TELEVISION RECEIVER AND METHOD
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1. A television receiver, comprising:
- an optical character recogniser to identify text in a received video image; and
a hypertext link generator to generate a hypertext link responsive to respective identified text, and whereinthe television receiver is operable to form a connection to a network in accordance with the hypertext link, in whichthe hypertext link has a default target that comprises as an argument at least part of the content of the respective identified text, andthe default target is selected according to a context of the received video image.
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Abstract
A television receiver, comprises an optical character recognizer to identify text in a received video image and a hypertext link generator to generate a hypertext link responsive to respective identified text, wherein the television receiver is operable to form a connection to a network in accordance with the hypertext link, in which the hypertext link has a default target that comprises as an argument at least part of the content of the respective identified text, and the default target is selected according to the context of the received video image.
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17 Claims
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1. A television receiver, comprising:
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an optical character recogniser to identify text in a received video image; and a hypertext link generator to generate a hypertext link responsive to respective identified text, and wherein the television receiver is operable to form a connection to a network in accordance with the hypertext link, in which the hypertext link has a default target that comprises as an argument at least part of the content of the respective identified text, and the default target is selected according to a context of the received video image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of operation of a television receiver, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a video image; applying optical character recognition to some or all of the video image to identify text in the video image; generating a hypertext link responsive to respective identified text; selecting a default hypertext link target according to the context of the received video image; and forming a connection to a network in accordance with the default hypertext link target, the default hypertext link target further comprising as an argument at least part of the content of the respective identified text. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A tangible computer-readable storage medium on which is stored instructions of a computer program, the instructions, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform a method of operation of a television receiver the method comprising:
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receiving a video image; applying optical character recognition to some or all of the video image to identify text in the video image; generating a hypertext link responsive to respective identified text; selecting a default hypertext link target according to the context of the received video image; and forming a connection to a network in accordance with the default hypertext link target, the default hypertext link target further comprising as an argument at least part of the content of the respective identified text.
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16. The tangible computer-readable storage medium, in which the default target and context are one or more selected from the list consisting of:
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i. selection of a movie-related default target in the context of vertically scrolling text; ii. selection of a news-related default target in the context of horizontally scrolling text; and iii. selection of a general search default target in the context of static text.
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17. The tangible computer-readable storage medium, in which the received video images are one or more selected from the list consisting of:
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i. broadcast television images; ii. video images recorded by a video recorder of the television receiver; and iii. video images from a read-only medium played back by a media player of the television receiver.
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