JP6234292B2 - Reception device, terminal cooperation system, and terminal cooperation method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus, a terminal cooperation system, and a terminal cooperation method that perform cooperation with a mobile terminal according to broadcast content.

  With the spread of digital broadcasting, fusion of broadcasting and communication has been realized, and in recent years, a service called hybrid cast (registered trademark) has been provided. In the hybrid cast, it is possible to provide a service that satisfies both the broadcast property that is a feature of broadcasting and the individual correspondence that is a feature of communication.

Further, in the hybrid cast, terminal cooperation control that links a television receiver and an external information processing terminal is assumed. As terminal cooperation control, for example, in Patent Document 1, terminal cooperation control is automatically performed in an information processing terminal that has been previously paired with a television receiver, triggered by reception of a predetermined broadcast signal by the television receiver. A terminal cooperation system to be executed is disclosed.
According to such a terminal cooperation system, when a broadcast program corresponding to hybrid cast is started, a mechanism for automatically executing terminal cooperation control in the paired information processing terminal can be realized. Users who are not viewing can also be guided to a broadcast program, which is preferable.

JP 2012-244339 A

  By the way, in the situation where many users possess information processing terminals with the spread of smartphones, there may be other information processing terminals in addition to information processing terminals of users who view broadcast programs around the television receiver. is there. In such a case, if the terminal cooperation control is automatically performed in all the information processing terminals that have been paired like the terminal cooperation system of Patent Document 1, it is a broadcast program that is not of interest to the user. In addition, the terminal cooperation application is activated in the information processing terminal of the user. Even if guidance is provided for such an uninteresting broadcast program, it is annoying for the user, and the user's convenience is impaired.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and provides a receiving apparatus, a terminal cooperation system, and a terminal cooperation method capable of terminal cooperation control for guiding a user who is interested in a broadcast program to the broadcast program.

  In the first aspect of the present invention, a signal including broadcast content is received via broadcasting or communication, and a storage unit that stores attribute information of a user of the portable terminal in association with each of the plurality of portable terminals. A receiving unit, a first determination unit that determines whether or not instruction information that instructs terminal cooperation is associated with the received broadcast content, and program attribute specification that specifies attribute information of the received broadcast content A second determination unit that determines whether there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the specified broadcast content attribute information among the plurality of users, and the instruction information by the first determination unit Are determined to be associated, and the second determination unit determines that there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content. To the mobile terminal of the user, to provide a receiving device and a notification unit for notifying that the broadcast content is started corresponding to the terminal together.

  Further, based on the acquisition unit that acquires the type of the application executed on the mobile terminal and the operation information indicating the operation performed during the execution of the application from the mobile terminal, the acquired type and the operation information And a user attribute specifying unit for specifying the attribute information of the user.

  The application includes a cooperative application that cooperates with the broadcast content, and the user attribute specifying unit assigns a predetermined weight to the broadcast content that cooperates with the cooperative application based on operation information for the cooperative application. The user's attribute information may be specified.

  In addition, an output unit that outputs the received broadcast content is further provided, and the user attribute specifying unit is outputting based on operation information for an application other than the cooperative application that cooperates with the broadcast content during the output of the broadcast content. The user's attribute information may be specified by giving a predetermined weight to the broadcast content.

  In addition, the notification unit is configured so that, for a mobile terminal other than the user's mobile terminal having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content among a plurality of the mobile terminals, the frequency of notification with respect to the user's mobile terminal. The notification may be performed at a low frequency.

  In a second aspect of the present invention, a terminal cooperation system comprising: a receiving device that receives a broadcast signal including program content via broadcasting or communication; and a plurality of portable terminals that are connected to the receiving device so as to perform wireless communication. provide. The terminal cooperation system includes a storage unit that stores attribute information of a user of the mobile terminal in association with the mobile terminal, a reception unit that receives a signal including broadcast content via broadcast or communication, and the received A first determination unit that determines whether or not instruction information that instructs terminal cooperation is associated with broadcast content, a program attribute specification unit that specifies attribute information of the received broadcast content, a plurality of the user's A second determination unit that determines whether or not there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content specified therein, and the first determination unit determines that the instruction information is associated with the second determination unit And the second determination unit determines that there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content. In the terminal, and a notification unit for notifying that the broadcast content is started corresponding to the terminal together.

  In the third aspect of the present invention, a step of receiving a signal including broadcast content via broadcast or communication executed by a computer and instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation are associated with the received broadcast content. A first determination step for determining whether the broadcast content is received, a step for specifying the attribute information of the received broadcast content, and a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content specified among a plurality of users It is determined that the instruction information is associated with the second determination step for determining whether or not there exists, and the first determination step is associated with the attribute information of the broadcast content by the second determination step. On the condition that it is determined that there is a user who has the attribute information to support terminal cooperation on the user's mobile terminal And notifying that the broadcast content is started that provides a terminal cooperation method comprising.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to guide a user who is interested in broadcast content to the broadcast content in order to notify the mobile terminal owned by a user who is interested in broadcast content among the plurality of mobile terminals. it can.

It is a figure which shows the system configuration | structure of a terminal cooperation system. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of the terminal cooperation system of this invention. It is a figure which shows the software structural example of the television receiver and portable terminal regarding terminal cooperation control. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of a television receiver and a portable terminal. It is a figure which shows an example of the various information memorize | stored in a memory | storage part. It is a figure which shows an example of the various information memorize | stored in a memory | storage part. It is a figure which shows an example of the identification method of the user's attribute information by a user attribute specific | specification part. It is a figure which shows an example of the identification method of the user's attribute information by a user attribute specific | specification part. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a portable terminal based on the notification by a notification part. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of a television receiver. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of a television receiver. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of the terminal cooperation system in another aspect.

[Overview of terminal cooperation system S]
First, the outline of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of the terminal cooperation system S, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an outline of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal cooperation system S includes a television receiver 1, a broadcasting station 30, and a plurality of portable terminals 50.

The broadcast station 30 transmits a broadcast signal including broadcast content by an arbitrary method using a broadcast facility or a communication facility. The broadcasting facility is a broadcasting facility for digital broadcasting or cable television broadcasting, and superimposes a broadcast signal on a broadcast wave and transmits it via a broadcasting antenna or an optical cable. The communication facility is a communication facility for VOD (Video On Demand) distribution or hybrid cast content (content described in HTML5), and transmits a broadcast signal or hybrid cast content via the Internet.
The broadcast signal includes, in addition to the broadcast content, various digital data that complements the broadcast content, a signal for starting the hybrid cast, and the like. The broadcast content is content indicating the content of a broadcast program or VOD distribution, and includes video and audio.

The mobile terminal 50 is a smartphone, a mobile phone, a tablet, a game machine, or the like, and is a terminal device that is previously paired with the television receiver 1. The mobile terminal 50 can be connected to the Internet and is connected to the paired television receiver 1 so as to be capable of wireless communication.
The connection to the Internet by the mobile terminal 50 may be made via a mobile phone line such as a 3G line, or may be made via a wireless LAN access point. In this case, the television receiver 1 may function as a wireless LAN access point, or a wireless LAN access point (not shown) may be provided separately.

  The television receiver 1 corresponds to the receiving device of the present invention, and includes a set top box 1A and a display device 1B. The television receiver 1 displays broadcast content transmitted from the broadcast station 30 to the user. In addition, the television receiver 1 can be connected to the Internet, and is connected to the paired mobile terminal 50 so as to perform wireless communication.

The set top box 1A receives a broadcast signal transmitted from the broadcast station 30, converts it into a signal such as video and audio, and outputs it to the display device 1B. The set top box 1A functions as a wireless LAN access point.
The display device 1B functions as an output unit of the present invention. The display device 1B is configured by a liquid crystal display, an organic EL (Electro-Luminescence) display, and the like, and displays broadcast content output from the set top box 1A.

The television receiver 1 may be configured by a set-top box 1A and a display device 1B that are provided separately, and the set-top box 1A and the display device 1B are integrated. It may be done.
In the following, the embodiment will be described by taking the television receiver 1 in which the set-top box 1A and the display device 1B are integrally formed as an example.

In the terminal cooperation system S configured as described above, when the television receiver 1 acquires instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation with the portable terminal 50 while displaying the broadcast content, the television receiver 1 transmits the instruction information to the paired portable terminal 50. The broadcast content corresponding to the terminal cooperation is notified.
At this time, the television receiver 1 confirms that the broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation has started for the mobile terminal 50 owned by the user who is interested in the broadcast content being displayed among the paired mobile terminals 50. Notice.

Here, with reference to FIG. 2A, the case where the broadcast content “soccer relay” is displayed on the television receiver 1 will be described in detail.
As shown in FIG. 2A, portable terminals 50 </ b> A and 50 </ b> B that have been paired with the television receiver 1 exist in a range where wireless communication with the television receiver 1 is possible. The user of the mobile terminal 50A is a user who is interested in sports, and the user of the mobile terminal 50B is a user who is not interested in sports.

  Since the broadcast content being displayed is “soccer relay”, the user of the portable terminal 50A can be regarded as interested in the broadcast content, while the user of the portable terminal 50B is regarded as not interested in the broadcast content. be able to. Therefore, when the “soccer relay” is broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation, the television receiver 1 notifies the mobile terminal 50A that the terminal cooperation service has started, while the mobile terminal 50B Suppress notifications that the terminal cooperation service has started.

Thereby, for example, even when the user of the mobile terminal 50A is not viewing the broadcast content such as being in a separate room from the television receiver 1, the notification is performed via the mobile terminal 50A. The user of 50A can be guided to the broadcast content being displayed on the television receiver 1.
On the other hand, unnecessary notifications can be suppressed by not performing notification or reducing the notification frequency for the user of the portable terminal 50B who is not interested in the broadcast content, and the convenience of the user of the portable terminal 50B is impaired. Can be prevented.

In addition, terminal cooperation control is performed based on the predetermined function which the television receiver 1 and the portable terminal 50 have, for example, in the case of hybrid cast broadcasting, as shown in FIG. Terminal cooperation control is performed by the function and the receiver basic function of the television receiver 1.
Specifically, when the television receiver 1 acquires instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation, the television receiver 1 notifies the cooperation terminal basic function of the paired mobile terminal 50 through the receiver basic function. With this notification, the companion application is automatically activated in the portable terminal 50, whereby terminal cooperation control is performed.

[Functional configuration of the present invention]
Next, the configuration of the television receiver 1 and the portable terminal 50 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating functional configurations of the television receiver 1 and the portable terminal 50.

[Configuration of portable terminal 50]
First, the mobile terminal 50 includes a control unit 51, a wireless unit 52, a display unit 53, and a storage unit 54.
The control part 51 is comprised by CPU, for example. The control unit 51 comprehensively controls functions related to the portable terminal 50 by executing various programs stored in the storage unit 54.

The wireless unit 52 performs predetermined communication with another terminal device via a wireless communication line such as Wi-Fi (registered trademark). As an example, the wireless unit 52 is communicably connected to the television receiver 1 via a wireless communication line, and transmits an operation history and the like to the television receiver 1 at an arbitrary timing. A notification that the broadcast content corresponding to the cooperation has started is received.
Here, the operation history includes operation information indicating the type of application executed on the portable terminal 50 and the operation performed during the execution of the application. Note that typical operations for the application include the content of the touch operation, the number of touch operations, the content of the input message, and the start / end operation of the application.

The display unit 53 includes, for example, a liquid crystal display, an organic EL (Electro-Luminescence) display, or the like. The display unit 53 displays characters, graphics, and the like according to the control of the control unit 51.
The storage unit 54 is configured by, for example, a ROM and a RAM. The storage unit 54 stores various programs and various data for causing the mobile terminal 50 to function. In addition, the storage unit 54 temporarily stores an operation history of an application executed on the mobile terminal 50.

  The operation history stored in the storage unit 54 is read at an arbitrary timing and transmitted to the television receiver 1 via the wireless unit 52. Of course, the operation history may be transmitted to the television receiver 1 each time an application is executed in the portable terminal 50 without temporarily storing the operation history in the storage unit 54.

[Configuration of TV receiver 1]
The television receiver 1 includes a control unit 2, a radio unit 3, a storage unit 4, the display device 1 </ b> B described above, a broadcast reception unit 5, and a communication unit 6.

  The wireless unit 3 performs predetermined communication with other terminal devices via a wireless communication line such as Wi-Fi. As an example, the wireless unit 3 is communicably connected to each of a plurality of mobile terminals 50 via a wireless communication line, and notifies the nearby mobile terminals 50 that broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation has started. At the same time, the application operation history is received from each portable terminal 50. Further, the wireless unit 3 transmits the content acquired via the communication unit 6 to the portable terminal 50.

  The storage unit 4 is composed of, for example, a ROM and a RAM. The storage unit 4 stores various programs and various data for causing the television receiver 1 to function. In addition, the storage unit 4 stores a viewing history of broadcast content viewed by the user of the mobile terminal 50, an operation history received from the mobile terminal 50, and attribute information of the user of the mobile terminal 50.

Here, examples of viewing history, operation history, and attribute information stored in the storage unit 4 are shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. 4A shows an example of a viewing history stored in the storage unit 4, FIG. 4B shows an example of an operation history stored in the storage unit 4, and FIG. An example of the attribute information memorize | stored is shown.
In FIG. 4, various information is stored in association with the terminal ID for easy understanding. Here, various types of information stored in the storage unit 4 are used to specify user attribute information. Therefore, various types of information may be stored in association with the user ID instead of the terminal ID. Thereby, the attribute information of the user who owns the plurality of portable terminals 50 can also be specified appropriately.

As shown in FIG. 4A, the storage unit 4 is associated with a terminal ID for identifying the mobile terminal 50, and identifies information (for example, a program name, a channel, a broadcasting station name, etc.) that identifies the broadcast content viewed by the user. ), The date and time when the user viewed the broadcast content, the category of the broadcast content, and the like are stored. At this time, the storage unit 4 stores a viewing history when the user views continuously for a predetermined time (for example, 5 minutes or longer).
The category of the broadcast content can be specified based on program identification information (SI information) included in the broadcast signal received from the broadcast station 30, and indicates, for example, the major category, middle category, and minor category of the broadcast content. Includes categories.

Here, the user who is viewing the broadcast content can be specified by any method. As an example, the television receiver 1 can specify the viewing user based on the radio wave intensity with the portable terminal 50 displaying the broadcast content. That is, since the mobile terminal 50 having a radio field intensity of a predetermined value or more is located in the vicinity of the television receiver 1, the user of the mobile terminal 50 specifies that the user is viewing broadcast content.
In addition, the television receiver 1 may identify the user of the portable terminal 50 that is used as a remote controller for the television receiver 1 as a user who is viewing the broadcast content. As an example, since the mobile terminal 50 in which the companion app (see FIG. 2B) is activated is used as a remote controller for the television receiver 1, the television receiver 1 can transmit broadcast content based on whether or not the companion app is activated. Identify the user who is watching.

The television receiver 1 stores the viewing history in the storage unit 4 by associating the broadcast content that has been viewed, the viewing date and time, and the category of the broadcast content with the user (mobile terminal 50) identified in this way.
In addition, it is good also as a structure which manages a user's viewing history in the portable terminal 50 separately, and memorize | stores a viewing history in the memory | storage part 4 by transmitting to the television receiver 1 from the portable terminal 50 at arbitrary timings. In this case, the portable terminal 50 manages only a part of the viewing history, for example, the viewing date and time, and associates it with other information managed by the television receiver 1 to store the viewing history shown in FIG. 4 may be stored.

  As shown in FIG. 4B, the storage unit 4 is associated with a terminal ID that identifies the mobile terminal 50, and the AP type indicating the date and time when the application was operated on the mobile terminal 50 and the type of the operated application. , The AP category indicating the category of the application, the operation information indicating the operation content for the application, and the like are stored.

  In the present embodiment, applications executed on the mobile terminal 50 are classified into three categories: “terminal cooperation”, “SNS”, and “others”. The category “terminal cooperation” is a category of applications (HTML application on the mobile terminal side in FIG. 2B) acquired and executed in the mobile terminal 50 in association with the terminal cooperation service of hybrid cast broadcasting. Belongs to the category “terminal cooperation”. The categories “SNS” and “Others” are categories of applications executed on the portable terminal 50 regardless of the terminal cooperation service. Among these categories, the category “SNS” indicates a category of an application that exchanges messages and the like with other users, and the category “other” indicates a category of any other application (for example, a game). .

As illustrated in FIG. 5, the storage unit 4 stores attribute information of the user of the mobile terminal 50 in association with a terminal ID that identifies the mobile terminal 50. In this embodiment, the degree of interest in the category of broadcast content is used as the user attribute information. In FIG. 5, only the interest level for the major category is shown, and the interest levels for the middle category and the minor category are omitted.
The degree of interest is an index indicating the degree of interest in the broadcast content for each user, which is calculated based on the viewing history and the operation history by the user attribute specifying unit 22 described later. The interest level is normalized based on a predetermined rule, and is calculated so that the total value of the interest levels for all categories is 1. In the present embodiment, the greater the degree of interest, the higher the user is interested in that category. Therefore, for example, the user with the terminal ID “1” is highly interested in sports (interesting degree “0.5”) and is not interested in movies and news (interesting degree “0.0”). I understand.

  In the television receiver 1, attribute information for each user is stored in the storage unit 4, and notification to each user is controlled while performing multi-user management based on the information stored in the storage unit 4.

Returning to FIG. 3, the broadcast receiving unit 5 and / or the communication unit 6 function as the receiving unit of the present invention.
Specifically, the broadcast receiving unit 5 receives a broadcast signal transmitted from the broadcast station 30 via a broadcast network or a cable TV line. The broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiving unit 5 is supplied to the control unit 2, where it is separated into various data such as video data, audio data, data broadcast and subtitle data, and appropriately subjected to decoding processing and the like. The broadcast content is output from the display device 1B.
The communication unit 6 is connected to an external device via the Internet, and performs predetermined communication with the external device. As an example, the communication unit 6 acquires VOD content from the communication facility of the broadcasting station 30 via the Internet, and acquires HTML5 content used in hybrid cast broadcasting from an external server (not shown).

  The control part 2 is comprised by CPU, for example. The control unit 2 comprehensively controls functions related to the television receiver 1 by executing various programs stored in the storage unit 4, and obtains an acquisition unit 21, a user attribute specifying unit 22, a program attribute specifying unit 23. The first determination unit 24, the second determination unit 25, and the notification unit 26 function.

The acquisition unit 21 acquires an operation history from each of the plurality of portable terminals 50 via the wireless unit 3. The acquisition unit 21 may acquire the viewing history or a part of the viewing history (for example, viewing date and time) from each of the plurality of mobile terminals 50.
The acquisition unit 21 stores various information acquired from each of the mobile terminals 50 in the storage unit 4 in association with a terminal ID that identifies the mobile terminal 50.

  The user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies the attribute information of the user of the portable terminal 50 based on the operation history (that is, the type of application executed on the portable terminal 50 and the operation information in the application). More specifically, the user attribute specifying unit 22 connects the operation history and the viewing history, and specifies the degree of interest of the user with respect to the broadcast content category.

As described above, in the terminal cooperation system S, when broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation starts, unnecessary notifications to users who are not interested in the broadcast content are suppressed, and the mobile terminals 50 of the users who are interested in are suppressed. To notify that the terminal linkage service has started.
Therefore, in the terminal cooperation system S, it is necessary to appropriately specify the degree of interest (attribute information) of the user with respect to the broadcast content.

Here, in recent years, since viewing modes such as “viewing while” while performing other operations while viewing broadcast content are expanding, the broadcast content obtained as viewing history does not necessarily match the user's interest. In “watching while”, it is easy to operate the mobile terminal 50 such as a smartphone while displaying the broadcast content on the television receiver 1, and thus the adverse effect due to such inconsistency appears in the mobile terminal 50. That is, if a notification that is not intended by the user is made in the mobile terminal 50 being operated, the convenience of the user is significantly impaired.
For this reason, it is not preferable to specify user attribute information (degree of interest) from only the viewing history.

Similarly, the operation history of the application does not necessarily match the user's interest in the broadcast content. That is, for example, even a user who often executes a soccer game application is not necessarily interested in the broadcast content “soccer relay”.
For this reason, it is not preferable to specify user attribute information only from the operation history of the application.

In this regard, in this embodiment, the user's interest level (attribute information) for the broadcast content is specified based on the viewing history and the operation history. That is, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies user attribute information based on an operation history of an application performed by the user while viewing the broadcast content.
More specifically, the user attribute specifying unit 22 associates the viewing date / time of the viewing history with the operation date / time of the operation history, and the type of application executed on the mobile terminal 50 while viewing the broadcast content and the application being executed Specify operation information for. And the user attribute specific | specification part 22 specifies a user's attribute information based on the classification and operation information of this application.

Here, with reference to FIG. 6, the user attribute information specifying method by the user attribute specifying unit 22 will be described.
In FIG. 6A, while viewing the broadcast content “soccer relay”, (A) the mobile terminal 50A in which the cooperative application belonging to the category “terminal cooperation” is executed, and (B) the message application belonging to the category “SNS” is executed. The identification method of the attribute information of each user of portable terminal 50B and portable terminal 50C in which the game application which belongs to (C) category "others" was performed is shown.

With reference to FIG. 6A (A), the cooperative application operates in cooperation with the broadcast content. Therefore, it is assumed that the user who performed operation with respect to the cooperation application is interested in the broadcast content. Therefore, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies the user attribute information by giving a predetermined weight to the broadcast content linked with the cooperative application based on the operation information for the cooperative application.
For example, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies user attribute information so that the degree of interest varies depending on the content of the operation and the number of operations for the cooperative application. As an example, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies user attribute information so that the degree of interest increases as the number of operations increases. On the other hand, the user attribute specific | specification part 22 specifies a user's attribute information so that a degree of interest may become low, for example, when completion | finish operation of a cooperation application is included.

  In addition, the user attribute specifying unit 22 weights the broadcast content with a predetermined weight based on operation information for an application other than the cooperative application performed while the broadcast content is displayed on the television receiver 1. Specify attribute information.

If the broadcast content is of interest, the user may wish to share information with other users. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6A (B), when an application belonging to the category “SNS” is executed while viewing the broadcast content, the user attribute specifying unit 22 is interested in the broadcast content. User attribute information is specified.
On the other hand, when a game application is being executed while viewing broadcast content, it is highly possible that the content is “while viewing”, and it is assumed that the broadcast content is not of interest to the user. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6A (C), when an application belonging to the category “others” is executed while viewing broadcast content, the user attribute specifying unit 22 is less interested in the broadcast content. User attribute information is specified. Of course, when the game application is ended while viewing the broadcast content, the user attribute information may be specified so that the degree of interest is high.

Although not shown, the user attribute specifying unit 22 may specify user attribute information based on user operation information for a companion app that functions as a remote control of the television receiver 1.
Moreover, it is good also as specifying a user's attribute information considering not only the content of operation of each application but operation time. In this case, the positive and negative weights increase as the operation time increases, and the positive and negative weights decrease as the operation time decreases.

  By the way, even for an application belonging to the category “SNS”, the user's interest in the broadcast content may differ depending on the content of the message. In FIG. 6B (A), a message related to soccer, such as “gool”, is posted in the message application while viewing the broadcast content “soccer relay”. On the other hand, in FIG. 6B (B), while viewing the broadcast content “soccer relay”, a message regarding a home appliance that is not related to soccer is posted in the message application, such as “O Company ...”.

  In such a case, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies the attribute information of the user so that the user who posted the message related to soccer has a high degree of interest in the broadcast content “soccer relay”, and sends a message about the home appliance. For the posted user, the attribute information of the user may be specified so that the degree of interest in the broadcast content “soccer relay” is low.

Specifically, the user attribute specifying unit 22 analyzes the content of the input message included in the operation information and determines whether the content is related to the broadcast content. And the user attribute specific | specification part 22 specifies a user's attribute information so that an interest level may become high when it is the content relevant to broadcast content, and when it is the content which is not related to a broadcast content, an interest level is low. The attribute information of the user is specified as follows.
Whether or not the content is related to the broadcast content may be specified by an arbitrary method, and the user attribute specifying unit 22 determines whether or not the content is related to the broadcast content based on, for example, a hash tag included in the message. Can be specified. Moreover, the user attribute specific | specification part 22 can specify whether it is relevant to broadcast content from the relationship between the keyword contained in a message, and the category of broadcast content.

  Returning to FIG. 3, the program attribute specifying unit 23 specifies the attribute information (category) of the broadcast content received via the broadcast receiving unit 5 or the communication unit 6. That is, the program attribute specifying unit 23 specifies the category of broadcast content currently displayed on the television receiver 1. As an example, the program attribute specifying unit 23 specifies the category of the broadcast content that is currently displayed based on the program identification information (SI information) included in the broadcast signal.

  The first determination unit 24 determines whether or not instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation is associated with broadcast content received via the broadcast reception unit 5 or the communication unit 6. That is, the first determination unit 24 determines whether or not the broadcast content being displayed is broadcast content that can be cooperated with the terminal.

Here, the television receiver 1 can acquire instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation by an arbitrary method. For example, in the case of hybrid cast broadcasting, the television receiver 1 acquires instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation from the content of the HTML application on the television receiver 1 side. Further, if it is possible to set in advance in an electronic program guide such as EPG (Electronic Program Guide) that the broadcast content is compatible with terminal cooperation, the television receiver 1 analyzes the electronic program guide. In this way, it is possible to acquire instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation. Furthermore, there are many sites that post information related to program guides on the Internet these days, but if such information is given on the site to indicate that it is broadcast content that supports terminal cooperation, The television receiver 1 can also acquire instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation by analyzing program guide information posted on the site.
When the television receiver 1 has acquired the instruction information, the first determination unit 24 determines that the broadcast content being displayed is broadcast content that can be linked to the terminal.

The second determination unit 25 refers to the user attribute information stored in the storage unit 4, and a user having attribute information corresponding to the broadcast content attribute information specified by the program attribute specifying unit 23 among a plurality of users. Determine if it exists. That is, the second determination unit 25 determines whether there are users who are interested in the broadcast content being displayed among the plurality of users who own the mobile terminal 50.
Specifically, the second determination unit 25 extracts the degree of interest (attribute information) of the user corresponding to the attribute information (category) of the broadcast content from the storage unit 4, and there is a user whose degree of interest is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold. It is determined whether or not to do. And the 2nd determination part 25 determines with the user whose interest degree is more than predetermined being a user who has the attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of broadcast content.

The notification unit 26 determines that the instruction information is associated with the first determination unit 24, and determines that there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content by the second determination unit 25. On the condition, the mobile terminal 50 of the user is notified that the broadcast content corresponding to the terminal cooperation has started.
That is, when the broadcast content being displayed is broadcast content that can be terminal-linked, the notification unit 26 supports terminal linkage for the portable terminal 50 owned by a user who is interested in the broadcast content. Notify that the broadcast content has started. On the other hand, even if the broadcast content being displayed is a broadcast content that can be linked to the terminal, the notification unit 26 provides the mobile terminal 50 owned by a user who is not interested in the broadcast content to the mobile terminal 50. Suppress notifications.

  An example of notification by the notification unit 26 is shown in FIG. FIG. 7A shows an example of notification to the mobile terminal 50 of the user corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content whose attribute information (interesting degree) is being displayed, and FIG. The example of notification with respect to the portable terminal 50 of the user who does not respond | correspond to the attribute information of the broadcast content being displayed is shown.

As shown in FIG. 7A, the notification unit 26 provides a terminal for a mobile terminal 50 of a user who has attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content, that is, a user who is interested in the broadcast content. Notify that the broadcast content corresponding to the collaboration has started. Upon receiving this notification, the portable terminal 50 displays notification information 501 for notifying that the terminal cooperation service has started in a predetermined area of the display unit 53. When the user of the mobile terminal 50 selects the start of the terminal cooperation service according to the notification information 501, the control unit 51 of the mobile terminal 50 activates the companion application (see FIG. 2B), and the application (HTML5 content) associated with the terminal cooperation service ) And is displayed on the display unit 53 as the terminal cooperation display 502.
As a result, an application that cooperates with the broadcast content being viewed via the television receiver 1 is executed on the portable terminal 50.

On the other hand, the notification unit 26 is different from that in FIG. 7A for the mobile terminal 50 of the attribute information not corresponding to the broadcast content attribute information, that is, the user who is not interested in the broadcast content. To give notifications associated with terminal cooperation.
For example, the notification unit 26 may notify the mobile terminal 50 of a user who is not interested in the broadcast content at a reduced frequency. In addition, as shown in FIG. 7B, the notification unit 26 uses a SNS to send a message to a mobile terminal 50 of a user who is not interested in the broadcast content, thereby enabling terminal cooperation. It may be notified that the corresponding broadcast content has started. Furthermore, the notification unit 26 displays an icon indicating that a message has been added on the status bar arranged at a predetermined position on the display screen of the mobile terminal 50, so that broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation has started. It is good also as notifying.

[Processing of TV receiver 1]
Next, with reference to FIG. 8 and FIG. 9, the flow of processing executed by the television receiver 1 will be described. FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a flow of attribute specifying processing that is periodically executed, and FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a flow of terminal cooperation processing that is executed while broadcasting content is being displayed.

In the attribute specifying process shown in FIG. 8, first, the acquisition unit 21 of the television receiver 1 acquires a viewing history (step S1) and an application operation history (step S2) from each of the plurality of portable terminals 50.
Subsequently, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies user attribute information (degree of interest) of the mobile terminal 50 with respect to the broadcast content category based on the viewing history and the operation history. Specifically, the user attribute specifying unit 22 associates the viewing history with the operation history, and specifies the user attribute information based on the type and operation information of the application executed while viewing the broadcast content. The association between the viewing history and the operation history can be performed by, for example, viewing date and time and operation date and time for applications belonging to the categories “SNS” and “Others”. In addition, since the application belonging to the category “terminal cooperation” is an application associated with the broadcast content in advance, it can be linked without referring to the viewing date / time and the operation date / time.

  Next, in the terminal cooperation processing shown in FIG. 9, first, the first determination unit 24 of the television receiver 1 determines whether or not the broadcast content being displayed on the television receiver 1 includes instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation. Is determined (step S11). When this determination is YES, the program attribute specifying unit 23 specifies the attribute information of the broadcast content (step S12).

Subsequently, the second determination unit 25 refers to the user attribute information stored in the storage unit 4 and compares the attribute information of the broadcast content specified in step S12 with the user attribute information (step S13). It is determined whether or not the user has attribute information corresponding to content attribute information (step S14).
At this time, for the portable terminal 50 owned by the user of the attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content, the notification unit 26 notifies the start of the broadcast content corresponding to the terminal cooperation (step S15), and the terminal cooperation The process ends. On the other hand, for the mobile terminal 50 owned by the user of attribute information that does not correspond to the attribute information of the broadcast content, the notification unit 26 changes the notification mode such as adjusting the notification frequency, and broadcasts corresponding to terminal cooperation. The start of content is notified (step S16), and the terminal cooperation process is terminated.

The embodiment of the terminal cooperation system S has been described above. Note that in the terminal cooperation system S of the present embodiment, when broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation starts, the notification to the user is made different under the control of the television receiver 1. In this regard, the notification to the user may be made different not by the control of the television receiver 1 but by the control of the portable terminal 50.
In the case of control by the television receiver 1, the notification to the user is made different by controlling the notification mode from the television receiver 1 to the portable terminal 50 as described above. On the other hand, in the case of controlling the mobile terminal 50, the television receiver 1 notifies the plurality of mobile terminals 50 all at once, while the mobile terminal 50 that receives the notification displays the display mode based on the user attribute information. By controlling, notification to the user is made different.

  FIG. 10 shows an example of a processing flow in the case where the notification to the user is made different by the control of the portable terminal 50.

In the portable terminal 50, the operation history and the viewing history are transmitted to the television receiver 1 at an arbitrary timing (step S31). When the operation history or the like is received from the portable terminal 50, the television receiver 1 specifies the attribute information (degree of interest) of the user of the portable terminal 50 based on the operation history and the viewing history (step S41), and returns to the portable terminal 50. (Step S42).
The processes in steps S31, S41, and S42 are periodically performed. That is, the user's attribute information (degree of interest) is periodically updated and stored in the portable terminal 50 owned by the user.

  Thereafter, when the television receiver 1 acquires the terminal cooperation instruction information (Step S43), the television receiver 1 notifies the paired mobile terminals 50 of the instruction information together with the broadcast content attribute information. (Step S44). Note that the broadcast content attribute information is acquired at arbitrary timing from the program identification information (SI information) or the like. At this time, the television receiver 1 notifies the plurality of paired mobile terminals 50 all at once.

  Upon receiving this notification, the portable terminal 50 compares the user attribute information (interest degree) acquired periodically and the attribute information of the broadcast content, and performs display control based on the terminal cooperation instruction information (step). S32). That is, the mobile terminal 50 in which the user is interested in the broadcast content attribute information displays notification information for notifying that the terminal cooperation service has started. On the other hand, in the mobile terminal 50 in which the user is not interested in the broadcast content attribute information, the notification to the user is made different by, for example, reducing the frequency of displaying the notification information.

According to such processing, a user who is interested in the broadcast content can be guided based on the control on the portable terminal 50 side. In FIG. 10, the user attribute information (degree of interest) is specified on the television receiver 1 side. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the user attribute information is also specified on the portable terminal 50 side. It is good.
Further, the information stored in the television receiver 1 and the information stored in the portable terminal 50 may be appropriately changed depending on the contents of the processes executed by the television receiver 1 and the portable terminal 50. That is, in the case where the user's attribute information is specified on the mobile terminal 50 side and the notification to the user is made different based on the control on the mobile terminal 50 side, the viewing history, the operation history or the user's attribute in the television receiver 1 Information or the like may not be stored.

[Effect of TV receiver 1]
According to the television receiver 1 of the present embodiment described above, the following effects can be expected.

  In the television receiver 1 of the present invention, the attribute information of the user of the paired mobile terminal 50 is stored in the storage unit 4, and while performing multi-user management based on the information stored in the storage unit 4, Control notifications to each user. More specifically, in the television receiver 1, when instruction information for instructing terminal cooperation is displayed while the broadcast content is displayed, the television receiver 1 is higher than the broadcast content being displayed among the plurality of paired mobile terminals 50. The mobile terminal 50 of the user who has an interest degree is notified that the broadcast content corresponding to the terminal cooperation has started.

  Thereby, when the broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation is displayed with the television receiver 1, it can be notified to the user interested in the said broadcast content. Therefore, even a user who is not viewing broadcast content is notified to a user who is interested in the broadcast content, so that a user who is interested in the broadcast content can be guided to the broadcast content. As a result, it is possible to guide not only from broadcasting to communication but also from communication to broadcasting, thereby increasing the number of viewing of broadcast content.

At this time, the television receiver 1 specifies the degree of interest (attribute information) of the user with respect to the broadcast content based on the operation history of the application executed on the mobile terminal 50. More specifically, the television receiver 1 specifies user attribute information based on the application type executed during viewing of the broadcast content and the operation content thereof.
Thereby, since the user's interest degree with respect to broadcast content can be specified appropriately, the user who is interested in broadcast content can be induced appropriately.

  As an example, it is assumed that a cooperative application that cooperates with broadcast content is not operated by a user who is not interested in the broadcast content. Therefore, the television receiver 1 can appropriately specify the degree of interest of the user with respect to the broadcast content by specifying the attribute information based on the operation content of the cooperative application.

Similarly, for an application other than the cooperative application, the user's degree of interest in the broadcast content can be specified according to the operation content while viewing the broadcast content.
For example, when a message related to the broadcast content is posted while viewing the broadcast content, this user can be regarded as being interested in the broadcast content. On the other hand, if an unrelated game application or the like is being executed while viewing the broadcast content, this user may be viewing the broadcast content while “not watching” the broadcast content. it can.

  Further, in the television receiver 1 of the present invention, since notifications can be suppressed for users who are not interested, notifications that are not of interest to the user are made when other operations are performed using the mobile terminal 50. This is not done and the user's convenience is not impaired.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated using embodiment, the technical scope of this invention is not limited to the range as described in the said embodiment. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications or improvements can be added to the above embodiment. In particular, the specific embodiments of the distribution / integration of the devices are not limited to those illustrated above, and all or a part thereof may be added in arbitrary units according to various additions or according to functional loads. It can be configured functionally or physically distributed and integrated.

  For example, one or all of the functions of the control unit of the television receiver 1 may be included in the control unit 51 of the mobile terminal 50, and the functions of the control unit 51 of the mobile terminal 50 may be included. Some or all of the functions may be included in the control unit of the television receiver 1.

  In addition, a user who views broadcast content may frequently switch channels and view (zapping viewing). When the broadcast content switched accidentally during such zapping viewing is a broadcast content that is of interest to the user, in the above embodiment, there is a possibility that notification is performed every time the content is switched. Therefore, the present invention may include measures against zapping viewing.

As such a countermeasure, for example, notification may be performed only when the same broadcast content continues for a predetermined time. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the notification from being performed based on the broadcast content switched accidentally during zapping viewing.
Specifically, the television receiver 1 measures the continuous display time of the broadcast content. When the continuous display time reaches a predetermined time, it can be realized by notifying the mobile terminal 50 of the user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content.

As another countermeasure, for example, once notification is performed based on the same broadcast content, it is conceivable that notification is not performed again unless a predetermined time elapses. Thereby, even if it is a case where it switches to the same broadcast content several times, the notification with respect to a user can be suppressed. The predetermined time is arbitrary, but may be any time such as 5 minutes or 10 minutes, for example, until the broadcast content that has been notified ends (that is, for the same broadcast content). The notification may be made in units of broadcast contents as in the case of notification once. In addition, after combining these and performing notification at an arbitrary time interval a predetermined number of times, the same broadcast content may not be notified.
Such another countermeasure may be performed by control on the television receiver 1 side or may be performed by control on the portable terminal 50 side.

When performing the control by the television receiver 1 side, when the television receiver 1 makes a notification once based on a certain broadcast content, it times the time linked to the broadcast content. Then, when the measured time reaches a predetermined time, it can be realized by notifying the mobile terminal 50 of the user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content.
Further, when the control is performed on the mobile terminal 50 side, when the mobile terminal 50 receives a notification from the television receiver 1, the mobile terminal 50 notifies the user that the terminal cooperation service has started, and associates the time with the broadcast content. Time. And in the portable terminal 50, even if it receives notification based on the same broadcast content until a predetermined time is counted, it is realized by controlling so that notification (display of notification information) to the user is not performed. Can do.

In the above embodiment, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies user attribute information in accordance with an operation (the content of the operation and the number of operations) performed on the application performed while viewing the broadcast content. The attribute information of the user may be specified based on the state of the mobile terminal 50 viewing the broadcast content.
Here, the state of the mobile terminal 50 can be specified based on, for example, an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor (not shown) included in the mobile terminal 50. As an example, when the acceleration sensor does not detect acceleration for a certain period of time, it can be specified that the portable terminal 50 is not operated.

The user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies user attribute information from the type of application being executed while viewing broadcast content and the state of the mobile terminal 50. For example, if the acceleration sensor frequently detects a certain acceleration or more while the cooperative application is being executed, it can be determined that the user is operating the cooperative application. Therefore, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies user attribute information so that the degree of interest in the broadcast content is high. If the acceleration sensor does not detect acceleration for a certain period of time while the game application is being executed, the user determines that the user may leave the game application and watch the broadcast content. Can do. Therefore, the user attribute specifying unit 22 specifies user attribute information so that the degree of interest in the broadcast content is high.
Thus, the present invention includes specifying user attribute information based on the detection result of the acceleration sensor and the type of the application being executed, as well as the operation on the application.

In the above embodiment, only the user attribute information managed by the television receiver 1 or the portable terminal 50 is used. In this regard, in recent years when the Internet has become widespread, user attribute information may be managed in an external server existing on the Internet. As an example, when a user uses an SNS service or the like, the SNS server may manage attribute information such as a user's hobbies. Therefore, in the present invention, broadcast content that the user is interested in may be specified using the attribute information of the user managed by such an external server.
Specifically, the user attribute specifying unit 22 accesses an external server at an arbitrary timing, and acquires user attribute information managed by the external server. Then, the user attribute specifying unit 22 performs predetermined weighting on the user attribute information acquired from the external server, and then integrates the user attribute information with the user attribute information managed by the television receiver 1 or the portable terminal 50. Thereby, it is possible to specify the degree of interest of the user with respect to the broadcast content using various information, which is preferable.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Television receiver, 1A ... Set top box, 1B ... Display apparatus, 2 ... Control part, 21 ... Acquisition part, 22 ... User attribute specific | specification part, 23 ... Program attribute specifying unit, 24 ... first determination unit, 25 ... second determination unit, 26 ... notification unit, 3 ... radio unit, 4 ... storage unit, 5 ... broadcast reception Part, 6 ... communication part, 30 ... broadcasting station, 50 ... mobile terminal

Claims (7)

A storage unit that stores attribute information of the user of the mobile terminal in association with each of the plurality of mobile terminals;
A receiver for receiving a signal including broadcast content via broadcast or communication;
A first determination unit that determines whether or not the received broadcast content is associated with instruction information indicating broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation;
A program attribute specifying unit for specifying the attribute information of the received broadcast content;
A second determination unit that determines whether or not there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content specified among the plurality of users;
Condition that it is determined by the first determination unit that the instruction information is associated, and the second determination unit determines that there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content. A notification unit for transmitting notification information not included in the signal for notifying the mobile terminal of the user that broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation has started;
A receiving device. An acquisition unit that acquires, from the mobile terminal, the operation information indicating the type of the application executed on the mobile terminal and an operation performed during the execution of the application;
A user attribute specifying unit that specifies the attribute information of the user based on the acquired type and the operation information;
The receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising: The application includes a cooperative application that cooperates with broadcast content,
The user attribute specifying unit specifies, based on operation information for the cooperative application, predetermined weighting for broadcast content linked to the cooperative application, and specifies the user attribute information;
The receiving device according to claim 2. An output unit for outputting the received broadcast content;
The user attribute specifying unit weights the broadcast content being output with a predetermined weight based on operation information for an application other than the cooperative application that cooperates with the broadcast content during the output of the broadcast content. Identify attribute information for
The receiving device according to claim 2 or 3. The notification unit has a frequency lower than a notification frequency for the user's mobile terminal for a mobile terminal other than the user's mobile terminal having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content among the plurality of mobile terminals. And sending the notification information ,
The receiving device according to claim 1. A terminal cooperation system comprising a receiving device that receives a broadcast signal including program content via broadcasting or communication, and a plurality of portable terminals that are connected to the receiving device so as to be capable of wireless communication,
A storage unit that stores attribute information of the user of the mobile terminal in association with the mobile terminal;
A receiver for receiving a signal including broadcast content via broadcast or communication;
A first determination unit that determines whether or not the received broadcast content is associated with instruction information indicating broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation;
A program attribute specifying unit for specifying the attribute information of the received broadcast content;
A second determination unit that determines whether or not there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content specified among the plurality of users;
Condition that it is determined by the first determination unit that the instruction information is associated, and the second determination unit determines that there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content. In addition, in the mobile terminal of the user, a notification unit that transmits notification information not included in the signal for notifying that broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation has started,
A terminal cooperation system comprising: The computer runs,
Receiving a signal containing broadcast content via broadcast or communication;
A first determination step of determining whether or not the received broadcast content is associated with instruction information indicating broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation;
Identifying attribute information of the received broadcast content;
A second determination step of determining whether or not there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content specified among a plurality of users;
It is determined that it is determined in the first determination step that the instruction information is associated, and it is determined in the second determination step that there is a user having attribute information corresponding to the attribute information of the broadcast content. In the user's mobile terminal, transmitting notification information not included in the signal for notifying that broadcast content corresponding to terminal cooperation has started,
The terminal cooperation method including.

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