JP2924538B2 - Broadcast receiver - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a broadcast receiving apparatus such as a television apparatus or a radio receiver, or a broadcast receiving apparatus to be used by attaching to such apparatuses.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional broadcast receiving apparatus represented by a television apparatus simply receives a broadcast program transmitted from a broadcast station and reproduces the contents thereof. Information could not be sent directly to the broadcaster. Therefore, the only way for the viewer to participate in the contents of the broadcast program is to go directly to the shooting location of the program or send a telephone, facsimile, postcard, or the like to the broadcasting station.

[0003]

However, there are restrictions on the number of participants due to distance limitations and the size of the venue.
It was not possible for all interested viewers to go to the shooting location. In addition, in the case of telephones and facsimile machines, a large number of receiving devices must be prepared at a broadcasting station, and humans are required to receive information from viewers. When sending postcards, it takes time to arrive at the broadcasting station, so the results cannot be reflected in the program in real time, and the time and labor required to aggregate information are also high. Met. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a broadcast receiving apparatus that can easily transmit information from a viewer to a broadcasting station and can greatly reduce the counting work at the broadcasting station.

[0004]

Means for achieving the above object are as follows: information extracting means for extracting auxiliary information transmitted together with program information from a broadcasting station; input means for a viewer to input information; A comparison means for comparing the information input to the input means with the auxiliary information output from the information extraction means, and an output means for outputting the result of the comparison by the comparison means to a broadcasting station. It is intended to provide a broadcast receiving device.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The broadcast receiving apparatus shown in FIG. 1 first receives program information and auxiliary information transmitted from a broadcast station by a tuner 11 via an antenna 10. Then, the program information is output to the display device 13 and converted into video and audio,
The program contents are provided to the viewer 19. The auxiliary information multiplexed in the program information is separated by the decoder (information extracting means) 12 and its content is determined. If the auxiliary information is correct answer information, the determination information (comparing means) 15 Supplied.

[0006] The viewer 19 looks at the program contents displayed on the display device 13 and inputs information through an input device (input means) 14. The information is supplied to a determination device 15,
The result is compared with the correct answer information supplied from the decoder 12, and the comparison result is supplied to the storage device 16 for storage. When a transmission command is transmitted from the broadcasting station as auxiliary information, the comparison result stored in the storage device 16 and the personal information of the viewer 19 stored in advance are transmitted to the line I / F (interface) (output). Means) output to 17 and public line 2
0 to the currently receiving broadcast station automatically.

[0007] In this manner, information from the viewer 19 can be transmitted to the broadcast station in real time. In addition,
Since the antenna 10, the tuner 11, and the display device 13 have the same configuration as that of a normal television device,
From the above configuration, the antenna 10, the tuner 11, the display device 1
The broadcast receiving apparatus having the configuration other than the above 3 may be used by connecting to a normal television apparatus.

Next, a broadcast system using the broadcast receiving apparatus will be described by taking a quiz program of a viewer participation type as an example. First, a broadcast station shoots a question 1 as a quiz program with a television camera 2, inputs a correct answer of the question 1 from a correct answer input device 4, and blanks a video signal from the television camera 2 by a multiplexing device 5. It is multiplexed as auxiliary information during a period or the like, and is broadcast from the broadcast device 6 via the antenna 7.

[0009] The viewer 19 has the antenna 10 and the tuner 1.
At the same time, the contents of the broadcast program received at 1 are displayed and enjoyed on the display device 13, and at the same time, the answer to the problem 1 received and displayed is input to the input device 14. The determination device 15 compares the correct answer information supplied as auxiliary information to the broadcast received by the tuner 11 with the answer input to the input device 14, and outputs the result to the storage device 16 for storage.
Then, after answering every question or several questions continuously, when a transmission command is sent from the broadcast station as auxiliary information,
This transmission command is sent directly from the decoder 12 to the storage device 16.
Is supplied to the storage device 16, and the storage device 16 stores the viewer 19 stored in advance in the comparison determination result supplied from the determination device 15.
The personal information is output to the line I / F 17 and automatically transmitted to the currently receiving broadcasting station via the public line 20.

[0010] In the broadcasting station, information from the viewer 19 is collected from the public line 20 via the line I / F 9 in the counting device 8, and the contents are arranged and displayed on the display device 3. Moderator 1
By seeing the display device 3, the viewer 8 can know the correct answer rate of the viewer 19 and who made the correct answer, which can be used for the moderator of the program. In the case of the present invention, since the broadcast receiving apparatus determines whether or not the input answer is correct, it is not necessary for the broadcasting station to determine whether the answer is correct, and the number of correct answers transmitted is not required. You just need to add up. Furthermore, for example, when a plurality of questions are answered and a transmission command is set to be transmitted to a broadcasting station only when all questions are correctly answered, information transmitted to the broadcasting station is smaller than the number of viewers. And the totaling work can be performed very quickly. Note that, in the above embodiment, the case where the broadcast from the viewer 19 is transmitted to the broadcasting station uses the public line 20 which has already been prepared as the medium for transmitting the information from the viewer 19 to the broadcasting station. When broadcasting is performed from a station via a cable such as cable television, information may be transmitted from a viewer to a broadcasting station using the cable.

[0011]

The broadcast receiving apparatus of the present invention can transmit information from a large number of viewers in real time, so that a broadcast station can create a program reflecting information from viewers. In addition, since the comparison between the input information and the auxiliary information is performed in the broadcast receiving device, the broadcast station only needs to total the results, which reduces the load on the broadcast station and enables faster totalization. effective.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram illustrating a broadcast system example using an embodiment of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Antenna 11 Tuner 12 Decoder (information extraction means) 13 Display device 14 Input device (input means) 15 Judgment device 16 Storage device 17 Line I / F (interface) (output means) 19 Viewer 20 Public line

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An information extracting means for extracting auxiliary information transmitted together with program information from a broadcasting station, an input means for a viewer to input information, and information input to the input means and the information extracting means. A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: comparison means for comparing output auxiliary information; and output means for outputting a result of comparison by the comparison means to a broadcasting station.