RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20160073174A1
• Filed: 11/18/2015
• Published: 03/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KITAZATO, Naohisa
• Application Number:
  US14/944,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20160073174A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/241 Operating system [OS] processes, e.g. server setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43074 of additional data with content streams on the same device, e.g. of EPG data or interactive icon with a TV program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/45 Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

A reception apparatus includes: a reception section adapted to receive an AV content; a trigger extraction section adapted to extract trigger information transmitted together with the AV content for rendering an application program, which is to be executed in a linked relationship with the AV content, operative; a command acquisition section adapted to acquire a command for controlling the operation of the application program in response to the extracted trigger information; and a control section adapted to control the operation of the application program in response to the acquired command.

Claims

1. A reception apparatus, comprising:

a reception section adapted to receive an AV content;

a trigger extraction section adapted to extract trigger information transmitted together with the AV content for rendering an application program, which is to be executed in a linked relationship with the AV content, operative;

a command acquisition section adapted to acquire a command for controlling the operation of the application program in response to the extracted trigger information; and

a control section adapted to control the operation of the application program in response to the acquired command.