JP2013077116A - Network terminal system and terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network terminal system capable of easily displaying contents on a television receiver, when a homepage or video contents etc. published on the Internet is displayed or reproduced on a mobile terminal etc.SOLUTION: A network terminal system comprises a display device and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises first connection means which acquires an identifier including information showing a server which transmits first contents and information which identifies the first contents from a network, and transmission means which transmits the identifier acquired by the first connection means to a display terminal. The display device comprises reception means which receives the identifier, second connection means which acquires first contents from the server shown by the identifier which is received by the reception means and second display means which shows the contents acquired by the second connection means.

Description

  The present invention relates to a network terminal system and a terminal device.

As a background art in this technical field, there is JP-A-2009-258963 (Patent Document 1). This gazette includes a server device that lays out an HTML-format Web page in response to a page request from an information home appliance such as a digital television connected via a network, and generates and transmits screen display data including an advertisement. The screen display data is formed into a two-column format associated with the aspect ratio of a screen such as a television, etc., and the user can use link information with a remote control etc. This makes it excellent in visibility and operability. By providing Web page analysis, layout processing, etc. on the server device side, document information and image information can be included without adding special processing capability or hardware to the information home appliance. A screen can be provided. An advertisement can be appropriately inserted into the screen to be displayed, and an opportunity for advertisement distribution can be created. "

JP 2009-258963 A

  Patent Document 1 discloses a method of transmitting and displaying a layout-processed Web page to an information appliance by a server device that analyzes the Web page and performs layout processing for screen display. However, in the case of the invention described in Patent Document 1, a server that performs layout processing is required, and a Web page that has been subjected to layout processing and a Web page that has not been subjected to layout processing are simultaneously viewed on different display devices. In such a case, there is a fear that browsing and operation may be confused when the content display format is different.

  In order to solve the above problems, for example, the configuration described in the claims is adopted.

  When a homepage or video content published on the Internet is displayed or played on a terminal such as a mobile phone, the content can be easily displayed on a large-screen television receiver.

  Problems, configurations, and effects other than those described above will be clarified by the following description of embodiments.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of a system configuration. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of a television receiver. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of a radio | wireless terminal. It is an example of the internal structure of the storage and memory of a television receiver. It is an example of the internal structure of the storage and memory of a wireless terminal. It is a figure which shows an example of the data format of the positional information passed from the control part 14 of the radio | wireless terminal 12 to the control part 5 of the television receiver 1. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a positional relationship between a display area 104 of a wireless terminal 12 and Web content 103. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation | movement sequence which concerns on 1st embodiment. It is a figure which shows the web content display screen of the radio | wireless terminal. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a Web content display screen displayed on the television receiver 1. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation | movement sequence which concerns on 2nd embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the web content screen display displayed on the wireless terminal. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example when a Web content screen displayed on a wireless terminal 12 is displayed on a television receiver 1. FIG. It is a Web content screen of the television receiver 1 as a modification. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation | movement sequence which concerns on 3rd embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the web content screen display displayed on the wireless terminal. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation | movement sequence which concerns on 5th embodiment. It is a figure which shows one Example of the web content display screen of the radio | wireless terminal.

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

  In the following, a television receiver with a digital broadcast receiving function for receiving a digital broadcast wave including program sequence information (event information) and displaying an electronic program guide (EPG) of the digital broadcast based on the received program sequence information, and a radio A description will be given by taking a network terminal system composed of apparatuses as an example.

  In BS digital broadcasting, CS digital broadcasting, and terrestrial digital television broadcasting operated in Japan, a plurality of transport streams (hereinafter abbreviated as “TS”) are multiplexed on one transponder (frequency channel). Is transmitting.

  The TS has a data structure that conforms to the standards of the Japan Radio Industry Association (ARIB), and for the element signal (ES: Elementary Stream) as the content data, the header is the program arrangement information as event information. It is composed of TS packets added as

  The data structure of the program sequence information conforms to ARIB STD-B10 “Program sequence information standard used for digital broadcasting” which is the ARIB standard. Program sequence information includes PSI (Program Specific Information), which is transmission control information defined in the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) -2 system standard, and SI (Service Information) for constructing EPG and the like. Information).

  There are four SIs: BIT (Broadcaster Information Table), SDT (Service Description Table), EIT (Event Information Table) and TOT (Time Offset Table). It consists of a table.

  The BIT describes information about a broadcasting station in the network. The SDT is divided into a TS information part and a service information part, and the TS information part includes a network ID for identifying the network and a TS ID (Identifier) for identifying the TS.

  Different network IDs are assigned to the BS network, the CS1 network, and the CS2 network, respectively. In the case of digital terrestrial broadcasting, network IDs having different values are assigned to different broadcasting stations in the same region.

  The service information part includes a service ID (so-called channel number) that is an identifier for identifying each service (channel) in the network.

  The EIT describes program information for each event (so-called program), and is divided into a service information section and an event information section. The service information part includes a service ID (so-called channel number) that is an identifier for identifying each service (channel) in the network.

  The event information section includes an event ID, an event start time, an event duration, an event name (so-called program title), an event genre, and the like. TOT describes the current time.

  Although the digital broadcasting operated in Japan has been described above, the same program information as the above-described program arrangement information is transmitted also in the digital broadcasting operated in each country. Therefore, the present invention described below can be applied to digital broadcasting in each country.

  The first embodiment according to the present invention will be described below.

[System configuration]
FIG. 1A is a block diagram showing an example of the network terminal system according to the first embodiment.

  The network terminal system according to this embodiment includes, for example, a television receiver 1, a wireless terminal 12, a wireless router 10, and an external network 11. In the example shown in the figure, a user of a wireless terminal 12 that is a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone as an information communication terminal watches the TV program with the TV receiver 1 at home or a store with the wireless terminal 12. It is an example when doing.

  The wireless router 10 has a wireless LAN function such as Wi-Fi and can be connected to the external network 11 via a communication line. The wireless router 10 is connected to the television receiver 1, the television receiver 19, the wireless terminal 12, and the external network 11. The television receiver 1, the television receiver 19, or the wireless terminal 12 receives information from the Internet network. It can be obtained.

The wireless router 10 is connected to the television receiver 1 or the television receiver 19 by a wired LAN or a wireless LAN, and is connected to the wireless terminal 12 by a wireless LAN. Here, Wi-Fi is a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) standard established by the IEEE (American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standard “IEEE 802.11a / IEEE 802.11b”.
A first embodiment according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

[TV receiver]
FIG. 1B is a configuration diagram of the television receiver 1.

  The television receiver 1 is connected to an antenna 38, and includes a tuner / demodulator 2, a signal separator 3, a controller 5, a channel selection controller 6, an input unit 4, a storage 23, a memory 20, a superimposing unit 7, and a display unit 18. , Communication I / F 9, audio decoding unit 39, video decoding unit 40, speaker 41, audio output unit 42, video output unit 43, and the like. Each processing unit is connected via the bus 120.

  In addition, the television receiver 1 can store application programs in the storage 23. The control unit 5 expands the programs from the storage 23 to the memory 20, and the control unit 5 executes the programs to thereby perform various functions. Can be realized.

  In the following description, in order to simplify the description, various functions realized by the control unit 5 executing each application program will be described as being realized mainly by various program function units.

  The application program may be stored in the storage 23 in advance before the television receiver 1 is shipped, or a medium such as an optical medium such as a CD (Compact Disk) and a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk), or a semiconductor memory. And installed in the television receiver 1 via a medium connection unit (not shown).

  It is also possible to download and install from the external network 11 via the communication I / F 9 and the wireless router 10.

  Various functions of the application program can also be realized by hardware as a processing unit having similar functions. When implemented as hardware, each processing unit plays a main role in realizing each function.

  The input unit 4 is an input unit that receives a user operation on the television receiver 1 and inputs control information related to the input operation, and is realized by a pointing device such as a remote controller, a keyboard, and a mouse, for example.

  The control unit 5 receives a user's operation request via the input unit 4, and receives each block of the signal separation unit 3, the channel selection control unit 6, the storage 23, the superposition unit 7, the communication I / F 9, and various program function units. Control.

  The storage 23 is controlled by an instruction from the control unit 5 and can store application programs. In addition, various information created by the application program is stored. Further, content such as a video / audio stream may be stored from a signal received from the tuner / demodulator 2 or the communication I / F 9.

  The memory 20 is controlled by an instruction from the control unit 5. The function part of the application program stored in the storage 23 is expanded in the memory 20.

  The tuner / demodulator 2 receives a broadcast signal from a broadcast station by tuning to a desired service channel by the channel selection controller 6, and demodulates the received broadcast signal to obtain a transport stream.

  The channel selection control unit 6 receives an instruction to select a service via the input unit 4 and controls the tuner / demodulation unit 2 to switch the channel to be selected in accordance with the instruction. Further, the channel selection control unit 6 can receive instructions from various program function units, and switches to a service (channel number) broadcasting an event (program) currently being broadcast and a broadcast presentation unit to which the service belongs. Thus, the tuner / demodulator 2 is controlled.

  The communication I / F 9 is connected to the wireless router 13 by a wired LAN or a wireless LAN. The communication I / F 9 transmits / receives various information to / from the television receiver 19 and the wireless terminal 12 via the wireless router 13. Further, the communication I / F 9 can transmit and receive various types of information to and from a device connected to the external network 11 via the wireless router 13. For example, it is possible to receive a content stream (video / audio stream) from a server connected to the external network 11 in the form of IP broadcast, video on demand, or the like.

  It is also possible to download video streams and application programs from a server connected to the external network 11. The downloaded information is stored in the storage 23, for example.

  The signal separation unit 3 is provided for each type of video data, audio data, caption text data, program information, etc., for the transport stream obtained by the tuner / demodulation unit 2 and the content stream obtained via the communication I / F 9. To separate. Also, it has a function of acquiring program information (for example, program arrangement information SI) and transmitting it to other processing blocks. When there is a data transmission request from another processing unit, the specified data is transmitted to the request source.

  The voice decoding unit 39 decodes the voice data separated by the signal separation unit 3. The audio information decoded by the audio decoding unit 39 is output from the speaker 41. The audio information decoded by the audio decoding unit 39 may be output from the audio output unit 42 to an external device.

  The video decoding unit 40 decodes the video data separated by the signal separation unit 3. The video information decoded by the video decoding unit 40 is sent to the superimposing unit 7.

  The superimposing unit 7 adds EPG images and OSD images created by various program function units to the decoded video information sent from the video decoding unit 40, and various types of information (caption information, subtitle super, data) separated from the signal separation unit 3. Superimpose images generated from broadcast data). The superimposing unit 7 synthesizes a browser display screen created by a browser engine 2101 described later and a video signal, or performs selection switching. The video information that has passed through the superimposing unit 7 is displayed on the display unit 18.

  The display unit 18 includes, for example, a display of a television or a personal computer, a liquid crystal panel, and the like, and displays a broadcast / distributed video, a UI for performing various operations, an image stored in the storage 23, and the like.

  The video information that has passed through the superimposing unit 7 may be output from the video output unit 43 to an external device. The image or video to be displayed may be an image generated by an application program, or may be an image or video of content received via the tuner / demodulation unit 2 and received from a server on the external network 11 via the communication I / F 9. It may be an image or a video, and may be an image or a video received from the wireless terminal 12 via the communication I / F 9.

  Further, a digital I / F 44 that separates a transport stream for a predetermined program by the signal separation unit 3 and outputs the video and audio without decoding may be provided.

  Since the structure of each part of the television receiver 19 is the same as that of the television receiver 1, description is abbreviate | omitted here. In this embodiment, an example in which a television receiver is used will be described. However, a display unit and a speaker are omitted, and a recorder is used, and the same video / audio is presented to an externally connected television receiver, display, and speaker. It is also possible to implement this embodiment.

[Wireless terminal]
FIG. 1C is a configuration diagram of the wireless terminal 12.
The wireless terminal 12 includes, for example, a communication I / F 13, a control unit 14, a display unit 17, an input unit 15, a signal separation unit 21, a tuner / demodulation unit 22, a storage 25, a mobile communication I / F 31, a memory 32, and an acceleration sensor. Unit 33, geomagnetic sensor unit 34, GPS receiving unit 35, and gyro sensor unit 36, and each processing unit is connected via a bus 121.

  The wireless terminal 12 stores an application program in the storage 25, the control unit 14 develops the program from the storage 25 to the memory 32, and the control unit 14 executes the program to realize various functions. be able to. In the following description, in order to simplify the description, various functions realized by the control unit 14 executing each application program will be described as being realized mainly by various program function units.

  The application program may be stored in the storage 25 in advance before the wireless terminal 12 is shipped, or may be stored in a medium such as an optical medium such as a CD (Compact Disk) / DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) or a semiconductor memory. It may be stored and installed in the wireless terminal 12 via a medium connection unit (not shown).

  Further, it may be downloaded from the external network 11 via the communication I / F 13 and the wireless router 10 and installed. Or you may download and install from a delivery source via the base station 18 via mobile communication I / F31.

  The application program can also be realized by hardware as a processing unit having the same function. When implemented as hardware, each processing unit plays a main role in realizing each function.

  The communication I / F 13 transmits / receives various information to / from the communication I / F 9 of the television receiver 1 via the wireless router 10. The communication I / F 13 is connected to the external network 11 via the wireless router 10 and transmits / receives information to / from a server or the like on the external network 11.

  The mobile communication I / F 31 is connected to a communication network through the base station 18 and can transmit and receive information to and from a server on the communication network.

  The control unit 14 receives a user operation request via the input unit 15 and controls the signal separation unit 21, the display unit 17, the communication I / F 13, and various program function units.

  Further, the control unit 14 extracts program information from the external network 11 via the communication I / F 13 and the wireless router 10, or from the external network 11 via the mobile communication I / F 31 and the base station 18. Sequence information can be acquired, and it has a function to pass to various program function units.

  In the present embodiment, an example in which the program separation information 21 is extracted by the signal separation unit 21 and the program arrangement information SI is acquired will be described. However, the external network 11 is provided via the communication I / F 13 or the mobile communication I / F 31. It is also possible to acquire the program arrangement information SI from the distribution source. In this case, the signal separation unit 21 and the tuner / demodulation unit 22 may be omitted from the configuration of the wireless terminal 12.

  The storage 25 is controlled by an instruction from the control unit 14 and can store an application program. In addition, various information created by the application program is stored. Further, content such as a video / audio stream may be stored from a signal received from the tuner / demodulator 22, the communication I / F 13, or the mobile communication I / F 31.

  The memory 32 is controlled by an instruction from the control unit 14. The function part of the application program stored in the storage 25 is expanded in the memory 32.

  The display unit 17 displays images and videos stored in the storage 25, broadcast / distributed videos, UIs for performing various operations, Web browsers, and the like. The image and video to be displayed may be an image generated by an application program, or may be an image or video of content received via the tuner / demodulator 22, and received from a server on the external network 11 via the communication I / F 13. It may be an image or video, may be an image or video received from the television receiver 1 via the communication I / F 13, or may be an image or video distributed from a server on the communication network via the mobile communication I / F 31. Moreover, the display part 17 may be comprised integrally with the following touch panel etc., for example.

  The input unit 15 is an input unit that receives a user's operation on the wireless terminal 12 and inputs control information related to the input operation. For example, a physical button or a touch panel can be used.

  In this embodiment, an example using a touch panel will be described. By using the touch panel, by directly touching on the web content, it is possible to freely move the screen of the web content by performing an operation (drag operation) to move an arbitrary position while touching with a finger. . Further, when an operation (tap operation) in which an anchor tag or the like in which URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of link destination information is designated is tapped with a finger (tap operation), desired Web content can be viewed on a browser.

  The tuner / demodulator 22 and the signal separator 21 have functions equivalent to the tuner / demodulator 2 and the signal separator 3 of the television receiver 1, respectively.

  The acceleration sensor unit 33 measures the acceleration applied to the mobile terminal 15. The control unit 14 can know which part of the mobile terminal 15 is above by measuring the gravitational acceleration by, for example, the acceleration sensor unit 33, and the acceleration sensor unit 33 can display the upper part of the screen displayed on the display unit 17. By displaying so as to match with the measured upper direction, it is possible to display a screen according to how the user holds the mobile terminal 15.

  The geomagnetic sensor unit 34 measures geomagnetism by using a plurality of magnetic sensors.

  The GPS receiving unit 35 receives signals transmitted from a plurality of satellites using GPS (Global Positioning System). The control unit 14 can calculate the position information of the mobile terminal 15 based on the signal received by the GPS receiving unit 35.

  The gyro sensor unit 36 measures the angular velocity of the mobile terminal 15 that occurs when the user moves the mobile terminal 15.

Software configuration
FIG. 2A shows the storage 23 and the memory 20 in the configuration of the television receiver 1 in FIG. FIG. 2A shows a state in which the browser program 2001 is stored in the storage 23 and the control unit 5 expands the browser program 2001 in the memory 20 as the browser engine 2101. The browser program 2001 may be stored in the storage 23 at the time of product shipment, or may be downloaded via the communication I / F 9.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the browser engine 2101 includes functional blocks of an HTML parser 2102, a database generation unit 2103, a rendering unit 2104, and an image processing unit 2105.

  The HTML parser 2102 analyzes the logical structure of HTML data acquired via the network control unit and the control unit 5. Moreover, the acquired HTML data can be interpreted and converted into internal data used by the television receiver 1.

  The database generation unit 2103 generates a database related to the HTML data structure.

  The rendering unit 2104 generates a layout structure including information on the expression format determined by each tag based on the database, and displays the browser based on the size, position, and image data based on the layout structure. Generate a screen. In addition, the rendering unit 2104 controls the size and position of the video displayed on the display unit 8 based on the position information transmitted from the wireless terminal 12.

  The image processing unit 2105 converts the image file acquired based on the image file information such as the arrangement of the image file specified by the image tag and the image file name in the HTML data into image data such as a bitmap format.

  FIG. 2B shows the storage 25 and the memory 32 in the configuration of the wireless terminal 12 in FIG. FIG. 2B shows a state in which the browser program 3001 is stored in the storage 25 and the control unit 14 expands the browser engine 3101 in the memory 32 as the browser engine 3101. The browser engine 3101 may be stored in the storage 25 at the time of product shipment, or may be downloaded via the communication I / F 13 or the mobile communication I / F 31.

  Similar to the browser engine 2101 of the television receiver 1, the browser engine 3101 includes functional blocks of an HTML parser 3102, a database generation unit 3103, a rendering unit 3104, and an image processing unit 3105. The description of the HTML parser 2102, the database generation unit 3103, and the image processing unit 3105 is the same as that of the browser engine 2101, and thus detailed description thereof is omitted.

  The rendering unit 3104 generates a layout structure including information of the expression format determined by each tag based on the database, and displays the browser based on the size, position, and image data based on the layout structure. Generate a screen. In addition, the rendering unit 3104 acquires the position of the screen displayed on the display unit 17 to create position information, and transmits the position information to the rendering unit 2104 of the television receiver 1.

[data form]
Next, a data format related to the network terminal system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data format of position information passed from the rendering unit 3104 of the wireless terminal 12 to the rendering unit 2104 of the television receiver 1.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a positional relationship between the display area 104 of the wireless terminal 12 and the Web content 103.
The position information is configured in the format of coordinates 101 and 102 as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, the coordinates 101 and 102 indicate the upper left and lower right coordinates of the display area 104 of the wireless terminal 12 when the upper left of the Web content is the reference coordinate (0, 0).

  Next, an example in which the input unit 15 receives an operation from a user, the wireless terminal 12 starts a browser, and displays Web content on the television receiver 1 will be described with reference to FIGS.

[Operation sequence]
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation sequence according to the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Web content display screen of the wireless terminal 12. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Web content display screen displayed on the television receiver 1.

  In the present embodiment, an example of obtaining information such as Web contents from the external network 11 will be described, but information can also be obtained from the communication network through the communication I / F 13 and the base station 18.

  When receiving a browser activation command from the input unit 15, the control unit 14 activates the browser engine 3101 (S201). The browser engine 3101 accesses a URL of a resource set as a home page in advance.

  Next, the browser engine 3101 specifies a request message for requesting a resource such as an HTTP-compliant Web content from the external network 11 via a URL on the network via the control unit 14, the communication I / F 13, and the wireless router 10. To the server to be sent.

  The server specified by the URL creates a response message corresponding to the received request message and sends it back. The returned response message is input to the browser engine 3101 via the external network 11. An HTML document is embedded in the response message, and a browser display screen is generated by the HTML parser 3102, the database generation unit 3103, the rendering unit 3104, and the image processing unit 3105 of the browser engine 3101 and displayed on the display unit 17 (S202). .

  Next, a case where the input unit 15 receives an operation from the user and performs an operation of displaying Web content on the television receiver 1 will be described.

  In FIG. 6, a “TV display” button 105 for displaying the same content as the displayed Web content on the display unit 6 of the television receiver 1 is displayed on the display unit 17 of the wireless terminal 12. The user performs a tap operation on the “TV display” button 105 with a finger (S203).

  The input unit 15 that has received the tap operation of the “TV display” button 105 acquires the URL of the Web content currently displayed on the display unit 17 from the browser engine 3101, and acquires the position information illustrated in FIG. 3 from the rendering unit 3104. (S204), and passes to the browser engine 2101 via the communication I / F 13, the wireless router 10, the communication I / F 9, and the control unit 5 (S205).

The browser engine 2101 specifies a request message for requesting a resource such as the above-described HTTP-compliant Web content from the external network 11 via the control unit 5, the communication I / F 9, and the wireless router 10 by the URL on the network. To the server.
The server corresponding to the specified URL creates and returns a response message corresponding to the received request message. The returned response message is input to the browser engine 2101 via the external network 11. An HTML document is embedded in the response message, and a browser display screen is generated by the HTML parser 2102, the database generation unit 2103, the rendering unit 2104, and the image processing unit 2105 of the browser engine 2101.

  Next, when the display area 106 of the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1 is larger than the display area 104 of the display unit 17 of the wireless terminal 12 (S206: YES), based on the position information received from the wireless terminal 12, The rendering unit 2104 adjusts the position so that at least a display region corresponding to the display region 104 of the wireless terminal 12 is displayed on the display unit 9 of the television receiver 1 (S207). As shown in FIG. Web content is displayed (S208). The display area information of the display unit 17 can be calculated from the position information, but may be an independent data format included in the position information.

  FIG. 7A shows an example of web content arrangement when the upper left corner of the web content area is used as a reference. In this case, all of the display areas of the wireless terminal 12 may not be displayed. FIG. 7B shows an example of Web content arrangement according to this embodiment. In this case, since the entire display area of the wireless terminal 12 is displayed, there is an advantage that the web screen correspondence between the wireless terminal 12 and the television receiver 1 can be obtained.

  As a modification of the present embodiment, a display area corresponding to the display area 104 of the wireless terminal 12 is displayed with a frame line or the like on the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1 based on the position information received from the wireless terminal 12. It can also be displayed. As another modification, in order to avoid a delay in the activation of the browser of the television receiver 1, when the web content is activated on the wireless terminal 12, the browser of the television receiver 1 is synchronized with this in the background. Can also be launched.

  In this way, Web content including at least the display area of the Web content displayed on the display unit 17 of the wireless terminal 12 can be displayed on the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1. Further, even if the display area is changed by a drag operation with a finger or the like on the touch panel of the wireless terminal 12, at least the display area 104 of the wireless terminal 12 receives television by transmitting position information at predetermined time intervals or at predetermined timing. It can be displayed in the display area 106 of the machine 1. In this case, the position information may be updated at a timing when the display area 104 of the wireless terminal 12 deviates from the display area 106 of the television receiver 1.

  In this way, conventionally, when viewing the content being viewed on a wireless terminal such as a mobile phone while viewing a television broadcast, if the content is viewed on a television receiver, the browser screen is launched and the URL of the homepage being browsed is displayed. It is necessary to set the same URL in the television receiver, and the display screens of the wireless terminal and the television receiver are different in display area and display position because they have different display capabilities and display characteristics. Although it was difficult to handle, in the present embodiment, it is possible to easily display the Web content displayed on the wireless terminal on the television receiver without missing the screen.

Hereinafter, a second embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
In the present embodiment, a description will be given with emphasis on differences from the first embodiment.

[System configuration, etc.]
The network terminal system in the present embodiment includes a television receiver 1, a wireless terminal 12, a wireless router 10, and an external network 11 as in FIG. 1 in the first embodiment. Here, since the configuration of each part of the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 12 is the same as that of the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

[Operation sequence]
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation sequence according to the second embodiment. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web content screen display displayed on the wireless terminal 12 in the present embodiment. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example when the Web content screen displayed on the wireless terminal 12 in the present embodiment is displayed on the television receiver 1.

  When the control unit 14 receives a browser activation command from the input unit 15, the control unit 14 activates the browser engine 3101 (S 201), and the browser engine 3101 generates a browser display screen as in the first embodiment, A Web content screen as shown in FIG. 9 is displayed (S202). Here, the browser engine 3101 displays a “TV display” button 105 for displaying the same content as the web content displayed on the wireless terminal 12 on the television receiver 1 on the web content screen.

  Next, in FIG. 9, when the input unit 15 accepts a tap operation of the “TV display” button 105 (S203), the Web as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed on the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1 in the same manner as in the first embodiment. A content screen is displayed (S204 to S206).

  Here, the anchor texts 107a and 107b in FIG. 9 are texts in which links are set by being surrounded by the anchor tag <a> to which the link destination information URL is added. The anchor texts 107a and 107b are selected by the input means 15. By doing so, it is possible to transition to the link destination specified by this link destination information URL. It is emphasized that the anchor texts 107a and 107b are usually selectable by changing the character color to blue or adding an underline. Similarly, the anchor objects 108a and 108b are objects in which a link is set by being surrounded by the anchor tag <a> to which the link destination information URL is added, and the anchor text 107a and 107b is selected by the input means 15. The link destination specified by this link destination information URL can be transitioned to.

  When the anchor text 107a is tapped (S301), the browser engine 3101 acquires the link destination information URL of the anchor text 107a (S302), and the communication I / F 13, the wireless router 10, the communication I / F 9, and the control unit 5 are Via the browser engine 2101 (S303).

The browser engine 2101 transmits a request message for requesting a resource such as Web content complying with HTTP from the external network 11 to the server specified by the URL on the network via the communication I / F 9 and the wireless router 10.
The server corresponding to the specified URL creates and returns a response message corresponding to the received request message. The returned response message is input to the browser engine 2101 via the external network 11. An HTML document is embedded in the response message, a browser display screen is generated by the HTML parser 2102 of the browser engine 2101, the database generation unit 2103, the rendering unit 2104, and the image processing unit 2105, and the link destination Web is displayed on the display unit 9. The content is displayed (S304).

  In this embodiment, the description has been made using the anchor text 107a, but the same applies to link destination information such as the anchor text 107b and the anchor object 108a or 108b.

  FIG. 11 is a Web content screen of the television receiver 1 as a modification. When the anchor text 108a or 108b of the Web content displayed on the wireless terminal 12 in FIG. 9 is tapped with a finger, the link destination screen is displayed on the TV receiver 1 side without changing the Web content display of the wireless terminal 12. The transition-only screen can be displayed as a Web content screen 109.

  In this way, a screen of related information can be easily displayed on the television receiver from the link tag of the Web content displayed on the wireless terminal. Also, depending on the Web content, there is a troublesome case where the link destination is deep and you want to return to the link source screen after transitioning to another screen, but the link destination screen transition screen is displayed on the TV receiver. By doing so, the link source screen and the link destination screen can be displayed simultaneously.

Hereinafter, a third embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 9, 10, and 12.
Note that this embodiment will be described with emphasis on differences from the second embodiment.

[System configuration, etc.]
The network terminal system in the present embodiment includes a television receiver 1, a wireless terminal 12, a wireless router 10, and an external network 11 as in FIG. 1 in the first embodiment. Here, since the configuration of each part of the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 12 is the same as that of the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

[Operation sequence]
FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation sequence according to the third embodiment.

  In the present embodiment, text string data of anchor text is used instead of the link destination information in the second embodiment.

  When the control unit 14 receives a browser activation command from the input unit 15, the control unit 14 activates the browser engine 3101 (S 201), and the browser engine 3101 generates a browser display screen as in the first embodiment, A Web content screen as shown in FIG. 9 is displayed (S202). Here, the browser engine 3101 displays a “TV display” button 105 for displaying the same content as the web content displayed on the wireless terminal 12 on the television receiver 1 on the web content screen.

  Next, when the input unit 15 receives a tap operation of the “TV display” button 105 in FIG. 9 (S203), the Web as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed on the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1 as in the second embodiment. A content screen is displayed (S204 to S206).

  When the anchor text 107a is tapped with a finger (S401), the browser engine 3101 acquires the text information of the anchor text 107a and passes through the communication I / F 13, the wireless router 10, the communication I / F 9, and the control unit 5. It is passed to the browser engine 2101 (S402).

  The browser engine 2101 searches for anchor text that matches the text information input by the database generation unit 2103 and acquires link destination information (S403: YES). At the same time, the rendering unit 2104 can temporarily change the color or the like of the anchor tag in which the anchor text is described in order to distinguish the anchor text from other anchor text.

  Next, an HTML document is obtained from the link destination information via the external network 11 as in the second embodiment, and an HTML parser 2102 of the browser engine 2101, a database generation unit 2103, a rendering unit 2104, and an image processing unit 2105. Generates a browser display screen, and displays the linked Web content on the display unit 9 (S404).

  As described above, in this embodiment, when the anchor text is tapped on the wireless terminal 12, the operation can be expressed as if the anchor text of the Web content of the television receiver 1 is selected.

  In general, TV receivers use cross-type cursor operation buttons for menu and program guide operations, and select only anchor text, not a pointer method that allows the display area to be freely selected with a pointer such as a touch panel. In many cases, such an anchor cursor method is employed. However, even in such a case, the pointer method can be selected by tapping the anchor text of the wireless terminal on the touch panel.

  Further, it has become possible to provide a Web content optimum for the display capability of the wireless terminal by determining the terminal model and the browser type by the user agent function. In such a case, the wireless terminal side provides content that is not a full browser content but a portable browser, so the TV receiver and wireless terminal may have different browser appearances and link destination URLs. . In this embodiment, since the link destination information of the anchor tag that matches the anchor text can be accessed, it is possible to operate in cooperation with the wireless terminal even in the case of different appearances or Web contents with different link destination URLs.

A fourth embodiment according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.
Note that this embodiment will be described with emphasis on differences from the second embodiment.

[System configuration, etc.]
The network terminal system in the present embodiment includes a television receiver 1, a wireless terminal 12, a wireless router 10, and an external network 11 as in FIG. 1 in the first embodiment. Here, since the configuration of each part of the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 12 is the same as that of the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

  In the present embodiment, the memory 20 has a function of storing a display history for storing a display history of Web content. The browser engine 2101 also has a function of reading a display history that calls link destination information from the display history stored in the memory 20.

  Many web browsers have a “favorite” function and a “history” function as a technique for storing and reusing information browsed in the past by a user. For examples in the present embodiment, the “history” of the browser is used. "Return" and "Forward" of the tree hierarchy as one of the functions will be described as an example.

[Screen display example]
FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web content screen display displayed on the wireless terminal 12 in the present embodiment.

  When the control unit 14 receives a browser activation instruction from the input unit 15, the control unit 14 activates the browser engine 3101, and the browser engine 3101 generates a browser display screen in the same manner as in the second embodiment, and is displayed on the display unit 17 as shown in FIG. 13. Such a web content screen is displayed. Here, the browser engine 3101 displays a “TV display” button 105 for displaying the same content as the web content displayed on the wireless terminal 12 on the television receiver 1 on the web content screen.

Next, when the input unit 15 accepts a tap operation of the “TV display” button 105 in FIG. 13 (S203), a Web content screen is displayed on the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1 as in the second embodiment. Thus, the anchor texts 107a and 107b or the anchor objects 108a and 108b are tags or objects to which the link destination information URL is added, as in the second embodiment, and can be changed to the link destination by the link destination information URL.
The “return” button 110 is a button for moving up the web page visited or viewed before by one level. In addition, the “forward” button 111 is a button for moving down the Web page visited or viewed before by one level. The Web pages visited or viewed before are stored in the memory 20 as the display history of the URLs of the respective pages and are hierarchized in a tree shape. The “back” button 110 or the “forward” button 111 is You can move to the hierarchy.

  Next, an operation when returning from a state where a certain Web page is displayed to the next lower level will be described.

  When the “return” button 110 on the web content screen of the wireless terminal 12 is tapped, the browser engine 3101 reads the link destination information URL of the next lower level from the display history data stored in the memory 20, and displays the display unit 17 displays a linked Web content screen. Furthermore, the browser engine 3101 passes the link information URL of the next lower layer to the browser engine 2101 via the communication I / F 13, the wireless router 10, the communication I / F 9, and the control unit 5, and is the same as in the second embodiment. Next, the linked Web content screen is displayed on the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1.

In the present embodiment, the “return” and “forward” functions in the browser tree hierarchy have been described as examples of the “history” function. However, as another embodiment of the “history” function, the URL of the viewed page or the browsing Some of them automatically store information such as dates and list this information according to a certain standard. In this case, the link destination information displayed in a list corresponds to the display history.
In addition, as a similar function, there is a “favorite” function in which a user himself / herself determines whether or not to re-view a page that has been viewed, stores the page information as favorite information, and displays the information hierarchically. In this case, the link destination information displayed hierarchically corresponds to the display history.

  As described above, in this embodiment, it is possible to easily display the display history of the Web content displayed on the wireless terminal or the stored favorite Web page or content on the television receiver.

Hereinafter, a fifth embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 14, and 15.
Note that this embodiment will be described with emphasis on differences from the second embodiment.

[System configuration, etc.]
The network terminal system in the present embodiment includes a television receiver 1, a wireless terminal 12, a wireless router 10, and an external network 11 as in FIG. 1 in the first embodiment. Here, since the configuration of each part of the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 12 is the same as that of the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

[Operation sequence]
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation sequence according to the fifth embodiment. FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a web content display screen of the wireless terminal 12.

  In the present embodiment, as compared with the second embodiment, the control unit 14 has a function of generating operation information such as an operation command for operating the television receiver 1.

  When the control unit 14 receives a browser activation command from the input unit 15, the control unit 14 activates the browser engine 3101 (S 201), and the browser engine 3101 generates a browser display screen as in the first embodiment, A web content screen as shown in FIG. 15 is displayed (S202). Here, the browser engine 3101 displays a “TV display” button 105 for displaying the same content as the web content displayed on the wireless terminal 12 on the television receiver 1 on the web content screen.

  Next, in FIG. 15, when the input means 15 accepts the tap operation of the “TV display” button 105 in FIG. 15 (S203), the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1 is shown in FIG. A Web content screen is displayed (S204 to S206).

  When the anchor text 107a is tapped with a finger (S301), similarly to the second embodiment, the browser engine 3101 acquires the URL of the link destination information of the anchor text 107a (S302), the communication I / F 13, the wireless router 10 Then, the data is transferred to the browser engine 2101 via the communication I / F 9 and the control unit 5 (S303).

  Similarly to the second embodiment, the browser engine 2101 sends a request message for requesting resources such as Web contents compliant with HTTP from the external network 11 to the network via the control unit 5, the communication I / F 9, and the wireless router 10. To the server specified by the URL.

  The server corresponding to the specified URL creates and returns a response message corresponding to the received request message. The returned response message is input to the browser engine 2101 via the external network 11. An HTML document is embedded in the response message, a browser display screen is generated by the HTML parser 2102 of the browser engine 2101, the database generation unit 2103, the rendering unit 2104, and the image processing unit 2105, and the link destination Web is displayed on the display unit 9. The content is displayed (S304).

  In the screen transitioned to the link destination, in order to operate the web content display screen of the television receiver 1 by the operation of the input unit 15 of the wireless terminal 12, the control unit 14 operates the television receiver 1 as described above. A function of generating operation information such as an operation command.

  Next, in FIG. 15, in order to operate the Web content display screen of the television receiver 1, the “TV operation” button 112 on the Web content screen displayed on the display unit 17 of the wireless terminal 12 is tapped with a finger ( S501) After that, when an operation such as dragging or tapping is performed on the display unit 17 of the wireless terminal 12 (S502), this operation is performed by an operation command of the display unit 8 of the television receiver 1, for example, screen scrolling by dragging is “ The “scroll” or “pointer” command and the tap operation are replaced with an operation command such as a “decision” command, and the operation command is transferred to the control unit 5 via the communication I / F 13, the wireless router 10, and the communication I / F 9. In step S503, the browser engine 2101 is controlled to operate the Web content of the television receiver 1 (S504).

  Here, when operating the Web content screen of the television receiver 1 on the display unit 17 of the wireless terminal 12, only the operation buttons such as the “TV operation” button 112 are displayed on the wireless terminal 12 for the purpose of preventing erroneous operation. The web content may not be displayed.

  In the present embodiment, the method of selecting the button on the screen of the display unit 17 of the wireless terminal 12 as the selection unit for the operation of the Web content displayed on the wireless terminal 12 or the television receiver 1 has been described. As an example, when the television receiver 1 transitions to a link destination by the link destination information URL, the television receiver 1 may be automatically controlled.

  The link destination information includes the URL of content such as an object, an image file, and a moving image file, and address information of the content stored in the storage 23 or the storage 25.

  As described above, when the screen changes to the link destination by the link destination information URL, the Web content on the television screen can be operated on the wireless terminal side.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to an above-described Example, Various modifications are included. For example, the above-described embodiments are described in detail for the entire system in order to explain the present invention in an easy-to-understand manner, and are not necessarily limited to those having all the configurations described. In addition, a part of the configuration of a certain embodiment can be replaced with the configuration of another embodiment, and the configuration of another embodiment can be added to the configuration of a certain embodiment. Further, it is possible to add, delete, and replace other configurations for a part of the configuration of each embodiment.

  Each of the above-described configurations, functions, processing units, processing means, and the like may be realized by hardware by designing a part or all of them with, for example, an integrated circuit. Each of the above-described configurations, functions, and the like may be realized by software by interpreting and executing a program that realizes each function by the processor. Information such as programs, tables, and files for realizing each function can be stored in a recording device such as a memory, a hard disk, an SSD (Solid State Drive), or a recording medium such as an IC card, an SD card, or a DVD.

  Further, the control lines and information lines indicate what is considered necessary for the explanation, and not all the control lines and information lines on the product are necessarily shown. Actually, it may be considered that almost all the components are connected to each other.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the embodiment has been described using the TV 1, TV 2, etc. provided with the display unit 8. However, the present invention can be similarly implemented by a recorder provided with the display unit outside. it can.

1 TV receiver 1
2 Tuner / Demodulation Unit 3 Signal Separation Unit 4 Input Means 5 Control Unit 6 Channel Selection Control Unit 7 Superimposition Unit 8 Display Unit 9 Communication I / F
10 Wireless router 11 External network 12 Wireless terminal 13 Communication I / F
14 Control Unit 15 Input Means 17 Display Unit 18 Base Station 19 Television Receiver 2
20 Memory 21 Signal Separation Unit 22 Tuner / Demodulation Unit 23 Storage 25 Storage 31 Mobile Communication I / F
32 Memory 33 Acceleration sensor unit 34 Geomagnetic sensor unit 35 GPS receiver unit 36 Gyro sensor unit 39 Audio decoding unit 40 Video decoding unit 41 Speaker 42 Audio output unit 43 Video output unit 44 Digital I / F
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Claims (11)

A network terminal system including a display device and a mobile terminal,
The portable terminal is
First connection means for obtaining an identifier including information indicating a server that transmits the first content and information for identifying the first content from the network;
Transmission means for transmitting the identifier acquired by the first connection means to the display terminal,
The display device
Receiving means for receiving the identifier;
Second connection means for obtaining the first content from a server indicated by the identifier received by the receiving means;
Second display means for displaying the content acquired by the second connection means;
A network terminal system comprising: The network terminal system according to claim 1,
The portable terminal has first display means for displaying the first content acquired by the first connection means,
The transmission means transmits the identifier of the content displayed by the first display means to the display device;
A network terminal system. The network terminal system according to claim 2,
The wireless terminal includes a position acquisition unit that acquires position information of a part of the first content and displayed on the first display unit;
The transmitting means transmits the position information to the display device when transmitting the identifier;
A network terminal system. The network terminal system according to claim 3,
The second display means includes the display area indicated by the position information included in the display area of the second display device when displaying the content acquired from the resource indicated by the identifier. Network terminal system. The network terminal system according to claim 1,
The portable terminal is
First display means for displaying the first content acquired by the first communication means;
Input means for accepting selection of an identifier of the second content included in the first content,
The transmitting unit transmits an identifier of the second content that the input unit has received a selection to the display device;
A network terminal system. The network terminal system according to claim 5,
The network terminal system, wherein the first display means displays an identifier of the second content included in the first content as anchor text or an anchor object. The network terminal system according to claim 1,
The first connection means acquires content from a network,
The portable terminal is
First display means for displaying the content acquired by the first connection means;
Display history storage means for storing the identifier of the content displayed by the first display means as a display history,
The transmitting means transmits the identifier stored in the display history to the display device;
A network terminal system. The network terminal system according to claim 1,
The wireless terminal is
An input unit that receives an operation of the first content displayed on the second display unit;
The transmission unit transmits operation information created based on the operation to the display device when the input unit receives the operation,
The display device includes control means for operating the first content based on operation information received by the receiving means.
A network terminal system characterized by that. The network terminal system according to claim 8, wherein
The wireless terminal comprises first display means and selection means,
The first connection means acquires content from a network,
The first display means displays the content acquired by the first connection means,
9. The network terminal system according to claim 8, wherein the selection unit includes a selection unit for operating any of the contents displayed on the first display unit or the second display unit. A network terminal system according to any one of claims 1 to 9,
The network terminal system, wherein the identifier is a URL. A portable terminal used in a network terminal system,
First connection means for obtaining an identifier including information indicating a server that transmits the first content and information for identifying the first content from the network;
Transmitting means for transmitting the identifier acquired by the first connecting means to a display terminal for acquiring the first content from a server indicated by the received identifier and displaying the first content on a second display means;
A portable terminal comprising:

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