KR101143942B1 - Method for detecting broadcast provider and system thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for detecting a broadcasting provider and a system thereof are provided to transmit additional information corresponding to each broadcasting provider to a corresponding user terminal. CONSTITUTION: A broadcasting service provider determining server(140) generates corresponding watching content information using received nth watching data. The broadcasting service provider determining server detects channel number information in the received nth watching data. The broadcasting service provider determining server generates corresponding broadcasting service provider information. The broadcasting service provider determining server detects additional information from a database unit. The additional information corresponds to the broadcasting service provider information. The broadcasting service provider determining server transmits the detected additional information to a user terminal or a watching data generating device(130).

Description

Method for detecting broadcast provider and system

The present invention relates to a broadcaster determination method and system, and more particularly, to a method and system for determining a broadcaster for providing a broadcast content to the user.

Today, with the development of digital technology, television (TV) is becoming increasingly digital (replaced from analogue analog television to digital television), and on the other hand, the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications, which provided different characteristics of contents through separate networks, is accelerating. It is becoming. In other words, the initiative is shifting from one-way analog broadcasting to two-way digital broadcasting in which a user is a viewer. In addition, there are a variety of ways in which the user can use the broadcast content, such as broadcast content is provided through mobile multimedia broadcasting (DMB, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting), the Internet, and the like.

In addition, T-commerce, in which electronic commerce is implemented through a television as a medium, is commercially available, and additional information on various goods, places, and the like exposed through broadcast contents is provided to the user in real time. That is, the user may purchase various goods or perform financial services through a television, and may recognize information about goods, a place, and the like, which are exposed in the broadcast content being viewed in real time. For example, a user may purchase a desired product by using an internet television, and may directly access a uniform resource locator (URL) provided with broadcast content using a DMB receiver to obtain desired information.

Meanwhile, digital broadcasting content (hereinafter, abbreviated as 'broadcasting content') that enables commercialization of T-commerce and / or providing additional information is provided to a user through a broadcasting company, and provides broadcasting content to the user. Broadcasters can be broadly classified into cable and satellite broadcasters. In addition, the cable broadcasting service providers may be classified into regional cable broadcasting service providers according to regions where broadcast contents are transmitted. Cable TV is usually operated by a three-division system of program providers (PPs), local cable operators (SOs), and network operators (NOs). It can mean a local cable broadcasting station. In addition, the above-described comprehensive cable broadcasting station (SO) transmits the broadcast content to the user in the area of the business area, the broadcast content may be provided to the user by different wired broadcasting station according to the region.

However, in the related art, there is a problem in that there is no method for determining a broadcaster providing a broadcast content to an arbitrary user. That is, in the related art, if the user receives the broadcast content through the satellite broadcaster, receives the broadcast content through the cable broadcaster, or receives the broadcast content through the cable broadcaster, through which cable broadcaster (for example, There was no way to determine in which region the broadcaster received the content.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention is to provide a broadcaster determination method and system that can determine a broadcaster providing a broadcast content to the user.

In addition, the present invention is to determine a broadcaster providing a broadcast content to the user, to provide a broadcaster determination method and system that can transmit additional information corresponding to each broadcaster to the terminal of the user.

In addition, the present invention is to provide a broadcaster determination method and system that can determine the broadcaster that provides the broadcast content to the user, to calculate the viewer rating corresponding to each broadcaster.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for determining a broadcaster for providing a broadcast content to a user in a broadcast provider determination server, characterized in that to pre-set the feature information of the broadcast content received from the broadcast providing device connected through the broadcast communication network Extracting and storing in the storage space provided; Generating viewing content information corresponding to the viewing data by comparing the viewing data received from the viewing data generating apparatus connected through a data communication network with the feature information; Detecting channel number information included in the viewing data; And determining a broadcaster that provides the broadcast content to the user by using the viewing content information and the channel number information. The live data growth value is previously received when the broadcast content is received through the broadcast communication network. Provided is a broadcaster determination method, which generates and transmits the viewing data according to a set method.

The extracting of the feature information and storing the feature information in the storage space may include extracting voice feature information from voice information included in the broadcast content according to a preset method, wherein the feature information includes the voice feature. May contain information.

The generating of the viewing content information may include: generating the viewing content information by comparing the voice feature information and the voice data included in the viewing data; The voice data may be generated by extracting voice from content.

The extracting of the feature information and storing the feature information in the storage space may include extracting image feature information from image information included in the broadcast content according to a preset method, wherein the feature information includes the image feature. May contain information.

The generating of the viewing content information may include generating the viewing content information by comparing the image feature information with the image data included in the viewing data, wherein the viewing data growth value is the viewing broadcast. The image data may be generated by extracting an image from content.

The method for determining a broadcaster may further include transmitting additional information corresponding to the broadcaster to a user terminal or the viewing data generating device connected through the data communication network.

The method for determining a broadcaster may include determining the number of users who have received broadcast content through the broadcaster as the total number of users during a preset viewership calculation time; Determining the number of users who watched the target broadcasting content through the broadcasting company as the number of viewers during the viewership calculation time; And dividing the number of viewers by the total number of users and calculating a viewer rating for each broadcaster.

The detecting of the total number of users may include: determining the number of first viewing data generating devices that transmit the viewing data corresponding to the broadcasting company during the viewing rate calculation time; Determining the number of second viewing data generating devices of the viewing data generating devices that have transmitted the viewing data corresponding to the broadcasting company before the viewing rate calculating time without transmitting an end signal until the viewing rate calculating time ends; And detecting the total number of users by adding the number of first viewing data generating devices and the number of second viewing data generating devices.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, in the method of generating viewing data in the viewing data generating apparatus, the nth channel number information according to a preset method using the viewing broadcasting contents received from the broadcasting providing apparatus connected through the broadcasting communication network. Generating n-th viewing data comprising: wherein n is a natural number; And transmitting the n th viewing data to a broadcasting company determination server connected through a data communication network. Includes, the broadcaster judgment server generates the viewing content information corresponding to the n-th watching data from the database provided by comparing the n-th viewing data and the pre-stored feature information, and the first from the n-th viewing data There is provided a method for generating viewing data, the method comprising: detecting n channel number information and determining a broadcasting company providing the broadcasting content using the viewing content information and the n th channel number information.

The generating of the n th viewing data may include detecting channel data pre-stored in a memory provided as the n th channel number information when power is applied.

The method may further include storing the number of the channel being viewed as the channel data in the memory when a power-off signal is input according to the user's manipulation.

The method may further include generating n + 1th channel number information using the changed channel number when the channel is changed according to the user's manipulation; And generating the n + 1th viewing data including the n + 1th channel number number information and transmitting the generated nth + 1th viewing data to the broadcaster determination server.

The viewing data generating method may further include generating an end signal when the power end signal is input according to the user's operation and transmitting the end signal to the broadcaster determination server.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the feature information extraction unit for extracting the feature information of the broadcast content received from the broadcast providing device connected through the broadcast communication network according to a preset method; Compare the viewing data received from the viewing data generation device connected through the data communication network with the feature information to generate viewing content information corresponding to the viewing data, detect channel number information included in the viewing data, and view the viewing content. A broadcast service provider judging unit for determining a broadcast service provider providing broadcast content to the user using information and the channel number information; And a database unit for storing the feature information and the viewing content information, wherein the viewing data live growth value is generated and transmitted according to a preset method when the viewing broadcast content is received through the broadcasting communication network. There is provided a broadcaster determination server.

The broadcaster determination method and system according to the present invention can determine the broadcaster providing the broadcast content to the user.

In addition, the broadcaster determination method and system according to the present invention may transmit additional information corresponding to each of the determined broadcaster to the terminal of the user.

In addition, the broadcaster determination method and system according to the present invention may calculate a viewer rating corresponding to each of the determined broadcasters.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a broadcaster judgment system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram of a broadcaster determination server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram of an apparatus for generating viewing data according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a case in which additional information according to a broadcaster is displayed through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing characteristic information on broadcast content received by a broadcaster judgment server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for determining a broadcaster in a broadcaster judgment server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of calculating an audience rating according to a broadcaster in a broadcaster judgment server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The present invention is capable of various modifications and various embodiments, and specific embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the detailed description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all transformations, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that the detailed description of the related known technology may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The terms first, second, etc. may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprise" or "have" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof. Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a broadcaster judgment system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the broadcaster determination system 100 includes a broadcast providing device 110, a broadcast communication network 120, a viewing data generating device 130, a broadcaster determination server 140, a television 150, and a data communication network. A user terminal (hereinafter, collectively referred to as 170-m, where m is a natural number) and a web server 180 such as a smart phone 170-1 / laptop computer 170-2. Here, the broadcast providing device 110 is connected to the viewing data generating device 130 and / or broadcaster determination server 140 and the broadcast communication network 120. In addition, the viewing data generating apparatus 130, the broadcasting company determination server 140, the user terminal 170-m and / or the web server 180 are connected to each other through the data communication network 160.

That is, the broadcast providing device 110 transmits the broadcast content to the viewing data generating device 130 and / or the broadcaster determination server 140 using the broadcast communication network 120 such as satellite or cable. Accordingly, the broadcast content collectively refers to voice and / or video distributed through the broadcast communication network 120, and the broadcast communication network 120 includes broadcast content in the broadcast providing device 110 and the viewing data generating device 130 and / or broadcast. Means a network that can be transmitted to the operator determination server 140.

In addition, the broadcast providing device 110 may be a broadcast content transmission device operated by a satellite broadcaster and / or a local cable broadcasting station (SO). That is, when the broadcast providing device 110 is a satellite broadcaster, the broadcast providing device 110 is connected to the viewing data generating device 130 and / or the broadcast provider judgment server 140 through the broadcast communication network 120 which is a satellite communication network. Broadcast content can be transmitted. In addition, when the broadcast providing device 110 is a local cable broadcasting station (SO), the broadcast providing device 110 is a viewing data generation device 130 and / or broadcaster determination server through the broadcast communication network 120 which is a cable communication network The broadcast content may be transmitted to 140. Here, the satellite broadcasting service provider refers to a service provider who rents a satellite to broadcast, prepares a satellite broadcasting facility, takes charge of satellite broadcasting marketing and / or subscriber management, and collects broadcasting content reception fee.

In addition, when the broadcast data is received from the broadcast providing device 110, the viewing data generating device 130 generates the viewing data according to a preset method and transmits the viewing data to the broadcasting company judgment server 140, and the broadcasting company judgment server 140. When the additional information is received in response to the transmission of the viewing data from the mobile station, the additional information may be transmitted to the user terminal 170-m connected through a local area network (not shown). Here, the local area network (not shown) is a communication network that enables data transmission and reception between devices located in the local area, and may be a communication network according to a communication method such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, and Wi-Fi. have. An operation of generating the viewing data by the viewing data generating device 130 will be described later.

In addition, the viewing data generation device 130 is connected to the set top box (set top box, the device for receiving the broadcast content received from the broadcast providing device 110) (not shown) wired and / or wirelessly set top box (not shown) May be a “separate device” for receiving the broadcast content from S). In addition, the viewing data generating device 130 may be a device capable of receiving broadcast content from the broadcast providing device 110, such as a set-top box, a mobile communication terminal, a personal computer (PC). Therefore, the separate device, the set-top box, the mobile communication terminal, the personal computer, etc., which are the viewing data generating apparatus 130, may generate the viewing data according to a preset method and transmit the broadcasting data to the broadcasting company judging server 140 when the broadcasting content is received. have. In addition, the viewing data generating device 130 may be connected to the television 150 by wire and / or wireless to transmit the broadcast content received from the broadcasting providing device 110. Accordingly, the television 150 may receive broadcast content directly from the broadcast providing device 110 through the broadcast communication network 120 or may receive broadcast content from the viewing data generating device 130.

In addition, when the broadcast content is received from the broadcast providing apparatus 110, the broadcaster judgment server 140 extracts the feature information of the broadcast content according to a preset method and stores it in the provided storage space. In addition, the broadcasting company judgment server 140 compares the viewing data received from the viewing data generating apparatus 130 with the feature information previously stored in the storage space to determine the broadcasting company that has transmitted the broadcasting content to the user. In addition, the broadcasting company judgment server 140 reads additional information corresponding to the determined broadcasting company from the storage space and transmits the additional information to the viewing data generating apparatus 130 and / or the user terminal 170-m through the data communication network 160. send. Here, the data communication network 160 is a communication network capable of transmitting various data, and includes the Internet, a mobile network, an intranet, and the like. Detailed operations of determining the broadcaster in the broadcaster determination server 140 will be described later.

In addition, the user terminal 170-m may receive additional information from the viewing data generation device 130 through a local area network (not shown), or the additional information may be received from the broadcaster determination server 140 through the data communication network 160. When received, it can be displayed. Accordingly, the user may recognize in real time the additional information corresponding to the broadcaster providing the broadcast content using the user terminal 170-m. Here, the user terminal 170-m may be a smartphone, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a personal computer (PC), or the like. It may be a device. In addition, the additional information may include various kinds of information related to the broadcasting content that the user is watching (for example, information about a real time viewer rating), various kinds of information related to the region where the user is located (for example, local news, etc.). Data.

In addition, the web server 180 is a server that provides data corresponding to a request of the connected user terminal 170-m. For example, the address of the web server 180 is included in the additional information received from the broadcaster determination server 140, and the user terminal 170-m may select the address of the web server 180 according to the user's selection. Assume that you are connected to. At this time, the web server 180 may transmit the data stored in advance to the user terminal 170-m.

As described above, the broadcaster judgment server 140 extracts and stores feature information about the broadcast content received from the broadcast providing device 110, and later uses the viewing data received from the viewing data generating device 130. It is possible to determine through which broadcaster the user is receiving the broadcast content, and the corresponding additional information can be transmitted to the viewing data generating device 130 and / or the user terminal 170-m. Therefore, the user terminal 170-m may display additional information corresponding to the broadcast content and / or broadcaster so that the user may recognize various additional information in real time. Hereinafter, operations of the broadcaster judgment server 140 and the viewing data generation device 130 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

2 is a block diagram of a broadcaster judgment server according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is a block diagram of a viewing data generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the broadcaster judgment server 140 includes a broadcast content receiver 210, a feature information extractor 220, a database unit 230, a broadcaster judge 240, a server communication unit 250, and an audience rating. The calculator 260 includes a feature information extractor 220 and an image feature information extractor 220-1 and a voice feature information extractor 220-2. In addition, referring to FIG. 3, the viewing data generating apparatus 130 includes a controller 310, an audio data extracting unit 320, an image data extracting unit 330, an external input / output unit 340, and a data communication unit 350. do.

First, the broadcast content receiver 210 receives broadcast content from the broadcast providing device 110 connected through the broadcast communication network 120 and outputs the broadcast content to the feature information extracting unit 220. Here, the broadcast content receiver 210 may include a set top box, and the set top box may be provided as many as the number of broadcast channels through which broadcast content is transmitted. For example, if there are 100 broadcast channels (ie, the number of providers providing broadcast content (PP, Program Provider, for example, CNN, NBC, etc., hereinafter referred to as 'broadcast content provider') is 100) Assume that, the broadcast content receiving unit 210 may include 100 set top boxes. That is, the broadcast content receiver 210 may simultaneously receive broadcast content provided by all broadcast content providers PP. This is to simultaneously receive all broadcast contents broadcast in the same time zone.

Thereafter, the feature information extractor 220 extracts feature information according to a preset method using the received broadcast content. That is, the image feature information extracting unit 220-1 may extract image feature information by extracting a portion of an image (frame) included in the broadcast content at a predetermined interval. For example, the image feature information extractor 220-1 captures image frames at intervals of 0.5 seconds from sequentially received images of broadcast content, and edge histograms for each of the captured image frames. ), Color information, and the like can be extracted as image feature information.

In addition, the voice feature information extractor 220-2 may extract the voice feature information from the voice included in the broadcast content according to a preset method. For example, the voice feature information extractor 220-2 may extract voice feature information by extracting information on frequency components of broadcast content voices sequentially received according to a preset method. Here, since the feature information extracting unit 220 extracts the image feature information and / or the voice feature information is obvious to those skilled in the art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, the method of extracting the above-described image feature information and / or audio feature information is only an example, it is obvious that the scope of the present invention is not limited.

In addition, the feature information extracting unit 220 may include tag information on the title, broadcast content provider, and the like of the broadcast content corresponding to the extracted feature information in the feature information. For example, it is obvious that the feature information extracted by the operator's operation may include tag information such as the title of the broadcast content. That is, the operator manipulates an input unit (for example, a keyboard, a mouse, etc.) of the broadcaster determination server 140 to display tag information such as the title of the broadcast content corresponding to the feature information extracted from the feature information extracting unit 220. It can also be included.

For another example, the tag information is included in the broadcast content itself received through the broadcast providing device 110, and the feature information extractor 220 detects tag information included in the broadcast content itself and extracts the extracted feature information. It may be included in.

In addition, the database unit 230 stores feature information extracted from the feature information extracting unit 220 (ie, image feature information and / or voice feature definition information) and program listing information for each broadcaster. The program listing information for each broadcaster may include a broadcaster's name, a channel number, a broadcast content provider (PP) corresponding to each channel number, and / or a broadcast content title provided according to time. In addition, the database unit 230 may store additional information corresponding to each broadcaster.

Here, the program programming information and / or additional information for each broadcasting company may be stored in the database unit 230 by the operator of the broadcasting company judgment server 140. That is, program programming information and / or additional information for each broadcaster may not be included in the broadcast content and received by the broadcaster judgment server 140, but may be information stored through a method separate from the reception of the broadcast content. For example, program programming information and / or additional information for each broadcaster may be information generated by an operator of the broadcaster decision server 140 by operating an input unit of the broadcaster decision server 140. For another example, program programming information and / or additional information for each broadcaster may be information received from another device through the Internet, a local area network (eg, Bluetooth, Zigbee, etc.).

On the other hand, the broadcaster determination unit 240 when the viewing data received from the viewing data generating device 130 in the server communication unit 250 is input, by comparing the viewing data and the feature information previously stored in the database unit 230 Create viewing content information. Here, the viewing content information may be information about a title and / or a broadcast time of the broadcasting content that the user is watching. Here, the viewing data is data generated by the viewing data generating apparatus 130 according to a preset method, and includes image data and / or audio data. Accordingly, the broadcaster decision unit 240 may detect the feature information corresponding to the viewing data by comparing the image data and / or audio data included in the viewing data with feature information previously stored in the database unit 230. In addition, the broadcaster determination unit 240 may generate viewing content information corresponding to the received viewing data using tag information included in the detected feature information. As described above, the feature information includes tag information on the title, broadcast time, etc. of the corresponding broadcast content.

In addition, when the broadcaster 240 receives the viewing data received from the viewing data generating apparatus 130 in the server communication unit 250, the broadcaster determining unit 240 detects channel number information included in the viewing data. That is, the viewing data generated by the viewing data generating apparatus 130 includes channel number information corresponding to the broadcasting channel number that the user is watching. Accordingly, the broadcaster judgment unit 240 may detect channel number information included in the viewing data. For example, if a user watches broadcast content corresponding to the viewing data using channel 24, the channel number information may correspond to '24'.

Here, the channel number information is information detected by the broadcast operator judgment unit 240 from the image data included in the viewing data through an optical character read (OCR), or viewed separately from the image data / audio data. It may also be information included in the data. That is, the broadcaster decision unit 240 may analyze image data included in the viewing data, extract a character corresponding to the channel number included in the image data, and detect the character as channel number information. In addition, the carrier determination unit 240 is

In addition, the broadcaster decision unit 240 may generate the broadcaster information by determining the broadcaster providing the broadcast content to the user by using the generated viewing content information and the channel number information. That is, the broadcaster decision unit 240 may know the title of the broadcast content that the user watches using the title and / or time included in the watch content information, and the channel number may be used to identify the broadcast content using the channel number information. A broadcaster transmitting through a channel corresponding to the information can be determined. Accordingly, the broadcaster determination unit 240 may generate broadcaster information including information about the determined broadcaster's name and / or the time when the viewing data was transmitted (or generated).

At this time, it is obvious that the broadcaster judgment unit 240 may generate broadcaster information by using the program information for each broadcaster. This is because the program listing information for each broadcaster includes information about the broadcaster's name, channel number, broadcast content provider (PP) corresponding to each channel number, and / or title of broadcast content provided according to time.

Meanwhile, when different broadcasters broadcast the same broadcast content using the same channel number in the same time zone, the broadcaster determination unit 240 uses the viewing data input later through the viewing data generating device 130. It is also possible to generate accurate broadcaster information. That is, when there are a plurality of broadcasters determined using the nth viewing data, the broadcaster determining unit 240 corresponds to the viewing data generating device 130 among the plurality of providers using the n + 1th viewing data. The broadcaster can be judged correctly (where n is a natural number). As will be described later, the viewing data generating apparatus 130 transmits the n + 1 < th > viewing data when the channel is changed according to the user's operation after the transmission of the n < th > viewing data.

In addition, the broadcaster determination unit 240 may read additional information corresponding to the broadcaster information from the database unit 230 and transmit the additional information to the viewing data generating device 130 and / or the user terminal 170-m. For example, if the broadcaster information corresponds to the comprehensive cable broadcasting station SO in the region A and 1:00 pm (that is, the user receives the broadcasting content at 1:00 pm through the regional cable broadcasting station SO in the region A). It is assumed that the additional information B is previously set to be transmitted to the viewing data generating apparatus 130 and the user terminal 170-m. In this case, the broadcasting company judgment unit 240 transmits the viewing data at 1 pm on time, or does not transmit the end signal until 1 pm of the viewing data generating device 130 which transmits the viewing data before 1 pm. The additional information B may be transmitted to the data generating device 130 (or to the user terminal 170-m corresponding to the viewing data generating device 130). This is because the viewing data generating device 130 which does not transmit the end signal by 1 pm among the viewing data generating devices 130 which transmitted the viewing data before 1 pm is still receiving the broadcast content. The end signal will be described later.

In addition, the viewer rating calculator 260 may calculate a viewer rating for each broadcaster using the viewer data received from the viewer data generator 130. That is, the viewer rating calculation unit 260 may determine which broadcaster each broadcast data generating device 130 receives the broadcast content, and calculates the broadcast rate for each broadcaster by identifying which broadcast content is received.

That is, the viewer rating calculation unit 260 may determine through which broadcaster each user receives the broadcast content through broadcaster information corresponding to the received viewing data. Accordingly, the viewer rating calculation unit 260 may detect the number of users who have received broadcast content as a total number of users through an arbitrary broadcaster (hereinafter, referred to as a 'target broadcaster') during a predetermined rating calculation time. . Here, the total number of users means the total number of viewing data generating devices 130 that receive broadcast contents through the calculation target broadcasting service provider.

For example, the viewer rating calculator 260 may detect the number of users who have received broadcast content through the A broadcaster as the total number of users during the preset viewer rating calculation time. It is assumed that the viewer rating calculation time is from 1 pm to 1:10 pm and the number of users who have received broadcast content through the A broadcaster is detected. At this time, the viewer rating calculation unit 260 analyzes all the viewing data received within 1:00 pm to 1:10 pm, the number of viewing data generating device 130 that receives the broadcast content through the broadcaster A (hereinafter, ' The number of first viewing data generating devices' may be determined. Obviously, this can be determined by the broadcaster information generated by analyzing each viewing data. Also, the viewer rating calculation unit 260 does not transmit an end signal until the viewer rating calculation time ends, among the viewer data generators that transmit viewer data corresponding to the broadcaster A before 1 pm, the viewer data generator 130. The number of (hereinafter referred to as 'number of second viewing data generating device') can be determined.

Accordingly, the audience rating calculation unit 260 may calculate the total number of users by adding the number of first viewing data generating devices and the number of second viewing data generating devices. That is, the total number of users may correspond to the number of all the viewing data generating apparatuses 130 that received the broadcasting content through the calculation target broadcasting company (ie, the A broadcasting company) during the preset viewing data generation time.

In addition, the viewer rating calculation unit 260 may determine what broadcasting content each user is watching by using the generated viewing content information. This is because the viewing content information includes information on the title of the broadcasting content corresponding to the viewing data transmitted from the viewing data generating device 130. Accordingly, the viewer rating calculation unit 260 is a calculation target broadcaster 130 of the viewer data generating device 130 that receives the broadcast content (hereinafter, referred to as 'target broadcast content') that is the target of viewer rating calculation during the viewer rating calculation time. In the above-described example, the number of viewing data generating devices 130 that receive the broadcasting content through the broadcaster A may be detected as the number of viewing users. In other words, the number of viewers may refer to the number of viewer data generating apparatuses 130 for receiving calculation target broadcast content through the calculation target broadcaster during the viewer rating calculation time.

Accordingly, the viewer rating calculation unit 260 may calculate the viewer rating for each broadcaster by dividing the number of viewers by the total number of users. That is, the ratio of the number of the viewing data generating device 130 receiving the calculating target broadcasting content among the viewing data generating devices 130 receiving the broadcasting content through the calculating target broadcasting company during the viewer rating calculation time becomes the viewing rate for each broadcasting company. will be.

In order to calculate an accurate viewer rating, the viewer rating should be calculated for as many viewers as possible. However, in the conventional viewer rating calculation method, the panel is configured for a very limited household to calculate the viewer rating. For example, Korea's TNS Media Korea is surveying audience ratings by organizing panels for more than 2000 households in six metropolitan cities across the country (see TNS Media Korea homepage). The reason why the viewer rating is calculated through a limited number of panels is that a separate device (people meter, etc.) must be installed in the television to calculate the viewer rating. In addition, in the conventional viewer rating calculation method, even if the viewer rating cannot be calculated for each region, or even if it can be calculated, there is a problem that the reliability of the calculated viewer ratings is low because the number of panels is remarkably small.

However, it is obvious that the viewer rating calculation according to the present invention can significantly improve the accuracy of the viewer rating since any user who uses the viewer data generating apparatus 130 can be a panel for calculating the viewer rating. In addition, since cable broadcasting operates a separate regional integrated cable broadcasting station (that is, a broadcasting company) for each region, it is possible to calculate a viewer rating separately for each region by distinguishing broadcasting companies that provide broadcasting contents to users. In addition, since anyone in the area can be a panel for calculating the viewer rating, it is obvious that the reliability of the viewer rating calculated according to the present invention can be remarkably improved.

On the other hand, the control unit 310 of the viewing data generating device 130 generates the viewing data according to a preset method and transmits to the broadcaster determination server 140. That is, when the power is applied according to the user's manipulation, the controller 310 receives the image of the broadcast content received from the broadcast providing device 110 through the external input / output unit 340 as the image data extracting unit 330, and the voice as the audio data. Output to the extraction unit 320, respectively. Accordingly, the voice data extractor 320 may extract the voice data according to a preset method using the voice of the input broadcast content. In addition, the image data extraction unit 330 may extract the image data according to a preset method using the image of the input broadcast content. Here, the voice data extractor 320 may extract the voice data according to the same method as the method of extracting the voice feature information from the voice feature information extractor 220-2. In addition, the image data extractor 330 may extract the image data according to the same method as the method of extracting the image feature information from the image feature information extractor 220-1. Therefore, the controller 310 may generate viewing data including the extracted image data and / or audio data.

In addition, the controller 310 may include information (ie, channel number information) about the channel number currently being viewed by the user in the viewing data, and the viewing data is broadcaster determination server 140 through the data communication unit 350. Can be controlled. Here, the channel number information may be channel data previously stored in the provided memory (not shown), or may be a channel number input by a user's manipulation.

That is, when the channel is changed by the user operating the viewing data generating apparatus 130, the controller 310 may generate the channel number according to the user's operation as the channel data and store it in the provided memory (not shown). For example, when a user inputs an arbitrary number by operating an input device such as a remote controller of the viewing data generating device 130, the controller 310 generates the number as channel data and includes a memory (not shown). Can be stored in In this case, the controller 310 may transmit the number to the set-top box connected by wire or wirelessly so that the broadcast content receiving channel is changed. Of course, when the viewing data generating apparatus 130 is a set-top box that receives the broadcast content, the control unit 310 may immediately control the channel change.

In addition, when the channel is changed by the user's manipulation, the controller 310 generates new viewing data and transmits the new viewing data to the broadcaster determination server 140. If the channel is changed, the broadcast content that the user watches is also changed. That is, the controller 310 generates and transmits the n < th > viewing data, and when the channel is changed by the user's operation, generates the n + 1 < th > viewing data and transmits it to the broadcasting company determination server 140. At this time, it is apparent that the n + 1th channel number information included in the n + 1th viewing data may correspond to the channel data stored in the memory after being changed according to a user's operation.

In addition, when the power supply end signal of the viewing data generation device 130 is input by the user's operation (for example, when the user inputs the power end signal by an operation such as a remote controller), the control unit 310 outputs an end signal. After generating and transmitting to the broadcast provider judgment server 140, the power can be released. This is for the broadcaster judgment server 140 to recognize that the user (viewing data generation device 130) has finished watching the broadcast content. At this time, it is obvious that the channel data of the channel watched by the user before the termination may be stored in the memory.

In addition, when the additional information is received from the broadcaster judgment server 140, the controller 310 transmits the additional information to the user terminal 170-m connected through the local area network, and allows the user to access the device through a device other than the television 150. Additional information may be recognized. This is to prevent the additional information from being displayed on the broadcasting content being viewed so as not to disturb the user's viewing environment. Of course, it is apparent that the controller 310 may control the received additional information to be displayed on the connected television 150.

Hereinafter, a case in which additional information according to a broadcaster is displayed through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is a diagram illustrating a case in which additional information according to a broadcaster is displayed through a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, a broadcast content corresponding to news (NEWS) is displayed on the television 150 by a user's channel change, and the broadcast content is broadcast on a channel corresponding to channel number 24 410. Is illustrated. In this case, it is assumed that the broadcast content is being received through a comprehensive cable broadcasting station (SO) in charge of cable broadcasting in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea. At this time, the viewing data generating apparatus 130 connected to the television 150 generates the viewing data including channel number information corresponding to '24', video data and / or audio data of the broadcasting content, and determines the broadcasting service provider server. And transmit to 140. In addition, the broadcast provider judgment server 140 may analyze the received viewing data and determine that the viewing data generating device 130 receives the broadcasting data through a comprehensive cable broadcasting station (SO) in charge of cable broadcasting in the Gangnam region. Therefore, the additional information corresponding thereto may be read by the database unit 230 and transmitted to the viewing data generating apparatus 130 and / or the user terminal 170-m. Accordingly, the user may recognize the additional information received and output by the user terminal 170-m.

In FIG. 4, the case where the content of the additional information is related to the inhabitant of the inhabitants of the resident participation event held in Gangnam-gu office. Accordingly, the user manipulates the user terminal 170-m (in the case of the smartphone 170-1 in FIG. 4) to provide a homepage provided for the event by the Gangnam-gu office (in FIG. 4, 'www.kangnamgu.go. kr ') to participate in the event immediately. Here, the case in which the determined broadcaster is a comprehensive cable broadcasting station (SO) in the Gangnam-gu region is illustrated, but it is apparent that different additional information may be transmitted to the user terminal 170-m in the case of another broadcaster.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing characteristic information on broadcast content received by a broadcaster judgment server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a method of storing feature information on broadcast content received by the broadcaster judgment server 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 5. Each step to be described below may be steps performed by each component of the broadcaster judgment server 140 described with reference to FIG. 2, but is performed by the broadcaster judgment server 140 for convenience of understanding and explanation. It will collectively explain. Therefore, the subject performing the steps described below can be omitted.

In operation S510, when broadcast content is received from the broadcast providing apparatus 110 connected through the broadcast communication network 120, image feature information is extracted from the broadcast content and stored according to a preset method (step S520).

In operation S530, the voice feature information is extracted from the broadcast content and stored according to a preset method. Here, the method for extracting the video feature information and / or the voice feature information from the broadcast content is obvious to those skilled in the art, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In operation S540, the additional information to be transmitted to the user terminal 170-m is stored in the storage space (that is, the database unit 230) according to the broadcaster's decision. In this case, the additional information may be stored in the database unit 230 according to the operation of the operator of the broadcaster determination server 140 as described above. That is, the additional information may be information received through a method separate from the reception of the broadcast content that is not included in the broadcast content and received by the broadcaster determination server 140. In addition, although step S540 in which the additional information is stored has been described as being performed after step S530 for convenience of description, it is obvious that step S540 may be performed before step S510 or after step S520.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a broadcaster in a broadcaster judgment server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a method of determining a broadcaster in a broadcaster judgment server according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 6. Each step to be described below may be steps performed by the respective components of the viewing data generating apparatus 130 and the broadcasting service provider determination server 140 described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3, but for convenience of understanding and explanation. For the description will be collectively described as being performed in the viewing data generating device 130 or broadcaster determination server 140. In addition, each of the steps to be described below may be performed after the method for storing feature information of the broadcast content described with reference to FIG. 5 is performed.

In operation S610, when the power is applied by the user's operation, the viewing data generating apparatus 130 generates and transmits the nth viewing data according to a preset method using the received broadcasting content (step S620). The n th viewing data may include the n th image data relating to the image of the broadcast content received from the broadcast providing device 110 and / or the n th voice data relating to the voice of the broadcast content. That is, the n-th audio data may be data about the audio of the broadcast content that the user is watching, and the n-th video data may be data about the video of the broadcast content that the user is watching. In addition, as described above, the n th viewing data may further include channel number information corresponding to a channel where the user is currently watching broadcast content. In addition, as described above, the n-th viewing data includes channel data previously stored in the provided memory as the n-th channel number information.

In operation S630, the broadcaster judgment server 140 generates corresponding viewing content information using the received nth viewing data. That is, the broadcaster determination server 140 may detect the voice feature information corresponding to the voice data by comparing the voice data included in the n-th watch data with the voice feature information previously stored in the database unit 230. In addition, the broadcaster judgment server 140 may detect the image feature information corresponding to the image data by comparing the image data included in the n-th viewing data with the image feature information previously stored in the database unit 230. Accordingly, the broadcaster judgment server 140 may view the viewer content information including the title and / or the broadcast time of the broadcast content matching the voice feature information and / or the video feature information detected by the database unit 230. Can be generated.

In operation S640, the broadcaster judgment server 140 detects channel number information included in the received n-th viewing data. As described above, the channel number information may be information corresponding to the number of the channel that the user is watching at the moment when the nth viewing data is generated.

In step S650, the broadcast provider judgment server 140 generates broadcast provider information corresponding to the viewing content information and channel number information. In this case, program provider information for each broadcaster pre-stored in the database unit 230 may be used.

In operation S660, the broadcaster judgment server 140 detects additional information corresponding to the broadcaster information from the database unit 230 and transmits the additional information to the user terminal 170-m or the viewing data generating apparatus 130. In this case, when the additional information is transmitted to the viewing data generating device 130, the viewing data generating device 130 may transmit the received additional information to the user terminal 170-m using a local area network or the like. In addition, it is apparent that step S660 may be omitted when the additional information corresponding to the broadcaster information is not stored in the database unit 230.

In operation S670, the viewing data generating apparatus 130 generates the n + 1 < th > viewing data when the channel is changed according to the user's operation and transmits it to the broadcasting company determination server 140 (step S580). In this case, it is apparent that the n + 1 < th > viewing data may include n + 1 < th > video data, n < + > +1 audio data and / or n < + >

In step S690, the viewing data generating device 130 generates a termination signal and transmits it to the broadcasting company determination server 140 when the power end signal is input by the user's operation (step S695). This is for the broadcaster judging server 140 to recognize that the user no longer watches the broadcast contents.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of calculating an audience rating according to a broadcaster in a broadcaster judgment server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A method of calculating a viewer rating for each broadcaster in the broadcaster judgment server 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 7. Each step to be described below may be steps performed by each component of the broadcaster judgment server 140 described with reference to FIG. 2, but is performed by the broadcaster judgment server 140 for convenience of understanding and explanation. It will collectively explain. Therefore, the subject performing the steps described below can be omitted.

In step S710, the number of users who watched the broadcast content through any broadcaster during the preset audience rating calculation time is detected as the total number of users. As described in FIG. 6, the broadcast provider judgment server 140 has generated information (ie, broadcast provider information) about the broadcaster that transmits the broadcast content to the viewer data generating apparatus 130. The number of viewing data generating apparatuses 130 that have received broadcast content through any broadcaster can be detected as the total number of users. A detailed operation of detecting the total number of users by the broadcaster determination server 140 has been described in detail with reference to FIG. 2, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In step S720, the number of users who watched the calculation target broadcasting content among the detected total number of users is detected as the number of viewing users. Since the broadcasting company judgment server 140 has generated the viewing content information about the title of the broadcasting content that the user is watching in addition to the broadcasting company information, the viewing data generating device 130 receiving the broadcasting content through the broadcasting company by using the broadcasting content information 130. ) Can detect the number of viewing data generating device 130 that has received the specific calculation target broadcast content as the number of viewing users.

In step S730, the viewer rating for each broadcaster for the target broadcasting content is calculated by dividing the number of viewers by the total number of users. That is, the ratio of the audience data generation device 130 that received the specific calculation target broadcast content among the total audience data generation devices 130 that received the broadcast content through the broadcaster during the viewership rate calculation time is the viewership rating for each broadcaster. Will be.

As described above, according to the present invention, when the power is applied or the channel is changed according to the user's operation, the viewing data generating apparatus 130 may generate the viewing data and transmit the viewing data to the broadcaster determination server 140. In addition, the broadcaster judgment server 140 may generate the viewing content information using the received viewing data and detect the channel number information. In addition, the broadcaster judgment server 140 may generate broadcaster information by determining a broadcaster that transmits the broadcast content to the viewer data generating apparatus 130 using the viewing content information and the channel number information. That is, according to the present invention, it is possible to determine the broadcaster providing the broadcast content to the user.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to distinguish broadcasters providing broadcast contents to users, and to determine titles of broadcast contents that users actually watch. If the broadcaster is a cable broadcasting company (SO), it is possible to distinguish the place where the user is watching a specific broadcast content, so that the viewer rating can be calculated for each region. It is obvious that the reliability of the viewer rating calculation can be significantly improved.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, additional information corresponding to each of the determined broadcasters may be transmitted to the user terminal 170-m. That is, when it is determined that the broadcaster is a broadcaster in charge of an arbitrary region, additional information corresponding to the region may be transmitted to the user terminal 170-m, and the broadcaster is a satellite broadcaster. If determined, additional information corresponding to the satellite broadcasting service provider may be transmitted to the user terminal 170-m.

In addition, additional information on the broadcast content having the highest viewer rating may be generated and transmitted to the user terminal 170-m at the same time. That is, as a result of calculating the viewer rating by the above-described method, the broadcast provider judgment server 140 generates information (title, information about a channel number corresponding to the broadcast provider, etc.) in the broadcast content corresponding to the highest viewer rating and the user terminal. Transmit at 170-m. Therefore, it is obvious that the user can recognize the broadcasting content having the highest viewer rating at the same time in real time through the user terminal 170-m.

On the other hand, in the case of a conventional remote broadcasting viewing device (that is, a device connected to a home set-top box and transmitting the broadcast content received by the set-top box to a user terminal connected through the Internet, etc.), the remote broadcasting viewing device and the set-top box are In the process of being connected, there was a hassle for a user to find information about a broadcaster and input it to a remote broadcasting viewing device. However, according to the present invention, it is obvious that a user does not need to perform such a troublesome operation. This is because, in the case of the present invention, the broadcaster judgment server can automatically determine the broadcaster using the viewing data generated by the user's simple channel change. Therefore, it is apparent that the viewing data generating device 130 according to the present invention may be a remote broadcasting viewing device.

The broadcaster determination method according to the present invention described above may be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. Computer-readable recording media include all kinds of recording media having data stored thereon that can be decrypted by a computer system. For example, there may be a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic tape, a magnetic disk, a flash memory, an optical data storage device, and the like. In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed and executed in a computer system connected to a computer network, and may be stored and executed as a code readable in a distributed manner.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be understood that various modifications and changes may be made.

100: Broadcasting company judgment system
110: broadcast providing device
120: broadcasting communication network
130: viewing data generating device
140: Broadcasting company judgment server
150: television
160: data communication network
170-1: Smartphone
170-2: Notebook Computer
170-m: User terminal
180: web server

Claims (16)

In the method of determining the broadcaster providing the broadcast content to the user in the broadcast provider judgment server,
Extracting feature information of broadcast content received from a broadcast providing device connected through a broadcast communication network and storing the extracted feature information in a storage space provided according to a preset method;
Generating viewing content information corresponding to the viewing data by comparing the viewing data received from the viewing data generating apparatus connected through a data communication network with the feature information;
Detecting channel number information included in the viewing data; And
Determining a broadcast service provider providing broadcast content to the user using the viewing content information and the channel number information;
Including,
And the broadcast data generation value is generated and transmitted according to a preset method when the broadcast content is received through the broadcast communication network.
The method of claim 1,
Extracting the feature information and storing the feature information in the storage space may include:
Extracting voice feature information from voice information included in the broadcast content according to a preset method;
Including,
And the feature information includes the voice feature information.
The method of claim 2,
Generating the viewing content information,
Generating the viewing content information by comparing the voice feature information with the voice data included in the viewing data;
Including,
And the broadcast data growth value extracts a voice from the broadcast content to generate the voice data.
The method of claim 1,
Extracting the feature information and storing the feature information in the storage space may include:
Extracting image feature information from image information included in the broadcast content according to a preset method;
Including,
And the feature information includes the video feature information.
The method of claim 4, wherein
Generating the viewing content information,
Generating the viewing content information by comparing the image feature information with the image data included in the viewing data;
Including,
And the broadcast data growth value extracts an image from the broadcast content to generate the video data.
The method of claim 1,
Transmitting additional information corresponding to the broadcaster to a user terminal or the viewing data generating device connected through the data communication network;
Broadcaster determination method further comprising a.
The method of claim 1,
Determining the number of users who have received broadcast content through the broadcasting company as a total number of users during a preset viewership calculation time;
Determining the number of users who watched the target broadcasting content through the broadcasting company as the number of viewers during the viewership calculation time; And
Calculating a viewer rating for each broadcasting company by dividing the number of viewers by the total number of users;
Broadcaster determination method further comprising a.
The method of claim 7, wherein
Detecting the total number of users,
Determining the number of first viewing data generating devices that transmit the viewing data corresponding to the broadcasting company during the viewing rate calculation time;
Determining the number of second viewing data generating devices of the viewing data generating devices that have transmitted the viewing data corresponding to the broadcasting company before the viewing rate calculating time without transmitting an end signal until the viewing rate calculating time ends; And
Detecting the total number of users by adding the number of first viewing data generation devices and the number of second viewing data generation devices;
Broadcaster determination method comprising a.
In the method for generating the viewing data in the viewing data generating device,
Generating n th viewing data including n th channel number information according to a preset method using viewing broadcasting contents received from a broadcasting providing device connected through a broadcasting communication network, wherein n is a natural number; And
Transmitting the nth viewing data to a broadcasting company determination server connected through a data communication network;
Including,
The broadcaster judgment server compares the n th viewing data with previously stored feature information to generate viewing content information corresponding to the n th viewing data from a database provided, and the n th channel number information from the n th viewing data. And detecting a broadcaster providing broadcast content using the viewing content information and the nth channel number information.
10. The method of claim 9,
Generating the n-th viewing data may include:
Detecting channel data pre-stored in the provided memory as the n-th channel number information when power is applied;
Viewing data generation method comprising a.
The method of claim 10,
Storing the number of the channel being viewed as the channel data in the memory when a power-off signal is input according to a user's operation;
Viewing data generation method characterized in that it further comprises.
10. The method of claim 9,
Generating n + 1th channel number information using the changed channel number when the channel is changed according to a user's manipulation; And
Generating the n + 1th viewing data including the n + 1th channel number number information and transmitting the generated nth + 1th viewing data to the broadcasting company determination server;
Viewing data generation method characterized in that it further comprises.
10. The method of claim 9,
Generating a termination signal and transmitting the terminal termination signal to the broadcasting service provider judging server according to a user's operation;
Viewing data generation method characterized in that it further comprises.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the broadcaster determination method according to any one of claims 1 to 8.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the viewing data generating method according to any one of claims 9 to 13.
A feature information extraction unit for extracting feature information of broadcast content received from a broadcast providing device connected through a broadcast communication network according to a preset method;
Compare the viewing data received from the viewing data generation device connected through the data communication network with the feature information to generate viewing content information corresponding to the viewing data, detect channel number information included in the viewing data, and view the viewing content. A broadcast service provider judging unit for determining a broadcast service provider providing a broadcast content to a user using information and the channel number information; And
A database unit for storing the feature information and the viewing content information;
Including,
The broadcast data determination server, characterized in that for generating the viewing data according to a preset method when the viewing data live growth value is received through the broadcast communication network.

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