103 results about "Event information table" patented technology

A method for interfacing between a transmitter and receiver of a digital broadcasting system using a satellite, includes the steps of: searching a program association table of the receiver for a corresponding program, and detecting a receiver control message packet number; detecting a receiver control message through the detected packet number; detecting public switched telephone network and public switched data network numbers through the receiver control message; searching for a network information table of the receiver and then detecting an event information table packet number at a time zone corresponding to an event information table construction descriptor, in order to search for a corresponding event information table; inserting a VCR reserved recording descriptor into the event information table to impose an identification number on a corresponding program, thereby performing a reserved recording; inserting a price information descriptor table into the event information table to transmit program price information; and inserting a caption information descriptor into the event information table to provide information about a caption of a program before broadcasting it.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and terminal for reporting sensor data. The method for reporting the sensor data includes the steps that when a processor only needs to process the sensor data collected by a sensor, the processor sends an instruction of going to sleep and goes to sleep; after the processor goes to sleep, a sensor concentrator receives and temporally stores the sensor data collected and reported by the sensor to an event information table, records corresponding time when the sensor data are collected by the sensor and temporally stores the time in the event information table; after the processor recovers the working condition, the sensor concentrator reports the event information table to the processor, and the processor analyzes the event information table and completes corresponding processing. When only the sensor works, the processor is in the sleep state all the time, the low-power dissipation sensor concentrator temporally stores the data, and therefore the overall power dissipation can be saved.

A master guide table for a digital broadcast protocol, and a method of broadcasting and updating an electronic program guide using the table, uses identification information included in a bit stream syntax of the master guide table to classify whether contents of an event information table are merely shifted in time, or are actually changed. The master guide table is transmitted in accordance with a program and system information protocol (PSIP) for an advanced television system committee (ATSC) defined standard digital television broadcast protocol. A digital television receiver of a receiving party, or a digital cable broadcast receiver, can determine whether the contents of the event information table EIT are merely shifted in time or actually changed by parsing the identification information in the master guide table MGT. If the parsed contents of the identification information indicate that the event information table contents are merely shifted in time without any change, then a database maintaining previous event information table is not updated. Accordingly, time wasted in unnecessarily updating the database can be decreased.

A method for parsing EIT parsing and providing program specific information of broadcasting programs at a rapid speed. The method includes the steps of: extracting the EITs from a program specific information signal sequence in a transport stream packet transmitted from a broadcasting station; parsing each the EIT in a prescribed priority order in the EITs; and displaying the parsed EIT on a TV screen. The method for parsing EIT according to the present invention can provide the information on the broadcasting program on the time period when an audience rating is highest to a viewer at a more rapid speed than the conventional EIT parsing method.

The invention discloses a method for individually customizing television program channels. The method includes the steps: editing a favorite program list by a user through an intelligent terminal application according to EPG (electronic program guide) information to form an individual channel program event information table; transmitting the channel program event information table to a television, a set top box or a remote control device by the intelligent terminal application in a network manner, and controlling the television or the set top box to switch the program channels by a device for receiving the channel program event information table according to a time sequence of events to form channel viewing experience conforming to user preferences; sharing the individually customized channel program event information table to friends or publics by the intelligent terminal application; remapping local television channel names and channel IDs (identifications) by the intelligent terminal application receiving the sharing information according to the location of the user to realize viewing experience as same as the viewing experience of an original sharer by the aid of the television, the set top box or the remote control device.

An apparatus and a method for controlling a program information display on an electronic program guide (EPG) screen to supply perfect program information on the EPG screen to viewers by controlling length of the program information serviced through a set top box. A descriptor analysis is performed through SDT (service description table) and EIT (event information table) filtering processes for the corresponding channels by grouping channel IDs to be shown to the viewers on one screen. And, a display range of the program information is controlled by using length data of the program information obtained through the analysis processes, thereby showing the perfect program information to the viewers.

The embodiment of the invention provides a playing method for a live program. The playing method comprises the following steps: acquiring an index document of the live program from a live program server; parsing the index document; acquiring EIT (Event Information Table) information from the index document; acquiring a program zone of the live program from the live program server according to the index document; conducting playing control on the program zone according to the EIT information. By expanding the EIT information to the index document, the playing method can accurately describe time information of the live program, and can conduct the control of the zone grade on the playing of the live program according to control information in the EIT.

Disclosed herein are a transmission apparatus and method and a reception apparatus and method for a program associated stereoscopic broadcasting service. The transmission apparatus includes: a real time stream encoder generating a real time stream by encoding a reference image; a non-real time (NRT) stream encoder generating an NRT stream based on an additional image; an image synchronization information generator generating a service signaling and image synchronization information (including an event information table (EIT) and a program map table (PMT)) stream for synchronizing the reference image and the additional image with each other based on 3D content synchronization information; and a re-multiplexer generating a program associated stereoscopic broadcasting stream by multiplexing the real time stream, the non-real time stream, and the service signaling and image synchronizing information stream.

A broadcast signal includes an information table (EIT) or an application information table (AIT) which includes a descriptor. The descriptor includes image data representative of a thumbnail image to be displayed within an electronic program guide (EPG). A decoder decodes the EIT or AIT from a broadcast signal, and an application manager displays the thumbnail image within an EPG to indicate that a channel scheduled to carry a broadcast program is also scheduled to carry broadcast data simultaneously.

The invention provides a method for grabbing a picture. The method comprises the steps that an event information table SI is received in real time, the SI carries position information of a target to be grabbed in a display frame, the SI is analyzed, the position information of the target to be grabbed in the display frame is obtained, a dynamic tracking menu picture-grabbing menu is formed according to the position information of the target to be grabbed, and after the instruction that the target to be grabbed is selected is received, the target to be grabbed, selected by a user, is displayed in a picture-grabbing following mode, wherein the instruction is made by the user according to the picture-grabbing menu. In the method for grabbing the picture, the user can grab the picture which the user wants more accurately.

The present invention relates to a system and a method for the construction of EPG service through cooperative transmission of electronic program guide data. The system of the present invention comprises an EPG transmission server transmitting, through a forward path mediated by a broadcasting network, a part of total EPG data to be transmitted to a settop box and data into which request commands for remaining EPG data not transmitted via the broadcasting network are embedded; an EPG head end server transmitting the remaining EPG data in response to user's request through a return path mediated by a communication network; and a settop box equipped with an EPG application which processes the EPG data received from the EPG transmission server and the EPG head end server. The EPG data transmitted via the broadcasting network includes both a service description table and an event information table. The system and the method for the construction of EPG service in accordance with the present invention require a significantly reduced broadcasting bandwidth for the EPG data transmission, compared with the conventional method or system. EPG service construction can be achieved using the broadcasting bandwidth of 2 M or smaller. Also, the system is applicable to various EPG applications without sacrificing user's satisfaction at all.

A digital television (DTV) receiver and a method for processing a broadcast signal are disclosed. The method for processing a digital broadcast signal includes: receiving a broadcast signal including at least one sub-event information for constructing an event in an Event Information Table (EIT); and displaying the at least one sub-event information of the event on a screen using the received broadcast signal. A broadcast receiver analyzes schedule information contained in the broadcast signal, and provides a user with event information and the schedule list of the event. Therefore, the user can easily recognize the schedule of a specific event, can precisely select his or her desired schedule, and can establish a viewing reservation function and a recording reservation function for each schedule.

The invention provides a video annotation method and device and a storage medium. The method comprises the steps of receiving a video extraction instruction sent by a terminal, and obtaining a to-be-extracted video according to the video extraction instruction; extracting one or more pieces of event information from the video frame of the to-be-extracted video; wherein the event information represents basic elements forming plot contents of the to-be-extracted video; forming at least one event information flow by utilizing one or more pieces of event information; based on the at least one event information flow, intercepting at least one first segment meeting a plot triggering condition from the to-be-extracted video, and obtaining a plot labeling label of the at least one first segment; wherein the plot labeling label is used for labeling the at least one first segment. According to the invention, the video annotation efficiency can be improved.

According to an aspect, there is provided a digital television (DTV) data stream including program and system information protocol (PSIP) data associated with content of the DTV data stream, the PSIP data including a virtual channel table (VCT) and an event information table (EIT), the EIT comprising: a source identification field identifying a source of an associated event in a DTV data stream; an event identification field indicating an identification of the event; a start time field indicating a star time of the event; a title field indicating a title of the event; and a descriptor comprising: a descriptor tag identifying the descriptor as a genre descriptor; a descriptor length indicating a total length of the descriptor; and at least one category code for an associated event in a DTV data stream, each category code specifying genre, program type, or category information of the associated event, wherein the at least one category code specifies at least one of a set of basic categories.

The invention discloses a method for obtaining digital television program guide, aiming at solving the technical problem that users can scan the digital television program information more conveniently. In order to solve the technical problem, the invention comprises the following steps: (1) the digital television initializes event information sheet space in a storage; (2) the digital television receives the basic television program guide of the digital television broadcast from a network, obtains complete SI information in the basic television program guide transport stream, obtains event information table data in the SI information and stores the event information sheet data in the event information sheet space of the storage; (3) the digital television decrypts the current video information data according to the current or subsequent program of a certain time period of the current program in the event information sheet and stores the decrypted current video information data in the space; and (4) a user turns on the digital television program guide and displays the digital television program guide on a display.

A digital / analogue TV receiver having a function for displaying an EGP screen comprises a controller for displaying the EPG (electric program guide) screen including channels and TV program information on a display apparatus, and a memory for storing a channel map memorizing the TV program information correspondingly to the channels. The controller renews the channel map stored in the memory with using VCT (virtual channel table) information and EIT (event information table) information which are delivered with the TV broadcasting signals while image signals of a TV program is outputted to the display apparatus. The controller uses the TV program information memorized in the channel map stored in the memory when the EPG screen is displayed on the display apparatus.

Optimizing ‘actual’ and ‘other’ table type EPG information acquisition. In a broadcast stream multiplex, information is comprised in event information tables of type ‘actual’ that comprises event or program information about a selected service, and of type ‘other’ that comprises event information about other services in the multiplex. An EPG database is updated with the event information comprised in the event information tables under certain conditions only.

Example apparatus and methods concern selectively accepting or rejecting content based on ratings identifier information included in the content. Example apparatus and methods facilitate identifying a content fragment (e.g., f-MP4 fragment) to be rejected based on an identifier located in the fragment rather than information located in some external source (e,g., Event Information Table (EIT)). One example method includes identifying a fragment based on a ratings identifier encoded as a universally unique identifier (UUID) in the fragment and then selectively accepting or rejecting the fragment based on the rating. Rather than rely only on a predicted start time, a predicted end time, a predicted source, and a pre determined coarse-grained rating, example apparatus and methods may be better prepared to account for unanticipated start times, ending times, schedule changes, and source changes, and may provide finer grained user control based on ratings carried in content.

A digital television (DTV) data stream includes an event information table (EIT), the EIT including: a descriptor including: a descriptor tag identifying the descriptor as a genre descriptor, a descriptor length field, and at least one category code for an associated event in a DTV data stream.

The invention provides a method for acquiring multi-frequency-point EPG (Electronic Program Guide) information. The method comprises the following steps of: 200, making a network operator place EPG information of all frequency points within a specific period of time in a specific area in an EIT (Event Information Table); 300, when a system is standby, filtering the EPG information of a plurality of frequency points in a specific period of time out of the EIT, writing into an internal storage and storing EPG information in the internal storage into storage equipment; and 400, after the system is started up, reading the EPG information of the storage equipment by using a digital system and displaying the EPG information. In the method, the EPG information of all the frequency points in a certain period of time is stored in the storage equipment, and after the digital system is started, the EPG information of all the frequency points is directly called from the storage equipment for displaying without specially filtering the EPG information of all the frequency points, so that the time for acquiring the EPG information of all the frequency points is saved, and the user experience is improved.

The invention discloses a program recording method comprising: processing a service description table in a data flow to obtain the program number of a target service; processing a program event information table in the data flow to obtain program information; according to a program required to be recorded, searching reference event information from program information; according to the obtained reference event information, obtaining time information corresponding to each event; judging whether each event is carried out at the same frequency point; if yes, synchronously recording programs; and if no, automatically recording programs one by one. The invention also relates to a recording device which can integrally record target content and filter advertisement information.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for managing electronic program guide (EPG) data, which comprises the following steps: receiving EIT information of an event information table; resolving the received EIT information to acquire a program identifier corresponding to the EIT information; and judging whether the EIT information is the EIT information corresponding to the EPG data or not according to the program identifier, and if so, storing the EPG data in the EIT information. Correspondingly, the embodiment of the invention also discloses a device for managing the electronic program guide (EPG) data. The method and the device of the invention avoid the storage of non-EPG data so as to increase the storage space for the EPG data, can timely delete the data which is not on the same frequency point with the EPG data needed by a user, better guarantee that the user checks the needed EPG data, improve the user experience, and improve the performances and safety of a system.

A method for making a broadcast program time table using an electric program guide database is disclosed. The method includes storing present program information of event information table present / follow (EIT P / F) information in a first program information area of a corresponding segment area in the electric program guide (EPG) database by determining a segment, in which program discontinuity occurs, in an event information table (EIT) schedule if the EIT P / F information is received, and storing program information of an Nth segment in a second program information area when the Nth segment of the EIT schedule is received, and program discontinuity occurs in the Nth segment, the Nth segment being a segment included in the received EIT schedule.

The invention discloses a digital television and a channel searching method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: according to an address of location of the digital television, searching program information corresponding to the address; acquiring a data packet of the program information from a network server, wherein the program information data packet comprises one or more kinds of the following data: a network information table (NIT), a service description table (SDT), an event information table (EIT) and a TOT. By using the digital television and the channel searching method thereof, after the needed address is searched, the data packet of the program information corresponding to the address can be directly acquired from the network server. A frequency point corresponding to the needed address does not need to be searched. Through analyzing the data packet of the program information corresponding to the address acquired by the frequency point, a television program corresponding to the address can be played. Therefore, channel searching time of the digital television can be substantially shortened and a channel searching efficiency can be improved.

The invention relates to an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) updating method and system. The method comprises the steps of: updating and replacing an EPG event transmitted in an old version in a channel EPG event list by an EPG event transmitted in an EIT (Event Information Table) with the version changed, and establishing two buffer regions to cache the EPG event lists in old and new versions; updating the old EPG event list in the buffering regions, and then updating an display interface. As all the EIT are not received again for updating after all the EPG event lists are deleted, and one EIT is not updated once being finished, the problem of causing incomplete EPG events is avoided, great inconvenience cannot be brought to a user for looking up, and the condition of frequent screen refreshing of the interface is avoided, and the information of the EPG events are facilitated to be watched by the user.

A digital / analogue TV receiver having a function for displaying an EGP screen comprises a controller for displaying the EPG (electric program guide) screen including channels and TV program information on a display apparatus, and a memory for storing a channel map memorizing the TV program information correspondingly to the channels. The controller renews the channel map stored in the memory with using VCT (virtual channel table) information and EIT (event information table) information which are delivered with the TV broadcasting signals while image signals of a TV program is outputted to the display apparatus. The controller uses the TV program information memorized in the channel map stored in the memory when the EPG screen is displayed on the display apparatus.

The invention relates to a data sharing system based on a block chain. The system comprises the block chain, a processor and a memory storing a computer program. The block chain comprises a data storage unit which represents n data storage units, Di represents the ith data storage unit and is used for storing the ith event information, i represents an event type id, i=1, 2, 3...n, an ith data table is stored in Di, and the fields of the ith data table comprise a node id, a content id, content data and a content state value. According to the invention, the data sharing efficiency and accuracy are improved.

The invention provides an electronic program guide (EPG) information generating method and device. The method comprises the steps of: creating a plurality of first threads corresponding to event information tables (EITs) one by one; executing the plurality of first threads, wherein the first threads are used for filtering the EITs corresponding to the first threads from transport stream (TS), analyzing the EITs corresponding to the first threads, acquiring event information corresponding to the EITs corresponding to the first threads and storing the event information in first storage spaces corresponding to the first threads one by one; and generating an EPG according to the event information in all the first storage spaces. According to the method, the operation of the EITs with huge data volume is executed in parallel by the plurality of threads through creating and executing the first threads corresponding to the EITs in quantity, so that the EPG information updating speed is greatly improved and then the user experience is improved.