JP2002190784A - Method and system for providing information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information providing system enabling an acquisition requester to easily acquire information of high resolution. SOLUTION: A broadcast station is allowed to broadcast book distribution data contents including printing data concerned with some books, information indicating the contents of the books and a control data and capable of driving a broadcast receiving system having received data broadcast as a system (for performing the processing of steps S101 to S106) for displaying a book distribution picture from which a user can grasp the contents of each book expressed by each of one or more printing data and select printing data to be printed by a printer installed in the broadcast receiving system out of these printing data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to an information providing method and an information providing system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, CS digital broadcasting and BS
According to digital broadcasting, a large number of programs with various contents can be provided to broadcast receivers. Further, according to CS digital broadcasting or BS digital broadcasting, interactive broadcasting can be realized.

[0003]

However, information (video) that can be provided to a broadcast receiver in CS digital broadcasting or BS digital broadcasting has an effective pixel number of 1920 × 1.
080 or less (1920 × 1080 is one of BS digital
080i image format). In other words, there is a problem in providing information using broadcast video that the number of effective pixels (resolution) of information that can be provided is limited by the number of effective pixels of the television screen.

On the other hand, according to a book (printed matter),
Information having a larger number of effective pixels can be provided to the reader. However, providing information by book has a problem that a lot of effort is required for a reader to find and obtain a desired book.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information providing method and an information providing method by which a person who desires to obtain high-resolution information can easily obtain the information. It is to provide a system.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information providing method, wherein a broadcasting station includes one or more types of print data and control data representing books different from each other. The broadcast receiving system receives the data broadcast as control data of the data broadcast and transmits information about the content of one or more books represented by the one or more print data to the broadcast receiving system. A printing apparatus provided in the broadcast receiving system for presenting a book to be printed from one or more kinds of books based on an instruction from the user, and printing based on print data related to the specified book. , The information is provided to the user of the broadcast receiving system including the printing device.

As described above, in the information providing method according to the first aspect of the present invention, a data broadcast including print data on some books, some information indicating the contents of those books, and control data is transmitted to the printing apparatus. This is performed for the broadcast receiving system provided. At this time, as the control data, the broadcast receiving system that has received the data broadcast, the user can grasp the contents of the book represented by each of the one or more types of print data, and Data that can be operated as a system that can specify a book to be printed by a printing device provided in the broadcast receiving system from among the books is supplied.

For this reason, a user of a broadcast receiving system equipped with a printing apparatus receives (displays) a data broadcast performed by the present information providing method on his / her own broadcast receiving system, and prints each printable system. It is possible to obtain a desired book (obtain a print result of print data of the desired book) after grasping the contents of the book. Therefore, according to the present information providing method, it is possible for a person who wants to obtain high-resolution information to easily obtain the information.

[0009] The information providing method according to the first aspect includes:
It can be implemented in various configurations of the system. For example, the information providing method according to the first aspect has, as each broadcast receiving system, a function having a function of converting each print data into print data in a language suitable for a printing apparatus provided therein (using a printer driver). Can be implemented in a system that employs the system, or can be implemented in a system that employs, as each broadcast receiving system, a system including a printing device that can interpret each print data as it is.

[0010] In the information providing method according to the second aspect of the present invention, the broadcast station is made to perform a data broadcast including a plurality of print data and control data described in different languages so as to represent the same book. As the control data of the data broadcast, the broadcast receiving system that has received the data broadcast causes the broadcast receiving system to monitor the input of a predetermined instruction from a user of the broadcast receiving system, and when the predetermined instruction is input,
By using the control data for causing the printing device to perform printing based on print data suitable for the printing device included in the broadcast receiving system among the plurality of print data, the user of the broadcast receiving system including the printing device is notified. Information is provided.

As described above, in the information providing method according to the second aspect, data broadcasting including a plurality of print data described in different languages for the same book is performed. Also,
The data broadcast includes a plurality of print data included in the data broadcast when the user of the broadcast reception system performs a predetermined operation (when a predetermined instruction is issued) by the broadcast reception system that has received the data broadcast. Print data suitable for the printing device provided in the broadcast receiving system is selected from among the control data, and control data that can be operated as a system in which printing based on the selected print data is performed by the printing device is included. Have been.

Therefore, the user of the broadcast receiving system equipped with the printing device receives (displays) the data broadcast performed by the present information providing method on his / her own broadcast receiving system.
When a predetermined operation is performed, a printing device included in the broadcast reception system performs printing using print data suitable for the printing device. As a result, a book provided in the data broadcast is obtained. I can do it. Therefore, according to the information providing method of the present invention, it is possible for a person who wants to obtain high-resolution information to easily obtain the information.
Further, the broadcast receiving system required for implementing this information providing method does not require a printer driver. Therefore, it can be said that the present information providing method is a method that can be implemented in a system including a relatively low-cost broadcast receiving system.

When the information providing method according to the second aspect is performed, the broadcast receiving system is caused to select print data suitable for a printing apparatus provided in the broadcast receiving system from a plurality of print data. Although it is necessary, various methods can be used for that purpose. For example, in a broadcast receiving system that receives broadcast data, information about a language that can be interpreted by the printing device or information (model name or vendor name) that can estimate the language is acquired from the printing device, and is associated with the information. The content of the broadcast data may be determined so that the selected print data is selected. In addition, each broadcast receiving system is set so that information about a language that can be interpreted by the printing apparatus can be set by the operator, and the broadcast receiving system that has received the broadcast data prints the information associated with the information set by the operator. The content of the broadcast data may be determined so that the data is selected.

An information providing system according to a first aspect of the present invention is an information providing system including a broadcasting station and a plurality of broadcast receiving systems each including a printing device. As a receiving system, a printing device, a display device for displaying an image, an operation device capable of performing a plurality of types of operations, a display control function for displaying an image corresponding to a received data broadcast on the display device, and an operation device A broadcast receiver having a recognition function of recognizing operation contents and a broadcast receiving apparatus having a print control function of causing a printing apparatus to perform printing based on print data is used. Further, as a broadcast station, in a broadcast receiving apparatus that is a data broadcast including one or more types of print data and control data representing books different from each other, and the control data receives a data broadcast including itself, the display control function is Information on the content of one or more books represented by the one or more print data used is presented to a user of the broadcast receiving system including the broadcast receiving device, and the display control function and the recognition function are used to perform the display. An instruction as to which of one or more books should be printed is obtained from the user, and printing based on print data of the book instructed by the user to be printed is performed using the print control function. A device provided with a broadcasting device for broadcasting a data broadcast as control data is used.

This information providing system functions as a system in which the above-described information providing method of the first aspect is performed. Therefore, according to the present information providing system, a person desiring to acquire high-resolution information (user of the broadcast receiving system)
Can be easily obtained.

When the information providing system according to the first aspect is constructed, the broadcast receiving apparatus of each broadcast receiving system further includes a storage unit for storing a printer driver for a printing apparatus, As a function, an apparatus having a function of causing a printing apparatus to perform printing using a printer driver stored in a storage unit can be used.

In a broadcast receiving system in which each broadcast receiving system includes such a broadcast receiving apparatus, if each print data to be included in a data broadcast is data in a format often used in DTP, almost all The book can be printed by the broadcast receiving system. Therefore,
This distance learning system also functions as a system that can easily create print data, or a system in which a broadcast receiving system that can print a book is not limited.

The information providing system according to the second aspect of the present invention is also a system including a broadcasting station and a plurality of broadcast receiving systems each including a printing device. However, in the information providing system of this aspect, as each broadcast receiving system, a printing device, a display device for displaying video,
An operation device capable of performing a plurality of types of operations, language designation information storage means for storing language designation information indicating a language of print data which can be interpreted by the printing device, and a display for displaying an image corresponding to the received data broadcast on a display device A device having a control function, a recognition function for recognizing the operation content of the operation device, and a broadcast receiving device having a print control function for supplying designated data to the printing device is used. Further, as a broadcast station, a broadcast receiving apparatus that is a data broadcast including one or more types of print data and control data representing books different from each other, and the control data has received a data broadcast including itself, An input of a predetermined instruction from a user of the broadcast receiving system is monitored using a recognition function, and when the predetermined instruction is input, a language designation information storage unit in one or more types of print data. A device having a broadcasting device that broadcasts a data broadcast, which is control data in which printing based on print data corresponding to the language designation information stored in the printer is performed using a print control function, is used.

This information providing system functions as a system in which the above-described information providing method of the second aspect is performed. Therefore, according to the present information providing system, a person desiring to acquire high-resolution information (user of the broadcast receiving system)
Can be easily obtained.

[0020]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

<First Embodiment> FIG. 1 shows the overall configuration of an information providing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the information providing system according to the first embodiment includes a broadcast system 2 as a main component.
0, broadcast satellite 30, and a plurality of broadcast receiving systems 10
And

The broadcasting system 20 includes the uplink device 2
1 and the broadcaster device 22. The uplink device 21 is a device that transmits a broadcast wave including various contents in a time zone allocated to each content to the broadcast satellite 30. The broadcaster device 22 is a device used by the broadcaster to create various contents and to supply the created contents to the uplink device 21. In addition, the broadcaster device 20 is provided by an operator (broadcast receiver) of each broadcast receiving system 10.
It is also used to collect information via the telephone network 200.

The broadcasting satellite 30 is a satellite equipped with a frequency conversion type amplifier (generally called a transbonder).

The broadcast receiving system 10 is a system that receives broadcast waves from the broadcast satellite 30 and displays various contents. As shown in FIG. 2A, the broadcast receiving system 10 constituting the information providing system includes an antenna 1
1, a receiving device 12, a display device 13, a printing device 14, and a remote controller 15, and as shown in FIG.
And a system including a remote controller 15b. The receiving / display device 16 of the broadcast receiving system 10 shown in FIG. 2B is a device in which the receiving device 12 and the display device 13 of the broadcast receiving system 10 shown in FIG. Therefore, in the following, the configuration and operation of the broadcast receiving system 10 will be described focusing on the system having the configuration shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 shows a more specific configuration diagram of the broadcast receiving system 10 shown in FIG. 2A, and FIG. 4 shows an external view of the remote controller 15.

As shown in FIG. 3, the receiving device 12 includes a CPU 111 for integrally controlling each unit, and a flash RO.
A memory unit 112 comprising M and SDRAM, and a modem 113 for connecting the receiving device 12 to the telephone network 200.
And Further, the receiving device 12 includes a remote control I / F 114 for receiving an IR signal from a remote control 15 (see FIG. 4) having various buttons, and a B-CAS (Condit
B-CAS card I / F 115 to which an ional access system) card (IC card for realizing conditional access; not shown) is attached, and IEEE to which a device having an IEEE 1394 interface (such as the printing apparatus 14) is connected.
A 1394 I / F 116 is provided.

Further, the receiving device 12 is provided with a tuning /
It includes a demodulation unit 101, a separation unit 102, and a decoder unit 103.

The tuning / demodulation unit 101 receives a signal from the antenna 11 (1
This is a circuit for restoring a TS (transport stream) of the content selected by the operator from the broadcast wave converted into the GHz band.

The separation unit 102 is provided with a B-CAS card I / F
This is a circuit for descrambling the scrambled TS in cooperation with the B-CAS card attached to the. Further, the separation unit 102 converts various data included in the descrambled TS or the non-scrambled TS into
A process of classifying the content according to the content and supplying the data to the decoder unit 103 or the memory unit 112 (SDRAM) is also performed.
Specifically, the separating unit 102 supplies data related to television broadcasting to the decoder unit 103 and supplies data related to data broadcasting and program information to the memory unit 112.

The decoder unit 103 is a circuit that generates a video signal and an audio signal based on the data from the separation unit 102 and the data stored in the memory unit 112. The decoder unit 103 includes a video signal representing a video defined by data from the separation unit 102, a video signal representing a video whose content is defined by information stored in the memory unit 112, and a video signal representing the video It has a function of generating a video signal representing a video on which a video is superimposed.

That is, the receiving device 12 constituting the broadcast receiving system 10 is a device (a device called a set-top box or a BS digital tuner) to which a television having a high-definition grade cathode ray tube is usually connected as a display device 13. ). However, as described above, the receiver 12 has an ARIB (Association
An optional IEEE 1394 I / F 116 is provided in accordance with (Radio Industries and Businesses) standards. Further, the receiving device 12 downloads the printer driver for the connected printing device 14 by downloading from a broadcast for downloading various printer drivers (or by reading from a secondary storage device connected to the IEEE 1394 I / F 116). ), So that it can be installed in a flash ROM.

Then, in the present information providing system, N types (N ≧ N) representing different books are provided from the broadcast system 20.
1. Usually, N is a plurality of print data (in this embodiment,
The book distribution data content including PDF data) and several types of screen-related data is broadcast by a carousel transmission method (also called a data carousel method). That is, as schematically shown in FIG. 5, the uplink device 21 includes a plurality of screen-related data data modules holding screen-related data, and N print data data modules each holding print data. When,
DDI holding detailed information of those data modules
(download Information Indication) is controlled to be repeatedly transmitted to the module. Note that a module is a data handling unit in a carousel transmission method, which is a transmission method used for data broadcasting.

The book distribution data contents broadcast from the broadcasting system 20 include BML (Broadcast).
Markup Language) contains a data module for screen-related data that holds control data (data that specifies how to use other data in book distribution data content). Then, the control data is transmitted to the broadcast receiving system 10 that has received the book distribution data content,
Information on the contents of the N types of books represented by the N types of print data is presented to the user of the broadcast receiving system 10, and the book to be printed is selected from the N types of books based on an instruction from the user. The printing device 14 included in the broadcast receiving system 10 can perform the printing based on the print data on the specified book.

Hereinafter, the operation of the receiving apparatus 12 instructed to receive the book distribution data content will be described to explain the structure of the book distribution data content (print data,
(Contents of screen-related data) will be specifically described.

FIG. 6 shows receiving apparatus 12 when receiving a book distribution data content is instructed and performing an operation in accordance with the book distribution data content (mainly, control data included in the book distribution data content). The following shows the operation procedure.

As shown in the figure, the receiving apparatus 12 instructed to receive the book distribution data content first receives some screen-related data data modules included in the book distribution data content (step S10).
1). More specifically, the receiving device 12 is instructed to receive the data module for screen-related data holding control data included in the data content for book distribution and the data module for screen-related data (control data). It receives some screen-related data data modules (several data modules that hold JPEG data, PNG data, text data, and the like that constitute a book distribution data broadcast screen described later).

Then, the receiving device 12 displays the book distribution data broadcast screen having the content corresponding to the received information on the display device 1.
3 is displayed (step S102). Specifically, the receiving device 12 includes a book catalog area 61, a book information area 62, and a “previous book” button 6 as schematically shown in FIG.
3. The display device 13 displays a book distribution data broadcast screen 60 having a “to next book” button 64 and a “print book” button 65.

The book catalog area 61 includes the broadcast receiving system 1
Shows brief explanation information (information including book name, genre, publication date, etc.) on N kinds of books that can be obtained from book distribution data broadcast by operator 0 (recipient of book distribution data broadcast). Area. The detailed information area 62 shows more detailed explanation information on the book specified by the operator (in the present embodiment, JPEG data representing a sentence or picture for introducing the contents of the book; hereinafter, referred to as detailed information). Area.

The "previous book" button 63 and the "next book" button 64 are buttons to be selected by operating the remote controller 15 when the operator wants to display detailed information on another book. “Go to Previous Book” button 63
Functions when the book whose detailed information is indicated in the detailed information area 62 (hereinafter, referred to as a processing target book) is not the first book among the N kinds of books, The "" button 64 functions when the processing target book is not the Nth book among the N kinds of books. “Printing books”
The button 67 is a button to be selected by the operator when printing the book to be processed.

In step S102, the receiving device 12
The detailed information on the first book is a detailed information area 62
(The book to be processed is the first book), and the “to next book” button 64 causes the display device 13 to display the book distribution data broadcast screen 60 having the input focus. . The button having the input focus is a button that is determined to be selected when the operator presses the enter button 155 of the remote controller 15. The button having the input focus on the book distribution data broadcast screen 60 is displayed in a form different from the normal state.

After displaying the book distribution data broadcast screen 60, the receiving apparatus 12 monitors input of information from the remote controller 15 and waits for an instruction about the operation content from the operator (see FIG. 1). Step S10
4). The instruction to wait for the input in step S104 is an end instruction to end the display of the data content for book distribution (an instruction to display another program, an instruction to turn off the power, and the like).
, Print start instructions, and other instructions.

When the instruction given by the operator is an instruction other than the end instruction and the print start instruction (step S105; other), the receiving device 12 performs a process according to the instruction given by the operator at step S106. After that, the process returns to step S103.

For example, when it is instructed to change the button having the input focus to the left or right button (when the left moving button 151 or the right moving button 152 of the remote controller 15 is pressed), the receiving device 12 In step S106, a button located to the left or right of the button having the input focus at that time is specified from the buttons functioning at that time, and the specified button has the input focus. I remember that. Then, the receiving device 12 changes the display mode of the button to a display mode indicating that the button has the input focus, and returns the display mode of the button having the input focus to the normal mode. Then, the receiving device 12 ends step S106 (starts the process of step S103).

When an instruction to display the previous book or an instruction to display the next book is given ("Go to previous book" button 63)
Or, when the “Enter” button 155 is pressed while the “to next book” button 64 has the input focus),
In step S106, the receiving device 12 performs a process for changing the content of the book distribution data broadcast screen 60 to one according to the given instruction.

For example, if the given instruction is a display instruction of the previous book, the receiving device 12 receives the screen-related data module holding detailed information on the previous book in step S106, and The display contents of 62 are changed to those corresponding to the screen-related data data module.

When a print instruction is given (step S104; print instruction), that is, "print book"
When the determination button 155 is pressed while the button 65 has the input focus, the receiving device 12 executes a print control process of the following content in step S105.

That is, in step S105, the receiving device 12 first starts receiving a print data data module holding print data relating to the book to be processed, and a print dialog box displayed on a general personal computer. A display condition setting screen having the same function as the printer property dialog box is displayed on the display device 13.

Thereafter, the receiving device 12 monitors the input information from the remote controller 15 so that the operator can
It waits for various change instructions or print start instructions regarding the print conditions to be given, and when a change instruction is given from the operator, changes the display content of the print condition setting screen to one according to the change instruction. And the receiving device 12
When the print start instruction is given by the operator,
Based on the print data that has already started receiving, print data for the printing device 14 is generated under printing conditions according to the display contents of the printing condition setting screen at that time, and the printing device 14
To supply. Thereafter, the receiving device 12 causes the display device 13 to display the book distribution data broadcast screen 60 again, and ends step S105. Then, the receiving device 12 returns to step S103, and waits for an instruction from the operator about a process to be executed.

The processing relating to the printing condition setting screen in step S105 and the processing relating to the generation of print data for the printing apparatus 14 are executed mainly under the control of the printer driver.

The receiving apparatus 12 receives an end instruction (an instruction to display another program, an instruction to turn off the power, etc.) for instructing the end of the display of the book distribution data content (step S104; an end instruction). Then, the illustrated process ends.

As described above, when the user of the broadcast receiving system 10 receives (displays) the book distribution data content in his / her own broadcast receiving system 10, the user can grasp the contents of each printable book. Thus, a desired book can be obtained (a print result of print data of the desired book can be obtained). Therefore, according to the present information providing system, the display device 1
3, the information of the resolution that cannot be displayed can be easily obtained by the person desiring to acquire the information.

<Second Embodiment> An information providing system according to a second embodiment of the present invention is a modified system of the information providing system according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and provides an information providing system according to the first embodiment. It has many parts that have the same configuration and operation as the system. For this reason, the second embodiment of the present invention will be described below using the same reference numerals as those used in the description of the information providing system according to the first embodiment, with a focus on the differences from the information providing system according to the first embodiment. The configuration and operation of the information providing system according to the first embodiment will be described.

The receiving device 12 used in the information providing system according to the first embodiment is a device in which a printer driver for the printing device 14 is installed and used, but the receiving device 12 according to the second embodiment is used. The receiving device 12 used in the system is a device in which a printer driver for the printing device 14 cannot be installed (a device that does not need to install a printer driver when the printing device 14 is connected to the receiving device 12).

Further, the receiving device 12 according to the second embodiment displays a page description language setting screen on which the operator can select one page description language from among M (M ≧ 2) page description languages. And a function of executing a page description language setting process of storing page description language designation information indicating the page description language selected by the operator in the memory unit 112 (flash ROM). When the operation of the receiving device 12 is started (when the printing device 14 is connected to the receiving device 12), the operator causes the receiving device 12 to execute a page description language setting process, thereby displaying the page description language setting screen on the display device 13. And a page description language suitable for the printing device 14 (a page description language that can be interpreted by the printing device 14) is selected from the M types of page description languages shown on the page description language setting screen.
Note that, when the menu button provided on the remote controller 15 is pressed, the receiving device 12 causes the display device 13 to display a screen on which an operator can instruct execution of various setting processes including a page description language setting process. It is configured as follows.

In the information providing system according to the second embodiment, the broadcast system 20 includes several types of screen-related data, and the content of each of N types (N ≧ 1) of books is different from each other. Book distribution data contents including M types of print data described in a page description language are broadcast by a carousel transmission method (also called a data carousel method). That is, as schematically shown in FIG. 8, the uplink device 21 includes a plurality of screen-related data data modules holding screen-related data, and N × M print data data modules each holding print data. The control is performed so as to repeatedly transmit the data module and the DDI module holding the detailed information of the data module.

The book distribution data content (mainly control data described in BML) to be broadcasted is
It is created so that the operation of the procedure shown in FIG.

That is, the receiving apparatus 12 instructed to receive the book distribution data content receives the instruction in steps S201 to S201.
In S204 and S206, respectively, Step S1
The processes having the same contents as those of 01 to S104 and S106 are executed. However, when a print instruction is given, the receiving device 12
In step S205 corresponding to step S105, print control processing of the following contents is executed.

At the start of the print control process, the receiving device 12 starts receiving the print data module associated with the page description language indicated by the page description language designation information, in addition to the book to be processed, and starts printing. A confirmation screen for obtaining instructions from the operator is displayed on the display device 13. This confirmation screen shows a message for notifying the operator of the paper size and the like that should be set in the printing device 14.

Thereafter, the receiving device 12 monitors the input information from the remote controller 15 so that the operator can
It waits for a print start instruction (or an instruction to interrupt the print control process). Then, when a printing start instruction is given from the operator, the receiving device 12 supplies the print data that has already started receiving to the printing device 14 as it is. Thereafter, the receiving device 12 displays the book distribution data broadcast screen 60 on the display device 13 again, and ends step S205. Then, the receiving device 12 returns to step S203, and waits for an instruction about a process to be started from the operator.

As described above, according to the information providing system according to the second embodiment, similarly to the information providing system according to the first embodiment, the broadcast receiver can use a resolution that cannot be displayed on the display device 13. Information can be easily obtained. Further, in the information providing system according to the second embodiment, since the printing conditions cannot be changed on the broadcast receiver side, each printing device 14 can print a printed matter (book) in a form intended by the broadcaster. You can do it. Further, the information providing system according to the second embodiment includes the
This is a system that can be realized at low cost because it is not necessary to configure a printer driver.

<Modifications> The information providing systems according to the first and second embodiments are systems in which a broadcast is performed mainly for the purpose of distributing a book. A secondary broadcast (for example, a movie broadcast on which a document introducing the performers can be printed) may be performed. Also,
A secondary storage device such as an HDD is connected (or built-in) to the receiving device 12 or the display / receiving device 16,
The received print data can be saved.

[0063]

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an environment in which information of a resolution that cannot be provided by video can be easily obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an information providing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a broadcast receiving system included in the information providing system according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a hardware configuration diagram of the broadcast receiving system according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an external view of a remote controller included in the broadcast receiving system according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of book distribution data contents transmitted from a broadcasting system included in the information providing system according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an operation of the receiving device included in the broadcast receiving system according to the first embodiment when displaying data content for book distribution.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a book distribution data broadcast screen displayed on a display device included in the broadcast receiving system according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of book distribution data contents transmitted from a broadcasting system included in the information providing system according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of an operation of the receiving device included in the broadcast receiving system according to the second embodiment when displaying book distribution data content.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Broadcast receiving system 11 Antenna 12 Receiving device 13 Display device 14 Printing device 15 Remote control 16 Receiving / display device 20 Broadcasting system 30 Broadcast satellite

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Claims (5)

[Claims] An information providing method for providing information to a user of a broadcast receiving system including a printing device, comprising: providing a broadcast station with data including one or more types of print data and control data representing books different from each other; The broadcast receiving system receives the data broadcast as control data of the data broadcast, and transmits information on the contents of one or more books represented by the one or more print data to the broadcast receiving system. Of the one or more books based on an instruction from the user, and the broadcast receiving system provides printing based on print data related to the specified book. An information providing method characterized by using control data to be performed by an apparatus. 2. An information providing method for providing information to a user of a broadcast receiving system provided with a printing device, comprising: a plurality of print data described in different languages so as to represent the same book in a broadcasting station; And a data broadcast including the control data, and as a control data of the data broadcast, the broadcast receiving system that has received the data broadcast monitors an input of a predetermined instruction from a user of the broadcast receiving system. When an instruction is input, control data for causing the printing apparatus to perform printing based on print data suitable for the printing apparatus included in the broadcast receiving system among the plurality of print data is used. Information provision method. 3. An information providing system including a broadcasting station and a plurality of broadcast receiving systems, wherein each of the plurality of broadcast receiving systems includes a printing device, a display device for displaying an image, and a plurality of types. An operation device capable of performing the operations described above, a display control function for displaying an image corresponding to the received data broadcast on the display device, a recognition function for recognizing the operation contents of the operation device, and printing based on print data. A broadcast receiving apparatus having a print control function to be performed by the apparatus, wherein the broadcasting station is a data broadcast including one or more types of print data representing different books and control data, and wherein the control data is In a broadcast receiving apparatus that has received a data broadcast including: a content of one or more books represented by the one or more print data using the display control function. Information about the one or more books is to be printed from the user using the display control function and the recognition function by using the display control function and the recognition function. And a broadcast device that broadcasts a data broadcast, which is control data that is to be printed based on print data of a book instructed by the user to be printed by using the print control function. An information providing system, characterized in that: 4. The broadcast receiving apparatus provided in each of the plurality of broadcast receiving systems further includes a storage unit for storing a printer driver for the printing apparatus, and each of the plurality of broadcast receiving systems is provided. 4. The information providing system according to claim 3, wherein the print control function of the broadcast receiving device causes the printing device to perform printing using a printer driver stored in the storage unit. 5. An information providing system including a broadcasting station and a plurality of broadcast receiving systems, wherein each of the plurality of broadcast receiving systems includes a printing device, a display device for displaying an image, and a plurality of types. An operation device capable of performing the following operations: a language designation information storage unit that stores language designation information indicating a language of print data that can be interpreted by the printing device; and a display that displays an image corresponding to the received data broadcast on the display device. A broadcast receiving device having a control function, a recognition function of recognizing operation contents of the operation device, and a print control function of supplying designated data to the printing device, wherein the broadcasting stations represent books different from each other In a broadcast receiving apparatus which is a data broadcast including one or more types of print data and control data, and wherein the control data has received a data broadcast including self. The display control function and the recognition function are used to monitor input of a predetermined instruction from a user of the broadcast receiving system, and when the predetermined instruction is input, the input of the one or more types of print data is monitored. A broadcast device that broadcasts a data broadcast that is control data in which printing based on print data corresponding to the language designation information stored in the language designation information storage unit is performed using the print control function. Characteristic information providing system.