Digital television broadcast receiver

• US 20050155074A1
• Filed: 12/28/2004
• Published: 07/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Futawatari, Shigeru
• Application Number:
  US11/024,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20050155074A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/100
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• 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 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• 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 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• 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 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71

Abstract

A digital television broadcast receiver receives a digital television broadcast including a television broadcast program and a data broadcast that in turn includes various items of service information, and displays them on a display thereof. When desired service information are selected in compliance with a display format set command given by a remote controller, the display positions and sizes of the selected service information are adjusted. The selected desired item data of service information and a display format therefor are stored in a memory in correspondence to any particular one of a plurality of function keys of the remote controller. When the user operates any particular function key during viewing of the television, only the corresponding selected service information are displayed on the display picture of the television program in a display format based on the display format data stored in the memory.

Claims

1. A digital broadcast receiving apparatus comprising:

a receiver unit for receiving a broadcast signal representing a digital television broadcast that comprises video and voice information and a data broadcast that comprises service information;

a display unit having a display device that displays the video and service information;

a manual selector that selects one to be displayed from among all of service information included in the data broadcast;

a storage device that stores item data of service information selected by the selector and data on a display format in which the selected service information is displayed; and

a display controller that causes the display unit to display the selected service information in the display format stored in the storage device.

2. The receiver of claim 1, wherein the selector comprises an erase unit for erasing one to be not displayed from among all of service information included in the data broadcast displayed on the display.

3. The receiver of claim 2, wherein the display format stored in the storage device indicates the position and size of the selected service information to be displayed.

4. The receiver of claim 3, wherein the selector comprises a plurality of keys of a remote controller each of which selects at least one of service information.

5. The receiver of claim 3, wherein the selector comprises a plurality of channels of the television broadcast receiver each of which channels select at least one of service information.

6. A method of displaying a digital broadcast on a display of a television broadcast receiver, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a broadcast signal representing a digital television broadcast that comprises video and voice information and a data broadcast that comprises service information;

displaying the video and service information on the display unit of the receiver;

selecting one to be displayed from among all of service information included in the data broadcast;

storing item data of service information selected in the selecting step and data on a display format in which the selected service information is displayed; and

causing the display unit to display the selected service information in the stored display format.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the selecting step comprises erasing one to be not displayed from among all of service information included in the data broadcast displayed on the display unit.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the stored display format indicates the position and size of the selected service information to be displayed.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the selecting step comprises causing each of a plurality of keys of a remote controller to select at least one of service information.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the selecting step comprises causing each of a plurality of channels of the television broadcast receiver to select at least one of service information.

11. A digital television broadcast system comprising:

a television broadcast station that performs a digital television broadcast that comprises a data broadcast;

a server that supplies a display format for the data broadcast;

a television broadcast receiver that receives and displays the digital television broadcast from the television broadcast station; and

a mobile communication terminal that comprises;

a communication unit that downloads data on the display format from the server; and

a transmission unit that transmits the downloaded display format data to the television broadcast receiver,

wherein the television receiver displays the received digital television broadcast in a display format represented by the display format data transmitted by the transmission unit of the mobile communication terminal.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the display format data supplied by the sever comprises a plurality of combinations of items of service information,to be displayed and their display positions.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the mobile terminal comprises a unit for allocating the downloaded display format data to any one of keys thereof.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the output unit of the mobile terminal comprises an infrared signal output unit.