Data reception terminal and mail creation method

• US 20060156373A1
• Filed: 09/07/2004
• Published: 07/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Tomoko, Ueda, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US10/527,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20060156373A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/135
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• 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 21/4332 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. local EPG data repository interfaces, Database management systems or updating for information retrieval G06F16/23; details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video database G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• 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 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

If a scene specifying button (202) is pressed while a TV program is being viewed (S601), scene specification information including a point in time, a channel, and the like is generated (S602). The broadcast data of a scene corresponding to this scene specification information is retrieved from a related information storage section 404 (S603). The retrieved broadcast data is subjected to format conversion so as to become text data (S604). The text obtained by the format conversion is put into the body of an electronic mail (S605). After a complementary addition is made to the body of the electronic mail as necessary (S606 and S607), the electronic mail which is completed is transmitted to a destination user (S608). This makes it possible to create a mail easily and accurately, so that a communication system that fulfills the necessity of immediate response is realized.

Claims

1. A data reception terminal for receiving multiplexed data obtained by multiplexing multimedia data including at least video or audio and scene-related information related to the multimedia data, and creating an electronic mail by utilizing the multiplexed data, comprising:

a receiving section operable to receive the multiplexed data;

a decoding section operable to separate the received multiplexed data into the multimedia data and the scene-related information;

an output section operable to output the separated multimedia data;

a storage section operable to store the separated scene-related information;

an input/output acceptance section operable to, in response to a request from a user, generate scene specification information for identifying a portion of the multimedia data that is being outputted from the output section, the scene specification information including identification information and time;

a retrieval section operable to retrieve, from the storage section, scene-related information corresponding to the scene specification information;

a format conversion section operable to convert the retrieved scene-related information into a format which enables the scene-related information to be used in the electronic mail; and

a mail creation section operable to create a part of data of the electronic mail by utilizing the converted scene-related information.

2. The data reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the mail creation section creates a body section of the data of the electronic mail from the scene-related information.

3. The data reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the mail creation section sets, as a subject of the electronic mail, a part of the scene-related information corresponding to a title.

4. The data reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the mail creation section displays, in the electronic mail, data of the electronic mail created from the scene-related information in a form different from that of any other information contained in the electronic mail.

5. The data reception terminal according to claim 1, wherein

data of the electronic mail created from the scene-related information is protected so that a content of the scene-related information is not allowed to be changed.

6. A mail creation method for receiving multiplexed data obtained by multiplexing multimedia data including at least video or audio and scene-related information related to the multimedia data, and creating an electronic mail by utilizing the multiplexed data, comprising:

a step of receiving the multiplexed data;

a step of separating the received multiplexed data into the multimedia data and the scene-related information;

a step of outputting the separated multimedia data via an output section;

a step of storing the separated scene-related information in a storage section;

a step of, in response to a request from a user, generating scene specification information for identifying a portion of the multimedia data that is being outputted from the output section, the scene specification information including identification information and time;

a step of retrieving, from the storage section, scene-related information corresponding to the scene specification information;

a step of converting the retrieved scene-related information into a format which enables the scene-related information to be used in the electronic mail; and

a step of creating a part of data of the electronic mail by utilizing the converted scene-related information.

7. A computer-readable program for causing a data reception terminal to execute a mail creation method for receiving multiplexed data obtained by multiplexing multimedia data including at least video or audio and scene-related information related to the multimedia data, and creating an electronic mail by utilizing the multiplexed data, wherein

the program causes the data reception terminal to execute:

a step of receiving the multiplexed data;

a step of separating the received multiplexed data into the multimedia data and the scene-related information;

a step of outputting the separated multimedia data via an output section;

a step of storing the separated scene-related information in a storage section;

a step of, in response to a request from a user, generating scene specification information for identifying a portion of the multimedia data that is being outputted from the output section, the scene specification information including identification information and time;

a step of retrieving, from the storage section, scene-related information corresponding to the scene specification information;

a step of converting the retrieved scene-related information into a format which enables the scene-related information to be used in the electronic mail; and

a step of creating a part of data of the electronic mail by utilizing the converted scene-related information.

8. A medium having recorded therein a computer-readable program for causing a data reception terminal to execute a mail creation method for receiving multiplexed data obtained by multiplexing multimedia data including at least video or audio and scene-related information related to the multimedia data, and creating an electronic mail by utilizing the multiplexed data, wherein

the program causes the data reception terminal to execute:

a step of receiving the multiplexed data;

a step of separating the received multiplexed data into the multimedia data and the scene-related information;

a step of outputting the separated multimedia data via an output section;

a step of storing the separated scene-related information in a storage section;

a step of, in response to a request from a user, generating scene specification information for identifying a portion of the multimedia data that is being outputted from the output section, the scene specification information including identification information and time;

a step of retrieving, from the storage section, scene-related information corresponding to the scene specification information;

a step of converting the retrieved scene-related information into a format which enables the scene-related information to be used in the electronic mail; and

a step of creating a part of data of the electronic mail by utilizing the converted scene-related information.

9. An integrated circuit for use in a data reception terminal for receiving multiplexed data obtained by multiplexing multimedia data including at least video or audio and scene-related information related to the multimedia data, and creating an electronic mail by utilizing the multiplexed data, wherein,

the data reception terminal includes:

a receiving section operable to receive the multiplexed data;

an output section operable to output the multimedia data;

a storage section operable to store the scene-related information; and

an input/output acceptance section operable to, in response to a request from a user, generate scene specification information for identifying a portion of the multimedia data that is being outputted from the output section, the scene specification information including identification information and time, and

the integrated circuit integrates circuitry, functioning as;

a decoding section operable to separate the received multiplexed data into the multimedia data and the scene-related information;

a retrieval section operable to retrieve, from the storage section, scene-related information corresponding to the scene specification information;

a format conversion section operable to convert the retrieved scene-related information into a format which enables the scene-related information to be used in the electronic mail; and

a mail creation section operable to create a part of data of the electronic mail by utilizing the converted scene-related information.