CONTENT PROVISION SYSTEM, CONTENT GENERATION APPARATUS, CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND CONTENT GENERATION METHOD

• US 20100235876A1
• Filed: 02/04/2010
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Wada, Sunao, KURIHARA, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,767,774 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/136
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/242 Synchronization processes, e.g. processing of PCR [Program Clock References] arrangements for synchronising broadcast or distribution via plural systems in broadcast distribution systems H04H20/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4131 home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4305 Synchronising client clock from received content stream, e.g. locking decoder clock with encoder clock, extraction of the PCR packets arrangements for synchronising receiver with transmitter by comparing receiver clock with transmitter clock H04L7/0012; arrangements for synchronising receiver with transmitter wherein the receiver takes measures against momentary loss of synchronisation H04L7/0083
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43074 of additional data with content streams on the same device, e.g. of EPG data or interactive icon with a TV program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content

Abstract

A content provision system provides a content reproduction apparatus with content including main information which is at least either of video information and audio information generated by a content generation apparatus. The content generation apparatus generates a bodily sensation element by applying numeric conversion to characteristics of a bodily sensation given to a user, generates instruction information to reproduce the bodily sensation element in synchronism with reproduction of the main information, generates bodily sensation information by adding the instruction information to the bodily sensation element, and generates content including the bodily sensation information by adding the bodily sensation information to the main information. The content reproduction apparatus separates the main information and the bodily sensation information from the content, reproduces the main information, separates the bodily sensation element and the instruction information from the bodily sensation, and reproduces bodily sensation element based on the instruction information.

Claims

1. A content provision system configured to provide content including main information which is at least either of video information and audio information generated by a content generation apparatus to a content reproduction apparatus, wherein

the content generation apparatus comprises:

a first generator configured to generate a bodily sensation element by applying numeric conversion to characteristics of a bodily sensation given to a user;

a second generator configured to generate instruction information to reproduce the bodily sensation element in synchronism with reproduction of the main information;

a third generator configured to generate bodily sensation information by adding the instruction information to the bodily sensation element; and

a fourth generator configured to generate content including the bodily sensation information by adding the bodily sensation information to the main information,

the content reproduction apparatus comprises;

a first separator configured to separate the main information and the bodily sensation information from the content;

a first reproduction unit configured to reproduce the main information;

a second separator configured to separate the bodily sensation element and the instruction information from the bodily sensation information; and

a second reproduction unit configured to reproduce the bodily sensation element based on the instruction information.

2. A content generation apparatus comprising:

a first generator configured to generate bodily sensation element by applying numeric conversion to a characteristic of a bodily sensation;

a second generator configured to generate instruction information to reproduce the bodily sensation element in synchronism with reproduction of the main information which is at least either of video information and audio information; and

a third generator configured to generate bodily sensation information to the bodily sensation element;

a fourth generator configured to generate content including the bodily sensation information by adding the bodily sensation information to the main information.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the first generator comprises an accumulation unit configured to accumulate a plurality of kinds of bodily sensation element obtained by applying numeric conversion to respective characteristics of a plurality of kinds of bodily sensation.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the second generator generates one of a kind of bodily sensation, an reproduction period, and a volume as the instruction information.

5. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

when the main information has Moving Picture Export Group 2-Transport Stream (MPEG2-TS) format,

the fourth generator arranges bodily sensation information in packets including Program Association Table (PAT), Program Map Table (PMT), and Packetized Elementary Stream (PES), and adds identification information representing inclusion of the bodily sensation information to a header of each of the packets.

6. A content reproduction apparatus which reproduces content with the bodily sensation information according to claim 2, the apparatus comprising:

a first separator configured to separate the main information and the bodily sensation information from the content;

a first reproduction unit configured to reproduce the main information;

a second separator configured to separate the bodily sensation element and the instruction information from the bodily sensation information; and

a second reproduction unit configured to reproduce bodily sensation element based on the instruction information.