JP6110647B2 - Set-top boxes and televisions for streaming content playback - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a set-top box and a television for playing streaming content.

  In recent years, with the spread of video distribution services using the Internet, various contents can be freely watched at any time if specified, regardless of the broadcast time of the television.

  This video distribution service is, for example, YouTube (registered trademark), which stores video content (streaming content) on a video server connected to the Internet and transmits the video content in response to each user's request. is there. In recent years, set-top boxes have been developed that display moving image content from a moving image distribution service on a liquid crystal display or the like. For example, LinkTV (registered trademark) developed by the applicant.

  When searching for moving image content using such a moving image distribution service, even if a foreign content is searched using a Japanese (native language) keyword, the desired content cannot be searched. Foreign content with titles and descriptions in foreign languages had to be searched with foreign language keywords.

  In the summary of Patent Document 1, as an issue, “a search keyword input by a user is used, and a homepage created in a language different from the language used for inputting the search keyword can be easily searched. As a solution, the search engine 3 is provided with a translation device 31 for translating the search keyword into another language, and the search keyword is translated into the language used on the homepage to be searched. Search is performed. "

  In the summary of Patent Document 2, the problem is described as “appropriately and efficiently searching for desired Web page information corresponding to the semantic content of the search keyword without being aware of the language of the search keyword”. As a means, “the input unit 303 receives an input of a search keyword described in a predetermined language. The search keyword conversion unit 305 is configured to input the search keyword in the language different from the predetermined language, The identification information extraction unit 308 extracts the identification information of the country or region to be searched based on the translation keyword, and the search unit 309 performs the translation. The web page information is searched based on the keyword and the extracted identification information. And it outputs the retrieved search results. Has been described as ".

  Non-Patent Document 1 discloses a tool for searching other language translations of character strings used in Android (registered trademark). This tool is a web application for searching a sentence including an input keyword and a translated sentence from the resources of Android. This tool specifies a search keyword, a search keyword language, and a search result language, and translates the search keyword into another language.

JP 2002-259423 A Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-25478

"Android translation search", [October 18, 2012 search], Internet <URL: http: //www.imxs.skr.jp/lab/ats/>

Since a moving image site generally does not have a translation device, the technique described in Patent Document 1 cannot be directly applied to search for streaming content stored in a moving image site (streaming site).
The technique described in Patent Document 2 automatically determines a description language related to a search keyword. Therefore, the user cannot search with a search keyword in any language. In addition, there is a problem in that the apparatus must have a translation database.
The technique of Non-Patent Document 1 has a problem that the server must have a database related to search keywords.
Furthermore, when the technique described in Patent Document 1 or Patent Document 2 is applied to the search of streaming content stored in a video site, the streaming content title and description remain in the original language, which is useful for the user. There is a problem that it is difficult to understand.

  Accordingly, the present invention provides a set-top box for streaming content playback capable of searching foreign language video content with a native language keyword and displaying the searched foreign language video content in an easily understandable manner. The problem is to provide television.

In order to solve the above-described problem, the invention according to claim 1 includes a communication unit that transmits / receives data to / from a streaming server via a network and transmits / receives data to / from a translation server, and a first language. An input unit that accepts input of a search character string and designation of a second language, and transmits the search character string and a translation instruction from the first language to the second language to the translation server via a network, A translation search unit that receives a search character string translated into the second language from the translation server, transmits the received search character string to the streaming server, and receives the searched streaming list; and the searched streaming list For a predetermined number of streaming contents that can be displayed at a time, the streaming components retrieved from the streaming server sequentially are searched. The second language metadata, and the character string information of the received second language metadata and the translation instruction from the second language to the first language are transmitted to the translation server, and the translation server A metadata translation display unit for receiving the character string information translated from the first language into the first language and displaying the character string information of the metadata translated into the first language on a display . Set top box.
Other means will be described in the embodiment for carrying out the invention.

  According to the present invention, a set-top box for streaming content playback capable of searching foreign language video content with a native language keyword and displaying the searched foreign language video content in an easily understandable manner, and Television can be provided.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a system in a first embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the search screen and search list screen in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the detailed screen in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the XML data which shows the translation result in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the translation search process in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a sequence diagram which shows the example of the translation search process in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the detailed display process of the title in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the link search process in the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic block diagram which shows the system in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the XML data which shows the analysis result in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the detailed display process of the title in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a sequence diagram which shows the example of the detailed display process in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the link search process in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a sequence diagram which shows the example of the link search process in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  (Configuration of the first embodiment)

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a system 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
The system 1 includes a set top box (STB) 2, a translation server 3, and a moving image server 4 (streaming server), which are connected by a network 9. The remote controller 5 can operate the set top box 2 with infrared rays. The display 6 is connected to the set top box 2.
The remote controller 5 receives various operations by the user and transmits the operation information to the set top box 2.
The display 6 displays characters, figures, images, and the like.
The moving image server 4 includes a processing unit 40, a communication unit 41, and a storage unit 42.

The processing unit 40 supervises the processing of the moving image server 4. The processing unit 40 is embodied by, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) executing a program.
The communication unit 41 is, for example, a network interface, and transmits and receives data and the like via the network 9.

The storage unit 42 includes, for example, an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or a flash memory, and stores moving images 421-1, 421-2,... That are a plurality of moving image contents (streaming contents). The moving image 421-1 includes metadata 4211-1 that is attribute information of the moving image 421-1 and moving image data 4212-1 that is streaming data. The moving image 421-2 has metadata 4211-2 that is attribute information of the moving image 421-2 and moving image data 4212-2 that is streaming data. Hereinafter, the moving images 421-1, 421-2,. When the metadata 4211-1, 4211-2,... Are not particularly distinguished, they are simply referred to as metadata 4211. When the moving image data 4212-1, 4212-2,... Are not particularly distinguished, they are simply described as moving image data 4212. The moving image 421 includes metadata 4211 and moving image data 4212. The metadata 4211 includes attribute information of the moving image 421, and includes, for example, character string information such as a title of the moving image 421 and an explanatory text of the moving image 421, a thumbnail screen of the moving image 421, and the like. The moving image data 4212 is streaming data that can be reproduced while downloading the moving image data 4212. For example, the moving image data 4212 is transmitted using a protocol such as RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol), MMS (Microsoft Streaming Server), or RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol). It is what is done.
The translation server 3 includes a communication unit 31 and a translation unit 32.
The communication unit 31 is a network interface, for example, and transmits and receives data and the like via the network 9.

  The translation unit 32 translates the character string into a specified language, and generates a translation result described in XML (Extensible Markup Language). The translation unit 32 is realized by a CPU (not shown) included in the translation server 3 executing a program.

The set top box 2 includes a communication unit 21, a storage unit 22, a translation search unit 24, a metadata translation display unit 26, a moving image playback unit 27, and a remote control light receiving unit 28.
The communication unit 21 is a network interface, for example, and transmits and receives data and the like via the network 9.
The storage unit 22 is configured by, for example, an HDD or a flash memory, and stores data and the like.

The remote controller light receiving unit 28 receives the operation information transmitted from the remote controller 5. Therefore, the remote control 5 and the remote control light receiving unit 28 function as an input unit that the set top box 2 receives various operations by the user.
The translation search unit 24 translates a character string as necessary, and searches for a moving image 421 including the character string in the metadata 4211.
The metadata translation display unit 26 translates the metadata 4211 as necessary and displays it on the display 6.
The moving image reproducing unit 27 reproduces the moving image 421 by streaming and displays it on the display 6.
In addition, the translation search part 24, the metadata translation display part 26, and the moving image reproduction part 27 are embodied by, for example, a CPU (not shown) included in the set top box 2 executing a program.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the search screen 61 and the search list screen 62 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  FIG. 2A is a diagram illustrating an example of the search screen 61.

The search screen 61 is a screen for the user to input a search input character string. The search screen 61 is displayed on the display 6 by the set top box 2.
The search screen 61 has a search input area 610 that is a partial area for the user to input a search input character string. “Search input character string” is displayed in the search screen 61 and outside the search input area 610 to indicate the position of the search input area 610.
In this example, the user inputs “tu: hot spring” as a search input character string, and “tu: hot spring” is displayed in the search input area 610. In the set top box 2, it is preset that the first language is Japanese. The set top box 2 stores at least a Japanese font that is a first language in the storage unit 22. Therefore, the set top box 2 can display a Japanese character string as the first language without being garbled.

  FIG. 2B is a diagram illustrating an example of the search list screen 62.

The search list screen 62 includes search lists 621-1 to 621-4. The search list 621-1 includes a title 623-1 and indexes 622-1, 622-2, 622-3,. The search lists 621-2 to 621-4 are configured in the same manner as the search list 621-1.
Hereinafter, when the search lists 621-1, 621-2,... Are not particularly distinguished, they are simply referred to as a search list 621. When the titles 623-1, 623-2, etc. are not particularly distinguished, they are described as titles 623. The indexes 622-1, 622-2, 622-3,. The title 623 indicates a search input character string.
In the title 623-1, a character string “tu: hot spring” is displayed, which indicates that “hot spring” is searched in Turkish. “Tu:” is a language designation that designates Turkish as the second language.
The indexes 622-1, 622-2, 622-3,... Included in the search list 621-1 are each searched by the Turkish translation of the character string “hot spring” as displayed in the title 623-1. An animation 421 is shown.

In the title 623-2, a character string “fr: hot spring” is displayed, which indicates that “hot spring” is searched in French. “Fr:” is a language designation that designates French as the second language.
Each index 622 included in the search list 621-2 indicates each moving image 421 searched by the French translation of the character string “hot spring” as displayed in the title 623-2.

In the title 623-3, a character string “ro: hot spring” is displayed, which indicates that “hot spring” is searched in Russian. “Ro:” is a language designation that designates Russian as the second language.
Each index 622 included in the search list 621-3 indicates each moving image 421 searched by the Russian translation of the character string “hot spring” as displayed in the title 623-3.

In the title 623-4, the character string “tu: Pamukkale” is displayed, indicating that “Pamukkale” has been searched in Turkish.
Each index 622 included in the search list 621-4 indicates each moving image 421 searched by the Turkish translation of the character string “Pamukkale” as displayed in the title 623-4.

The index 622 displays a part of the metadata 4211 of each moving image 421, and is used when designating each moving image 421. The index 622 displays the title character string of the moving image 421 translated into Japanese as the first language.
The set top box 2 displays the search list screen 62 as follows.

For example, the set-top box 2 displays the search list screen 62 when the remote control light receiving unit 28 receives a transition instruction to the search list screen 62 on a menu screen (not shown).
The set-top box 2 displays a search screen 61 (see FIG. 2A) superimposed on the search list screen 62 when a predetermined search input instruction is received by the remote control light receiving unit 28.
The set top box 2 receives “tu: hot spring” as a search input character string by the remote control light receiving unit 28 on the search screen 61. The set top box 2 translates the character string “hot spring” into Turkish, searches for the moving image 421, and displays the search result in the search list 621-1.
The set-top box 2 receives “fr: hot spring” as a search input character string by the remote control light receiving unit 28 on the search screen 61. The set top box 2 translates the character string “hot spring” into French, searches for the moving image 421, and displays the search result in the search list 621-2.
The set-top box 2 receives “ro: hot spring” as a search input character string by the remote control light receiving unit 28 on the search screen 61. The set top box 2 translates the character string “hot spring” into Russian, searches for the moving image 421, and displays the search result in the search list 621-3.

  The set-top box 2 receives the search input character string “tu: pamukkale” by the remote control light receiving unit 28 on the search screen 61. The set top box 2 translates the character string “Pamukkale” into Turkish, searches the moving image 421, and displays the search result in the search list 621-4.

FIG. 2C is a diagram illustrating an example of the index 622.
The index 622 includes a thumbnail screen 6221 of the moving image 421, a text display 6222 indicating the title of the moving image 421, a text display 6223 indicating the name of the contributor of the moving image 421, and a reproduction time that is a time required for reproducing the streaming content of the moving image 421. , A text display 6225 indicating the number of times the moving image 421 has been played so far, and a text display 6226 indicating a recommendation level in the five-step evaluation of the moving image 421.

  In the index 622-1, the text display 6222-1 is “Denizli hot spring”, the text display 6223-1 is “Contributor: Bayar ...”, the text display 6224-1 is “Reproduction time 3:45”, the text The display 62225-1 displays “Number of reproductions: 2048”, and the text display 6226-1 displays three star marks indicating that the recommendation level is 3 in a five-step evaluation.

  In the index 622-2, “Pamukkale hot spring” is displayed in the text display 6222-2, “Contributor: Erken ...” is displayed in the text display 6223-2, “Playback time 1:23” is displayed in the text display 6224-2, and the text display. 6225-2 displays “Number of reproductions: 8192”, and the text display 6226-2 displays three star marks indicating that the recommendation level is 3 in a five-step evaluation.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the detail screen 63 in the first embodiment of the present invention.
The detailed screen 63 is displayed on the display 6 when the user selects one of the indexes 622 (see FIG. 2C) on the search list screen 62 (see FIG. 2C) by using the remote controller 5 and instructs detailed display. Is displayed.

The detail screen 63 displays the metadata 4211 of the selected moving image 421 in detail. The detail screen 63 includes a thumbnail screen 631 of the video 421, a text display 632 indicating the title of the video 421, a text display 633 indicating the description of the video 421, a text display 634 indicating the name of the contributor of the video 421, and a video A text display 635 indicating the number of playback times 421 is the number of times played so far, a text display 636 indicating the playback time required for playback of the video 421,
And a text display 637 indicating a recommendation degree in the five-step evaluation of the moving image 421.

  In the text display 632, “Title: Pamukkale Hot Spring” is displayed. Text display 632 has a link 6321 which is the noun part of the title. The link 6321 is “Pamukkale” and “hot spring” which are underlined in FIG. Thus, since the noun part is extracted from the title of the moving image 421 and displayed as a link, a moving image list highly relevant to the moving image 421 can be easily searched.

  In the text display 633, “Explanation: Pamukkale hot spring and Hierapolis ruins” is displayed. The text display 633 has a link 6322 which is a noun part in the explanatory text. The links 6322 are “Pamukkale”, “Hot Spring”, “Hierapolis”, and “Ruins”, which are underlined in FIG. 3. In this way, the noun part is extracted from the explanatory text of the video 421 and displayed in a link, so that a video list highly relevant to the video 421 can be easily searched.

In the text display 634, “Contributor: Erken Kashim” is displayed. In the text display 634, the poster name of the moving image 421 is displayed in more detail than the poster name in the text display 6223-2 shown in FIG.
In the text display 635, “Number of times of reproduction: 8192” is displayed.
In the text display 636, “reproduction time 1:23” is displayed.
In the text display 637, three star marks indicating that the moving image 421 has a five-step evaluation and a recommendation level of 3 are displayed.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of XML data indicating the translation result in the first embodiment of the present invention.
The XML data shown in FIG. 4 is a result of translating the Turkish character string “Pamukkale kaplicacalari” into the Japanese character string “Pamukkale hot spring”. This XML data is translated by the translation server 3.
The first line is a declaration statement indicating that the character encoding format of the XML data is UTF-8 (UCS Transformation Format 8).
The second line is a prefix for declaring the namespace of this XML data, and the 22nd line is a suffix corresponding to this.
The 3rd to 21st lines are a syntax for indicating the element tr_result. The third line is an element start tag, the fourth to twentieth lines indicate the contents of the element, and the twenty-first line is an element end tag.

  The 4th to 20th lines are a syntax for indicating the element word_list. The 4th line is an element start tag, the 5th to 19th lines indicate the contents of the element, and the 20th line is an element end tag.

The fifth to ninth lines are a syntax for indicating the element word. The fifth line is an element start tag, the sixth to eighth lines indicate the contents of the element, and the ninth line is an element end tag.
The sixth line indicates that the content of the element lang_ja is “Pamukkale”.
The seventh line indicates that the content of the element “lang_tu” is “Pamukkale”.
The eighth line indicates that the content of the element pos is “noun”.
The sixth to eighth lines indicate that “Pamukkale” in Japanese is a noun and corresponds to “Pamukkale” in Turkish.

The 10th to 14th lines are a syntax for indicating the element word. The 10th line is an element start tag, the 11th to 13th lines indicate the contents of the element, and the 14th line is an element end tag.
The eleventh line indicates that the content of the element lang_ja is “no”.
The twelfth line indicates that the content of the element lang_tu is “”.
The thirteenth line indicates that the content of the element pos is “particle”.
The 11th to 13th lines indicate that “no” in Japanese is a particle and there is no corresponding Turkish.

The 15th to 19th lines are syntax for indicating the element word. The fifteenth line is an element start tag, the sixteenth to eighteenth lines indicate the contents of the element, and the nineteenth line is an element end tag.
The 16th line shows that the content of the element lang_ja is “hot spring”.
The 17th line shows that the content of the element “lang_tu” is “kaplicacalari”.
The 18th line shows that the content of the element pos is “noun”.
The 16th to 18th lines indicate that “hot spring” in Japanese is a noun and corresponds to “kaplicari” in Turkish.

  (Operation of the first embodiment)

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing translation search processing in the first embodiment of the present invention.
When the set top box 2 is activated and the user inputs a search input character string to instruct to perform a search, the set top box 2 starts a translation search process.

  In step S10, the translation search unit 24 determines whether there is a language designation in the search input character string. In addition, the language designation may designate one second language or may designate a plurality of second languages.

In step S10, the translation search unit 24 performs the process of step S11 when the determination condition is satisfied (Yes), and performs the process of step S27 when the determination condition is not satisfied (No).
In steps S11 to S26, the translation search unit 24 repeats the process for all the second languages designated by the language designation.

  In step S 12, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays the language designation and the search character string on the title 623 in the search list 621. The search character string is a character string obtained by excluding the language designation from the search input character string.

In step S <b> 13, the translation search unit 24 transmits a search character string and a translation instruction from the first language to the second language to the translation server 3 through the communication unit 21. When the communication unit 31 receives the search character string and the translation instruction, the translation unit 32 of the translation server 3 translates the search character string into a translation character string based on the translation instruction. Send to set top box 2.
In step S <b> 14, the translation search unit 24 receives the translated character string from the translation server 3 through the communication unit 21.

In step S <b> 15, the translation search unit 24 transmits the translated character string translated into the second language to the moving image server 4 through the communication unit 21. The processing unit 40 of the moving image server 4 receives the translated character string by the communication unit 41 and searches the storage unit 42 for the moving image 421 including the translated character string in the metadata 4211. The processing unit 40 transmits a moving image list (streaming list) indicating the identification numbers of all the searched moving images 421 to the set top box 2 through the communication unit 41.
In step S <b> 16, the translation search unit 24 receives the moving image list as a search result from the moving image server 4 through the communication unit 21 and stores it in the storage unit 22.

  In steps S17 to S25, the metadata translation display unit 26 repeats the process for each moving image 421 in a predetermined number of moving image lists. Here, the predetermined number is, for example, the number of indexes 622 that can be displayed in one search list 621 at a time. Thereby, the metadata translation display unit 26 can reduce the time required for the translation search process by limiting the number of metadata 4211 received in the following step S19. Note that the metadata translation display unit 26 selects all the videos 421 indicated by the video list when the number of videos 421 indicated by the video list is less than a predetermined number.

  In step S <b> 18, the metadata translation display unit 26 transmits a metadata request for requesting the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 to the moving image server 4 through the communication unit 21. The processing unit 40 of the video server 4 receives the metadata request through the communication unit 41 and transmits the metadata 4211 of the video 421 to the set top box 2.

  In step S <b> 19, the metadata translation display unit 26 receives the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 from the moving image server 4 through the communication unit 21 and stores it in the storage unit 22.

In step S20, the metadata translation display unit 26 uses the communication unit 21 to reverse the character string indicating the title included in the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 and the translation instruction from the second language to the first language. The translation instruction is transmitted to the translation server 3.
When the communication unit 31 receives the character string and the reverse translation instruction, the translation unit 32 of the translation server 3 translates the character string into the first language and transmits the translated display character string to the set top box 2. .

  In step S21, the metadata translation display unit 26 receives a display character string obtained by translating the title of the moving image 421 from the translation server 3 through the communication unit 21, and stores the display character string in the storage unit 22 as a translation result. save.

In step S <b> 22, the metadata translation display unit 26 transmits, to the translation server 3, a character string indicating an explanatory text included in the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 and a reverse translation instruction through the communication unit 21.
When the communication unit 31 receives the character string and the reverse translation instruction through the communication unit 31, the translation unit 32 translates the character string into the first language and transmits the translated display character string to the set top box 2.

  In step S23, the metadata translation display unit 26 receives a display character string obtained by translating the explanatory text of the moving image 421 from the translation server 3 through the communication unit 21, and stores the display character string as a translation result. Save to.

  In step S21 and step S23, the translation result stored in the storage unit 22 is described in XML, and the display character string translated into the first language is displayed for each word as shown in FIG. Associated with a word corresponding to the second language.

In step S24, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays the index 622 of the moving image 421 on the search list 621. In the index 622, the text display 6222 indicating the title of the moving image 421 is translated into the first language. A search character string is displayed in the title 623 of the search list 621 (see FIGS. 2B and 2C).
In step S25, the metadata translation display unit 26 determines whether or not all the processes have been repeated for each moving image 421 in the moving image list.

If the determination condition is not satisfied in step S25, the metadata translation display unit 26 returns to step S17 and performs processing for the next moving image 421 in the moving image list.
In step S26, the translation search unit 24 determines whether the process has been repeated for all the second languages designated by the language designation.

  In step S26, if the determination condition is not satisfied, the translation search unit 24 returns to step S11 to perform processing for the next second language. If the determination condition is satisfied, the translation search process shown in FIG. Exit.

  In step S <b> 27, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays the search input character string on the title 623 of the search list 621.

In step S <b> 28, the translation search unit 24 transmits the search input character string to the moving image server 4 through the communication unit 21.
The processing unit 40 of the moving image server 4 receives the search input character string via the communication unit 41, and searches the storage unit 42 for the moving image 421 including the search input character string in the metadata 4211. The processing unit 40 transmits a moving image list indicating the identification numbers of all the searched moving images 421 to the set top box 2 through the communication unit 41.

In step S <b> 29, the translation search unit 24 receives the moving image list as a search result from the moving image server 4 through the communication unit 21 and stores it in the storage unit 22.
In steps S30 to S34, the metadata translation display unit 26 repeats the process for each moving image 421 in a predetermined number of moving image lists. Here, the predetermined number is, for example, the number of indexes 622 that can be displayed in one search list 621 at the same time as in the process of step S17.

  In step S 31, the metadata translation display unit 26 transmits a metadata request for requesting the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 to the moving image server 4 through the communication unit 21. The processing unit 40 of the video server 4 receives the metadata request through the communication unit 41 and transmits the metadata 4211 of the video 421 to the set top box 2.

  In step S 32, the metadata translation display unit 26 receives the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 from the moving image server 4 through the communication unit 21 and stores it in the storage unit 22.

In step S <b> 33, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays the index 622 of the moving image 421 on the search list 621.
In step S34, the metadata translation display unit 26 determines whether or not all the processes have been repeated for each moving image 421 in the moving image list.

  In step S34, if the determination condition is not satisfied (No), the metadata translation display unit 26 returns to step S30 to perform processing for the next moving image 421 in the moving image list, and if the determination condition is satisfied, The translation search process shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a sequence diagram showing an example of translation search processing in the first embodiment of the present invention.
When the set-top box 2 is activated, the search screen 61 shown in FIG. 2A is displayed on the display 6, and if the user instructs to perform a search by inputting a search input character string using the remote controller 5, the set top box 2 is set. The top box 2 and the like start processing from sequence Q10.

  In sequence Q <b> 10, the set top box 2 receives an input of the search input character string “tu: hot spring” by the remote control light receiving unit 28. The set-top box 2 determines that the search input character string “tu: hot spring” includes a language designation “tu:” that specifies Turkish as the second language because the search input character string includes “tu:”. . The set top box 2 displays “tu: hot spring” in the title 623.

  In sequence Q11, the set top box 2 uses “hot spring” excluding “tu:” representing the language designation of the search input character string “tu: hot spring” as a search character string, and starts from Japanese as the first language. A translation instruction to Turkish as a second language and a search character string are transmitted to the translation server 3. Here, “(ja-> tu)” shown in FIG. 6 indicates a translation instruction from Japanese to Turkish.

In sequence Q12, when receiving the search input character string and the translation instruction, the translation server 3 translates the received search character string from the first language Japanese to the second language Turkish. The translated character string is transmitted to the set top box 2. The set top box 2 receives the translation character string from the translation server 3.
In sequence Q13, the set-top box 2 makes a search request using the translated character string to the moving image server 4.

  In sequence Q <b> 14, when the moving image server 4 receives the search request, the moving image server 4 transmits a moving image list as a search result to the set top box 2. The set top box 2 receives the moving image list from the translation server 3.

  In sequence Q15, the set top box 2 requests the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 which is the first in the moving image list. The video server 4 receives the request for the metadata 4211.

  In sequence Q <b> 16, the moving image server 4 transmits metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 that is the first in the moving image list to the set top box 2. The set top box 2 receives the metadata 4211 of the first moving image 421 and stores it in the storage unit 22.

  In sequence Q17, the set-top box 2 transmits to the translation server 3 the original language title of the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 that is the first in the moving image list and the reverse translation instruction that instructs the translation from Turkish to Japanese. To do. Here, “(tu-> ja)” shown in FIG. 5 indicates a translation instruction from Turkish to Japanese.

  In sequence Q18, when the translation server 3 receives the original language title and the reverse translation instruction (translation instruction into Japanese), the translation server 3 translates the original language title from Turkish to Japanese, and translates the translated title into the set top box. 2 to send. The set top box 2 stores the received translation title in the storage unit 22.

  In the sequence Q19, the set top box 2 gives the original language explanation of the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 which is the first moving image list stored in the storage unit 22, and a reverse translation instruction (translation instruction into Japanese). Send to translation server 3.

  In sequence Q20, when the translation server 3 receives the source language explanation and the reverse translation instruction (instruction for translation into Japanese), the translation server 3 translates the source language explanation from Turkish to Japanese, Send to set top box 2. The set top box 2 stores the received translation explanation in the storage unit 22.

  In the sequence Q21, the set top box 2 displays the new index 622 in the same search list 621 as the title 623 displaying “tu: hot spring”. This index 622 shows the original title and the original description in the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 that is the first in the moving image list, translated into a translated title and a translated description.

  In sequence Q22, the set top box 2 requests the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 which is the second in the selected moving image list.

  In sequence Q23, the moving image server 4 transmits the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 which is the second in the moving image list to the set top box 2. The set top box 2 receives the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 that is the second in the moving image list, and stores it in the storage unit 22.

  In sequence Q24, the set top box 2 transmits the original language title of the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 which is the second moving image list and the reverse translation instruction to the translation server 3.

  In sequence Q25, when the translation server 3 receives the original language title and reverse translation instruction of the second video 421 in the video list, it translates the Turkish original language title into Japanese, and sets the translated translation title. Transmit to the top box 2. The set top box 2 stores the received translation title in the storage unit 22.

  In sequence Q26, the set-top box 2 transmits to the translation server 3 a source language explanation of the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 that is the second moving image list stored in the storage unit 22, and a reverse translation instruction.

  In sequence Q27, when the translation server 3 receives the source language explanation and reverse translation instruction of the second video 421 in the video list, the translation server 3 translates the source language description from Turkish to Japanese, and translates the translation explanation. Is transmitted to the set-top box 2. The set top box 2 stores the received translation explanation in the storage unit 22.

  In the sequence Q28, the set top box 2 displays the new index 622 in the same search list 621 as the title 623 displaying “tu: hot spring”. The index 622 displays a translation title obtained by translating the original language title of the metadata 4211 of the moving image 421 that is the second in the moving image list into the first language, and a translation explanatory statement obtained by translating the original language explanation into the first language. ing.

  Hereinafter, similarly, the set-top box 2 performs the same process for the remaining videos 421 in the video list, and displays the index 622 in the same search list 621 as the title 623 that displays “tu: hot spring”. .

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the detailed display processing of the title in the first embodiment of the present invention.
If the user selects the index 622-2 on the search list screen 62 of the display 6 by using the remote controller 5, the metadata translation display unit 26 details the title of the text display 6222-2 shown in FIG. Display processing starts.
In steps S40 to S44, the metadata translation display unit 26 repeats the process for all element words of the XML data of the translation result shown in FIG.

  In step S41, the metadata translation display unit 26 determines whether or not the content of the element pos included in the content of the element word is “noun”. The metadata translation display unit 26 performs the process of step S42 if the determination condition is satisfied (Yes), and performs the process of step S43 if the determination condition is not satisfied (No).

  In step S42, the metadata translation display unit 26 details the translated word that is the content of the element lang_ja together with a link that searches for the pre-translation word that is the content of the element lang_tu included in the content of the element word. This is displayed on the screen 63 (see FIG. 3). The metadata translation display unit 26 proceeds to the process of step S44 after the process of step S42 ends.

  In step S43, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays the translated word that is the content of the element lang_ja included in the content of the element word. The metadata translation display unit 26 proceeds to the process of step S44 after the process of step S43 ends.

  In step S44, the metadata translation display unit 26 determines whether or not the process has been repeated for all element words of the XML data of the translation result. The translation search unit 24 returns to the process of step S40 if the determination condition is not satisfied, and ends the detailed display process of FIG. 7 if the determination condition is satisfied.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a link search process in the first embodiment of the present invention.
If the user selects one of the links 6321 and 6322 on the detailed screen 63 (see FIG. 3), the set-top box 2 starts the link search process.

  In step S <b> 50, the translation search unit 24 acquires a second language character string, which is a pre-translation word related to the selected link, from the XML data of the translation result, and via the communication unit 31 and the network 9. And sent to the video server 4.

The processing unit 40 of the moving image server 4 receives the character string by the communication unit 41 and searches the storage unit 42 for the moving image 421 including the character string in the metadata 4211. The processing unit 40 transmits a moving image list indicating the identification numbers of all the searched moving images 421 to the set top box 2 through the communication unit 41.
In steps S51 to S60, the set top box 2 performs the same processing as steps S16 to S25 shown in FIG.
When the process of step S60 ends, the set top box 2 ends the link search process of FIG.

(Effects of the first embodiment)
The first embodiment described above has the following effects (A) to (F).

(A) In the set top box 2 of the first embodiment, the remote control light receiving unit 28 accepts the input of the search string of the first language and the designation of the second language, and the translation search unit 24 The column is translated from the first language into the second language, transmitted to the moving image server 4, the searched moving image list is received, and the metadata translation display unit 26 stores the moving image list metadata 4211 received by the translation searching unit 24. The character string information is translated from the second language into the first language and displayed on the display 6. This makes it possible to search for the moving image 421 in the first language that is easy for the user to understand, and to display the character string information of the metadata 4211 in the first language that is easy for the user to understand. Further, even when the set top box 2 does not include the character font of the second language, the character string information of the metadata 4211 can be displayed without being garbled.

(B) In the set top box 2 of the first embodiment, the translation search unit 24 transmits a search character string and a translation instruction from the first language to the second language to the translation server 3 via the network 9. Thus, the translation character string translated into the second language is acquired, and the metadata translation display unit 26 sends the character string information of the metadata 4211 of the moving image list and the translation instruction from the second language to the first language. By transmitting to the translation server 3, the display character string translated into the first language is acquired. As a result, the search character string and the character string information of the video content metadata 4211 are searched using the external translation server 3, so that many languages can be used without providing a translation processing unit or a dictionary in the set top box 2. The character string information of can be translated and displayed.

(C) In the set top box 2 of the first embodiment, the character string information of the metadata 4211 of the video content (streaming content) indicated by the video list (streaming list) is the title of the video content or the This is a description of the video content. For this reason, the set top box 2 translates and displays the title or description of the metadata 4211 of the searched moving image content in the second language into the first language as the native language. As a result, the user can easily grasp the content of the moving image content in his native language.

(D) In the set top box 2 of the first embodiment, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays part or all of the display character string displayed on the display 6 as a link. When the link is selected, the translation search unit 24 transmits the character string in the second language corresponding to the character string related to the link to the moving image server 4, and displays the searched moving image list (streaming list). Receive. Thereby, the user can re-search the moving image content using the noun from the noun described in the description or the title of the moving image content. That is, the user can easily re-search for moving image content related to the moving image content.

(E) In the set top box 2 of the first embodiment, the link is a noun part of the display character string. Accordingly, the moving image content can be easily re-searched and displayed with the noun indicating the content deeply related to the moving image content (streaming content).

(F) In the set top box 2 of the first embodiment, the display character string translated into the first language by the translation server 3 is associated with a word corresponding to the second language for each word. This makes it possible to easily search for moving image content related to the moving image content (streaming content) based on the title and the description.

(Configuration of Second Embodiment)
FIG. 9 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a system 1a according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The same symbols are assigned to the same elements as those of the system 1 (see FIG. 1) of the first embodiment.

A system 1a according to the second embodiment includes a translation server 3a instead of the translation server 3 according to the first embodiment. In addition to the same configuration as the system 1 (see FIG. 1) according to the first embodiment, the system 1a further includes morphemes. An analysis server 7 is provided.
The translation server 3 a includes a translation unit 32 a and a communication unit 31.

The translation unit 32a translates the character string into a designated language, and generates a translation result representing the translated character string. Unlike the translation unit 32 of the first embodiment, the translation unit 32a of the second embodiment includes only the translated character string in the translation result, and the translated character string is particularly No morphological analysis.
The translation unit 32a is realized by a CPU (not shown) of the translation server 3a executing a program.
The morpheme analysis server 7 includes a morpheme analysis unit 72 and a communication unit 71.
The communication unit 71 is, for example, a network interface and transmits and receives data and the like via the network 9.
The morpheme analysis unit 72 performs morpheme analysis on the character string. For example, the morphological analysis unit 72 is realized by a CPU (not shown) of the morphological analysis server 7 executing a program.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of XML data indicating the analysis result in the second embodiment of the present invention.
The illustrated XML data is a result of the morphological analysis server 7 analyzing a Japanese sentence.
The first line is a declaration statement indicating that the character encoding format is UTF-8.
The second line is a prefix for declaring the namespace, and the 29th line is a suffix.

  The 3rd to 18th lines are a syntax for indicating the element tr_result. The third line is an element start tag. The 4th to 17th lines indicate the contents of the element. The 18th line is an end tag of the element.

  The 4th to 17th lines are the syntax for indicating the element word_list. The third line is an element start tag. The 5th to 16th lines indicate the contents of the element. The 17th line is an end tag of the element.

The 5th to 8th lines are a syntax for indicating the element word. The fifth line is an element start tag. The sixth and seventh lines show the contents of the element. The eighth line is an end tag of the element.
The sixth line indicates that the content of the element surface is “Pamukkale”.
The seventh line indicates that the content of the element pos is “noun”.
The sixth and seventh lines indicate that “Pamukkale” in Japanese is a noun.

The ninth to twelfth lines are a syntax for indicating the element word. The ninth line is an element start tag. The tenth and eleventh lines indicate the contents of the element. The twelfth line is an end tag of the element.
The tenth line indicates that the content of the element surface is “no”.
The eleventh line indicates that the content of the element pos is “particle”.
The tenth and eleventh lines indicate that “no” in Japanese is a noun.

The 13th to 16th lines are a syntax for indicating an element word. The 13th line is an element start tag. The 14th and 15th lines indicate the contents of the element. The 16th line is an end tag of the element.
The fourteenth line indicates that the content of the element surface is “hot spring”.
The fifteenth line indicates that the content of the element pos is “noun”.
The 14th and 15th lines indicate that the Japanese “hot spring” is a noun.

(Operation of Second Embodiment)
FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the detailed display processing of the title in the second embodiment of the present invention.

  If the user selects one index 622 with the remote controller 5 on the search list screen 62 of the display 6 and instructs the detailed display, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays the detailed display of the title related to the selected index 622. Start processing.

In step S <b> 90, the metadata translation display unit 26 transmits the character string of the title translated in the first language to the morphological analysis server 7 through the communication unit 21. The morpheme analysis unit 72 of the morpheme analysis server 7 receives the translated character string of the first language through the communication unit 71.
In step S <b> 91, the metadata translation display unit 26 receives the analysis result through the communication unit 21. The analysis results are morphologically analyzed and are described in XML as shown in FIG.

In steps S92 to S96, the metadata translation display unit 26 repeats the process for all element words of the analysis result.
In step S93, the metadata translation display unit 26 determines whether or not the element pos included in the element word is a noun.

  In step S93, the metadata translation display unit 26 performs the process of step S94 when the determination condition is satisfied (Yes), and performs the process of step S95 when the determination condition is not satisfied (No).

  In step S94, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays the word that is the content of the element surface together with the link for searching in the second language, and proceeds to the process of step S96.

In step S95, the metadata translation display unit 26 displays a word that is the content of the element surface.
In step S96, the metadata translation display unit 26 determines whether or not the process has been repeated for all element words in the XML data as the analysis result.

In step S96, when the determination condition is not satisfied, the metadata translation display unit 26 returns to the process of step S92, and when the determination condition is satisfied, the detailed title display process shown in FIG.
Note that the metadata translation display unit 26 performs the same processing as steps S90 to S96 for the explanatory text related to the index 622 selected by the user.

FIG. 12 is a sequence diagram showing an example of a detailed display process in the second embodiment of the present invention.
If the user selects any one of the indexes 622 with the remote controller 5 on the search list screen 62 of the display 6 and instructs detailed display, the set-top box 2 starts detailed display processing.
In sequence Q30, the set-top box 2 receives an instruction to display in detail the index 622 selected by the user by the remote control light receiving unit 28.
In sequence Q31, the set top box 2 transmits the character string of the title translated into the first language to the morphological analysis server 7 as a translated title.

In sequence Q32, the morpheme analysis server 7 performs a morphological analysis on the translation title received from the set top box 2, and transmits the analysis result to the set top box 2 as a morpheme analysis result. The set top box 2 receives the morphological analysis result of the translation title from the morphological analysis server 7.
In the sequence Q33, the set top box 2 transmits the explanatory text translated into the first language to the morphological analysis server 7 as a translated explanatory text.

  In sequence Q34, the morpheme analysis server 7 performs a morphological analysis on the translation explanation received from the set top box 2, and transmits the analysis result to the set top box 2 as a morpheme analysis result. The set top box 2 receives the morphological analysis result of the translation explanation from the morphological analysis server 7.

  In the sequence Q35, the set top box 2 displays the detailed screen 63 (see FIG. 3) of the index 622 selected by the user on the display 6 using the translation title and the morphological analysis result of the translation explanation.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the link search process in the second embodiment of the present invention.
If the user selects one of the links 6321 and 6322 with the remote controller 5 on the detail screen 63 (see FIG. 3) of the display 6, the set-top box 2 starts a link search process.

  In step S70, the translation search unit 24 transmits the selected link word and the translation instruction from the first language to the second language to the translation server 3a by the communication unit 21.

In steps S71 to S82, the set top box 2 performs the same processes as steps S14 to S25 shown in FIG. However, the processing performed by the translation server 3 in FIG. 5 is performed by the translation server 3a.
When the process of step S82 ends, the set top box 2 ends the link search process shown in FIG.

  In the link search process of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 8, the translation search unit 24 acquires the second language character string related to the link from the translation result described in XML. However, in the link search process of the second embodiment, the translation search unit 24 translates the word of the link in the first language into the second language using the translation server 3a, so that the second language related to the link is translated. The character string is acquired.

FIG. 14 is a sequence diagram illustrating an example of a link search process according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
When the user selects one of the links 6321 and 6322 with the remote controller 5 on the detailed screen 63 of the display 6 and instructs a search, the link search process is started.

  In sequence Q40, the set-top box 2 accepts a word in the first language related to the selected link as a link word.

  In the sequence Q41, the set top box 2 uses the link word as a search character string, and sends a translation instruction from the first language Japanese to the second original Turkish word and the search character string. Send to.

  In the sequences Q42 to Q58, the set top box 2 performs the same processing as the sequences Q12 to Q28 shown in FIG. However, in FIG. 6, the processing performed by the translation server 3 is performed by the translation server 3a.

(Effect of 2nd Embodiment)
The second embodiment described above has the following effects (G) and (H).

(G) In the set top box 2 of the second embodiment, the metadata translation display unit 26 performs morphological analysis on the character string information of the metadata 4211 of the moving image content (streaming content) displayed on the display 6. When the link is selected, the translation search unit 24 displays a character string related to the link and a translation instruction from the first language to the second language to the translation server 3a. The character string translated into the second language is acquired by transmitting. Thereby, the set top box 2 can easily search and display the moving image content related to the moving image content by selecting the character string related to the link.

(H) In the set top box 2 of the second embodiment, the metadata translation display unit 26 converts the character string information of the metadata 4211 of the moving image content (streaming content) displayed on the display 6 into the morphological analysis server 7. To send to morphological analysis. Thereby, even when the translation server 3a does not have a function of performing morphological analysis on the character string information, the set-top box 2 displays the character string information of the metadata 4211 with a link relating to a noun. It becomes possible.

(Modification)
The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be modified without departing from the spirit of the present invention. For example, there are the following (a) to (e).

(A) You may implement | achieve as a television provided with the set top box 2 of 1st, 2nd embodiment.

(B) In the first and second embodiments, the first language of the set top box 2 is preset. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the set-top box 2 may be configured so that the user can set another language, and further configured to automatically determine the first language based on its own IP (Internet Protocol) address. Good. Thus, when a foreign user uses the set top box 2, the set top box 2 translates the native language keyword into another language, searches for the video content in the language, and searches for the searched video content. It can be displayed clearly.

(C) In the first and second embodiments, the set top box 2 displays the character string information of the moving image content metadata 4211 in the first language, but the metadata 4211 is displayed in the first language. The translated character string information and the character string information of the second language before being translated may be simultaneously displayed on the display 6 by associating the words related to the links. As a result, even if the character string information of the metadata 4211 is incompletely translated into the first language, the user can check the character string information described in the second language, so that Can be grasped correctly. This set top box 2 is also effective for foreign language learning.

(D) In the first and second embodiments, in the search input operation, the set-top box 2 displays two alphabet letters and a language designation indicated by a colon, and a retrieval character string following the language designation. We accepted at the same time. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the set top box 2 accepts the language specification and the search character string separately by displaying a screen for inputting the search character string and a screen for specifying the language separately. May be. Thereby, the set top box 2 can easily accept designation of a plurality of second languages.

(E) In the first and second embodiments, the set top box 2 searches and reproduces streaming content of moving images. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the set-top box 2 may search and reproduce audio streaming content.

1, 1a system 2 set top box 3, 3a translation server 4 video server (streaming server)
5 Remote control (input unit)
6 Display 7 Morphological analysis server 9 Network 21 Communication unit 22 Storage unit 24 Translation search unit 26 Metadata translation display unit 27 Movie playback unit 28 Remote control light receiving unit (input unit)
31 communication unit 32, 32a translation unit 40 processing unit 41 communication unit 42 storage unit 61 search screen 62 search list screen 63 detail screen 421 video 4211 metadata 4212 video data (streaming data)
621 Search list 622 Index 623 Title 6221 Thumbnail screen 6222-6226 Text display 631 Thumbnail screen 632-637 Text display 6321, 6322 Link

Claims (8)

A communication unit that transmits / receives data to / from a streaming server via a network and transmits / receives data to / from a translation server ;
An input unit that accepts input of a search string of a first language and designation of a second language;
The search character string and a translation instruction from the first language to the second language are transmitted to the translation server via a network, and the search character string translated into the second language is received from the translation server and received. A translation search unit that transmits the searched search string to the streaming server and receives the searched streaming list;
For the predetermined number of streaming contents that can be displayed at a time in the searched streaming list, the second language metadata of the streaming contents searched from the streaming server is sequentially received, and the received second language metadata characters are received. Metadata that transmits column information and a translation instruction from the second language to the first language to the translation server, receives character string information translated into the first language from the translation server, and is translated into the first language A metadata translation display section that displays the character string information of
A set-top box for streaming content playback characterized by comprising: String information before texture metadata is the streaming content title or, a description of the streaming content, streaming content reproduction set-top box of claim 1, wherein the. A communication unit that transmits and receives data via a network;
An input unit that accepts input of a search string of a first language and designation of a second language;
A translation search unit that translates the search character string from the first language into the second language, transmits the search character string to a streaming server, and receives the searched streaming list;
A metadata translation display unit that translates the string information of the metadata of the streaming list received by the translation search unit from the second language into the first language and displays the metadata on the display;
With
The translation search unit acquires a translated character string translated into the second language by transmitting the search character string and a translation instruction from the first language to the second language to a translation server via a network. And
The metadata translation display unit translates the metadata of the streaming list into the first language by transmitting, to the translation server, character string information of the metadata of the streaming list and a translation instruction from the second language to the first language. The displayed display string,
With
The metadata translation display unit displays the noun part of the string information of the streaming content metadata displayed on the display as a link,
The translation search unit, when the link is selected, transmits a character string in the second language corresponding to the character string related to the link to the streaming server, and receives the searched streaming list.
A set-top box for streaming content playback. The character string information of the metadata of the streaming content included in the streaming list is a title of the streaming content or an explanatory text of the streaming content.
The set-top box for reproducing streaming content according to claim 3 . The display character string translated into the first language by the translation server is associated with a word corresponding to the second language for each word.
The set-top box for reproducing streaming content according to claim 3 . The metadata translation display unit displays the word that is a noun as the link after morphological analysis of the string information of the metadata of the streaming content displayed on the display,
When the link is selected, the translation search unit transmits a character string related to the link and a translation instruction from the first language to the second language to the translation server, thereby transmitting the second Get translated strings translated into language,
It claims 3 to any one streaming content playback set-top box according to claim 5, characterized in. The metadata translation display unit transmits the text string information of the metadata of the streaming content displayed on the display to the morpheme analysis server to analyze the morpheme.
The set top box for streaming contents reproduction according to claim 6 characterized by things. A set-top box and a display for streaming content reproduction according to any one of claims 1 to 7 ,
A television characterized by comprising.

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