Broadcasting receiving apparatus, method for controlling broadcasting receiving apparatus, broadcasting receiving apparatus controlling program, and computer-readable recording medium

• US 8,006,269 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2005
• Issued: 08/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mashiko, Ryutaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Beliveau; Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Corbo; Nicholas T
• Application Number:
  US10/592,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20070143818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,360 Days
• Field of Search: 725/63, 725/62, 455/575.3, 455/556.1, 455/3.02, 455/3.06
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/91 Mobile communication networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/85
• 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 21/4383 Accessing a communication channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• 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 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

An information communication terminal apparatus allows a broadcasting signal transmitting side and a secondary service provider to provide a television service in consideration of a user'"'"'s desired way of viewing. This is attained as follows. That is, a television receiving control section controls, in accordance with a predetermined broadcasting control command extracted by a data extracting section from data received by a data communication section, a television broadcasting receiving section such that the television broadcasting receiving section controls (start, halt, or carry out channel switching) reception of a broadcasting signal.

Claims

1. A broadcasting receiving apparatus, comprising:

a broadcasting receiving section for receiving a broadcasting signal from outside the broadcasting receiving apparatus;

a data extracting section for extracting predetermined information from data contained in the broadcasting signal received by the broadcasting receiving section or from data received by a data communication section for carrying out data communication;

a broadcasting receiving control section for controlling the broadcasting receiving section based on the predetermined information; and

a state detecting section for detecting a current physical state as hardware of the broadcasting receiving apparatus,

wherein the broadcasting receiving control section controls the broadcasting receiving section such that the broadcasting receiving section starts reception of a broadcasting signal received based on the predetermined information, and in cases where the state detecting section does not detect that the current physical state is an unfolded state of a body of the broadcasting receiving apparatus within a predetermined period of time from the start of reception of the broadcasting signal, the broadcasting receiving control section controls the broadcasting receiving section such that the broadcasting receiving section halts the reception of the broadcasting signal.

2. The broadcasting receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the predetermined information is a broadcasting control command.

4. A broadcasting receiving apparatus controlling program encoded within a computer memory, wherein the broadcasting receiving apparatus as set forth in claim 1 comprises a computer having the computer memory, the program when executed by the computer performs the functions of the respective sections.

3. A broadcasting receiving method performed by a broadcasting receiving apparatus, comprising:

receiving a broadcasting signal from outside the broadcasting receiving apparatus;

extracting predetermined information from data contained in the broadcasting signal or from data received by a data communication section for carrying out data communication;

controlling a broadcasting receiving section based on the predetermined information; and

detecting a current physical state as hardware of the broadcasting receiving apparatus,

wherein reception of a broadcasting signal is started based on the predetermined information, and in cases where an unfolded state of a body of the broadcasting receiving apparatus is not detected as the current physical state within a predetermined period of time from the start of reception of the broadcasting signal, halting the reception of the broadcasting signal.