VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150046941A1
• Filed: 08/29/2012
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanabe, Takumi
• Application Number:
  US14/387,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20150046941A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

An AV playback device includes: advertisement storage which stores an advertisement to be displayed on an AV monitor; a platform which displays an operation menu as a graphical user interface on the AV monitor; a platform which receives an operation on the operation menu on the screen by the user; and a advertisement player which displays the advertisement stored in the advertisement storage on the AV monitor upon the displaying of the operation menu on the AV monitor by the platform or the receiving of the operation by the platform.

Claims

1. A video display device comprising:

storage which stores an advertisement to be displayed on a screen;

an input unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user;

a GUI control unit configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI) as an operation menu on the screen, when the GUI relates to the operation received by the input unit; and

an advertisement playback unit configured to obtain an advertisement relating to the operation menu or the operation from the storage and display the advertisement on the screen upon the displaying of the operation menu by the GUI control unit or the receiving of the operation by the input unit.

2. The video display device according to claim 1,

wherein the storage further stores presentation mode information in which a mode of presentation of the advertisement is specified, and

the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the advertisement stored in the storage on the screen, according to the presentation mode information stored in the storage.

3. The video display device according to claim 2,

wherein the advertisement playback unit is configured to selectively perform or avoid, according to the presentation mode information stored in the storage, the displaying of the advertisement upon the displaying of the operation menu or the receiving of the operation.

4. The video display device according to claim 2,

wherein the advertisement playback unit is configured to change, depending on a time segment or randomly according to the presentation mode information stored in the storage, a probability or a duration of displaying the advertisement upon the displaying of the operation menu or the receiving of the operation.

5. The video display device according to claim 1,

wherein when displaying the advertisement upon the displaying of the operation menu or the receiving of the operation, the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the advertisement at a position different from a position where the advertisement was once displayed.

6. The video display device according to claim 5,

wherein when displaying the advertisement upon the displaying of the operation menu or the receiving of the operation, the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the advertisement at either a first position or a second position switchably therebetween on the screen, the first position and the second position each being associated with the operation menu.

7. The video display device according to claim 1,

wherein when displaying the advertisement upon the displaying of the operation menu or the receiving of the operation, the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the advertisement next to the operation menu on the screen and gradate the advertisement in a part close to the operation menu.

8. The video display device according to claim 1,

wherein the GUI control unit is configured to change a color of the operation menu in coordination with at least one of a color and content of the advertisement displayed by the advertisement playback unit.

9. The video display device according to claim 1,

wherein the GUI control unit is further configured to make a change to a mode of presentation of the operation menu according to the operation performed by the user, and

the advertisement playback unit is configured to change the mode of presentation of the advertisement on the screen in response to the change in the mode of presentation of the operation menu.

10. The video display device according to claim 1,

wherein the operation menu is a slide bar for control of volume of sound output by the video display device, and

the operation is an instruction for shifting a slider of the slide bar.

11. The video display device according to claim 1, further comprising

a download unit configured to preload an advertisement to be displayed by the advertisement playback unit from a server device connected to the video display device via a communication network, and store the advertisement in the storage.

12. The video display device according to claim 1,

wherein the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the advertisement stored in the storage on the screen, when the input unit receives, as the operation, an operation for turning on the video display device.

13. The video display device according to claim 2,

wherein the presentation mode information includes expiring time information indicating an end of a period in which the advertisement is displayed, and

the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the advertisement according to the expiration period information.

14. The video display device according to claim 13,

wherein the storage further stores an advertisement set as a default advertisement, and

the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the default advertisement stored in the storage, when the advertisement playback unit determines that the displaying of the operation menu or the receiving of the operation is later than the period indicated by the expiring time information.

15. The video display device according to claim 2,

wherein the presentation mode information includes time segment information indicating a time segment in which an advertisement is displayed, and

the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the advertisement according to the time segment information.

16. A video display method comprising:

storing an advertisement to be displayed on a screen;

receiving an operation performed by a user;

when a graphical user interface (GUI) relates to the operation received by the input unit, displaying the GUI as an operation menu on the screen; and

when the operation menu is displayed in the displaying of the GUI, obtaining an advertisement relating to the operation menu or the operation from the storage, and displaying the advertisement on the screen upon the displaying of the operation menu or the receiving of the operation.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium on which a program which causes a computer to execute the video display method according to claim 16 is recorded.

18. A video display device comprising:

a screen;

storage which stores an advertisement to be displayed on the screen; and

an advertisement playback unit configured to display the advertisement stored in the storage on the screen, when the video display device is turned on,

wherein the advertisement includes expiring time information indicating an end of a period in which the advertisement is displayed, and

the advertisement playback unit is configured to display the advertisement only before the end of the period.