Video picture information delivering apparatus and receiving apparatus

• US 7,962,943 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2004
• Issued: 06/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Akira, Ichiki, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirl; Joseph P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rabovianski; Jivka
• Application Number:
  US10/940,847
• Publication Number:
  US 20050034163A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,463 Days
• Field of Search: 725/93, 725/22, 725/32, 725 34- 36, 725 88- 90
• US Class Current: 725/93
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234345 the reformatting operation being performed only on part of the stream, e.g. a region of the image or a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234381 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. decreasing the frame rate by frame skipping
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2387 Stream processing in response to a playback request from an end-user, e.g. for trick-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; 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 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

A video picture information delivering apparatus delivers moving pictures according to a request from a terminal device. The apparatus comprises a determining unit for determining whether or not a predetermined particular picture is included in some of moving pictures to be skipped, upon receipt of a request to skip the some of the moving pictures; and a transmitting unit for transmitting to the terminal device associated information corresponding to the particular picture along with the moving pictures after being skipped, if the particular picture is included in the some of the skipped moving pictures.

Claims

1. A video picture information receiving apparatus for receiving moving pictures from a server device in a system where the moving pictures are delivered from the server device according to a request from a user, comprising:

a requesting unit to transmit a request to skip some of the moving pictures to the server device;

an obtaining unit to obtain associated information corresponding to a particular picture once the predetermined particular picture is included in some of the moving pictures to be skipped;

a displaying unit to combine the moving pictures after being skipped and the associated information according to a timing of the request to skip and to display the moving pictures with the associated information on a display device; and

a combining unit to reduce a size of the moving pictures after being skipped, and to arrange the associated information in a marginal region, wherein

said displaying unit to make the display device display the pictures arranged by said combining unit.

2. The video picture information receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said obtaining unit to obtain the associated information from the server device.

3. The video picture information receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storing unit to store the associated information; and

a determining unit to determine whether or not the particular picture is included in the some of the moving pictures to be skipped, wherein

said obtaining unit to obtain the associated information from said storing unit.

4. The video picture information receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the particular picture is an advertisement picture.

5. A video picture information receiving apparatus for receiving moving pictures from a server device in a system where the moving pictures are delivered from the server device according to a request from a user, comprising:

a requesting unit to transmit a request to specially reproduce some of the moving pictures to the server device;

an obtaining unit to obtain associated information corresponding to a particular picture once the predetermined particular picture is included in some of the moving pictures to be specially reproduced;

a displaying unit to combine the moving pictures after being specially reproduced and the associated information according to a timing of the request to specially reproduce and to display the moving pictures with the associated information on a display device; and

a combining unit to reduce a size of the moving pictures after being skipped, and to arrange the associated information in a marginal region, wherein

said displaying unit to make the display device display the pictures arranged by said combining unit.

6. A method for receiving moving pictures from a server device in a system where the moving pictures are delivered from the server device according to a request from a user, comprising:

transmitting a request to skip some of the moving pictures to the server device;

obtaining associated information corresponding to a particular picture if the predetermined particular picture is included in the some of the moving pictures to be skipped;

combining the moving pictures after being skipped and the associated information according to a timing of the request to skip;

displaying the moving pictures with the associated information on a display device;

reducing a size of the moving pictures after being skipped; and

arranging the associated information in a marginal region, wherein

said displaying includes making the display device display the pictures after the reducing.