Information linking method, information viewer, information register, and information search equipment
First Claim
1. An information viewing equipment which links content of interest rendered by media to its reference information, and which is connected to an information searching equipment across a computer network, comprising:
- a capturing unit to capture said content of interest;
an obtaining unit to obtain first content-identifying information to identify the content of interest from the captured content of interest;
a transmitting unit to transmit the first content-identifying information to the information searching equipment across a computer network;
a receiving unit to receive information across the computer network; and
an outputting unit to output information based on the received reference information;
wherein when the receiving unit receives reference information joined with second content-identifying information which is registered in a database of the information searching equipment and is judged to be matched with the first content-identifying information by the information searching equipment, the outputting unit outputs the received reference information,and wherein when the receiving unit receives notification information of unregistered data which informs that there is no reference information joined with second content-identifying information which is registered in a database of the information searching equipment that is judged to be matched with the first content-identifying information in the database of the information searching equipment, the outputting unit outputs a message which indicates that no reference information which the user of information viewing equipment searches is registered in the database of the information searching equipment.
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Abstract
On an information registering equipment, content of interest rendered by media, such as a video image of interest distributed by TV broadcasting is captured and displayed. Position/area on the image are defined with a mouse or the like to obtain the target position/area. Information to identify the content is obtained from the TV tuner. Reference information is obtained through input means or by retrieval from the server for reference information. The obtained information specifics are transmitted to an information search equipment that in turn stores then into its database. An information viewing equipment obtains the target position/area and information to identify the content of interest and transmits the thus obtained data to the information search equipment. The information search equipment matches that data with each data record in the database and transmits reference information to the information viewing equipment on which the reference information is displayed.
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1. An information viewing equipment which links content of interest rendered by media to its reference information, and which is connected to an information searching equipment across a computer network, comprising:
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a capturing unit to capture said content of interest; an obtaining unit to obtain first content-identifying information to identify the content of interest from the captured content of interest; a transmitting unit to transmit the first content-identifying information to the information searching equipment across a computer network; a receiving unit to receive information across the computer network; and an outputting unit to output information based on the received reference information; wherein when the receiving unit receives reference information joined with second content-identifying information which is registered in a database of the information searching equipment and is judged to be matched with the first content-identifying information by the information searching equipment, the outputting unit outputs the received reference information, and wherein when the receiving unit receives notification information of unregistered data which informs that there is no reference information joined with second content-identifying information which is registered in a database of the information searching equipment that is judged to be matched with the first content-identifying information in the database of the information searching equipment, the outputting unit outputs a message which indicates that no reference information which the user of information viewing equipment searches is registered in the database of the information searching equipment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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