BROADCASTING SYSTEM INTERWORKING WITH ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• US 20110082691A1
• Filed: 10/05/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Koh, Jai Sang, Oh, Seung-Hun, Kim, Nac Woo, Yoon, Sim-Kwon, Lee, Byung-Tak, KO, Seokkap
• Application Number:
  US12/898,098
• Publication Number:
  US 20110082691A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/31 using in-band signals, e.g. subsonic or cue signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID

Abstract

Provided is a technology of controlling an electronic device using a broadcasting system. A control signal may be modulated to an audible frequency band and thereby be transmitted from a transmission apparatus to a reception apparatus using the broadcasting system. The reception apparatus may reproduce the control signal of the audible frequency band. A controller may perform a control operation based on the control signal.

Claims

1. A transmission apparatus, comprising:

a modulator to modulate a control signal to a frequency band within an audible frequency band;

a mixing unit to generate a voice mixed signal by mixing the modulate control signal with a voice signal; and

a transmitter to transmit the voice mixed signal to a reception apparatus,

wherein the reception apparatus reproduces the voice mixed signal, and the control signal is extracted from the reproduced voice mixed signal and is used to control an electronic device.

2. The transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein when a magnitude of the voice signal is greater than or equal to a predetermined level, the mixing unit mixes the modulated control signal with the voice signal.

3. The transmission apparatus of claim 2, wherein when the magnitude of the voice signal is greater than or equal to the predetermined level for at least a predetermined amount of time, the mixing unit mixes the modulated control signal with the voice signal.

4. The transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the modulator modulates the control signal using at least one modulation scheme among a frequency shift keying (FSK) scheme, an amplitude shift keying (ASK) scheme, a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) scheme, a phase shift keying (PSK) scheme, a continuous phase modulation (CPM) scheme, a trellis coded modulation (TCM) scheme, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and a spread spectrum scheme.

5. The transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the control signal is determined based on a channel via which the voice mixed signal is to be transmitted, and

the electronic device identifies the channel using the control signal.

6. The transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the mixing unit additionally mixes the voice mixed signal with an image signal, and

the control signal comprises control information associated with an image at a particular time of the image signal.

7. The transmission apparatus of claim 6, wherein:

the image signal corresponds to a home shopping image with respect to a particular article, and

the control information corresponds to purchase information associated with the particular article.

8. The transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transmitter periodically transmits the voice mixed signal.

9. An electronic device, comprising:

a microphone to receive a voice mixed signal reproduced by a reception apparatus;

a filtering unit to extract, in the voice mixed signal, a control signal modulated to an audible frequency band;

a demodulator to demodulate the control signal; and

a controller to perform a control operation based on the demodulated control signal,

wherein the voice mixed signal is transmitted from a transmission apparatus to the reception apparatus.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the filtering unit extracts the control signal using a high pass filter.

11. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the demodulator demodulates the control signal using at least one modulation scheme among an FSK scheme, an ASK scheme, a QAM scheme, a PSK scheme, a CPM scheme, a TCM scheme, an OFDM scheme, and a spread spectrum scheme.

12. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein:

the reception apparatus reproduces a home shopping image associated with the voice mixed signal, and

the control signal comprises article purchase information corresponding to the home shopping image.

13. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein:

the reception apparatus receives the voice mixed signal using a channel, and

the control signal is determined based on the channel.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, further comprising:

a transmitter,

wherein the controller identifies the channel using the control signal, and

the transmitter transmits, to a server, information associated with the identified channel.

15. An electronic device, comprising:

a microphone to receive a control signal of an audible frequency band mixed with a voice signal;

a control signal extractor to extract the control signal in a voice mixed signal; and

a controller,

wherein the control signal comprises a device identifier, a control command, and control data, and

when the device identifier matches an identifier of the electronic device, the controller performs a control operation according to the control command by referring to the control data.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein:

the control data corresponds to an Internet address, and

the control command corresponds to a command for accessing the Internet address.

17. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein:

the control data corresponds to purchase information associated with an article, and

the control command corresponds to a command for displaying the purchase information.