Electronic equipment, server, and presentation method of layout script text

• US 20040017513A1
• Filed: 07/21/2003
• Published: 01/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Naomasa
• Application Number:
  US10/623,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20040017513A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/552
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25825 involving client display capabilities, e.g. screen resolution of a mobile phone optimising the visualisation of content during browsing in the Internet G06F16/9577; processing of terminal status or physical abilities in wireless networks H04W8/22; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• 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 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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 21/4858 for modifying screen layout parameters, e.g. fonts, size of the windows
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6547 comprising parameters, e.g. for client setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/658 Transmission by the client directed to the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

An electronic equipment capable of displaying input data from an external interface in a display region defined by a layout script text and of enabling a user to easily select a layout which is desired to be adopted is provided. The electronic equipment, such as a television set, takes in a layout script text from outside through, for example, a network to store it in the electronic equipment, which layout script text defines at least media information and a display region of the media information, which is input through various interfaces such as a video input terminal, broadcast reception, a reader of a detachably mountable storage medium. The user selects an arbitrary layout script text among the stored layout script texts. Then, the electronic equipment reproduces media information in accordance with the selected layout script text to display the media information.

Claims

1. An electronic equipment comprising:

a display unit including a display screen;

an interface for inputting visual media information from outside;

script text acquisition means for taking in a media element including said visual media information to be input from said interface and a script text defining at least a display layout of said media element on said display screen from outside;

a script text storage unit for storing one or more script texts taken in by said script text acquisition means;

script text selection means for selecting an arbitrary script text from one or more script texts stored in said script text storage unit; and

script process means for displaying said media element on said display screen in accordance with said script text selected by said script text selection means.

2. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein

said interface includes a function of inputting visual media information different from each other through a plurality of channels, and

said script text includes information for defining said interface for inputting said media element and a channel of said interface.

3. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein

said script text acquisition means selects a desired script text and takes in said script text from a server for presenting said script text through a network.

4. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein

said script text acquisition means selects a desired script text and takes in said script text from a detachably mountable storage medium which records said script text.

5. A server comprising:

a script text storage unit for storing a media element including visual media information to be input into an electronic equipment from outside through an interface, and a script text defining at least a display layout of said media element on a display screen; and

script text distribution means for reading a corresponding script text from said script text storage unit to distribute said script text to said electronic equipment through a network in response to a request from said electronic equipment as a client.

6. The server according to claim 5, further comprising:

recognition means for recognizing a specification of said electronic equipment as a requester; and

script change means for changing a content of a script text read from said script text storage unit to be optimized according to said specification of said electronic equipment recognized by said recognition means.

7. A presentation method of a layout script text, said method comprising the steps of:

connecting a server to an electronic equipment through a network, said server including a media element having visual media information to be input to said electronic equipment from outside through an interface, and a script text storage unit for storing a script text defining at least a display layout of said media element on a display screen, said electronic equipment including a function of making said media element be displayed on the display screen in accordance with an arbitrary script text;

requesting a distribution of said arbitrary script text to said server from said electronic equipment; and

reading a corresponding script text from said script text storage unit to distribute said script text to said electronic equipment through said network in response to said request issued to said server.

8. The presentation method of a layout script text according to claim 7, wherein

said server recognizes a specification of said electronic equipment as a requester,

changes a content of a script text read from said script text storage unit to be optimized in accordance with said recognized specification of said electronic equipment, and

distributes said changed script text to said electronic equipment.