Broadcast receiver and broadcast receiving system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11076193-B2
Application number	US-202016843558-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2020
Priority date	Nov 13, 2013
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising:
a broadcast receiver configured to receive a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, the digital broadcast service being capable of executing an application in cooperation with a broadcast program;
a display; and
a processor configured to refer to application related information to control operations on a basis of the application related information, the application related information being information related to the application, the operations including an activation of the application in cooperation with the broadcast program,
wherein the processor is configured to:
refer to the application related information to cause the display to display a predetermined screen in a case where the activation of the application is defined or instructed in the application related information, the predetermined screen being used to confirm whether the activation is permitted or not, a user of the broadcast receiving apparatus being caused to select whether the activation of the application is permitted or not via the predetermined screen;
execute processing for setting whether the activation of the application is permitted or not in accordance with the selection operation by the user via the predetermined screen;
activate the application in a case where the activation of the application is set to permission in the processing; and
not activate the application in a case where the activation of the application is set to non-permission in the processing.

2. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a communication unit configured to communicate with a portable information terminal,
wherein the communication unit is configured to receive a signal regarding a selection operation of whether the application is to be activated or not from a portable information terminal in cooperation with the broadcast receiving apparatus.

3. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein in a state where no portable information terminal in cooperation with the broadcast receiving apparatus exists or a state where no signal is received from a portable information terminal in cooperation with the broadcast receiving apparatus, the processor is configured not to activate the application.

Assignees

• Maxell Ltd

Inventors

• Hashimoto Yasunobu
• Suzuki Motoyuki
• Yoshizawa Kazuhiko
• Masuoka Nobuo

Classifications

• H04N21/8543

  using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] {(information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80)} · CPC title

• H04N21/6433

  Digital Storage Media - Command and Control Protocol [DSM-CC] · CPC title

• G06F2221/2141

  Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices · CPC title

• H04N21/41407 Primary

  embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop (constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57) · CPC title

• G06F21/629

  to features or functions of an application · CPC title