ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM

• US 20200137444A1
• Filed: 08/27/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: YOO, Eunjin, BOO, Youngjong, CHOI, Songah, NAH, Won
• Granted Patent: US 11,159,838 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/44 for identifying broadcast stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/48 for recognising items expressed in broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• 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 21/26283 for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• 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 21/440236 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures, audio is converted into text
• 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 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

An electronic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a communicator, and a processor configured to, based on multimedia data being received from an external device through the communicator, obtain word-related information during a time period from audio data included in the multimedia data, control the communicator to transmit identification information including the word-related information and time information corresponding to the time period to a server, and receive broadcast provider information corresponding to the transmitted identification information from the server through the communicator.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a communicator; and

a processor configured to;

receive multimedia data, including audio data, from an external device through the communicator for a time period,

obtain word-related information during the time period from the audio data included in the multimedia data,

control the communicator to transmit identification information to a server, the identification information including the word-related information and time information corresponding to the time period, and

receive broadcast provider information corresponding to the transmitted identification information from the server through the communicator.

2. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

control the communicator to transmit the broadcast provider information to another server,

receive broadcast guide information corresponding to the broadcast provider from the another server through the communicator, and

provide at least one of a commercial service, a voice service, or a content recommendation service based on the broadcast guide information.

3. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

identify a channel number from video data included in the multimedia data,

control the communicator to transmit at least one of the channel number or IP information of the electronic apparatus to the server along with the identification information, and

receive the broadcast provider information from the server through the communicator.

4. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

a display,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

control the display to sequentially display a plurality of frames included in the video data, and

identify the channel number from a frame among the displayed plurality of frames.

5. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

convert the audio data received during the time period into text,

identify a respective frequency for words included in the audio data based on the text, and

obtain word-related information including information on words where the respective frequency is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.

6. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a memory configured to store a plurality of control code sets,

wherein the processor is further configured to control the communicator to transmit, to a remote control device, a control code set corresponding to the broadcast provider information among the stored plurality of control code sets.

7. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the time information corresponding to the time period includes a reproduction time point of the multimedia data corresponding to the time period.

8. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to control the communicator to transmit to the server:

first identification information including a first reproduction time point of the multimedia data corresponding to the time period and word-related information corresponding to the time period, and

second identification information including a second reproduction time point of the multimedia data corresponding to the time period and word-related information corresponding to the time period.

9. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a memory configured to store the received broadcast provider information,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

obtain identification information from the multimedia data after the broadcast provider information is received, and

control the communicator to transmit the obtained identification information to the server along with the broadcast provider information.

10. An electronic system, comprising:

a server configured to store a word-related information database including word-related information stored by time period and broadcast provider; and

an electronic apparatus configured to receive multimedia data, including audio data, from an external device for a time period, obtain word-related information during the time period from the audio data included in the multimedia data, and transmit identification information to the server, the identification information including the word-related information and time information corresponding to the time period,

wherein the server is further configured to identify broadcast provider information by identifying the broadcast provider in the word-related information database corresponding to the transmitted identification information, and transmit the identified broadcast provider information to the electronic apparatus.

11. The electronic system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the server is further configured to update the word-related information database based on broadcast provider information received from another electronic apparatus, and the word-related information by time period corresponding to the broadcast provider information received from the another electronic apparatus.

12. The electronic system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the word-related information database includes word-related information respectively corresponding to a plurality of channels provided through the broadcast provider for a plurality of time periods, and

wherein the server is further configured to receive a channel number corresponding to the identification information from the electronic apparatus, identify the identification information and broadcast provider information corresponding to the channel number based on the word-related information database, and transmit the identified broadcast provider information to the electronic apparatus.

13. The electronic system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the word-related information includes a respective frequency for words obtained during the time period, and

wherein the server is further configured to identify a plurality of broadcast providers from the word-related information database based on the plurality of words, and identify one of the plurality of identified broadcast providers based on the respective frequency for the words.

14. The electronic system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the identification information includes word-related information corresponding to respective time periods, and

wherein the server is further configured to obtain the broadcast provider information respectively coinciding with the word-related information and respective time periods in the word-related information database, and transmit the broadcast provider information to the electronic apparatus.

15. A controlling method of an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving multimedia data, including audio data, from an external device for a time period,

obtaining word-related information during the time period from that audio data included in the multimedia data;

transmitting identification information to a server, the identification information including the word-related information and time information corresponding to the time period; and

receiving broadcast provider information corresponding to the transmitted identification information from the server.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the method further comprising:

transmitting the broadcast provider information to another server;

receiving broadcast guide information corresponding to the broadcast provider from the another server; and

providing at least one of a commercial service, a voice service, or a content recommendation service based on the broadcast guide information.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

identifying a channel number from video data included in the multimedia data,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting at least one of the channel number or IP information of the electronic apparatus to the server along with the identification information.

18. The method as claimed in claim 17, further comprising:

sequentially displaying a plurality of frames included in the video data,

wherein the identifying comprises identifying the channel number from a frame among the displayed plurality of frames.

19. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the obtaining comprises:

converting the audio data received during the time period into text;

identifying a respective frequency for words included in the audio data based on the text; and

obtaining word-related information including information on words where the respective frequency is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.

20. The method as claimed 15, further comprising:

transmitting, to a remote control device, a control code set corresponding to the broadcast provider information among a plurality of control code sets.