TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTERLOCKED APPLICATION FEED SYSTEM

• US 20130103716A1
• Filed: 10/10/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: YAMAGISHI, Yasuaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,374,620 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2477 Temporal data queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/23 using cryptography, e.g. encryption, authentication, key distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/74 using programme related information, e.g. title, composer or interpreter
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23892 involving embedding information at multiplex stream level, e.g. embedding a watermark at packet level
• 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 21/462 Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
• 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 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8358 involving watermark protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a terminal apparatus including an extraction portion configured to extract from a content to be reproduced signature data representative of a characteristic of the content; a query generation portion configured to generate a query including the extracted signature data; a communication portion configured to transmit the generated query to a server apparatus and receive a response returned therefrom in reply to the query; and an application execution portion configured to acquire and execute an application corresponding to an application identifier included in the received response.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus comprising:

an extraction portion configured to extract from a content to be reproduced signature data representative of a characteristic of said content;

a query generation portion configured to generate a query including the extracted signature data;

a communication portion configured to transmit the generated query to a server apparatus and receive a response returned therefrom in reply to said query; and

an application execution portion configured to acquire and execute an application corresponding to an application identifier included in the received response.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said query generation portion generates said query including said extracted signature data and an extraction timestamp indicative of the timing at which said signature data was extracted;

and

either said application execution portion or the application executed thereby performs a predetermined process by acquiring related metadata selected by said server apparatus based on said extraction timestamp included in said received response.

3. The terminal apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said terminal apparatus is incorporated in a reproduction apparatus configured to reproduce contents;

and

said terminal apparatus further comprises a content feed portion configured to feed said extraction portion with all contents to be reproduced by said reproduction apparatus.

4. An information processing method for use with a terminal apparatus, said information processing method comprising:

causing said terminal apparatus to extract from a content to be reproduced signature data representative of a characteristic of said content;

causing said terminal apparatus to generate a query including the extracted signature data;

causing said terminal apparatus to transmit the generated query to a server apparatus and receive a response returned therefrom in reply to said query; and

causing said terminal apparatus to acquire and execute an application corresponding to an application identifier included in the received response.

5. A program for causing a computer to function as an apparatus comprising:

an extraction portion configured to extract from a content to be reproduced signature data representative of a characteristic of said content;

a query generation portion configured to generate a query including the extracted signature data;

a communication portion configured to transmit the generated query to a server apparatus and receive a response returned therefrom in reply to said query; and

an application execution portion configured to acquire and execute an application corresponding to an application identifier included in the received response.

6. A server apparatus comprising:

a database configured to hold reference data associating signature data extracted from a content and representative of a characteristic of said content with a content identifier identifying said content from which said signature data was extracted and with an application identifier identifying an application to be executed in interlocked relation to said content;

a response generation portion configured to identify in reference to said reference data the content from which was extracted the signature data included in a query transmitted from a terminal apparatus so as to generate a response including said application identifier identifying the application to be executed in interlocked relation to the identified content; and

a transmission portion configured to transmit the generated response to said terminal apparatus.

7. The server apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said database holds the reference data associating the signature data extracted from the content and representative of the characteristic of said content with the content identifier identifying said content from which said signature data was extracted, with a reproduction time indicative of the timing at which said signature data was extracted, with the application identifier identifying the application to be executed in interlocked relation to said content, and with related metadata to be processed by said application;

and

said response generation portion identifies in reference to said reference data the content from which was extracted the signature data included in the query transmitted from said terminal apparatus, so as to generate said response including said application identifier identifying the application to be executed in interlocked relation to the identified content and said related metadata.

8. The server apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said response generation portion identifies in reference to said reference data the content from which was extracted the signature data included in the query transmitted from said terminal apparatus, so as to generate said response including said application identifier identifying the application to be executed in interlocked relation to the identified content and said related metadata selected based on an extraction timestamp included in said query.

9. The server apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said response generation portion further generates said response including the content identifier representative of the identified content.

10. An information processing method for use with a server apparatus, said information processing method comprising:

causing said server apparatus to receive a query transmitted from a terminal apparatus;

causing said server apparatus to refer to reference data associating signature data extracted from a content and representative of a characteristic of said content with a content identifier identifying said content from which said signature data was extracted and with an application identifier identifying an application to be executed in interlocked relation to said content so as to identify the content from which was extracted the signature data included in the received query, before generating a response including said application identifier identifying the application to be executed in interlocked relation to the identified content; and

causing said server apparatus to transmit the generated response to said terminal apparatus.

11. A program for causing a computer to function as an apparatus comprising:

a database configured to hold reference data associating signature data extracted from a content and representative of a characteristic of said content with a content identifier identifying said content from which said signature data was extracted and with an application identifier identifying an application to be executed in interlocked relation to said content;

a response generation portion configured to identify in reference to said reference data the content from which was extracted the signature data included in a query transmitted from a terminal apparatus so as to generate a response including said application identifier identifying the application to be executed in interlocked relation to the identified content; and

a transmission portion configured to transmit the generated response to said terminal apparatus.

12. An interlocked application feed system comprising:

a terminal apparatus, and

a server apparatus;

wherein said terminal apparatus includes

an extraction portion configured to extract from a content to be reproduced signature data representative of a characteristic of said content,

a query generation portion configured to generate a query including the extracted signature data,

a communication portion configured to transmit the generated query to said server apparatus and receive a response returned therefrom in reply to said query, and

an application execution portion configured to acquire and execute an application corresponding to an application identifier included in the received response; and

said server apparatus includes

a database configured to hold reference data associating the signature data extracted from the content and representative of the characteristic of said content with a content identifier identifying said content from which said signature data was extracted and with an application identifier identifying the application to be executed in interlocked relation to said content,

a response generation portion configured to identify in reference to said reference data the content from which was extracted the signature data included in said query transmitted from said terminal apparatus so as to generate said response including said application identifier identifying the application to be executed in interlocked relation to the identified content, and

a transmission portion configured to transmit the generated response to said terminal apparatus.