Program display method, program display apparatus, and program delivery and display system

• US 7,703,017 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2005
• Issued: 04/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Mise, Hiroaki, Yatabe, Shigeki, Takanashi, Makoto, Amaya, Toshiyuki, Miyamoto, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu; Tadesse
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ulrich; Nicholas S
• Application Number:
  US11/028,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20050166142A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,931 Days
• Field of Search: 715/517, 715/522, 715/526, 715/716, 715/730, 715/500.1, 725/42, 705/27
• US Class Current: 715/730
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

A template file defines a video material data, a first still picture material data, a second still picture material data and text data, and a display area for each of the material data. A presentation file defines the template file and a correlation between each of the display areas and each material data. Based on the template file and the presentation file, an information display device combines and displays as a program the video material data, the first still picture material data, the second still picture material data, and the text data in their respective display areas.

Claims

1. A program display method, comprising:

providing mutual communication between a program display apparatus and a data delivery server via a network;

creating the program by generating at least one presentation file that makes up the program based on a template file, material data, display areas, players, and a correlation;

wherein generating the at least one presentation file comprises;

selecting the material data and the template file based on selection information that is input by a user;

wherein the material data and the template file are to be used in the program to be displayed and the template file defines;

 

display areas; and

 

a player that is to show and play the material data in each display area; and

determining a correlation between the material data and the display areas based on correlation information that is input by the user;

receiving priority information that indicates which presentation file is to be preferentially displayed from among the at least one presentation file;

wherein the priority information is input by the user;

defining a auto-presentation script based on the degree of priority information input by the user;

generating a presentation package that defines the program;

wherein the presentation package includes a menu file, the auto-presentation script, one or more material data, one or more template files defining one or more display areas for displaying each material data, and one or more presentation files defining information pertaining to the correlation between the one or more display areas of the one or more template files and the one or more material data;

storing, into a data storing unit, the presentation package downloaded from the data delivery server; and

displaying the program based on the presentation package;

wherein displaying the program based on the presentation package comprises;

managing a display schedule of the one or more presentation files based on the auto-presentation script, and modifying the display schedule such that the presentation file corresponding to a program selection button is played when selected by an information viewer from a plurality of program selection buttons displayed by the menu file;

retrieving each of the one or more presentation files based on the auto-presentation script; and

playing, with their respective associated players, the material data correlated to the one or more display areas of the template file defined in the presentation file.

2. The program display method according to claim 1, further comprising:

making available one or more template files; and

creating a presentation file for each template file,

wherein a layout of a display screen is changed by selecting each of the presentation files.

3. The program display method according to claim 2, wherein the presentation file created for each template file stores only a name of the respective template file and an association between each of the display areas of the template file and the material data.

4. The program display method according to claim 1, wherein information corresponding to the display areas defined by the template file comprises:

display position information indicating a position where the material data is to be shown on a display; and

display size information indicating a size of the material data to be shown on the display.

5. A program display system, comprising:

an interface unit that provides mutual communication between a program display apparatus and a data delivery server via a network;

a program creating unit that creates a program by generating at least one presentation file that makes up the program based on a template file, material data, display areas, players, and a correlation;

wherein generating the at least one presentation file comprises;

a selecting unit that selects the material data and the template file based on selection information that is input by a user;

wherein the material data and the template file are to be used in the program to be displayed and the template file defines;

 

display areas; and

 

a player that is to show and play the material data in each display area; and

a correlating unit that correlates between the material data and the display areas based on correlation information that is input by the user;

a receiving unit that receives priority information that indicates which presentation file is to be preferentially displayed from among the at least one presentation file;

wherein the priority information is input by the user;

a schedule management processing unit that defines a auto-presentation script based on the degree of priority information input by the user;

a presentation package generating unit that generates a presentation package that defines the program;

wherein the presentation package includes a menu file, the auto-presentation script, one or more material data, one or more template files defining one or more display areas for displaying each material data, and one or more presentation files defining information pertaining to the correlation between the one or more display areas of the one or more template files and the one or more material data;

a data storing unit that stores the presentation package downloaded from the data delivery server; and

a plurality of displaying units that display the program based on the presentation package;

wherein the displaying units comprise;

a schedule processing unit that manages a display schedule of the one or more presentation files based on the auto-presentation script, and modifies the display schedule such that the presentation file corresponding to a program selection button is played when a information viewer selects any of a plurality of program selection buttons displayed by the menu file; and

a playback processing unit that retrieves each of the one or more presentation files based on the auto-presentation script and plays, with their respective associated players, the material data correlated to the one or more display areas of the template file defined in the presentation file.

6. The program display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein information corresponding to the display areas defined by the template file comprises:

display position information indicating a position where the material data is to be shown on a display; and

display size information indicating a size of the material data to be shown on the display.

7. A program delivery and display system, comprising:

an interface unit that provides mutual communication between a program display device and a data delivery server via a network;

a program creating device that includes;

a program creating unit that creates a program by generating at least one presentation file that makes up the program based on a template file, material data, display areas, players, and a correlation;

wherein generating the at least one presentation file comprises;

a selecting unit that selects the material data and the template file based on selection information that is input by a user;

 

wherein the material data and the template file are to be used in the program to be displayed and the template file defines;

 

display areas; and

 

a player that is to show and play the material data in each display area; and

a correlating unit that correlates between the material data and the display areas based on correlation information that is input by the user;

a receiving unit that receives priority information that indicates which presentation file is to be preferentially displayed from among the at least one presentation file;

wherein the priority information is input by the user;

a schedule management processing unit that defines a auto-presentation script based on the degree of priority information input by the user;

a presentation package generating unit that generates a presentation package that defines the program;

wherein the presentation package includes a menu file, the auto-presentation script, one or more material data, one or more template files defining one or more display areas for displaying each material data, and one or more presentation files defining information pertaining to the correlation between the one or more display areas of the one or more template files and the one or more material data;

a sending unit that sends the presentation package; and

the program display device that includes;

a receiving unit that receives the presentation package;

a data storing unit that stores the presentation package downloaded from the data delivery server; and

a displaying unit that displays the program based on the received presentation package;

wherein the displaying unit comprises;

a schedule processing unit that manages a display schedule of the one or more presentation files based on the auto-presentation script, and modifies the display schedule such that the presentation file corresponding to a program selection button is played when a information viewer selects any of a plurality of program selection buttons displayed by the menu file; and

a playback processing unit that retrieves each of the one or more presentation files based on the auto-presentation script and plays, with their respective associated players, the material data correlated to the one or more display areas of the template file defined in the presentation file.

8. The program delivery and display system according to claim 7, wherein information corresponding to the display areas defined by the template file comprises:

display position information indicating a position where the material data is to be shown on a display; and

display size information indicating a size of the material data to be shown on the display.