JP2007329650A - Remote-control device, display device, and information acquisition system using them - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the versatility related to the information acquisition using an AV apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: A user specifies an object on the display screen by a position determining mechanism of a remote control device having a two-way communication function. A chair is defined as the specified object, and the URL of a home page of the maker is acquired if there is the metadata, the mail address registered in the remote control device is linked to the URL and is transmitted to the display device. The mail address and the URL are sent to a user information DB server via the network from the display device, the user information DB server sends the URL to a client (cellular phone, PC or the like) having the appropriate mail address by e-mail. If the user is further interested in the chair, or automatically, the user accesses a detailed information DB server by the URL presented. The detailed information DB server sends the detailed information on the URL presented to the inquired PC or the mail address of the cellular phone. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a remote control device (hereinafter referred to as “remote control device”), a display device remotely controlled by the remote control device, and an information acquisition system using these, and in particular, a remote control device having a display unit having a touch panel function. Information acquisition technology using

  With the technical progress of mobile terminal devices such as mobile phones, technologies for acquiring various information using mobile terminal devices have also diversified. For example, new CM information having contents corresponding to user attributes is inserted into the CM portion of a television program received in real time by the content distribution server, and the television program into which the CM information is inserted is inserted into the user. (If there is information, a one-push mark is displayed).

  CM-related information related to the inserted CM information is transmitted to the user's mobile terminal by e-mail separately from the television program. By counting the number of accesses to a specific site based on CM related information and presenting this count value to the CM sponsor, the advertising effect of the CM can be confirmed, and the contract with the sponsor can be easily established. Can do. In this way, a technique for realizing a television program distribution system that can easily establish a contract with a sponsor of CM information by distributing CM information suitable for each user has been proposed (for example, patents). Reference 1).

JP 2003-339040 A

  However, in the above method, since the mobile phone is used, only the control signal output to the screen (CM) at the time of the one push mark is effective, and can be used only when the screen of the display device is CM. However, since a mobile phone is used, there is a problem that it is impossible to operate a non-control device such as a display device.

  An object of this invention is to improve the versatility regarding information acquisition.

  The present invention determines a position (coordinates) of a display panel of a display device and a display screen or content by a display panel (touch panel) of a remote controller, and obtains details of information related to the display screen or content under a predetermined condition. Is provided.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, an information acquisition system using a display system including a display device having a communication unit connectable to a network and a display unit that displays video, and a remote control device that operates the display device. The position of the display unit of the display device is specified from the remote control device, and the object displayed at the certain location has metadata describing the information acquisition method related to the object. In this case, the metadata is transmitted from the display device to the external terminal device identified by the electronic mail address via the network in combination with the electronic mail address of the external terminal device registered in advance in the remote control device. An information acquisition system characterized by performing control is provided. It is preferable to provide a detailed information database server for receiving detailed information on the object in response to an inquiry based on the metadata from the external terminal device. The remote control device is provided with a remote control display unit having a touch panel function, and includes a position specifying mechanism for specifying a position in the display unit of the display device by selecting and determining a position in the remote control display unit, In the case where the object determined in the determination process has metadata, it is preferable to have a transmission / reception unit that associates the metadata with the registered e-mail address and sends them to the display device.

  If the object in the display unit of the corresponding display device has no metadata when the position is selected and determined, a display notifying that there is no metadata may be displayed on the display unit of the remote control device. it can. When the object is not present in the display unit of the corresponding display device when the position is selected, a display notifying that there is no metadata may be displayed on the display unit of the remote control device. A conversion unit that performs position conversion between the display unit of the display device and the display unit of the remote control device may be provided on the display device side.

  When an object is designated by position designation from the remote control device, it can be displayed on the display unit of the display device or the display unit of the remote control device. The display of the position designation mechanism of the remote control device can be changed according to the display content of the display device.

  According to the present invention, the operation control of the display device, the content (screen) designation control, and the presence / absence of the specific condition designation relating to the left are determined from the display panel of one remote controller, and the specific condition designation is determined. When present, there is an advantage that the location of the related information can be obtained from an external terminal. Therefore, it is possible to acquire desired information without disturbing viewing of the display device.

  Hereinafter, an information acquisition system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of an information acquisition system according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the information acquisition system A according to the present embodiment includes a home device system B and an Internet connection mechanism C. The Internet connection function C includes, for example, a user information DB server 21 that stores user information, a detailed information database (DB) 23 that stores various items and detailed information related thereto, and a mobile terminal that can access the network A device 25 and / or a personal computer PC27. In addition, the process in a display apparatus shall include the electronic device connected to it. The portable terminal device 25 and / or the personal computer PC 27 are owned by the user and may be viewable after viewing.

  The home device system B includes a display device 1 such as a liquid crystal television receiver, a recording / reproducing device 3 such as a hard disk recorder connected to the display device 1 by, for example, MDMIL 1, the display device 1 and / or the recording / reproducing device 3. And a remote control device (remote control device) 5 for performing remote operation for controlling. The display device 1 is provided with a large screen display unit 7 to display an image. The remote control device 5 has a relatively small display unit 52. The Internet connection mechanism C has the Internet 15 and further has a broadcasting station 17. Recently, these may be in a fused form.

  For example, in MPEG4 or H264, each content is composed of objects, so that an arbitrary object can be selected on one continuous still screen (scene). The “object” here refers to a video object (hereinafter, “object”) such as various characters and objects displayed on the screen, and the user can select an image portion of the object. Although not shown, metadata such as URL is embedded in the designated object as an information acquisition destination related to the object.

  Below, each component in the said system is demonstrated in detail. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing detailed functions of the remote control device 5. As shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of mail addresses can be registered in the display unit 5a of the remote control device 5. The e-mail address registration area 5c is an area for displaying e-mail addresses of a user or his / her family or the like who wants to register using a character string input with a touch pen or operation buttons, for example.

  The mail addresses input here are registered in the mail address list 5b in the order of registration, for example. Here, reference numeral 5e indicates a registered mail address, and reference numeral 5b indicates a newly registered mail address. Reference numeral 5d is a mark indicating that a mail address list is displayed.

  FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of the remote control device 5. As shown in FIG. 3, the remote control device 5 includes, for example, a transmission / reception unit 51 that transmits and receives a control signal to a display device / recording / reproducing device such as infrared rays, a display unit 52, a ROM 53, and an operation unit (including a touch panel mechanism). 54, a memory 55, a CPU 56, and a ROM 53 in which a program for causing the CPU 56 to perform control processing is recorded. In addition, the remote control device 5 according to the present embodiment is provided with a coordinate detection unit (touch sheet) 57. The function of the coordinate detection unit (touch sheet) 57 will be described later.

  FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the display device 1. 4 includes an antenna 71, a tuner 72, a DEMUX unit 73, an MPEG decoder 74, an OSD multiplexing unit, a display unit 7, a memory 77, a CPU 78, and a remote control signal transmitting / receiving unit 79. , MODEM 80, e-mail transmission / reception means 81, and HDMI interface 82. In addition, the display device 1 has means 76 for extracting a specific condition from the DEMUX-processed signal in the received signal. The specific condition extracted by the means 76 is transmitted to the CPU and transmitted to the memory 77. Stored.

  Next, an example of designation in the case of designating an object of the display device by the remote control device will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7 and FIG. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a video 121 displayed on the display screen 7 of the display device 1 and an object designation mark 131 displayed on the display screen.

  In the remote control device 5 shown in FIG. 5, cursors 91, 93, and 95 are arranged as position specifying mechanisms for selecting the position of the object in the video displayed on the display device 1 on the display unit 52. And a determination button 98 arranged on a line extending radially from the selected position to the center. When an arbitrary object is designated by the object designation mark 131 in the display screen 7 using the cursors 91, 93, and 95 (symbol Z) and the determination button 98 is pressed at this Z position, it is associated with the Z position. A certain condition (data) is acquired, and this condition (data) is transmitted to the remote control device 5. This condition (data) received by the transmission / reception unit 51 of the remote control device 5 is stored in the memory 55, for example.

  When sending the received specific conditions (data) to other clients (PC, mobile phone, etc.), call any email address from the registered email addresses and specify this email address and the above specified These conditions (data) are transmitted to the display device 1. The remote control signal transmission / reception unit 79 of the display device 1 receives this mail address and the specific condition (data), connects to a mail server (not shown) via the MODEM 80, and specifies the destination specified by the mail address. Send the condition (data).

  The cellular phone 25 or PC 27 that has received this can know that there is a specific condition designation and the location (URL, etc.) of the information related to it. The user of the mobile phone 25 or the PC 27 can obtain more detailed information related to the object by accessing the URL. For example, if the male suit of FIG. 9 is an object, the metadata, for example, the store of the suit, the price, and campaign information can be obtained. In addition, when an object is designated by position designation from the remote control device, it can be displayed on the display unit of the display device or the display unit of the remote control device.

  Table 1 is a table showing the relationship between coordinate positions and areas (ranges) between the remote control device and the display device, and is a table related to the configuration of the remote control device shown in FIG. As shown in Table 1, the position specified on the remote control side is converted in area and size so as to correspond to the position of the display unit of the display unit having a different display unit size, and the object is appropriately specified on the display unit can do. Note that the position specified by the remote control device does not necessarily have to be accurate, and it may be considered that the object closest to the specified position is specified among the positions where the object is embedded.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a display unit of a remote control device having a position specifying mechanism having a configuration different from that in FIG. As shown in FIG. 6, the remote control device 5 is provided with substantially circular regions 53 and 54 arranged in a row direction and a column direction on the two-dimensional surface of the display unit 52. In this way, a position designation mark of an area of a predetermined size is displayed, a cursor is displayed at the coordinate position of the display device corresponding to the marks 53 and 54 pressed with a touch pen or the like, and the cursor position is set to a desired position. If an object is indicated, the determination button 55 on the remote control display unit 52 is pressed. Thereby, the object of the display device can be designated as in the case of FIG.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a remote control device having the same function as the position specifying function illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6. As shown in FIG. 7, on the display screen 52 (preferably having a touch panel function) of the remote control device, substantially circular areas 61 to 66 are displayed from the top to the bottom of the screen. . The area becomes larger as it goes down, and the image looks as if an unspecified area flows downward. While comparing the display screen of the display device and the display screen of the remote control device, the user touches any one of the areas 61 to 66 that have come to a position corresponding to the position of the desired object. At this time, if a mark (pointer or the like) is displayed on the display screen of the display device corresponding to the touched area, it is determined after touching the desired area while referring to the pointer and selecting it. The object can be selected by pressing. With regard to such a flow, for example, there is an advantage that it is easy to select an object in correspondence with a moving image of a display device that moves rapidly.

  As described above, the object of the display device can be specified by the mechanism shown in any of FIGS. It is preferable to change the display of the position designation mechanism of the remote control device in accordance with the display content of the display device. For example, if it is a moving image, the user interface regarding position specification like FIG. 7 is preferable.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a display example when an object is not associated with a location designated by the remote control device. As shown in FIG. 8, when there is no object at the corresponding position, it is possible to notify the user that the object does not exist with reference numerals 101 and 103 on the display unit 52 of the remote controller 5. Such notification may be displayed when an object is selected on the remote control device, or may be displayed after selection and determination. In the former case, since the notification is performed before the determination, there is an advantage that the user does not need to make a useless selection.

  FIG. 1 shows an operation flow in the information acquisition system according to the present embodiment.

1) First, a user who is viewing a program displayed on the display screen 7 of the display device 1 displays the display screen by the position determination mechanism as shown in FIGS. 5 to 7 of the remote control device 5 having a bidirectional communication function. 7 Specify the object above.
2) When a position where the object is located is designated, the display device 1 notifies the remote control device 5 that the object has been designated. The user can know that a consensus has been reached between the display device 1 and the remote control device 5 regarding the designation of a desired object. Furthermore, assuming that the chair is an object designated in FIG. 1 associated with the object, if there is metadata of the chair, the metadata, for example, the URL of the manufacturer's home page is acquired.
3) The user associates the mail address registered in the remote control device 5 with the URL related to the object and sends it to the display device 1. Thereby, on the display device 1 side, it is possible to recognize to which device the URL related to the object should be sent.
4) Based on the recognition in 3) above, a mail address and URL are sent from the display device 1 to the user information DB server 21 via the network 15.
5), 5) ′ The user user information DB server 21 having received the above 4) sends the URL by e-mail to the client (cell phone 25, PC 27, etc.) having the corresponding mail address via the network 15. .
6) For example, if the PC user who has seen the PC 27 is more interested in the chair, or automatically, the presented URL is accessed to the detailed information DB server 23 (7)).
8), 8) ′ If the detailed information DB server 23 stores the detailed information regarding the presented URL, the detailed information DB server 23 sends the detailed information to the mail address of the PC 27 or the mobile phone 25 that has inquired.

  Thereby, the user of the PC 27 or the mobile phone 25 can obtain detailed information on the object selected in 1), for example, the manufacturer of the chair, the price, the source (the Internet shopping address or the telephone number of the store), the presence of stock, Information such as related products can be obtained.

  As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, for example, when there is an object of interest while watching TV, if the remote control device is marked, detailed information on the object is automatically acquired. Then, information is sent to the mail address designated by the remote control device among the mail addresses of the PC or mobile phone registered in the remote control device. A personal computer or a mobile phone may be sent to a friend or family member. In this way, the former has an advantage that detailed information on an object that the user wants to know automatically can be sent to his / her PC or mobile phone and confirmed later with a simple operation during viewing. In the latter case, there is an advantage that information related to the object can be transmitted to a remote friend or the like by a simple operation while watching TV, for example.

  The present invention is applicable to an information acquisition system.

It is a figure which shows the example of 1 structure of the information acquisition system by one embodiment of this invention. 3 is a diagram illustrating detailed functions of a remote control device 5. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote control device 5. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a display device 1. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the position determination mechanism in the display part of a remote control device. It is a figure which shows an example of the position determination mechanism in the display part of a remote control device. It is a figure which shows an example of the position determination mechanism in the display part of a remote control device. It is a figure which shows the example of a display when an object is not linked | related with the location designated from the remote control apparatus. It is a figure which shows the image | video displayed on the display screen of a display apparatus, and the object designation | designated mark shown on a display screen.

Explanation of symbols

  A ... Information report acquisition system, B ... Home equipment system, C ... Internet connection mechanism, 21 ... User information DB server, 23 ... Detailed information database (DB), 25 ... Mobile terminal device accessible to network, 27 ... Personal computer PC.

Claims (10)

Information acquisition system using a display system comprising a display device having a communication unit connectable to a network and a display unit for displaying video, and a remote control device (hereinafter referred to as “remote control device”) for operating the display device Because
When a certain position of the display unit of the display device is specified from the remote control device, and metadata describing an information acquisition method related to the object exists in the object displayed at the certain position, the Controlling transmission of metadata from the display device to the external terminal device specified by the electronic mail address via the network in combination with the electronic mail address of the external terminal device registered in advance in the remote control device An information acquisition system characterized by   The information acquisition system according to claim 1, further comprising a detailed information database server that receives an inquiry based on the metadata from the external terminal device and provides detailed information of the object.   The remote control device is provided with a remote control display unit having a touch panel function, and includes a position specifying mechanism for specifying a position in the display unit of the display device by selecting and determining a position in the remote control display unit, 2. The transmission / reception unit according to claim 1, further comprising: a transmission / reception unit that associates the metadata and the registered e-mail address and sends the metadata to the display device when the object determined in the determination process has metadata. 2. The information acquisition system according to 2.   If the object in the display unit of the corresponding display device has no metadata when the position is selected and determined, a display notifying that there is no metadata is performed on the display unit of the remote control device. The information acquisition system according to claim 3, wherein:   When the position is selected, if there is no metadata in the object on the display unit of the display device, a display for notifying that there is no metadata is displayed on the display unit of the remote control device. The information acquisition system according to claim 3.   6. The information acquisition according to claim 1, wherein a conversion unit that performs position conversion between the display unit of the display device and the display unit of the remote control device is provided on the display device side. system.   7. When an object is designated by position designation from the remote control device, the fact is displayed on the display unit of the display device or the display unit of the remote control device. The information acquisition system according to item 1.   The information acquisition system according to claim 3, wherein the display of the position specifying mechanism of the remote control device is changed according to the display content of the display device. A display device that has a communication unit connectable to a network and a display unit that displays video, and can be controlled by a remote control device,
When a certain position of the display unit is specified from the remote control device and the object displayed at the certain position includes metadata describing an information acquisition method related to the object, the metadata is And controlling the transmission from the display device to the external terminal device specified by the electronic mail address via the network in combination with the electronic mail address of the external terminal device registered in advance in the remote control device. Display device. A remote control device for operating a display device having a communication unit connectable to a network and a display unit for displaying video,
By designating a certain position of the display unit of the display device from the remote control device, the object displayed at the certain position has metadata related to the object and describing an information acquisition method regarding the object Control for transmitting the metadata from the display device to the external terminal device identified by the electronic mail address via the network in combination with the electronic mail address of the external terminal device registered in advance in the remote control device. A remote control device characterized by being performed.

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