RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND TRANSMITTING METHOD

• US 20140013379A1
• Filed: 02/26/2013
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KITAZATO, Naohisa, Eyer, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 9,456,245 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/118
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/65 Transmission of management data between client and server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/025 Systems for the transmission of digital non-picture data, e.g. of text during the active part of a television frame transmission of digital non-picture data during the vertical blanking interval only H04N7/088
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/08 Systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal, e.g. additional information signals, the signals occupying wholly or partially the same frequency band , e.g. by time division H04N7/007 takes precedence

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a receiving device including: a receiver configured to receive broadcast content; a trigger information acquirer configured to acquire trigger information for identifying a command to control an operation of an application program that is run in conjunction with the broadcast content and is delivered via a network; a correspondence table acquirer configured to acquire a correspondence table in which the command is associated with information for identifying the command; and a control section configured to control operations of a subject application program and another application program other than the subject application program in response to the command identified by the trigger information and the correspondence table.

Claims

1. A receiving device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive broadcast content;

a trigger information acquirer configured to acquire trigger information for identifying a command to control an operation of an application program that is run in conjunction with the broadcast content and is delivered via a network;

a correspondence table acquirer configured to acquire a correspondence table in which the command is associated with information for identifying the command; and

a control section configured to control operations of a subject application program and another application program other than the subject application program in response to the command identified by the trigger information and the correspondence table.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1,

wherein the command is to control the operation of the subject application program and is associated with additional information for controlling the operation of the another application program, and

the control section controls the operation of the subject application program in response to the command and controls the operation of the another application program in response to the additional information.

3. The receiving device according to claim 2,

wherein the command is to activate the subject application program and is associated with additional information for ordering stop, pause, or hiding of the another application program.

4. The receiving device according to claim 3,

wherein additional information for ordering event firing of the subject application program that is running is further associated with the command.

5. The receiving device according to claim 1,

wherein the command is to control the operations of both of the subject application program and the another application program, and

the control section controls the operations of both of the subject application program and the another application program in response to the command.

6. The receiving device according to claim 5,

wherein the command is to control activation of the subject application program and stop, pause, or hiding of the another application program.

7. The receiving device according to claim 6,

wherein additional information for ordering event firing of the subject application program that is running is associated with the command.

8. The receiving device according to claim 1,

wherein the trigger information is transmitted together with the broadcast content, and

the trigger information acquirer extracts the trigger information from data of the broadcast content.

9. The receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising

a feature extractor configured to extract a feature from data of the broadcast content,

wherein the trigger information acquirer acquires the trigger information corresponding to an identification result of the broadcast content identified by using the feature.

10. The receiving device according to claim 1,

wherein the command and a valid period of the command are associated with each other in the correspondence table, and

if time that is timed based on the trigger information and that indicates progression of the broadcast content satisfies a predetermined valid condition based on the valid period, the control section controls the operations of the subject application program and the another application program in response to a command associated with the valid period.

11. The receiving device according to claim 10,

wherein an identifier of the command is further associated in the correspondence table, and

if the identifier of the command obtained from the trigger information corresponds with the identifier of the command associated in the correspondence table, the control section controls the operations of the subject application program and the another application program in response to a command associated with the identifier.

12. A receiving method of a receiving device, the method executed by the receiving device, comprising:

receiving broadcast content;

acquiring trigger information for identifying a command to control an operation of an application program that is run in conjunction with the broadcast content and is delivered via a network;

acquiring a correspondence table in which the command is associated with information for identifying the command; and

controlling operations of a subject application program and another application program other than the subject application program in response to the command identified by the trigger information and the correspondence table.

13. A transmitting device comprising:

a trigger information generator configured to generate trigger information for identifying a command to simultaneously control operations of a plurality of application programs that are run in conjunction with broadcast content and are delivered via a network; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the trigger information together with the broadcast content.

14. A transmitting method of a transmitting device, the method executed by the transmitting device, comprising:

generating trigger information for identifying a command to simultaneously control operations of a plurality of application programs that are run in conjunction with broadcast content and are delivered via a network; and

transmitting the trigger information together with the broadcast content.