INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20100058192A1
• Filed: 01/31/2008
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Aoyagi, Seiichi, Onogi, Ken, Okamoto, Naoya, Nobori, Fujio
• Granted Patent: US 8,276,073 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• 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 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• 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 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17309 Transmission or handling of upstream communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable easy information acquisition.

A television receiver accesses an application server to acquire an application list. The television receiver accesses the application server again to acquire an application selected from the application list. While a processing based on the acquired application is being executed, the television receiver accesses a contents server to acquire contents data as needed. The acquired application or contents data is deleted from a storage section when an instruction to end the processing based on the application is made. The invention can be applied to a television receiver that acquires data through a network.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus,

wherein the information processing apparatus controls display of a program of television broadcasting and executes processing based on a predetermined application, and

when a processing mode is switched in the application, activates a Web browser to change the processing based on the application to processing based on the Web browser.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein display is controlled such that a screen of the program of television broadcasting and a screen by the processing based on the application lie next to each other.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when the Web browser is activated, control of the program of television broadcasting stops.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the application is acquired through a network,

a plurality of acquired applications execute processing in parallel, and

when the Web browser is activated, the plurality of applications are discarded.

5. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

controlling display of a program of television broadcasting and executing processing based on a predetermined application; and

when a processing mode is switched in the application, activating a Web browser to change the processing based on the application to processing based on the Web browser.

6. A computer-readable program that controls a processing comprising the steps of:

controlling display of a program of television broadcasting and executing processing based on a predetermined application,

when a processing mode is switched in the application, activating a Web browser to change the processing based on the application to processing based on the Web browser.