METHOD FOR SKIPPING ADVERTISEMENT BROADCASTING

• US 20070124758A1
• Filed: 09/14/2006
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Sun, Sung, Min
• Granted Patent: US 7,904,920 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A method for skipping advertisement broadcasting is provided. Whether or not it is advertisement broadcasting is determined using an program ID of received broadcasting contents. When it is advertisement broadcasting, the advertisement is skipped. During the advertisement broadcasting skipping, a multi tasking environment other than broadcasting viewing is provided. By skipping advertisement broadcasting during the broadcasting content recording, the recording results not including the advertisement is obtained.

Claims

1. A method for skipping an advertisement broadcasting, the method comprising:

detecting information for discriminating between a program and advertisement broadcasting contents from received broadcasting signals; and

skipping the corresponding advertisement broadcasting contents at an interval where information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is detected.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a receiver terminates advertisement broadcasting viewing at the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a receiver performs a task other than broadcasting viewing at the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein a receiver decodes text information of advertisement broadcasting contents and display the decoded information as a caption at the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a receiver decodes text information of advertisement broadcasting contents and display the decoded information as a caption at the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval according to user selection.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a header in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a PMT-PID table in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents includes information representing advertisement contents in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents includes text information representing advertisement contents in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is updated at a receiver.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the skipping of advertisement broadcasting contents are performed automatically or manually according to user selection.

12. A method for skipping an advertisement broadcasting, the method comprising:

detecting information for discriminating broadcasting contents from received broadcasting signals;

registering advertisement broadcasting contents from the information for discriminating broadcasting contents;

determining whether or not it is advertisement broadcasting by comparing the information for discriminating broadcasting contents with the registered information; and

skipping corresponding advertisement broadcasting contents at a corresponding interval when it is advertisement broadcasting.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the information for discriminating advertisement broadcasting contents further includes information for representing broadcasting contents.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein a receiver decodes information representing advertisement broadcasting contents and display the decoded information as a caption at the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a header in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a PMT-PID table in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

17. A method for skipping an advertisement broadcasting, the method comprising:

receiving DMB broadcasting at a DMB receiver;

determining whether or not to skip advertisement broadcasting with respect to the received DMB broadcasting;

detecting information representing advertisement broadcasting contents from received DMB broadcasting signals when it is an advertisement broadcasting skipping mode; and

skipping corresponding advertisement broadcasting contents and performing a task other than DMB broadcasting viewing at an interval where the information representing advertisement broadcasting contents is detected.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the advertisement broadcasting skipping is terminated when the main broadcasting program reception is detected during the advertisement broadcasting skipping.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein whether or not to terminate the advertisement broadcasting skipping and/or return to the main broadcasting program reception is determined when the main broadcasting program reception is not detected during the advertisement broadcasting skipping.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein a receiver decodes information representing advertisement broadcasting contents and display the decoded information as a caption at the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval.

21. A method for performing advertisement broadcasting skip recording, the method comprising:

detecting information for discriminating contents from target broadcasting signals;

determining whether or not it is advertisement broadcasting from the detected information; and

temporarily terminating recording if it is advertisement broadcasting, and restarting the recording when target contents are received.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a header in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

23. The method according to claim 21, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a PMT-PID table in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

24. The method according to claim 21, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is updated at a receiver.

25. The method according to claim 21, further comprising determining whether or nor to record new contents at the restart of the recording if it is not the previously-recorded broadcasting contents.

26. The method according to claim 21, wherein the advertisement broadcasting skip recording is performed at a DMB broadcasting system receiver.

32. The method according to claim 21, wherein the advertisement broadcasting skip recording is performed at a DMB broadcasting system receiver.

27. A method for performing advertisement broadcasting skip recording, the method comprising:

detecting information for discriminating contents from target broadcasting signals;

determining whether or not it is advertisement broadcasting from the detected information; and

temporarily terminating recording if it is advertisement broadcasting, and storing final postion information of a file that is being recorded;

determining whether or not advertisement broadcasting is terminated from the above detection operation;

determining whether or not it is a previously-recorded broadcasting content from the above detection operation at the termination of the advertisement broadcasting; and

restarting recording of a corresponding content on the basis of the stored final recording position information when it is the previously-recorded broadcasting content.

28. The method according to claim 27, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a header in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

29. The method according to claim 27, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a PMT-PID table in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

30. The method according to claim 27, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is updated at a receiver.

31. The method according to claim 27, further comprising determining whether or nor to record new contents at the restart of the recording if it is not the previously-recorded broadcasting contents.

33. A method for performing advertisement broadcasting skip recording, the method comprising:

detecting information for discriminating broadcasting contents from received broadcasting signals;

registering advertisement broadcasting contents from the information for discriminating broadcasting contents;

determining at recording whether or not it is advertisement broadcasting by comparing the information for discriminating broadcasting contents with the registered information; and

temporarily terminating recording at a corresponding interval and skipping corresponding advertisement broadcasting contents at a corresponding interval when it is advertisement broadcasting.

34. The method according to claim 33, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a header in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

35. The method according to claim 33, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting contents is included in a PMT-PID table in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

36. A method for performing advertisement broadcasting skip recording, the method comprising:

receiving DMB broadcasting at a DMB receiver;

determining whether or not to record advertisement broadcasting with respect to the received DMB broadcasting;

detecting information representing advertisement broadcasting contents from received DMB broadcasting signals when it is an advertisement broadcasting recording mode; and

skipping corresponding advertisement broadcasting contents at an interval where the information representing advertisement broadcasting contents is detected, temporarily stopping recording until main broadcasting program ID is detected and then restarting the recording.