Video data receiving apparatus, video data transmitting apparatus, and broadcasting system

• US 5,886,731 A
• Filed: 10/25/1996
• Issued: 03/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ebisawa, Kan
• Primary Examiner(s): BRITTON, HOWARD W
• Application Number:
  US08/736,603
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 348/563, 348/8, 348/9, 348/10
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/14 for monitoring programmes
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/76 Wired systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/81 combined with telephone network over which the broadcast is continuously available
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/15 on receiving information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/16 on playing information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/21 Billing for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2543 Billing , e.g. for subscription services payment schemes, architectures or protocols G06Q20/00; e-commerce G06Q30/00; arrangements for billing for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/21
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/162 Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17345 Control of the passage of the selected programme

Abstract

A video data receiving apparatus displays the program video inserted the CM vide with the desired timing and the desired from based on the demand of viewers. Further, a video data transmitting apparatus transmits the CM data and the program data to display the program video being inserted the CM video with desired form on the receiving apparatus. Still further, a broadcasting system wherein the program video inserted the CM video with the form based on the demand of the viewer are displayed on the receiving side is disclosed.

Claims

1. A video data receiving apparatus, comprising:

receiving means for receiving program data representing a program video and commercial data representing a commercial video;

input means for inputting insertion condition data instructing an insertion timing indicating a timing at which said commercial data is inserted into said program data;

display means for displaying said program video and/or said commercial video; and

insertion means for inserting said commercial data into said program data in accordance with said insertion condition data instructing said insertion timing inputted by said input means and providing the resulting data to said display means for display by said display means.

2. A video data receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said insertion condition data indicates a number of times that said commercial video is inserted into said program data and a time period for display of each inserted commercial video.

3. A video data receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said insertion condition data indicates that said commercial data is inserted in said program data at equal time intervals or unequal time intervals.

4. A video data receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

said receiving means receives said commercial data including a plurality of types of commercial video;

said input means inputs selecting data to select desired commercial video from among said plurality of types of commercial video; and

said insertion means inserts said commercial data indicated in said selecting data into said program data and provides the data to said displaying means for display.

5. A video data receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

output means for outputting said insertion condition data instructing said insertion timing inputted by said input means according to a communication time for communicating said program video and/or said commercial video.

6. A video data receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said insertion timing indicates the rate of insertion of said commercial video to be inserted into said program video.

7. A video data receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said insertion timing indicates the number of commercials to be displayed during said program video.

8. A video data receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said insertion timing indicates that no commercials are to be inserted into said program video such that said program video is displayed continuously and not interrupted by commercials.

9. A video data receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising selecting means operable by a user to select said insertion condition data instructing said insertion timing.

10. A video data receiving apparatus, comprising:

receiving means for receiving program data to display program video and commercial data to display commercial video;

input means for inputting insertion condition data instructing insertion timing and/or insertion quantity of said commercial data inserted into said program data;

display means for displaying said program video and/or said commercial video; and

insertion means for inserting said commercial data into said program data based on said insertion condition data instructing said insertion timing and/or said insertion quantity inputted by said input means and providing the data to said display means;

wherein said input means inputs first data indicating that said program data is discarded during the time said commercial data is inserted and second data indicating that an output timing of said program data is delayed during the time said commercial data is inserted selectively; and

wherein said insertion means, when said first data is inputted by said input means, discards said program data during the time corresponding to the time said commercial data is inserted and inserts said commercial data into said program data, and when said second data is inputted by said input means, delays the output timing of said program data during the time corresponding to the time said commercial data is inserted and inserts said commercial data into said program data.

11. A video data transmitting apparatus, comprising:

multiplexing means for multiplexing program data representing a program video and commercial data representing a commercial video in a manner so that said program data and said commercial data can be demultiplexed and so that said commercial data can be inserted into said program data based on insertion condition data instructing an insertion timing indicating a timing at which said commercial data is to be inserted into said program data at a receiving side; and

transmitting means for transmitting said program data and said commercial data multiplexed by said multiplexing means and said insertion condition data to said receiving side.

12. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 11, wherein said multiplexing means multiplexes said program data and said commercial data such that said program data is arranged after said commercial data.

13. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 11, wherein said multiplexing means multiplexes said program data and said commercial data such that said commercial data is arranged in a vertical synchronization period of said program data.

14. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 11, wherein said multiplexing means multiplexes on the same channel commercial data for first channel data containing said program data transmitted by said transmitting means on a first channel and commercial data for second channel data containing program data transmitted by said transmitting means on a second channel wherein said commercial data of said first and second channels is arranged in said same channel at positions in which the commercial data appears on a predetermined cycle of the respective first and second channels.

15. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 11, wherein said insertion timing indicates the rate of insertion of said commercial video to be inserted into said program video.

16. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 11, wherein said insertion timing indicates the number of commercials to be displayed during said program video.

17. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 11, wherein said insertion timing indicates that no commercials are to be inserted into said program video such that said program video is displayed continuously and not interrupted by commercials.

18. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 11, wherein said insertion condition data instructing said insertion timing is selected by a user at the receiving side.

19. A broadcasting system comprising:

multiplexing means for multiplexing program data representing a program video and commercial data representing a commercial video;

transmitting means for transmitting said program data and said commercial data multiplexed by said multiplexing means;

receiving means for receiving said program data and said commercial data transmitted by said transmitting means;

input means for inputting insertion condition data instructing an insertion timing indicating a timing for inserting said commercial data into said program data;

output means for outputting to a communication line said insertion condition data instructing said insertion timing inputted by said input means;

display means for displaying said program video and/or said commercial video received by said receiving means;

insertion means for inserting said commercial data into said program data based on said insertion condition data instructing said insertion timing inputted by said input means and providing the data to said display means;

wherein said receiving means receives from said communication line said insertion condition data output by said output means; and

storing means for storing said insertion condition data received by said receiving means.

20. A video data transmitting apparatus, comprising:

multiplexing means for multiplexing program data representing a program video and commercial data representing a commercial video based on insertion condition data instructing insertion timing indicating a timing for inserting said commercial data into said program data, said insertion condition data being transmitted to a receiving side; and

transmitting means for transmitting said program data and said commercial data multiplexed by said multiplexing means to said receiving side.

21. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 20, wherein said insertion timing indicates the rate of insertion of said commercial video to be inserted into said program video.

22. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 20, wherein said insertion timing indicates the number of commercials to be displayed during said program video.

23. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 20, wherein said insertion timing indicates that no commercials are to be inserted into said program video such that said program video is displayed continuously and not interrupted by commercials.

24. A video data transmitting apparatus as set forth in claim 20, wherein said insertion condition data instructing said insertion timing is selected by a user at the receiving side.