JP2012105022A - Television receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time and effort when a user transmits contribution data in a television receiver.SOLUTION: A television receiver includes a tag generation section for generating a tag based on the content of program information acquired by a program information acquisition section. A remote controller for operating the television receiver includes a tag generation instruction button and a tweet transmission button. While a user is viewing a TV program of six channels (S1), when the tag generation instruction button of the remote controller is operated (S2), the television receiver generates a tag from program information on the TV program that a user is viewing, by using the tag generation section (S3). After operating the remote controller to input message data such as "I am moved by the ending" (S4), when the user operates the tweet transmission button (S5), the television receiver transmits contribution data including the tag generated in S3 and the message input by the user in S4 to a distribution server (S6).

Description

  The present invention relates to a television receiver capable of transmitting and receiving data to a distribution server.

  2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, communication services such as Twitter, which allow other users to view posted data by posting message data (hereinafter, posted data) to a distribution server on the Internet, are known. In this type of communication service, a user often transmits post data when he / she wants to share his / her opinion about a television program (hereinafter referred to as TV) being viewed with other users.

  As a conventional method for transmitting post data, for example, after a user operates a mobile phone or a personal computer to input a message, post data including the message is posted (transmitted) to the distribution server. However, this method has a problem that when the user wants to post an impression of a TV program, the user needs to operate the PC or the like while watching the TV receiver, and thus the operation is complicated.

  On the other hand, in recent years, TV receivers that can be connected to the Internet are known. Since this type of TV receiver can be connected to the Internet, a user inputs a message on the TV receiver while watching a TV program without operating a PC or the like, and then sends post data from the TV receiver. Is possible. Therefore, since it is not necessary to operate a PC or the like, it is possible to reduce the user's operation.

  By the way, when posting the posted data, the user may attach a search tag to the message body of the posted data and transmit it. However, the TV receiver that can be connected to the Internet has a problem in that it is not possible to sufficiently reduce the time and labor for transmitting post data because the user must manually input a tag.

  On the other hand, in Patent Document 1, the amount of space secured between one character information displayed on the character information display means and the other character information, and a new character stored in the temporary storage means. If it is determined that new character information can be inserted based on the comparison with the amount of character information in the information, the new character information is inserted between one character information and the other character information and scrolled. A character information display device to be displayed is disclosed. However, this character information display device cannot solve the above problem.

  Patent Document 2 also includes a management information storage unit, a user identifier, a sentence acquisition unit, a sentence processing unit that acquires one or more terms, a presentation information acquisition unit that acquires one or more presentation information, and a presentation There is disclosed an information processing apparatus that includes an information output unit and that can present information related to a sentence that has been input and transmitted to others to be read by a user. However, even this information processing apparatus cannot solve the above problem.

  Patent Document 3 includes a terminal that includes index information in a header or title, and transmits an opinion or impression of a specific scene in a program to a broadcast station via the Internet via e-mail and the received e-mail. There has been disclosed an information system using digital broadcasting, which includes a broadcasting station that multiplexes a program as information and distributes it to an unspecified or specific viewer through digital broadcasting. However, even this information system cannot solve the above problem.

JP 2009-193527 A JP 2009-193133 A JP 2000-197032 A

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a television receiver that can reduce the trouble of the user when transmitting post data.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a network for recording received data and connected to a distribution server for transmitting the recorded data via a network, and for transmitting and receiving data to and from the distribution server. Communication means, display means for displaying video of a television program broadcast from a broadcasting station, program information acquisition means for acquiring program information about a television program broadcast from the broadcasting station, and a user operated by the user Acquired by the program information acquisition means in a television receiver comprising input data transmission instruction operation means for instructing the transmission server to transmit the data input by the above and a control means for controlling each part of the apparatus And identifier generating means for generating an identifier based on the contents of the program information, and operated by the user An identifier generation instruction operation means for instructing to generate the identifier using the identifier generation means, and the control means is configured to provide the identifier generation instruction when a television program is viewed by a user. When the operating means is operated, the identifier generating means is used to generate an identifier based on the content of the program information about the television program being viewed by the user, and then the input data transmission instruction means is operated by the user. Then, together with the data input by the user, the generated identifier is transmitted to the distribution server.

  Further, the invention according to claim 2 is the television receiver according to claim 1, wherein data including an identifier generated by the user and operated by the identifier is received from the distribution server and received. Identifier data display instruction operation means for instructing to display data on the display means, and the control means is configured to display the identifier data display instruction operation means when a television program is viewed by a user. Is generated using the identifier generating means, after generating an identifier based on the content of the program information about the television program that the user is viewing, from the distribution server using the network communication means, Data including the generated identifier is received, and the received data is displayed on the display means.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the television receiver according to the first or second aspect, wherein a mounting unit for mounting an optical disc in which content and content information about the content are recorded; and the mounting unit Reproduction means for reproducing the content of the optical disc mounted on the disk, wherein the identifier generation means also generates an identifier based on the content information about the content being reproduced by the reproduction means, and the control means When the identifier generation instruction operation unit is operated by the user while the optical disc is being reproduced, the identifier generation unit is used to generate an identifier based on the content information about the content being reproduced. When the input data transmission instructing means is operated by the user, it is input by the user. And with the data, and transmits the identifier the generated to the distribution server.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, after the identifier based on the content of the program information about the television program that the user is viewing is generated, the generated identifier is transmitted to the distribution server together with the data input by the user. Can do. This eliminates the need for the user to manually input an identifier (for example, a program name for a certain television program or a tag indicating a broadcasting station), and can reduce the trouble of transmitting data.

  According to the invention of claim 2, when the identifier data display instruction operation means is operated, data including an identifier based on the content of the program information about the television program being viewed by the user is received from the distribution server. And display the received data. For this reason, the user can receive and display data related to the television program being viewed from the distribution server simply by operating the identifier data display instruction operation means, so that the user manually inputs the identifier. There is no need to perform a data display instruction operation, and the time for displaying data can be reduced.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, when the identifier generation instruction operating means is operated by the user while the optical disc is being played, an identifier based on the content information about the content being played back is generated. Thereafter, the generated identifier is transmitted to the distribution server together with the data input by the user. This eliminates the need for the user to manually input an identifier for the content being played back, and can reduce the trouble of transmitting data.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a network system including a TV receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention and a distribution server connected to the TV receiver. The block diagram which shows the internal structure of the said TV receiver. The top view which shows the upper surface of the remote control of the said TV receiver. The flowchart which shows an example of the transmission processing procedure of the posting data in the said TV receiver. Explanatory drawing which shows an example of the contribution data input screen displayed on the display of the said TV receiver. The flowchart which shows another example of the transmission processing procedure of the posting data in the said TV receiver. The flowchart which shows an example of the reception process procedure of the posting data in the said TV receiver. Explanatory drawing which shows an example of the posting data display screen displayed on the display of the said TV receiver.

  Hereinafter, a television receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3. FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a network system 100 including a television (hereinafter referred to as TV) receiver 1 and a distribution server 3 connected via the Internet (network) 4. FIG. 2 shows an internal configuration of the TV receiver 1, and FIG. 3 shows an upper surface of the remote controller 5 for operating the TV receiver 1.

  The distribution server 3 includes a posting information database (hereinafter referred to as posting information DB) 31 that records data (hereinafter referred to as posting data) received via the Internet 4. When the distribution server 3 receives the distribution request for the posting data from the TV receiver 1, the distribution server 3 acquires the posting data corresponding to the distribution request from the posting information DB 31 and transmits the acquired posting data to the TV receiver 1.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the TV receiver 1 is connected to an antenna 11, a tuner unit 12 that receives a digital broadcast signal from a broadcasting station, a decoder unit 13, and a display (display means) that displays a video of a TV program. 14 and a speaker 15 for outputting the sound of the TV program. In addition, the TV receiver 1 includes a remote control signal receiving unit 16 that receives a remote control signal transmitted from the remote controller 5, an HDMI terminal unit 17 provided so as to be exposed outside the housing, and a network card (network communication means). 18, a memory 19 storing various information, an optical disk drive (mounting unit) 20 on which the BD disk d is mounted, and a control microcomputer (control means) 10 for controlling each unit of the apparatus.

  The tuner unit 12 receives the digital broadcast signal of each channel distributed from the broadcast station via the antenna 11. The digital broadcast signal includes a TV program video signal and audio signal, and program information such as broadcast start time and broadcast end time of a distributed TV program, genre, program title, and performer.

  The decoder unit 13 performs a demodulation process, an error correction process, and the like on the digital broadcast signal received by the tuner unit 12 and separates a necessary TS (transport stream) packet from the multiplexed signal. (Not shown), a video decoding circuit (not shown) that decodes each separated TS packet, an audio decoding circuit (not shown), a data decoding circuit (not shown), and the like. .

  The video decoding circuit performs a decoding process on the TS packet including the video signal, extracts the video signal, and outputs the extracted video signal to the control microcomputer 10. The audio decoding circuit performs a decoding process on the TS packet including the audio signal, extracts the audio signal, and outputs the extracted audio signal to the control microcomputer 10.

  The data decoding circuit performs a decoding process on a TS packet including SI (Service Information) data, extracts SI data, and outputs the extracted SI data to the control microcomputer 10. The SI data includes an EIT (Event Information Table) in which program information of TV programs is stored.

  The display 14 displays the TV program video received by the tuner unit 12 and the content video read by the optical disc drive 20. The speaker 15 outputs the audio of the TV program received by the tuner unit 12 and the audio of the content read by the optical disc drive 20.

  The network card 18 is connected to the Internet 4 via a LAN cable 41 and performs packet signal transmission / reception control with respect to the Internet 4. The memory 19 stores a program 19a for operating the control microcomputer 10 and program information 19b.

  The optical disc drive 20 is loaded with a content and a BD disc (optical disc) d on which content information d1 about the content is recorded, reads content data and content information d1 from the BD disc d, and is a control microcomputer. The process which outputs to 10 is performed. The content information d1 stores information such as the title name and performers of the content stored on the BD disc d.

  The control microcomputer 10 includes a video output unit 10a, an audio output unit 10b, a program information acquisition unit (program information acquisition unit) 10c, a network communication control unit 10d, a disk reproduction control unit (reproduction unit) 10e, a tag It has a generating unit (identifier generating means) 10f, a posted data transmitting unit 10g, and a posted data receiving unit 10h, and operates its own device based on the operation of the remote controller 5 by the user.

  The video output unit 10 a outputs the video signal of the TV program received by the tuner unit 12 and the video signal of the content read from the optical disc drive 20 to the display 14. The audio output unit 10 b outputs the audio signal of the TV program received by the tuner unit 12 and the audio signal of the content read from the optical disc drive 20 to the speaker 15.

  Based on the EIT received from the decoder unit 13, the program information acquisition unit 10 c acquires program information of a TV program such as a program title and performers, and stores it in the program information 19 b of the memory 19.

  The network communication control unit 10 d communicates with the distribution server 3 on the Internet 4 using the network card 18. Specifically, the network communication control unit 10d transmits post data input by the user to the distribution server 3, transmission of a post data distribution request having a specific tag, and transmission from the distribution server 3. Receive post data.

  The disc reproduction control unit 10e reproduces the content data read from the BD disc d by the optical disc drive 20, outputs a video signal of the reproduced content data to the video output unit 10a, and outputs an audio signal to the audio output unit 10b. Perform output processing.

  The tag generation unit 10f generates a tag based on the content of the program information 19b acquired by the program information acquisition unit 10c. Specifically, for example, when a tag is generated from a program name “matrix restaurant”, a tag “#GYORETSU” which is a Roman character notation of this name is generated. Further, the tag generation unit 10f may generate a tag with hiragana notation “#Gyoetsu” from the program name “matrix restaurant”. The tag generation unit 10f can also generate a tag based on the content information d1 of the BD disc d.

  The posted data transmission unit 10g uses the network communication control unit 10d to perform processing to transmit the posted data including the message data input by the user and the tag generated by the tag generation unit 10f to the distribution server 3. Is. Further, the posted data transmitting unit 10g may transmit only message data input by the user to the distribution server 3 as posted data.

  The posted data receiving unit 10h receives the posted data including the tag generated by the tag generating unit 10f from the distribution server 3, and outputs an image signal for displaying the received posted data to the video output unit 10a. Is. The video output unit 10a causes the display 14 to display a display image of post data based on the received image signal.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the remote controller 5 includes a power button 50, a tag generation instruction button (identifier generation instruction operation means) 51, a tweet transmission button (input data transmission instruction operation means) 52, a cross button 53, and a determination. Button 54. The remote controller 5 further includes a numeric button 55, a cancel button 56, and a tweet reception button (identifier data display instruction operation means) 57.

  The power button 50 instructs to turn on / off the power of the TV receiver 1. The tag generation instruction button 51 is operated by a user and is used to instruct to generate a tag using the tag generation unit 10f. The tweet transmission button 52 is operated by the user and is used to instruct to transmit the post data input by the user to the distribution server 3.

  The number buttons 55 are composed of a plurality of buttons corresponding to numbers “0” to “9”, and the user can instruct channel selection or the like by operating the number buttons 55. Further, by assigning hiragana to each of “0” to “9” of the numeric buttons 55, the user can also operate the numeric buttons 55 to instruct message input or the like. Further, the user may input a message by operating the cross button 53 to move the cursor.

  The tweet reception button 57 receives post data including the tag selected by the user from the tags generated using the tag generation unit 10f from the distribution server 3, and displays the received post data on the display 14. It is an instruction. The user selects a desired arbitrary tag from tags generated in advance using the tag generation unit 10f before operating the tweet reception button 57.

  Next, an example of a post data transmission processing procedure in the TV receiver 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure of post data transmission processing. FIG. 5 shows an example of a post data input screen displayed on the display 14.

  First, when the user is watching a 6-channel TV program (S1), when the tag generation instruction button 51 of the remote controller 5 is operated (S2), the control microcomputer 10 uses the tag generation unit 10f to A tag is generated from the program information of the TV program being viewed by (1). Specifically, the tag generation unit 10f acquires program information about a TV program currently broadcast on 6 channels from the program information 19b, and generates a tag based on the program name and performer name of the program information. .

  Then, when the user inputs the message data such as “I was touched by the ending” by operating the numeric buttons 55 and the like of the remote controller 5 (S4) and then operates the tweet transmission button 52 (S5), the control microcomputer 10 Transmits post data including the tag generated in S3 and the message input by the user in S4 to the distribution server 3 using the post data transmission unit 10g (S6).

  FIG. 5 shows an example of a post data input screen displayed on the display 14. The display 14 displays post data including a tag “#dramaABC” generated by the tag generation unit 10f and a message “I was impressed by the ending” input by the user.

  Next, another example of the post data transmission processing procedure in the TV receiver 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. Here, it is assumed that the BD disc d is loaded in the optical disc drive 20.

  First, the BD disc d loaded in the optical disc drive 20 is played (S11), and when the user operates the tag generation instruction button 51 of the remote controller 5 (S12), the control microcomputer 10 causes the tag generation unit 10f to operate. The tag based on the content information d1 of the BD disc d is generated (S13). Specifically, for example, when the tag generation unit 10f acquires “Yamasaru 3D” as the content name from the content information d1 of the BD disc d, the tag generation unit 10f generates a tag such as “#yamazaru”.

  Then, after the user inputs a message by operating the numeric buttons 55 of the remote controller 5 (S14) and then operates the tweet transmission button 52 (S15), the control microcomputer 10 uses the posted data transmission unit 10g. The posting data including the tag generated in S13 and the message input by the user in S14 is transmitted to the distribution server 3 (S16). Here, the post data input screen displayed on the display 14 is the same as the post data input screen shown in FIG.

  Next, an example of a post data reception processing procedure in the TV receiver 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a procedure of post data reception processing. FIG. 8 shows an example of a posted data display screen displayed on the display 14.

  First, when the user is watching a 6-channel TV program (S21), if the tweet receiving button 57 of the remote controller 5 is operated (S22), the control microcomputer 10 uses the tag generator 10f to A tag is generated from the program information about the TV program being viewed (S23). Specifically, the tag generation unit 10f acquires program information about a TV program currently broadcast on 6 channels from the program information 19b, and generates a tag based on the program name and performer name of the program information. . In addition, the user may receive and display post data having a tag based on the content information d1 of the BD disc d by operating the tweet receiving button 57 of the remote controller 5 while playing the BD disc d.

  Then, when the user selects a tag to be received from the tags generated in S23 (S24), the control microcomputer 10 uses the posting data receiving unit 10h to post the tag selected by the user. Data is received from the distribution server 3 (S25). Then, the received post data is displayed on the display 14 (S26).

  FIG. 8 shows an example of a posted data display screen displayed on the display 14. On the display 14, post data including the tag “#dramaABC” selected by the user is displayed. The post data received from the distribution server 3 is, for example, “That scene was fun. #DramaABC”.

  As described above, in the TV receiver 1 according to the present embodiment, after generating a tag based on the content of the program information 19b for the TV program being viewed by the user, the message data input by the user and the generation The posted data including the tags thus sent can be transmitted to the distribution server 3. This eliminates the need for the user to manually input a tag, and can reduce the trouble of sending post data.

  In addition, since a tag based on the program information 19b of the TV program being viewed is automatically generated, there is no need to specify data before tag conversion when generating the tag. It is possible to further reduce the trouble.

  In addition, according to the TV receiver 1 according to the present embodiment, when the tweet reception button 57 is operated, a posting including a tag based on the content of the program information about the TV program that the user is viewing from the distribution server 3. Data is received, and the received post data is displayed on the display 14. Therefore, the user can receive post data related to the TV program being viewed from the distribution server 3 and display it on the display 14 simply by operating the tweet receiving button 57, so that the user manually inputs a tag. Thus, there is no need to perform post data display instruction operation, and it is possible to reduce time and labor when displaying post data.

  Also, according to the TV receiver 1 according to the present embodiment, when the tag generation instruction button 51 is operated while the BD disc d is being played back, the content information d1 about the content being played back is displayed. After the generated tag is generated, post data including message data input by the user and the generated tag is transmitted to the distribution server 3. This eliminates the need for the user to manually input a tag for the content being played back, and can reduce the trouble of sending post data.

  In addition, this invention is not restricted to the structure of the said embodiment, A various deformation | transformation is possible in the range which does not change the meaning of invention. For example, in the above embodiment, FIG. 6 shows an example in which the content of the BD disc is played back. However, VOD (Video On Demand) content may be played back.

1 TV receiver 3 Distribution server 4 Internet (network)
10 Microcomputer for control (control means)
14 Display (display means)
18 Network card (network communication means)
20 Optical disk drive (mounting part)
52 Tweet transmission button (input data transmission instruction operation means)
51 Tag generation instruction button (identifier generation instruction operation means)
57 Tweet reception button (identifier data display instruction operation means)
10c Program information acquisition unit (program information acquisition means)
10e Disc playback control unit (playback means)
10f Tag generator (identifier generator)
d BD disc (optical disc)
d1 Content information

Claims (3)

The received data is recorded and connected via a network to a distribution server that transmits the recorded data.
Network communication means for transmitting and receiving data to and from the distribution server;
Display means for displaying video of a television program broadcast from a broadcasting station;
Program information acquisition means for acquiring program information about a television program broadcast from a broadcasting station;
Input data transmission instruction operation means for instructing to transmit the data operated by the user and input by the user to the distribution server;
In a television receiver comprising control means for controlling each part of the apparatus,
Identifier generating means for generating an identifier based on the content of the program information acquired by the program information acquiring means;
An identifier generation instruction operation means operated by a user and instructing to generate the identifier using the identifier generation means;
When the identifier generation instruction operation unit is operated while the television program is being viewed by the user, the control unit uses the identifier generation unit to program the television program being viewed by the user. After the identifier based on the information content is generated, when the input data transmission instruction means is operated by the user, the generated identifier is transmitted to the distribution server together with the data input by the user. John receiver. Identifier data display instruction operation means for receiving data including an identifier generated by the user and operated using the identifier generation means from the distribution server, and instructing the received data to be displayed on the display means. Further comprising
When the identifier data display instruction operation unit is operated while the television program is being viewed by the user, the control unit uses the identifier generation unit to determine the television program that the user is viewing. After generating an identifier based on the contents of program information, the network communication means is used to receive data including the generated identifier from the distribution server, and the received data is displayed on the display means. The television receiver according to claim 1. A mounting unit for mounting an optical disc on which content and content information about the content are recorded;
Replaying means for replaying the content of the optical disc mounted on the mounting unit;
The identifier generating means also generates an identifier based on the content information of the content being played by the playing means;
When the identifier generation instruction operation unit is operated by a user while the optical disc is being reproduced, the control unit uses the identifier generation unit to determine the content information about the content being reproduced. The generated identifier is transmitted to the distribution server together with the data input by the user when the input data transmission instruction means is operated by the user after generating the identifier. 2. The television receiver according to 2.

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