RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20150074704A1
• Filed: 11/17/2014
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KITAZATO, Naohisa
• Granted Patent: US 9,998,801 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/19
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/00 Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units interface circuits for specific input/output devices G06F3/00 ; multiprogram control therefor G06F9/46; multiprocessor systems G06F15/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/00 Pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/40 in video content extracting overlay text G06V20/62; video retrieval G06F16/70; processing of video elementary streams in video servers H04N21/234; processing of video elementary streams in video clients H04N21/44
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/37 via a different channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/372 Programme
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/56 Arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups H04H60/29-H04H60/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• 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 21/442 Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed, the storage space available from the internal hard disk arrangements for monitoring broadcast services or broadcast-related services H04H60/29; arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information H04H60/35; monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; monitoring in wireless networks H04W24/00
• 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 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 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 21/8133 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 21/8166 involving executable data, e.g. software arrangements for executing specific programs G06F9/44; broadcasting computer programmes in broadcast systems H04H20/91; involving the movement of software or configuration parameters H04L67/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• 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 7/173 : with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

A receiving device includes: a receiver configured to receive AV content; a feature extractor configured to extract a feature from data of the received AV content; an identification result acquirer configured to acquire an identification result of the AV content identified from the extracted feature by using an Automatic Content Recognition technique; a command acquirer configured to acquire a command for controlling operation of an application program run in conjunction with the AV content in accordance with the acquired identification result; and a controller configured to control operation of the application program in accordance with the acquired command.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A reception apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive audio/video content data,

extract a feature from the audio/video content data,

provide the extracted feature to an Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) server,

receive a response from the ACR server, the response being provided by the ACR server based on the extracted feature, and

acquire command information from a command server based on the received response, wherein

the command information is associated with an application program which is executed while the audio/video content data is being received, and includes an application URL of the application program.

3. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to:

extract the feature from either one or both of a video portion and an audio portion of the audio/video content data.

4. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the command information includes one or a combination of an application ID, an application type, an application expiration date, and an event ID associated with the application program.

5. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the response received from the ACR server includes a domain name associated with the command server.

6. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the command information includes an action associated with the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to control operation of the application program based on the action included in the command information.

7. The reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the command information includes an action associated with the application program and identifies an external device, which is separate from the reception apparatus, as a target device type for the action.

8. A method for acquiring command information for an application program, the method comprising:

receiving audio/video content data;

extracting, by circuitry of a reception apparatus, a feature from the audio/video content data;

providing, by the circuitry, the extracted feature to an Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) server;

receiving, by the circuitry, a response from the ACR server, the response being provided by the ACR server based on the extracted feature; and

acquiring, by the circuitry, the command information from a command server based on the received response, wherein

the command information is associated with the application program which is executed while the audio/video content data is being received, and includes an application URL of the application program.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the step of extracting comprises:

extracting the feature from either one or both of a video portion and an audio portion of the audio/video content data.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the command information includes one or a combination of an application ID, an application type, an application expiration date, and an event ID associated with the application program.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the response received from the ACR server includes a domain name associated with the command server.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein

the command information includes an action associated with the application program, and

the circuitry is configured to control operation of the application program based on the action included in the command information.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein the command information includes an action associated with the application program and identifies an external device, which is separate from the reception apparatus, as a target device type for the action.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method for acquiring command information for an application program, the method comprising:

receiving audio/video content data;

extracting a feature from the audio/video content data;

providing the extracted feature to an Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) server;

receiving a response from the ACR server, the response being provided by the ACR server based on the extracted feature; and

acquiring the command information from a command server based on the received response, wherein

the command information is associated with the application program which is executed while the audio/video content data is being received, and includes an application URL of the application program.