230results about "Plural information simultaneous broadcast" patented technology

Encoding and decoding methods are employed for toggleable overlays in a video. An encoding method comprises receiving a plurality of image frames; determining one or more overlay image frames each comprising a plurality of toggleable overlays, each toggleable overlay being associated with an identifier. An image frame is associated with an overlay image frame of the one or more overlay image frames. Metadata is added to a header of the image frame, wherein the metadata comprises, for each toggleable overlay of the plurality of toggleable overlays: position data identifying a position of the toggleable overlay in the overlay image frame, size data identifying a size of the toggleable overlay in the overlay image frame, and identification data corresponding to the identifier of the toggleable overlay.

Methods and apparatus to audio watermarking and watermark detection and extracted are described herein. An example method includes receiving a media content signal, sampling the media content signal to generate samples, storing the samples in a buffer, determining a first sequence of samples in the buffer, determining a second sequence of samples in the buffer, wherein the second sequence of samples is of substantially equal length as the first sequence of samples, calculating an average of the first sequence of samples and the second sequence of samples to generate an average sequence of samples, extracting an identifier from the average sequence of samples, and storing the identifier in a tangible memory.

Methods are generally described for inaudible orthogonal signal communication. An example method includes determining, based on an input message, a series of symbols, where each symbol from the series of symbols represents a numerical value, wherein each symbol from the series of symbols corresponds to a band-limited white noise tone orthogonal to each other band-limited white noise tone corresponding to each other symbol. The example method also includes generating a sub-token comprising each symbol from the series of symbols, where each symbol overlaps in time with at least one other symbol. The example method also includes modulating a carrier wave with the sub-token to produce a signal audio waveform, where the modulation uses a spread spectrum technique, and providing the signal audio waveform to a television device, where the television emits the signal audio waveform as a low-amplitude audio signal.

To provide a technique for more preferably transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcasting service.SOLUTION: In a display control method in a broadcast receiving device that can receive a broadcast wave that are simulcast between a 4K broadcast service and a 2K broadcast service via a broadcast transmission line, the 4K broadcast service included in the broadcast wave is received, demodulated, a broadcast program of the 4K broadcast service is displayed, the 2K broadcast service which is a simulcast of the 4K broadcast service is received and demodulated when emergency broadcast information is received while a broadcast program of the 4K broadcast service is being displayed, the display screen of the broadcast receiving device is forcibly switched from the display of the broadcast program of the 4K broadcast service to the display of the screen of an emergency broadcast transmitted by the 2K broadcast service.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Provide a more user-friendly content selection environment for the user. 【Solution means】The content information acquisition unit 100 acquires the content information transmitted from the distribution management server 4 via the communication unit 19. The receiving device information acquisition unit 102 acquires the receiving device information transmitted from the receiving device 3 via the communication unit 19. The receiving device information analysis unit 104 analyzes the receiving device information acquired by the receiving device information acquisition unit 102. The display mode determination unit 106 determines the mode of the display screen to be presented to the target user based on the result of the analysis in the receiving device information analysis unit 104. The display information management unit 108 transmits the display information necessary to display the display screen in the mode of the display screen determined by the display mode determination unit 106 to the receiving device 3 or the distribution management server 4 on a display unit (not shown) of the receiving device 3.

To provide a broadcast signal receiving device having a function for presenting supported DRM types, and a broadcast signal receiving method.SOLUTION: A broadcast signal receiving device in this embodiment acquires an application comprising application data provided to a program existing in broadcast waves based on first information included in control signals of broadcast waves for broadcasting the program. When the acquired application acquires contents, to which security management information including at least a video is applied, by communication, security management information processing means provides a type of the supported security management information to the application.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1A

This broadcast receiving device comprises: a third decoder unit that acquires, from a first video stream received in a basic layer, first content of a broadcast program for which protection by first protection information is defined, and acquires, from a second video stream received in a sub-layer, second content of a broadcast program for which protection by second protection information is defined; a storage unit that stores broadcast program information including the acquired first content and second content; and a main control unit that performs copy control of the broadcast program information on the basis of the first protection information and the second protection information. The first protection information is information defining a first condition related to copying of the first content, and the second protection information is information defining a second condition related to copying of the second content.

To reduce processing for acquiring reference clock information on a reception side.SOLUTION: Transmission apparatus 30 includes a generator that generates a frame for transmission that stores a plurality of slots each containing one or more TLV (TypeLengthValue) packets obtained by multiplexing content, and a transmitter that transmits the frame for transmission, wherein a TLV packet positioned at a head within a head slot within the frame for transmission contains an IP (InternetProtocol) packet containing first reference clock information, and the IP packet containing the first reference clock information does not undergo header compression and is given a predetermined IP address.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 35

To provide a transmission method and the like capable of causing a receiving device to play a predetermined data unit at an intended time.SOLUTION: The transmission method is a method of storing a data constituting an encoded stream in a predetermined data unit and sending the same. A piece of presentation time information that represents the presentation time of the predetermined data unit is generated based on time information, and the predetermined data unit, the generated presentation time information, and a piece of identification information indicating whether the presentation time information was generated based on time information before leap second adjustment are transmitted. The identification information is stored in (i) the control message, which is control information, (ii) the presentation time information represents whether the information is generated based on time information from a time a predetermined period before the time immediately before the leap second adjustment is made to the time immediately before the leap second adjustment is made. The presentation time information is time information generated by subtracting a predetermined time from the time information. The control information includes a UTC-NPT reference descriptor that indicates the relationship between UTC time and NPT time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 92

To provide a technique of preferably transmitting or receiving a high level digital broadcasting service.SOLUTION: A digital broadcasting receiving device comprises: one or a plurality of receiving parts that receives broadcast waves of a 2K broadcast service, a 4K broadcast service, and a digital broadcasting service transmitted by a simultaneous broadcast of the 2K broadcast service and the 4K broadcast service; a monitor part that displays a program guide of the digital broadcasting service received by the receiving part; an operation input part that inputs a control signal from a remote controller; and a control part. The control part determines whether or not the simultaneous broadcast is executed in a recorded program in the case where the recorded program as an object program of a recording reservation is selected on the basis of the control signal in the operation input part from the program guide of the digital broadcasting service, and displays a recording available service indicating that the recording reservation with at least the 2K broadcast service or the 4K broadcast service can be made, on the monitor part in the case where the simultaneous broadcast is being executed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 16A

To provide a content protection method when a video content received by advanced BS digital broadcasting / advanced broadband CS digital broadcasting is output via an IP interface.SOLUTION: A video content processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: in a broadcast signal receiving device that receives at least one of a broadcast signal multiplexed by MPEG-2 and, a broadcast signal multiplexed by a MMT-TLV system, receiving means that receives a content transmitted by the broadcast signal; output means having an IP interface; and control means that performs processing of outputting the content via the output means according to a format of a content protection system by DTCP2. The video content processing apparatus protects the content by determining at least one of values set in SDO and EI using a value of transfer_characteristics or video_transfer_characteristics accompanying the content received by the receiving means.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To perform appropriate audio reproduction depending on the receiver's capabilities.SOLUTION: A receiver that receives broadcasting that includes MPEG-H audio in an audio component obtains identification information indicating whether the MPEG-H audio is present from broadcast airwaves at a multiplexing layer, and selects the audio component according to the receiver's capabilities on the basis of the identification information, and decodes the audio data of the selected audio component.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 15

To provide a broadcast receiving device capable of executing a more added-value high function.SOLUTION: A broadcast receiving device comprises: a reception part that receives a digital broadcast signal containing a first data flow; a communication part 121 that acquires a second data flow corresponded to the first data flow from a server device via a communication circuit; a video image decoding part 141 that decodes a video image data contained in the first data flow and / or a video image data contained in the second data flow and can generate a decoding video image data; and a digital interface 40125 that can output a video image to an external device and can acquires performance information of the external device. In a video image output control state by a digital interface, an output control state that outputs only a decoding video image of the video image data of the first data flow in accordance with the performance information of the external device and a second output control state that outputs both of the video image data of the first data flow and the video image data of the second data flow are included.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 29A

The invention relates to a method for packaging media and data for transmission over a broadband communications network link for display at a terminal destination. Features of the method included creating desired media segments for transmission to the terminal destination and for creating targeting information, for example in whole or in part in the form of metadata, for transmission to the terminal destination. Other features include packaging the created media segments and the created targeting information in a single package and unpacking the single package for display of the targeted media at the terminal destination. In another aspect, the invention can provide a method for unpacking media and data for display at a terminal destination implementing, at the terminal destination, receiving a single package containing media segments and instructions regarding handling of the media segments, quickly unpacking the media segments and the instructions from the single package and, based on the unpacked instructions, assembling one or more of the media segments for display at the terminal destination.

To perform network distribution of a broadcast service in a simple mode.SOLUTION: The broadcasting service sub-system 100 has an IP transmission device and transmits a TS stream of a broadcasting service before being uplinked to an IP reception device 210 of the communication network distribution sub-system 200 via an IP network, and the communication network distribution sub-system 200 reconstructs the received IP stream into a TS stream of the broadcasting service, further demultiplexes the TS stream into a video TS stream and an audio TS stream, further converts the video stream and the audio stream into a standard HD mode and a stereo mode, and then converts the streams into a file in a streaming format. A composite service such as a multi-channel service, a main audio / sub-audio service and a caption service is realized as a plurality of streaming services in a standard form.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

To provide a technique for more suitably transmitting or receiving advanced digital broadcasting services.SOLUTION: A composite wave is transmitted that is a combination of an upper hierarchical modulated wave and a lower hierarchical modulated wave having different transmission power in the same frequency band. A difference in transmission power between the upper hierarchical modulated wave and the lower hierarchical modulated wave is changed, and information regarding the difference in transmission power is included in either the upper hierarchical modulated wave or the lower hierarchical modulated wave and transmitted. The information regarding the difference in transmission power includes identification information indicating the difference in transmission power in a plurality of stages, and the stages indicated by the identification information are configured to transition irreversibly due to the change in the difference in transmission power in a transmission power change step.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2A

To provide a technique for more appropriately transmitting or receiving a high-level digital broadcast service.SOLUTION: A reception switching method in a broadcast receiving device which receives digital broadcasting includes: a reception step of receiving digital broadcasting; an event relay determination step of performing determination processing regarding the presence / absence of an event relay on the basis of information stored in an EIT included in the digital broadcasting received in the reception step; an inquiry screen display step of displaying an inquiry screen for inquiring whether to switch to and view a program of an event relay destination if an event relay occurs in a program being viewed in a case where it is determined that there is an event relay on the basis of the EIT; an inquiry screen erasure step of erasing the display of the inquiry screen; and a reception switching step of starting reception of the program of the event relay destination after starting broadcasting of an event of the event relay destination, and switching the program to be received.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 58

To provide a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing a function with a higher added value.SOLUTION: A broadcast receiving device 40100 includes a broadcast receiving unit capable of receiving broadcast data of a broadcast program content and location information describing a reference destination for acquiring data related to the broadcast data from a broadcast transmission path, a communication unit capable of receiving communication data of a program content from the reference destination described in the location information via a communication line, a recording and reproducing unit capable of recording and reproducing the broadcast data of the broadcast program content received by the broadcast receiving unit, an output unit that outputs the broadcast data of the broadcast program content reproduced from the recording and reproducing unit to an external device, and a server function unit having a server function for the external device. In the output state from the output unit, the location information in which the description of the reference destination is rewritten to the description indicating the server function unit is output together with the broadcast data reproduced from the recording and reproducing unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 29A

To provide a technique for more appropriately transmitting or receiving advanced digital broadcasting services.SOLUTION: The digital broadcast modulated wave transmission method includes: transmitting a combined wave obtained by combining an upper layer modulated wave and a lower layer modulated wave having different transmission power in the same frequency band; changing a difference between transmission power of the upper layer modulated wave and transmission power of the lower layer modulated wave; and transmitting information on the difference in the transmission power by including the information in either the upper layer modulated wave or the lower layer modulated wave.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2A

A portable information terminal includes a controller configured to control a communication interface to transmit a charging permission response to a broadcast receiving apparatus in response to a charging permission request data transmitted when a broadcasting program that a user of the broadcast receiving apparatus desires to view contains an asset that requires charging. The charging permission response is allowed to be transmitted when positional information indicates that the portable information terminal is positioned inside of a predetermined positional range and apparatus identification information in the charging permission request data, by which the broadcast receiving apparatus is allowed to be identified, coincides with apparatus identification information stored in a memory. The controller controls the communication interface to transmit a charging denial response to the broadcast receiving apparatus when the positional information indicates that the portable information terminal is positioned outside of the predetermined positional range.

A broadcast signal transmission apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first RF subframe signal generation unit for generating at least one first RF signal; a second RF subframe signal generation unit for generating at least one second RF signal; a first RF unit for generating, on the basis of at least a portion of the at least one first RF signal, at least one first RF transmission signal corresponding to a first RF channel from among the first RF channel and a second RF channel, which are channel-bonded; and a second RF unit for generating, on the basis of at least a portion of the at least one second RF signal, at least one second RF transmission signal corresponding to the second RF channel.

To provide a technique for more appropriately transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcast service.SOLUTION: A generation method is for a transmission wave for transmitting a 4K broadcast service and a 2K broadcast service together. In the transmission wave, the 4K broadcast service and the 2K broadcast service are transmitted while being stored in different hierarchies composed of combinations of different segments in a plurality of frequency segments obtained by dividing a frequency band of a predetermined band of a broadcast wave into a plurality of bands. A first hierarchy in which the 4K broadcast service is stored is configured using a frequency segment of vertical polarization and a frequency segment of horizontal polarization in the broadcast wave. A second hierarchy in which the 2K broadcast service is stored is configured using at least any one frequency segment of the frequency segments of the vertical polarization and the frequency segment of the horizontal polarization in the broadcast wave.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 20

Provided is technology for more suitably transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcast service. Used as the means for doing so is a broadcast reception device that, together with a broadcast station device, constitutes a broadcast system, wherein: a broadcast wave data block transmitted using a broadcast wave and an online data block transmitted using a communication network, for both of which transmission from the broadcast station device has started at the same timing, and which each correspond to the same partial video content, are received; a long standby time is set which is longer than the longest time that is expected as the delay time from the start of transmission of the broadcast wave data block to the start of reception of the broadcast wave data block and which is longer than the longest time that is expected as the delay time from the start of transmission of the online data block to the start of reception of the online data block; and decoding of both data blocks for which reception has started is started at the timing when the standby time is elapsed from the start of the transmission of the broadcast wave data block and the online data block.

To provide a technology for more suitably transmitting or receiving advanced digital broadcasting services.SOLUTION: A system is configured to transmit a composite wave obtained by combining an upper hierarchical modulated wave and a lower hierarchical modulated wave with different transmission powers in the same frequency band, change the difference in transmission power between the upper hierarchical modulated wave and the lower hierarchical modulated wave, and include information about the difference in transmission power in either the upper hierarchical modulated wave or the lower hierarchical modulated wave before transmitting.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2A

To collect receiver data while securing confidentiality.SOLUTION: A digital television broadcasting system according to one embodiment includes: broadcast signal receiving means for receiving a broadcast signal; and an information storage unit for recording receiver data after encrypting the receiver data in a receiver using an encryption key on the basis of an API execution command included in the broadcast signal. A transmitter transmits the API execution command.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

To provide a transmission method and the like capable of guaranteeing a buffer operation of a reception device when transmitting data using an MMT system.SOLUTION: A transmission method for transmitting a plurality of transmission packets in a state where a specification by a reception buffer model is satisfied, the transmission packet including a variable-length packet header and a variable-length payload, the reception buffer model including a buffer configured to receive the transmission packet, convert a first packet configured by the variable-length packet header and the variable-length payload stored in the received transmission packet into a second packet having a fixed-length packet header subjected to header decompression, and output the second packet obtained by the conversion at a predetermined extraction rate, the plurality of transmission packets equal to or less than a predetermined number of packets are transmitted per unit time (S2301), and the predetermined number of packets is set so that the transmission packets of the minimum packet size do not continue.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 86

To provide a technique for more preferably transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcasting service.SOLUTION: A broadcast receiving device that receives a broadcast wave transmitted by a 2K broadcast service and a 4K broadcast service determines whether simulcast of the 2K broadcast service and the 4K broadcast service is performed in the broadcast waves on the basis of control information included in the received broadcast wave. When an EPG screen for the 2K broadcast service and the 4K broadcast service included in the broadcast wave is displayed, the display state of program information of the 2K broadcast service or the 4K broadcast service on the EPG screen is changed. The identification state in the identification includes a first identification state that identifies that the 4K broadcast service and the 2K broadcast service is a simulcast pair, and a second identification state that identifies that the 4K broadcast service and the 2K broadcast service is not in the simulcast pair.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 13C

To provide a broadcasting system capable of applying an optimum multiplexing method according to a service requirement condition.SOLUTION: A transmitter 100 to be used in a broadcasting system 1 for performing hierarchical transfer comprises: multiplexing means 103 for multiplexing signals in a plurality of layers associated with different services, respectively; and transmission means 104 for transmitting multiplex signals multiplexed by the multiplexing means 103. The multiplexing means 103 includes: FDM means 103a for multiplexing signals in two or more hierarchies of the plurality of layers using FDM in a transmission band of one channel; and TDM means 103b for multiplexing signals in two or more hierarchies of the plurality of layers using time division multiplexing in one frame.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

To provide a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions with a higher added value.SOLUTION: A digital broadcast receiving device 100 includes: a broadcast receiving unit that receives broadcast data including encoded video data and control information of a digital broadcast program; a video decoding unit that decodes the encoded video data to reproduce program video information; a display unit that displays the program video information; a communication unit that transmits viewing permission request data to a prescribed mobile information terminal and receives response data from the mobile information terminal when a broadcast program that a user of the broadcast receiving device wishes to view is a viewing-restricted program; an authentication information storage unit that stores terminal identification information and authentication information capable of identifying the prescribed mobile information terminal; and a control unit. When the response data is a display permission response and both terminal identification information and authentication information included in the display permission response match the stored terminal identification information and authentication information, respectively, the control unit controls the video decoding unit or the display unit so as not to restrict viewing of the broadcast program.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8A

To be capable of preferably performing a series of media access controls on a reception side.SOLUTION: A container of a predetermined format including a media stream is transmitted. A predetermined number of sets of media access information associated with a series of media access controls are successively inserted in a layer of the media stream or a layer of the container. For example, the media access information includes identification information for making a distinction between other media access information, and identification information for making an association with the other media access information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 16