Receiving apparatus, print system, and mobile telephone

• US 7,551,301 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2003
• Issued: 06/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Takehito, Matsunaga, Shigeki
• Primary Examiner(s): Safaipour; Houshang
• Assistant Examiner(s): DICKER, DENNIS T
• Application Number:
  US10/502,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20050151881A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,346 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/296, 348/14.01, 348/14.02, 348/473, 348/552, 455/556.1, 455/557, 725/133, 725/141, 725/153
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00291 with receiver circuitry television receiver circuitry per se H04N5/44
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00294 for printing images at a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4117 for generating hard copies of the content, e.g. printer, electronic paper interfaces to printers G06F3/12; printing data G06K15/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3271 Printing or stamping
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems

Abstract

A SI storage unit storing SI (program allocation information), a display program ID recording unit recording a display program ID which indicates a program displayed on a TV, an additional SI specification table recording unit recording a table for specifying an additional SI to be additionally printed together with pictures, and a print control unit obtaining a print instruction sent from a remote control, hold an image data to a screen data save unit, specify additional SI with reference to a display program ID recording unit and an additional SI specification table recording unit, read out the additional SI from the SI storage unit and send the readout additional SI to a combination unit. Further, the combination unit generates a print data by combining the image data held in the screen data save unit with the additional SI from the print control unit.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit operable to receive data distributed via a transmission line;

a print instruction obtainment unit operable to obtain a print instruction;

a print object specification unit operable to (i) specify, at a time when the print instruction is obtained, one screen of a moving picture identified in the print instruction, as a picture to be printed, the picture to be printed being specified from among the data received by the receiving unit, (ii) judge whether or not quality of the moving picture is high, and (iii) specify first additional information identifying an owner of a copyright of the moving picture and being associated with the specified picture to be printed together with the specified first additional information, the first additional information being specified in association with the specified picture to be printed only in a case where the quality of the moving picture is judged to be high; and

an output unit operable to output the specified picture to be printed and the specified first additional information associated therewith as print data to be printed on a single print paper.

2. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the data received by the receiving unit includes a program provided by broadcasting,

wherein the receiving unit further receives program information related to the program,

wherein the print object specification unit (i) specifies one screen of a moving picture included in the program and identified in the print instruction and (ii) specifies program information corresponding to the specified one screen of the moving picture included in the program as second additional information, and

wherein the output unit outputs the specified picture to be printed, the specified first additional information and the specified second additional information as print data to be printed on a single print paper.

3. The receiving apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the program information identifies at least one of a broadcasting time, a title, a program title, a cast, a channel and a program outline for each program, and

wherein the print object specification unit specifies at least one of the broadcasting time, the title, the program title, the cast, the channel and the program outline as the second additional information.

4. The receiving apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a display output unit operable to output, for display or as a signal, the data received by the receiving unit,

wherein the print object specification unit specifies one screen of the moving picture included in the program as the picture to be printed, the program to be outputted for display or as a signal by the display output unit at the time when the print instruction is obtained.

5. The receiving apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a program identification information recording unit operable to record program identification information identifying the program to be outputted for display or as the signal by the display output unit,

wherein the print object specification unit specifies program information, as the second additional information, the program information corresponding to the program identified in the program identification information recorded in the program identification information recording unit.

6. The receiving apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a channel information recording unit operable to record channel information that identifies a selected channel; and

a time unit operable to identify a present time,

wherein the program information identifies a channel and broadcasting time for each program, and

wherein the print object specification unit specifies, as the second additional information, the program information related to a program identified by a channel and a broadcasting time, the channel being identified in the channel information recorded in the channel information recording unit, and the broadcasting time being a time identified by the time unit at the time when the print instruction is obtained.

7. The receiving apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the display output unit includes a buffer area in which one screen of the moving picture is temporarily held as image data, and

wherein the output unit outputs the image data held in the buffer area as the specified picture to be printed at the time when the print instruction is obtained.

8. The receiving apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the data received by the receiving unit includes image data and screen display data written in a markup language, and

wherein the output unit outputs the image data and the screen display data as the specified picture to be printed.

9. The receiving apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the receiving unit further receives print exclusive information generated exclusively for printing, and

wherein the print object specification unit specifies the print exclusive information as the picture to be printed.

10. The receiving apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the program information includes description information that describes an explanation for each scene or frame picture constituting a program, and

wherein the print object specification unit specifies the description information as the second additional information.

11. The receiving apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising a scene specification unit operable to specify a scene or a frame picture to be outputted for display or as a signal by the display output unit,

wherein the print object specification unit specifies the description information as the second additional information, the description information corresponding to the scene or the frame picture specified by the scene specification unit.

12. The receiving apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the scene specification unit specifies the scene or the frame picture based on (ii) the program to be outputted for display or as a signal by the display output unit and (ii) the time when the print instruction is obtained.

13. The receiving apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the scene specification unit specifies the scene or the frame picture based on a channel and the time when the print instruction is obtained, the channel being a channel selected at the time when the print instruction is obtained.

14. The receiving apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the description information is description information for each scene associated with one or more frame pictures, and

wherein the scene specification unit specifies a scene to which the frame picture belongs, the frame picture being outputted for display or as a signal by the display output unit.

15. The receiving apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an accumulation unit operable to accumulate the program and the program information received by the receiving unit,

wherein the print object specification unit specifies the picture to be printed and the second additional information for the program and the program information accumulated by the accumulation unit.

16. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit generates print data for (i) printing the specified picture to be printed as a print body on the print paper and (ii) printing the specified first additional information as a header and a footer on the print paper and the output unit outputs the generated print data.

17. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit (i) generates print data for printing the specified picture to be printed and for printing the specified first additional information in a layout in which the specified picture to be printed and the specified first additional information are horizontally aligned on a single print paper, and (ii) outputs the generated print data.

18. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit (i) combines the specified picture to be printed with the specified first additional information associated therewith, as combined print data for printing on a single print paper, and (ii) outputs the combined print data.

19. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the output unit outputs the print data to a picture forming apparatus, and

wherein the picture forming apparatus combines the specified picture to be printed with the specified first additional information included in the print data into combined data for printing on a single print paper and prints out the combined data.

20. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit combines the specified picture to be printed with the specified first additional information as combined print data and outputs the combined print data so that the specified first additional information is written over the specified picture to be printed.

21. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit combines the specified picture to be printed with a copyright mark and the specified first additional information as combined print data so that the copyright mark and the specified first additional information are written over the specified picture to be printed, and outputs the combined print data.

22. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output unit outputs a print control command instructing protection of a copyright of the specified picture to be printed, in addition to outputting the print data.

23. A print system comprising a receiving apparatus and a picture forming apparatus,

wherein the receiving apparatus includes:

a receiving unit operable to receive data distributed via a transmission line;

a print instruction obtainment unit operable to obtain a print instruction;

a print object specification unit operable to (i) specify, at a time when the print instruction is obtained, one screen of a moving picture identified in the print instruction, as a picture to be printed, the picture to be printed being specified from among the data received by the receiving unit, (ii) judge whether or not quality of the moving picture is high, and (iii) specify additional information identifying an owner of a copyright of the moving picture and being associated with the specified picture to be printed together with the specified additional information, the additional information being specified in association with the specified picture to be printed only in a case where the quality of the moving picture is judged to be high; and

an output unit operable to output the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information associated therewith to the picture forming apparatus, and

wherein the picture forming apparatus includes;

a receiving unit operable to receive the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information outputted from the receiving apparatus; and

a print unit operable to print out the received specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information on a single print paper.

24. The print system according to claim 23, wherein the print unit combines the specified picture to be printed with the specified additional information into combined data to be printed on a single print paper and prints the combined data on the single print paper.

25. The print system according to claim 24, wherein the print unit prints out the specified picture to be printed as a print body on the print paper and prints out the specified additional information as a header and a footer on the print paper.

26. The print system according to claim 24, wherein the print unit prints out the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information in a layout in which the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information are horizontally aligned on a single print paper.

27. A print system comprising a receiving apparatus and a picture forming apparatus,

wherein the receiving apparatus includes:

a receiving unit operable to receive distributed data including a program broadcast via a transmission line and including program information related to the program;

a display output unit operable to output, for display or as a signal, the distributed data received by the receiving unit;

a program information recording unit operable to record the program information received by the receiving unit;

a program identification information recording unit operable to record program identification information that identifies the program to be outputted for display or as a signal by the display output unit;

a print instruction obtainment unit operable to obtain a print instruction;

a print object specification unit operable to (i) specify, at a time when the print instruction is obtained, one screen of a moving picture to be outputted for display or as a signal by the display output unit as a picture to be printed, (ii) judge whether or not quality of the moving picture is high, (iii) read out program information, related to the program identified by the program identification information recorded in the program identification information recording unit, from the program information recording unit only in a case where the quality of the moving picture is judged to be high, and (iv) specify the read-out program information as additional information identifying an owner of a copyright of the moving picture and being associated with the specified picture to be printed together with the specified additional information; and

an output unit operable to combine the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information associated therewith as combined print data to be printed on a single print paper and operable to output the combined print data to the picture forming apparatus, and

wherein the picture forming apparatus includes a print unit operable to receive the combined print data sent from the receiving apparatus and print out the combined print data on a print paper.

28. A print system comprising a receiving apparatus and a picture forming apparatus,

wherein the receiving apparatus includes:

a receiving unit operable to receive distributed data including a program broadcast via a transmission line and including program information related to the program;

a display output unit operable to output, for display or as a signal, the distributed data received by the receiving unit;

a program information recording unit operable to record the program information received by the receiving unit;

a program identification information recording unit operable to record program identification information that identifies the program to be outputted for display or as a signal by the display output unit;

a print instruction obtainment unit operable to obtain a print instruction;

a print object specification unit operable to (i) specify, at a time when the print instruction is obtained, one screen of a moving picture to be outputted for display or as a signal by the display output unit as a picture to be printed, (ii) judge whether or not quality of the moving picture is high, (iii) read out program information related to the program identified by the program identification information recorded in the program identification information recording unit only in a case where the quality of the moving picture is judged to be high, and (iv) specify the read-out program information as additional information identifying an owner of a copyright of the moving picture and being associated with the picture to be printed together with the specified additional information; and

an output unit operable to output the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information associated therewith to the picture forming apparatus, and

wherein the picture forming apparatus includes a print unit operable to receive the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information sent from the receiving apparatus and operable to print out the received specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information on a single print paper.

29. A distribution data receiving method comprising:

receiving data distributed via a transmission line;

obtaining a print instruction;

specifying, at a time when the print instruction is obtained, one screen of a moving picture identified in the print instruction, as a picture to be printed, the specified picture to be printed being specified from among the data received by the receiving;

judging whether or not quality of the moving picture is high;

specifying additional information identifying an owner of a copyright of the moving picture and being associated with the specified picture to be printed together with the specified additional information, the additional information being specified in association with the specified picture to be printed only in a case where the quality of the moving picture is judged by the judging to be high; and

the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information associated therewith as print data to be printed on a single print paper.

30. A computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon, the program causing a computer to function as a receiving apparatus, comprising:

a receiving unit operable to receive data distributed via a transmission line;

a print instruction obtainment unit operable to obtain a print instruction;

a print object specification unit operable to (i) specify, at a time when the print instruction is obtained, one screen of a moving picture identified in the print instruction, as a picture to be printed, the picture to be printed being specified from among the data received by the receiving unit, (ii) judge whether or not quality of the moving picture is high, and (iii) specify additional information identifying an owner of a copyright of the moving picture and being associated with the specified picture to be printed together with the specified additional information, the additional information being specified in association with the specified picture to be printed only in a case where the quality of the moving picture is judged to be high; and

an output unit operable to output the specified picture to be printed and the specified additional information associated therewith each to be printed on a single print paper.