Terminal-Cooperated System, Terminal, Server and Method for Uninterrupted Reception of Contents

• US 20090070840A1
• Filed: 09/04/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Sekimoto, Nobuhiro, Miyamoto, Hiroki, Kamimaki, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US12/204,429
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070840A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• 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 21/4333 Processing operations in response to a pause request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

In a terminal-cooperated system for the uninterrupted reception of contents, the information receiving terminal apparatus includes a unit for transmitting to the mobile terminal the information on content reception switching, and the video information system can uninterruptedly switch over the content reception from the mobile terminal to the information receiving terminal apparatus and from the information receiving terminal apparatus to the mobile terminal, by operating the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A terminal-cooperated system for the uninterrupted reception of contents comprising:

a content delivering apparatus for delivering video contents;

a first terminal for outputting the video contents received from the content delivering apparatus; and

a second terminal for obtaining the information on the video contents outputted from the first terminal and transmitting the information on the demand for reception of the video contents and the information on whether or not the uninterrupted switching of video content to the first terminal is necessary.

2. The terminal-cooperated system for the uninterrupted reception of contents, as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the second terminal transmits the demand that the video contents are to be viewed by the first terminal, the reception of video content by the second terminal is so controlled that the time code of the video content being received by the first terminal may be adjusted to that of the video content to be received by the second terminal.

3. The terminal-cooperated system for the uninterrupted reception of contents, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content delivering apparatus switches the picture qualities or the data compression schemes of the video contents depending on the sorts of the first and the second terminals.

4. A content reception terminal comprising:

an information obtaining section for obtaining the information on the video content which is being received by another content reception terminal by a user; and

an information transmitting section for transmitting the information on the demand for the reception of the video content to a content delivering apparatus that is delivering the video content and also transmitting the information on whether or not the uninterrupted switching of content to another content reception terminal is necessary.

5. A content delivering apparatus comprising:

a transmitting section for transmitting contents;

a receiving section for receiving the demand for delivering contents from a first terminal and also receiving the information on whether or not the uninterrupted switching of content to a second terminal is necessary; and

a control section which, when the receiving section receives the information that the uninterrupted switching of content to the second terminal is not necessary, causes the transmitting section to stop the transmission of content to the second terminal and instead to transmit the content to the first terminal.

6. A terminal-cooperated method for the uninterrupted reception of contents, comprising:

a first step of causing a first terminal to receive a content; and

a second step of receiving a demand for a second terminal to receive the content uninterruptedly, and

a third step of controlling the reception by the second terminal of content in such a manner that the time information on the content being received by the second terminal and the time information on the content being received by the first terminal can be adjusted to each other.

7. A terminal-cooperated system for the reception of contents, comprising:

a unit for holding the information on screen display switching; and

a unit for switching the output of display contents from a mobile terminal to an information receiving terminal apparatus and from the information receiving terminal apparatus to the mobile terminal, by operating the mobile terminal on the basis of the information on screen display switching.

8. The terminal-cooperated system for the reception of contents as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

a unit for discriminating the sorts of contents;

a unit for transmitting and receiving the information on the display resolution and the screen size of the information receiving terminal apparatus or the mobile terminal apparatus which is the object of content reception switching; and

a unit for changing the display resolution and the screen size on the information.

9. The terminal-cooperated system for the reception of contents, as claimed in claim 8, wherein the resolution is changed through the use of super-resolution technique.

10. The terminal-cooperated system for the reception of contents, as claimed in claim 7, wherein when the display contents output is switched from the mobile terminal to the information receiving terminal apparatus, the menu screen such as, for example, the information on contents is displayed on the mobile terminal.

11. The terminal-cooperated system for the reception of contents as claimed in claim 10, wherein the menu screen includes the information obtained from the Internet.