CN118159958A

CN118159958A - Display device and channel recommendation method

Info

Publication number: CN118159958A
Application number: CN202280071072.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 罗诚; 郭伟; 王清华; 刘国栋
Original assignee: Juhaokan Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Juhaokan Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-01-04
Filing date: 2022-12-23
Publication date: 2024-06-07
Also published as: WO2023130988A1

Abstract

The disclosure provides a display device and a channel recommendation method, which are applied to the technical field of display, wherein the display device comprises: a display; a controller configured to: receiving channel recommending operation input by a user, and responding to the channel recommending operation to generate a channel recommending request containing request parameter information; a channel recommendation request is sent to a server, so that the server obtains a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on request parameter information, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list; receiving a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information sent by a server; and controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display.

Description

Display device and channel recommendation method

The present application claims priority from chinese patent application No. 202210001733.1 filed on line 2022, 01, 04, and priority from chinese patent application No. 202210701569.5 filed on line 2022, 06, 20, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of display, and in particular relates to a display device and a channel recommendation method.

Background

Along with development and progress of technology, functions of display devices are more and more diversified, and great convenience is brought to work and life of people. People use display devices, such as televisions, tablet computers, smartphones, etc., to view multimedia content that is played on various channels.

In general, after a user turns on a display device, channels may be randomly played on the display device, or channels played when the display device is turned off last time may be played, and if the user does not like the randomly played channels or the channels played when the display device is turned off last time, the user may select his own favorite channels from a plurality of channels.

Disclosure of Invention

The disclosure provides a display device and a channel recommendation method.

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a display device including: a display and a controller configured to: receiving channel recommending operation input by a user, and responding to the channel recommending operation to generate a channel recommending request containing request parameter information; the channel recommendation request is sent to a server, so that the server obtains a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the request parameter information, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list; receiving the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information sent by the server; and controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display.

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a channel recommendation method for a display device, the method including: receiving an operation input by a user aiming at a display device, and responding to the operation to generate a channel recommendation request containing request parameter information; the channel recommendation request is sent to a server, so that the server obtains a corresponding live channel list from a preset database based on the request parameter information, the live channel list comprises a recommended channel list, multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list is obtained based on a preset trigger condition, and the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information are fed back to the display equipment; and controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display device.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an operational scenario between a display device, a control device, and a server according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a hardware configuration block diagram of the control apparatus 100 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

Fig. 3A is a hardware configuration block diagram of a display device 200 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3B is a schematic diagram of a software configuration in a display device 200 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3C is a schematic diagram of an icon control interface display for an application in display device 200 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4A is a system framework diagram of channel recommendation according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4B is a block diagram of channel recommendation according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

Fig. 5A is a flow chart of a channel recommendation method according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5B is a flow chart of another channel recommendation method according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5C is a flow chart of yet another channel recommendation method according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

Fig. 6A is a flowchart illustrating a method for channel recommendation in a display area and an identification display area according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6B is a schematic diagram of a first display interface for channel recommendation under a navigation interface according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

fig. 6C is a schematic diagram illustrating a process for displaying target play screen information and target identification information corresponding to a target channel according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7A is a schematic diagram of an interaction process between a display device and a server according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

Fig. 7B is a schematic diagram of a first display interface for channel recommendation under a playback interface according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

Fig. 8A is a flowchart illustrating a channel recommendation method applied to a server according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8B is a schematic diagram of an interaction process between another display device and a server according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a display device interacting with a subsystem included in a server according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a top view of a video on demand program according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 11 is a flow diagram of a auditorium creation method according to some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 12 is a flow diagram of a auditorium search method according to some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 13 is a timing diagram of a auditorium creation process according to some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 14 is an interface schematic of a auditorium home page according to some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram of a auditorium creation interface, according to some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 16 is a timing diagram of a auditorium search process according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 17 is a flow diagram of a method of filtering a auditorium according to some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram of a search results interface according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 19 is a schematic diagram of a auditorium playback interface, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 20 is a schematic diagram of a media search interface according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 21 is a schematic diagram of another search results interface according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure may be more clearly understood, embodiments of the present disclosure will be further described below. It should be noted that, without conflict, the embodiments of the present disclosure and features in the embodiments may be combined with each other.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present disclosure, but the present disclosure may be practiced otherwise than as described herein; it will be apparent that the embodiments in the specification are only some, but not all, embodiments of the disclosure.

Multimedia content (also known as media assets) is a variety of types of media asset data, such as audio data, video data, and the like. For display devices such as televisions, multimedia content may include movies, television shows, and shows, to which embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited in particular. The user can select various types of multimedia contents in the display device for watching, thereby achieving the purpose of entertainment and leisure.

Currently, the use amount of cable television products is continuously increased, the cable television products are put into use in many places throughout the country, more than 40 channels and even more than 90 channels are on line in many places, when users watch multimedia contents, searching channels through program menus is troublesome, and the arrangement of cable television live media on the navigation page (namely, the interface when the focus is positioned on the first navigation control in the navigation column of the main page of the display device) of the display device is based on manual arrangement, the recommended channels cannot be differentiated, so that the operation of selecting the channels by the users is very tedious and time-consuming, and great inconvenience is brought. The first navigation control may be a cable television control.

In order to solve the above problems, the recommended channels determined in the embodiments of the present disclosure are related to the request parameter information of the user, so that the user needs to be more satisfied, and the user can quickly select favorite channels by displaying the multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channels at different positions of the current display interface, thereby improving the use experience of the user and expanding the functions of the display device.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an operation scenario between a display device, a control apparatus, and a server according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 1, a user may operate the display device 200 through the smart device 300 or the control apparatus 100, and at the same time, the user may make channel recommendation through interaction between the display device 200 and the server 400, so that the user may select favorite multimedia content to view through multimedia content information presented in the display interface.

The channel recommendation operation input by the user on the display device 200 is mainly used for calling the channel recommendation function of the display device, and the channel recommendation operation may be: the shortcut key set in the display device may be triggered, or the key in the control device 100 may be triggered, or the trigger operation may be performed by means of voice, etc., which is not limited in this embodiment. The controller of the display device, after receiving a channel recommendation operation input by a user, can generate a channel recommendation request containing request parameter information in response to the channel recommendation operation, wherein the request parameter information may include: at least one of the user identification, the display device identification, the region code (i.e. the region code of the cable television cable network) and the scene number (i.e. the number corresponding to different cities, such as the number of a local satellite), and may also be other request parameters, which is not limited in this embodiment. The controller then transmits the channel recommendation request to the server after generating the channel recommendation request. After receiving the channel recommendation request, the server acquires a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on request parameter information in the channel recommendation request, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list. And then, the controller of the display device can receive the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information sent by the server, and finally, the controller controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display. Through the process, the effects of channel recommendation and visual display of the multimedia content information can be achieved for the user, the user can rapidly select favorite channels, and the watching experience and satisfaction of the user are improved.

In some embodiments, the user may also enter other operations on the display device 200 to evoke the function corresponding to the operation. For example, the user may enter a auditorium search operation on the display device 200 to invoke the auditorium search function of the display device. For another example, the user may also enter a auditorium creation operation on the display device 200 to evoke the auditorium creation function of the display device.

In some embodiments, the control apparatus 100 may be a remote controller, and the communication between the remote controller and the display device includes infrared protocol communication, bluetooth protocol communication, and other short-range communication methods, and the display device 200 is controlled by a wireless or other wired method. The user may control the display device 200 by inputting user instructions through keys on a remote controller, voice input, a control panel, etc. In some embodiments, the display device 200 may also be controlled using a smart device 300, such as a mobile terminal, tablet, computer, notebook, or the like. For example, the display device 200 is controlled using an application running on a smart device.

In some embodiments, the display device 200 may receive instructions not using the smart device or control device described above, but rather receive control of the user through touch or gesture, or the like.

In some embodiments, the display device 200 may also perform control in a manner other than the control apparatus 100 and the smart device 300, for example, the voice command of the user may be directly received through a module for acquiring a voice command configured inside the display device 200, or the voice command of the user may be received through a voice control device provided outside the display device 200.

In some embodiments, the smart device 300 may implement connection communication with a software application installed in the display device 200 through a network communication protocol for the purpose of one-to-one control operation and data communication. The audio and video contents displayed on the intelligent device 300 can also be transmitted to the display device 200, so as to realize the synchronous display function. The display device 200 is also in data communication with the server 400 via a variety of communication means, which may allow the display device 200 to be communicatively coupled via a local area network (Local Area Network, LAN), a wireless local area network (Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN), and other networks. The server 400 may be a cluster, or may be multiple clusters, and may include one or more types of servers. The server 400 may provide various contents and interactions to the display device 200. The display device 200 may be a liquid crystal display, an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) display, a projection display device, a television, a smart television, an electronic whiteboard (electronic bulletin board), an electronic desktop (electronic table), or the like. The display device 200 may additionally provide an intelligent network television function of a computer support function in addition to the broadcast receiving television function.

Fig. 2 is a block diagram of a hardware configuration of the control apparatus 100 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 2, the control device 100 includes a control unit 110, a communication interface 130, a user input/output interface 140, a memory, and a power supply. The control apparatus 100 may receive an operation instruction input by a user, and convert the operation instruction into an instruction recognizable and responsive to the display device 200, thereby mediating interaction between the user and the display device 200. The Communication interface 130 is used for communicating with the outside, and the Communication interface 130 includes at least one of a WIFI chip, a bluetooth module, near Field Communication (NFC), or an alternative module. The user input/output interface 140 includes at least one of a microphone, a touch pad, a sensor, keys, or an alternative module.

Fig. 3A is a hardware configuration block diagram of a display device 200 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 3A, the display apparatus 200 includes at least one of a modem 210, a communicator 220, a detector 230, an external device interface 240, a controller 250, a display 260, an audio output interface 270, a memory, a power supply, a user interface (i.e., a user input interface) 280. The controller 250 includes a central processor, a video processor, an audio processor, a graphic processor, a random access Memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), a Read-Only Memory (ROM), and first to nth interfaces for input/output. The display 260 may be at least one of a liquid crystal display, an OLED display, a touch display, and a projection display, and may also be a projection device and a projection screen. The modem 210 receives broadcast television signals through a wired or wireless reception manner and demodulates an audio-video signal and an electronic program guide (ELECTRICAL PROGRAM GUIDE, EPG) data signal from a plurality of wireless or wired broadcast television signals. The communicator 220 includes components for communicating with external devices or servers according to various communication protocol types. For example: the communicator may include at least one of a Wifi module, a bluetooth module, a wired ethernet module, or other network communication protocol chip or a near field communication protocol chip, and an infrared receiver. The display apparatus 200 may establish transmission and reception of control signals and data signals with the control device 100 or the server 400 through the communicator 220. The detector 230 is used to collect signals of the external environment or interaction with the outside. The controller 250 and the modem 210 may be located in separate devices, i.e., the modem 210 may also be located in an external device to the main device in which the controller 250 is located, such as an external set-top box. The user interface 280 may be used to receive control signals for controlling the apparatus 100 (e.g., an infrared remote control, etc.).

In some embodiments, the controller 250 controls the operation of the display device and responds to user operations through various software control programs stored in the memory. The controller 250 controls the overall operation of the display apparatus 200. A user may input a user command through a graphical user interface (GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, GUI) displayed on the display 260, and the user input interface receives the user-input command through the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Or the user may input a user command by inputting a specific sound or gesture, the user input interface recognizes the sound or gesture through the sensor, and receives the user-input command.

In some embodiments, a "user interface" is a media interface for interaction and exchange of information between an application or operating system and a user that enables conversion between an internal form of information and a form acceptable to the user. A commonly used presentation form of a user interface is a Graphical User Interface (GUI), which refers to a user interface related to computer operations that is displayed in a graphical manner. It may be an interface element such as an icon, a window, and a control displayed in a display screen of the electronic device, where the control may include at least one of a visual interface element such as an icon, a button, a menu, a tab, a text box, a dialog box, a status bar, a navigation bar, a Widget, and the like.

Fig. 3B is a schematic view of a software configuration in the display device 200 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 3B, the system is divided into four layers, namely, an application layer (application layer), an application framework layer (Application Framework layer), a An Zhuoyun line layer (Android runtime) and a system library layer (system runtime layer), and a kernel layer.

In some embodiments, at least one application program is running in the application program layer, and these application programs may be a Window (Window) program of an operating system, a system setting program, a clock program, or the like; or may be an application developed by a third party developer. In particular implementations, applications in the application layer include, but are not limited to, the examples above.

In some embodiments, the system runtime layer provides support for the upper layer, the framework layer, and when the framework layer is in use, the android operating system runs the C/C++ libraries contained in the system runtime layer to implement the functions to be implemented by the framework layer.

In some embodiments, the kernel layer is a layer between hardware and software, containing at least one of the following drivers: audio drive, display drive, bluetooth drive, camera drive, WIFI drive, USB drive, HDMI drive, sensor drive (e.g., fingerprint sensor, temperature sensor, pressure sensor, etc.), and power supply drive, etc.

Fig. 3C is a schematic diagram of an icon control interface display of an application in the display device 200 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure, where, as shown in fig. 3C, an application layer includes at least one icon control that an application may display in a display, for example: a live television application icon control, a video on demand application icon control, a media center application icon control, an application center icon control, a game application icon control, and the like. Live television applications can provide live television through different signal sources. Video on demand applications may provide video from different storage sources. Unlike live television applications, video-on-demand provides video displays from some storage sources. The media center application may provide various applications for playing multimedia content. An application center may be provided to store various applications.

In some embodiments, the display device is a terminal device with a display function, such as a television, a mobile phone, a personal computer, or a flat panel television.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a display device including:

an output interface (display 260, and/or audio output interface 270) configured to output user interaction information;

A communicator 220 for communicating with the server 400;

A display 260;

a controller 250 configured to:

Receiving channel recommending operation input by a user, and responding to the channel recommending operation to generate a channel recommending request containing request parameter information;

A channel recommendation request is sent to a server, so that the server obtains a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on request parameter information, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list;

Receiving a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information sent by a server;

And controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a server including:

Receiving a channel recommendation request sent by a controller of display equipment, wherein the channel recommendation request is a request which is generated by the controller in response to a channel recommendation operation input by a user and contains request parameter information;

Acquiring a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the request parameter information, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list, and sending the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information to a display device, so that a controller controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display device.

For example, after receiving a channel recommendation request sent by a controller of a display device, the server may acquire a corresponding live channel list from a preset database based on request parameter information, where the live channel list includes a recommended channel list. And then acquiring the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on a preset triggering condition, and sending the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information to the display equipment, so that the controller controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display equipment.

Fig. 4A is a system framework diagram of channel recommendation according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 4A, the system may include a request generation module 401, a request transmission module 402, and an information presentation module 403. The system receives a channel recommendation operation input by a user, and then the request generation module 401 responds to the channel recommendation operation to generate a channel recommendation request containing request parameter information; the request sending module 402 sends a channel recommendation request to the server, so that the server obtains a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on request parameter information in the channel recommendation request, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list, and the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information sent by the server are received; finally, the information display module 403 controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display, the channel determined by the above process is related to the request parameter information of the user, so as to better meet the user requirement, and the recommended channel and the multimedia content information are displayed at different positions of the current display interface, so that the user can quickly select the favorite channel, the use experience of the user is improved, and the functions of the display device are expanded.

Fig. 4B is a block diagram of channel recommendation according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. Similar to fig. 3B, based on the above system framework, the implementation of the disclosure in an android system is shown in fig. 4B, where the android system mainly includes an application layer, a framework layer, a system runtime layer, and a kernel layer, and the embodiments discussed in the present application are mainly embodied in the application layer, and include a request generation module, a request sending module, and an information display module.

For a more detailed channel recommendation method, the following description will be given with reference to fig. 5A by way of example, and it will be understood that the steps involved in fig. 5A may include more steps or fewer steps when actually implemented, and the order between these steps may also be different, so long as the channel recommendation method provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited.

Fig. 5A is a flowchart illustrating a channel recommendation method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The embodiment is applicable to the situation that channel recommendation is performed on the display equipment side based on the current display interface of the display. As shown in fig. 5A, the method includes the steps of:

Step S510, receiving a channel recommendation operation input by a user, and generating a channel recommendation request containing request parameter information in response to the channel recommendation operation.

The channel recommendation operation input by the user may be: the shortcut key set in the display device may be triggered, or the key in the trigger control device 100 may be triggered, or the trigger operation may be performed by means of voice, etc., which is not limited in this embodiment. The channel recommendation operation input by the user is mainly used for calling the channel recommendation function of the display device. Channels refer to branches of physical or virtual channels in one of the television stations or the television network, through which different multimedia content can be viewed, and in this example channels refer mainly to channels that a user can view through a display device. The channel recommendation request is used to instruct the display device to make channel recommendations for the user. The request parameter information is acquired by the display device, which may include: at least one of the user identification, the display device identification, the region code (i.e. the region code of the cable television cable network) and the scene number (i.e. the numbers corresponding to different cities, such as the numbers of the local satellites) may also be other parameters related to the user, which is not particularly limited in this embodiment.

When a user watches multimedia content played by the display device, if a channel recommendation requirement exists, a channel recommendation operation is input, and after receiving the channel recommendation operation input by the user, the controller of the display device responds to the channel recommendation operation, and can generate a channel recommendation request containing request parameter information.

In step S511, a channel recommendation request is sent to the server, so that the server obtains a corresponding live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the request parameter information, where the live channel list includes the recommended channel list.

Step S511 may be performed by a controller in the display device, where after generating the channel recommendation request, the controller in the display device may send the channel recommendation request to the server, and the server may obtain the channel list, that is, the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list, according to the request parameter information in the channel recommendation request. For example, after the controller generates a channel recommendation request including request parameter information, the channel recommendation request is transmitted to the server. After receiving the channel recommendation request, the server analyzes the channel recommendation request to obtain request parameter information, and based on the request parameter information, a corresponding live channel list can be obtained from a preset database, wherein the live channel list comprises a recommended channel list. Then, the server obtains the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel contained in the recommended channel list based on a preset trigger condition, for example, the server may obtain the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel contained in the recommended channel list based on a preset period; or after receiving the request sent by the display device, the server obtains the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel contained in the recommended channel list; and after the server judges that the time of the last feedback information exceeds the threshold value, acquiring the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel contained in the recommended channel list. The server acquires the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list, can update the multimedia content information, and is convenient for display equipment to display based on the updated multimedia content information when displaying the multimedia content information, so that the situation that the multimedia content information of a certain recommended channel displayed in a display is inconsistent with the multimedia content information actually played by the recommended channel is avoided.

The preset database may be a preset database storing a plurality of channels and multimedia content information corresponding to each channel, and the database may be configured in a server. The multimedia content information may be understood as related information of multimedia content played on a channel, such as play back picture information, identification information (e.g., title information and/or tag information), profile information, and the like. The preset triggering condition may be to acquire the multimedia content information based on a preset period, or may also be to acquire the multimedia content information after receiving a request sent by the display device, and acquire the multimedia content information after judging that the time of the last feedback information exceeds a threshold value, which is not limited in this embodiment. The preset period may be predetermined, for example, 30 minutes, or may be as the case may be, and the embodiment is not limited thereto. The threshold may be predetermined, for example, 20 minutes, or may be determined as the case may be, and the present embodiment is not limited thereto.

For example, the controller may obtain, from a preset database, a live channel list corresponding to the user according to the identification of the user (for example, login information of the user); the live channel list corresponding to the user may also be obtained from a preset database according to the identifier of the display device and the region code (for example, the display device a and the region code 0025), which is not limited in this embodiment.

In step S512, the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the multimedia content information sent by the server are received.

After the server acquires the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list, the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information can be sent to a controller of the display device.

Step S513, based on the current display interface of the display, controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions.

After the display equipment receives the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information sent by the server, the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information need to be displayed on the display, so that a user can intuitively see the recommended channel and the corresponding multimedia content information, at the moment, a specific display position needs to be determined according to the current display interface of the display, and the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information are displayed at different positions, thereby realizing the recommendation of the channel.

In some embodiments, the plurality of channels stored in the preset database and the multimedia content information corresponding to each channel may be generated in advance according to the request parameter information; the multimedia content information corresponding to each channel may be updated in the case of channel determination, which is not particularly limited in this embodiment.

In some embodiments, the recommended channel list may be a list formed by partial channels determined from the live channel list, and the specific determination rule may be: and acquiring the historical viewing data of the current user based on the request parameter information, arranging the historical viewing data in a reverse order according to the playing time length (wherein playing is not counted in less than 1 minute), and determining the recommended channel according to the arrangement result. The arrangement rule may be: if the watching time length is the same, arranging in a reverse order according to the watching times; if the watching time length and the watching times are the same, the channels are arranged in ascending order according to the serial numbers of the channels. Because the recommended channel list acquired based on different request parameter information can be different, different channel recommendations can be carried out for different users, and a personalized recommendation function is realized.

In some embodiments, in the process of reverse arrangement, the play duration is less than the preset time (such as 5 minutes) and is not counted, so that interference is avoided.

In some embodiments, each recommended channel included in the recommended channel list may be a name corresponding to each recommended channel, such as XX satellite, or a number corresponding to each recommended channel, such as 001, which is not limited in this embodiment. After the server acquires the recommended channel list, the server can acquire the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel according to the name or number and the like corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list.

In some embodiments, the channel recommendation function supports real-time shutdown operations based on protection requirements for user privacy.

In some embodiments, if the live channel list acquired by the server is empty or fails, the display device does not make channel recommendations.

In some embodiments, the current display interface may be a navigation interface, where the navigation interface is an interface when the focus is located on a first navigation control (i.e. a cable tv control) in a navigation bar of the main page, where the navigation bar includes a first area and a recommendation bar area, where the first area is used to display a live channel list, and the recommendation bar area is used to make a recommendation of a channel, and in step S513, based on the current display interface of the display, the display is controlled to display multimedia content information at different positions, and may specifically include:

Displaying a live channel list in a first area based on the live channel list sent by the server;

And displaying the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in a recommended column area based on the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel.

The first navigation control may be a cable television control. The first area and the recommended column area are areas set in the navigation column, and specific positions of the first area and the recommended column area are not limited in this embodiment.

Specifically, when the current display interface is a navigation interface, the display device displays the live channel list in the first area in the navigation bar based on the live channel list sent by the server, and specifically may be that the controller sends a multimedia content information acquisition request of each live channel to the server after receiving the live channel list. After receiving the request for obtaining the multimedia content information of each live channel, the server obtains the multimedia content information corresponding to each live channel from the corresponding program list according to the identification of each live channel, and displays the multimedia content information corresponding to each live channel in the display column corresponding to the first area. Meanwhile, the display device may display the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended column region according to the received recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel transmitted by the server.

In this embodiment, the live channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel are respectively and intuitively displayed by the method, so that a user can conveniently and quickly select favorite multimedia content from the multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel for watching.

Fig. 5B is a flowchart of another channel recommendation method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, including an interaction process between a controller and a server in a display device. As shown in fig. 5B, the method includes the steps of:

In step S520, the controller receives a channel recommendation operation input by the user, and generates a channel recommendation request including request parameter information in response to the channel recommendation operation.

In step S521, the controller transmits a channel recommendation request to the server.

In step S522, the server receives the channel recommendation request sent by the controller.

In step S523, the server obtains a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the request parameter information, where the live channel list includes the recommended channel list.

In step S524, the server transmits the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the multimedia content information to the controller.

In step S525, the controller controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display.

In some embodiments, the channel recommendation method shown in fig. 5B is similar to the implementation of the channel recommendation method shown in fig. 5A, and in order to avoid repetition, a description is omitted here.

Fig. 5C is a flowchart of another channel recommendation method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, including an interaction process between a display device and a server. The current display interface of the display device in fig. 5C is a navigation interface, and channel recommendation is possible based on the first area and the recommendation field area of the navigation interface. As shown in fig. 5C, the method includes the steps of:

in step S530, a channel recommendation operation input by the user is received, and a channel recommendation request including request parameter information is generated in response to the channel recommendation operation.

In step S531, the controller transmits a channel recommendation request to the server.

In step S532, the server receives the channel recommendation request sent by the controller.

In step S533, the server acquires a corresponding live channel list from a preset database based on the request parameter information, where the live channel list includes a recommended channel list, and then acquires multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on a preset trigger condition.

In step S534, the server transmits the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the multimedia content information to the controller.

In some embodiments, the implementation of steps S530-S534 in the channel recommendation method shown in fig. 5C is similar to the channel recommendation method shown in fig. 5A, and in order to avoid repetition, a description is omitted here.

In step S535, the controller displays the live channel list in the first area based on the live channel list transmitted by the server.

In some embodiments, the display field corresponding to the first region includes: the first picture display area and the first sign display area. The displaying columns corresponding to the first area respectively display the multimedia content information corresponding to each live channel, which may include: for each live channel, the controller acquires first playing picture information and first identification information corresponding to the live channel from multimedia content information corresponding to each live channel respectively, displays the first playing picture information in a first picture display area corresponding to a display column, and displays the first identification information in a first identification display area corresponding to the display column.

The first identification information may include a name of the target multimedia or a tag of the target multimedia, and the information capable of representing the target multimedia, which is not limited in this embodiment. The positions of the first image display area and the first identifier display area may be below the display field, and the specific position is not limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, the display device may display media assets played by the live channels more intuitively and clearly by displaying the first play screen information and the first identification information corresponding to each live channel respectively.

In step S536, the controller displays the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended column region.

In some embodiments, the recommendation field area includes at least one recommendation field comprising: a second picture display area and a second logo display area; the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel may include: the second playing picture information and the second identification information corresponding to the recommended channels are obtained by the server from streaming media corresponding to the recommended channels, and the identification information is obtained by the server from program lists corresponding to the recommended channels.

In some embodiments, the displaying the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommendation field area may include: and for each recommended channel, acquiring second playing picture information and second identification information corresponding to the recommended channel from the multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel, and displaying the second playing picture information in a second picture display area of a recommendation column corresponding to the recommended channel in the recommendation column area, wherein the second identification display area displays the second identification information.

The identification information may include a name of a multimedia corresponding to the recommended channel, such as a name of a certain television play, or a tag, such as a family ethical play, a suspense play, a comedy, etc., which can represent the multimedia, and the embodiment is not limited. The second playing picture information may be picture information obtained by the server from streaming media corresponding to each recommended channel through a screenshot service, and specifically may be: after the display device is started, a screenshot service is started for each recommended channel, a screenshot function is started for streaming media (namely live streaming) after a screenshot task is detected, and the same recommended channel is subjected to real-time screenshot, is continuously overlaid and stored as a picture, and meanwhile, the pictures are stored in a preset database and are stored according to the corresponding relation between the pictures and the recommended channels during storage, so that confusion is avoided. The positions of the second image display area and the second identifier display area may be below the recommendation field, and the specific position is not limited in this embodiment. The recommendation field may be understood as a field included in the recommendation field area that enables channel recommendation.

In this embodiment, the display device displays the second playing picture information through the second picture display area of the recommendation column corresponding to the recommended channel in the recommendation column area, and the second identification display area displays the second identification information, so that the multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel can be displayed more clearly and intuitively, the user can conveniently and quickly select the favorite channel, and the time is saved.

Fig. 6A is a flowchart of a method for performing channel recommendation in a picture display area and an identification display area according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, including an interaction process between a display device and a server. Fig. 6A may be applicable to a case where, on the display device side, corresponding information is displayed based on the second screen display area and the second identifier display area included in the recommendation field.

In step S610, a channel recommendation operation input by a user is received, and a channel recommendation request including request parameter information is generated in response to the channel recommendation operation.

In step S611, the controller transmits a channel recommendation request to the server.

In step S612, the server receives the channel recommendation request sent by the controller.

In step S613, the server obtains a corresponding live channel list from a preset database based on the request parameter information, where the live channel list includes a recommended channel list, and then obtains multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on a preset trigger condition.

In step S614, the server transmits the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the multimedia content information to the controller.

In step S615, the controller displays the live channel list in the first area based on the live channel list transmitted by the server.

In step S616, the controller receives the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel sent by the server based on the preset trigger condition.

Step S617, for each recommended channel, the controller obtains second play picture information and second identification information corresponding to the recommended channel from the multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel, and displays the second play picture information in a second picture display area of a recommendation field corresponding to the recommended channel in the recommendation field area, where the second identification display area displays the second identification information.

In some embodiments, the steps shown in fig. 6A have been described in the above embodiments, and in order to avoid repetition, a detailed description is omitted here.

Fig. 6B is a schematic diagram of a first display interface for performing channel recommendation under a navigation interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 6B, a channel a, a channel B, a local channel, a tv show, a movie, and a variety are shown below the cable control in the navigation interface, and the submenu bar corresponding to the channel a includes: 001A one, 002A two, 003A three, 004A four, 005A five and 006A six, wherein 006A six are playing: program 1.

4 Recommendation columns are arranged below the recommendation column area (namely the position of the recommended channel), wherein each recommendation column displays second playing picture information, titles and the like of different multimedia contents corresponding to the recommended channel. For example, the play screen information F1 of the multimedia content M1 is shown in the recommendation field R1, and the title T1 of the multimedia content M1 is shown below the recommendation field R1. The play-out picture information F2 of the multimedia content M2 is shown in the recommendation field R2, the titles T2, … … of the multimedia content M2 are shown below the recommendation field R2, the play-out picture information F4 of the multimedia content M4 is shown in the recommendation field R4, and the title T4 of the multimedia content M4 is shown below the recommendation field R4. The second play screen information displayed in each recommendation field generally contains the identification of the corresponding recommended channel. The recommended channel may be understood as a recommended column configured by the display device in the navigation page, and the recommended channel may be added to the navigation page through a Content management system (Content MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CMS).

And 8 display columns are arranged below the first area (namely the position of the live broadcast channel), wherein each display column displays first playing picture information, titles and the like of different multimedia contents corresponding to the live broadcast channel. For example, the display field E1 displays the display screen information F5 of the multimedia content M5, and the title T5 of the multimedia content M5 is displayed below the display field E1. The display field E2 displays the play-out screen information F6 of the multimedia content M6, the display field E2 displays the titles T6, … … of the multimedia content M6, the display field E5 displays the play-out screen information F9 of the multimedia content M9, the display field E5 displays the titles T9, … … of the multimedia content M9, the display field E8 displays the play-out screen information F3 of the multimedia content M3, and the display field E8 displays the title T3 of the multimedia content M3. The first playing picture information displayed in each display column generally contains the identification of the corresponding live channel.

In some embodiments, the number of recommended fields, the number of display fields, the content in the recommended fields (screen display area), below the recommended fields (logo display area), in the display fields (screen display area), and below the display fields (logo display area) are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not limiting.

In some embodiments, for each recommended channel, acquiring second play picture information and second identification information corresponding to the recommended channel from multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel, and displaying the second play picture information in a second picture display area of a recommendation field corresponding to the recommended channel in a recommendation field area, where the second identification display area displays the second identification information may specifically include:

determining a target channel according to the size relation between the number of recommended columns contained in the recommended column region and the number of recommended channels contained in the recommended channel list;

For each target channel, target playing picture information and target identification information corresponding to the target channel are obtained from multimedia content information corresponding to the target channel, the target playing picture information corresponding to the target channel is displayed in a picture display area of a target recommendation column corresponding to the target channel in a recommendation column area, and the target identification information corresponding to the target channel is displayed in an identification display area.

In some embodiments, the number of recommended fields may be predetermined, for example, 4, or may be determined according to circumstances, which is not limited in this embodiment.

For example, since there may be more than one recommended channel number included in the recommended channel list, when the current display interface of the display is a navigation interface, the controller needs to determine which recommended channels included in the recommended channel list can be shown in the corresponding recommended columns according to the size relationship between the number of recommended columns in the navigation interface and the number of recommended channels included in the recommended channel list, that is: a target channel is determined. After determining the target channels, the controller acquires playing picture information and identification information corresponding to the target channels from multimedia content information corresponding to the target channels, displays the playing picture information corresponding to the target channels in a picture display area of a target recommendation field corresponding to the target channels in a recommendation field area, and controls an identification display area of the target recommendation field corresponding to the target channels in the recommendation field area to display the identification information corresponding to the target channels.

In this embodiment, the display device determines the target channel, and displays the playing picture information and the presentation information corresponding to the target channel in the display area corresponding to the recommendation field, which is clear and intuitive and is convenient for the user to select.

In some embodiments, if a certain recommended channel does not currently play any multimedia content, a "pause play content" may be displayed in a picture display area of a corresponding recommended field, and the name of the recommended channel is displayed below the recommended field (i.e., the identification display area).

Fig. 6C is a schematic diagram of a process for displaying target play screen information and target identification information corresponding to a target channel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, where, as shown in fig. 6C, a controller of a display device may execute the following steps:

step S620, determining the target channel according to the size relation between the number of the recommended columns contained in the recommended column region and the number of the recommended channels contained in the recommended channel list.

Step S621, for each target channel, acquiring target playing picture information and target identification information corresponding to the target channel from the multimedia content information corresponding to the target channel.

In step S623, the target play picture information corresponding to the target channel is displayed in the picture display area of the target recommendation field corresponding to the target channel in the recommendation field area, and the target identification information corresponding to the target channel is displayed in the identification display area.

The steps shown in fig. 6C have been described in the above embodiments, and are not repeated here.

In some embodiments, the method may further specifically include:

After determining the target channel according to the size relationship between the number of recommended columns included in the recommended column region and the number of recommended channels included in the recommended channel list, the controller of the display device may further send a multimedia content information update request based on the target channel to the server, so that the server obtains target play picture information and target identification information corresponding to the target channel based on the multimedia content information update request, and then receives the target play picture information and the target identification information sent by the server.

In this embodiment, after determining the target channel, the controller sends a multimedia content information update request based on the target channel to the server, and after receiving the multimedia content information update request based on the target channel, the server obtains target play picture information and target identification information corresponding to the target channel based on the multimedia content information update request, and feeds back the target play picture information and the target identification information to the display device, so that the display device can display the target play picture information corresponding to the target channel in a picture display area of the target recommendation field after receiving the target play picture information and the target identification information, and display the target identification information corresponding to the target channel in an identification display area of the target recommendation field.

In some embodiments, if the navigation control in the navigation bar is switched from another navigation control to the first navigation control, the controller of the display device sends a multimedia content information update request based on the target channel to the server based on the steps in the above embodiments, so as to update the multimedia content information of the target channel displayed in the recommendation bar in the navigation interface, thereby ensuring that the content displayed in the recommendation bar corresponds to the content of the media asset being played in the recommendation bar, and avoiding the inaccuracy of the content displayed in the recommendation bar caused by the asynchronism of the two.

In some embodiments, when the current display interface is a playing interface, the playing interface is a page of a program menu in a floating layer when the player plays a live channel in a full screen mode, and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel includes: the identification information corresponding to each recommended channel is obtained from the program list corresponding to each recommended channel by the server.

Thus, in step S513, based on the current display interface of the display, the control of the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions may specifically include:

displaying program menu options in the floating layer according to the recommended channel list;

Based on the live channel list sent by the server, controlling the live channel list to be displayed in the program menu, and adding recommended channel items in the program menu according to recommended channels contained in the recommended channel list;

When the focus is positioned on the recommended channel item, displaying each recommended channel and identification information corresponding to each recommended channel in a submenu bar corresponding to the recommended channel item.

In this embodiment, when the current display interface is a playing interface, the display device calls a floating layer to display a program menu option when the player plays a live channel in full screen according to a recommended channel list sent by the server, controls the live channel list to be displayed in the program menu based on the live channel list sent by the server, adds a recommended channel item in the program menu according to the recommended channel contained in the recommended channel list, and displays each recommended channel and identification information corresponding to each recommended channel in a submenu column corresponding to the recommended channel item when the focus is located at the recommended channel item.

Fig. 7A is a schematic diagram of an interaction process between a display device and a server according to an embodiment of the disclosure. Fig. 7A is applicable to a case where multimedia content information presentation is performed based on a playback interface on the display device side. As shown in fig. 7A, the following steps may be included:

In step S710, the controller receives a channel recommendation operation input by a user, and generates a channel recommendation request including request parameter information in response to the channel recommendation operation.

In step S711, the controller transmits a channel recommendation request to the server.

In step S712, the server receives the channel recommendation request sent by the controller.

In step S713, the server acquires a corresponding live channel list from a preset database based on the request parameter information, where the live channel list includes a recommended channel list, and then acquires multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on a preset trigger condition.

In step S714, the server transmits the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the multimedia content information to the controller.

In step S715, the controller receives the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel sent by the server.

In step S716, the controller displays program menu options in the floating layer according to the recommended channel list.

Step S717, based on the live channel list sent by the server, the live channel list is displayed in the program menu and recommended channel items are added to the program menu according to the recommended channels included in the recommended channel list.

In step S718, when the focus is located on the recommended channel item, the controller displays each recommended channel and the identification information corresponding to each recommended channel in the submenu bar corresponding to the recommended channel item.

The steps shown in fig. 7A have been described in the above embodiments, and are not repeated here.

Fig. 7B is a schematic diagram of a first display interface for performing channel recommendation under a playing interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 7B: when the current display interface of the display device is a playing interface, the left side is a program menu option, wherein recommended channel items are added, and submenus corresponding to the recommended channel items are displayed: 053C toilet XX Fei set 1, 005A-5XX ski match, 031D toilet X love set 24, 032E channel XX time 3, 008A-8X 33, XX Fei set 1 is being played on the right side of the playing interface.

Fig. 8A is a flowchart of a channel recommendation method applied to a server according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The embodiment is applicable to the case of performing channel recommendation based on a channel recommendation request at a server side. As shown in fig. 8A, the method includes the steps of:

In step S810, a channel recommendation request sent by a controller of a display device is received, where the channel recommendation request is a request that includes request parameter information generated by the controller in response to a channel recommendation operation input by a user.

Step S811, acquiring a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the request parameter information, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list, and sending the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information to the display device, so that the controller controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display device.

For example, after receiving a channel recommendation request sent by a controller of a display device, the server may obtain a corresponding live channel list from a preset database based on request parameter information, where the live channel list includes a recommended channel list, then obtain multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on a preset trigger condition, and send the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the multimedia content information to the display device, so that the controller controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on a current display interface of the display device.

The implementation process of the above steps S810-S811 has been explained in detail in the embodiment of the display device side, and in order to avoid repetition, a detailed description is omitted here.

In some embodiments, the channel recommendation request further includes time parameter information, where the time parameter information characterizes a time difference between the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel sent by the server and the current time of the display device;

The acquiring the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the preset triggering condition may specifically include:

And determining that the time difference exceeds a preset threshold value, and acquiring target multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the current time of the display equipment.

The above-mentioned preset threshold may be predetermined, for example, 25 minutes, and may be optionally determined, which is not limited in this embodiment.

In some embodiments, if the server determines that the time difference between the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel sent by the server and the current time of the display device is greater than a preset threshold, the server obtains the target multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the current time of the display device, and sends the target multimedia content information to the display device, so that the display device can update the originally displayed multimedia content information into the target multimedia content information, thereby updating the multimedia content information, and enabling the content displayed on the current display interface to be synchronized with the media resource content corresponding to the recommended channel.

Fig. 8B is a schematic diagram of an interaction process between a display device and a server according to another embodiment of the disclosure. Fig. 8B is applicable to a case where the update of the multimedia content information is performed based on the time parameter information at the server side. As shown in fig. 8B, the following steps may be included:

in step S820, a channel recommendation operation input by the user is received, and a channel recommendation request containing request parameter information is generated in response to the channel recommendation operation, where the channel recommendation request further includes time parameter information.

In step S821, the controller transmits a channel recommendation request to the server.

In step S822, the server receives the channel recommendation request sent by the controller.

Step S823, the server acquires a corresponding live channel list from a preset database based on the request parameter information, wherein the live channel list comprises a recommended channel list.

In step S824, it is determined that the time difference exceeds the preset threshold, and based on the current time of the display device, the target multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list is obtained.

In step S825, the server transmits the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the target multimedia content information to the controller.

In step S826, the controller receives the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the target multimedia content information sent by the server, and controls the display to display the target multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display.

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of an interaction process between a display device and a subsystem included in a server according to an embodiment of the disclosure. By way of example, online subsystems, carousel subsystems, recommendation subsystems, content subsystems, and screenshot services may be included in the server. The carousel subsystem can continuously capture multimedia content information (cable television data is acquired) of channels, such as names, online and offline states, third party IDs (Identity), play pictures and the like of the multimedia content, and synchronizes to the content subsystem when the multimedia content information is changed, and the content subsystem synchronizes the multimedia content information to the recommendation subsystem so as to facilitate the recommendation subsystem to determine a live channel list corresponding to the request parameter information. As shown in fig. 9, the interactive process includes the steps of:

In step S910, after the display device is started, the controller receives a channel recommendation operation input by a user, and generates a channel recommendation request including request parameter information in response to the channel recommendation operation.

In step S911, the controller transmits a channel recommendation request to the online subsystem.

In step S912, the online subsystem sends a channel recommendation request to the recommendation subsystem.

In step S913, the recommendation subsystem obtains a corresponding live channel list from the preset database based on the request parameter information, where the live channel list includes a recommended channel list.

In step S914, the recommendation subsystem transmits the recommended channel list to the online subsystem.

Step S915, the online subsystem sends a multimedia content information acquisition request of each recommended channel to the carousel subsystem;

step S916, when the current display interface of the display device is a navigation interface, the carousel subsystem receives the play picture information corresponding to each recommended channel sent by the screenshot service.

Step S917, the carousel subsystem sends the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel to the online subsystem.

The multimedia content information may include: a name of the multimedia content, a uniform resource location system (Uniform Resource Locator, URL) website of a playing picture of the multimedia content, and the like, and inquiring a default playing mode of a version of the current display device through the capability of the model device, wherein the default playing mode can be divided into 2 modes, one mode is directly played locally, and the other mode is played after skipping to a third party application;

in step S918, the online subsystem transmits the live channel list, the recommended channel list, and the multimedia content information to the controller of the display device.

In step S919, the controller controls the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display.

In some embodiments, the display device may further have a auditorium function, where the auditorium function refers to that the smart tv displays a plurality of auditoriums for users to select, and a plurality of users may enter a same auditorium, and the server sends video stream data of a same movie with a same playing progress to the smart tvs of the users, so that the smart tvs all play a same movie, and the playing progress is the same, so as to achieve an effect that multiple people watch the same movie synchronously.

In some embodiments, after the display device is started, the preset vod program interface may be directly accessed, and fig. 10 is an interface diagram of a vod program provided in an embodiment of the disclosure, where, as shown in fig. 10, the vod program interface includes a navigation bar 1010 and a content display area located below the navigation bar 1010, where the content displayed in the content display area may change according to the change of the selected control in the navigation bar. The program in the application program layer can be integrated in the video-on-demand program and displayed through one control of the navigation bar, and can be further displayed after the application control in the navigation bar is selected.

In some embodiments, the display device may directly enter the display interface of the signal source selected last time after being started, or the signal source selection interface, where the signal source may be a preset video on demand program, or may be at least one of an HDMI interface, a live tv interface, etc., and after the user selects a different signal source, the display may display the content obtained from the different signal source.

In some embodiments, navigation bar 1010 may be provided with "movie," "television show," "variety," "juvenile," "auditorium," etc. titles, and one user may display multiple auditoriums after clicking on the "auditorium" title.

In some embodiments, the auditorium displayed by the display device is an auditorium issued by the server according to a preset recommendation algorithm, wherein an exemplary preset recommendation algorithm may be to recommend according to a heat level from large to small, which may be the number of people watching the auditorium or the number of people scheduled to watch the auditorium.

In some embodiments, the auditorium issued by the server is created by an operator. An operator may create a plurality of auditoriums, each provided with a film capture schedule, which may include the play times of a plurality of movies.

In some embodiments, the auditorium issued by the server may also be created for the user of the display device. A user of the display device may designate a movie, creating a auditorium. Other users may enter the auditorium after browsing the auditorium on the display device. For ease of distinction, for a auditorium, the user who creates the auditorium is referred to as the creator and the user who views the auditorium is referred to as the viewer.

In some embodiments, the auditorium displayed by the display device is issued by the server according to a preset recommendation algorithm, and the viewer can browse a plurality of auditoriums to select one auditorium to be watched.

In some embodiments, the name of the auditorium is named by the creator at the time the auditorium service is created. In a auditorium service, a moderator may select different assets to play in the auditorium service, where the moderator may be the creator or a user designated by the creator at the time of creation of the auditorium.

In some embodiments, the search is the validation and filtering of search results by matching keywords with names.

In some embodiments, the searching of the assets is issued by matching the asset names in the search subsystem. The media assets refer to streaming media assets that can be played or displayed. By way of example, it may be a video file, an audio file, etc.

In some embodiments, in order to improve the searching efficiency of a user for watching a auditorium, fig. 11 is a schematic flow chart of a method for creating a auditorium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, where the method sets a search field of auditorium information as a auditorium name and a media title, so that in the searching method, a viewer can search for the auditorium by searching for the auditorium name or the media title, which can improve the efficiency of the viewer for searching for the auditorium to watch, and improve the user experience. As shown in fig. 11, the auditorium creation method may include the steps of:

In step S1110, a auditorium creation operation input by a user is received, and a auditorium creation request including initial parameters of the auditorium including a auditorium name, a movie identification, and a creator identification is generated in response to the auditorium creation operation.

In some embodiments, a creator may newly create a auditorium in a video on demand program of a display device, the creator may input some information of the auditorium, such as the auditorium name, a movie to be played in the auditorium, and the display device generates initial parameters of the auditorium according to the information input by the creator, where the initial parameters include the auditorium name, a movie identifier, and a creator identifier, the movie identifier is a movie ID, the creator identifier is a creator ID, and the creator identifier is an account ID for the creator to log into the video on demand program.

Step S1111, a lobby creation request is sent to the server, so that the server generates a lobby identifier corresponding to the lobby creation request based on the lobby creation request, media information corresponding to the film identifier is obtained from the content database, the media information includes a media title and a device capability requirement parameter, the lobby information including the initial parameter, the lobby identifier and the media information is stored in the search database, and the search field of the lobby information is set as the lobby name and the media title.

After the display device obtains the initial parameters of the auditorium, a auditorium creation request containing the initial parameters of the auditorium may be generated and sent to the server. Upon receiving the auditorium creation request, the server may generate an auditorium identification, i.e., an auditorium ID, corresponding to the auditorium creation request.

In some embodiments, the initial parameters of the auditorium sent by the display device do not include the asset title, and the server may obtain the asset title of the movie to be played in the auditorium from the content database based on the movie ID in the initial parameters in order for the viewer to search for the auditorium via the asset title.

In some embodiments, if the device capabilities of the creator-specified auditorium's to-be-played movie requirements may not be compatible with the device capabilities of the partial audience's display device, e.g., one device capability is resolution, the resolution of the to-be-played movie requirements is 4K, and the device capabilities of some viewers are 1080p, these viewers will not be able to play the movie. In order to enable a user to view a movie after searching the auditorium, the server may obtain the device capability requirement parameters for the movie to be played in a content database.

In some embodiments, the server may combine the initial parameters, auditorium identification, media asset header, and device capability requirement parameters described above into auditorium information that is stored in a search database.

In some embodiments, the search database may be an ES database, and the server may set the search field of the auditorium information in the search database as the auditorium name and the media title. So that, when a auditorium is searched, the auditorium name can be searched for auditorium information, and the media asset title can also be searched for presentation information.

In some embodiments, the titles of assets in the search fields in the search database are automatically adjusted as assets played by the auditorium service change. Exemplary: in the process of creating a auditorium, the name of the auditorium set by the creator for the auditorium is "afternoon tea", and the title of the selected film is "TTXS", then in this step, a searchable field of the auditorium is added to the database: "Xiaomecha"; "TTXS". The field may correspond to an identification of the auditorium. At this time, when the received search instruction includes the keyword "afternoon tea" or "TTXS", the present auditorium can be searched. In the using process of the showing hall, if media corresponding to the showing hall is switched, triggering a request for updating a search database, wherein the request comprises the name of the showing hall as "afternoon tea", the title of a new film as "AABB" and the identification of the showing hall, and the database determines whether an item corresponding to the showing hall exists in the database according to the identification of the showing hall, if not, the new item is created. If so, the search field in the entry is updated. Illustratively, for an entry named "afternoon tea" in the auditorium, the asset header is updated to "AABB". In some embodiments, the name of the auditorium may also be modified. In some embodiments, the switching of movies may be automatic rather than manual. For example, the switching of movies is performed according to a preset media list or a random rule. It can be known that when the value of any set byte in the search field changes, the database is triggered to adjust, so as to ensure the accuracy of the search result.

In some embodiments, the creator may further include a search tab on the display device, the display device may set initial parameters of the auditorium including the search tab, and the server may further set a search field of auditorium information including the search tab according to the initial parameters, thereby enabling searching of personalized scenes of the auditorium. By way of example, the search tab may be a tab of the name of the lead actor of the movie to be played, a string of characters entered by the creator, etc. Or the search tag can also be a two-dimensional code, a character string and other tags generated by the server according to the auditorium ID.

Fig. 12 is a flowchart of a auditorium search method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, which supports auditorium search according to media titles and auditorium names, and a server may execute the search method, so that a user can quickly find an auditorium he wants to watch. As shown in fig. 12, the auditorium search method may include the steps of:

Step S1210, a auditorium search operation input by a user is received, and a auditorium search request including a device capability identification and a keyword is generated in response to the auditorium search operation.

In some embodiments, the auditorium recommendation interface of the display device may be provided with a search control through which a viewer may input keywords, and the display device generates auditorium search requests from the received keywords and sends the auditorium search requests to the server.

In some embodiments, the auditorium search request includes a device capability identification and a keyword, wherein the device capability identification may include a model version of the display device and a software version, wherein the software version may be a software version of a video on demand program.

In some embodiments, the auditorium recommendation interface provided with the search control may be different from existing media search interfaces. The media asset search interface may be provided with a auditorium recommendation interface for searching auditoriums without searching for media assets. At this time, a auditorium search identification (which may also include an input keyword) is carried in the auditorium search request, which is added to the auditorium search request by the terminal according to the current interface for the auditorium recommended interface provided with the search control. After receiving the hall search request, the server searches in a hall search database according to the hall search identifier, and the hall search database is provided with a hall identifier and a hall information search field.

The media search interface shown in fig. 20 may be used to search streaming media assets without searching for auditoriums. After the user inputs keywords in the interface shown in fig. 20, the user performs a search, and may add a media search identifier to the search request (may also include the input keywords). After receiving the search request, the server searches in the media resource search database according to the media resource search identifier, and does not go to the auditorium search database to search the auditorium.

In some embodiments, the projection hall recommendation interface provided with the search control can be the same interface as the media resource search interface for performing the media resource search, and the two searches share a database at this time, and the identification for distinguishing whether the projection hall search or the media resource search is required to be added in the search request.

And step S1211, sending a hall search request to the server, so that the server searches the hall information of the first group of halls, the hall names of which correspond to the keywords, and the hall information of the second group of halls, the media titles of which correspond to the keywords, in the search database based on the hall search request, and screens the target halls matched with the device capability identifications from the first group of halls and the second group of halls according to the hall information.

Wherein the search field of the search database includes a auditorium name and a asset header, the auditorium information includes asset information and creator information, the asset information in the search database is a subset of the asset information in the asset database, and the creator information in the search database is a subset of the user information in the user database.

This allows any auditorium whose search field contains keywords to be searched. Illustratively, in the database, one of the hall identifiers, such as the first hall identifier, and the corresponding search field includes a hall name of "afternoon tea", the media asset title is "TTXS", and the other hall identifier, such as the second hall identifier, and the corresponding search field includes a hall name of "sunday", and the media asset title is "afternoon tea", and when the keyword in the search request is "afternoon tea", the hall corresponding to the first hall identifier and the hall corresponding to the second hall identifier may be used as the search result of the keyword corresponding to "afternoon tea".

In some embodiments, the server, upon receiving a auditorium search request for the display device, extracts the device capability identification and keywords from the auditorium search request.

In some embodiments, the auditorium information for each auditorium stored in the search database is provided with a search field for enabling a search for the auditorium information. The search field may be automatically generated by the server during creation of the auditorium or may be generated during creation of the auditorium based on a search tab entered by the creator.

In some embodiments, the auditorium information for each auditorium may be searched via two search fields. The first search field may be a auditorium name and the second search field may be a media asset title. When the server searches, the server can search under the two search fields respectively, the search hall names comprise the hall information of the keywords, and the search media titles comprise the hall information of the keywords, so that the hall information of the two groups of halls is obtained. In order to distinguish, the auditorium information obtained by searching for the auditorium name may be referred to as auditorium information of a first group of auditoriums, and the auditorium information obtained by searching for the media asset header may be referred to as auditorium information of a second group of auditoriums, one for each auditorium, and it is possible to obtain auditorium information of a plurality of auditoriums after searching for two search fields.

In some embodiments, the auditorium information for each auditorium stored in the search database includes media asset information and creator information. The asset information in the auditorium information may include a movie ID for querying the asset database for more detailed asset information and a device capability requirement parameter for device capability filtering of the display device. The creator information may include a user ID of the creator for querying a user database for user information of the creator.

In some embodiments, the server may filter the auditorium information of the first set of auditoriums and the auditorium information of the second set of auditoriums, respectively, fed back by the search database, to filter auditorium information of auditoriums that the display device cannot play. The server can obtain the equipment capability information of the display equipment of the audience according to the equipment capability identification of the display equipment, acquire equipment capability requirement parameters in the auditorium information of the first group of auditoriums and the second group of auditoriums, filter the auditorium information of the first group of auditoriums and the auditorium information of the second group of auditoriums, reserve the auditorium information of which the equipment capability requirement parameters are matched with the equipment capability information, filter the auditorium information of which the equipment capability requirement parameters are not matched with the equipment capability information, and the auditorium corresponding to the auditorium information reserved after filtering is collectively called as a target auditorium.

Illustratively, if the model version in the device capability identifier is XX, the device capability corresponding to the model version is not 4k, and the device capability requirement parameter in the auditorium information of a certain first set of auditorium is 4k, the auditorium information may be filtered out.

Step S1212, receiving the information to be delivered sent by the server, wherein the information to be delivered is obtained by combining the information of the target media information of the target auditorium, the information of the target user of the target auditorium and the auditorium information of the target auditorium.

After obtaining the information of the showing hall of the target showing hall, the server can obtain the information of the target media information of the target showing hall and the information of the target user of the target showing hall according to the information of the showing hall of the target showing hall, then combine the information of the target media information of the target showing hall, the information of the target user of the target showing hall and the information of the showing hall of the target showing hall to obtain the information to be sent, and finally send the information to be sent to the controller of the display equipment.

In some embodiments, the search field of the search database includes a auditorium name and a media asset header, the auditorium information includes media asset information and creator information, the media asset information in the search database is a subset of the media asset information in the media asset database, and the creator information in the search database is a subset of the user information in the user database.

In some embodiments, after obtaining the information of the hall of the target hall, the server obtains the target media information corresponding to the target hall in the media database, obtains the target user information corresponding to the target hall in the user database, combines the information containing the target media information, the target user information and the hall information to obtain the information to be sent out of the target hall, and feeds the information to be sent out of the target hall back to the display device. The target media information may include information such as media ID, media title, media type, media cover, profile, provider, definition, starring actor, director, play address, etc., and the target user information may include user ID, user name, and user avatar. It can be seen that the target media information, the target user information and the auditorium information may have partially repeated information, and before the combination, the duplication may be removed first, and the duplication removed information may be combined into the information to be delivered in the target auditorium.

In step S1213, the control display displays the message to be sent.

After the controller receives the information to be delivered sent by the server, the information to be delivered may be displayed on the display, for example, target media information, target user information, and auditorium information of the target auditorium may be displayed in the content display area.

To further describe the method by which the server searches for a auditorium in response to a user, the auditorium functionality is described below, beginning with the creation of the auditorium.

Referring to fig. 13, a timing diagram of a creation process for a auditorium according to some embodiments. In fig. 13, the server may be provided with a member subsystem, a content subsystem, and a search subsystem, wherein a user database is provided in the member subsystem, a media database is provided in the content subsystem, and a search database is provided in the search subsystem.

After the creator inputs some information of the auditorium to the display device, the display device a generates initial parameters of the auditorium by performing step S1311, and then transmits a auditorium creation request to the member subsystem, as shown in step S1310 of fig. 13. After receiving the request for creating the showing hall, the member subsystem interacts with the content subsystem and the searching subsystem respectively so as to complete the creation of the showing hall. After the auditorium creation is successful, the membership subsystem returns a auditorium creation success message to the display device, which can be presented by the display device to prompt the user that the auditorium creation was successful.

Taking the user a as a creator, a showing hall a in which a film to be played is created on the display device a as the film a is taken as an example, the procedure of generating a showing hall creation request by the display device a is as follows:

In some embodiments, the home page of the vod program may be provided with a title bar, which may be provided with titles of "movie", "tv show", "variety", "juvenile", "auditorium", etc., and the vod program of user a on display device a clicks on the "auditorium" title to enter the auditorium home page shown in fig. 14.

Referring to fig. 14, an interface diagram of a auditorium home page in accordance with some embodiments is shown. As shown in fig. 14, the auditorium home page may be provided with an auditorium channel control, an "invite received" control, a "new auditorium" control, a "my auditorium" control, and a "more auditorium control.

In some embodiments, the number of auditorium channel controls may be multiple, each displaying auditoriums for a different type of film. These auditoriums may be operator programmed auditoriums.

In some embodiments, at the auditorium home page shown in fig. 14, user a may click on the "newly built auditorium" control to begin creating an auditorium. After receiving the trigger instruction of the new auditorium control, the display equipment A can display the auditorium creation interface.

Referring to fig. 15, a schematic diagram of an interface is created for a auditorium according to some embodiments, as shown in fig. 15, which may be provided with a auditorium name control, an "add movie" control, and an "invite friends" control.

In some embodiments, if user A does not trigger the auditorium name control, the auditorium name control may display a default auditorium name, referred to as "auditorium of XXX," where XXX is the account number for user A to log into the video-on-demand program.

In some embodiments, if user A triggers a auditorium name control, the auditorium name may be edited.

In some embodiments, the auditorium creation interface may also display an auditorium profile control that, upon being clicked by user A, may input an auditorium profile, which is exemplary: "view bar from my auditorium".

In some embodiments, if the user a triggers the "add movie" control, the display device may display a movie selection interface, the movie selection interface may display an input box control, the user a may input a movie, such as a movie title of the movie a, in the input box control, the display device a requests the content subsystem for the movie of the movie title of the movie a, and then displays a result returned by the content subsystem, where the result returned by the content subsystem may include movie data of the movie title including the movie a, and the movie data may include data of a movie ID, a movie title, a movie cover, and the like. Illustratively, the results returned by the content subsystem include movie data for movie a and movie data for movie AA. After user a selects movie a, the display device may return to the interface shown in fig. 15 and display the movie asset titles and posters added by user a on the interface, e.g., movie a's asset titles and covers may be displayed on the "add movie" control. If the user clicks the "issue immediately" control, display device A may set the current time to the predetermined time for film A, generating a auditorium creation request. If user a clicks the "designate time release" control, display device a may display a float for adjusting or inputting a predetermined time at which user a may set a predetermined time for movie a to be played in the auditorium. After the user a finishes setting the time, the display device a sets the time set by the user a as a predetermined time of the movie a, and generates a auditorium creation request.

In some embodiments, the auditorium creation request may include the following parameters: the auditorium name, the auditorium profile, the creator's ID, the movie ID, the scheduled time, and the creation time. The name of the showing hall and the profile of the showing hall are obtained according to the information input by the user A in the creating interface of the showing hall, the ID of the creator is the ID of the user A logging in the video-on-demand program, the film ID is obtained according to the result returned by the server when the user A searches the film, the preset time is the time for preset playing of the film A, and the creating time is the time for creating the request of the showing hall.

Taking a showing hall a where a film to be played is created by a user a as a film a as an example, the process of interaction between the member subsystem and the content subsystem and the search subsystem after receiving a request for creating the showing hall is shown in fig. 13, and the method includes the following steps:

in some embodiments, upon receiving the auditorium creation request through step S1312, the membership subsystem performs step S1313 to generate a unique auditorium ID for the auditorium to which the auditorium creation request corresponds, and stores the auditorium ID in the user database in the membership subsystem along with parameters in the auditorium creation request.

In some embodiments, after generating the auditorium ID, the member subsystem sends an auditorium storage request to the content subsystem, via step S1314 in fig. 13. The auditorium store request may include the auditorium name, the auditorium profile, the creator's ID, the movie ID, the scheduled time, the creation time, and the auditorium ID.

In some embodiments, upon receiving the auditorium storage request, the content subsystem creates an auditorium asset whose asset ID is the auditorium ID, and stores the auditorium name, the auditorium profile, the creator' S ID, the movie ID, the scheduled time, the creation time, and the auditorium ID in the auditorium asset data in accordance with step S1314 in fig. 13. Step S1315 may then be performed to search the movie database for the full amount of movie information for the movie ID based on the movie ID in the auditorium storage request. The full volume asset information may include asset ID, asset type, asset cover, profile, provider, definition, starring actor, director, play address, etc.

In some embodiments, after acquiring the full amount of media information of film a, the content subsystem may perform step S1316 in fig. 13 to extract key media information from the full amount of media information, and store the key media information in the media data of the auditorium media. The key media information comprises: movie id, asset title, asset type, provider, and definition. Both provider and definition are device capability requirement parameters, and besides definition, the key media asset information may also include device capability requirement parameters in other full-scale media asset information, such as parameters of playing language, etc.

At this time, the media asset data of the auditorium media asset stored by the content subsystem includes the following parameters: the auditorium ID, auditorium name, auditorium profile, creator ID, creation time, scheduled time, movie ID, asset title, asset type, provider, and definition. After obtaining the auditorium asset whose asset data is the above parameter, the content subsystem may execute step S1317 in fig. 13 to generate a search index creation request.

In some embodiments, the search index creation request includes an index field for conducting a auditorium search and parameters for querying the auditorium at the content subsystem and the member subsystem for data. The index field includes a auditorium name and a media asset title, and the parameters for querying the auditorium data at the content subsystem and the member subsystem may include: the auditorium ID, the auditorium profile, the creator's ID, the scheduled time, the movie ID, the asset type, the provider, and the definition.

In some embodiments, after the content subsystem stores the media asset data of the auditorium, a message that the media asset data of the auditorium is successfully stored may be returned to the membership word system, and after the membership subsystem receives the message, step S1319 and step S1320 in fig. 13 may be executed to return a message that the auditorium is successfully created to the display device, so that the display device displays the message that the auditorium is successfully created, instead of waiting for the content subsystem to interact with the search subsystem and then returning a message that the auditorium is successfully created to the display device, which can avoid the need of waiting for a long time to see the response of the display device after submitting the auditorium information.

In some embodiments, the content subsystem sends the search index creation request to the search subsystem in the form of a kafka message.

In some embodiments, the search subsystem is an ES (distributed full search system) based system, and since the ES system provides a setting interface of the index field, the index field may be set to the auditorium name and the media title through the setting interface in step S1321 in fig. 13.

In some embodiments, the search subsystem may store the auditorium name, the asset title, the auditorium ID, the auditorium profile, the creator' S ID, the predetermined time, the movie ID, the asset type, the provider, and the definition as one piece of auditorium information into the index database, and set the index field of the index database as the auditorium name and the asset title using the setting interface of the index field, as per step S1318 in fig. 13, after receiving the search index creation request.

Taking as an example a auditorium where user B wants to enter film a created by user a, the process of user B searching for the auditorium is as follows:

Referring to fig. 16, a timing diagram of a auditorium search process according to some embodiments is shown. As shown in fig. 16, the server may also be provided with an online subsystem for interacting with the search subsystem, content subsystem, and member subsystem to return the search results of the auditorium to the display device.

In some embodiments, user B may enter the interface shown in fig. 14 on display device B, click on the "more auditorium" control, and display device B is triggered in accordance with the "more auditorium" control to display the auditorium search interface.

As shown in fig. 16, the user B may input a keyword of a search at the auditorium search interface through step S1610, and the display device B interacts with the online subsystem to obtain auditorium search results. After receiving the keyword input by the user, the display device B may execute step S1611 to obtain the model version of the current device and the software version of the video on demand program, calculate the timestamp of the current time, and generate a auditorium search request containing the device capability identifier, the keyword, and the timestamp of the current time, where the device capability identifier includes the model version and the software version.

In some embodiments, after the online subsystem receives the above-mentioned auditorium search request through step S1612, step S1613 is performed to send a search instruction containing the above-mentioned keyword and timestamp, and not containing the device capability identifier, to the search subsystem, so that the search subsystem searches the auditorium information corresponding to the keyword in the search database.

In some embodiments, the search instructions may also include a maximum number of queries indicating that the maximum number of auditorium data is requested by the on-line subsystem, avoiding excessive auditorium data returned by the search subsystem that would require the on-line subsystem to take a longer time to process. By way of example, the maximum number of bars may be 25 bars.

In some embodiments, after receiving the auditorium search request, the search subsystem may query the auditorium information, e.g., search the auditorium information under the index field of the auditorium name, respectively, to obtain the auditorium information for the first set of auditoriums, and search the auditorium data under the search field of the media asset title, to obtain the auditorium information for the second set of auditoriums, in accordance with step S1614.

In some embodiments, after obtaining the hall information of the first group of halls and the hall information of the second group of halls, the search subsystem may further filter the hall information of the predetermined time earlier than the time stamp according to the time stamp, or filter the hall information of the predetermined time earlier than the time stamp for a certain period of time, for example, filter the hall information of the hall that has already been shown in half, so that the hall corresponding to the hall search result that is finally sent to the display device B does not start to show, thereby improving the viewing effect after the user B enters.

In some embodiments, the search instructions sent by the online subsystem to the search subsystem may also not include a time stamp, and the online subsystem may filter based on the time stamp after receiving the auditorium information for the first set of auditoriums and the auditorium information for the second set of auditoriums.

Illustratively, the auditorium information of the first set includes information of 10 auditoriums and the auditorium information of the second set includes information of 15 auditoriums. After filtering according to the time stamps, the auditorium information of the first group of auditoriums also includes information of 5 auditoriums, and the auditorium information of the second group of auditoriums also includes information of 5 auditoriums.

In some embodiments, after receiving the hall information of the first set of halls and the hall information of the second set of halls returned by the search subsystem executing step S1615, the online subsystem may filter the device capabilities of the display device according to step S1616, and the halls corresponding to the hall information obtained after the filtering may be referred to as target halls.

Referring to fig. 17, a flow diagram of a method of filtering a auditorium according to some embodiments is shown. As shown in fig. 17, the filtering method may include the steps of:

step S1710, a list of auditorium information is acquired.

In some embodiments, the search subsystem returns to the online subsystem a list of auditorium information, which may include a plurality of auditorium information, including both the auditorium information of the first set of auditoriums and the auditorium information of the second set of auditoriums.

In step S1711, device capability information corresponding to the device capability identifier is acquired.

In some embodiments, the device capability information includes media asset playback support capability information and provider support capability information.

In some embodiments, the online subsystem may look up device capability information corresponding to the device capability identification according to the device capability identification of the display device. The device capability information includes media asset play support capability information and provider support capability information. Wherein the provider support capability information corresponds to the vod program, and the provider support capability may be different for different brands of display devices. For example, auditorium a is uploaded by user a on a video on demand program of brand a display device, which is also supported by brand B display device, and auditorium a may be played, but not supported by brand C display device.

Step S1712, it is determined whether the auditorium information list is empty.

In some embodiments, after the online subsystem reads a piece of auditorium information in the auditorium information list, the auditorium information is deleted from the auditorium information list, so that if the media asset list is not empty, the auditorium information which is not read by the online subsystem is indicated, and if the auditorium information list is empty, the auditorium information in the auditorium information list is completely read by the online subsystem.

In step S1713, if not empty, a piece of auditorium information is read.

Step S1714, determining whether the auditorium information matches with the media asset playing support capability information corresponding to the device capability identifier.

Step S1715, if the auditorium information matches with the media asset playing support capability information corresponding to the device capability identifier, determining whether the media asset information matches with the provider support capability information corresponding to the device capability identifier.

In step S1716, if the auditorium information matches the provider support capability information corresponding to the device capability identifier, the auditorium information is added to the media asset result list.

In some embodiments, auditorium information that matches both the media asset play support capability information and the provider support capability information may be stored to the media asset result list.

In step S1717, if the hall information list is empty, the hall information of the target hall is obtained from the medium resource result list.

In some embodiments, when the auditorium information list is empty, indicating that all auditorium information returned by the search subsystem is processed, each piece of auditorium information in the media asset result list may be determined to be the auditorium information of the target auditorium.

After filtering according to the filtering method shown in fig. 17, the on-line subsystem obtains auditorium information for the target auditorium.

Illustratively, after filtering according to the filtering method shown in fig. 17, the auditorium information of the first group includes information of 1 auditorium and the auditorium information of the second group includes information of 2 auditoriums. These three auditoriums are referred to as target auditoriums.

In some embodiments, with continued reference to fig. 16, after the online subsystem obtains the target auditorium, a full volume media asset information request may be sent to the content subsystem to query the content database for full volume media asset information corresponding to the movie ID of the target auditorium, which full volume media asset information request may include the movie ID, via step S1617.

In some embodiments, after receiving the request for full media information, the content subsystem may feed back the full media information corresponding to the movie ID to the online subsystem. Wherein the full media information comprises: information such as asset ID, asset type, asset cover, profile, provider, definition, starring actor, director, play address, etc.

In some embodiments, after the online subsystem obtains the target auditorium data, a user information request may be sent to the member subsystem to query the user database for user information corresponding to the creator ID of the target auditorium, via step S1618 in fig. 16.

In some embodiments, the member subsystem may feed back the user information corresponding to the creator ID to the online subsystem after receiving the user information request. Wherein, the user information includes: user ID, user name, and user avatar, the user ID being the same value as the creator ID.

In some embodiments, after the online subsystem receives the full amount of media information and the user information through step S1619 and step S1620 in fig. 16, step S1621 may be performed to determine the full amount of media information as target media information, determine the user information as target user information, and perform deduplication and combination on the target media information, the target user information, and the auditorium information of the target auditorium to obtain to-be-delivered information of the target auditorium, where the to-be-delivered information includes: the auditorium ID, auditorium name, auditorium profile, creator ID, creator nickname, creator avatar, creation time, scheduled time, media asset ID, media asset title, media asset cover, media asset type, and media asset play address.

In some embodiments, the on-line subsystem returns to the display device information to be delivered for each target auditorium as auditorium search results.

In some embodiments, step S1622 of fig. 16 may also be performed before the online subsystem returns the auditorium search result, to perform general filtering on the to-be-delivered information, for example, filtering out auditorium information without media covers or without play addresses, to avoid display anomalies when display device B displays auditorium information, or auditorium play anomalies.

In some embodiments, after receiving the auditorium search result in step S1623 of fig. 16, the display device may generate a auditorium control corresponding to each target auditorium information, as shown in fig. 18, after the keyword input by the user B is "movie a", the display device B returns 3 auditorium information according to the online subsystem, and displays three auditorium controls, each corresponding to one auditorium, on the search result interface. The auditorium control may expose the media covers, create a head portrait, and create a nickname for the auditorium corresponding to the control.

In some embodiments, if user B clicks on a auditorium control, the display device may display a prompt message indicating that the auditorium has not begun playing based on the current time being earlier than the predetermined time corresponding to the auditorium control, or send a auditorium play request to the online subsystem based on the current time being equal to or later than the predetermined time corresponding to the auditorium control, the auditorium play request including the auditorium ID. After the online subsystem receives the showing hall playing request, the showing hall may play a film, and the video data stream of the showing hall ID corresponding to the film a and the showing hall floating layer data can be sent to the display device in real time according to the current playing progress, wherein the showing hall floating layer is a floating layer which can be displayed on a media playing interface of the showing hall, the showing hall floating layer data can comprise control data and interaction data, and the interaction data can comprise bullet screen data.

In some embodiments, after receiving the video stream data and the floating layer data, the display device may generate a auditorium playback interface, play the video stream data at the interface, and display the auditorium floating layer corresponding to the auditorium floating layer data.

In some embodiments, if the recommended interface of the projection hall with the search control and the media resource search interface for searching media resources are the same interface, and the two searches share one database, the returned search result may include information of both the projection hall and media resources such as movies and television, children, etc. In some embodiments, the search results that search for the auditorium identification may be presented under a channel classification. The assets are also presented under respective categories (e.g., at least one of movies, children, animations, applications, etc.). At this point, as shown in fig. 21, the search results interface may control the focus to move over different channel classification controls to present search results pages of different channel classifications.

In some embodiments, the order of the auditorium search results determined by the server may be based on the search results ordered according to the association of the contact list corresponding to the user identification and the auditorium creator. In practical implementation, this ordering process may be performed by the server or by the terminal. In some embodiments, the search request further includes a user identifier, and the server compares the associated user corresponding to the user identifier with the creator of the auditorium, and preferentially displays the auditorium of the closely associated creator. The associated user is a contact user corresponding to the user identification or a user with an interactive record. The interaction can be at least one of chat, conversation, entertainment, praise, viewing and the like. The association affinity may be contact only or the number of interactions meets a threshold. This is because the auditorium itself is a co-viewing service, and the co-viewing user experience is better for the closely-interacted people, so that the auditorium created by the closely-interacted creator is preferentially displayed.

In some embodiments, in the search results of the auditorium determined by the server, the order of the auditorium information may also be obtained by sorting the search results according to the geographic position corresponding to the terminal identifier and the geographic position relationship of the auditorium creator, so as to achieve the technical effect that the closer the distance from the current audience is, the more preferentially the auditorium creator creates the auditorium.

Referring to fig. 19, for a schematic view of a auditorium playing interface according to some embodiments, as shown in fig. 19, the auditorium playing interface may display a playing screen of film a, above which is a auditorium floating layer, where the auditorium floating layer is provided with the following operation controls: attention controls, creator controls, bullet screen controls, etc., wherein the creator controls may display a user nickname, such as user a.

As can be seen from the above embodiments, by providing a search control at the display device, a user can directly search for a auditorium desired to be viewed through the search control. The server can search the name of the showing hall and the corresponding media titles of the showing hall, so that a user can search the showing hall through searching the name of the showing hall and the corresponding media titles, and the comprehensiveness of the searching of the showing hall can be improved. After the data of the showing hall is obtained by the searching database, the server firstly filters the data of the showing hall, and then obtains more comprehensive data corresponding to the filtered data of the showing hall, so that the searching database does not need to store and display the total data required by one showing hall, the searching efficiency of the searching database can be ensured, and the response speed of the searching of the showing hall is further ensured.

In summary, the present disclosure implements the above-mentioned channel recommendation method through interaction between the display device and the server, where the controller of the display device first receives a channel recommendation operation input by a user, generates a channel recommendation request including request parameter information in response to the channel recommendation operation, and then sends the channel recommendation request to the server; after receiving the channel recommendation request, the server acquires a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on request parameter information contained in the channel recommendation request, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list, and transmits the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information to the display equipment; and finally, after the display equipment receives the multimedia content information, controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display. Through the interaction process between the display equipment and the server, the determined recommended channels are related to the request parameter information of the user, the requirements of the user are met, and the user can quickly select favorite channels by displaying the multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channels at different positions of the current display interface, so that the use experience of the user is improved, and the functions of the display equipment are expanded.

The foregoing description, for purposes of explanation, has been presented in conjunction with specific embodiments. The above discussion in some examples is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the embodiments to the precise forms disclosed above. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the embodiments and various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.

Claims

A display device, comprising:

A display;

A controller configured to:

receiving channel recommending operation input by a user, and responding to the channel recommending operation to generate a channel recommending request containing request parameter information;

The channel recommendation request is sent to a server, so that the server obtains a live channel list, a recommended channel list and multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list based on the request parameter information, wherein the live channel list comprises the recommended channel list;

receiving the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information sent by the server;

and controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display.
The display device of claim 1, wherein the current display interface is a navigation interface that is an interface when a first navigation control is located in a navigation bar of a home page, the navigation bar including a first area for displaying a live channel list and a recommendation bar area for recommending channels;

The controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display comprises:

Displaying the live channel list in the first area based on the live channel list sent by the server;

and displaying the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended column area based on the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel.
The display device of claim 2, wherein the first region includes at least one presentation field comprising: the first picture display area and the first mark display area;

the displaying the live channel list in the first area based on the live channel list sent by the server includes:

And aiming at each live channel in the live channel list, acquiring first playing picture information and first identification information corresponding to the live channel from multimedia content information corresponding to each live channel respectively, displaying the first playing picture information in a first picture display area corresponding to a display column, and displaying the first identification information in a first identification display area corresponding to the display column.
The display device of claim 2, wherein the recommendation field area includes at least one recommendation field comprising: a second picture display area and a second logo display area; the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel comprises: the second playing picture information and the second identification information corresponding to each recommended channel are obtained from streaming media corresponding to each recommended channel by the server, and the second identification information is obtained from a program list corresponding to each recommended channel by the server;

The displaying the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended column area based on the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel includes:

And for each recommended channel, acquiring second playing picture information and second identification information corresponding to the recommended channel from the multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel, displaying the second playing picture information in a second picture display area of the recommended column corresponding to the recommended channel in the recommended column area, and displaying the second identification information in the second identification display area.
The display apparatus of claim 4, wherein the acquiring, for each of the recommended channels, second playback screen information and identification information corresponding to the recommended channel from multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel, and displaying the second playback screen information in a second screen display area of the recommendation field corresponding to the recommended channel in the recommendation field area, the second identification display area displaying the identification information, comprises:

Determining a target channel according to the size relation between the number of the recommended columns contained in the recommended column region and the number of the recommended channels contained in the recommended channel list;

And for each target channel, acquiring second playing picture information and second identification information corresponding to the target channel from the multimedia content information corresponding to the target channel, and displaying the second playing picture information corresponding to the target channel in a second picture display area of a target recommendation field corresponding to the target channel in the recommendation field area, wherein the second identification display area displays the second identification information corresponding to the target channel.
The display device of claim 1, wherein the current display interface is a play interface that is a page of a program menu in a floating layer that is evoked when a player plays a live channel full screen; the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel comprises: the identification information corresponding to each recommended channel is obtained from a program list corresponding to each recommended channel by the server;

The controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display comprises:

displaying program menu options in the floating layer according to the recommended channel list;

Based on the live channel list sent by the server, controlling a program menu to display the live channel list, and adding recommended channel items in the program menu according to recommended channels contained in the recommended channel list;

And when the focus is positioned on the recommended channel item, displaying each recommended channel and identification information corresponding to each recommended channel in a submenu column corresponding to the recommended channel item.
The display device according to claim 5, wherein after the determination of the target channel according to the magnitude relation of the number of recommended columns included in the recommended column region and the number of recommended channels included in the recommended channel list, the controller is further configured to:

Transmitting a multimedia content information update request based on the target channel to the server, so that the server acquires target play picture information and target identification information corresponding to the target channel based on the multimedia content information update request;

and receiving the target playing picture information and the target identification information sent by the server.
The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

Receiving a auditorium search operation input by a user, and generating an auditorium search request in response to the auditorium search operation, wherein the auditorium search request comprises a device capability identifier and a keyword;

Transmitting the salon search request to a server, so that the server searches a search database for salon information of a first group of salons with salons names corresponding to the keywords and salons information of a second group of salons with media titles corresponding to the keywords based on the salon search request, and respectively screening target salons matched with the equipment capability identifications from the first group of salons and the second group of salons according to the salons information;

Receiving information to be delivered, which is sent by the server, wherein the information to be delivered is obtained by combining target media information of the target showing hall with target user information of the target showing hall;

And controlling the display to display the information to be sent down.
The display device of claim 8, wherein the search fields of the search database include the auditorium name and the asset header, the auditorium information including asset information and creator information, the asset information in the search database being a subset of the asset information in the asset database, the creator information in the search database being a subset of the user information in the user database.
The display device of claim 1, wherein the display is further configured to:

Receiving a auditorium creation operation input by a user, and generating a auditorium creation request in response to the auditorium creation operation, wherein the auditorium creation request comprises initial parameters of the auditorium, and the initial parameters comprise an auditorium name, a film identifier and a creator identifier;

And sending the showing hall creation request to the server, so that the server generates a showing hall identifier corresponding to the showing hall creation request based on the showing hall creation request, acquiring media information corresponding to the film identifier from a content database, wherein the media information comprises a media title and equipment capability requirement parameters, storing showing hall information comprising the initial parameters, the showing hall identifier and the media information in a search database, and setting search fields of the showing hall information as the showing hall name and the media title.
A channel recommendation method for a display device, the method comprising:

Receiving an operation input by a user aiming at a display device, and responding to the operation to generate a channel recommendation request containing request parameter information;

The channel recommendation request is sent to a server, so that the server obtains a corresponding live channel list from a preset database based on the request parameter information, the live channel list comprises a recommended channel list, multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended channel list is obtained based on a preset trigger condition, and the live channel list, the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information are fed back to the display equipment;

and controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display device.
The method of claim 11, wherein the current display interface is a navigation interface, the navigation interface being an interface when a focus is located on a first navigation control in a navigation bar of a main page, the navigation bar including a first area for displaying a live channel list and a recommendation bar area for recommending channels;

The controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display comprises:

Displaying the live channel list in the first area based on the live channel list sent by the server;

and displaying the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended column area based on the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel.
The method of claim 12, wherein the first region comprises at least one presentation field comprising: the first picture display area and the first mark display area;

the displaying the live channel list in the first area based on the live channel list sent by the server includes:

And aiming at each live channel in the live channel list, acquiring first playing picture information and first identification information corresponding to the live channel from multimedia content information corresponding to each live channel respectively, displaying the first playing picture information in a first picture display area corresponding to a display column, and displaying the first identification information in a first identification display area corresponding to the display column.
The method of claim 12, wherein the recommendation field area includes at least one recommendation field comprising: a second picture display area and a second logo display area; the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel comprises: the second playing picture information and the second identification information corresponding to each recommended channel are obtained from streaming media corresponding to each recommended channel by the server, and the second identification information is obtained from a program list corresponding to each recommended channel by the server;

The displaying the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel in the recommended column area based on the recommended channel list and the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel includes:

And for each recommended channel, acquiring second playing picture information and second identification information corresponding to the recommended channel from the multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel, displaying the second playing picture information in a second picture display area of the recommended column corresponding to the recommended channel in the recommended column area, and displaying the second identification information in the second identification display area.
The method of claim 14, wherein the obtaining, for each of the recommended channels, second play screen information and identification information corresponding to the recommended channel from multimedia content information corresponding to the recommended channel, and displaying the second play screen information in a second screen display area of the recommendation field corresponding to the recommended channel in the recommendation field area, the second identification display area displaying the identification information, includes:

Determining a target channel according to the size relation between the number of the recommended columns contained in the recommended column region and the number of the recommended channels contained in the recommended channel list;

And for each target channel, acquiring second playing picture information and second identification information corresponding to the target channel from the multimedia content information corresponding to the target channel, and displaying the second playing picture information corresponding to the target channel in a second picture display area of a target recommendation field corresponding to the target channel in the recommendation field area, wherein the second identification display area displays the second identification information corresponding to the target channel.
The method of claim 11, wherein the current display interface is a play interface that is a page of a program menu in a floating layer that is evoked when a player plays a live channel full screen; the multimedia content information corresponding to each recommended channel comprises: the identification information corresponding to each recommended channel is obtained from a program list corresponding to each recommended channel by the server;

The controlling the display to display the multimedia content information at different positions based on the current display interface of the display comprises:

displaying program menu options in the floating layer according to the recommended channel list;

Based on the live channel list sent by the server, controlling a program menu to display the live channel list, and adding recommended channel items in the program menu according to recommended channels contained in the recommended channel list;

And when the focus is positioned on the recommended channel item, displaying each recommended channel and identification information corresponding to each recommended channel in a submenu column corresponding to the recommended channel item.
The method of claim 15, wherein after the determining the target channel according to the size relationship of the number of recommended columns included in the recommended column region and the number of recommended channels included in the recommended channel list, the method further comprises:

Transmitting a multimedia content information update request based on the target channel to the server, so that the server acquires target play picture information and target identification information corresponding to the target channel based on the multimedia content information update request;

and receiving the target playing picture information and the target identification information sent by the server.
The method of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

Receiving a auditorium search operation input by a user, and generating an auditorium search request in response to the auditorium search operation, wherein the auditorium search request comprises a device capability identifier and a keyword;

Transmitting the salon search request to a server, so that the server searches a search database for salon information of a first group of salons with salons names corresponding to the keywords and salons information of a second group of salons with media titles corresponding to the keywords based on the salon search request, and respectively screening target salons matched with the equipment capability identifications from the first group of salons and the second group of salons according to the salons information;

Receiving information to be delivered, which is sent by the server, wherein the information to be delivered is obtained by combining target media information of the target showing hall with target user information of the target showing hall;

And controlling the display to display the information to be sent down.
The method of claim 18, wherein the search fields of the search database include the auditorium name and the media asset header, the auditorium information including media asset information and creator information, the media asset information in the search database being a subset of the media asset information in the media asset database, the creator information in the search database being a subset of the user information in the user database.
The method of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

Receiving a auditorium creation operation input by a user, and generating a auditorium creation request in response to the auditorium creation operation, wherein the auditorium creation request comprises initial parameters of the auditorium, and the initial parameters comprise an auditorium name, a film identifier and a creator identifier;

And sending the showing hall creation request to the server, so that the server generates a showing hall identifier corresponding to the showing hall creation request based on the showing hall creation request, acquiring media information corresponding to the film identifier from a content database, wherein the media information comprises a media title and equipment capability requirement parameters, storing showing hall information comprising the initial parameters, the showing hall identifier and the media information in a search database, and setting search fields of the showing hall information as the showing hall name and the media title.