Method and apparatus for reproducing content

• US 8,787,727 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2009
• Issued: 07/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Young-min, Oh, Keum-yong, Ahn, Jun-eok, Jung, Da-na
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr., William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): ADAMS, EILEEN M
• Application Number:
  US12/635,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20100178027A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,684 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 386/229
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• 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 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/814 comprising emergency warnings arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems H04H20/59; arrangements for providing alarms, notifications, alerts to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

Provided are method and apparatus for displaying a message relating to a service received from a server while a multi-function device reproduces content, the multi-function device including a function of reproducing content stored in an information storage medium and a function of receiving a service provided from a remote server.

Claims

1. A method of reproducing content and receiving a service provided from a remote server, the method comprising:

receiving a message provided to a user from the remote server according to a first video standard, while reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium according to a second video standard different from the first video standard;

determining, according to a priority order of the message, whether to continue reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and whether to display the message;

and performing at least one of continuing reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and displaying the message, according to a determination of the priority order of the message,

wherein the steps of determining and performing are performed automatically without a user input or user interferences.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information storage medium is a Blu-ray disc and the service is a digital cable service.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the performing of at least one of continuously reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and displaying the message comprises stopping the reproducing of the content stored in the information storage medium and displaying the message fully on a screen.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the displaying of the message fully on the screen comprises displaying the message and a digital cable channel relating to the message fully on the screen.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the performing of at least one of continuously reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and displaying the message comprises displaying the message on a part of a screen.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the displaying of the message on the part of the screen comprises displaying the message and a digital cable channel relating to the message in a Picture-in-Picture (PiP).

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the displaying of the message on the part of the screen comprises displaying icons relating to the message.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the displaying of the message on the part of the screen comprises displaying information relating to the priority order of the message.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the performing of at least one of continuously reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and displaying the message comprises displaying the message after completely reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein the message is an emergency message, a message informing of an upgrading of software relating to the digital cable service, or a message informing of an upgrading of firmware of a cable card.

21. A non-transitory storage medium having embodied thereon a program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of claim 1.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the first video standard is a digital cable standard and a second video standard is a Blu-ray standard, and the method further comprises:

performing, by the apparatus, functions of a Blu-ray disc player when the content is being reproduced; and

performing, by the apparatus, functions of a digital cable set-top box, when the digital cable service including receiving and displaying the message is provided.

11. An apparatus for reproducing content stored in an information storage medium and receiving a service provided from a remote server, the apparatus comprising:

a service processing unit which receives a message provided to a user from the remote server according to a first video standard, while the content stored in the information storage medium is being reproduced according to a second video standard different from the first video standard;

an operating mode determination unit which automatically, without a user input or user interferences, determines, according to a priority order of the message, whether to continue reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and whether to display the message;

and a content reproducing unit which automatically, without the user input or the user interferences, at least one of continues reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and displays the message, according to a determination of the priority order of the message.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the information storage medium is a Blu-ray disc and the service is a digital cable service.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the content reproducing unit stops reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and displays the message fully on a screen.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the content reproducing unit displays the message and a digital cable channel relating to the message fully on the screen.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the content reproducing unit displays the message on a part of a screen.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the content reproducing unit displays the message and a digital cable channel relating to the message in a Picture-in-Picture (PiP) on a part of the screen.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the content reproducing unit displays icons relating to the message on the part of the screen.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the content reproducing unit displays information relating to the priority order of the message on the part of the screen.

19. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the content reproducing unit displays the message after completely reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium.

20. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the message is an emergency message, a message informing of an upgrading of software relating to the digital cable service, or a message informing of an upgrading of firmware of a cable card.

22. A method of reproducing content and receiving a service provided from a server according to a first video standard, the method comprising:

reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium according to a second video standard different from the first video standard;

receiving a message from the server, according to the first video standard, during the reproducing;

determining, according to a priority order of the message, whether to pause or stop the reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium after receiving the message and whether to display the received message;

and performing at least one of the pausing or stopping the reproducing the content stored in the information storage medium and displaying the message, according to a determination of the priority order of the message,

wherein the steps of determining and performing are performed automatically without a user input or user interferences.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the information storage medium is a Blu-ray disc and the service is a digital cable service.