MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD

• US 20090080860A1
• Filed: 09/15/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakano, Shinichiro
• Application Number:
  US12/210,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20090080860A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4135 external recorder interface circuits between an apparatus for recording television signals and a television receiver H04N5/775
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4184 providing storage capabilities, e.g. memory stick
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4263 involving specific tuning arrangements, e.g. two tuners
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream demultiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• 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 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

This digital television broadcast receiving apparatus includes a tab browser function to switch screens by a tab #1 13, a tab #2 14 and reproduce a VOD moving image distributed from a network or an IP broadcast program. A control unit 261 includes a tab screen control unit 261h which switches a screen 11 of a tab #1 13 to inactive and a screen 21 of a tab #2 14 to active when the other tab #2 14 is clicked while the screen 11 of the tab #1 13 is active.

Claims

1. A moving image reproducing apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of moving image reproducing units reproducing a moving image when activated and stopping reproduction of a moving image when inactivated;

a storage unit capable of storing information of a position when reproduction of the moving image is stopped for each of said moving image reproducing units;

a switching control unit activating, when an operation to activate any one of said plurality of moving image reproducing units is performed, a corresponding one of said moving image reproducing units and switching the other moving image reproducing units to inactive;

a storage control unit storing in said storage unit, information of a position where said moving image reproducing unit switched by said switching control unit from active to inactive, stopped reproduction of a moving image; and

a reproduction control unit reading information of a stop position from said storage unit when an operation of reactivation is performed on one of said moving image reproducing units that is inactivated once, and restarting reproduction of the moving image according to the read information of the stop position.

2. The moving image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein moving images reproduced respectively by said plurality of moving image reproducing units are a first moving image distributed by streaming via a network and a second moving image broadcasted in real time via the network, and

further comprising a notification unit notifying, when reproduction of the first moving image is stopped by an inactivated one of said moving image reproducing units, information of a stop position to the distribution source of the first moving image.

3. The moving image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein moving images reproduced respectively by said plurality of moving image reproducing units are a first moving image distributed by streaming via a network and a second moving image broadcasted in real time via the network, and

further comprising a recording unit recording, when reproduction of the second moving image is stopped by an inactivated one of said moving image reproducing units, the second moving image from this point of time.

4. The moving image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1,

further comprising a display device displaying a moving image reproduced by said moving image reproducing units.

5. The moving image reproducing apparatus according to claim 2,

further comprising a display device displaying a moving image reproduced by said moving image reproducing units.

6. The moving image reproducing apparatus according to claim 3,

further comprising a display device displaying a moving image reproduced by said moving image reproducing units.

7. A moving image reproducing method for a moving image reproducing apparatus comprising a plurality of moving image reproducing units reproducing a moving image when activated and stopping reproduction of a moving image when inactivated, the method comprising:

activating, when an operation to activate any one of the plurality of moving image reproducing units is performed, a corresponding one of the moving image reproducing units and switching the other moving image reproducing units to inactive;

storing in a storage unit information of a position where the moving image reproducing unit switched from active to inactive stopped reproduction of a moving image; and

restarting, when an operation of reactivation is performed on one of the moving image reproducing units that is inactivated once, reproduction of the moving image according to information of the stop position read from the storage unit.

8. The moving image reproducing method according to claim 7,

wherein moving images reproduced respectively by the plurality of moving image reproducing units are a first moving image distributed by streaming via a network and a second moving image broadcasted in real time via the network, and

further comprising notifying, when reproduction of the first moving image is stopped by an inactivated one of the moving image reproducing units, information of a stop position to the distribution source of the first moving image.

9. The moving image reproducing method according to claim 7,

wherein moving images reproduced respectively by the plurality of moving image reproducing units are a first moving image distributed by streaming via a network and a second moving image broadcasted in real time via the network, and

further comprising recording, when reproduction of the second moving image is stopped by an inactivated one of the moving image reproducing units, the second moving image from this point of time.

10. The moving image reproducing method according to claim 7,

further comprising displaying on a display device a moving image reproduced by the moving image reproducing units.

11. The moving image reproducing method according to claim 8,

further comprising displaying on a display device a moving image reproduced by the moving image reproducing units.

12. The moving image reproducing method according to claim 9,

further comprising displaying on a display device a moving image reproduced by the moving image reproducing units.