JP2016096412A - Portable terminal video display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable terminal video display system for making it possible, by using a portable terminal, to select video broadcast by a television station desired by a user to make the video be visually recognized easily and quickly on the portable terminal.SOLUTION: A portable terminal video display system comprises: recording means including a recording file for recording a broadcast program broadcast by a television broadcast station; metadata storage means including a metadata storage file for storing metadata corresponding to video recorded by the recording means; and a portable terminal capable of accessing the recording file and the metadata storage file through a wide area communication network. The portable terminal can display, on a display, metadata stored in the metadata storage file; and, when the metadata displayed on the display is selected by a user, access the recording file to acquire video corresponding to the selected metadata from the recording file in the recording means and display the video on the display.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal video display system that allows a user to appropriately select a video broadcast by a television station and display the video on a display of the mobile terminal.

  At present, mobile phones, in particular, multi-function mobile phones called smartphones have become widespread and widely used. Such a smartphone has a built-in browser function, and various web information can be displayed on a display for browsing by connecting to the Internet.

  On the other hand, the applicant of the present patent application previously recorded a recording means for recording a television broadcast program broadcast by a television broadcasting station, and metadata for storing metadata summarizing the program contents corresponding to the video recorded by the recording means. Storage means and display means capable of displaying the metadata on the screen, and the user visually recognizes the metadata displayed on the screen and appropriately selects the video corresponding to the metadata. A patent has been filed for an invention related to a video system configured to be displayed on a screen for visual recognition (Patent Document 1).

  As mentioned above, the spread of smartphones is remarkable, and the image quality and size of the display are improved from time to time.At the same time, it has the same resolution as a large high-definition television and has high brightness that is easy to see even in outdoor outdoor light. As a result, users can view high-quality video on smartphones even outdoors.

  Therefore, the user can select the program that the user wants from the video broadcast by the TV broadcast station and the individual corner video in the program as appropriate and use the mobile terminal to view the TV video on the display and enjoy it. Is convenient.

Because modern people are very busy and there are many long-distance commuters, there are many cases where there is no time to slowly view TV images on a television receiver at home. In some cases, the user may want to enjoy watching a desired TV program or its corner video using a mobile phone in a commuter train or office.
Patent No. 42227866

  The present invention responds to such a demand, and uses a mobile terminal to select a video broadcasted by a television station desired by a user and easily and quickly view it on the mobile terminal. To provide a display system.

  To achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording means having a recording file for recording a broadcast program video broadcast by a television broadcasting station, and metadata of the broadcast program video recorded by the recording means. A metadata storage means having a metadata storage file for storing data, and a portable terminal capable of accessing the recording file and the metadata storage file via a wide area communication network, wherein the portable terminal stores the metadata storage file in the metadata storage file The recorded metadata is displayed on the display, and when the user selects the metadata displayed on the display, the recorded file is accessed to the selected metadata from the recorded file of the recording means. Capable of acquiring corresponding broadcast program video and displaying the broadcast program video on a display To.

Here, the “broadcast program video” is, for example, a concept including a video of an entire broadcast program over a predetermined time, a corner video constituting the broadcast program, and a video for each article constituting the broadcast program.
Therefore, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the user accesses the metadata storage file through the wide area communication network using the browser function of the mobile terminal and corresponds to the video broadcast by the television station. Display the data on the display and select the metadata you want.
When metadata is selected, similarly, the recording function of the recording unit is accessed via the wide area communication network by the browser function, and the video corresponding to the metadata is acquired and displayed on the display.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided recording means having a recording file for recording broadcast program video data broadcast by a television broadcasting station, and metadata for storing metadata of broadcast program video recorded by the recording means. A metadata storage means having a storage file; and a portable terminal capable of accessing the recording file and the metadata storage file via a wide area communication network, wherein the portable terminal stores the metadata stored in the metadata storage file. A broadcast program image corresponding to the metadata selected from the recording file of the recording means by accessing the recording file when the user selects the metadata displayed on the display and displayed on the display. And the video can be displayed on a display.

Here, the “broadcast program video” means, for example, the video of the entire broadcast program over a predetermined time, the corner video constituting the broadcast program, and each article constituting the broadcast program, as in the case of claim 1. It is a concept that includes an image of a unit.
Therefore, according to the second aspect of the present invention, the user accesses the metadata storage file through the wide area communication network using the browser function of the mobile terminal and corresponds to the video broadcast by the television station. Display the data on the display and select the metadata you want. When metadata is selected, the recording file of the recording means is accessed via the wide area communication network, and an image corresponding to the metadata is acquired and displayed on the display.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the television broadcast station is all broadcast stations, and the television broadcast program is all broadcast programs broadcast by the television broadcast station.

  Therefore, in the invention described in claim 2, the recording means records all broadcast programs of all broadcast stations. As a result, the user can select a program or a corner he / she wants to watch from all broadcast programs by all broadcast stations.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the mobile terminal is a multi-function mobile phone. Therefore, the user can visually recognize all broadcast programs broadcast by all broadcast stations using a multi-function mobile phone, that is, a smartphone.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the recording file includes broadcast program content, a channel name on which the program content is broadcast, and a time code of the program content.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, the recording file includes broadcast program content, a channel name on which the program content is broadcast, and a time code of the program content.

  In the invention according to claim 7, the metadata storage file stores the program content summary text data, a channel name on which the program content is broadcast, and a time code of the program content. It is characterized by that.

  Therefore, in the inventions according to claims 5 to 7, when a user wants to view a television program using a portable terminal, the portable terminal transmits the metadata storage means via a wide area communication network. The metadata storage file is accessed and a plurality of metadata is displayed on the display.

  When the user selects desired metadata from among the metadata, the mobile terminal uses the metadata channel name and time code to access the recording file or the selected recording file. The video corresponding to the data is acquired and displayed on the display.

  The invention according to claim 8 is characterized in that the wide area communication network is the Internet.

The invention according to claim 9 is characterized in that the broadcast program data recorded in the recording file is recorded in the MPEG-2PS format.
The “MPEG-2PS format” is a standard format of the MPEG-2 system, and is a data format for multiplexing and transmitting or storing an image ES (elementary stream) and an audio ES (elementary stream). It is called “program stream”.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the user accesses the metadata storage file via the wide area communication network using a portable terminal and displays the metadata corresponding to the video broadcast by the television station on a display. When the metadata desired is displayed and the metadata is selected, the recorded file of the recording means is accessed via the wide area communication network using the portable terminal to store the metadata. Since it is configured to acquire the corresponding video and display it on the display, the user can view the TV program broadcast by the TV station desired by the user on the display of the mobile terminal, and the corner video that constitutes the TV program. Or the video of the article unit can be visually recognized.

  In a second aspect of the present invention, a user accesses a metadata storage file via a wide area communication network using a mobile terminal and displays the metadata corresponding to a video broadcast by a television station on a display. Display and select your desired metadata. When metadata is selected, the recording file of the recording means is accessed via a wide area communication network, and broadcast program video corresponding to the metadata is acquired and displayed on the display. Therefore, for example, when a TV broadcast station is a company or an affiliated company and the TV program broadcast by the company is recorded and stored on a hard disk or the like, the recorded file of the recording means is accessed and displayed on the display of the portable terminal. , A TV program broadcast by a TV broadcast station desired by the user, a corner video constituting the TV program, or a video in units of articles can be viewed.

  In particular, in the invention described in claim 8, the TV program or the video of the corner can be visually recognized by a multi-function mobile phone, that is, a smartphone.

It is a conceptual diagram which shows one Embodiment of the portable terminal video display system which concerns on this invention. It is a conceptual diagram which shows one Embodiment of the portable terminal video display system which concerns on this invention, Comprising: An example of the metadata displayed on the display of a portable terminal and a portable terminal is shown, The first page on which metadata is displayed is shown FIG. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a conceptual diagram which shows one Embodiment of the portable terminal video display system which concerns on this invention, Comprising: An example of the image which shows the metadata displayed on a portable terminal and the display of a portable terminal, and a corresponding image | video is shown. It is a figure which shows the next page displayed. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing an embodiment of a mobile terminal video display system according to the present invention, showing an example of an image displaying video content displayed on the mobile terminal and the display of the mobile terminal, and further showing the next page. FIG. It is a conceptual diagram which shows other embodiment of the portable terminal video display system which concerns on this invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, the portable terminal video display system 10 according to the present embodiment includes a recording unit 12 having a recording file 11 for recording a broadcast program video broadcasted by a television broadcasting station 25, and recording by the recording unit 12. A metadata storage means 14 having a metadata storage file 13 for storing metadata corresponding to the broadcast program video, and a portable terminal capable of accessing the recording file 11 and the metadata storage file 13 via the wide area communication network 15 As a smartphone 16.

  When the mobile terminal 16 displays a plurality of metadata stored in the metadata storage file 11 on the display 17 and the user selects any one of the metadata 18 displayed on the display 17, It is configured to access the recording file 11 to acquire a video corresponding to the metadata 17 selected from the recording file 11 of the recording means 12 and display the video on the display 17.

In the present embodiment, the recording means 12 records all broadcast program videos broadcast from all broadcast stations 25, for example, all ground stations and satellite broadcast stations in Japan, for a predetermined period, for example, one month. It is a large-sized recording device having a hard disk type storage device with a predetermined capacity so that recording can be performed over a wide range.
In the present embodiment, the recording file 11 in the hard disk provided in the recording means 1 includes a program content 19 composed of video broadcast by the television station 25, a channel name 20 on which the program content 19 is broadcast, and program content. It has information on 19 time codes 21.
In this case, the program content 19 is composed of a broadcast program unit, a corner unit constituting the broadcast program, or an article unit constituting the broadcast program.

The metadata storage file 13 of the metadata storage unit 14 stores program content summary text data 22, a channel name 23 on which the program content 19 is broadcast, and a time code 24 of the program content 19. The program content summary text data 22 is a summary of the contents of a television program broadcast by the television station 25 in text form.
Like the program content 19, the program content summary text data 22 is composed of a broadcast program unit, a corner unit constituting the broadcast program, or an article unit constituting the broadcast program.

  In the present embodiment, the program content summary text data 22 transcribes the contents of the broadcasted TV program in real time as the TV broadcast of the TV broadcast station 25 is transmitted through a predetermined number of people. From time to time, updates are made.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 2, in the mobile terminal video display system (hereinafter referred to as “the present system”) 10 according to the present embodiment, the present system 10 is activated on the display 17 of the smartphone 16. In this case, the top page 34 of this system is displayed, and “big news”, “new arrival summary”, “special feature”, “first press”, “CM”, “ranking” are displayed in the upper half of the top page 34. In addition, a category item section 26 such as “life” is provided, and a latest TV information display section 27 that introduces the latest real-time TV information at the time of system startup is displayed in the lower half.

  In the category item section 26, all broadcast programs broadcast by all the television broadcasting stations 25 are classified and displayed from the user's viewpoint so that the user can easily select them. Therefore, when each item button 28 such as “Big News”, “New Arrival Summary”, “Special Feature”, “First Press”, “CM”, “Ranking”, “Life” is touched, it is shown in FIG. As described above, metadata relating to individual news (titles of each news, summary sentences) and corresponding video information, which are further classified in each item, are stored in association with each other.

  That is, for example, when the user touches “Big News” 28a in the classification item 26 shown in FIG. 2, the next screen 36 is developed on the display 17 as shown in FIG. On the screen 36, the three major news 29 determined to be “Big News” 28 a are displayed as text data in the upper part of the display 17. Title 30a by data, number of broadcast programs 31 by all broadcast stations in one week, still image 32 of corresponding video information, broadcast date 33, broadcast time 34, program name 35 and program content as metadata of the video information 32 The summary sentence 40 is displayed.

  On the other hand, in the TV latest information display unit 27, the latest and latest television broadcast news information at the time of activation of the present system is arranged and displayed in order of broadcast time in the order of the newest top. That is, for each news 29, “broadcast time” 30, “broadcast television station name” 38, “field name” 32, and “summary title of news content” 33 are displayed. In the next screen, a description with more detailed text data of the news and corresponding moving picture information is attached.

  As shown in FIG. 3, when the still image 32 of the video information displayed on the screen 36 is touched, the next screen 39 is further developed on the display 17, and the still image 32 is displayed on the screen 39. The video content corresponding to the title “Visit to the President of the United States” is played back as a moving image by touching a playback button 37 that is enlarged and displayed in the still image 32.

Hereinafter, functions and operations of the mobile terminal video display system 10 according to the present embodiment will be described.
When trying to watch a program broadcast by the television broadcasting station 25 or a corner of a program using the system 10, the system 10 is activated by the smartphone 16. When the system 10 is activated, a top page 34 of the system is displayed on the display 17 as shown in FIG.

When the user touches, for example, “Big News” 28a among the display item buttons 28 of the classification item section 26 of the top page 34, the next screen 36 is developed on the display 17 as shown in FIG. The three big news titles 30 by the character data corresponding to the button 28 a and the still image 32 of the video content corresponding to the title 30 are displayed on the display 17.
When the user touches the still image 32, as shown in FIG. 4, only the still image 32 is enlarged and a broadcast program or program is configured by touching the playback button 37 arranged at the center. Corner video or article-based video content can be viewed as a video.

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment according to the present invention.
The portable terminal video display system 50 according to the present embodiment is a conceptual diagram in the case where a television broadcast station 25 records and stores a television program broadcast by the television broadcast station 25 on a recording medium such as a hard disk in the company or another related company The user acquires the program content 43 from the mobile terminal using the mobile terminal video display system 50 shown in FIG. The same concepts as those in the above embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted.

  The mobile terminal video display system 50 according to the present embodiment includes a recording unit 41 having a recording file 42 for recording broadcast program data broadcast by the television broadcasting station 25, and video metadata recorded by the recording unit 41. A metadata storage unit 14 having a metadata storage file 13 to be stored, and a portable terminal 16 capable of accessing the recording file 41 and the metadata storage file 13 via the wide area communication network 15 are provided.

  The portable terminal 16 displays the metadata stored in the metadata storage file 13 on the display 17, and when the user selects the metadata displayed on the display 17, the portable terminal 16 accesses the recording file 42 and records it. The video corresponding to the selected metadata is acquired from the recording file of the means 41 and the video can be displayed on the display 17.

  The recording file 42 includes broadcast program content 43, a channel name 44 on which the program content 43 is broadcast, and a time code 45 of the program content 43.

  Even in the present embodiment, the wide area communication network is the Internet and the mobile terminal 16 is a smartphone.

  Broadcast program data recorded in the recording file 42 is recorded in the MPEG-2PS format. In the television station 25, television broadcasting is generally performed using MPEG-2 standard format including general and HDTV (high definition television). Note that “MPEG” is a standard related to a standard for digitizing moving images and the like.

On the other hand, “MPEG-2 system” is a standard for multiplexing and transmitting MPEG-2, and “MPEG-2PS” is called “program stream”.
An elementary stream (ES) that is encoded individual image / audio data packetized to an appropriate size is called PES, and MPEG-2PS is used to multiplex and transmit or store PES. .

  MPEG-2PS is a format that assumes that a single program (a set of mutually synchronized video, audio, etc.) is handled in an environment with a low possibility of error on a recording medium such as an optical disk or HDD, It is used as a recording format for DVDs.

  Therefore, when the mobile terminal image display system 50 according to the present embodiment is used to watch a program broadcast by the television broadcast station 25 or a corner of the program, as in the case of the above-described embodiment, the smartphone 16 As shown in FIG. 2, the system 50 is activated to display the top page 34 composed of metadata on the display 17, and the display item button 28 of the classification item portion 26 of the top page 34 is selected as appropriate. By touching the still image 32 of the corresponding video content displayed on the screen 17, only the still image 32 is enlarged and displayed by touching the playback button 37 arranged at the center, as shown in FIG. The content can be viewed as a video.

  In the present embodiment, the case where the wide area communication network 15 is the Internet has been described as an example. However, the portable terminal video display system according to the present invention may be implemented by an area network having a limited range such as a WAN. it can. In this embodiment, a smartphone has been described as an example of a mobile terminal. However, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and any PDA including a web browser that can access the Internet and browse the web may be used. Not limited to smartphones.

  Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the recording file 11 of the recording unit 12 that records the broadcast program of the broadcasting station 25 by the portable terminal 16 or the recording file 42 of the recording unit 41 held by the broadcasting station or an affiliated company or the like. The case where the program contents 19 and 43 are obtained by accessing has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this. You may comprise so that the recording content which a service site (for example, "You Tube (trademark)" etc.) possesses may be accessed, and the program content as moving image information matched with the said metadata may be acquired.

  In the embodiment, the TV broadcast program contents 19 and 43 are acquired by accessing the recording unit 12 or the recording unit 41 via the Internet using a browser function of a mobile terminal such as a smartphone. Although the case has been described as an example, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, an application having a browser function is downloaded or installed, and the recording unit 12 or the recording unit 41 is accessed using the browser function in the application. It is also possible to configure.

  Since the present invention can display TV broadcast video using a mobile terminal, it has wide industrial applicability.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Mobile terminal video information display system 11 Recording file 12 Recording means 13 Metadata storage file 14 Metadata storage means 15 Wide area communication network 16 Portable terminal (smart phone)
17 Display 18 Metadata 19 Program content 20 Channel name 21 Time code 22 Program content summary text data 23 Channel name 24 Time code 25 Television broadcast station 26 Category item section 27 TV information display section 28 Item button 29 Three major news 30 Title 31 Broadcast Number of programs 32 Still images of video information 33 Broadcast date 34 Broadcast time 35 Program name 36 Screen 37 Play button 38 TV station name 39 Screen 40 Summary of program contents

Claims (9)

A recording means having a recording file for recording a broadcast program video broadcast by a television broadcasting station, a metadata storage means having a metadata storage file for storing metadata of the video recorded by the recording means, and a wide area communication network A portable terminal capable of accessing the recording file and the metadata storage file via
The mobile terminal displays the metadata stored in the metadata storage file on a display, and when the user selects the metadata displayed on the display, the mobile terminal accesses the recording file and records the recording. A mobile terminal video display system capable of acquiring a video corresponding to metadata selected from a recording file of the means and displaying the video on a display. Recording means having a recording file for recording broadcast program video data broadcast by a television broadcasting station, metadata storage means having a metadata storage file for storing metadata of the video recorded by the recording means, and a wide area communication network A portable terminal capable of accessing the recording file and the metadata storage file via
The mobile terminal displays the metadata stored in the metadata storage file on a display, and when the user selects the metadata displayed on the display, the mobile terminal accesses the recording file and records the recording. A portable terminal video display system capable of acquiring a video corresponding to the selected metadata from a recording file of the means and displaying the video on a display.   3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the television broadcast stations are all broadcast stations and the television broadcast programs are all broadcast programs broadcast by the television broadcast station. 4. Video display system.   The mobile terminal video display system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is a multi-function mobile phone.   2. The mobile terminal video display system according to claim 1, wherein the recording file includes broadcast program content, a channel name on which the program content is broadcast, and a time code of the program content.   3. The portable terminal video display system according to claim 2, wherein the recording file includes broadcast program content, a channel name on which the program content is broadcast, and a time code of the program content.   3. The metadata storage file is recorded with the program content summary text data, a channel name on which the program content is broadcast, and a time code of the program content. The portable terminal video display system according to any one of the above.   The mobile terminal video display system according to claim 1, wherein the wide area communication network is the Internet. 3. The mobile terminal video display system according to claim 2, wherein the broadcast program data recorded in the recording file is recorded in the MPEG-2 PS format.