Methods and apparatus for displaying textual data embedded in broadcast media signals

• US 7,340,263 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2002
• Issued: 03/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Welch, Michael Shannon
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehrpour; Naghmeh
• Application Number:
  US10/295,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20040097246A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,936 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/560, 455/566, 455/3.1, 455/6.1, 455/4.2, 455/420, 455/6.3, 455/151, 455/8.3, 348/552, 348/734, 348/725, 348/12, 348/13
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23892 involving embedding information at multiplex stream level, e.g. embedding a watermark at packet level
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• 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 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6187 involving transmission via a telephone network, e.g. POTS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• 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 7/0885 for the transmission of subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 : Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

According to embodiments of the present invention, a broadcast media signal is received at a broadcast media receiver. The broadcast media signal includes textual data. The textual data is extracted and is transmitted over a wireless coupling to a wireless terminal.

Claims

1. A method for displaying textual data that is embedded in a broadcast media signal, the method comprising:

receiving a broadcast media signal at a broadcast media receiver, the broadcast media signal including textual data;

extracting the textual data from the broadcast media signal;

determining with a circuit within the broadcast media receiver whether the textual data represents a phone number;

transmitting the textual data over a wireless coupling to a wireless terminal in response to determining that the textual data represents a phone number;

receiving the textual data at the wireless terminal; and

programmatically storing the textual data that represents a phone number in a phone book in the wireless terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast media signal comprises a television signal.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein:

the broadcast media signal comprises a video signal, and

the textual data comprises closed captioned textual data that is associated with the video signal.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast media signal comprises an audio signal.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the textual data comprises a logical network address.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting the textual data over a wireless coupling to a wireless terminal comprises transmitting the textual data according to a cellular communication protocol to the wireless terminal.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast media signal includes instructions for formatting a display of the textual data, and further comprising:

extracting the instructions from the broadcast media signal; and

transmitting the instructions over a wireless coupling to the wireless terminal.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

receiving the textual data and the instructions at the wireless terminal;

formatting the textual data using the instructions; and

displaying the formatted textual data on the wireless terminal.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the instructions define the formatting a display of the textual data according to at least one of a JAVA language, a BREW language, and a wireless application protocol language.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein transmitting the textual data over a wireless coupling is performed responsive to the circuit within the broadcast media receiver determining that the textual data represents a phone number.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the textual data, that represents a phone number, at the wireless terminal;

displaying the textual data on the wireless terminal;

sensing a user selection of the displayed textual data; and

dialing from the wireless terminal the phone number that is represented by the selected textual data responsive to sensing the user selection.

12. A method for displaying textual data that is embedded in a broadcast media signal, the method comprising:

receiving a broadcast media signal at a broadcast media receiver, the broadcast media signal including textual data;

extracting the textual data from the broadcast media signal;

transmitting the textual data over a wireless coupling to a wireless terminal;

receiving the textual data at the wireless terminal;

displaying the textual data on the wireless terminal;

sensing a user selection of the displayed textual data;

transmitting a record command from the wireless terminal over the wireless coupling to the broadcast media receiver responsive to sensing the user selection; and

recording at least a portion of the broadcast media signal on a nonvolatile media in response to the record command.

13. The broadcast media receiver according to claim 12, wherein the receiver circuit receives a television signal in the broadcast media signal.

14. The broadcast media receiver according to claim 13, wherein:

the receiver circuit receives a video signal in the broadcast media signal, and the text decoder extracts closed captioned textual data that is associated with the video signal.

15. The broadcast media receiver according to claim 12, wherein the receiver circuit receives an audio signal in the broadcast media signal.

16. The broadcast media receiver according to claim 12, wherein the text decoder extracts a logical network address from the broadcast media signal.