Method for skipping advertisement broadcasting

• US 7,904,920 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2006
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Sung, Min Suk, Park, Sun Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Pendleton; Brian T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Saint Cyr; Jean D
• Application Number:
  US11/531,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20070124758A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,636 Days
• Field of Search: 725/34
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A method for skipping advertisement broadcasting is provided. Whether or not it is advertisement broadcasting is determined using an program ID of received broadcasting contents. When it is advertisement broadcasting, the advertisement is skipped. During the advertisement broadcasting skipping, a multi tasking environment other than broadcasting viewing is provided. By skipping advertisement broadcasting during the broadcasting content recording, the recording results not including the advertisement is obtained.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving broadcasting signals from a broadcasting system;

displaying the received broadcasting signals;

detecting information for discriminating between a program and advertisement broadcasting content from the broadcasting signals received from a broadcasting system;

assessing existence of an advertisement broadcast content skipping interval;

skipping the corresponding advertisement broadcasting content during the advertisement broadcast content skipping interval where information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is detected;

decoding text information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content; and

during an advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval, simultaneously displaying the decoded text information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content and information reflecting a task executed by a user including at least one of a task of searching or editing, wherein the task is other than displaying received broadcast signals, and the information reflecting the task is independent of the displayed broadcasting signals.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a receiver terminates advertisement broadcasting viewing at the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

displaying the decoded information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting comprises displaying the decoded information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content as a caption during the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

displaying the decoded information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content comprises displaying the decoded information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content as a caption during the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval according to user selection.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is included in a header that is transmitted from the broadcasting system in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is included in a PMT-PID table that is transmitted from the broadcasting system in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content includes information representing advertisement content in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content includes text information representing advertisement content in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is updated at a receiver, wherein the information is received from a broadcasting system.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the skipping of advertisement broadcasting content are performed automatically or manually according to user selection.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the decoded information includes text information substantially indicating the skipped advertisement broadcasting content.

12. The method according to claim 1, the operation of the skip of the corresponding advertisement broadcasting content is directly performed on a receiver without storing or displaying it.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein during an advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval, simultaneously displaying the decoded text information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content and information reflecting a task other than displaying received broadcast signals comprises:

terminating the display of the received broadcasting signals;

executing a task unrelated to the received broadcast signals;

simultaneously displaying the decoded text information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content and outputs of the executed task.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein simultaneously displaying the decoded text information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content and outputs of the executed task comprises displaying the outputs of the executed task on a majority of a display screen, while simultaneously displaying the decoded text information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content on the remainder of the display screen.

27. The method according to claim 11, wherein recording the target broadcasting signals is performed at a DMB broadcasting system receiver.

15. A comprising:

receiving broadcasting signals from a broadcasting system;

detecting information for discriminating broadcasting content from the received broadcasting signals;

registering advertisement broadcasting content from the information for discriminating broadcasting content;

determining whether or not it is advertisement broadcasting by comparing the information for discriminating broadcasting content with the registered information;

decoding information representing advertisement broadcasting content;

assessing existence of an advertisement broadcast content skipping interval;

skipping corresponding advertisement broadcasting content during the corresponding advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval when it is advertisement broadcasting; and

instead of displaying the advertisement broadcasting content, simultaneously displaying the decoded information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content as a caption during the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval and information reflecting a task executed by a user including at least one of a task of searching or editing, wherein the task is other than displaying received broadcasting signals, and the information reflecting the task is independent of the displayed broadcasting signals.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the information for discriminating advertisement broadcasting content further includes information for representing broadcasting content.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is included in a header that is transmitted from a broadcasting system in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

18. The method according to claim 15, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is included in a PMT-PID table that is transmitted from a broadcasting system in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

19. A method comprising:

receiving DMB broadcasting from a broadcasting system at a DMB receiver;

detecting information representing advertisement broadcasting content from the received DMB broadcasting signals when the DMB receiver is operating in an advertisement broadcasting skipping mode;

based on detecting the information representing advertisement broadcasting content, determining to skip advertisement broadcasting based on a header information of a packet transmitted from a broadcasting system with respect to the received DMB broadcasting;

based on determining to skip advertisement broadcasting, skipping corresponding advertisement broadcasting content while receiving the DMB broadcasting and performing a task other than displaying received broadcasting signals at an interval where the information representing advertisement broadcasting content is detected;

after skipping corresponding advertisement broadcasting content, detecting information representing program broadcasting content from the received DMB broadcasting signals;

as a result of detecting information representing program broadcasting content from the received DMB broadcasting signals, determining whether to continue to perform the task other than displaying received broadcasting signals;

when determining to continue to perform the task other than viewing broadcasting signals, continuing to perform the task other than viewing broadcasting signals; and

when determining to not continue to perform the task other than viewing broadcasting signals, displaying the received DMB broadcasting.

20. The method according to claim 19, further comprising:

decoding text information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content; and

displaying the decoded information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content simultaneously with the task other than displaying received broadcast, as a caption during the advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein determining whether to continue to perform the task other than displaying received broadcasting signals comprises:

receiving a user input indicating whether to continue to perform the task other than displaying received broadcasting signals; and

based on the received user input, determining whether to continue to perform the task other than displaying received broadcasting signals.

22. A method comprising:

receiving target broadcasting signals from a broadcasting system including program broadcasting;

recording the target broadcasting signals;

detecting information for discriminating various content in the received target broadcasting signals;

determining using the detected information that the target broadcasting signals are advertisement broadcasting;

based on determining that the target broadcasting signals are advertisement broadcasting, temporarily terminating recording of the target broadcasting;

after temporarily terminating recording of the target broadcasting signals, determining using the detected information that the target broadcasting signals are program broadcasting;

as a result of determining that the target broadcasting signals are program broadcasting, determining whether to restart recording the target broadcasting signal;

when determining to restart recording the target broadcasting signal, restarting recording of the target broadcasting signal at a stored final recording position when the target broadcasting signals correspond to previously-recorded program broadcasting content according to the detected information, and at a new position when the target broadcasting signals correspond to new broadcasting content; and

when determining to not restart recording the target broadcasting signal, continuing to terminate recording of the target broadcasting signals.

23. The method according to claim 22, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting is included in a header that is transmitted from a broadcasting system in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

24. The method according to claim 22, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting is included in a PMT-PID table that is transmitted from a broadcasting system in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

25. The method according to claim 22, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting is updated at a receiver and the information is received from a broadcasting system.

26. The method according to claim 22, wherein determining whether to restart recording the target broadcasting signal comprises determining whether the determined program broadcasting is associated with the previously-recorded broadcasting content.

28. The method according to claim 22, wherein recording the target broadcasting signals is performed at a DMB broadcasting system receiver.

29. The method of claim 22, wherein determining whether to restart recording the target broadcasting signal comprises:

receiving a user input indicating whether to restart recording the target broadcasting signal; and

based on the received user input, determining whether to restart recording the target broadcasting signal.

30. A method comprising:

receiving target broadcasting signals from a broadcasting system;

recording the target broadcasting signals;

detecting information included in a header of a packet transmitted from the broadcasting system for discriminating various content of the target broadcasting signals;

determining, using the detected information, that the target broadcasting signals are advertisement broadcasting;

decoding text information corresponding to content of the advertisement broadcasting;

temporarily terminating recording and storing final position information of a file in which the broadcasting signals are being recorded;

during an advertisement broadcasting content skipping interval, simultaneously displaying the decoded text information corresponding to the skipped advertisement broadcasting content and information reflecting a task other than displaying received broadcast signals;

determining, using the detected information, that the advertisement broadcasting has terminated and program broadcasting has begun;

as a result of determining that the advertisement broadcasting has terminated and program broadcasting has begun, determining that the program broadcasting corresponds to previously-recorded broadcasting;

based on determining that the program broadcasting corresponds to previously-recorded broadcasting content, restarting recording of the target broadcasting signals at a stored final recording position information when the program broadcasting correspond to the previously -recorded broadcasting content;

as a result of determining that the advertisement broadcasting has terminated and program broadcasting has begun, determining whether to continue to perform the task other than displaying received broadcasting signals;

when determining to continue to perform the task other than displaying broadcasting signals, continuing to perform the task other than displaying broadcasting signals; and

when determining to not continue to perform the task other than displaying broadcasting signals, displaying the program broadcasting.

31. The method according to claim 30, wherein:

the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is included in the header in a packet-based digital broadcasting system, and each packet includes the header having a program identification information (PID) as information for discriminating the broadcasting program, and

the advertisement broadcasting content are discriminated from the target broadcasting signals according to the header information transmitted from the broadcasting system.

32. The method according to claim 30, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is included in a PMT-PID table in a packet-based digital broadcasting system.

33. The method according to claim 30, wherein the information indicating advertisement broadcasting content is updated at a receiver, wherein the information is received from a broadcasting system.