TELEVISION BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, TELEVISION BROADCAST REPRODUCING METHOD, AND TELEVISION BROADCAST REPRODUCING PROGRAM

• US 20080313667A1
• Filed: 06/10/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: OHTSUKI, Yousuke
• Application Number:
  US12/136,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20080313667A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4333 Processing operations in response to a pause request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• 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

In order to effectively use a commercial message period in the television broadcast being reproduced, a television broadcast receiver includes a receiving and reproducing portion to receive television broadcast and to reproduce a video, a CM detecting portion to detect a commercial message included in the television broadcast, a main processing portion to execute a process of outputting a video, an operation accepting portion to accept an operation by a user, and a window control portion to display a notification window on a display device, in the case where the operation accepting portion accepts an operation directed to the main processing portion during a period from a start to an end of the commercial message detected by the CM detecting portion, to notify the user of the end of the commercial message when broadcast of the commercial message is finished.

Claims

1. A television broadcast receiving apparatus, comprising:

a reproducing portion to receive television broadcast and to reproduce a video;

a detecting portion to detect a commercial message included in the television broadcast;

a process execution portion provided separately from said reproducing portion and to execute a process of outputting a video;

an operation accepting portion to accept an operation by a user; and

a notification portion to notify the user of the end of the commercial message when broadcast of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion is finished, in the case where an operation directed to said process execution portion is accepted by said operation accepting portion during a period from a start to an end of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion.

2. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a video signal output portion to output a video signal for displaying a video; and

a restoring portion, when a prescribed operation is accepted by said operation accepting portion after the notification by said notification portion, to cause said video signal output portion to output a video signal in a same display state as the video signal that was output from said video signal output portion before the start of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion.

3. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a recording portion to record the video reproduced by said reproducing portion; and

a recording reproduction portion to reproduce the video recorded by said recording portion;

wherein

in the case where said restoring portion controls said video signal output portion to output a video signal in the same display state as the video signal output before the start of the commercial message, said recording reproduction portion reproduces the video recorded by said recording portion from the time point of the end of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion, and said video signal output portion outputs a video signal for displaying the video reproduced by said recording reproduction portion.

4. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said process execution portion executes an application program.

5. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said process execution portion includes a sub recording reproduction portion to read and reproduce a recorded video.

6. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a video signal output portion to output a video signal for displaying said video, wherein

said process execution portion receives and reproduces television broadcast,

said detecting portion detects a commercial message included in the television broadcast reproduced by said reproducing portion,

in the case where an instruction to switch a channel is accepted by said operation accepting portion during a period when said video signal output portion is outputting a video signal for displaying the video of the television broadcast reproduced by said reproducing portion, said video signal output portion outputs a video signal for displaying a video of the television broadcast reproduced by said process execution portion, and

in the case where an instruction to switch a channel is accepted by said operation accepting portion during a period from a start to an end of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion, said notification portion notifies the user of the end of the commercial message when broadcast of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion is finished.

7. A television broadcast receiving apparatus, comprising:

a reproducing portion to receive television broadcast and to reproduce a video;

a detecting portion to detect a commercial message included in the television broadcast;

a process execution portion provided separately from said reproducing portion and to execute a process of outputting a video;

a video signal output portion to output a video signal for displaying a video;

an operation accepting portion to accept an operation by a user; and

a restoring portion to cause said video signal output portion to output a video signal in a same display state as the video signal that was output by said video signal output portion before a start of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion, in the case where said operation accepting portion accepts an operation directed to said process execution portion during a period from a start to the end of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion and, thereafter, broadcast of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion is finished with no operation directed to said process execution portion accepted by said operation accepting portion for more than a predetermined period of time.

8. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein in the case where a prescribed operation is accepted by said operation accepting portion after the commercial message detected by said detecting portion is finished with the operation directed to said process execution portion continued, said restoring portion causes said video signal output portion to output a video signal in a same display state as the video signal that was output by said video signal output portion before the start of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion.

9. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

a recording portion to record the video reproduced by said reproducing portion; and

a recording reproduction portion to reproduce the video recorded by said recording portion;

wherein

in the case where said restoring portion controls said video signal output portion to output a video signal in a same display state as the video signal output before the start of the commercial message, said recording reproduction portion reproduces the video recorded by said recording portion from the time point of the end of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion, and said video signal output portion outputs a video signal for displaying the video reproduced by said recording reproduction portion.

10. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said process execution portion includes a process execution portion to execute an application program.

11. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said process execution portion includes a sub recording reproduction portion to read and reproduce a recorded video.

12. The television broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

said process execution portion receives and reproduces television broadcast,

said detecting portion detects a commercial message included in the television broadcast reproduced by said reproducing portion,

in the case where an instruction to switch a channel is accepted by said operation accepting portion during a period when said video signal output portion is outputting a video signal for displaying a video of the television broadcast reproduced by said reproducing portion, said video signal output portion outputs a video signal for displaying a video of the television broadcast reproduced by said process execution portion, and

in the case where an operation directed to said process execution portion is accepted by said operation accepting portion during a period from a start to an end of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion and, thereafter, broadcast of the commercial message detected by said detecting portion is finished with no operation directed to said process execution portion accepted by said operation accepting portion for more than a predetermined period of time, said restoring portion causes said video signal output portion to output a video signal for displaying the video of the television broadcast reproduced by said reproducing portion.

13. A television broadcast reproducing method, comprising the steps of:

receiving television broadcast and reproducing a video;

detecting a commercial message included in the television broadcast;

accepting an operation by a user; and

in the case where an operation for causing execution of a process of outputting a video other than said video being reproduced is accepted during a period from a start to an end of said detected commercial message, notifying the user of the end of the commercial message when broadcast of said detected commercial message is finished.

14. A television broadcast reproducing method, comprising the steps of:

receiving television broadcast and reproducing a video;

detecting a commercial message included in the television broadcast;

accepting an operation by a user;

outputting a video signal for displaying a video; and

in the case where an operation for causing execution of a process of outputting a video other than said video being reproduced is accepted during a period from a start to an end of said detected commercial message and, thereafter, broadcast of said detected commercial message is finished with no operation for execution of the process of outputting said other video accepted for more than a predetermined period of time, outputting a video signal in a same display state as the video signal that was output in said step of outputting a video signal at the time when the broadcast of said detected commercial message was started.

15. A television broadcast reproducing program product causing a computer to execute the steps of:

receiving television broadcast and reproducing a video;

detecting a commercial message included in the television broadcast;

accepting an operation by a user; and

in the case where an operation for causing execution of a process of outputting a video other than said video being reproduced is accepted during a period from a start to an end of said detected commercial message, notifying the user of the end of the commercial message when broadcast of said detected commercial message is finished.

16. A television broadcast reproducing program product causing a computer to execute the steps of:

receiving television broadcast and reproducing a video;

detecting a commercial message included in the television broadcast;

accepting an operation by a user;

outputting a video signal for displaying a video; and

in the case where an operation for causing execution of a process of outputting a video other than said video being reproduced is accepted during a period from a start to an end of said detected commercial message and, thereafter, broadcast of said detected commercial message is finished with no operation for execution of the process of outputting said other video accepted for more than a predetermined period of time, outputting a video signal in a same display state as the video signal that was output in said step of outputting a video signal at the time when the broadcast of said detected commercial message was started.