Receiving device, display controlling method, and program

• US 8,872,975 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2007
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Aoyama, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): YENKE, BRIAN P
• Application Number:
  US12/310,058
• Publication Number:
  US 20100097522A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,638 Days
• Field of Search: 348/468, 348/563, 348/565, 348/553, 348/555, 348/584, 348/734, 725/38, 725/47
• US Class Current: 348/564
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42638 involving a hybrid front-end, e.g. analog and digital tuners
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream demultiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• 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 21/4882 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 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• 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 5/46 for receiving on more than one standard at will deflecting circuits of multi-standard receivers H04N3/27

Abstract

The present invention relates to a receiving device, a display controlling method, and a program that can make effective use of captions included in programs.

In a TV receiver 1, tuners 11A to 11C are each a tuner for receiving a program. A display section 16 displays caption related information related to caption data included in an object program received by the digital tuner 11B together with an image of a main program received by the digital tuner 11A. The present invention is, for example, applicable to TV receivers having a plurality of tuners for receiving a broadcast program, and the like.

Claims

1. A receiving device for receiving a program, said receiving device comprising:

a plurality of receiving means for receiving a program; and

display controlling means for making display means for displaying an image display, together with an image of a first program being broadcast received by one of said plurality of receiving means, (i) caption related information related to caption data included in a second program being broadcast received by another receiving means, wherein the second program being broadcast is received by the another receiving means based on a determination whether the second program is an object program set in advance, and (ii) when a result of a determination, when the second program being broadcast is received by the another receiving means based on a determination that the second program is the object program, is the caption data included in the second program includes a keyword set in advance, a notifying message to an effect that the caption data includes the keyword as a pop-up, the pop-up including the keyword as information displayed therein and the keyword being displayed with indicia in the pop-up to distinguish the keyword from other information displayed in the pop-up, the other information indicating a channel on which the second program is being broadcast and the other information only indicating information on the second program determined to be the object program set in advance,

wherein said display controlling means makes said display means display, from a memory in which an image captured at a position of the second program is stored together with the caption data, the image captured at the position of the second program together with the caption data stored therewith as the caption related information,

wherein the caption data is displayed as said caption related information in a region at a first edge of a screen on which the image of the first program is displayed and the notifying message as the pop-up is displayed in a region at a second edge of the screen on which the image of the first program is displayed, the first edge being different from the second edge,

in which character data obtained by character recognition performed on an image of the second program can be utilized as the caption data.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1,

wherein said display controlling means makes said display means display the caption data included in the second program received by said other receiving means as said caption related information.

3. The receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising

determining means for determining whether the caption data included in the second program received by said other receiving means includes the keyword,

wherein when said caption data includes said keyword, said display controlling means makes information to an effect that said caption data includes said keyword displayed as said caption related information.

4. The receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising said display means.

5. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein, when the determination is the second program is the object program, the another receiving means receives the second program.

6. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the determination is on a basis of broadcasting date and time of the object program.

7. A display controlling method of a receiving device including a plurality of receiving means for receiving a program, said display controlling method making an image of a program received by said receiving means displayed, said display controlling method comprising:

a step of making display means for displaying an image display, together with an image of a first program being broadcast received by one of said plurality of receiving means, (i) caption related information related to caption data included in a second program being broadcast received by another receiving means, wherein the second program being broadcast is received by the another receiving means based on a determination whether the second program is an object program set in advance and (ii) when a result of a determination, when the second program being broadcast is received by the another receiving means based on a determination that the second program is the object program, is the caption data included in the second program includes a keyword set in advance, a notifying message to an effect that the caption data includes the keyword as a pop-up, the pop-up including the keyword as information displayed therein and the keyword being displayed with indicia in the pop-up to distinguish the keyword from other information displayed in the pop-up, the other information indicating a channel on which the second program is being broadcast and the other information only indicating information on the second program determined to be the object program set in advance; and

a step of making the display means for displaying an image display, from a memory in which an image captured at a position of the second program is stored together with the caption data, the image captured at the position of the second program together with the caption data stored therewith as the caption related information,

wherein the caption data is displayed as said caption related information in a region at a first edge of a screen on which the image of the first program is displayed and the notifying message as the pop-up is displayed in a region at a second edge of the screen on which the image of the first program is displayed, the first edge being different from the second edge, in which character data obtained by character recognition performed on an image of the second program can be utilized as the caption data.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium on which is recorded a program including instructions for making a computer for controlling a receiving device including a plurality of receiving means for receiving a program perform a display controlling process for making an image of a program received by said receiving means displayed, said computer performing:

a step of making display means for displaying an image display, together with an image of a first program being broadcast received by one of said plurality of receiving means, (i) caption related information related to caption data included in a second program being broadcast received by another receiving means, wherein the second program being broadcast is received by the another receiving means based on a determination whether the second program is an object program set in advance, and (ii) when a result of a determination, when the second program being broadcast is received by the another receiving means based on a determination that the second program is the object program, is the caption data included in the second program includes a keyword set in advance, a notifying message to an effect that the caption data includes the keyword as a pop-up, the pop-up including the keyword as information displayed therein and the keyword being displayed with indicia in the pop-up to distinguish the keyword from other information displayed in the pop-up, the other information indicating a channel on which the second program is being broadcast and the other information only indicating information on the second program determined to be the object program set in advance; and

a step of making the display means for displaying an image display, from a memory in which an image captured at a position of the second program is stored together with the caption data, the image captured at the position of the second program together with the caption data stored therewith as the caption related information,

wherein the caption data is displayed as said caption related information in a region at a first edge of a screen on which the image of the first program is displayed and the notifying message as the pop-up is displayed in a region at a second edge of the screen on which the image of the first program is displayed, the first edge being different from the second edge,

in which character data obtained by character recognition performed on an image of the second program can be utilized as the caption data.