Receiver, reception method, transmitter and transmission method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9936256-B2
Application number	US-201313905721-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 30, 2013
Priority date	Nov 28, 2012
Publication date	Apr 3, 2018
Grant date	Apr 3, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a receiver including: a reception section adapted to receive AV, namely audio and visual content; a registration section adapted to register related content relating to the AV content based on control information included in an application program executed in response to the AV content; and a presentation control unit adapted to exercise control in such a manner that if the registered related content is selected, the selected related content is presented.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A receiver comprising:
circuitry configured to
receive a broadcasting signal, the broadcasting signal including AV (audio and visual) content and control information synchronized with the AV content,
activate a downloadable application program responsive to the control information, the downloadable application program having a URL (uniform resource locator) of related content relating to the AV content defined therein,
execute a function of the downloadable application program to register the URL responsive to occurrence of a user input event while the downloadable application program is active, and
exercise control in such a manner that when the registered URL of the related content is selected, the related content is output for display.

2. The receiver of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to
store registration information relating to the related content in a memory, and
present the related content selected from a list that matches the registration information.

3. The receiver of claim 2 , wherein
the related content is a webpage, and
the circuitry is configured to
store, as the registration information, the URL of the webpage, and
output for display the webpage acquired according to the URL.

4. The receiver of claim 2 , wherein
the related content includes recorded content obtained by recording the AV content, and
the circuitry is configured to
store, as the registration information, identification information of the recorded content, and
reproduce the recorded content specified by the identification information.

5. The receiver of claim 4 , wherein the circuitry is configured to
store, as the registration information, time information indicating the reproduction start time of the recorded content together with the identification information, and
reproduce the recorded content specified by the identification information from the time indicated by the time information.

6. The receiver of claim 2 , wherein
the related content includes VOD (Video On Demand) content, and
the circuitry is configured to
store, as the registration information, identification information of the VOD content, and
output for display the VOD content acquired according to the identification information.

7. The receiver of claim 6 , wherein the circuitry is configured to
store, as the registration information, time information indicating the reproduction start time of the VOD content together with the identification information, and
output for display the VOD content specified by the identification information from the time indicated by the time information.

8. The receiver of claim 1 , wherein
the user input event corresponds to receiving an instruction to register the URL of the related content.

9. The receiver of claim 1 , wherein
the downloadable application program is an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) document written in HTML, and
the function is written as a script in the HTML document.

10. The receiver of claim 1 , wherein
the downloadable application program is delivered via the Internet.

11. A reception method of a receiver comprising:
receiving, by circuitry of the receiver, a broadcasting signal, the broadcasting signal including AV (audio and visual) content and control information synchronized with the AV content;
activating a downloadable application program responsive to the control information, the downloadable application program having a URL (uniform resource locator) of related content relating to the AV content defined therein,
executing, by the circuitry, a function of the downloadable application program to register the URL responsive to occurrence of a user input event while the downloadable application program is active; and
exercising control in such a manner that when the registered URL of the related content is selected, the related content is output for display.

12. A transmitter comprising:
circuitry configured to
acquire a downloadable application program to be activated responsive to control information synchronized with AV content, the control information and the AV content being included in a broadcasting signal, and
transmit the downloadable application program, wherein
the downloadable application program includes information indicating a URL (uniform resource locator) of related content relating to the AV content, and comprises a function that, when being executed responsive to occurrence of a user input event while the downloadable application program is active, registers the URL.

13. A transmission method of a transmitter comprising:
acquiring, by circuitry of the transmitter, a downloadable application program to be activated responsive to control information synchronized with AV content, the control information and the AV content being included in a broadcasting signal; and
transmitting, by the circuitry, the downloadable application program, wherein
the downloadable application program includes information indicating a URL (uniform resource locator) of related content relating to the AV content, and comprises a function that, when being executed responsive to occurrence of a user input event while the downloadable application program is active, registers the URL.

14. The receiver of claim 1 , further comprising:
a memory, wherein
the downloadable application is configured to cause the circuitry to store the URL in the receiver's set of Links, which is stored in the memory.

15. The receiver of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to receive a plurality of downloadable application programs from different television broadcasters.

16. The receiver of claim 15 , wherein each of the plurality of downloadable application programs is programmed to cause the circuitry to store a different URL in the receiver's set of Links.

17. The receiver of claim 1 , wherein the control information comprises trigger information.

18. The transmitter of claim 12 , wherein the control information comprises trigger information.

Assignees

• Saturn Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Kitahara Jun
• Kitazato Naohisa
• Dewa Yoshiharu
• Yamagishi Yasuaki

Classifications

• H04N21/47214

  for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market (stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224) · CPC title

• H04N21/47202 Primary

  for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand · CPC title

• H04N21/4722

  for requesting additional data associated with the content · CPC title

• H04N21/8586

  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 title

• H04N21/8166

  involving executable data, e.g. software (arrangements for executing specific programs G06F9/44; broadcasting computer programmes in broadcast systems H04H20/91; involving the movement of software or configuration parameters H04L67/34) · CPC title