Receiving device, receiving method, transmitting device, and transmitting method

• US 9,264,648 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2013
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitahara, Jun, Kitazato, Naohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, William
• Application Number:
  US13/888,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20140099078A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,015 Days
• Field of Search: 386/240, 386/248
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/40 Arrangements for broadcast specially adapted for accumulation-type receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/91 broadcasting computer programmes
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/72 using electronic programme guides [EPG] focusing on identifying broadcast space time H04H60/39 ; menu type display of EPG in television receivers H04N21/47
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a receiving device including: a first receiving section configured to receive audio visual contents capable of a download reservation and transmitted in non-real time; a recording section configured to record the audio visual contents that have been downloaded; an obtaining section configured to obtain an application program for executing a process related to the audio visual contents; and an executing section configured to execute the process related to the audio visual contents on a basis of control information included in the application program.

Claims

1. A receiving device comprising:

circuitry configured to

download, from a server managed by an entity other than an entity providing non-real-time audio visual contents, an application program related to the non-real-time audio visual contents,

execute the application program, including executing a function of reserving a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents from a broadcast signal,

receive the broadcast signal, the broadcast signal including real-time audio visual content and the non-real-time audio visual contents, the non-real-time audio visual contents having been reserved via a download reservation function of the application program and transmitted in non-real time,

record the non-real-time audio visual contents that have been downloaded.

2. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein when a predetermined event has occurred during execution of the application program, the circuitry executes a process related to the non-real-time audio visual contents according to the event that has occurred.

3. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

when the non-real-time audio visual contents whose download is to be reserved are specified via the application program, the circuitry reserves a download of the specified non-real-time audio visual contents.

4. The receiving device according to claim 3, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for cancelling a reservation for a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, and

when the non-real-time audio visual contents to be cancelled are specified via the application program, the circuitry cancels the reservation for a download of the specified non-real-time audio visual contents.

5. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for obtaining a download state of the non-real-time audio visual contents whose download is reserved, and

when an instruction to obtain the download state is given via the application program, the circuitry obtains the download state.

6. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for obtaining detailed information on the downloaded non-real-time audio visual contents, and

when an instruction to obtain the detailed information is given via the application program, the circuitry obtains the detailed information.

7. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for performing an immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, and

when the immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents whose download is to be reserved is instructed via the application program, the circuitry performs the instructed immediate download of the non-real-time audio visual contents.

8. The receiving device according to claim 7, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for stopping a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, and

when an instruction to stop the download of the non-real-time audio visual contents is given via the application program, the circuitry stops the download of the non-real-time audio visual contents.

9. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for deleting the downloaded non-real-time audio visual contents and related information related to the non-real-time audio visual contents, and

when the non-real-time audio visual contents to be deleted are specified via the application program, the circuitry deletes the specified non-real-time audio visual contents and the related information.

10. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for updating download information on a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, the download information being transmitted periodically together with the non-real-time audio visual contents, and

when an instruction to update the download information is given via the application program, the circuitry obtains and updates the download information.

11. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein

executing the application program includes performing a function for obtaining recording space information on a recording space of a memory to which the non-real-time audio visual contents that have been downloaded are recorded, and

when an instruction to obtain the recording space information is given via the application program, the circuitry obtains the recording space information.

12. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein

the application program is a Hyper Text Markup Language document described in Hyper Text Markup Language, and including functions described as scripts in the HTML document.

13. The receiving device according to claim 12, wherein the circuitry obtains the Hyper Text Markup Language document transmitted from an information processing device managed by another entity than an entity providing the audio visual contents.

14. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry receives the non-real-time audio visual contents transmitted by broadcast waves.

15. The receiving device according to claim 14, wherein the circuitry is further configured to receive the non-real-time audio visual contents distributed via the Internet when the non-real-time audio visual contents transmitted by the broadcast waves cannot be received.

16. The receiving device according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry identifies target non-real-time audio visual contents by identifying information identifying the non-real-time audio visual contents, the identifying information being included in download information on a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents, the download information being transmitted periodically together with the non-real-time audio visual contents.

17. The receiving device according to claim 16, wherein

the download information is an Non Real Time Information Table, and

the identifying information is a Content Linkage included in the Non Real Time Information Table.

18. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to obtain the application program based on whether a type of service to be processed by the receiving device is provided in real-time.

19. A receiving method of a receiving device, the receiving method comprising:

in the receiving device,

downloading, from a server managed by an entity other than an entity providing non-real-time audio visual contents, an application program related to the non-real-time audio visual contents;

executing the application program, including executing a function of reserving a download of the non-real-time audio visual contents from a broadcast signal;

receiving the broadcast signal, the broadcast signal including real-time audio visual content and the non-real-time audio visual contents having been reserved via a download reservation function of the application program and transmitted in non-real time;

controlling recording of the non-real-time audio visual contents that have been downloaded in a memory.

20. A transmitting device comprising:

circuitry configured to

generate an application program related to non-real-time audio visual contents, the application program having a function of reserving download of the non-real-time audio visual contents via a download reservation function of the application program, the reserved non-real-time audio visual contents being transmitted in non-real time in a broadcast signal that includes the non-real-time audio visual contents and real-time audio visual content; and

transmit the application program, wherein

the transmitting device is managed by an entity other than an entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents.

21. A transmitting method of a transmitting device, the transmitting method comprising:

in the transmitting device,

generating, by circuitry of the transmitting device, an application program related to non-real-time audio visual contents, the application program having a function of reserving download of the non-real-time audio visual contents via a download reservation function of the application program, the reserved non-real-time audio visual contents being transmitted in non-real time in a broadcast signal that includes the non-real-time audio visual contents and real-time audio visual content; and

transmitting the application program, wherein

the transmitting device is managed by an entity other than an entity providing the non-real-time audio visual contents.