Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method

• US 9,883,248 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2014
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitazato, Naohisa, Yamagishi, Yasuaki, Dewa, Yoshiharu, Kitahara, Jun, Eyer, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): TEITELBAUM, MICHAEL E
• Application Number:
  US14/253,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20140229979A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,386 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23617 by inserting additional data into a data carousel, e.g. inserting software modules into a DVB carousel arrangements for broadcast or for distribution of identical information repeatedly in broadcast distribution systems H04H20/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2362 Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]
• 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 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4349 by extracting from data carousels, e.g. extraction of software modules from a DVB carousel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/38 Transmitter circuitry for the transmission of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception block configured to receive AV content; a trigger information capture block configured to capture trigger information for controlling an operation of an application program to be executed in coordination with said AV content; and a control block configured to control an operation of said application program in accordance with an operation mode specified in said trigger information.

Claims

1. A reception apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive audio/visual (AV) content,

extract a feature quantity from data of said audio/visual content,

provide the extracted feature quantity to a server via a communication network,

receive control information that is associated with said audio/visual content from said server, the control information being for controlling an operation of an application to be executed concurrently with a display of said audio/visual content, said control information being received by the circuitry in response to the provided extracted feature quantity, said control information corresponding to an identification result of said audio/visual content according to said feature quantity, and

control an operation of said application, which is executed concurrently with said display of said audio/visual content, based on said control information received from said server.

5. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to:

control an operation of said application in accordance with an operation mode specified in said control information.

6. The reception apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the circuitry is configured to:

acquire correlation information used to identify an action specified by an event for the application based on a character string included in the control information when the operation mode specified in said control information is a first operation mode, and

acquire the application program based on the character string included in the control information when the operation mode specified in said control information is a second operation mode.

9. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control information is associated with said application and identifies an action to be performed for said application.

10. The reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said application is configured to execute in synchronization with a specific one of a plurality of segments of said audio/visual content.

14. A television receiver comprising the reception apparatus according to claim 1.

2. A reception method of a reception apparatus comprising:

receiving audio/visual content;

extracting a feature quantity from data of said audio/visual content;

providing, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, the extracted feature quantity to a server via a communication network,

receive, by the circuitry, control information that is associated with said audio/visual content from said server, the control information being for controlling an operation of an application to be executed concurrently with a display of said audio/visual content, said control information being received by the circuitry in response to the provided extracted feature quantity, said control information corresponding to an identification result of said audio/visual content according to said feature quantity; and

controlling, by the circuitry, an operation of said application, which is executed concurrently with said display of said audio/visual content, based on said control information received from said server.

11. The reception method according to claim 2, wherein said application is configured to execute in synchronization with a specific one of a plurality of segments of said audio/visual content.

3. An information providing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

store control information for controlling an operation of an application to be executed concurrently with a display of audio/visual content,

receive, from a reception apparatus via a communication network, a feature quantity extracted from data of said audio/visual content, and

provide, to said reception apparatus via said communication network and in response to said received feature quantity, said stored control information for controlling said operation of said application to be executed concurrently with said display of said audio/visual content.

7. The transmission apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

said control information is provided with an operation mode type that indicates an operation mode defined in accordance with a control scheme of said application.

8. The reception apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

when the operation mode type specifies a first operation mode, the control information causes the reception apparatus to acquire correlation information used to identify an action specified by an event for the application based on a character string included in the control information, and

when the operation mode type specifies a second operation mode, the control information causes the reception apparatus to acquire the application based on the character string included in the control information.

12. The information providing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said application is configured to execute in synchronization with a specific one of a plurality of segments of said audio/visual content.

4. A method of an information providing apparatus for providing control information, the method comprising:

storing, by circuitry of the information providing apparatus, said control information for controlling an operation of an application to be executed concurrently with a display of audio/visual content;

receiving, from a reception apparatus via a communication network, a feature quantity extracted from data of said audio/visual content; and

providing by the circuitry, to said reception apparatus via said communication network and in response to said received feature quantity, said stored control information for controlling said operation of said application to be executed concurrently with said display of said audio/visual content.

13. The method according to claim 4, wherein said application is configured to execute in synchronization with a specific one of a plurality of segments of said audio/visual content.