KR20080051069A - Apparatus and method for providing detailed information of broadcasting contents for internet and method for providing detailed information of broadcasting contents in receiving terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for offering detailed information of broadcasting contents through Internet and a method for requesting the detailed information of broadcasting contents at a receiving terminal according to the apparatus and the method are provided to transmit the corresponding detailed information to a user's E-mail address through the Internet. A detailed information processing member(131) obtains the detailed information by means of the detailed information descriptor according to the detailed information request of a user terminal received the broadcasting contents from a broadcasting station. A detailed information transmission member(132) transmits the obtained detailed information to the user's E-mail address through the Internet. A detailed information storing member(14) stores the detailed information related to the detailed information request of the user terminal. The detailed information processing member obtains the detailed information corresponding to the detailed information descriptor from the detailed information storing member. The detailed information processing member also obtains the detailed information by means of the detailed information descriptor.

Description

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DETAILED INFORMATION OF BROADCASTING CONTENTS FOR INTERNET AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DETAILED INFORMATION OF BROADCASTING CONTENTS IN RECEIVING TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing detailed information of broadcast content through the Internet, and to a method for requesting detailed information about broadcast content in a receiving terminal, and more particularly, according to a request for detailed information about broadcast content. By sending the detailed information to the user's e-mail address via the Internet, the user can receive various and detailed information through the Internet without restriction of data size, and can easily request detailed information while watching the broadcast contents. An apparatus and method for providing detailed information of broadcast content, and a method for requesting detailed information of broadcast content in a receiving terminal.

The present invention is derived from research conducted as part of the IT Strategic Technology Development Project of the Ministry of Information and Communication and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication Research and Development. [Task Management Number: 2005-S-015-02, Title: Terrestrial DMB Interactive Multimedia Service Technology] Development].

Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) services have been introduced with increasing social desire for mobile multimedia services, and are being provided to users through terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting. Furthermore, terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting service is introduced to the terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting service using the interactive technology defined in MPEG-4 Part 1 Systems to meet the needs of users. Is preparing.

In the conventional digital multimedia broadcasting technology, when the detailed information about the broadcast content is transmitted in real time through the broadcasting network, the data amount of additional information that can be sent per program is limited. Therefore, this conventional technology does not provide various and detailed information to the user.

In addition, conventional digital multimedia broadcasting technology generally targets a user terminal having a screen of 2 to 7 inches. In the conventional interactive technology for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting, when the detailed information is transmitted in real time, the terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting may obstruct the terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting.

Recently, one of the interactive services for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting, which is being prepared, may provide an interactive service by applying an anchor node defined in the MPEG-4 Part 1 system to broadcast content. In this case, the anchor node includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a web page including detailed information. When the user selects an object to which the anchor node is applied, a user terminal (for example, In addition, a web browser provided by the integrated terminal of terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting and communication is executed to display a web page including detailed information prepared in advance to the user. The user is provided with the corresponding detailed information about the broadcast content through such a web page.

In this case, in the conventional digital multimedia broadcasting technology, when the user selects interactive content for obtaining detailed information, the user terminal needs to obtain detailed information by leaving the terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting program that is being viewed by executing a web browser or other program. do.

Therefore, in the conventional digital multimedia broadcasting technology as described above, when the detailed information requested by the user is transmitted in real time together with the digital multimedia broadcasting, the amount of additional information data allocated per program is limited. There is a problem that it is difficult to provide. In addition, in the conventional technology, in order for a user to obtain detailed information using a web page, a web browser needs to be obtained by leaving a terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting program that is being viewed by a web browser or other program. There is a problem that obstructs the broadcast program, which may impede the viewing of the broadcast program, it is an object of the present invention to solve this problem.

Therefore, the present invention transmits the detailed information to the user's e-mail address through the Internet in response to a request for detailed information on the broadcast content, so that the user can receive various detailed information through the Internet without restriction of data size. It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for providing detailed information of broadcast content through the Internet, and a method for requesting detailed broadcast content information from a receiving terminal, thereby enabling the user to easily request detailed information while watching the video.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects and advantages of the present invention which are not mentioned above can be understood by the following description, and will be more clearly understood by the embodiments of the present invention. Also, it will be readily appreciated that the objects and advantages of the present invention may be realized by the means and combinations thereof indicated in the claims.

The present invention is characterized in that to transmit the detailed information to the user's e-mail address through the Internet in response to the user's request for detailed information about the broadcast content.

More specifically, the present invention, in the broadcast content detailed information providing apparatus over the Internet, according to the request for the detailed information of the user terminal received the broadcast content from the broadcast server using the detailed information identifier for the requested detailed information Detailed information processing means for obtaining information; And detailed information transmitting means for transmitting the obtained detailed information to a user email address through the Internet.

Meanwhile, the present invention provides a detailed information identifier for obtaining detailed information identifier for the requested detailed information according to the request for detailed information of the user terminal receiving the broadcast content from the broadcast server in the method for providing broadcast content detailed information through the Internet. Obtaining step; Obtaining detailed information by using the obtained detailed information identifier; And transmitting detailed information to the user e-mail address through the Internet.

On the other hand, the present invention, in the method for requesting the broadcast content details information at the receiving terminal, according to the user's request for the detailed information about the received broadcast content, the address and the detailed information identifier of the detailed information providing apparatus included in the broadcast content Extracting information extraction step; A connection step of accessing the detailed information providing apparatus by using the extracted address of the detailed information providing apparatus; And requesting detailed information from the connected detailed information providing device by using the extracted detailed information identifier.

According to the present invention as described above, the detailed information is transmitted to the user's e-mail address through the Internet in response to a request for detailed information on the broadcast content, so that the user can check the detailed information through the Internet regardless of the limited amount of additional information data. It has an effect.

In particular, the present invention, by automatically providing the user with detailed information on the interactive broadcast content received through the broadcast network through the Internet at the user's request, a web browser or other program is executed to the user currently watching the broadcast program It is possible to provide a variety of detailed information without interrupting the viewing of the broadcast program is provided by overlapping or overlaid on the broadcast program currently being viewed. In addition, the present invention, there is an effect that can provide detailed information through the e-mail more familiar to the user while avoiding the constraints of capacity and visibility.

The above objects, features, and advantages will become more apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, and accordingly, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may share the technical idea of the present invention. It will be easy to implement. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the known technology related to the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for providing detailed information of broadcast content through the Internet according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, a detailed description will be given of an apparatus 13 for providing detailed information of broadcast contents through the Internet, according to the present invention, and a terrestrial DMB broadcast server 11 and a terrestrial DMB broadcast server 11 for transmitting terrestrial DMB interactive content included in a broadcast system. A terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12, a detailed information storage device 14, and an e-mail-receivable user computer 15 for receiving terrestrial DMB interactive content transmitted from FIG. 2 will also be described.

Looking at the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11, the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 transmits the terrestrial DMB interactive content to the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 according to the terrestrial DMB standard. For example, the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 generates interactive content for terrestrial DMB according to the technology specified in the "Ultra High Frequency Digital Radio Broadcasting Video Transceiver Matching Standard (TTAS.KO-07.0026)" to generate a terrestrial DMB / communication terminal ( 12) to send the function. Here, the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 is a terrestrial DMB encoder (T-DMB Encoder) (not shown) for an audio / video service, and an interactive content generator (not shown) for inserting interactive content. And an interactive content remultiplexer (not shown in the figure).

Meanwhile, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 receives the terrestrial DMB interactive content from the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 and provides the user with a screen.

Meanwhile, the terrestrial DMB interactive content includes detailed information display objects (eg, images, geometric objects, text, etc.) indicating that detailed information on broadcast content is included. In addition, an anchor node defined in the MPEG-4 Part 1 system is applied to the detail display object. The anchor node includes Uniform Resource Locator (URL) information, and the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) includes an Internet address of the detailed information providing apparatus 13 and a detailed identifier of content currently being broadcasted. .

When the user selects the detailed information display object included in the terrestrial DMB interactive content, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 uses the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) included in the aforementioned anchor node to provide the detailed information providing apparatus 13 Is automatically connected to the detailed information processing unit 131 of FIG. In addition, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 transmits the detailed information identifier included in the above-mentioned Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to the connected detailed information processing unit 131 and uses the detailed information service (hereinafter, the detailed information e-mail service). ).

Hereinafter, each component of the apparatus 13 for providing detailed information of broadcast content through the Internet according to the present invention will be described.

As shown in FIG. 1, the detailed information providing apparatus 13 according to the present invention includes a detailed information processor 131 and a detailed information transmitter 132.

The detailed information processor 13 receives a detailed information email service from the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12. At this time, the detailed information processing unit 13 searches for the corresponding detailed information from the detailed information storage device 14 using the detailed information identifier transmitted with the request and transmits the detailed information email service to the detailed information transmitting unit 132.

Here, the detailed information identifier is used to identify detailed information corresponding to each broadcast content. The detailed information identification table indicating the correspondence between the detailed information identifier and the detailed information is transmitted from the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 to the detail information processing unit 131 of the detailed information providing apparatus 13 when the terrestrial DMB content is transmitted. .

Therefore, the detail information processing unit 131 identifies the detailed information indicating the correspondence with the detailed information transmitted from the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 when the request for the detailed information service of the terrestrial DMB contents is generated from the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12. The detailed information is retrieved from the detailed information storage device 14 using the table and the detailed information identifier transmitted from the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 and transmitted to the detailed information transmitting unit 132.

The detailed information transmitter 132 of the detailed information providing apparatus 13 transmits the transmitted detailed information to the user email address. The user who requested the detailed information can then confirm the detailed information by using the computer 15 capable of receiving his or her email.

In this case, the detailed information transmitting unit 132 may obtain a user email address used for the detailed information email service through a voluntary registration activity of the user through online or web or registration with a service provider through offline before the service. In this case, when the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 requests the detailed information service, when the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 transmits the unique number of the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 together to the detailed information processor 131, the detailed information transmitter 132 ) Can be obtained by receiving the unique number from the detailed information processing unit 131 and confirming the user email address corresponding to the unique number among the registered user email addresses.

In addition, when the user stores the user's email address in a specific storage of the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 and transmits the user's email address stored at the time of requesting the detailed information email service to the detail information processor 131, the detailed information is transmitted. The unit 132 may receive the user email address from the detail information processor 131 to obtain the user email address.

In another embodiment, the detailed information providing apparatus 13 may provide detailed information by using keywords for terrestrial DMB broadcasting content without using an identifier for obtaining detailed information prepared in advance before broadcasting. In this case, the anchor node applied to the detailed information display object included in the terrestrial DMB interactive content includes Uniform Resource Locator (URL) information, and the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) includes the detailed information providing apparatus 13. Contains the internet address and keywords of the content currently being broadcast.

The terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 transmits the corresponding keyword included in the terrestrial DMB broadcasting content to the detailed information processing unit 131 of the detailed information providing device 13 while requesting the detailed information email service. Then, the detail information processing unit 131 searches for the detailed information using the detailed information search agent or a built database using the transmitted keyword. The detailed information transmitter 132 receives the detailed information searched by the detailed information processor 131 and transmits the detailed information to the requested user email address. Thereafter, the user who requested the detailed information may check the detailed information by using his or her computer capable of receiving e-mail 15.

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a detailed information display object indicating that detailed information is included in terrestrial DMB broadcasting content in a receiving terminal applied to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 2, the user views advertisements and music videos through detailed information display objects 21 and 22, which are shaped as buttons displayed on the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 while watching terrestrial DMB interactive content. You can request detailed information email service from the program.

At this time, when the user selects the detailed information display objects 21 and 22 serving as the interactive buttons by the user, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 disappears from the screen so that the detailed information email service is requested. You can let them know.

In addition, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 repeatedly disappears from the screen when the user selects the detailed information display objects 21 and 22 serving as the interactive button by the user, thereby repeatedly applying for the detailed information email service. This can prevent a congestion of service requests and duplicate e-mails.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for providing detailed information of broadcast content through the Internet according to the present invention.

The terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 transmits terrestrial DMB interactive content capable of providing detailed information email service to the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 (302). The terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 provides the terrestrial DMB interactive content transmitted from the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 to the user. That is, the user may watch the terrestrial DMB broadcast transmitted through the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12.

In addition, the terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 11 provides a detailed information identification table indicating a correspondence relationship between detailed information on the terrestrial DMB interactive content transmitted to the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 and its identifier and the detailed information providing apparatus 13. Or share it with the detailed information providing apparatus 13 (304).

Subsequently, the user selects the detailed information display object displayed on the terrestrial DMB content and requests the detailed information email service during real time broadcasting. Then, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 automatically accesses the detailed information providing apparatus 13 and requests the detailed information email service according to the user's detailed information request (306). At this time, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 extracts the detailed information identifier included in the terrestrial DMB broadcasting content and transmits the detailed information identifier to the detailed information providing apparatus 13.

When the detailed information providing device 13 receives the request for the detailed information email service from the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12, the detailed information providing device 13 searches for the detailed information stored in the detailed information storage device 14 by using the detailed information identifier (308). . The detailed information obtained from the detailed information storage device 14 using the detailed information identifier is transmitted to the detailed information providing device (310).

The detailed information providing apparatus 13 transmits the detailed information to the user e-mail address through the Internet (312). Then, the user can check the detailed information through the user computer 15 capable of receiving e-mail.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for requesting detailed broadcast content information in a receiving terminal according to the present invention.

The terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 receives terrestrial DMB interactive content through a terrestrial DMB broadcasting network (402).

The terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 plays terrestrial DMB interactive content received through a broadcasting network and provides terrestrial DMB broadcasting to a user (404).

Thereafter, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 checks whether there is a request for detailed information on the terrestrial DMB interactive content from the user (406). That is, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 checks whether the detailed information display object is selected by the user.

As a result of the check 406, when the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 requests detailed information from the user, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 is included in an anchor node applied to the detail display object. The Internet address and the detailed information identifier of the detailed information providing device 13 are extracted (408). As a result of the check 406, if the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 does not request detailed information from the user, the terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 performs from the "404" process.

In another embodiment, when the keyword for the terrestrial DMB broadcast content is used in place of the detailed information identifier, the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 may include the detailed information included in the anchor node applied to the detailed information display object. Instead of extracting the Internet address and the detailed information identifier of the providing device 13 (408), the Internet address and the details of the detail providing device 13 included in the anchor node applied to the detail display object The process of extracting the information keyword may be performed.

The terrestrial DMB / communication integrated terminal 12 accesses the detailed information providing apparatus 13 using the extracted Internet address of the detailed information providing apparatus 13 (410).

After the connection, the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 requests detailed information and transmits the extracted detailed information identifier and the user e-mail address stored at a specific location of the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 (412).

In another embodiment, when the user registers the user's e-mail address with the service provider via the online or web through the user's arbitrary registration or offline prior to the service, the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 after the connection is detailed. Requests information and transmits the extracted detailed information identifier and the unique number of the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12.

Subsequently, in response to the user's request to terminate broadcasting, the terrestrial DMB / communication terminal 12 terminates the terrestrial DMB broadcasting currently being broadcast (412). Here, the above-described method is an embodiment of the user broadcast watching method and does not always occur in the same pattern. That is, the process "412" indicating whether the broadcast viewing is terminated may occur at any process after "404" according to the user's will.

On the other hand, the user can check the detailed information transmitted from the detailed information providing device 13 via email using the email-receivable user computer 15.

On the other hand, the method of the present invention as described above can be written in a computer program. And the code and code segments constituting the program can be easily inferred by a computer programmer in the art. In addition, the written program is stored in a computer-readable recording medium (information storage medium), and read and executed by a computer to implement the method of the present invention. The recording medium may include any type of recording medium that can be read by a computer.

The present invention described above is capable of various substitutions, modifications, and changes without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention for those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is not limited by the drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for providing detailed information of broadcast contents through the Internet according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a detailed information display object indicating that detailed information is included in terrestrial DMB broadcasting content in a receiving terminal applied to the present invention. FIG.

3 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a method for providing detailed information of broadcast content through the Internet according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for requesting detailed broadcast content information in a receiving terminal according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawing

11: terrestrial DMB broadcasting server 12: terrestrial DMB / communication terminal

13: detailed information providing device 131: detailed information processing unit

132: detailed information transmission unit 14: detailed information storage device

15: E-mail Receivable User Computer

Claims (15)

In the device for providing detailed broadcast content information through the Internet, Detailed information processing means for acquiring detailed information using a detailed information identifier of the requested detailed information according to a detailed information request of a user terminal receiving broadcast content from a broadcast server; And Detailed information transmission means for transmitting the obtained detailed information to the user email address via the Internet Apparatus for providing broadcast content detailed information through the Internet. The method of claim 1, A detailed information storage means for storing detailed information related to the detailed information request of the user terminal; And the detailed information processing means obtains detailed information corresponding to the detailed information identifier from the detailed information storing means. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The detailed information processing means, And providing detailed information using the detailed information identifier transmitted together with the detailed information request from the user terminal. The method of claim 3, wherein The detailed information processing means, A detailed information identification table indicating a correspondence relationship between detailed information and a detailed information identifier from the broadcast server, and obtaining detailed information using the transmitted detailed information identification table and the detailed information identifier. Device for providing content details. The method of claim 4, wherein The detailed information transmission means, Apparatus for providing detailed broadcast content through the Internet, characterized in that for transmitting the detailed information to the user e-mail address transmitted with the request for detailed information from the user terminal. The method of claim 4, wherein The detailed information transmission means, And providing detailed information to the user's email address registered in advance by the user. In the method for providing detailed broadcast content information through the Internet, Acquiring a detailed information identifier for acquiring a detailed information identifier for the requested detailed information according to a request for detailed information of a user terminal receiving broadcast content from a broadcast server; Obtaining detailed information by using the obtained detailed information identifier; And Detailed information transmitting step of transmitting the obtained detailed information to a user email address through the Internet. Broadcast content detailed information providing method through the Internet comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein The detailed information obtaining step, And providing detailed information by using the detailed information identifier transmitted together with the detailed information request from the user terminal. The method of claim 8, The detailed information obtaining step, A detailed information identification table indicating a correspondence relationship between detailed information and a detailed information identifier from the broadcast server, and obtaining detailed information using the transmitted detailed information identification table and the detailed information identifier. How to provide content details. The method of claim 9, The detailed information transmitting step, Method for providing detailed broadcast content information over the Internet, characterized in that for transmitting the detailed information to the user email address sent with the request for detailed information from the user terminal. The method of claim 9, The detailed information transmitting step, Method for providing detailed broadcast content information over the Internet, characterized in that for transmitting the detailed information to the user email address registered in advance by the user. In the method for requesting detailed broadcast content information in a receiving terminal, An information extraction step of extracting an address and a detailed information identifier of a detailed information providing device included in the broadcast content according to a request of the detailed information of the received broadcast content; A connection step of accessing the detailed information providing apparatus by using the extracted address of the detailed information providing apparatus; And A detailed information request step of requesting detailed information by using the extracted detailed information identifier to the connected detailed information providing device. Broadcast content information request method in the receiving terminal comprising a. The method of claim 12, The information extraction step, Method for requesting detailed broadcast content information in a receiving terminal, characterized in that for extracting the address and the detailed information identifier of the detailed information providing apparatus included in the anchor node of the received broadcast content. The method of claim 13, The connecting step, And a method for requesting detailed information of a broadcast content from a receiving terminal, using the address of the detailed information providing device included in the anchor node of the received broadcast content. The method of claim 14, The detailed information request step, And requesting detailed information by transmitting the detailed information identifier included in the received broadcast content to the connected detailed information providing apparatus.

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