INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20030164898A1
• Filed: 03/24/1998
• Published: 09/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: IMAI, KUNIO
• Application Number:
  US09/046,548
• Publication Number:
  US 20030164898A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/465
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/53 Arrangements specially adapted for specific applications, e.g. for traffic information or for mobile receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/18 on copying information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/47 for recognising genres
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/035 Circuits for the digital non-picture data signal, e.g. for slicing of the data signal, for regeneration of the data-clock signal, for error detection or correction of the data signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/088 the inserted signal being digital
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0882 for the transmission of character code signals, e.g. for teletext circuits for the digital non-picture data signal H04N7/035

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus which is excellent in operability and can easily and certainly obtain desired information. In the information processing apparatus, in case of extracting data of a program corresponding to a specific field information from among data superimposed on television broadcast, an extraction means 131 searches and extracts by using a keyword the data of the program corresponding to the specific field information from data of a table of contents or data of program contents both included in the superimposed data, obtains a program number and a channel of the program from the extracted data, and automatically sets the obtained program number and channel. A series of processes are performed based on the set program number and channel, and information obtained as a result of the processes, i.e., the data of the program corresponding to the specific field information, is print outputted from an output means 151. Thus, operations to designate the program number and the channel become unnecessary.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

reception means for receiving broadcast of a predetermined system, including data;

extraction means for extracting the data received by said reception means;

judgment means for judging whether or not the data extracted by said extraction means is data of a program corresponding to specific field information, by using a keyword; and

output means for performing a predetermined process to the data extracted by said extraction means and outputting the processed data, based on a judged result of said judgment means.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast of the predetermined system is at least any of television broadcast including data superimposed on a vertical blanking term, television broadcast including data superimposed on a voice sub-carrier, FM broadcast including data superimposed on a radio wave, satellite broadcast including data superimposed on a radio wave, and broadcast transmitted through an internet.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data is at least any of data in character broadcast and data in data broadcast.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said judgment means judges whether or not the data extracted by said extraction means is the data of the program corresponding to the specific field information, by judging whether or not the keyword concerning the specific field information is included in any of data of a table of contents and data of program contents both included in the data extracted by said extraction means.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising instruction means for instructing said output means to output the data.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising setting means for setting information including the specific field information.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising setting means for setting information including an output time of said output means.

8. An apparatus according to claim 6 or 7, wherein said setting means can add and change the setting information.

9. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said output means performs a layout process to lay out the data extracted by said extraction means on a predetermined output format.

10. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said output means print outputs the data subjected to the layout process.

11. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said output means display outputs the data subjected to the layout process.

12. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said output means outputs the data to an apparatus which performs recording and reproducing on a recording medium.

13. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising record and reproduction means for recording onto a recording medium a broadcasting wave received by said reception means together with data superimposed on the wave, and inputting a reproduction signal of the recorded wave to said extraction means.

14. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of said means is provided in a printer.

47. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data is described in an HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

15. An information processing apparatus comprising:

search and extraction means for extracting data of a program corresponding to specific field information from among data included in broadcast of a predetermined system;

layout means for analyzing the data extracted by said search and extraction means and performing a layout process on the analyzed data;

output means for outputting the data subjected to the layout process by said layout means, to a printing apparatus; and

control means for controlling an operation of the entire apparatus such that the operations of said respective means are sequentially performed using a preset time or button depressing as a trigger,

wherein said search and extraction means searches the data of the program corresponding to the specific field information based on a keyword, from data of a table of contents and data of program contents both included in the data in the broadcast of the predetermined system.

16. An information processing system which includes the information processing apparatus according to claim 15.

48. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the data is described in an HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

17. A storage medium which is readably stored in a processing apparatus, said medium storing:

a reception step of receiving broadcast of a predetermined system, including data;

an extraction step of extracting the data included in a broadcasting wave received in said reception step;

a judgment step of judging whether or not the data extracted in said extraction step is data of a program corresponding to specific field information, by using a keyword; and

an output step of performing a predetermined process to the data extracted in said extraction step and outputting the processed data, based on a judged result in said judgment step.

18. A medium according to claim 17, wherein the broadcast of the predetermined system is at least any of television broadcast including data superimposed on a vertical blanking term, television broadcast including data superimposed on a voice sub-carrier, FM broadcast including data superimposed on a radio wave, satellite broadcast including data superimposed on a radio wave, and broadcast transmitted through an internet.

19. A medium according to claim 17, wherein the superimposed data is at least any of data in character broadcast and data in data broadcast.

20. A medium according to claim 17, wherein said judgment step judges whether or not the data extracted in said extraction step is the data of the program corresponding to the specific field information, by judging whether or not the keyword concerning the specific field information is included in any of data of a table of contents and data of program contents both included in the data extracted in said extraction step.

21. A medium according to claim 17, further storing an instruction step of instructing said output step to output the data.

22. A medium according to claim 17, further storing a setting step of setting information including the specific field information.

23. A medium according to claim 17, further storing a setting means for setting information including an output time in said output step.

24. A medium according to claim 22 or 23, wherein said setting step includes a step of capable of adding and changing the setting information.

25. A medium according to claim 17, wherein said output step includes a step of laying out the data extracted in said extraction step on a predetermined output format.

26. A medium according to claim 25, wherein said output step includes a step of print outputting the laid-out data.

27. A medium according to claim 25, wherein said output step includes a step of display outputting the laid-out data.

28. A medium according to claim 17, wherein said output step includes a step of outputting the data to an apparatus which performs recording and reproducing on a recording medium.

29. A medium according to claim 17, further storing a step of recording onto a recording medium the broadcasting wave received in said reception step together with data superimposed on the wave, and inputting a reproduction signal of the recorded wave to an extraction means.

30. A medium according to claim 17, wherein said medium is provided within an apparatus integrally consisting of a reception device to receive the broadcasting wave and a printer, and each step in said medium is read by a processing device performing operation controlling to the apparatus.

32. A recording medium, wherein the recording media according to claims 17 to 31 are provided in a system, and each step stored in the media is read by a processing apparatus which performs operation controlling to the system.

49. A medium according to claim 17, wherein the data is described in an HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

31. A storage medium which is readably stored in a processing apparatus, said medium comprising:

a search and extraction step of extracting data of a program corresponding to specific field information from among data included in broadcast of a predetermined system;

a layout step of analyzing the data extracted in said search and extraction step and performing a layout process on the analyzed data;

an output step of outputting the data subjected the layout process in said layout step, to a printing apparatus; and

a control step of performing control such that the operations in said respective step are sequentially performed using a preset time or button depressing as a trigger,

wherein said search and extraction step includes a step of searching the data of the program corresponding to the specific field information based on a keyword, from data of a table of contents and data of program contents both superimposed on the broadcast of the predetermined system,

50. A medium according to claim 31, wherein the data is described in an HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

33. An information processing apparatus comprising:

reception means for receiving data of a predetermined system including additional data;

extraction means for extracting the additional data from the data received by said reception means;

judgment means for judging whether or not the data extracted by said extraction means is data corresponding to specific field information, by using a keyword; and

output means for outputting the data based on said judgment means and said extraction means.

34. An apparatus according to claim 33, wherein the data of the predetermined system is at least any of television broadcast including data superimposed on a vertical blanking term, television broadcast including data superimposed on a voice sub-carrier, FM broadcast including data superimposed on a radio wave, satellite broadcast including data superimposed on a radio wave, and broadcast transmitted through an internet.

35. An apparatus according to claim 33, wherein the additional data is at least any of data in character broadcast and data in data broadcast.

36. An apparatus according to claim 33, wherein said judgment means judges whether or not the data extracted by said extraction means is the data corresponding to the specific field information, by judging whether or not the keyword concerning the specific field information is included in any of data of a table of contents and data of contents both included in the data extracted by said extraction means.

37. An apparatus according to claim 33, further comprising instruction means for instructing said output means to output the data.

38. An apparatus according to claim 33, further comprising setting means for setting information including the specific field information.

39. An apparatus according to claim 33, further comprising setting means for setting information including an output time of said output means.

40. An apparatus according to claim 38 or 39, wherein said setting means can add and change the setting information.

41. An apparatus according to claim 33, wherein said output means performs a layout process to lay out the additional data extracted by said extraction means on a predetermined output format.

42. An apparatus according to claim 41, wherein said output means print outputs the data subjected to the layout process.

43. An apparatus according to claim 41, wherein said output means display outputs the data subjected to the layout process.

44. An apparatus according to claim 33, wherein said output means outputs the data to an apparatus which performs recording and reproducing on a recording medium.

45. An apparatus according to claim 33, further comprising record and reproduction means for recording onto a recording medium the data received by said reception means together with the additional data included in the received data, and inputting a reproduction signal of the recorded data to said extraction means.

46. An apparatus according to claim 33, wherein each of said means is provided in a printer.

51. An apparatus according to claim 33, wherein the data is described in an HTML (HyperText Markup Language).