JP2004357173A - Channel selecting device, measurement data analyzer, and television signal transceiver system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a television signal receiver capable of allowing a viewer to collect and analyze biological data during viewing a TV program and computing emotion parameters indicative of changes in his/her feeling or a physical condition and displaying an icon for the emotion parameters in an electronic program guide. <P>SOLUTION: During viewing a program, the result of biological data measured by a measuring device connected to a channel selecting device is transmitted to a measurement data analyzer, and emotion parameters are computed by the measurement data analyzer. Then, the parameters are transmitted to a television transmitting device to be appended to EPG (Electronic Program Guide) information. The television transmitting device transmits television broadcasting signals superimposed with the EPG information, and a television receiving device receives and demodulates the signals. The motion parameters are displayed by an icon in an electronic program guide or video images of a program under viewing. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a television broadcast receiving method for measuring, collecting, and analyzing biological data such as brain waves, blood pressure, and respiratory rate of a viewer's body, creating emotion parameters for each program, and selecting a program. It is about.
[0002]
In particular, the present invention relates to an emotion parameter generation unit that generates an emotion parameter with a measurement data analyzer from a result of measuring biological data with a television broadcast receiver, and a television broadcast receiver.
[0003]
[Prior art]
This document describes a sound environment control method that forms a sound space that can effectively alleviate human physiological or psychological tension as an acoustic device using biological data. (For example, see Patent Document 1)
It is generally known that human brain waves represent brain activity, and thus a physiological or psychological stability. It is generally said that a state in which many α waves are emitted is a relaxed state, and when a sound stimulus superimposed with 1 / f fluctuation noise is given, the occurrence rate of the α wave increases and a person is relaxed. Tend to be.
[0004]
In the above-mentioned patent, a method of controlling the sound environment of a person by superimposing 1 / f fluctuation noise on so-called background music has been used by paying attention to such properties.
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-02-134164
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
A method of superimposing 1 / f fluctuation noise in the audio apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 02-134164 has been invented to make a person relaxed. Therefore, it is difficult to superimpose the 1 / f fluctuation noise because the content of the content is changed.
[0007]
For this reason, biological data is collected and analyzed while the viewer is watching the program, and emotion parameters representing emotions and physical condition changes are calculated from the time series transition of the biological data of the viewer, Provided is a television signal receiver which displays an icon on an electronic program guide and enables program selection.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
A channel selection device according to claim 1 of the present invention is a channel selection device that receives a television broadcast signal including EPG information, and a reception demodulation unit that receives and demodulates a television broadcast signal and outputs a video signal; Extracting means for extracting EPG information from the video signal from the receiving and demodulating means, measuring instrument control means for controlling a measuring instrument for biological data connected to the channel selection device, and an access request from the measuring instrument control means or Network control means for accessing the measurement data analyzer based on an access request from a user.
[0009]
In addition, a measurement data analyzer according to claim 2 of the present invention includes a network control unit that accesses a channel selection device to collect measured biological data, and a biological data collected by the network control unit. , An emotion parameter calculating means for calculating an emotion parameter for each program, and a data storage means for storing collected biological data and emotion parameters.
[0010]
Also, the television signal transmitting apparatus according to claim 3 of the present invention includes at least network control means for accessing the measurement data analyzing apparatus to obtain the stored emotion parameters, and at least emotion parameters from the network control means. EPG information generating means for generating EPG information, multiplexing means for multiplexing a video signal and EPG information from the generating means to form a television broadcast signal, and transmitting the television broadcast signal from the multiplexing means Transmission means.
[0011]
In addition, the apparatus for an Internet broadcast portal according to claim 4 of the present invention includes at least a network control unit that accesses a measurement data analysis server to obtain a stored emotion parameter, and an emotion parameter obtained by the network control unit. A portal site creating means for creating an Internet broadcasting portal site, and a portal site displaying means for displaying a portal site from the portal site creating means are provided.
[0012]
The channel selecting apparatus according to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the configuration of the first aspect, further comprises an emotion parameter display means for displaying an EPG information and an emotion parameter on a screen while viewing the program by an icon. I do.
[0013]
Also, a television signal transmitting / receiving system according to claim 6 of the present invention includes a channel selection device according to claims 1 to 5, a measurement data analysis device according to claim 2, and a measurement data analysis device according to claim 3. It is characterized by comprising a television signal transmitting apparatus and an apparatus for an Internet broadcasting portal according to the fourth aspect.
[0014]
Further, in the television signal transmitting / receiving method according to claim 7 of the present invention, a first step of transmitting a video signal multiplexed with EPG information including an emotion parameter, and receiving a video signal from the first step. A second step, a third step of separating EPG information from the video signal received in the second step to obtain an emotion parameter, and measuring biological data by a measuring instrument while watching the program; A fourth step of transmitting the measurement result to the measurement data analyzer, a fifth step of analyzing the biological data from the fourth step and calculating an emotion parameter, and an emotion from the fifth step. A sixth step of creating EPG information including parameters and a portal site is provided.
[0015]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a television signal transmitting / receiving system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The television signal transmission / reception system includes a channel selection device 100, a television signal transmission device 200, a measurement data analysis device 300, and an Internet broadcast portal device.
[0016]
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the channel selection device according to the embodiment of the present invention. The tuning device 100 includes a tuner 11, a demultiplexing unit 12, a network input / output unit 13, a switching / synthesizing unit 14, a display unit 15, a CRT 16, a measuring device control unit 17, a remote control signal receiving unit 18, And an input / output information control unit 19.
[0017]
The tuner 11 receives and demodulates a television broadcast signal of a designated television broadcast channel, outputs an audio signal to a speaker (not shown) via an audio output processing unit (not shown), and multiplexes a video signal. Output to the separation unit 22 and the switching / combining unit 24. The demultiplexing unit 22 extracts a text data signal for text broadcasting and EPG information from the video signal from the tuner 21 and outputs the extracted data data to the input / output information control unit 19.
[0018]
The network input / output unit 13 accesses an Internet broadcast portal device or a measurement data analyzer having the selected URL based on a URL access request from the input / output information control unit 19.
[0019]
The switching / combining unit 14 switches and combines the display of the browser, the EPG, and the video signal in accordance with a request from the user. Specifically, when the user wants to access the Internet portal device for Internet broadcasting of the designated URL, the user presses a key for accessing the Internet provided on the remote controller, and the remote controller signal is transmitted to a remote controller signal receiver 18 described later. And accesses the portal site of the URL stored in the work RAM of the input / output control unit 19 and displays it on the browser. When the user selects a URL of a program to be viewed from the portal site, the display is switched to a video signal of a received broadcast program by accessing the selected URL. If you press the key to return to the video signal provided on the remote control while browsing the homepage with a browser, the Internet broadcast program ends and the video signal of the last selected broadcast program is displayed. Switch. It also has a browser and video dual screen display and PinP display processing function. The display unit 15 displays an image on the CRT 16 by a predetermined method. The CRT 16 displays a video signal from the display unit 15 and / or a homepage on a screen.
[0020]
The measuring device control unit 17 controls measuring devices such as an electroencephalograph 101 and a sphygmomanometer 102 connected to the channel selection device, and measures, collects, and measures biological data of the viewer.
[0021]
The remote control signal receiving unit 18 receives a request from a user via an infrared remote control (not shown). The input / output information control unit 19 stores the EPG information and the biological data of the viewer in a work RAM 19c to be described later, and transmits it to the measurement data analyzer. In addition, EPG information and emotion parameters are displayed, and programs matching the physical condition and emotion are listed from the biological data of the viewer.
[0022]
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a television signal transmitting device, a measurement data analyzing device, and an Internet broadcasting portal device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
[0023]
The television signal transmitting device 200 includes a network input / output unit 21, a television signal generating unit 22, an electronic program guide generating unit 23, a multiplexer 24, and a transmitting unit 25.
[0024]
The network input / output unit 21 accesses the measurement data analysis device 300 described later, and acquires the emotion parameters obtained from the channel selection device for each program. The electronic program guide generator 22 generates EPG information necessary for generating an electronic program guide. The television signal generator 23 generates and amplifies a video signal and an audio signal. The multiplexer 24 multiplexes the video signal from the television signal generator 23 and the EPG information from the electronic program guide generator 22. The transmission unit 25 transmits the video signal and the audio signal from the multiplexer 24 to the tuning device 100.
[0025]
The EPG information includes at least a start time, an end time, a program description, and an emotion parameter of the television broadcast program. It is possible to display and list programs that match the physical condition of the viewer.
[0026]
The measurement data analyzer 300 includes a network input / output unit 31, a data processing unit 32, and a data storage unit 33.
[0027]
The network input / output unit 31 establishes communication with each device when an access is made from an Internet broadcast portal device or a television signal transmitting device. The data processing unit 32 analyzes data from each tuning device and stores parameters in a data storage unit 33 described later.
[0028]
The Internet broadcast portal device 400 includes a network input / output unit 41, a portal site display unit 42, and a portal site creation unit 43.
[0029]
The network input / output unit 41 establishes communication with each device in response to an access request from an Internet broadcasting portal device or a television signal transmitting device. The portal site display unit 42 displays a portal site that describes a list of Internet broadcast programs created by a portal site creation unit 43 described later. The portal site creation unit 43 creates a portal site in HTML format as a list including at least the URL of the Internet broadcast program, the time required for the broadcast, the program description, and the emotion parameter from the measurement data analyzer.
[0030]
In the present embodiment, the electronic program guide generation unit 22 corresponds to the EPG information generation unit described in the claims, and similarly, the multiplexer 24 is a multiplexing unit, the transmission unit 25 is a transmission unit, the tuner 11 is a reception demodulation unit, The demultiplexing unit 12 is an extraction unit, the input / output information control unit 19, the measuring unit control unit 17 is a measuring unit control unit, the network input / output units 13, 21, 31, and 41 are network control units, the switching / combining unit 24, and the display unit. 25 and CRT 26 are display means, remote control signal receiving section 18 is remote control signal receiving means, data processing section 32 is emotion parameter calculation means, data storage section 33 is emotion parameter storage means, portal site display section 42 is portal site display means, portal The site creation unit 43 corresponds to a portal site creation unit.
[0031]
Here, the configuration of the input / output information control unit 19 of the channel selection device 100 will be described with reference to FIG.
[0032]
The entry / exit information control unit 19 includes a CPU 19a, a program ROM 19b, a work RAM 19c, a measuring device control unit 19d, a network control unit 19e, a switching / synthesizing unit 19f, an electronic program table processing unit 19g, and a browser processing unit 19h. Consists of
[0033]
The CPU 19a controls all information via the input / output information control unit 19. The program ROM 19b stores a computer program for controlling each means (19b to 19h) connected to the CPU 19a, and is used when the CPU 19a performs control such as writing, reading, and searching of data. The work RAM 19c is a memory in which the CPU 19a temporarily stores information, and holds EPG information and measurement results. The network control unit 19e controls a network input / output signal when there is a URL access request to the network input / output unit 13. The switching / synthesizing unit 19f exchanges information including a video signal and / or data with the switching / synthesizing unit 14. The electronic program guide processing means 19g generates an electronic program guide from the EPG information superimposed on the video data.
[0034]
The browser processing unit 19h reproduces a layout according to HTML tags and reproduces characters, images, moving images, audio, and the like.
[0035]
Next, an operation of automatically displaying a homepage linked to a television broadcast program will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a control procedure for collecting biological data of the human body and using the collected data for selecting a program by a viewer. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an emotion parameter.
[0036]
First, the television signal transmitting device 200 or the Internet broadcast portal device multiplexes at least EPG information including an emotion parameter into a video signal, and transmits the multiplexed EPG information to the tuning device 100 as a television broadcast signal (S501). Here, the EPG information to be transmitted includes, as shown in FIG. 6A, a program ID, a broadcast station ID, a start time, an end time, a broadcast distribution source URL, a measurement data analysis device URL, and an emotion parameter. In the case of an on-demand broadcast that is broadcast according to a request from a viewer, the start time and the end time are replaced with the time required for viewing the program.
[0037]
In the tuner 200, the tuner 11 receives and demodulates a television broadcast signal, and the demultiplexer 12 extracts EPG information including at least an emotion parameter (S502). In the case of a television signal device from the Internet broadcast portal device, the television signal transmitting device 200 that has received a broadcast transmission request from the tuning device 100 transmits a predetermined television broadcast signal using the Internet as a transmission path, It is received by the network input / output unit 13 of the tuning device 100. The received television broadcast signal is demodulated by the input / output information control unit 19, and EPG information including at least an emotion parameter is extracted (S502). Further, the measuring device control unit controls the measuring devices such as the electroencephalograph 101 and the blood pressure monitor 102 connected to the channel selection device, and collects biological data (S503).
[0038]
Then, the input / output information control unit 19 stores the biological data acquired from the measuring device in the work RAM 19c in a time series (S504). Here, FIG. 6B is an example of a measurement result of biological data.
[0039]
After the above processing, the measurement result is transmitted to the measurement data analyzer 300 (S505).
[0040]
The data processing unit 32 of the measurement data analysis device 300 classifies the measurement results of the transmitted biological data by age / sex, averages the results for each elapsed time of the program, and obtains the average of the biological data shown in FIG. A transition table for each time series is created and stored in the data storage unit 33. If the table already exists, the transmitted data is added, averaged, and the stored table is updated. The transition table of the biological data for each time series makes it possible to understand the transition of general biological data during program viewing. The difference between the biological data before and after viewing the broadcast program is calculated from the above-mentioned biological data transition table, and the emotion parameter classification table and the biological data transition table shown in FIG. Then, the transition table is classified into one of the classification tables, and the emotion parameter is determined. (S506)
After the above processing, the table stored in the data storage unit 33 is transmitted to the television signal transmitting device 200 or the Internet broadcast portal device 400 (S507). When transmitted to the television signal transmitting device 200, EPG information including at least an emotion parameter is created as shown in FIG. 6A (S508). When transmitted to the Internet broadcast portal apparatus 400, the emotion parameter is added as a search key when searching for a program (S509).
[0041]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the television signal transmission / reception system of the present invention, the viewer can use the emotion parameter displayed as an icon during the EPG display of the channel selection device or the video display of the program when selecting the program. The viewer can easily select a program according to the physical condition and emotion at that time.
[0042]
In addition, using the search key, it is possible to search for programs that match the physical condition and emotions from broadcast waves or Internet programs.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a television signal transmission / reception system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a channel selection device 100 according to the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of a John signal transmitting device 200, a measurement data analyzing device 300, and a device 400 for an Internet broadcast portal. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of an input / output information control unit 19 of the tuning device 100 of the embodiment. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a control procedure for creating an electronic program guide or a portal site using emotion parameters according to the embodiment; FIG. 6 (a) is an example diagram of EPG information according to the embodiment (b); An example diagram of the measurement result of the biological data of the embodiment (c) An example diagram of a transition table for each time series of the biological data of the embodiment (d) of the emotion parameter classification table of the embodiment One case DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS
Reference Signs List 11 Tuner 12 Demultiplexing unit 13 Network input / output unit 14 Switching / combining unit 15 Display unit 16 CRT
17 measuring instrument control unit 18 remote control signal receiving unit 19 input / output information control unit 21 network input / output unit 22 electronic program guide generation unit 23 television signal generation unit 24 multiplexer 25 transmission unit 31 network input / output unit 32 data processing unit 33 data storage Unit 41 network input / output unit 42 portal site display unit 43 portal site creation unit 19a CPU
19b Program ROM
19c Work RAM
19d Measuring device control means 19e Network control means 19f Switching / combining means 19g Browser processing means 19h Browser processing means 100 Tuning device 200 Television signal transmitting device 300 Measurement data analyzing device 400 Device for Internet broadcast portal

Claims (7)

What is claimed is: 1. A tuning apparatus for receiving a television broadcast signal including electronic program guide (hereinafter abbreviated as EPG) information, comprising: a demodulation means for receiving and demodulating the television broadcast signal and outputting a video signal; Extracting means for extracting EPG information from the video signal from the means, measuring instrument control means for controlling a measuring instrument connected to the tuning device, and an access request from the measuring instrument control means or an access request from a user. And a remote control signal receiving means for receiving a request from a user with an infrared remote control (not shown). Network control means for accessing to collect the biological data measured by the tuning device, emotion parameter calculation means to calculate as emotion parameters of the program from the biological data collected by the network control means, A measurement data analyzer, comprising: emotion parameter storage means for storing biological data and emotion parameters. Network control means for acquiring emotion parameters stored in the measurement data analyzer via the Internet, EPG information generating means for generating EPG information including at least emotion data obtained by the network control means, a video signal and the EPG information A television signal transmitting apparatus, comprising: multiplexing means for multiplexing EPG information from a generating means to form a television broadcast signal; and transmitting means for transmitting the television broadcast signal from the multiplexing means. . Network control means for accessing and acquiring emotion parameters stored in the measurement data analysis server via the Internet, and portal site creating means for creating an Internet broadcast portal site including at least the emotion parameters acquired by the network control means; And a portal site display unit for displaying a portal site from the portal site creation unit. 2. The channel selection device according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit for displaying an emotion parameter included in the EPG information on a screen during EPG display or program viewing. A channel selection device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, a measurement data analysis device according to claim 2, a television signal transmission device according to claim 3, and an Internet broadcast portal device according to claim 4. A television signal transmission / reception system, comprising: A first step of transmitting a video signal multiplexed with EPG information including an emotion parameter, a second step of receiving a video signal from the first step, and a video signal received in the second step A third step of separating the EPG information from the EPG information to acquire and display an emotion parameter, and a fourth step of measuring biological data with a measuring instrument during program viewing and transmitting the measurement result to the measurement data analyzer. Analyzing the biological data from the fourth step and calculating the emotion parameter; and generating the EPG information and the portal site including the emotion parameter from the fifth step. A television signal transmitting and receiving method, comprising the steps of:

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