KR101613921B1 - Method for providing sns associated with television broadcasting and apparatus thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus capable of using an SNS service during watching a TV or watching a movie. The present invention constructs a text list to be used for an SNS service and displays the SNS message on a part of the screen of the TV when a SNS message is displayed while watching a TV broadcast or a movie, By selecting the desired text from the list and sending it to the SNS, the SNS service can be used while watching TV or movies.

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Description

[0001] METHOD FOR PROVIDING SNS ASSOCIATED WITH TELEVISION BROADCASTING AND APPARATUS THEREOF [0002]

The present invention relates to home appliances such as a TV (Television) or a BD (Blu-ray Disc) player, and a method and apparatus for providing an SNS service in connection with an SNS.

TV technology has developed rapidly on demand to the multimedia consumer. That is, the TV technology is developing in a conventional analog TV system, a standard definition television (SDTV) and a high definition television (HDTV), and furthermore, a DTV (digital TV). In addition, with the development of high-definition TVs, media media (e.g., BD (Blue-ray Disc)) and high-quality media (e.g.

In addition, since the TV recently provides the Internet function, the user can use the multimedia and multicast through the TV. These functions are implemented through an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) service. EPG is a program for displaying a schedule of a television broadcast program on a television screen. A person who watches the television can select a desired program through this schedule or search for a desired program based on criteria such as time, title, channel and genre Service.

EPG is mainly used in digital television, but analog TV also provides similar services using vertical retracement periods.

The TV viewer (user) can confirm the program information (for example, program schedule table, etc.) provided by the EPG through the TV screen, and can set a viewing schedule of his / her desired program using the program information.

Meanwhile, with the rapid spread of the Internet, Internet users are expanding the relationship formation in the real world to the virtual space of the Internet as well as acquiring information through the virtual space. For example, SNS (Social Networking Service) is a representative example.

Social Networking Service (SNS) is a service that brings the concept of social relations into the Internet space. It is a service that supports the formation of a network by establishing a relationship between people and a person, for example, a personal blog. Representative examples of SNS include SaiWorld, MySpace, Google, and Yahoo.

The inventors of the present invention have recognized that there is no service or function that links different media, for example, a TV broadcast service and an SNS.

For example, there may be a case where a user who is watching a movie on a TV wants to input the movie or the like to a personal blog (one kind of SNS service). At this time, in order for a user to input a movie review, a key board for inputting text is required. However, there is a functional limitation in inputting text through the TV remote controller.

In addition, there is a case where the user wants to use the broadcast service and the SNS service at the same time.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus that can simultaneously use a broadcasting service via a TV and an SNS service of the Internet.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus for inputting a text through a TV remote control and uploading it to the SNS by linking a broadcasting service via a TV with an SNS service.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing an SNS service in association with a TV,

(A) registering a TV (Television) and / or a media player with an SNS (Social Networking Service); (B) checking whether a message has been uploaded to the SNS during TV viewing; (C) displaying the message on a screen of the watching TV; (D) sending a response message to the SNS using the remote controller of the TV or the media player.

Preferably, the method further comprises generating a text category and a text list.

Preferably, the step (D)

Selecting text to be sent in response to the message from a text category and a text list using a specific key of the remote control;

And sending the selected text to the SNS.

Advantageously, the text category comprises a broadcast title and / or movie title, a greeting and / or chat, and an impression.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing an SNS service in association with a TV,

Creating a text category and a text list;

You can get ratings for what you're watching

Selecting a text category and a text list using a remote controller;

And sending the selected comment to the SNS.

According to another aspect of the present invention,

A transmission / reception module connected to a terminal providing an SNS (Social Networking Service) service and exchanging data related to the SNS in a wired or wireless manner;

A storage unit for storing a text category and a text list;

And a processing unit for processing the SNS service during watching TV (Television).

Preferably, the processing unit

Periodically check whether the SNS (Social Networking Service) has posted a message; Displaying the confirmed text on a part of the TV (Television) screen when a text is displayed; Providing the user with the text category and the text list; And send the text selected by the user to the SNS from the text category and the text list.

The present invention has an effect that an SNS service can be easily used even in a device such as a TV or a media player in which text input is inconvenient.

Further, the present invention has the convenience of being able to confirm updated articles (or data, messages, or images) of the SNS without missing while watching a TV or watching a movie.

The present invention is applied to a broadcasting service and an SNS system. However, the present invention is not limited thereto and may be applied to all multimedia devices and services to which the technical idea of the present invention can be applied.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

Terms including ordinals, such as first, second, etc., may be used to describe various elements, but the elements are not limited to these terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component. The term " and / or " includes any combination of a plurality of related listed items or any of a plurality of related listed yields.

When an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, but other elements may be present in between. On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between.

The terminology used in this application is used only to describe a specific embodiment and is not intended to limit the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In the present application, the terms "comprises", "having", etc. are intended to specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof, But do not preclude the presence or addition of features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries are to be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the contextual meaning of the related art and are to be interpreted as either ideal or overly formal in the sense of the present application Do not.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. The description will be omitted.

The present invention is conceived to provide a system and a method for enabling a user to simultaneously use an SNS service during an over-the-air broadcast or cable TV broadcast service. With this in mind, the basic concept of the present invention is to display an SNS service on a part of a screen of a TV while watching a movie or a broadcast program through the TV; Set hot key (hot key) of TV remote control; And input the movie review into the SNS service using the hot key (hot key).

In order to realize the basic concept of the present invention as described above, the present invention is applicable to a TV capable of watching over-the-air broadcasting or cable TV broadcasting, a terminal (e.g., a notebook computer, a personal computer) And a media player capable of playing Blu-ray Disc (BD). Here, the TV is a comprehensive concept that includes all devices having a screen capable of outputting over-the-air broadcasts and media (e.g., movies) reproduced by the media player.

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

1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an SNS service through a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention roughly comprises: 1) registering a TV or a media player (for example, a BD player) in an SNS service; 2) searching for and selecting texts stored in the TV or media player using a hot key (or hot key) of the remote controller, and delivering the selected text to the SNS (for example, a blog connected to the TV).

1, a user registers a TV and / or a media player (for example, a BD player) in an SNS (for example, an SNS such as a twitter) (S1). At this time, TV and media player are household appliances that can be used in connection with SNS service. Actually, the actual SNS service is used through a terminal such as a notebook. Specifically, a notebook connects to a specific SNS service and registers a TV and a media player that the user is using.

TV or media player can be connected wired or wireless to the notebook and use SNS service. That is, the user periodically checks whether a new article is uploaded to the SNS while watching a specific broadcast or movie on the TV, and displays a new article in the SNS as a banner on a part of the TV screen S2 and S3). Here, the new text may be SNS data, an image, or a message. Hereinafter, the description will be collectively referred to as a description.

The user confirms the text displayed on a part of the TV screen and replies or uploads the comment on the broadcasting or movie currently being watched on the SNS (for example, the user's own blog) (S4). In step S4, the user can select and upload desired text (or image) using a specific key (hot key) of the remote controller of the TV or media player. For example, if you press the "+" key on the remote control, the text list will be displayed on the TV screen. If you select text to be sent to SNS in the text list using "->" and "<-" on the remote control, ENTER "to transfer the selected text to the SNS.

In order to perform step S4, the user must (or by firmware) construct a text list (and / or an image list) in the TV or media player as a database in advance. For example, you can classify the text type by category and store the text list for each category on the TV or media player. This can be implemented by a method in which a user creates a category in the SNS using a keyboard of a notebook, creates a text list to be used in each category, and transmits the text list to a storage device (or a database) of a TV or a media player.

2 is an example of a text list to be sent to the SNS using a remote controller according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows an example of constructing a text list for each category and each category in step S4 of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 2, the following will be described.

In one embodiment, the text category may be generated such as &quot; greeting / chat &quot;, &quot; watching broadcast or movie title &quot;, &quot; Also, for example, in the "Impression" category, a list can be composed of images from "one star" to "five stars", and as another embodiment, Quot ;, &quot; interesting &quot;, and the like.

Accordingly, in step S34, if the user wants to evaluate the movie currently being watched using the remote controller and upload it to the SNS, he / she presses a hot key (for example, a &quot; + &quot; key) on the remote controller to select &quot; movie title &quot;. At this time, the title of the movie can be obtained by using EPG (Electronic Program Guide) or meta data.

Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram of a system according to the present invention as an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3. FIG.

It is assumed that the user is listening to the movie "Spiderman 3" with a media player (BD player) while connected to a notebook using a SNS and a TV. When a new article is uploaded to the SNS during watching a movie, the processing unit configured in the TV or media player confirms it and displays it as a banner on a part of the screen of the TV (for example, the bottom of the TV screen). For example, when the text retrieved from the SNS by the processing unit is "smile: what are you doing now?", If the user wishes to reply to this text, the text to be responded is selected using the hot key (or hot key) . Here, the remote controller corresponds to a remote controller of a TV or a media player. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the user presses a specific key (for example, &quot; + &quot;) on the remote controller to bring the text category to the TV screen. When the user selects &quot; the broadcast or movie title being viewed &quot; among the categories displayed on the TV screen, the processing unit acquires data corresponding to the movie title from the metadata of the medium (i.e., BD of Spider-Man 3) And displays it on the screen. Then, the user again selects the "greeting / chat" category and selects the text (eg, "watching") that wants to reply to the other party in the text list of the "greeting / chat" category.

The user sends the final text (i.e., "Movie Title (Spider-Man 3)" and text (ie, "Watching") to the SNS by pressing a specific key (eg, ENTER) on the remote control. Therefore, the response message sent by the user to the SNS to the other party becomes &quot; Watching Spider-Man 3 &quot;.

Through the above process, the user can use the SNS service even while watching TV, and send the desired text to the SNS.

On the other hand, if the user wishes to send an impression about the movie currently being watched to the SNS, the hot key of the remote controller is operated in the same manner as above to select the category "Impression", and then the evaluation of the user (for example, Or "Star 3") can be selected and sent to the SNS.

As described above, the embodiment of FIG. 3 is a description of an SNS service in conjunction with a TV, but corresponds to an embodiment of the present invention. That is, the technical idea of the present invention can be applied to other technical fields. For example, the user may transmit a short message (SMS) or a multimedia message (MMS) to the mobile terminal using the text list of FIG.

Hereinafter, as an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus in connection with an SNS service during TV watching will be described. A transmission / reception module connected to a terminal (e.g., a notebook computer) providing the device SNS service and exchanging data related to the SNS in a wired or wireless manner; A storage unit for storing a text category and a text list; A processing unit for processing the SNS service during TV watching will be described. The device may be installed in a TV or a media player in one configuration, or may be configured as a component independent of the TV (or media player). The processing unit periodically confirms whether a new article has been uploaded to the SNS (e.g., a blog), displays the new article confirmed on a part of the TV screen when a new article is uploaded, provides a text list to the user, Sends user selected text from category and text list to SNS.

In the meantime, the terminal in the description of the present invention refers to any device capable of carrying out the technical features of the present invention. That is, the terminal according to the present invention may be used in a mobile communication terminal (for example, a UE (User Equipment), a mobile phone, a mobile phone, a DMB phone, a game phone, a camera phone, a smart phone, etc.) ), PDAs (personal digital assistants), and white goods.

Meanwhile, the method according to the present invention described up to now can be implemented by software, hardware, or a combination thereof. For example, a method in accordance with the present invention may be stored in a storage medium (e.g., mobile terminal internal memory, flash memory, hard disk, etc.) &Lt; / RTI &gt; in a software program that can be executed by a computer.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. I will understand. Accordingly, the true scope of the present invention should be determined by the technical idea of the appended claims.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an SNS service through a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is an example of a text list to be sent to the SNS using a remote controller according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram of a system according to the present invention as an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (8)

(A) registering a TV (Television) and / or a media player with an SNS (Social Networking Service); (B) checking whether a message has been uploaded to the SNS during TV viewing; (C) displaying the message on a screen of the watching TV; (D) sending a response message to the SNS using the remote controller of the TV or media player, The step (D) (E) acquiring information of TV contents currently being watched using a specific key of the remote controller; (F) selecting a text to be sent in response to the message from a predetermined text category and a text list; (G) combining the obtained TV content information with the selected text and sending the combination to the SNS. The method according to claim 1, And generating a text category and a text list. delete The method of claim 1, Wherein at least one of a broadcast title and a movie title, at least one of a greeting and a chat, and an audio comment are provided. delete delete A transmission / reception module connected to a terminal providing an SNS (Social Networking Service) service and exchanging data related to the SNS in a wired or wireless manner; A storage unit for storing a text category and a text list; And a processing unit for processing the SNS during the viewing of the TV (Television) Wherein, Periodically checking whether the SNS (Social Networking Service) has posted a message; Displaying the confirmed text on a part of the TV screen when a text is displayed; Providing the user with the text category and the text list; Acquires information on contents of the TV being watched, And transmits the obtained information through the SNS in combination with the text selected by the user in the text category and the text list. delete

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