used in the client device.

12. A method according to claim 7, wherein the non-audiovisual data is a program or data which is used in the client device.