JP2010239360A - Cooperative reception system and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooperative reception system including a television receiver which guides a reference destination of a browser to a designated site. <P>SOLUTION: The reception system which guides the reference destination of the browser to the designated site by a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) included in a broadcasting signal of digital broadcasting, includes: a digital broadcast receiver; and a network terminal which displays the designated site by starting the browser, wherein the digital broadcast receiver and the network terminal are connected to each other by a network, the digital broadcast receiver is provided with: a means for receiving the digital broadcasting signal; a decoding part which decodes the digital broadcasting signal; an information extraction part which extracts URL information included in the decoded signal; and an information transmitting part which transmits the extracted URL information to the network terminal when the extracted URL information includes information to be associated with the designated site, and the network terminal is provided with a display part which is connected to the designated site using the extracted URL information and displays the information from the designated site. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a cooperative reception system and a program including a television receiver that guides a browser reference destination to a specific site. In particular, a browser that operates on a personal computer or the like is guided to a site specified by a broadcast wave in accordance with digital broadcast information received by a television receiver using a Java (registered trademark, hereinafter the same) data broadcasting service. The present invention relates to a cooperative reception system and program.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a technology of a content distribution system that can guide a user who is watching a one-seg broadcast television program to a specific website is known (Patent Document 1). According to this technology, the system provides RSS (Really Simple Synchronization, or RDF Site Summary, RDF is an abbreviation of Resource Description Framework) feeds for a plurality of websites in response to display requests for keywords or the like designated in advance by the user. The update information list can be transmitted to the user's mobile phone terminal.

  Conventionally, there has been known a digital broadcast receiver capable of transmitting a message such as an emergency alert to a preset emergency contact when an emergency alert or the like is received (Patent Document 2). According to the digital broadcast receiver, the received emergency alert signal or the like is converted into a mail format by the digital broadcast receiver and transmitted to the server, and the server transmits the mail to the communication terminal, whereby the user Says that it can check emergency alert signals even when it is away from the digital broadcast receiver.

  Conventionally, a technique for guiding a reference destination of a browser such as a personal computer to a specific site is known (Non-Patent Document 1). According to this technology, in a personal computer or the like that is ready to receive a digital television broadcast, a broadcasting station that transmits the digital television broadcast is updated information such as a news program while such an application is activated. , The personal computer or the like can operate to acquire the content of the updated news program and display it on the terminal screen. Specifically, when the sender uses RSS as a document format and the receiving terminal activates software called an RSS reader, the receiver can update the contents of the news program that he / she is interested in. It is possible to automatically receive and browse the latest contents.

  Furthermore, in recent years, a technique is known in which a television receiver or the like is used as a Java virtual machine using a method of transmitting encoded data by broadcast waves (Non-Patent Document 2). According to this technology, a broadcast station transmits a message or a program to a television receiver or the like as a Java virtual machine, and the television receiver or the like uses a Java application programming interface (Java API) to process the received message. A predetermined process or the like can be performed. The technology in this technical field that causes a television receiver or the like capable of receiving digital broadcasting to operate as a Java virtual machine is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

JP 2008-225791 A JP-A-2005-51602

“NHK Online | About RSS”, [online], Japan Broadcasting Corporation, July 17, 2008, [Search January 8, 2009], Internet, <URL: http: //www3.nhk.or. jp / toppage / rss /> Japan Radio Industry Association, “Application Execution Environment Standard for Digital Broadcasting (ARIB STD-B23 1.1 Version)”, Part 2 “Application Execution Environment”, February 5, 2004

  However, in a conventional content distribution system or the like, the user has to select or input a request including a keyword or the like in advance to the system and transmit it. Therefore, in such a service that requires manual operation of the viewer, a desired result may not be obtained due to a typo or the like, or a connection may not be made correctly.

  Further, in a conventional digital broadcasting system that relays mail to a communication terminal via a server, it is necessary to prepare all of the contents to be transmitted as a mail by a broadcast wave or a television receiver. In emergency information or the like, it is important to inform the user of urgency or the importance of information, and even a short message may be able to play a sufficient role. On the other hand, in the combined use of characters or image information associated with television broadcasting, it is desirable to prepare means capable of transmitting abundant contents according to user preferences. However, it is difficult to prepare an image with a large file size because of the limit of the band of broadcast waves or the limit of hardware resources as information equipment in digital home appliances such as a television receiver. For example, the number of screen pages that can be temporarily saved on a TV or mobile phone is limited due to storage capacity limitations, and the scrolling speed of the display area is limited. Especially on mobile phones, the amount of information that can be displayed on one screen is limited. was there. Therefore, there has been a demand for means capable of automatically distributing text or image information associated with such television broadcasts without being restricted by the band limitation of the broadcast wave or the hardware resources of the television receiver.

  In addition, conventionally, in order to guide viewers to access a website through a service that uses both a television and the Internet, the viewer first needs to access a home page that provides the service. . Typically, a broadcasting station or the like displays a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for the service on the viewer's television screen, and the viewer displays it on a personal computer or mobile phone. It is necessary to input to a browser that operates on the terminal device. Even when an RSS reader is used, the user needs a procedure for specifying the URL of the site of interest in advance. In these procedures as well, the viewer's manual operation is required, as in the case of the content distribution system described above, and there are cases where the connection cannot be made correctly due to a typographical error. In order to access a website using a mobile phone, it is possible to display a QR code (registered trademark, hereinafter the same matrix type two-dimensional code called a Quick Response code) on a TV screen. It is necessary to manually shoot a QR code using his / her mobile phone to obtain a URL, and access the target service from the mobile phone using the obtained URL.

  The present invention specifies a reference destination of a browser operating on a personal computer or the like by a broadcast wave according to information included in a digital broadcast received by a television receiver without using a URL input manually by a viewer. The purpose is to be directed to the site. In addition, the present invention restricts the bandwidth of data distribution by broadcast waves by guiding a user to a website using a personal computer or the like whose components such as a storage capacity or an image processing circuit can be changed as necessary. An object of the present invention is to provide a reception system that is easy to use by avoiding restrictions on performance or functions derived from hardware resources of network home appliances or mobile phones.

  In the present invention, the following means are provided.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a reference destination of a browser which is application software for browsing a web page is sent to a designated site in a collection of web pages by a URL included in a broadcast signal of digital broadcasting. A receiving system for guiding, comprising: a digital broadcast receiver that receives a digital broadcast; and a network terminal that activates a browser and displays a designated site, and the digital broadcast receiver and the network terminal Are connected by a network line, the digital broadcast receiver includes a receiving means for receiving a digital broadcast signal, a decoding unit for decoding the digital broadcast signal, an information extracting unit for extracting URL information contained in the decoded signal, and an extraction Determine whether the URL information included includes information associated with the specified site, An information transmission unit that transmits the extracted URL information to the network terminal when the information to be associated is included, and the network terminal connects to the specified site using the extracted URL information, and There is provided a receiving system including a display unit for displaying information from a site.

  Preferably, the digital broadcast receiver included in the reception system according to the present invention is a Java virtual machine capable of using a Java API known in the art. Such a digital broadcast receiver can receive a digital broadcast from a broadcast station as a Java data broadcast. Therefore, the broadcasting station can transmit data such as character strings or a program for executing predetermined processing to the digital broadcast receiver as the Java virtual machine according to predetermined specifications. The digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention can perform processing such as extraction of a character string using a predetermined API. Typically, a Java data broadcast receiver or the like including a digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention accumulates data sent by broadcast over time using an appropriate storage medium or the like, and from the accumulated data, a predetermined amount is stored. Operates by retrieving information or programs.

  Preferably, the network terminal included in the receiving system according to the present invention is capable of operating a browser and includes a display unit for displaying character information, image information, or the like via the Internet or the like. For example, a personal computer or the like that can be connected to a network can be used as a network terminal. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a game machine, a mobile phone, an electronic notebook, etc. The network terminal may be included in the receiving system according to the invention.

  In one embodiment, the receiving system according to the present invention transmits the extracted information to the network terminal when the information extracted from the decoded digital broadcast includes information associated with a site designated by a broadcasting station or the like. It may include a digital broadcast receiver, a network terminal for receiving transmitted information, and a computer network for connecting these devices. Here, the information associated with the designated site may be a URL indicating the network resource of the designated site, and an identifier or a character string corresponding to each of an arbitrary number of URLs stored in advance in the digital broadcast receiver. But you can.

  In the operation of the receiving system according to the present invention, a computer network for connecting a digital broadcast receiver and a network terminal is a network in which a plurality of network devices are connected to each other via a broadband router, a switching hub, a proxy server, or the like. Alternatively, a one-to-one connection between the digital broadcast receiver and the network terminal may be used. The computer network may be a local area network in the home.

The network terminal included in the receiving system according to the present invention is preferably specified from the digital broadcast receiver included in the receiving system according to the present invention, but is not limited thereto.
In one embodiment, a digital broadcast receiver and a network terminal according to the present invention are connected to the same local area network or the like, and each is assigned a unique IP address. The digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention can use a unique IP address of a network terminal in order to specify a transmission destination.
In another embodiment, the digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention searches for a connectable terminal device or the like in the connected local area network, and finds a connectable terminal device. In addition, the terminal device can be handled as a network terminal according to the present invention. In such a search for a connectable terminal device, a known technique such as port scanning may be used.
In yet another embodiment, the digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention provides the same local area connected with the network terminal when the extracted information includes information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave. It is possible to broadcast the extracted information in the network.

  The information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave extracted by the information extraction unit of the digital broadcast receiver included in the reception system according to the present invention includes information on the site that provides information related to the digital broadcast program. Not limited to this. The digital broadcast receiver may store URLs for referring to each of a plurality of sites in advance, and any URL may be designated by a broadcast wave. For example, the information extraction unit of the digital broadcast receiver may extract the word or phrase in response to a predetermined word or phrase included in the decoded digital broadcast program. In addition, for example, the information extraction unit extracts the information in response to predetermined information that is included in the decoded digital broadcast program and has a form such as meta information or code number that is not displayed to the user. May be. The information associated with the designated site extracted in this way includes, as additional information, authentication information for authenticating all or part of the information associated with the designated site, attribute information such as update history, etc. Information indicating an expiration date, information of an associated computer program or execution library, and the like may optionally be included.

  For such phrases, meta information, code numbers, or additional information, it is possible to arbitrarily use a form that can be transmitted using the bandwidth of data broadcasting in digital broadcasting. For example, the amount of URL information for guiding a network terminal to a site designated by a broadcast wave can be designed to be about several hundred bytes including the http protocol known in the art or less. The information for guidance does not need to include image data or the like as it is. Therefore, the receiving system according to the present invention can receive information associated with a designated site extracted by the information extracting unit of the receiving device as part of data broadcasting in digital broadcasting. It can be sent to the terminal and used.

  The receiving system according to the present invention may appropriately include a storage unit for storing the decoded digital broadcast in the digital broadcast receiver. The storage unit may be a single storage medium or the like, or may be used as a storage medium for storing a computer program or the like other than broadcasting, and can be designed as appropriate.

  The information transmitting unit of the digital broadcast receiver included in the receiving system according to the present invention transmits information associated with the designated site extracted by the information extracting unit described above via a local area network or the like. Send to network terminal.

  In this manner, in the receiving system according to the present invention, when the decoded digital broadcast program includes information associated with a specific site, the digital broadcast receiver transmits the information specified by the broadcast wave. The information is extracted as information for guiding the network terminal, and information associated with the designated site is transmitted to the network terminal. The network terminal only needs to have a function for receiving the transmitted information. Specifically, using a known technique, an application that responds to an inquiry from a Java data broadcast may be operated on a network terminal to wait for information from a digital broadcast receiver.

  Further, in the digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention, the information transmitting unit transmits URL information for starting software for the network terminal to connect to the network, and the software for connecting to the network is the network terminal. It includes at least one of software for establishing a connection with a network line, software for authenticating a network terminal by a network service provider via the network line, and a browser for browsing a web page.

  By doing so, the network terminal included in the receiving system according to the present invention automatically connects to the network line in response to receiving information from the information transmitting unit of the digital broadcast receiver. It is possible to establish, authenticate by a service provider, or launch a browser.

  In one embodiment, the network terminal included in the receiving system according to the present invention automatically establishes a connection with the network line in response to receiving information from the information transmitting unit of the digital broadcast receiver, Perform all authentication by the service provider and browser startup. That is, even when a connection with a network such as the Internet is not established, the network terminal can automatically perform these operations.

  In another embodiment, when the network terminal included in the receiving system according to the present invention has already established a connection with a network such as the Internet and has completed authentication by a service provider, information on the digital broadcast receiver In response to receiving information from the transmitter, the browser is activated to refer to the designated site. Here, to start the browser, the browser may be newly instructed to start, or the browser that has already been started may be instructed to connect to the new designated site, and has already been started. The browser may be additionally instructed to connect to the designated site, and may be designed as appropriate.

  By doing in this way, the user of the receiving system according to the present invention can use the receiving system according to the present invention without having to manually start software for the network terminal to connect to the network.

  Furthermore, the network terminal according to the present invention may automatically access network resources associated with the URL information in response to receiving the URL information transmitted from the information transmitting unit.

  In one embodiment, the extracted information includes URL information for accessing the network resource specified by the broadcast wave. The network terminal included in the receiving system according to the present invention can access the network resource designated by using the URL information.

  In another embodiment, the extracted information is an identifier or a character string corresponding to each of an arbitrary number of URLs stored in advance in the digital broadcast receiver. That is, the digital broadcast receiver stores information on a plurality of URLs in advance, then extracts the information in the form of an identifier or a character string, and if there is information on the URL corresponding to the extracted information, The URL information may be transmitted to the network terminal. The network terminal can access the network resource specified by the broadcast wave using the information of the URL.

  In another embodiment, the extracted information is an identifier or a character string corresponding to each of an arbitrary number of URLs stored in advance in the digital broadcast receiver, and the digital broadcast receiver uses such an identifier or character. Send the column etc. to the network terminal. The network terminal stores information on a plurality of URLs in advance, and when there is URL information corresponding to the received identifier or character string, the network resource specified by the broadcast wave using the URL information Can be accessed.

  In this way, the network terminal included in the receiving system according to the present invention can receive information from the digital broadcast receiver and access network resources. The access may be performed automatically in response to receiving information from the digital broadcast receiver. Therefore, the user of the receiving system according to the present invention can use the information related to the decrypted digital broadcast via the network terminal without manually inputting the URL of the site designated by the broadcast wave. Is possible.

  Further, the digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention adds the additional information to the extracted URL information and transmits it from the information transmitting unit, and the network terminal accesses the network resource associated with the added URL information. May be.

  In one embodiment, a broadcasting station or the like that provides digital broadcasting to the cooperative reception system according to the present invention prepares in advance a link destination or content configuration that can correspond to the line speed, the size of the screen display area of the network terminal, and the like. Then, the digital broadcast receiver may transmit a URL to which these conditions are added as additional information to the network terminal.

  As described above, by dynamically generating a URL on the digital broadcast receiver side, in the cooperative reception system according to the present invention, various types of network terminals are connected, and the content server specified by the broadcast wave The character information or image information from may be displayed on the network terminal. Therefore, the cooperative reception system according to the present invention guides each network terminal to a site appropriate for the form of each display unit even when network terminals having different amounts of information that can be displayed on the display unit are connected. Is possible.

  Furthermore, in the digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention, the information transmission unit may transmit information representing the nature of the URL information to the network terminal.

  Information representing the nature of information transmitted and received via network communication is typically represented using MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension, multipurpose Internet mail extension). That is, the MIME type for long lines that do not conform to the “US-ASCII” standard, which is a 7-bit character code type, characters that cannot be expressed only by US-ASCII, and non-character data such as binary data, images, and voices. It is possible to correctly restore the nature of the transmitted data on the receiving side by adding information called "." For example, by adding the MIME type <image / jpeg> to one binary data on the transmission side, the reception side can use the binary data as an image in the jpeg format.

  In response to receiving information representing the nature of the extracted information as described above, the network terminal included in the receiving system according to the present invention refers to the network resource associated with this information in order to refer to the network resource. Connection establishment, service provider authentication, or browser activation may be performed. The user may set a browser operable on the network terminal so as to perform these operations. For example, the relationship between a specific MIME type and a program that processes data having the MIME type may be defined in advance or specified by the user.

  By doing so, the network terminal refers to the network resource indicated by the URL in response to receiving information including the URL to which the MIME type such as <image / jpeg> is added from the digital broadcast receiver. It becomes possible to do. Therefore, the user of the receiving system according to the present invention uses the information representing the nature of the information extracted by the digital broadcast receiver without manually inputting a URL or the like, and can input the image, sound and the like via the network terminal. Etc. can be used in the correct form.

  Furthermore, the digital broadcast receiver according to the present invention may include authentication means for generating authentication information for authenticating the URL information by the network terminal.

  The digital broadcast receiver included in the reception system according to the present invention may include an authentication unit, and the network terminal may generate authentication information for authenticating information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave. Therefore, in the receiving system according to the present invention, information can be transmitted more safely by using authentication between the digital broadcast receiver and the network terminal.

  By doing in this way, the network terminal that receives information from the digital broadcast receiver, even when the authentication information is not included in the broadcast wave, the information from the digital broadcast receiver is legitimate information. It can be authenticated. For example, even if it is difficult to receive a part of a broadcast that includes authentication information in situations where reception of radio waves is unstable, the digital broadcast receiver compensates for such a situation and generates authentication information. It is possible. When predetermined authentication information is included in the decrypted digital broadcast, the digital broadcast receiver can transmit the authentication information as it is to the network terminal.

  The authentication information used in the receiving system according to the present invention may appropriately use an authentication technique known in the art. Specifically, one-way information communication reaching a network terminal from a broadcasting station via a digital broadcast receiver is appropriately selected from methods that can be authenticated and used as authentication information in the receiving system according to the present invention. Is possible.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a receiving program for guiding a browser reference destination to a site designated by a broadcast wave, the digital broadcasting receiver for receiving a digital broadcast, the browser being activated and designated In a computer system in which a network terminal that displays a received site is connected by a network line, a receiving unit that receives a digital broadcast signal, a decoding unit that decodes the digital broadcast signal, and URL information included in the decoded signal Information to be extracted and information for determining whether the extracted URL information includes information associated with the designated site, and when the information associated with the site is included, information for transmitting the extracted URL information to the network terminal A computer comprising: a transmitter; and functioning as a digital broadcast receiver A computer characterized by comprising a display unit for connecting to a designated site using the extracted URL information and displaying the information from the designated site on a browser. A receiving program is provided.

  The reception program according to the present invention can be provided in the form of an arbitrary computer-readable medium such as a memory card or a read-only memory (ROM). For example, the television receiver may be provided with a microprocessor and a storage medium to execute the reception program according to the present invention. The reception program according to the present invention may be received in the form of broadcast, decoded by the decoding unit of the digital broadcast receiver, and extracted by the information extraction unit. The receiving program according to the present invention can be provided in any form known in the art, such as a binary format that can be executed alone, a binary code that uses an appropriate library together, or a source code of a script language. In addition, the reception program according to the present invention can be combined with existing technologies such as a reception program such as digital television broadcasting, an e-mail transmission program, a reserved recording program, and the combined technology is also included in the present invention. Included in the technical scope. Furthermore, the technique of the present invention provides the steps of the operation according to the present invention in the form of FPGA (field programmable gate array), ASIC (application specific integrated circuit), hardware logic elements equivalent to these, programmable An integrated circuit or a combination thereof can be provided in the form of a program that can be stored, that is, as a program product. Specifically, a receiving program for the receiving system according to the present invention can be provided as a form of a custom LSI (large scale integrated circuit) including a data input / output, a data bus, a memory bus, a system bus, and the like. The form of the program product stored in the integrated circuit is also included in the technical scope of the present invention.

  According to the present invention, a reference destination of a browser such as a personal computer is specified by a broadcast wave according to information included in a digital broadcast received by a television receiver without using a URL input manually by a viewer. It is possible to be directed to the site. In addition, according to the present invention, network home appliances, mobile phones, and the like can be obtained by guiding a user to a website using a personal computer or the like whose storage capacity or image processing circuit can be changed as necessary. It is possible to avoid the limitation of performance or function derived from the hardware resources possessed and to provide a user-friendly receiving system.

It is a figure which shows the example of a structure of the cooperative reception system 100 based on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the digital broadcast receiver 10 based on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the cooperation reception system 101 based on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the digital broadcast receiver 11 based on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart showing operation | movement of the digital broadcast receiver 10 or the digital broadcast receiver 11 based on one Embodiment of this invention. It is another example of the flowchart showing the operation | movement of the digital broadcast receiver 10 or the digital broadcast receiver 11 based on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example which comprises the cooperative reception system 100 using the television receiver 80 which incorporates the digital broadcast receiver 10 based on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example which comprises the cooperation receiving system 101 using the television receiver 81 which incorporates the digital broadcast receiver 11 based on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example which the cooperative reception system 100 based on one Embodiment of this invention receives a broadcast wave, and guide | induces the access destination of the network terminal. It is a figure which shows the example which the cooperation receiving system 100 based on one Embodiment of this invention receives the broadcast wave with authentication information, and guide | induces the access destination of the network terminal 70. FIG.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. These are merely examples, and the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to these.

[Configuration of cooperative reception system 100]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a cooperative reception system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, a cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention includes a digital broadcast receiver 10 and a network terminal 60. These devices are connected to a network via a broadband router 50 and constitute a home network 40. The broadband router 50 can be connected to a wide area network 30 such as the Internet. Further, the wide area network 30 is connected to a predetermined content server 32 via a network. The digital broadcast receiver 10 receives the digital broadcast 28 from the broadcast tower 25 received by the antenna 29. The transmission means of the digital broadcast 28 is not limited to the broadcast tower 25 but may be a broadcast satellite or the like.

  Preferably, the digital broadcast 28 is a digital television broadcast using broadcast waves, but is not limited thereto, and may be a digital radio broadcast, a data broadcast, or the like.

  Preferably, the digital broadcast receiver 10 included in the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention is a Java virtual machine capable of using a Java API known in the art. That is, the digital broadcast receiver 10 can receive a digital broadcast from a broadcast station as a Java data broadcast. Therefore, the broadcast station can transmit a character string for displaying the screen or a program for executing a predetermined process to the digital broadcast receiver 10 as the Java virtual machine according to a predetermined specification. it can. The digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention can perform processing such as extraction of a character string using a predetermined API. Typically, the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention accumulates data transmitted by broadcasting over time using an appropriate storage medium or the like, and operates by extracting predetermined information or programs from the accumulated data. It is possible.

  The home network 40 may be a general local area network. The form of the home network 40 in the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention is not limited to the above, and the broadband router 50 may be a switching hub or a proxy server. The network terminal 60 includes two or more communication ports, one of which may be used for connection to the digital broadcast receiver 10 and the other one may be used for connection to the wide area network 30. Yes. Although FIG. 1 shows one network terminal 60, the present invention is not limited to this, and two or more network terminals 60 may be included in the home network 40.

  The broadband router 50 can connect the digital broadcast receiver 10 and the network terminal 60 so as to enable network communication with each other. Furthermore, the broadband router 50 can transfer information on a transmission request from the terminal device to the content server 32 connected to the wide area network 30 such as the Internet. On the other hand, the broadband router 50 blocks direct access from the wide area network 30 to terminal devices in the home network 40, while the content server 32 transmits in response to a transmission request from the network terminal 60. Data can be passed.

  A network terminal 60 shown in FIG. The network terminal 60 is preferably a personal computer or the like capable of operating browser software capable of referring to a network service via a wide area network such as the Internet. The network terminal 60 is not limited to this, and may be a mobile phone or a game machine capable of network connection and browser operation.

  The network terminal 60 can preferably be specified from the digital broadcast receiver 10 included in the cooperative reception system 100. For example, the digital broadcast receiver 10 and the network terminal 60 are each assigned a unique IP address in the home network 40. The digital broadcast receiver 10 may use the IP address assigned to the network terminal 60 to identify the network terminal 60 as a transmission destination of information. Further, for example, the digital broadcast receiver 10 specifies the network terminal 60 by using the Mac address of the network terminal 60 or the terminal name of the network terminal 60 in the local area network as information unique to the network terminal 60. Thus, it may be a transmission destination of information. Further, for example, the digital broadcast receiver 10 may search whether or not the network terminal 60 connected to the home network 40 is connectable using a known method such as port scanning. Alternatively, the digital broadcast receiver 10 may transmit information by broadcasting.

  In the example of FIG. 1, the digital broadcast receiver 10 receives the digital broadcast 28 from the broadcast tower 25 received by the antenna 29, and extracts information associated with the designated site included in the received digital broadcast 28. Can be transmitted to the network terminal 60. The network terminal 60 can receive information associated with the designated site transmitted by the digital broadcast receiver 10 as long as the information transmitted from the digital broadcast receiver 10 can be received. For example, the network terminal 60 may cause an application that responds to an inquiry from a Java data broadcast to operate on the network terminal using a known technique, and wait for information from the digital broadcast receiver. Next, the network terminal 60 can refer to the network resource indicated by the information according to the information associated with the designated site.

Specifically, the information associated with the site designated by the digital broadcast 28 is a URL or the like for referring to the network resource, and the network terminal 60 uses the URL or the like to send to the designated content server 32. Can be accessed.
Furthermore, a broadcasting station or the like that provides the digital broadcast 28 to the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention has a link destination or content configuration that can correspond to the line speed, the size of the screen display area of the network terminal, the number of pixels, or the like. Information prepared in advance and information associated with the designated site may be transmitted to the digital broadcast receiver 10 together with these conditions. The digital broadcast receiver 10 may transmit a URL to which these conditions are added as additional information to the network terminal 60. The form of the additional information may be tag information accompanying the URL, for example. In this way, by dynamically generating a URL in the digital broadcast receiver 10, in the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention, various types of network terminals 60 are connected to the designated content server 32. It is also possible to display text information or image information from the network terminal 60.

  The digital broadcast receiver 10 shown in FIG. 1 may be provided in the form of a single product, or provided in the form of a computer component or peripheral device that can be attached and detached via an appropriate interface provided in a personal computer or the like. Alternatively, it may be provided by being incorporated in another device such as a television receiver.

  The network terminal 60 shown in the example of FIG. 1 responds to information related to the site specified by the digital broadcast 28 transmitted by the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention, and accesses the specified site. A resident computer program or the like may be executed.

  The digital broadcast receiver 10 shown in the example of FIG. 1 may transmit information for starting software for the network terminal 60 to connect to the network. Here, the software for network connection is software that establishes a connection between the network terminal 60 and the wide area network 30, software that a service provider or the like authenticates the network terminal 60 through the wide area network 30, or the network terminal 60. It can be any browser that works. The software for connecting to the network may be automatically read into the memory when the operating system is started in the network terminal 60, or may be linked with a part of another application such as a browser.

[Configuration of Digital Broadcast Receiver 10]
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. In one embodiment, the digital broadcast receiver 10 includes a receiving unit 12 that receives a signal via an antenna 29, a decoding unit 13 that decodes a broadcast from the received signal, and information associated with a site designated from the decoded broadcast. Information extracting section 14 for extracting information, information transmitting section 19 for transmitting information to other terminal devices, etc., network I / F (interface) 20 for connecting to home network 40, image display means and sound output means (FIG. (Not shown) includes an image / sound I / F 21 for outputting image and sound signals or information, a control unit 24 for controlling the operation of each of these components, and a storage unit 22. Furthermore, the digital broadcast receiver 10 may include an authentication unit 18 that generates authentication information for the network terminal 60 to authenticate information included in the digital broadcast receiver 10 or the digital broadcast.

  As the receiving unit 12 and the decoding unit 13, components such as a receiving circuit and a decoding circuit (including a part of an integrated circuit element) provided in a known digital television receiver or the like can be used. The storage unit 22 can be used to store the digital broadcast decoded by the decoding unit 13, but is not limited thereto, and may be used to store information or a program for the operation of the control unit or arbitrary information. Good. For example, the storage unit 22 may be used to store a program or API for the digital broadcast receiver 10 to operate as a Java virtual machine.

Information associated with the designated site that can be extracted by the information extraction unit 14 is included in any information that can be included in the digital broadcast 28. For example, the information extraction unit 14 may extract information associated with a designated site from information received as part of a data broadcast included in the digital broadcast 28. Whether the information extraction unit 14 corresponds to the information to be extracted may be determined as a match or mismatch with a predetermined character string or the like, or may be determined based on an identifier associated with the received information.
For example, when the decrypted digital broadcast includes a character string such as “http: //”, the information extraction unit 14 uses the phrase including the character string as a URL for accessing a site specified by the broadcast wave. It may be identified and extracted as information associated with the designated site.
Further, for example, the digital broadcast receiver 10 may store in advance an arbitrary number of URLs and identifiers or character strings corresponding to the URLs using the storage unit 22 or the like. When the decrypted digital broadcast includes such an identifier or a character string, the information extraction unit 14 may extract the corresponding URL as information associated with the designated site.

  The authentication unit 18 can appropriately generate authentication information for the network terminal 60 to authenticate information included in the digital broadcast receiver 10 or the digital broadcast. That is, the digital broadcast receiver 10 may include a mechanism for authentication with the network terminal 60 to transmit information more safely. Any form of authentication can be used as long as it can authenticate information communication from the digital broadcast receiver 10 to the network terminal 60 including the broadband router 50. Generally, as the authentication mode, a known technique that can authenticate one-way information communication from the digital broadcast receiver 10 to an unspecified terminal device can be arbitrarily used.

  The information transmission unit 19 transmits the information extracted by the information extraction unit 14 and the authentication information generated by the authentication unit 18 as appropriate. An identifier, a field, a separator, or the like for distinguishing each information may be added. The digital broadcast receiver 10 may store the IP address in the home network 40 of the network terminal 60 that is the transmission destination using the storage unit 22 or the like. The information transmission unit 19 can transmit information using the stored IP address. Similarly, the Mac address of the network terminal 60 or the terminal name in the home network 40 may be used. Alternatively, the digital broadcast receiver 10 searches whether the network terminal 60 connected in the home network 40 is connectable using a known method such as port scanning, and the network terminal 60 searches for information. A route that can be received may be found and information may be transmitted from the information transmission unit 19. Alternatively, the digital broadcast receiver 10 may transmit information from the information transmission unit 19 by broadcasting.

The network I / F 20 is used to connect the digital broadcast receiver 10 and the broadband router 50 to the network and transmit information from the information transmission unit 19 to the broadband router 50. The image / sound I / F 21 is used to output image and sound signals or information included in the broadcast decoded by the decoding unit 13. As these network I / F 20 and video / audio I / F 21, an interface provided in a known digital television receiver or the like can be arbitrarily used. The image / audio I / F 21 may include a circuit component for outputting video or audio, or may be integrated with the circuit component.
Note that the control unit 24 may output the information transmitted by the information transmission unit 19 only from the network I / F 20, or may output a part or all of the information from the image / sound I / F 21 as data broadcast content. .

  The control unit 24 controls the operations of the reception unit 12, the decoding unit 13, the information extraction unit 14, the authentication unit 18, the information transmission unit 19, the network I / F 20, the image audio I / F 21, and the storage unit 22. To do. A specific control mode will be described later with reference to a flowchart. The control unit 24 may be, for example, a unit in which a television receiver includes a microprocessor and a storage medium, and executes a cooperative reception program according to the present invention.

  Furthermore, the control unit 24 may implement a program or the like that dynamically generates a URL. That is, a broadcasting station or the like that provides the digital broadcast 28 to the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention has a link destination or content configuration that can correspond to the line speed, the size of the screen display area of the network terminal, the number of pixels, or the like. Information prepared in advance and associated with the site designated by the broadcast wave may be transmitted to the digital broadcast receiver 10 together with these conditions. The control unit 24 of the digital broadcast receiver 10 may generate a URL to which these conditions are added as additional information. As described above, when the digital broadcast receiver 10 dynamically generates a URL, in the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention, various types of network terminals 60 are connected, and content designated by broadcast waves. It is also possible to display character information or image information from the server 32 on the network terminal 60.

  With this configuration, in the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention, the digital broadcast receiver 10 is connected to the home network 40 and responds to information associated with the designated site included in the digital broadcast 28. Thus, the information can be transmitted to the network terminal 60 connected to the same home network 40.

  The network terminal 60 is only required to be connected to the home network 40 and receive information transmitted from the digital broadcast receiver 10. The network terminal 60 can automatically access the designated content server 32 in response to receiving information such as a URL included in the decrypted digital broadcast. Therefore, the user can obtain information related to the television broadcast or the like being viewed from the designated content server 32 without needing to input a URL manually.

  By using a personal computer or the like whose constituent elements such as storage capacity or image processing circuit can be changed as necessary as the network terminal 60, performance or function derived from hardware resources possessed by network home appliances or mobile phones Restrictions can be avoided. For example, restrictions on hardware resources of information home appliances, mobile phones, and the like can be avoided with respect to restrictions such as the number of pages that can be temporarily stored, the scroll speed of the display area, and the amount of information that can be displayed on one screen. Therefore, the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention can provide a user-friendly reception system to the user.

[Configuration of cooperative reception system 101]
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the cooperative reception system 101 according to an embodiment of the present invention. A description of portions common to FIG. 1 is omitted.

  In the example of FIG. 3, the digital broadcast receiver 11 included in the cooperative reception system 101 is connected to the broadband router 50 inside the home network 40. The digital broadcast receiver 11 uses a browser or stream reception software (not shown) or the like to receive a digital broadcast 27 provided by the broadcast station 26 via a wide area network 30 such as the Internet. Such a transmission request is transmitted to the broadcasting station 26. In response to the transmission request, the broadcast station 26 transmits the desired program as the digital broadcast 27 to the digital broadcast receiver 11.

  Typically, the digital broadcast 27 is a digital television broadcast in a stream format via a computer network such as the wide area network 30, but is not limited to this, and may be music distribution, digital radio broadcast, or the like.

  In the example of FIG. 3, the reception form of the digital broadcast 27 is different from the radio wave using the wide area network 30, but the digital broadcast receiver 11 is connected to the home network 40 as in the example of FIG. 1. Information associated with the site designated by the digital broadcast 27 can be transmitted to the network terminal 60. That is, except for the receiving form of the digital broadcast 27, the digital broadcast receiver 11 can perform the same operation as the digital broadcast receiver 10 shown in FIG.

[Configuration of digital broadcast receiver 11]
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the digital broadcast receiver 11 according to an embodiment of the present invention. A description of portions common to those in FIG. 2 is omitted.

  The digital broadcast receiver 11 shown in FIG. 4 is different from the digital broadcast receiver 10 shown in FIG. 2 in that the digital broadcast 27 is received via the wide area network 30 such as the Internet. That is, the digital broadcast 27 is sent from the network I / F 20 to the receiving unit 12. The processing related to the received signal is the same as that of the digital broadcast receiver 10 shown in FIG.

  With this configuration, the digital broadcast receiver 11 receives the digital broadcast 27 from the wide area network 30 via the broadband router 50, and when the information associated with the designated site is extracted, the network terminal 60 can transmit information.

[Diagram of digital broadcast receiver operation]
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the digital broadcast receiver 10 or the digital broadcast receiver 11 according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 5, the steps are mainly described as the operation of the digital broadcast receiver 10.

  In step S130, the digital broadcast receiver 10 receives the digital broadcast 28. In the case of the digital broadcast receiver 11, the digital broadcast 27 is received.

  In step S140, the digital broadcast receiver 10 decodes the received signal. Thereby, a broadcast such as a program is decoded from the received signal. Decoded broadcasts can include images, audio, data broadcasts, and the like.

  In step S145, the digital broadcast receiver 10 stores the decoded broadcast. As a storage means, a computer readable / writable magnetic medium or a storage medium such as a nonvolatile memory can be used. For example, the storage unit 22 is used. Thereby, the digital broadcast receiver 10 can refer to the data stored in the storage unit 22. In the following stages, it is shown that predetermined information is processed from the decoded broadcast including the accumulated data, but the means for storing the predetermined information is not limited to the storage unit 22 of the digital broadcast receiver 10, Any of the constituent elements may be provided with a buffer memory or the like and used for storing predetermined information.

  In step S150, the digital broadcast receiver 10 determines whether the decoded broadcast includes predetermined information such as information associated with a specific site. That is, the presence / absence of information on the site designated by the broadcast wave is determined. If the result of the determination is true, the process proceeds to step S160, and if it is false, the process returns to step S130. That is, in a situation where the information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave is not included in the decoded broadcast, the digital broadcast receiver 10 performs steps S130 to S150 to repeat signal reception and broadcast decoding. . The implementation period from step S130 to step S150 may be any, the digital broadcast receiver 10 may repeat these steps at regular time intervals, and repeat these steps according to the amount of data included in the decoded broadcast. Also good.

  In step S <b> 160, the digital broadcast receiver 10 sends the decoded information to the information transmission unit 19. That is, information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave is sent to the information transmission unit 19. Here, sending the information to the information transmission unit 19 indicates storing the information as a part of the transmission queue using the storage unit 22, for example. The form of the decrypted information may be a predefined code number or the like, or may be a readable character string or the like. The decrypted information may include authentication information transmitted by the broadcasting station in order to authenticate predetermined information such as information associated with the site designated by the broadcast wave. Any form of authentication information may be used.

In step S180, the digital broadcast receiver 10 sends additional information to the information transmission unit 19 as appropriate. This additional information may be information obtained by combining information decoded by the digital broadcast receiver 10 and information unique to the digital broadcast receiver 10. Alternatively, the additional information may be a phrase or the like that can be added to the character string or the like included in the decoded information as appropriate in order to improve readability as appropriate, and a template that can incorporate a code number or character string or the like included in the decoded information Etc. Alternatively, when the decoded information already has sufficient readability for the user, the digital broadcast receiver 10 has already transmitted the decoded information to the information transmission unit 19 in step S160 in the preceding stage, and therefore the operation of step S180 is It may be omitted.
In one embodiment, the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention may generate authentication information using the authentication unit 18 and send the generated authentication information to the information transmission unit 19 as additional information. The form of the authentication information may be anything. For example, it may be a part of the authentication information that the decoded information includes information specified by the broadcast wave.

  In step S190, the digital broadcast receiver 10 broadcasts the content of the information transmission unit 19 via the network I / F 20. As a result, information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave sent to the information transmission unit 19 in step S160 is transmitted to the network terminal 60, and additional information sent to the information transmission unit 19 in step S180. Is transmitted to the network terminal 60 as appropriate.

  FIG. 6 is another example of a flowchart showing the operation of the digital broadcast receiver 10 or the digital broadcast receiver 11 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As in FIG. 5, the steps will be described mainly as the operation of the digital broadcast receiver 10. In the following description, the operation of the digital broadcast receiver 10 including the authentication unit 18 will be described. Even if the authentication unit 18 is omitted, the digital broadcast receiver 10 included in the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention is configured. Is possible.

  In step S120, the digital broadcast receiver 10 generates authentication information. Specifically, the authentication unit 18 is used to generate information for the network terminal 60 connected to the home network 40 to authenticate the digital broadcast receiver 10. The generated authentication information is sent to the information transmitter 19. The authentication information may be information that can authenticate one-way information communication from the digital broadcast receiver 10 to the network terminal 60. For example, identification information unique to the digital broadcast receiver 10 may be provided, and this identification information may be transmitted to the network terminal 60 as authentication information.

  The operation from step S130 to step S190 is the same as the operation of the digital broadcast receiver 10 shown in FIG. Thereby, the information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave sent to the information transmission unit 19 in step S160 and the authentication information generated in step S120 and sent to the information transmission unit 19 in step S180 are transmitted to the network terminal 60. Sent to. Further, the additional information sent to the information transmission unit 19 in step S180 is appropriately transmitted to the network terminal 60.

(Embodiment 1: Embodiment in which a digital broadcast receiver 10 is built in a television receiver)
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the cooperative reception system 100 is configured using the television receiver 80 including the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. 7 includes a television receiver 80 and a network terminal 70 incorporating the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention, and these are connected to a network by a broadband router 50. The digital broadcast receiver 10 receives the digital broadcast 28 from the broadcast tower 25 through the antenna 29. The broadband router 50 can also be connected to a wide area network 30 such as the Internet. The network terminal 70 includes a display unit 72. Preferably, the network terminal 70 is operated by a predetermined computer that can receive information transmitted by the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention and can be connected to the wide area network 30. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it may be a game machine capable of network connection and browser operation, a mobile phone, or an information home appliance such as an electronic notebook.

  By configuring in this way, the television receiver 80 incorporating the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention responds to information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave included in the digital broadcast 28, and the network terminal The information can be transmitted to 70.

  The network terminal 70 can access the content server 32 specified by the broadcast wave via the wide area network 30 such as the Internet using the information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave. . For example, the information associated with the site designated by the broadcast wave may be text information or an image associated with or associated with the television broadcast being viewed. The form of information associated with the site specified by the broadcast wave is, for example, a URL for accessing the content server 32 specified by the broadcast wave. The user only needs to connect the cable such that the television receiver 80 and the network terminal 70 are connected to the broadband router 50, and manually inputs information associated with the site designated by the broadcast wave as a URL. This makes it possible to automatically browse and use various information related to or accompanying the television program being viewed.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the cooperative reception system 101 is configured using the television receiver 81 including the digital broadcast receiver 11 according to an embodiment of the present invention. A cooperative reception system 101 shown in FIG. 8 includes a television receiver 81 incorporating a digital broadcast receiver 11 according to the present invention, a broadband router 50, and a network terminal 70, and a broadcasting station 26 via a wide area network 30 such as the Internet. The digital broadcast 27 is received. Similar to the cooperative reception system 100 shown in FIG. 7, the broadband router 50 can be connected to a wide area network 30 such as the Internet.

  For example, the network terminal 70 may be a personal computer or the like installed in a net cafe or the like equipped with the television receiver 81. Further, for example, the street broadcast TV or the like may be incorporated as the television receiver 81 in the digital broadcast receiver 11. Instead of the broadband router 50, a known proxy server or the like that dynamically assigns an IP address to each connected terminal is used, and the digital broadcast receiver 11 is connected to the network terminal 70 possessed by a plurality of viewers via a wireless network. You may comprise so that the extracted information may be transmitted. The cooperative receiving system 101 according to the present invention may be configured by the digital broadcast receiver 11 transmitting information to the proxy server. The network terminal 70 is only required to connect to the proxy server in the same local area network as the digital broadcast receiver 11 according to the present invention and receive the information transmitted from the digital broadcast receiver 11. The number of network terminals 70 with respect to the broadcast receiver 11 does not matter.

  In this way, in the cooperative reception system 101 according to the present invention, the digital broadcast 27 broadcast in the form of network distribution is also transmitted by the broadcast wave as in the cooperative reception system 100 shown in FIG. Information associated with the designated site can be extracted and transmitted to the network terminal 70.

  Furthermore, in the cooperative reception system 101 according to the present invention, a plurality of network terminals 70 can be connected in the same local area network. Each individual user can receive and use various character information or image information related to or accompanying the digital broadcast 27 being viewed by his / her personal computer or the like. Since such character information or image information is displayed in the display area of the network terminal 70, it is not necessary to overlap the display area of the television receiver 81. Therefore, these character information or image information can be used by the user as desired. Further, conventionally, when a plurality of users are watching the same television receiver 81, the view is blocked by other users, or at a place off the front of the display area of the television receiver 81. Due to insufficient visibility of characters, etc. because of viewing, problems such as overlooking character information displayed on the screen for a short time may occur. By using the system 101, the user can have an opportunity to use various character information or image information related to or accompanying the digital broadcast 27 as desired using the network terminal 70 at hand.

(Example 2: An example of guiding an access destination of a network terminal)
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the cooperative reception system 100 receives a broadcast wave and guides the access destination of the network terminal 70 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The components of the cooperative reception system 100 are the same as those shown in FIG. In the following embodiment, an example is shown in which the network terminal 70 is automatically guided to a program site that deals with the topic of a television program included in the digital broadcast 28. The cooperative reception system 100 including the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention can operate in the same manner even in a situation where the network terminal 70 is guided to a site that collects or reports responses from viewers in real time. .

  FIG. 9 shows a situation where the television receiver 80 incorporating the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention receives the digital broadcast 28 from the broadcast tower 25 by the antenna 29. Further, the digital broadcast 28 includes program and URL information 310. The digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention extracts the URL information 320 in response to receiving such a program and URL information 310 and is connected via the broadband router 50. 70. In the network terminal 70, URL information 330 is received by communication from the broadband router 50.

  The URL information 320 may be a URL dynamically generated by the control unit 24 shown in FIG. That is, a broadcasting station or the like that provides digital broadcasting to the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention prepares in advance a link destination or content configuration that can handle the line speed, the size of the screen display area of the network terminal, and the like. The digital broadcast receiver 10 may transmit the URL information 320 to which these conditions are added as additional information to the network terminal 70. By dynamically generating URL information 320 by the digital broadcast receiver 10, in the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention, various types of network terminals 70 are connected and content specified by the digital broadcast 28 is specified. Character information or image information from the server 32 may be displayed on the network terminal 70.

  Further, the URL information 320 and 330 may be the same information, and the URL information 330 may be information processed by the broadband router 50 or a network device equivalent thereto. For example, the URL information 330 may be information appropriately subjected to publicly known processing such as selection by the broadband router 50 or filtering by a proxy server.

  In the network terminal 70, by starting a computer program that waits for the URL information 330, the content server 32 designated by the digital broadcast 28 via the wide area network 30 such as the Internet in accordance with the URL information 330. Access 340 may be implemented. That is, the URL information 330 may be information associated with a site designated by a broadcast wave. Therefore, for example, character information or image information of a program site that deals with the topic of a television program included in the digital broadcast 28 can be displayed as a browser display 350 on a display unit or the like provided in the network terminal 70.

  The computer program that waits for the URL information 330 is preferably a program provided in the form of a gadget that resides in memory in conjunction with the activation of the operating system of the personal computer (for example, a known “NHK gadget”). Program). As such a gadget, a program that waits for URL information 330 operates, so that the network terminal 70 can wait for reception of information associated with a site designated by a broadcast wave.

  In this way, the URL information 320 is extracted from the digital broadcast 28 by the cooperative reception system 100 configured using the television receiver 80 including the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and the network. It is transmitted to the terminal 70, and the network terminal 70 can use this to access the corresponding designated content server 32 and automatically use the network resource.

(Example 3: Another example of guiding an access destination of a network terminal)
FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the cooperative reception system 100 receives a broadcast wave with authentication information and guides the access destination of the network terminal 70 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The components of the cooperative reception system 100 are the same as those shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 10, the television receiver 80 including the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention responds to receiving the information 312 including the program, the URL, and the authentication information, and the URL and the authentication. Information 322 including information is extracted, and information 322 including the extracted URL and authentication information is transmitted to the network terminal 70 connected via the broadband router 50. The network terminal 70 receives the authenticated URL information 335 through communication from the broadband router 50. Here, as in the above-described cooperative receiving system 100 shown in FIG. 9, the information 322 including the URL and the authentication information and the information 335 of the authenticated URL may be the same information, and the information 335 of the authenticated URL is the broadband router. Information having been subjected to processing such as sorting by 50 may be used.

  Note that the URL information included in the information 322 including the URL and the authentication information is a URL dynamically generated by the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the present invention, like the URL information 320 shown in FIG. It may be the information.

  In the network terminal 70, a computer program that waits for the authenticated URL information 335 is activated, so that it is designated by the digital broadcast 28 via the wide area network 30 such as the Internet in accordance with the authenticated URL information 335. Access 345 to content server 32 may be implemented. For example, text information or image information including news related to or associated with the digital broadcast 28 can be displayed on the display unit of the network terminal 70 as the browser display 355. The network terminal 70 may be set to wait for the authenticated URL information 335 while ignoring or blocking the URL information without the authentication information. Therefore, it is possible to display character information or image information from a specific reliable content server 32 on the network terminal 70.

  Thus, in the cooperative reception system 100 configured using the television receiver 80 including the digital broadcast receiver 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the information 322 including the URL and authentication information from the digital broadcast 28. The network terminal 70 can use this as the authenticated URL information 335 to access the corresponding specific content server 32 and automatically use network resources. When the network terminal 70 operates while waiting for the authenticated URL information 335, the cooperative reception system 100 according to the present invention can transmit information more safely.

  Although the present invention has been described based on the embodiment, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. The effects described in the embodiments of the present invention are only the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are limited to those described in the embodiments or examples of the present invention. Is not to be done.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10, 11 Digital broadcast receiver 12 Receiving part 13 Decoding part 14 Information extraction part 18 Authentication part 19 Information transmission part 20 Network I / F
21 Image / Audio I / F
22 storage unit 24 control unit 25 broadcast tower 26 broadcast station 27, 28 digital broadcast 29 antenna 30 wide area network 32 content server 40 home network 50 broadband router 60, 70 network terminal 80, 81 TV receiver 100, 101 cooperative reception System 310 Program and URL
312 Program, URL and authentication information 320, 330 URL information 322 URL and authentication information 335 Authenticated URL
340, 345 Access 350, 355 Browser display

Claims (3)

A receiving system that guides a reference destination of a browser, which is application software for browsing a web page, to a designated site in a collection of web pages by a URL included in a broadcast signal of digital broadcasting,
The receiving system is:
A digital broadcast receiver for receiving digital broadcasts;
A network terminal that activates the browser and displays the designated site;
The digital broadcast receiver and the network terminal are connected by a network line,
The digital broadcast receiver
Receiving means for receiving a digital broadcast signal;
A decoding unit for decoding the digital broadcast signal;
An information extraction unit for extracting URL information included in the decoded signal;
Determining whether the extracted URL information includes information associated with the designated site; and if the extracted URL information includes information associated with the site, an information transmission unit that transmits the extracted URL information to the network terminal; With
The network terminal includes a display unit for connecting to the designated site using the extracted URL information and displaying information from the designated site.
The receiving system. The information transmission unit transmits URL information for starting software for the network terminal to connect to the network,
The software for connecting to the network browses software for establishing a connection between the network terminal and a network line, software for authenticating the network terminal by a network service provider via the network line, and a web page Including at least one of said browsers for
The receiving system according to claim 1. A receiving program for guiding a browser reference destination to a site designated by a broadcast wave,
A digital broadcast receiver for receiving digital broadcasts;
In a computer system in which a network terminal that starts the browser and displays the designated site is connected by a network line,
A receiver for receiving a digital broadcast signal;
A decoding unit for decoding the digital broadcast signal;
An information extraction unit for extracting URL information included in the decoded signal;
Determining whether the extracted URL information includes information associated with the designated site; and if the extracted URL information includes information associated with the site, an information transmission unit that transmits the extracted URL information to the network terminal; A computer comprising: a digital broadcast receiver;
A computer connected to the designated site using the extracted URL information and having a display unit for displaying information from the designated site is caused to function as the network terminal. And
The receiving program.

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