Broadcast Receiving Apparatus

• US 20100319024A1
• Filed: 12/26/2007
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Hiraoka, Michiaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,443,397 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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 21/422 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4856 for language selection, e.g. for the menu or subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6112 involving terrestrial transmission, e.g. DVB-T
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

There is provided a broadcast receiving apparatus 10, comprising a reception unit 13 receiving a broadcast signal from a plurality of channels; a display unit 20 displaying video which corresponds to the broadcast signal; a touch panel 23 accepting handwritten input by a user; a character recognition unit 24 recognizing handwritten input onto the touch panel 23 as a character or a character string; a memory unit 21 storing for each channel a character or a character string specifying the channel; and a control unit 11 switching a reception channel, when a character or a character string recognized by the character recognition unit 24 corresponds to any one of characters or character strings stored in the memory unit 21 while video corresponding to a broadcast signal received at the reception unit 13 is displayed on the display unit 20, to a channel corresponding to the character or the character string.

Claims

1. A broadcast receiving apparatus, comprising

a reception unit receiving a broadcast signal from a plurality of channels;

a display unit displaying video which corresponds to the broadcast signal;

a touch panel accepting handwritten input by a user;

a character recognition unit recognizing handwritten input onto the touch panel as a character or a character string;

a memory unit storing for each channel a character or a character string specifying the channel; and

a control unit switching a reception channel, when a character or a character string recognized by the character recognition unit corresponds to any one of characters or character strings stored in the memory unit while video corresponding to a broadcast signal received at the reception unit is displayed on the display unit, to a channel corresponding to the character or the character string.

2. A broadcast receiving apparatus, comprising

a reception unit receiving a broadcast signal from a plurality of channels;

a display unit displaying video which corresponds to the broadcast signal;

a touch panel accepting handwritten input by a user;

a character recognition unit recognizing handwritten input onto the touch panel as a character or a character string;

a memory unit storing program-related information including the time, the name and content explanation of a program broadcasted in each of the plurality of channels;

a program search unit matching the character or the character string recognized at the character recognition unit with the program-related information and searching a program corresponding to the program-related information including the character or the character string recognized by the character recognition unit among currently-broadcasted programs while video corresponding to the broadcast signal received at the reception unit is displayed on the display unit; and

a control unit switching a reception channel, when the program search unit finds a program corresponding to the program-related information including the character or the character string recognized by the character recognition unit, to a channel in which the program is broadcasted.

3. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the control unit has a selection unit allowing a user, when the program search unit finds a plurality of programs corresponding to the program-related information including the character or the character string recognized by the character recognition unit, to select a desired one from the plurality of found programs.