KR101409719B1 - Method for providing personalized smart-TV service based on wireless charging, and computer-readable recording medium for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a technology to provide a customized smart TV service based on wireless charging. More particularly, the present invention relates to a technology in which a set top box includes a wireless charging module and a short-range wireless communications module (such as Bluetooth or NFC), and when a user places his or her smart phone on the set top box to wirelessly charge the phone, the present invention automatically detects the smart phone, executes applications on both the set top box and the smart phone, and enables both applications to communicate with each other through the short-range wireless communications so that the operation of the set top box is optimally customized to a user of the smart phone.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a personalized smart TV providing method based on wireless charging and a computer readable recording medium therefor,

The present invention relates to a technology for providing a personalized smart TV service based on wireless charging. More particularly, the present invention relates to a set-top box having a wireless charging module and a short range wireless communication module (e.g., Bluetooth, NFC) so that when a user places his smart phone on a set- And a technology for providing a personalized smart TV service in which an application is operated at both ends of a smart phone and applications at both ends communicate with each other through short-range wireless communication to optimize the operation of the set-top box to a smartphone user.

Generally, a set-top box (digital set-top box) is a digital broadcast receiving apparatus that receives a digital broadcast provided through a terrestrial wave, a cable, a satellite, and an IP network and displays it through a display device (monitor, television set). Such a set-top box is configured for each digital broadcasting company and generally comprises a configuration for receiving digital broadcasting transmitted by the broadcasting company.

On the other hand, various types of mobile terminals including smart phones are rapidly spreading, and techniques for charging these mobile terminals have also been proposed. In the past, adapters that could charge mobile terminals by household power were common, but after Apple's iPhone in the United States, charging the mobile terminal by drawing power from the USB port is also widely used.

The mobile terminal employs a proprietary access port for each manufacturer, which makes charging very inconvenient in actual use environments. As an example of a general household, there are various types of mobile terminals according to their preferences according to their members, so it is inconvenient to provide an adapter or a charging cable for each terminal manufacturer in the house, and to adjust them at that time. The adapters can be provided in one and the gender for port conversion can be used, but the inconvenience is still present in this case.

Recently, a wireless charging technique has been proposed in order to solve the above problems and basically to solve the inconvenience of cable connection. There are three proposals to transmit power wirelessly using electromagnetic induction, electromagnetic resonance, and electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic induction and electromagnetic resonance are considered to be a major factor in the charging of mobile terminals. The electromagnetic induction method is suitable for this purpose because it transmits power at distances of several mm to several cm with 125 kHz and 135 kHz signals, and the electromagnetic resonance method transmits electric power at distances of several meters or less with a 10 MHz signal.

The electromagnetic induction method has been established by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which was launched in 2008, and the technical specification 1.0 was announced in 2010, and it has proved to be somewhat effective. Accordingly, recently, an electromagnetic induction type wireless rechargeable pad according to the WPC standard has been introduced, but it is very expensive and difficult to be used by ordinary users.

The electromagnetic resonance method was developed by Professor M. Soljacic of MIT in 2007 and is focused on commercialization in Intel, Qualcomm and Sony. In particular, Qualcomm has proven to be somewhat effective as it develops prototypes that can charge two phones simultaneously at 20cm distances. The electromagnetic charging type wireless charging device has not yet been released, but even if it is released, it is expected to be very expensive, making it difficult for general users to use.

Accordingly, the present applicant has filed a patent application No. 10-2013-0054252 for a technique of embedding a wireless charging device in a set-top box. When the wireless charging device is built in the set-top box, the user places the smart phone near the set-top box for wireless charging. In the present invention, the set-top box and the smart phone, which are located near each other, We propose a technology to automatically implement a customized service in a set top box for a user.

[Related Technical Literature]

1. Patent Application No. 10-2007-7012601 entitled "Event Display Controlled by Interactive Digital TV Application"

2. Patent Application No. 10-2003-0004633 entitled " System and Method for Processing Application and Variable Data in Digital TV Broadcasting "

It is an object of the present invention to provide a set-top box equipped with a wireless charging module and a short-range wireless communication module (e.g., Bluetooth, NFC) so that when the user places his smartphone on the set- The present invention provides a technology for providing a personalized smart TV service in which an application is operated at both ends of a phone and applications at both ends communicate with each other through short-range wireless communication to optimize the operation of a set-top box to a smartphone user.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a personalized smart TV based on wireless charging, the method comprising: a first step of driving a wireless charging-based personalized host unit according to sensing a start of wireless charging of a smartphone; A second step of driving a wireless charging-based personalized client unit as the smartphone detects the start of wireless charging by the set-top box; A third step of performing a data session connection through a personalized host unit and a personalized client unit through short-range wireless communication; A fourth step of receiving the smartphone use environment information from the personalized client unit in the personalized host unit; And a fifth step of personalizing the execution environment of the set-top box according to the smartphone use environment information.

In the fourth step, the personalized host unit receives the wireless charging status information of the smartphone from the personalized client unit. In the fifth step, the personalized host unit receives the wireless charging status information of the smartphone And displaying it on a display.

In the fourth step, the personalized host unit receives at least one app information from the personalized client unit installed in the smartphone. In the fifth step, the personalized host unit receives the app Implementing a display screen according to information; And providing the user operation on the display screen to the personalized client unit and reflecting the result of the application execution on the display screen.

The fourth step includes receiving a multimedia file including at least one of a moving picture and a picture stored in a smart phone from a personalized client unit of the personalized personal unit, And displaying the multimedia file provided by the host unit on the display.

In the fourth step, the personalized host unit receives the content viewing setting information set by the smartphone user from the personalized client unit. In the fifth step, And personalizing the broadcast content viewing pattern in the set top box according to the information. At this time, the content viewing setting information includes at least one of a reservation recording setting, a preferred channel setting, and a child protection setting, and the personalization host unit performs reservation recording, preference channel setting, child protection setting Perform one or more.

Meanwhile, a computer-readable recording medium according to the present invention records a program for performing a wireless charging based personalized smart TV providing method according to the above.

According to the present invention, when the smartphone approaches the set-top box for wireless charging, both terminal devices are automatically linked through short-distance wireless communication, so that the operation of the set-top box is optimally set according to the items set by the user in the smart phone Of course, the TV screen provided by the set-top box provides convenience of using various functions such as smartphone application use, scheduled recording, video play, photo viewer, game, and charging status display.

1 illustrates an overall system in which a personalized smart TV is provided in the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating a concept that an application of a smartphone is driven through a set-top box when the smart phone is wirelessly charged in the present invention.
3 is an internal block diagram illustrating components of a smartphone suitable for implementing the techniques of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an internal block diagram for explaining components of a set-top box suitable for implementing the technique of the present invention; FIG.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an overall flow of a wireless personalization-based smart TV providing method according to the present invention. FIG.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a process of providing a personalized smart TV using the set-top box 20 according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a smart- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a concept that the application of the smartphone 10 is driven through the set-top box 20. Referring to these drawings, an overall system in which a wireless personalization type smart TV providing technology based on wireless charging according to the present invention is modified includes a smart phone 10, a set-top box 20, and a display device 30.

3 is an internal block diagram for explaining components of the smartphone 10 suitable for implementing the technique of the present invention, and Fig. 4 is a block diagram of an internal configuration of a set-top box (20) according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3, a smartphone 10 according to the present invention includes a wireless charge receiving unit 11, a terminal control unit 12, a terminal short-range wireless communication unit 13, a terminal I / O interface 14, (15), and a wireless charging based personalized client unit (16). 4, the set top box 20 according to the present invention includes a wireless charging unit 21, a set top control unit 22, a short range wireless communication unit 23, an I / O interface 24, a set top storage unit 25 ), And a wireless charging-based personalized host unit 26.

The wireless charging receiver 11 and the wireless charging unit 21 are modules for performing wireless charging of the smartphone 10 from the set top box 20. [ As described above, the battery charging of the smartphone 10 can be performed wirelessly in the set-top box 20 through the electromagnetic induction method or the electromagnetic resonance method.

The terminal control unit 12 and the set top control unit 22 perform overall control on the smartphone 10 and the set top box 20, respectively.

The terminal short-range wireless communication unit 13 and the short-range wireless communication unit 23 are modules for performing wireless data communication between the smartphone 10 and the set-top box 20 at a predetermined short distance, such as Bluetooth, Near Field Communication (NFC) Ultra WideBand), ZigBee (ZigBee).

The terminal storage unit 15 and the set top storage unit 25 provide a space for storing various data for operating the smartphone 10 and the set top box 20, ROM, a hard disk, a flash memory, an MRAM (magnetic material RAM), a PRAM (phase change RAM), a FRAM (ferroelectric RAM), a Web disk, a cloud disk, and the like.

Finally, the wireless charging-based personalized client unit 16 and the wireless charging-based personalized host unit 26 are installed in the form of, for example, an Android application in the smartphone 10 and the set-top box 20, And provides the personalized smart TV service based on the wireless charge according to the present invention through the set-top box 20 by interacting with each other through short-range wireless communication.

Hereinafter, interworking between the smartphone 10 and the set-top box 20 will be described in detail with reference to the configurations of the wireless charging-based personalized client unit 16 and the wireless charging-based personalized host unit 26. [

The wireless charging based personalized client unit 16 includes a charging reception detection module 16a, an application information extraction module 16b, a remote control implementation module 16c, and a user setting module 16d. When the personalized client unit 16 detects the start of wireless charging from an external set-top box 20 as an application (e.g., an Android application) installed in the smartphone 10, the personalized client unit 16 transmits the set- And supports remote control so that personalized service can be implemented in the set-top box 20. [

The charging reception detection module 16a receives the trigger signal from the wireless charging receiver 11 when the smartphone 10 is close to the set-top box 20 and starts wireless charging, and receives the trigger signal from the external set- And detects that wireless charging is started. In addition, the charge reception detection module 16a monitors the wireless charge status of the battery of the smartphone 10 and acquires wireless charge status information corresponding thereto, for example, information about the full charge status or the real time charge status (e.g., charge percentage) . The charge reception detection module 16a provides wireless charge status information in response to a request from the set top box 20. [

The app information extraction module 16b extracts and manages information about one or more applications (e.g., Android applications) installed in the smartphone 10. [ Such app information includes installation information of an app, information on an icon file of an app, information on driving an app, and the like. The app information extraction module 16b provides app information in response to a request from the set-top box 20, thereby implementing a display screen as shown in FIG. 2 (b).

The remote control implementation module 16c allows the set-top box 20 to remotely control an application installed in the smartphone 10. That is, after the set-top box 20 implements the display screen of Fig. 2 (b) on the basis of the information provided from the app information extracting module 16b, if the user approves the operation for the specific app, Information is provided to the remote control implementation module 16c of the smartphone 10. The remote control implementation module 16c processes the application to be executed in the smartphone 10 according to a user operation, extracts the result of the execution of the application, and returns it to the app remote control module 26b of the set-top box 20. [ Remote control can be implemented by applying a remote control technology of known technology (e.g. Java RMI).

The user setting module 16d manages user information of the smartphone 10, which may be provided from a USIM module of the smartphone 10 or may be set by the user through an application menu. The user setting module 16d may provide the user information to the set-top box 20 so as to link the user information to the user account.

In addition, the user setting module 16d can set information on content viewing. The content viewing setting may be reserved recording, preferred channel, child protection, and the like. That is, the user of the smartphone 10 can set a schedule for recording a broadcast program, a favorite channel, or a condition for child protection through an application menu. The user setting module 16d may provide content viewing setting information to the set top box 20 to set a broadcast content viewing pattern of the set top box 20. [

Next, the wireless charging-based personalized host unit 26 includes a wireless charging detection module 26a, an app remote control module 26b, a user account setting module 26c, and a custom content setting module 26d. When the personalized host unit 26 detects the start of wireless charging of the external smartphone 10 as an application (e.g., an Android application) installed in the set-top box 20, the personalized host unit 26 And performs personalized function for the set-top box 20 by receiving various information.

The wireless charging detection module 26a receives a trigger signal from the wireless charging unit 21 when the wireless charging unit 21 starts to wirelessly charge the smartphone 10 in proximity to the wireless charging unit 21, And detects that wireless charging is started. That is, the smartphone 10 must be brought close to utilize the wireless charger 21 built in the set top box 20 as shown in Fig. 1 or Fig. 2 (a). The wireless charger detection module 26a It is detected that the wireless charging is started as the proximity situation is thus achieved. In the present invention, when the wireless charging detection module 26a detects the start of wireless charging, the wireless charging detection module 26a regards these signals as signals close to each other and starts an operation for implementing a personalized smart TV.

In addition, the wireless charge detection module 26a is provided with information on the wireless charge status of the smartphone 10 from the charge reception detection module 16a of the smartphone 10. For example, information on whether or not the battery is fully charged may be provided. It is preferable that information on the real-time charging status (for example, the charging percentage) is provided. When the wireless charging detection module 26a is provided with the wireless charging status information of the smartphone 10, the set top box 20 can display and display the wireless charging status information as shown in the lower right portion of FIG. 2 (b).

The app remote control module 26b is a module for remotely controlling various apps (e.g., Android apps) installed in the smartphone 10 and first controls the short range wireless communication unit 23 to communicate with the smart phone 10 and the data session Establish a connection. Then, the app remote control module 26b receives information on one or more apps installed in the smartphone 10 from the app information extracting module 16b, and accordingly acquires the app information as shown in Fig. 2 (b) And the display screen 30 is implemented.

Then, the app remote control module 26b identifies the user operation on the display screen 30 to which the user applies using the remote control of the set-top box 20, and transmits the user operation information to the remote And provides it to the control implementation module 16c. The personalized client unit 16 processes the application to be executed in the smartphone 10 according to the user's operation and the remote control implementation module 16c extracts the application execution result and returns it to the app remote control module 26b do. The app remote control module 26b reflects the returned app execution result on the display screen 30.

In addition, the app remote control module 26b controls the multimedia files such as moving pictures and photos stored in the smartphone 10 to be transmitted to the set-top box 20, reproduces the multi-image files thus provided, ).

The user account setting module 26c receives the user information from the user setting module 16d of the smartphone 10 and links the user information with the user account. In order to provide an optimized service for each user, it is desirable to manage the user account in the set-top box 20. The user account setting module 26c specifies the user account with the user information obtained from the smartphone 10, To use the information set in. The user account setting module 26c may enter the child protection mode by reflecting the information of the user account. In the child protection mode, an application or content (broadcasting, moving picture, photo) .

The customized content setting module 26d sets a broadcast content viewing pattern of the set top box 20 according to the content viewing setting information set by the user through the smartphone 10, Results in fitting. That is, the user can set the reservation recording, the preferred channel, the child protection, and the like for the broadcast contents through the application installed in the smartphone 10 of his / her own. When the wireless charging is started, the customized content setting module 26d of the set-top box 20 automatically fetches the content viewing setting information from the smartphone 10 and sets a broadcasting content viewing pattern of the set-top box 20 .

5 is a flowchart illustrating an overall flow of a method for providing a personalized smart TV based on wireless charging according to the present invention.

First, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the user of the smartphone 10 places the smartphone 10 on the set-top box 20 in order to perform wireless charging. The set-top box 20 receives the trigger signal from the wireless charge receiving unit 11 and the wireless charging unit 21 and senses a wireless charge start event (S11).

After step S11, the smartphone 10 and the set-top box 20 respectively drive the personalized application installed in advance in response to the wireless charging start event, and as a result, the smart phone 10 and the set- The wireless personalization based personalized client unit 16 and the personalized host unit 26 are operated (S12).

After step S12, the personalized client unit 16 of the smartphone 10 and the personalized host unit 26 of the set-top box 20 are connected via short-range wireless communication (e.g., Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, ZigBee) The data session is connected (S13).

After step S13, the set-top box 20 receives the content viewing setting information from the smartphone 10 (S14) and performs personalization of content viewing such as reservation recording, preferred channel, child protection, etc. (S15 ). Accordingly, the broadcast content viewing environment of the set-top box 20 is personalized and operated according to the preset values pre-inputted by the user through the smart phone 10. [

After step S15, the set-top box 20 receives one or more pieces of app information from the smartphone 10 installed in the smartphone 10, thereby implementing a display screen as shown in Fig. 2 (b) (S16 ).

The user performs various operations on the display screen implemented in step S16. The set-top box 20 transmits the user operation information to the smartphone 10, returns the result of the application execution to the smartphone 10, (S17). Through such a process, a personalized smart TV service based on wireless charging is provided using the smartphone 10 and the set-top box 20. [

The present invention can also be embodied in the form of computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. At this time, the computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage, and the like, and may be implemented in the form of a carrier wave . The computer-readable recording medium can also be stored and executed by a computer-readable code in a distributed manner on a networked computer system. And functional programs, codes, and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily deduced by programmers skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs.

As described above, the embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed in the present specification and drawings, and although specific terms have been used, they have been used only in a general sense to easily describe the technical contents of the present invention and to facilitate understanding of the invention. And is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other modifications based on the technical idea of the present invention are possible in addition to the embodiments disclosed herein.

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Claims (7)

A first step of driving a wireless charging-based personalized host unit as the set-top box senses the start of wireless charging for the smartphone;
A second step of driving a wireless charging-based personalized client unit according to the smart phone detecting the start of wireless charging by the set-top box;
A third step in which the personalized host unit (set-top box side) and the personalized client unit (smartphone side) perform a data session connection through short-distance wireless communication;
A fourth step of the personalized host receiving the smartphone use environment information from the personalized client unit;
A fifth step of personalizing the execution environment of the set-top box according to the smartphone usage environment information;
Wherein the smart TV is a personalized smart TV.
The method according to claim 1,
And the fourth step includes receiving the wireless charging status information of the smartphone from the personalized client unit by the personalized host unit,
And the fifth step includes displaying the wireless charging status information of the smartphone on the display by the personalized host unit.
The method according to claim 1,
And the fourth step includes receiving at least one piece of app information installed in the smartphone from the personalized client unit by the personalized host unit,
In the fifth step,
The personalized host unit implementing a display screen according to the provided app information;
Wherein the personalized host provides the user operation on the display screen to the personalized client unit and returns the result of the application execution to the personalized client unit and reflects the result on the display screen;
The method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a personalized smart TV based on wireless charging;
The method according to claim 1,
And the fourth step includes receiving the multimedia file including at least one of moving images and photographs stored in the smartphone from the personalized client unit,
Wherein the personalized host unit displays the provided multimedia file on the display, in the fifth step.
The method according to claim 1,
And the fourth step includes receiving the content viewing setting information set by the smartphone user from the personalized client unit by the personalized host unit,
Wherein the personalized host unit personalizes the broadcast content viewing pattern in the set-top box according to the content viewing setting information. The personalized smart TV according to claim 1, Way.
The method of claim 5,
In the fourth step, the content viewing setting information includes at least one of a reserved recording setting, a preferred channel setting, and a child protection setting,
In the fifth step, the personalized host unit performs at least one of performing reservation recording, performing a preference channel setting, and setting a child protection according to the content viewing setting information. Way.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing a wireless charging based personalized smart TV providing method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.

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