RECEIVING APPARATUS, BROADCASTING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, AND RECEIVING METHOD

• US 20160219346A1
• Filed: 09/16/2014
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KITAZATO, Naohisa, KITAHARA, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 9,872,086 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/43 for identifying broadcast channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• 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 21/437 Interfacing the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. for transmitting client requests to a VOD server flow control in data networks H04L47/10; streaming protocols, e.g. RTP or RTCP, H04L65/65; scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests in data packet switching networks H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44236 Monitoring of piracy processes or activities protecting computer platforms against harmful, malicious or unexpected behaviour or activities using intrusion detection and counter measures G06F21/566; computer virus detection and handling G06F21/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

This receiving apparatus includes a broadcast reception unit configured to receive a broadcasting signal including a broadcast program and tag information, the broadcast program including at least one scene, the tag information including information that is transmitted temporally corresponding to each of at least one scene of the broadcast program and is necessary for acquiring related information related to the broadcast program; an application controller configured to acquire an application that uses the related information and an application information table in which at least identification information for identifying the tag information including information for controlling an operation of the application and information for identifying the related information used by the application is described, and to control the operation of the application based on the application information table; a tag information processing unit configured to acquire the tag information based on the identification information described in the application information table from the received broadcasting signal, to acquire the related information based on the tag information, and to supply it to the application being executed.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus comprising:

a broadcast reception unit configured to receive a broadcasting signal including a broadcast program and tag information, the broadcast program including at least one scene, the tag information including information that is transmitted temporally corresponding to each of at least one scene of the broadcast program and is necessary for acquiring related information related to the broadcast program;

an application controller configured

to acquire an application that uses the related information and an application information table in which at least identification information for identifying the tag information including information for controlling an operation of the application and information for identifying the related information used by the application is described, and

to control the operation of the application based on the application information table;

a tag information processing unit configured

to acquire the tag information based on the identification information described in the application information table from the received broadcasting signal,

to acquire the related information based on the tag information, and

to supply it to the application being executed.

2. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the tag information includes channel identification information for identifying a transmission channel of the related information, and

the tag information processing unit is configured to acquire the related information from the transmission channel identified by the channel identification information.

3. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the tag information includes location information on a network of the related information, and

the tag information processing unit is configured to acquire the related information based on the location information.

4. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

a first representative value representative of the application is described in the application information table and an electronic signature is attached to the application information table, the first representative value being determined by predetermined calculation from the application, and

the application controller is configured to verify the electronic signature attached to the acquired application information table.

5. A broadcasting apparatus comprising

a broadcast unit configured to transmit a broadcasting signal including a broadcast program and tag information, the broadcast program including at least one scene, the tag information including information that is transmitted temporally corresponding to each of at least one scene of the broadcast program and is necessary for acquiring related information related to the broadcast program.

6. The broadcasting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the transmission unit is configured to broadcast the related information temporally corresponding to each of the scene.

7. A server apparatus comprising:

a storage unit configure to store an application that uses related information of a broadcast program transmitted by broadcasting and an application information table in which at least identification information for identifying tag information including information that is transmitted temporally corresponding to each of at least one scene of the broadcast program and is necessary for acquiring related information related to the broadcast program is described; and

a delivery unit configured to deliver the application and the application information table stored in the storage unit via a network in response to a request from a reception terminal used by a user.

8. A receiving method, comprising:

receiving, by a broadcast reception unit, a broadcasting signal including a broadcast program and tag information, the broadcast program including at least one scene, the tag information including information that is transmitted temporally corresponding to each of at least one scene of the broadcast program and is necessary for acquiring related information related to the broadcast program;

acquiring, by an application controller, an application that uses the related information and an application information table in which at least identification information for identifying the tag information including information for controlling an operation of the application and information for identifying the related information used by the application is described, and controlling the operation of the application based on the application information table;

acquiring, by a tag information processing unit, the tag information based on the identification information described in the application information table from the received broadcasting signal, acquiring the related information based on the tag information, and supplying it to the application being executed.