JP2010171671A - Timer recording assisting method with mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem of inconsistency between a position at recording and a position at reservation or setting about broadcasting area at the time of reservation when timer recording is made on a mobile terminal. <P>SOLUTION: In a timer recording assisting method, the information containing such information as to specify a broadcasting area or a broadcasting station is registered as reservation data. The reservation data are compared with the location of a mobile terminal at the time of recording (or in advance by specified time earlier). If there exists inconsistency, any one of followings is performed: (1) changing of reservation data; (2) a candidate of change is outputted for selective reception from a user; and (3) reception of input whether to change from the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for recording a television broadcast on a mobile terminal including a mobile phone, and more particularly to so-called reservation recording.

  Currently, television broadcasts can be viewed by moving to various places using a portable terminal or a portable television receiver. In particular, with the start of terrestrial digital broadcasting, the TV method is being viewed on a mobile phone. Here, as a viewing style of a television broadcast, there are a style of viewing as it is during a broadcast time, recording by reserved recording, etc., and viewing the recorded content later. Patent Documents 1 and 2 are conventional techniques related to this recording.

  Patent Document 1 describes a technique for receiving the contents of a television broadcast being received by a mobile phone in response to the reception of an e-mail or a call during viewing, and the fact that the mobile phone cannot be viewed as it is, particularly in the case of a mobile phone. ing. In Patent Document 1, digital television broadcasting can be recorded and played back with digital signals (TS signals), so that the amount of data to be recorded can be greatly reduced, and long-time audio image data can be recorded with a small capacity and small data storage. A technique for recording a digital TV broadcast on a portable terminal during a call is disclosed.

  Further, Patent Document 2 discloses a technique for making a broadcast program recording reservation in a stationary recording apparatus using a mobile phone or the like. In Patent Document 2, the program information server is accessed by a mobile phone, broadcast program information (EPG information) is specified, and this is transmitted to a recording device via a network (program information server) to perform recording reservation setting. Is disclosed.

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  However, Patent Documents 1 and 2 do not consider the case of “reserved recording” on the mobile terminal itself (or a medium directly connected thereto).

  In Patent Document 1, as described in paragraph 0016, “when receiving the reception signal reception, the 400 recording / playback control unit is instructed to start recording terrestrial digital broadcast”. “Reserved” recording is not considered. Further, in Patent Document 2, the mobile phone 12 and the recording device 71 that is a recording device are separate and are stationary. For this reason, Patent Document 2 does not consider reservation recording “to the mobile terminal itself”. In Patent Document 2, since it is described in paragraph 0018 as “so-called recording device 71 such as a video recorder installed in the home”, it is determined that the device is not normally carried but is installed at home. it can.

  In the future, considering that the need for recording on the mobile phone itself will increase due to the spread of so-called one-segment broadcasting, there arises a problem that the techniques of Patent Documents 1 and 2 cannot cope. In particular, when making a reservation with a mobile phone, the position of the mobile phone is often different between the time of reservation and the time of broadcasting (or the regional setting in reception at the mobile terminal at the time of reservation and the position at the time of recording differ). As a result, each broadcast area may be different. For this reason, there is a possibility that the channel and the broadcast time are different. Usually, since a reservation is made along a broadcasting area located at the time of reservation, there is a possibility that an error occurs due to the absence of the corresponding channel or a channel broadcasting another program is recorded at the time of recording. Neither of Patent Documents 1 and 2 discloses a problem that arises in the position mismatch between the reservation time and the broadcast time. For this reason, in Patent Documents 1 and 2, there remains a problem that the program desired by the user cannot be reserved and recorded on the mobile phone.

  When the above-mentioned problems are solved and reserved recording is performed on the mobile terminal itself, the program desired by the user is also handled in correspondence with the mismatch of the “position” at the time of reservation (setting) and broadcasting (the mismatch of the program that occurs based on it) It is an object of the present invention to make it possible to perform scheduled recording.

  Therefore, in the present invention, information including information specifying a broadcasting area or broadcasting station is registered as reservation data, and the location of the mobile terminal at the time of recording (or a predetermined time before) is compared with the reservation data. If there is a contradiction, (1) change reservation data, (2) output change candidates, accept selection from the user, and (3) accept input from the user about whether to change. Do one of the following: In particular, in the case of (3), when an input indicating that it should be changed is accepted, the process of (2) is also included in one aspect of the present invention.

  Further, the present invention includes that the portable terminal reads and specifies a program ID for identifying a program recorded on a program promotion poster or the like. In this case, information recorded on an IC tag attached to a poster or the like is read using a wireless communication technology (RFID), or a code printed on a poster is read like a two-dimensional barcode. Also good.

  In addition to the category of the method, the present invention includes the entire system that implements the method and a portable terminal and a program server that are each component of the entire system. Furthermore, programs executed by these devices are also included.

  According to the present invention, by moving the mobile terminal, it becomes possible to make a reservation recording of a program according to a user's request even if the broadcast area at the time of reservation does not match the broadcast area at the time of recording.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In addition, a present Example is only an example and this invention is not limited by this.

FIG. 1 shows a system configuration in an embodiment of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, an IC tag 110 attached to a poster 100 is read by a mobile phone 120 equipped with an RFID reader function 121 and a GPS acquisition function 124. The mobile phone 120 is connected to the network 130, and the network 130 is connected to the server 140. The server 140 holds program data 150. The program data 150 is obtained from the network 160. One-segment broadcasting is transmitted by a TV station (A district) 170 and a TV station (B district) (each from a broadcasting facility via a transmitting unit such as an antenna). TV station (A district) and TV station (B district) are affiliated stations.

Next, an outline of processing in one embodiment of the present invention will be described.
In this embodiment, a program ID is acquired by reading the IC tag 110 attached to the poster 100 with a mobile phone 120 equipped with an RFID reader function 121 and a GPS acquisition function 124, and the program ID and GPS acquisition function 124 are acquired. The broadcast time and channel are acquired from the server 140 based on the current position acquired in (1). At that time, the program ID is stored in the mobile phone 120. A recording reservation is made to the mobile phone 120 based on the acquired information.

  When the recording reservation is completed, the broadcast time and channel are acquired again from the server based on the program ID stored in the mobile phone 120 and the current position acquired by the GPS acquisition function 124 a certain time before the reserved time. If the acquired result matches the reserved content, the recording is started.

Hereinafter, the operation at the time of recording reservation according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.
Step 201: The mobile phone 120 is held over the IC tag 110 attached to the poster 100 by the user, and acquires the program ID stored in the IC tag 110. The acquired program ID is stored in the mobile phone 120. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the program ID “22222” is acquired.

  Step 202: The current position information is acquired by the GPS acquisition function 124 of the mobile phone 120. In this embodiment, it is assumed that “7777777” is acquired as location information in Tokyo.

  Step 203: The mobile phone 120 transmits the stored program ID and current position information to the program server 140 via the network 130. At this time, data is transmitted in the data format of the reservation time data table 20 of FIG. In this embodiment, a header “0” indicating that the data is reserved, a program ID “22222”, and current position information “7777777” are transmitted.

  Step 204: The program server 140 receives the program ID and current position information transmitted from the mobile phone 120. The server confirms the header “0”, determines that the transmitted data is data at the time of reservation, and controls to proceed to the processing at the time of reservation, that is, step 205. Although not shown in FIG. 2, the control, that is, whether to perform the reservation processing as in step 205 or other processing is changed according to the determination result. The case of performing “reservation confirmation” as other processing will be described later.

  Step 205: The program server 140 acquires program data corresponding to the received program ID and current position information from the program data DB 150. At this time, it is assumed that a mechanism for converting the current position information into the regional information is prepared on a server or a mobile phone. When there is no data, it returns that there is no data. In the present embodiment, 41 data “program ID: 22222, time: November 30, 10:00, area: Tokyo, channel: 4” of the program data table 40 from the program ID “22222” and the area information “Tokyo”. You can get it.

  Step 206: The program server 140 transmits the program data whose program data is later than the current time among the data acquired in step 205 to the mobile phone 120 via the network 130.

Step 207: The mobile phone 120 receives the data transmitted from the server 140.
Step 208: The mobile phone 120 displays the received data on its own screen. In this embodiment, “program ID: 22222, time: November 30, 10:00, region: Tokyo, channel: 4” is displayed.

  Step 209: The mobile phone 120 determines whether or not to make a reservation with the program data of the received data according to the input from the user. When an input to make a reservation with the program data is accepted, the reservation is completed by registering the program data. That is, the process proceeds to step 216. If an input indicating that no reservation is made for the program (reservation is made using program data for a different region) is received, the process proceeds to step 210.

  Step 210: When the mobile phone 120 receives an input to make a reservation with program data in a region different from the received data, the mobile phone 120 transmits the inquiry data to the server 140 in the form of the inquiry data table 30 shown in FIG. To do.

  In this embodiment, the information of the header “1” and the program ID “22222” of the inquiry data 31 is transmitted to the server 140.

Step 211: The program server 140 receives the information transmitted from the mobile phone 120.
Step 212: The program server 140 determines from the header information that it is inquiry data for program data in another region, and executes processing for acquiring program data from the program data DB 150 based on the program ID based on the determination result. If the program data does not exist, a message indicating that the program data does not exist is returned to the mobile phone 120. In the present embodiment, it is determined from the header “1” that it is inquiry data of program data in another region, and the search processing of the program DB 150 is executed. That is, the program data DB 150 is searched for program data for each region corresponding to the program ID “22222”.

  Step 213: The program server 140 transmits, to the mobile phone 140, program data whose program data is later than the current time in the searched program data of each region. Whether the time is later than the current time is realized by comparing the clock (calendar) function of the program server 140 with the broadcast start time (or end time) of the searched program data. In this embodiment, the time is compared in Step 213, but this comparison may be performed in the search process in Step 212. In this embodiment, the program data information of each region “program ID: 22222, time: November 30, 10:00, region: Tokyo, channel: 4,” “program ID: 22222, time: November 30, 12” : 00, region: Osaka, channel: 8 ”,“ program ID: 22222, time: November 31 12:00, region: Kyushu, channel: 12 ”.

Step 214: The mobile phone 120 receives the information transmitted from the server 140.
Step 215: The mobile phone 120 displays the received program data information of each region on its own screen. Selection of one data from the displayed data of each region is received from the user.

  Step 216: The mobile phone 120 registers the received program data. That is, the reservation is completed.

Next, the operation at the time of recording in this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.
Step 301: The mobile phone 120 has a clock (calendar) function that the mobile phone 120 has a certain time before the registered recording reservation time (broadcast start time included in the program data registered in Step 216). Detect using. In this embodiment, it is 5 minutes ago.

  Step 302: The mobile phone 120 acquires current position information by using its own GPS acquisition function 124. In this embodiment, it is assumed that “7777777” is acquired as location information in Tokyo.

Step 303: The mobile phone 120 transmits the program ID and the current position information stored therein to the program server 140 via the network 130. At this time, the data is transmitted in the data format of the confirmation data table 50. A header “2” indicating that the data is reserved, a program ID “22222”, and current position information “7777777” are transmitted.
Step 304: The program server 140 receives the program ID and the current position information transmitted from the mobile phone 120. The server confirms the header “2”, determines that the transmitted data is data at the time of reservation confirmation, and controls to proceed to the processing at the time of reservation confirmation, that is, step 305. Although not shown in FIG. 3, the control, that is, whether the process at the time of reservation confirmation as in step 305 or another process is performed is changed according to the determination result. As another process, there is a case where a “reservation time” process is performed as in step 205.

  Step 305: The program server 140 searches the program data DB 150 for program data corresponding to the received program ID and current position information. At this time, it is assumed that a mechanism for converting the current position information into the area information is prepared on the program server 140 or the mobile phone 120. If there is no data, it returns to the mobile phone 120 that there is no data.

  Step 306: The program server 140 transmits, to the mobile phone 120 via the network 130, program data whose program data is later than the current time in the program data searched in step 205. This is executed by comparing the broadcast start time of the searched program data with the current time detected by the clock function using the clock function of the program server 140.

Step 307: The mobile phone 120 receives the data transmitted from the program server 140.
Step 309: The mobile phone 120 determines whether the registered reservation content matches the program data received in step 307. If they match, the process proceeds to step 319 to start recording. If they do not match, go to step 310.

  Next, the operation at the time of recording of the mobile phone 120 will be described in the case where the reservation contents registered in step 309 and the program data received in step 307 do not match.

  Step 310: The mobile phone 120 transmits inquiry data to the program server 140 in the form of the inquiry data table 30 shown in FIG. 4 in order to make a reservation with program data in different regions. In this embodiment, the information of the header “1” and the program ID “22222” of the inquiry data 31 is transmitted to the program server 140.

Step 311: The program server 140 receives the information transmitted from the mobile phone 120.
Step 312: It is determined from the header information that it is inquiry data of program data in another area, and search processing is executed. That is, the program data corresponding to the program ID is searched from the program data DB 150. If the program data does not exist, a message indicating that the program data does not exist is returned to the mobile phone 120.

  In the present embodiment, the header “1” indicates inquiry data of program data in other areas, and the program data corresponding to the program ID “22222” is searched from the program data DB 150.

  Step 313: The program server 140 transmits, to the mobile phone 140, program data whose program data is later than the current time in the searched program data of each region. The later program is specified using the clock function as described above.

  In this embodiment, the program data information of each region “program ID: 22222, time: November 30, 10:00, region: Tokyo, channel: 4,” “program ID: 22222, time: November 30, 12” : 00, region: Osaka, channel: 8 ”,“ program ID: 22222, time: November 31 12:00, region: Kyushu, channel: 12 ”.

Step 314: The mobile phone 120 receives the information transmitted from the program server 140.
Step 315: The mobile phone 120 displays the received program data information of each region on its own screen. The selection of one data is received from the displayed data of each region.

  Step 316: The mobile phone 120 registers program data and re-reserves the program. That is, the program data registered in step 216 is overwritten and saved.

  Step 317: If the reservation is a certain time before Step 301, the mobile phone 120 proceeds to Step 319 and starts recording. If it is not a certain time ago, the reservation is registered and the process ends.

  In accordance with the registered reservation content, the mobile phone 120 records a program. As a result, the user can view the recorded program even if the user moves.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart at the time of reservation in one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart at the time of video recording in one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the various data (table) utilized by one Embodiment of this invention.

  10 ... Poster, 100 ... Poster, 120 ... Mobile phone, 130 ... Network, 140 ... Program server

Claims (6)

Using a program server that stores program data relating to each program of a television broadcast, a portable terminal having a receiving means for receiving the television broadcast and a recording means for recording the received television broadcast, the television broadcast is preliminarily transmitted to the recording means. In a reservation recording support method for a portable terminal that supports reservation recording for recording at a set time,
The mobile terminal is
A program ID for identifying a TV broadcast program is read from the recording medium,
Transmitting program data request information including the program ID to the program server via a network;
The program server is
For each program ID that identifies each program, it has a program database that stores program data that associates the broadcast time, broadcast channel, and broadcast region of the program,
Of the program data of the program ID included in the program data request information, the first program data of a specific broadcasting region is searched from the program database,
The searched program data and the program ID are transmitted to the mobile terminal,
The mobile terminal is
Registering the transmitted first program data and the program ID as reservation data;
Detecting that it is a predetermined time before the broadcast time included in the reservation data,
Determine whether the location of the mobile terminal is included in the broadcast area included in the reservation data,
If it is determined that it is not included, at least the second program data of the broadcasting area including the position of the mobile terminal is received from the program server,
The reservation data is updated by registering the received second program data over the first program data,
A reservation recording support method for a portable terminal, wherein a television broadcast is recorded on the recording means in accordance with the updated reservation data or the registered reservation data. In the reservation recording assistance method to the portable terminal of Claim 1,
The portable terminal is
After the predetermined time before, detecting position information indicating the position of the mobile terminal,
Extracting a program ID included in the reservation data;
A confirmation request including the detected location information and the extracted program ID is transmitted to the program server;
The program server
Of the program data of the program ID included in the confirmation request, the third program data of the broadcasting area corresponding to the position information is searched from the program database,
Transmitting the searched third program data to the mobile terminal;
The portable terminal is
Comparing the third program data with the first program data;
If it is determined as a result of comparison that they do not match, it is determined that they are not included in the determination. In the reservation recording assistance method to the portable terminal according to claim 2,
The portable terminal is
A reservation recording support method for a portable terminal, wherein if it is determined that the third program data is not included in the determination, the third program data is overwritten and registered as the second program data on the first program data. In the reservation recording assistance method to the portable terminal according to claim 2,
The portable terminal is
If it is determined that it is not included in the determination, a plurality of fourth program data excluding the first program data among the program data of the program ID is received from the program server,
Displaying the plurality of received fourth program data on a display unit;
Receiving selection of fifth program data from among the plurality of displayed fourth program data;
A reservation recording support method for a portable terminal, wherein the selected fifth program is overwritten and registered in the first program data as the second program data. In the reservation recording assistance method to the portable terminal according to claim 4,
The portable terminal is
If it is determined that it is not included in the determination, inquiry information including the program ID is transmitted to the program server,
The program server searches for the fourth program information from the program database in accordance with the inquiry information, and a reserved program support method, wherein: In the reservation recording assistance method to the portable terminal in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 5,
The portable terminal is
Detects location information indicating its own location,
As the program data request information, program data request information including the position information is transmitted to the program server,
The program server
Reservation recording support method for portable terminal, wherein program data having broadcast area corresponding to position information included in transmitted program data request information is searched as first program data of said specific broadcast area .

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