Digital Broadcast Receiving Apparatus and Content Display Method

• US 20090049471A1
• Filed: 07/13/2006
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Kamiya, Masahiro
• Application Number:
  US11/921,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20090049471A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/39
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4886 for displaying a ticker, e.g. scrolling banner for news, stock exchange, weather data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

The invention is directed to the provision of a digital broadcast receiving apparatus that presents the details of a plurality of content for viewing before a user performs a content switching (determining) operation, and thereby enables the user to precheck the details of the plurality of contents by a simple operation and start viewing the desired content quickly. The receiving apparatus includes a display for displaying content by receiving data broadcast, list displaying means for displaying content items in the form of a list, a preview displaying section for displaying the content simultaneously with preview content, a preview switching section for switching the display of the preview content to destination content associated with an item selected by a pointer as the pointer is moved over the content items, and a display control section for displaying a preview of destination content associated with an item located adjacent to the item selected by the pointer.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus comprising:

a display for displaying content by receiving data broadcast;

a list displaying section for displaying content items in the form of a list;

a preview displaying section for displaying preview content on a screen on which said content is displayed;

a preview switching section for switching the display of said preview content to destination content associated with an item selected by a pointer as said pointer is moved over said content items; and

a display control section for displaying a preview of destination content associated with an item located near the item selected by said pointer.

2. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said preview displaying section displays said content and said preview content simultaneously.

3. The receiving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said display control section displays a preview of destination content associated with an item located adjacent to the item selected by said pointer.

4. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said preview switching section switches the display of said preview content after a predetermined time has elapsed after the movement of said pointer is detected.

5. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storing section for storing URI of said preview content;

a reading section for reading out said stored URI; and

a switching section for switching the display of said content to the content that matches said readout URI.

6. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said preview switching section performs automatic preview control in which said pointer is automatically moved over an entire movable range of said pointer and the display of said preview content is automatically switched from one content to another in synchronism with said automatic movement of said pointer.

7. The receiving apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when a button for switching the display of said content without moving said pointer is provided, said preview switching section in said automatic preview control switches the display of said preview content from one content to another including the destination content to be effected by operating said button.

8. The receiving apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising switching section for switching the display of said content to current preview content as the display of said preview content is switched from one content to another.

9. A display method comprising the steps of:

displaying content by receiving data broadcast;

displaying content items in the form of a list;

displaying preview content on a screen on which said content is displayed;

switching the display of said preview content to destination content associated with an item selected by a pointer as said pointer is moved over said content items; and

displaying a preview of destination content associated with an item located near the item selected by said pointer.