Media receiving apparatus, media receiving method, and media distribution system

• US 20070046700A1
• Filed: 08/26/2004
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Itoh, Tomoaki, Ido, Daiji, Takei, Ichiro, Yamaguchi, Takao, Sato, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,716,568 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/698
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/027 Arrangements and methods specific for the display of internet documents

Abstract

A media receiving apparatus capable of preventing media from being positioned in an invalid display area or a program from being temporarily stopped, even if the vertical/horizontal ratio of the resolution of the display section is switched while a broadcast or streaming program is being displayed. In this apparatus there are a plurality of display sections D1 and D2 with different resolutions, and a display directive section (303) directs a display section to be set as active in accordance with the mode of use of the user. A layout information selection section (304) selects a layout corresponding to the resolution of the display section indicated by the display directive section (303) from layout information that includes layouts corresponding to display sections D1 and D2 distributed from a media distribution apparatus, and in accordance with the selected layout a media display control section (306) selects media distributed from the media distribution apparatus, performs conversion processing comprising enlargement or reduction, and displays media on the display section designated by the display directive section (303).

Claims

1. A media receiving apparatus comprising:

a display section for which resolution switching is possible;

a receiving section that receives one or more media data and a plurality of layout information items;

a layout information selection section that selects layout information corresponding to a resolution displayed by said display section from said layout information; and

a media display control section that performs control to perform media data selection and/or conversion processing based on layout information selected by said layout information selection section and display media data on a display section of applicable resolution.

2. The media receiving apparatus according to claim 1, having a folding form;

wherein said display section comprises;

a first display section that performs display when said media receiving apparatus is in an open state; and

a second display section that has a different resolution from said first display section and performs display when said media receiving apparatus is in a closed state.

3. The media receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display section rotates and resolution is switched every predetermined angular rotation.

4. The media receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said media display control section starts or suspends playback of voice data and/or music data among media data according to a resolution of a display section that performs display.

5. A server apparatus comprising:

a storage section that stores a plurality of layout information items used by a media receiving apparatus that has a display section for which resolution switching is possible; and

a transmitting/receiving section that transmits layout information stored in said storage section to said media receiving apparatus in accordance with a request from said media receiving apparatus.

6. A media receiving method comprising:

a display step for which resolution switching is possible;

a receiving step of receiving one or more media data and a plurality of layout information items;

a layout information selecting step of selecting layout information corresponding to a resolution displayed by a display section from said layout information; and

a media display control step of performing control to perform media data selection and/or conversion processing based on layout information selected in said layout information selecting step and display media data in a display step of applicable resolution.

7. A media distribution system including a media distribution apparatus and a media receiving apparatus,

the media distribution apparatus distributing one or more media data and a plurality of layout information items to the media receiving apparatus via a network;

and

the media receiving apparatus comprising

a receiving section that receives the media data and layout information distributed from said media distribution apparatus;

a display section for which resolution switching is possible;

a layout information selection section that select layout information corresponding to a resolution displayed by said display section from said layout information; and

a media display control section that performs control to perform media data selection and/or conversion processing based on the layout information selected by said layout information selection section and display the media data on a display section of applicable resolution.