RECEPTION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20150058911A1
• Filed: 10/31/2014
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KITAZATO, Naohisa, Dewa, Yoshiharu
• Granted Patent: US 10,958,986 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/133
• 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 21/4112 having fewer capabilities than the client, e.g. thin client having less processing power or no tuning capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/436 Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB or one or more peripheral devices inside the home
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811
• 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 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6371 directed to network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• 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 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive AV content being transmitted; a command execution portion configured to execute a first application program in response to a first command for controlling the operation of the first application program executed in interlocked related to the AV content; a command transmission portion configured to transmit to an external terminal apparatus a second command for controlling the operation of a second application program that can be executed by the terminal apparatus in interlocked relation to the AV content when the terminal apparatus is connected to the reception apparatus; and a command reception portion configured to receive the first command transmitted from the terminal apparatus executing the second application program. The command execution portion executes the first application program in response to the received first command.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A reception apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive content;

process the content for display to a user;

execute a first application in synchronization with the content; and

provide a two-way communications service between the first application and a second application executed on a terminal apparatus.

3. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first application and the second application are downloaded from a server and associated with the content.

4. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to receive a digital television broadcast signal including the content.

5. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuity is configured to:

receive a first trigger associated with the content,

execute the first application in response to the first trigger,

receive a second trigger associated with the content, and

forward the second trigger to the terminal apparatus.

6. The reception apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second application is executed on the terminal apparatus in synchronization with the content.

7. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first application is programmed to perform an action based on a communication received from the second application via the two-way communication service.

8. A method of executing a first application by a reception apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving content;

processing, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, the content for display to a user;

executing, by the circuitry, the first application in synchronization with the content; and

providing, by the circuitry, a two-way communications service between the first application and a second application executed on a terminal apparatus.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the first application and the second application are downloaded from a server and associated with the content.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the step of receiving comprises:

receiving a digital television broadcast stream including the content.

11. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a first trigger associated with the content,

executing the first application in response to the first trigger,

receiving a second trigger associated with the content, and

forwarding the second trigger to the terminal apparatus.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the second application is executed on the terminal apparatus in synchronization with the content.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein the first application is programmed to perform an action based on a communication received from the second application via the two-way communication service.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method of executing a first application, the method comprising:

receiving content;

processing the content for display to a user;

executing the first application in synchronization with the content; and

providing a two-way communications service between the first application and a second application executed on a terminal apparatus.