JP2007258871A - Broadcasting receiver and receiving method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the labor required for a user to search a radio station by oneself when television broadcast of baseball game is taken over to radio broadcast, and to eliminate the channel selection work of radio station, or the like. <P>SOLUTION: A portable telephone terminal 10 has a function for receiving television broadcast and radio broadcast. When take-over information indicating that a baseball game can be taken over to radio broadcast by a radio station 3 is transmitted from a television station 1 during viewing/listening of the baseball game broadcast from a television station 1, that take-over information is acquired and registered internally. When the baseball game broadcast from the television station 1 continues over a predetermined broadcast time, the portable telephone terminal 10 selects the radio station 3 automatically after the baseball game by that television broadcast is ended, and switches automatically to reception of radio broadcast of the baseball game. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a broadcast receiving apparatus having a function of receiving, for example, a television broadcast and a radio broadcast, and a broadcast receiving method for receiving, for example, a television broadcast and a radio broadcast.

  In general, a television program is broadcast in a predetermined time. Therefore, most television programs are made so that their length of time fits a predetermined broadcast time frame. In addition, some contents broadcast as a television program include an indefinite length of time from the start to the end, such as a baseball game. However, in a general baseball broadcast program, for example, even if the game is continued beyond the default broadcast time frame, the baseball broadcast is ended when the default broadcast end time is reached. ing. Thus, if the baseball broadcast ends in the middle of the game, the user cannot watch the game until the end.

  On the other hand, in the case of a baseball broadcast, the same game is often broadcast on television and radio. Thus, in the case where the same game is being relayed between the television broadcast and the radio broadcast, the user can listen to the radio broadcast relaying the same game after the baseball relay by the television broadcast is completed. The game can be watched continuously.

  In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-157844 (Patent Document 1), a television receiver is provided with a radio broadcast receiving unit, and the radio receiving unit stores in advance the frequency of the radio broadcast. It has preset means for automatically selecting radio stations of the frequency, and by associating television broadcast channels with preset means, for example, the same game is broadcast on television and radio broadcasts such as baseball broadcasts. In such a case, a television receiver is disclosed in which the baseball broadcast can be switched between television broadcasting and radio broadcasting for viewing.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-157884 (see FIGS. 1 and 2)

  By the way, in the case where the same game is being relayed between the television broadcast and the radio broadcast as described above, after listening to the radio broadcast relaying the same game after the end of the baseball relay by the television broadcast, Therefore, the user needs to know which radio station is broadcasting the same game as the television broadcast. In general, a user can view a radio program section such as a newspaper or view contents (for example, information related to a baseball broadcast by radio broadcast) announced after the end of the baseball broadcast of a television broadcast. Know if the game is being broadcast by a radio station. Then, for example, the user operates the radio receiver by himself and adjusts the frequency of the tuner of the radio receiver to the broadcast frequency of the radio station known from the radio program column or the announcement. It becomes possible to listen to the baseball broadcast that ended halfway through.

  In other words, after listening to a radio broadcast that broadcasts the same game after the end of a baseball broadcast by a television broadcast, the user can see the radio broadcast program of the same game by looking at the radio program column of the newspaper himself / herself. And the radio station that is relaying the radio station, and the user must operate the radio receiver to select the radio station, which is very time-consuming and complicated. Work must be done.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of such a situation, and for example, the same content program is broadcast using two or more different broadcasting media such as television broadcasting and radio broadcasting. In this case, when the program of the content is received on the other broadcast medium after the broadcast on the one broadcast medium is completed, the user is not required to search for the other broadcast medium broadcasting the content, and the other It is an object of the present invention to provide a broadcast receiving apparatus and a broadcast receiving method capable of eliminating work such as channel selection by a user in the above broadcast medium.

  The broadcast receiving apparatus of the present invention takes over from the first and second broadcast receiving units for receiving broadcast signals of at least two different broadcast media, and the broadcast content of the first broadcast medium. A takeover information acquisition unit for acquiring content takeover information indicating broadcast content of a possible second broadcast medium; and when the broadcast content by the first broadcast medium being received is terminated, the first A switching control unit that performs reception switching control from broadcast content of the first broadcast medium by the broadcast reception unit to broadcast content of the second broadcast medium by the second broadcast reception unit solves the above-described problem. To do.

  The broadcast receiving method of the present invention includes a step of receiving broadcast content of the first broadcast medium out of broadcast signals of at least two different broadcast media of the first and second, and broadcast content of the first broadcast medium. Acquiring the content takeover information indicating the broadcast content of the second broadcast medium that can be taken over from the first broadcast medium based on the content takeover information when the broadcast content by the first broadcast medium being received is completed. The above-described problem is solved by including a step of performing switching control for reception from the broadcast content of the medium to the broadcast content of the second broadcast medium.

  That is, according to the present invention, content takeover information is acquired during the reception of broadcast content on the first broadcast medium, and when the broadcast content on the first broadcast medium ends, the second broadcast is based on the content takeover information. The system automatically switches to receiving broadcast content on the medium.

  According to the present invention, when the broadcast content by the first broadcast medium is ended based on the content takeover information acquired during the reception of the broadcast content of the first broadcast medium, the broadcast content of the second broadcast medium is transferred to the broadcast content. Since the reception is automatically switched, for example, in the case where the same content program is broadcast using two or more different broadcast media such as television broadcast and radio broadcast, When receiving the program of the content on the other broadcast medium after the broadcast on the broadcast medium is completed, the user does not have to search for the other broadcast medium broadcasting the content, and the user on the other broadcast medium However, it is not necessary to perform operations such as channel selection.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  Hereinafter, in one embodiment of the broadcast receiving apparatus and the broadcast receiving method of the present invention, a mobile phone terminal having a function capable of receiving broadcast signals from at least two different broadcast media such as television broadcast and radio broadcast is provided. An example will be described. The content described below is merely an example, and it goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to this example.

[Outline of First Embodiment]
In recent years, television broadcasting and radio broadcasting have been partially digitized, and not only digital broadcasting for general household television receivers and radio receivers, but also digital television broadcasting for mobile terminals will be started. It is supposed to be. Note that digital television broadcasting for mobile terminals is referred to as so-called “one segment”. On the other hand, on the mobile terminal side, models compatible with the above-mentioned “One Seg” have been commercialized, and not only the reception function of the conventional analog television broadcast and analog radio broadcast, but also the reception of digital television broadcast and digital radio broadcast. Functions are also being installed.

  In digital broadcasting, various data and program guides accompanying programs can be transmitted to a receiving terminal. Therefore, for example, when a program is extended by a game extension or the like in a baseball broadcast, information regarding the program extension can be transmitted to the receiving terminal in digital broadcasting. Therefore, on the receiving terminal side, various controls such as automatically extending the recording time during recording are possible based on the information.

  On the other hand, in the case of a mobile phone terminal equipped with both television broadcast and radio broadcast reception functions, both television broadcast and radio broadcast can be used in the single mobile phone terminal. Switching from watching broadcasts to listening to radio broadcasts is considered feasible.

  Therefore, in the first embodiment of the present invention, a program having the same content is broadcast using two first and second different broadcast media such as a television broadcast and a radio broadcast, such as a baseball broadcast. In the first broadcast medium, when the program broadcast of the content ends, the content take-over information indicating that the content is also broadcast on the other second broadcast medium is broadcast. To do. On the other hand, in the mobile phone terminal having the function of receiving the broadcast signal by the first and second broadcast media, the first broadcast medium uses the content takeover information broadcast through the first broadcast medium. When the user is informed that the broadcasted content will continue to be broadcast on the second broadcast medium, and when the user gives an instruction to receive the content through the second broadcast medium, the content Is automatically switched to the second broadcast medium that broadcasts the program.

  Thus, according to the first embodiment, the user of the mobile phone terminal needs to search for the second broadcast medium broadcasting the program of the content after the program broadcast of the content by the first broadcast medium. In addition, there is no need to search for a broadcasting station that broadcasts the same content program on the second broadcasting medium (channel selection).

  That is, in the first embodiment, for example, as shown in FIG. 1, when the baseball relay by the television broadcast is terminated halfway, the television broadcast station 1 that performs the television broadcast is, for example, as shown in FIG. The baseball game is broadcast using a so-called EPG (Electronic Program Guide), a part of BML (Broadcast Markup Language) used in multimedia information services, or a so-called data carousel transmission method. The flag indicating that it can be taken over by broadcasting, the name of the radio broadcasting station that performs baseball relay by radio broadcasting, and information on the broadcasting frequency of the radio broadcasting station are broadcast as the content takeover information 2.

  When the mobile phone terminal 10 that has received the content transfer information 2 can receive the radio broadcast of the radio broadcast station 3 that takes over the baseball relay, the baseball relay by the television broadcast ends (the program ends in FIG. 2). As shown in FIG. 3, it is displayed on the display 11 that the baseball game can be continuously listened to by radio broadcasting.

  Thereafter, when an instruction to listen to the baseball broadcast by radio broadcasting is input from the user through the operation unit 12, the mobile phone terminal 10 transmits the corresponding baseball relay based on the content transfer information 2 received earlier. The reception frequency is automatically set at the same time as the radio broadcast reception function is activated so as to receive. If a plurality of radio broadcast stations can take over the same baseball broadcast, the mobile phone terminal 10 displays a list of the radio broadcast stations that can be taken over on the display 11, and informs the user of the plurality of radio broadcast stations. You may be made to select which of these is used. Then, the mobile phone terminal 10 automatically selects the radio broadcast station selected by the user.

  As described above, the user of the mobile phone terminal 10 can perform the same baseball game without operating the radio reception function or selecting the radio broadcast station after himself / herself after the broadcast of the baseball broadcast by television broadcasting is completed. Will continue to be available on radio broadcasts.

[Internal configuration of mobile phone terminal]
FIG. 4 shows a schematic internal circuit configuration of the mobile phone terminal 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 4, a data line is a transmission line for transmitting various data such as voice data, e-mail data, and video data. The control line is a transmission line for transmitting various control information such as control data from the control unit 30 configured by a CPU (Central Processing Unit).

  The cellular antenna 33 is an antenna for transmitting / receiving a signal radio wave to / from a base station of the mobile phone network, and is connected to the cellular communication unit 32. The cellular communication unit 32 performs frequency conversion, modulation, demodulation, and the like of transmission / reception signals.

  The voice data received by the cellular antenna 33 and the cellular communication unit 32 is subjected to processing such as decoding by the control unit 30 and then sent to the speaker 40. Other received data is received by the control unit 30. After being appropriately processed, it is sent from the control unit 30 to each unit as necessary.

  The speaker 40 is built in the terminal main body, converts the call voice data supplied and the audio data of a television program or radio program supplied from the AV codec unit 38, which will be described later, into an analog signal, and converts the analog voice signal into an internal amplifier. Then, the sound signal is converted into an audible sound and output to the outside. Thereby, the voice of the telephone call, the television program, and the radio program is output from the speaker 40.

  The microphone 41 is built in the terminal main body, converts input sound into an analog sound signal, amplifies it with an internal amplifier, and sends the analog sound signal to the control unit 30. When the call voice signal is supplied from the microphone 41, the control unit 30 converts the call voice signal into digital voice data, encodes it, and further sends the encoded call voice data to the cellular communication unit 32. As a result, call voice data is transmitted from the cellular antenna 33.

  The TV antenna 35 is an antenna for receiving television broadcast radio waves, and is connected to the TV tuner unit 34. The TV tuner unit 34 performs processing such as demodulation of a television broadcast signal received by the TV antenna 35, analog / digital conversion, and decoding of encoded data. The television broadcast data demodulated and decoded by the TV tuner unit 34 is directly sent to the AV codec unit 38.

  The radio antenna 37 is an antenna for receiving radio broadcast radio waves, and is connected to the radio tuner unit 36. The radio tuner unit 36 performs processing such as demodulation of radio broadcast signals received by the radio antenna 37, analog / digital conversion, and decoding of encoded data. Radio broadcast data demodulated and decoded by the radio tuner unit 36 is directly sent to the AV codec unit 38.

  When a television program is recorded or a radio program is recorded, the television broadcast data and radio broadcast data are sent to a large-capacity recording unit 44 composed of an HDD (hard disk drive) or a nonvolatile large-capacity memory. Saved. Needless to say, the large-capacity recording unit 44 is also used for recording various types of data other than television broadcast data and radio broadcast data.

  The AV codec unit 38 decompresses and decodes the compressed and encoded television broadcast data and radio broadcast data, and restores the video and audio (AV) data of the television program and the audio data of the radio program. Of the AV data of the television program, video data is sent to the display unit 42 and audio data is sent to the speaker 40, while audio data of the radio program is sent to the speaker 40.

  The display unit 42 includes a liquid crystal display or the like and a display driving circuit for driving the liquid crystal display. The display driving circuit drives the liquid crystal display based on various screens and text display data supplied from the control unit 30 and video data of a television program supplied from the AV codec unit 38. Thereby, various screens, texts, videos of television programs, and the like are displayed on the display.

  The operation unit 43 includes a numeric keypad (keyboard), a power button, an utterance / end button, the operation unit 12 such as the jog dial shown in FIG. 1, and an operation signal generation that generates an operation signal corresponding to the operation of the operation unit. It consists of a vessel. The user operates the operation unit 43 to make incoming and outgoing calls and e-mail texts for a call, send and receive e-mails, connect to the Internet, select a television broadcast station and watch a television program, Various instruction operations such as recording, recording reservation, reproduction, selection of a radio broadcast station, listening to a radio program, recording, and reproduction can be performed.

  The LAN communication unit 45 and the LAN antenna 46 are devices for the mobile phone terminal of this embodiment to perform wireless LAN communication. The cellular phone terminal of this embodiment can be connected to, for example, the Internet by accessing a wireless LAN access point through the LAN communication unit 45 and the LAN antenna 46.

  The GPS processing unit 47 receives a radio wave transmitted from a geodetic satellite in the GPS (Global Positioning System) via the GPS antenna 48, and obtains the latitude and longitude of the current position of the terminal based on the received radio wave. GPS data (information indicating latitude and longitude) received by the GPS processing unit 47 via the GPS antenna 48 is sent to the control unit 30. Thereby, the control part 30 can know the present position of an own terminal.

  The memory unit 31 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM (Random Access Memory). The ROM is an OS (Operating System), control program code for the control unit 30 to control each unit, various initial setting values, font data, dictionary data, various sound data such as ringtones and key operation sounds, and the present embodiment. Various kinds of control such as reception and viewing / recording / playback processing of television broadcasts, reception / listening / recording / playback processing of radio broadcasts, reception of content transfer information, and processing for program transfer based on the information Program codes for various applications installed in the terminal, device identification information (ID) of the terminal, and the like are stored. This ROM includes a rewritable ROM such as NAND-type flash memory (NAND-type flash memory) or EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), and includes dictionary data, ringtone data, e-mail data, telephone book, It is also possible to store various data such as e-mail address book data, schedule book data, and various other user setting values. The RAM stores data as needed as a work area when the control unit 30 performs various data processing.

  The control unit 30 is composed of a CPU, and based on the OS and various programs stored in the memory unit 31, various controls of the terminal, viewing and recording of the television program according to the present embodiment, and listening to the radio program. Processing such as switching of the reception function for recording, recording, and program transfer.

  In addition, although not shown in FIG. 4, the terminal according to the present embodiment is provided with a general mobile phone terminal such as a digital camera unit, an electronic wallet function, a battery, a power control function, and a near field communication function. It is also provided for each component.

[Flowchart of program takeover operation in the first embodiment]
FIG. 5 shows a flow of program takeover processing performed in the mobile phone terminal according to the first embodiment. The flowchart of FIG. 5 mainly shows the flow of control performed by the control unit 30 of the mobile phone terminal.

  In FIG. 5, as a process of step S <b> 1, the control unit 30 receives the content takeover information through the TV tuner unit 34 when the content takeover information is included in the television broadcast signal during the reception of the television broadcast. Then, the information is stored (registered) in the internal memory unit 31.

  In addition, as a process of step S2, the control unit 30 determines whether or not the currently received television broadcast content (program) is completed based on, for example, EPG information while receiving the television broadcast. When it is determined that the content is determined to end, the process proceeds to step S3.

  When the processing proceeds to step S3, the control unit 30 determines whether there is a radio program that takes over the content of the content of the television broadcast based on the content takeover information. If the control unit 30 determines in step S3 that there is takeover information for the radio broadcast, the control unit 30 proceeds to step S4. On the other hand, if the control unit 30 determines that there is no takeover information, the control unit 30 proceeds to step S10. Processing to continue watching John Broadcast content.

  If it is determined in step S3 that there is information to be taken over to the radio broadcast and the process proceeds to step S4, the control unit 30 performs the contents of the takeover information, that is, the television broadcast as shown in the example of FIG. Display for informing the user that there is a radio program having the same content as

  Next, as a process in step S5, the control unit 30 determines whether or not the user has instructed the user to take over the content to be broadcasted via the operation unit 43 (the control unit 12 in FIG. 1). When the instruction is issued, the process proceeds to step S6. On the other hand, when the instruction to take over is not issued, the process of continuing to view the content of the television broadcast is performed at step S10.

  When it is determined in step S5 that the user has instructed to take over the radio broadcast content, and the process proceeds to step S6, the control unit 30 takes over the television broadcast content based on the content takeover information. It is determined whether or not there are a plurality of radio broadcast stations. If there are a plurality of radio stations, the process proceeds to step S7, and if there is only one radio broadcast station, the process proceeds to step S9.

  When it is determined in step S6 that only one radio broadcast station takes over the television broadcast content and the process proceeds to step S9, the control unit 30 activates the radio tuner unit 36 and the radio tuner unit. A channel selection process for adjusting the reception frequency of 36 to the broadcast frequency of the radio broadcast station is performed and control is performed so as to automatically receive the radio program of the radio broadcast station, and then the program takeover shown in the flowchart of FIG. The process ends.

  On the other hand, when it is determined in step S6 that there are a plurality of radio broadcast stations that take over the contents of the television broadcast and the process proceeds to step S7, the control unit 30 displays information on the plurality of radio broadcast stations on the display unit 42. And a message for asking the user which of the plurality of radio broadcast stations to select is displayed on the display.

  When any one of the plurality of radio broadcast stations is selected by the user through the operation unit 43, the control unit 30 activates the radio tuner unit 36 and sets the reception frequency of the radio tuner unit 36 to the user. After performing the tuning process to match the broadcast frequency of the selected radio broadcast station and automatically receiving the radio program of the radio broadcast station, the program takeover process shown in the flowchart of FIG. To do.

[Outline of Second Embodiment]
In the first embodiment described above, when the program broadcast of the content on the first broadcast medium ends, the content transfer information indicating that the content is also broadcast on the second broadcast medium is transmitted via the first broadcast medium. An example of sending to a mobile phone terminal was given. Such a technique of the first embodiment is easy to implement when the broadcast station of the first broadcast medium and the broadcast station of the second broadcast medium are, for example, broadcast stations of the same series. That is, it is easy to realize when the contents broadcast by the broadcast stations of both the first broadcast medium and the second broadcast medium and the information regarding the broadcast time can be shared between the two broadcast stations.

  On the other hand, for example, when the broadcast station of the first broadcast medium and the broadcast station of the second broadcast medium are broadcast stations of different series (that is, when information regarding content is not shared between the two broadcast stations) It is considered difficult to adopt the method as in the first embodiment.

  Therefore, in the second embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide content transfer information between the broadcast station of the first broadcast medium and the broadcast station of the second broadcast medium through another communication medium such as the Internet. By doing so, for example, even if the broadcast station of the first broadcast medium and the broadcast station of the second broadcast medium are different series of broadcast stations, the mobile phone terminal can acquire the content transfer information.

  That is, in the second embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 6, a server for providing content transfer information similar to the above (hereinafter referred to as transfer information providing server 4) is provided on the Internet. When the mobile phone terminal 10 requires content takeover information by the first broadcasting medium, the mobile phone terminal 10 accesses the takeover information providing server 4 by connecting to the Internet through, for example, a mobile phone network or a wireless LAN. Content transfer information is acquired from the information providing server 4.

  In the case of the second embodiment, the takeover information providing server 4 relates to at least specific program contents of all contents broadcast from all broadcasting stations belonging to the first broadcast medium and program broadcast times of these contents. The latest information and the latest information on the specific program contents of all the contents broadcast from all broadcasting stations belonging to the second broadcast medium and the program broadcast time of all the contents are stored.

  Then, for example, the handover information providing server 4 has received an inquiry from the mobile phone terminal 10 regarding the transfer of a certain content broadcast on the first broadcast medium to the content broadcast on the second broadcast medium. In this case, the content relating to the inquiry is checked whether there is content that can be taken over by the second broadcast medium. If there is content that can be taken over, the same content takeover information as described above is returned to the mobile phone terminal 10. It has a function. The response of the content transfer information from the transfer information providing server 4 may be sent directly to the mobile phone terminal 10 through the Internet, or may be performed through a message service such as e-mail.

  Here, in the case of the first embodiment described above, the content takeover information transmitted by the broadcast station of the first broadcast medium is a mobile phone that exists in the broadcast area in each broadcast station of the first broadcast medium. Only the content broadcast by the broadcast station of the second broadcast medium estimated to be receivable by the terminal may be taken over. On the other hand, in the case of the second embodiment of the present invention, since the takeover information providing server 4 is prepared on the Internet, the inquiry is sent to the server 4 from the mobile phone terminal 10 in any region. there is a possibility. That is, if the current position of each mobile phone terminal 10 that has made the inquiry is not known, the takeover information providing server 4 estimates the broadcast station of the second broadcast medium that can be received by each mobile phone terminal 10. Therefore, it is impossible to return the content takeover information to each mobile phone terminal 10.

  Thus, in the case of the second embodiment of the present invention, each mobile phone terminal 10 makes a current position of its own terminal together with information on the content of the first broadcast medium currently being received when making the inquiry. Information is transmitted to the takeover information providing server 4, and the takeover information providing server 4 is based on the information about the content being received and the current location sent from the mobile phone terminal 10. After estimating the broadcast station of the second broadcast medium that can be received by the terminal 10, the content takeover information is returned to the mobile phone terminal 10.

  In addition, although the information regarding the said current position may be the position information which the user of the mobile phone terminal 10 himself / herself investigated, the user himself / herself examining the current position is a burden on the user, and there is an extra effort. It will take. For this reason, in the case of the present embodiment, the mobile phone terminal 10 obtains the current position from, for example, base station information or obtains the current position using the GPS function, and takes over the current position information at the time of the inquiry. The information is sent to the information providing server 4.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the user of the mobile phone terminal 10 can operate the radio reception function after the baseball broadcast program broadcast by television broadcast, for example, or the radio broadcast station You can continue to listen to the same baseball game on radio without having to tune in.

[Flowchart of Program Transfer Operation in Second Embodiment]
FIG. 7 shows a flow of a program takeover process performed by the mobile phone terminal of the second embodiment. The flowchart in FIG. 7 mainly shows the flow of control performed by the control unit 30 of the mobile phone terminal in FIG. Further, in FIG. 7, steps in which the same processes as those in the flowchart shown in FIG. 5 described above are performed are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG. Only the steps will be described.

  In FIG. 7, first, as a process of step S <b> 20, the control unit 30 makes an inquiry regarding taking over the content broadcast on the first broadcast medium currently being received to the content broadcast on the second broadcast medium. In the case of performing, the information on the current position of the terminal measured by, for example, GPS together with the information on the content of the first broadcast medium currently being received, the takeover information providing server 4 on the Internet through, for example, a mobile phone network or a wireless LAN. To send.

  And the control part 30 will preserve | save (register) the information in the internal memory part 31, if the takeover information of a content is acquired from the takeover information provision server 4. FIG.

  Thereafter, the control unit 30 proceeds to the above-described step S2 and the subsequent steps. When the control unit 30 proceeds to step S4 after determining that there is transfer information to the radio broadcast in step S3, the control unit 30 acquires the transfer information from the transfer information providing server 4. As shown in the example of FIG. 3, the content transfer information is displayed to notify the user that a radio program having the same content as the content of the television broadcast exists. The subsequent processing is the same as that in FIG.

[Summary]
As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, a program such as a baseball broadcast can be automatically transferred to a radio broadcast based on the content transfer information acquired from the television broadcast station 1 or the transfer information providing server 4. Therefore, the user does not need to select the radio broadcast station 3 that is performing the baseball broadcast by operating the radio reception function by himself / herself, reducing the user's trouble, and watching the television or listening to the radio. The convenience of the user can be improved.

  The description of each embodiment described above is an example of the present invention. For this reason, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and it is needless to say that various modifications can be made according to the design or the like as long as the technical idea according to the present invention is not deviated.

  The broadcast receiving apparatus and the broadcast receiving method of the present invention are not limited to the mobile phone terminals mentioned in the above-described embodiments, but are PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) and car navigation systems having a function of receiving television broadcasts and radio broadcasts. It can also be applied to various portable terminals such as portable AV devices.

  In the above-described embodiment, an example of taking over a program between television broadcasting and radio broadcasting has been described. However, for example, taking over a program between television broadcasts, taking over a program between radio broadcasts, or television The present invention is also applicable to taking over a program between John's broadcast and broadcasting using the Internet, taking over a program between radio broadcasting and broadcasting using the Internet, and the like.

It is a figure used for description of the program transfer image from the television broadcast to the radio broadcast by the mobile phone terminal according to the first embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows an example of EPG. It is a figure which shows the example of a display screen at the time of asking a user to take over a baseball broadcast from a television broadcast to a radio broadcast. It is a block diagram which shows the schematic internal circuit structure of the mobile telephone terminal of embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the program taking over process performed with the mobile telephone terminal of the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure used for description of the program transfer image from the television broadcast to the radio broadcast by the mobile phone terminal of the second embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the program taking over process performed with the mobile telephone terminal of the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Television broadcast station, 2 Content transfer information, 3 Radio broadcast station, 4 Transfer information provision server, 10 Mobile phone terminal, 11 Display, 12, 43 Operation part, 30 Control part, 31 Memory part, 32 Cellular communication part, 33 Cellular antenna, 34 TV tuner section, 35 TV antenna, 36 radio tuner section, 37 radio antenna, 38 AV codec section, 40 speaker, 41 microphone, 42 display section, 44 large capacity recording section, 45 LAN communication section, 46 LAN antenna, 47 GPS processing unit, 48 GPS antenna

Claims (7)

First and second broadcast receivers for receiving broadcast signals of at least two different broadcast media, respectively;
A takeover information acquisition unit for acquiring content takeover information indicating broadcast content of the second broadcast medium that can be taken over from the broadcast content of the first broadcast medium;
When the broadcast content by the first broadcast medium being received by the first broadcast receiving unit is terminated, the first broadcast receiving unit performs the above based on the content transfer information acquired by the transfer information acquiring unit. A switching control unit that performs reception switching control from the broadcast content of the first broadcast medium to the broadcast content of the second broadcast medium by the second broadcast reception unit;
A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising:   The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the takeover information acquiring unit acquires the content takeover information included in a broadcast signal of the first broadcast medium received by the first broadcast receiving unit. . A communication connection unit for connecting to a predetermined communication medium different from the first and second broadcast media,
The transfer information acquisition unit accesses the content transfer information providing device prepared on the predetermined communication medium via the communication connection unit, and acquires the content transfer information from the content transfer information providing device. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1. It has a position acquisition unit that acquires the current position information of the device,
Prior to the acquisition of the content transfer information, the transfer information acquisition unit acquires information indicating the broadcast content by the first broadcast medium being received by the first broadcast reception unit and the position information acquisition unit. 4. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 3, wherein current position information is transmitted to the content transfer information providing apparatus via the communication connection unit. When there are a plurality of broadcast stations that broadcast the broadcast content of the second broadcast medium that can be inherited from the broadcast content of the first broadcast medium, a presentation unit is provided for presenting a list of the plurality of broadcast stations to the user. And
The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the switching control unit performs reception switching control to a broadcasting station selected by a user from a list of a plurality of broadcasting stations on the presentation unit.   In the switching control unit, a user instructs reception switching from broadcast content of the first broadcast medium by the first broadcast reception unit to broadcast content of the second broadcast medium by the second broadcast reception unit. 2. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reception switching control is performed only when it is performed. Of the broadcast signals of the first and second at least two different broadcast media, receiving the broadcast content of the first broadcast medium at the broadcast receiving unit;
A transfer information acquisition unit acquiring content transfer information indicating the broadcast content of the second broadcast medium that can be transferred from the broadcast content of the first broadcast medium;
When the broadcast content on the first broadcast medium being received is terminated, the switching control unit, based on the content transfer information acquired by the transfer information acquisition unit, Performing switching control from reception of broadcast content to broadcast content of the second broadcast medium;
A broadcast receiving method comprising:

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