Television receiver, method of controlling the receiver, and network construction device

• US 9,294,818 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2013
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd. (Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Hirotsugu
• Primary Examiner(s): Ekpo, Nnenna
• Application Number:
  US13/743,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20130133001A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,161 Days
• Field of Search: 725/110, 725/131
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2358 for generating different versions, e.g. for different recipient devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• 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 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4856 for language selection, e.g. for the menu or subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/643 Communication protocols network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP], H04L65/65

Abstract

According to one embodiment, the present invention is designed to automatically determine the language of the content distributed when connecting to the Web server so as to agree with the language configured at the initial setup. The present invention has following elements. An initial setup module maintains initial setup information that indicates at least a menu language. A setup information association process module which determines a language request signal to request a language the same as the menu language indicated in the initial setup information. And a network control module which accesses the World Wide Web while transmitting the language request signal to determine a browser language.

Claims

1. A television receiver comprising:

a tuner for receiving a digital broadcasting signal;

a transport decoder for selecting a television program from the received digital broadcasting signal;

an initial setup module, operating within a controller, for making an initial setup of the television receiver by cooperating with a menu control module and an on-screen display (OSD) controller to display a menu screen from which a user selects a menu language from a variety of languages as initial setup information and to maintain the initial setup information as being initially set up;

a network control module, operating within the controller, for accessing a server of the World Wide Web and transmit a language request signal to the server in an Accept-Language header of the HTTP request when accessing the server to determine a content language; and

a setup information association process module, operating within the controller, for determining said language request signal to request the same language as the selected menu language indicated in the initial setup information, wherein the language request signal is automatically determined when the menu language is decided by the user during the initial setup of the television receiver, wherein the language request signal is configured to cause the server to deliver content in the selected menu language.

2. The television receiver of claim 1, further comprising:

an audio-video decoder for decoding video and audio data in packets of the television program such that audio data decoded by the audio-video decoder is output to a speaker and video data decoded by the audio-video decoder is output to a display, wherein the content delivered from the server is decoded by the audio-video decoder.

3. The television receiver of claim 2, wherein the output of the speaker has a speech language and the output of the display has a display language.

4. The television receiver of claim 2, wherein a speech language of the audio data decoded by the audio-video decoder is the same language with the selected menu language.

5. The television receiver of claim 2, wherein a display language of the video data decoded by the audio-video decoder is the same language with the selected menu language.

6. A method of controlling a television receiver that includes a tuner for receiving a digital broadcasting signal, a transport decoder for selecting a television program from the received broadcasting signal, an initial setup module that is adapted to perform an initial setup of the television receiver that allows for selection of a selected menu language from a variety of languages and a network control module that is adapted to access a server of the World Wide Web, the method comprising;

transmitting a language request signal to a server in a Accept-Language header of an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request in response to the television receiver accessing the server to determine a content language; and

determining said language request signal to request the same language as the selected menu language indicated in the initial setup information, wherein the language request signal is automatically determined when the menu language is decided by the user during setting up of the television receiver, wherein the language request signal is configured to cause the server to deliver content in the selected menu language.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

decoding video and audio data in packets of the television program such that audio data decoded by the audio-video decoder is output to a speaker and video data decoded by the audio-video decoder is output to a display, wherein the content delivered from the server is decoded by the audio-video decoder.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the output of the speaker has a speech language and the output of the display has a display language.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein a speech language of the audio data decoded by the audio-video decoder is the same language with the selected menu language.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein a display language of the video data decoded by the audio-video decoder is the same language with the selected menu language.

11. A television receiver comprising:

an on-screen display (OSD) controller; and

a controller communicatively coupled to the OSD controller, the controller to (i) display a menu screen that allows a user to select a menu language from a variety of languages as initial setup information and maintain the initial setup information, (ii) determine a language request signal to request a language identical to the selected menu language indicated in the initial setup information, and (iii) transmit a language request signal in an Accept-Language header of an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request when accessing a server to determine a content language,

wherein the language request signal is automatically determined when the menu language is decided during an initial setup of the television receiver and the language request signal is configured to cause the server to deliver content in the selected menu language.

12. The television receiver of claim 11, further comprising:

a tuner to receive a digital broadcasting signal;

a transport decoder to select a television program from the received digital broadcasting signal; and

an audio-video decoder for decoding video data and audio data in packets of the television program, the audio data decoded by the audio-video decoder is output to a speaker and the video data decoded by the audio-video decoder is output to a display, wherein the content delivered from the server is decoded by the audio-video decoder.

13. The television receiver of claim 12, wherein the output of the speaker has a speech language and the output of the display has a display language.

14. The television receiver of claim 12, wherein a speech language of the audio data decoded by the audio-video decoder is the same language with the selected menu language.

15. The television receiver of claim 12, wherein a display language of the video data decoded by the audio-video decoder is the same language with the selected menu language.