97results about "Broadcast systems characterised by additional data" patented technology

Interactive digital media platform, methods and apparatus for detecting and dynamically synchronizing to media content (e.g., television (TV) programs or movies) that a viewer is watching while providing related content on a second screen for enhancing the viewer experience. In one embodiment, the primary content is determined by detecting an audio signal of the primary content via the second screen device; the audio signal may then be processed to generate a fingerprint for comparison with a data store of primary content. The primary content can be classified by various categories (e.g., unique program, advertising, repeat airing, theme song . . . ) and the classification used to aid in the identification and / or in selection of the content to be presented on the interactive second screen device. The system allows a substantially real time comparison and recognition of what primary content a viewer is watching on a first screen device and presentation to the user of content that is substantially synchronous to the viewer's location in the primary content. The viewer can actively engaged with the content presented and can share the content with others via social networking and the like.

A system for manually and automatically generating interactive content for integration with television programming uses existing analog or digital television programming that is entirely devoid of interactive content, or can integrate legacy interactive content with fully interactive content generated automatically and / or with authoring tools in order to provide a complete interactive experience to television viewers of current and future television programming.

The present invention realizes electronic commerce by providing a reception section that receives product information and service information and a barcode formation section that forms a barcode based on the received information, displaying the barcode formed by the barcode formation section on a display section and allowing a barcode reader provided at a shop terminal, etc. to read this barcode.

The present invention realizes electronic commerce by providing a reception section that receives product information and service information and a barcode formation section that forms a barcode based on the received information, displaying the barcode formed by the barcode formation section on a display section and allowing a barcode reader provided at a shop terminal, etc. to read this barcode.

The invention relates to a method and system of delivering an object relating to a broadcast media stream to a user terminal (110) of a radio system (206). A broadcast system (2000) broadcasts the media stream, associates the object to the media stream and delivers an object identification of the object to at least one user terminal (110) either through the radio system or as an RDS broadcast. The user terminal (110) presents the object identification in synchronization with the media stream in the user terminal and sends, if a user requests the delivery of the object based on the object identification, a transaction signal with the object identification to a database (208) having at least one object through the radio system (206). The database (208) delivers the object of the object identification to the user terminal (110), which sent the request signal, through the radio system (206).

The various embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and devices for capturing broadcast streams, analyzing the broadcast streams to obtain information about the media content transmitted in the broadcast streams, obtaining additional information about the media content if available, and assigning a unique event identifier specific to the instance of broadcast of the broadcast stream and / or media segment transmitted in the broadcast stream. In other embodiments, the unique event identifier is broadcasted to broadcast receiving devices. With the unique event identifier, broadcast receiving devices can access the obtained information associated with the media content.

Disclosed herein is a receiving device for receiving AV contents, the receiving device including: an obtaining section configured to obtain a description document described in a program language for displaying contents from a server present on a network connected with the receiving device; a determining section configured to determine whether the obtained the description document is obtained from a first server managed on a broadcaster side broadcasting the AV contents; and a controlling section configured to control execution of the obtained the description document according to a result of determination by the determining section.

Disclosed herein is a receiving device for receiving AV contents, the receiving device including: an obtaining section configured to obtain a description document described in a program language for displaying contents from a server present on a network connected with the receiving device; a determining section configured to determine whether the obtained the description document is obtained from a first server managed on a broadcaster side broadcasting the AV contents; and a controlling section configured to control execution of the obtained the description document according to a result of determination by the determining section.

A technique is used for providing additional information about a broadcast presentation that allows a user interested in the additional information to acquire it easily, using a selective call device or a television remote control device to easily acquire an information address during the broadcast when a prompt is presented during the broadcast. An advertiser can send the additional information over a wide area radio selective call communication system or can post it at a universal resource locator of a computer network. The information address is used to acquire the additional information. The information address can be stored, selected and deleted in the selective call device or remote control device. The prompt can be disabled or enabled manually or based on location.

A communication device may receive broadcast signals and personal communication signals and may interleave and / or combine the broadcast content and personal communication content. The interleaved and / or combined content may be displayed and / or played as a single stream of video and / or audio. The personal communication content may comprise directed advertisement and / or other specified content which may be determined based on a user's location and / or a user profile. Advertisements may be monitored. The broadcast signals may comprise radio and / or TV programs and may be received via terrestrial wireless, satellite, cable and / or Internet channels. The personal communication signals may be transmitted and / or received via cellular, personal cable, personal satellite and / or a personal Internet channels. The user may respond via the personal communication signals. Broadcast and / or personal communication signals may be deciphered. Deciphering keys and / or information may be received via the personal communication signals.

Methods and systems for communicating information via a plurality of different networks are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving broadcast information in a mobile terminal via a VHF / UHF broadcast communication path. Cellular information in the mobile terminal comprising voice and data may be received via at least one cellular communication path. Reception in the mobile terminal may be switched between reception of the broadcast information via the VHF / UHF broadcast communication path and the cellular information via the at least one cellular communication path based on a preference indicated via the mobile terminal. The preference may be indicated via a software-controlled interface and / or a user-controlled interface. Reception in the mobile terminal may be switched between reception of the broadcast information via the VHF / UHF broadcast communication path and the cellular information via the at least one cellular communication path based on user input.

A method and system for providing an item (112) further to a broadcast (101) are provided. A user request (108) with a time of a broadcast (101) of an item or a reference to an item is received by a service provider (110). The request (108) includes an indication of the broadcast channel. The service provider (110) determines the item from the time of the request (108), the location from the request was sent (if needed), and the indication of the broadcast channel. The item (112) is provided to a target device (106) of the user, either directly from an item provider (114) or from the service provider (110).

A system and method for identifying real time changes in broadcasted segments, communicating the changes over the Internet to a user PC (130) and performing pre-defined operation in response to the identified changes, including switching to another channel, changing the volume of the current channel, using IR / RF transceivers (140, 150).

A dynamic broadcast system as well as a terminal and a control device for use in such a dynamic broadcast system are presented. Transmission parameters, transmission times and transmission paths used for broadcasting and providing content, either via a broadcast network or a broadband network to terminals used in the dynamic broadcast system are dynamically controlled. Further, a decision logic is provided that dynamically decides transmission parameters, transmission times and transmission paths used for broadcasting and providing content based on monitoring data carrying information on user specific content usage and / or transmission quality data carrying information on the quality of a transmission link between a broadband server and a terminal and / or of a reception of content broadcast by a broadcast transmitter.

Methods and systems for communicating information in a network are disclosed herein and may include receiving, at a mobile terminal, a high definition television (HDTV) signal via a DVB-H downlink communication path. A standard definition television (SDTV) signal may be simultaneously received at the mobile terminal via a cellular downlink communication path. The SDTV signal and the HDTV signal may comprise the same media content. The HDTV signal received via the DVB-H downlink communication path and the SDTV signal received via the cellular downlink communication path may be selected in the mobile terminal for processing. The selection may be based on a preference indicated via the mobile terminal. The selection may also be based on at least one downlink channel condition indicator corresponding to the HDTV signal or the SDTV signal.

A mobile terminal 20 receives a scene notification message via a communication network 10. The scene notification message at least includes scene identification information for identifying a scene corresponding to a part of a broadcast program, broadcast identification information on the time-difference broadcast of the scene, and URL information for accessing a server in which scene data is stored. Based on the scene notification message, the mobile terminal 20 receives a time-difference broadcast if it is a time at which the scene can be viewed by the time-difference broadcast and, if not, accesses a server 48, in which the data of the scene is stored, to acquire the data of the scene.

Data broadcast data, which is broadcast in data broadcasts, is constructed by disposing, for example, EMD (Electric Music Distribution) links required to acquire song data as actual broadcast data, which is broadcast in actual broadcasts by a transmitting device, the actual broadcast data is transmitted, and the data broadcast data wherein the EMD links for the song data in the actual broadcasts are disposed, is transmitted periodically during the transmission of the actual broadcast data. The actual broadcast data and the data broadcast data are received by a user terminal, and the EMD links disposed in the data broadcast data are stored whenever there is an input of an operation to attach a “bookmark”. Thus, audio data such as songs in programs broadcast can easily be acquired by radio.

A media system comprising a broadcast system, a telecommunication system, a content processing system, and a user terminal. While a media stream is broadcast, a group of content items associated with the media stream are generated. The content items are presented in the user terminal in a first mode, wherein a presentation element corresponding to a content item is changed to another presentation element according to the timing information of the content item, or in a second mode wherein a presentation element is changed to another presentation element in response to a user action. Transition from the second mode is allowed only by authorization according to a pre-defined procedure. The interactive operations are thus controlled by the user and thus not overridden by content timed or pushed to the user terminal for display.

The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method, which are capable of acquiring a component configuring a service efficiently, appropriately, and easily.A reception device acquires second metadata including first and second flags, the first flag indicating whether or not it is possible to acquire components configuring a service through only first metadata, the second flag indicating whether or not there is a stream of a component transmitted from a server on the Internet by way of communication among the streams of the components configuring the service, the first metadata including information related to a stream of a component transmitted by way of broadcasting through a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme, acquires the first metadata based on the second metadata, accesses the stream of the component transmitted by way of the broadcasting based on the first metadata, and controls reproduction of the component. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a television receiver.

The invention relates to a media system, a user terminal and a method of providing one or more content items to at least one user terminal, the content item being related to a broadcast media stream. The method comprises: attaching the content item to a broadcasting time line of the broadcast media stream by a broadcasting system; broadcasting the broadcast media stream by the broadcasting system; synchronizing an internal time of the user terminal with the internal time of the broadcasting system; sending the content item attached to the broadcasting time line from the radio system to the user terminal; and presenting the received content item in the user terminal at a given moment in time that is based on the attachment and on the synchronization.

A system and method for selectively receiving only data broadcast information desired by a user from a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) data broadcast is disclosed herein. The system includes a terminal having a function of receiving a DMB data broadcast, a service network information (SNI) application management server that transmits SNI to the mobile communication terminal in response to a request from the mobile communication terminal, a data broadcast server that provides information regarding the DMB data broadcast, a DMB transmitting station that transmits the information regarding the DMB data broadcast, and a Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) service provider that provides the SNI to the SNI management server, and data broadcast information including the SNI to the data broadcast server. The mobile communication terminal receives the SNI from the SNI management server via a cellular network to determine the time when a user's desired data broadcast starts, and receives a data broadcast from the DMB transmitting station only at that time.

The various embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and devices for capturing broadcast streams, analyzing the broadcast streams to obtain information about the media content transmitted in the broadcast streams, obtaining additional information about the media content if available, and assigning a unique event identifier specific to the instance of broadcast of the broadcast stream and / or media segment transmitted in the broadcast stream. In other embodiments, the unique event identifier is broadcasted to broadcast receiving devices. With the unique event identifier, broadcast receiving devices can access the obtained information associated with the media content.

In a television broadcasting system intended to present information pertaining to a main broadcast program to viewers, a ground-wave broadcast station produces and broadcasts the main program in the conventional manner and a CS (communication satellite) broadcast station which is supplied with main program composition information and various source data from the ground-wave station produces supplemental broadcast programs for the main program. The CS station also produces symbolic labels indicative of the content of the supplemental programs, and broadcasts the supplemental programs and symbolic labels together. An IRD (integrated receiver / decoder) unit of a viewer's receiver set receives the broadcast signals from the ground-wave station and CS station, and displays the main program and the symbolic labels of supplemental programs together on a display unit. The IRD unit operates in response to the selection of a symbolic label by the viewer to display a supplemental program corresponding to this symbolic label.

A method and apparatus for receiving digital broadcasting data. The method for receiving digital broadcasting data includes: extracting location information of second service data which already received first service data refers to, from the first service data; by analyzing the location information, determining whether the second service data is in-band service data transmitted through an in-band channel, or out-of-band service data transmitted through an out-of-band channel; and if the second service data is transmitted through an out-of-band channel, determining the location information as the program number of the second service data.

Disclosed are a service system and a method of providing a service in a digital receiver. The service providing method includes selecting content including an identifier with respect to an SNS or a data exchange space that is opened in linkage with content from a service guide, and outputting the selected content and the SNS or the data exchange space linked to the content in respective areas of a screen. The SNS linked to the content includes a data exchange space configured to allow one or more SNS users to simultaneously access the data exchange space using an open API from the server, and also includes a SNS identifier having a format as access information for the corresponding data exchange space.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a server, and a system for implementing a video-based value-added service. The method includes: acquiring, by an event server, association event data which corresponds to a video currently played by a first client; when detecting an event trigger condition, generating, by the event server, an event notification according to the association event data, and sending the event notification to an application server; forming, by the application server, value-added service content according to preset value-added service data and event data in the event notification, and providing the value-added service content for a second client.

The present disclosure relates to methods, techniques and systems for dynamically synchronizing complementary broadcasting content for supplementing audio broadcasting with audio context sensitively synchronized complementary broadcasting content items. An audio broadcasting content, e.g. a radio broadcast by a radio station is supplemented by complementary broadcasting content, e.g. still or moving images such that the transmission and playback of the complementary broadcasting content (e.g. a video) is synchronized with a current audio broadcasting (e.g. a piece of music) by dynamically taking into account the audio context of a user listening to the current audio broadcasting.

In a web information processing apparatus (100), a web page information acquisition unit (106) acquires information of a web page being browsed with a web browser (103). Then, an association determination unit (202) determines whether or not that web page is stored in an associated web page information holding unit (109). If it is so stored, then a program search unit (203) searches for an associated program and notifies the existence of an associated program to a user through an associated-program notification unit (204).

The invention is related to a method and a system of providing a service associated with a media stream for user equipment The system comprises a server connected to a communication network for providing the service using the radio interface of the communication network. The system further comprises a broadcast system for providing the media stream. Associating data for associating the media stream with the service is transmitted from the system to the user equipment. The associating data is received, and the system is configured to provide the user equipment with the service by using the associating data.