KR20010111374A - Apparatus and method for providing contents in home appliances through the internet - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for using a content of a home appliance to monitor, control and confirm information of contents existing in a digital home appliance such as a digital TV, a DVCR or a DVD on the Internet. The present invention proposes a method for identifying and controlling contents existing in a digital device on the Internet, and thus means for enabling contents verification to be possible only by controlling and observing through the Internet in an existing home network. To provide.

Description

Apparatus and method for providing contents of home appliances over the Internet {APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS IN HOME APPLIANCES THROUGH THE INTERNET}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to the use of content in home appliances to monitor, control, and verify the information of contents existing in digital home appliances such as digital TVs, DVCRs, and DVDs on the Internet.

Today's digital TVs are connected to the Internet to exchange information with functions such as compression, transmission, copying, and editing of data, which analog TV cannot simulate.

That is, the image information such as DTV, DVCR, etc. is digital only and can be stored in a formal form and can be handled. Since the content itself in the digital device is digital data, only control and monitoring were possible.

The control of home appliances in the home through the existing Internet has the purpose to observe the state or control the operation of home appliances in the home.

However, in digital devices, not only the operation control and state monitoring of the digital device, but also the content existing in the digital device itself is digital, so the necessity of observing it through the Internet has emerged.

Herein, the content includes various information such as a program, internal information, state, and operation state of the digital device.

In the related art, as shown in FIG. 1, a control command transmitted through an internet network converts a TCP / IP-based protocol into an HAVi-based protocol in the Internet access device 10 to control devices on a digital network.

Here, the Internet access device 10 is connected to a home digital network and a remote computer via the Internet, and the devices on the home digital network are operated and controlled under the control of the computer, and the result can be confirmed again on the Internet. . However, a method for checking and controlling the contents of devices on a digital network on the Internet has not been disclosed.

In the drawing, the DTV 20 and the DVCR 30 are connected to the Internet network to the Internet access device 10 through a digital network, and output operation state information of the devices.

The present invention proposes a method for identifying and controlling contents existing in such a digital device on the Internet, and thus means for enabling contents verification to be possible only by controlling and observing through the Internet in an existing home network. To provide.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for requesting and confirming digital content existing in a digital device on the Internet.

A first aspect of this invention is that a device capable of Internet service on a home digital network comprises a content converter which is means for converting digital content into the form of an Internet service.

In addition, the second feature is that the apparatus capable of internet service is provided with a digital network transmission and reception means which is means for transmitting digital content converted into the form of an internet service onto the internet in response to an internet service request.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a device capable of providing an Internet service in the first aspect provides a means for transmitting a digital content to an Internet service request object that has previously requested the Internet service even if there is no new Internet service request.

1 illustrates a connection with the Internet via a conventional digital network.

Figure 2 illustrates a digital content providing method through the Internet of the present invention.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

10: Internet connection device 20: digital TV

50: Internet Service Server 60: Content Converter

The configuration of the present invention, as shown in Figure 2, the content converter for converting the content into a form capable of Internet service, an Internet service server for providing data output from the content converter in the form of an Internet service, and the Internet service Data output from the server is made up of an Internet access device that connects to the Internet network through a digital interface.

The function of the content converter having such a configuration is that when a command on the Internet is input through the Internet connection device 40 and transmitted to a DTV, DVCR, DVD or the like which is a home appliance via a digital network, the content converter 60 transfers the content to the Internet. It is converted into a service form and exported to a digital transmission network via an Internet service server.

Here, the command on the Internet may be various data such as a device control command of a user, a content confirmation command, a monitoring command, and the like. In addition, the Internet service server 50, 51 serves as a buffer for storing the data output from the content converter for a while. The content is data in the form of an internet service such as MPEG stream, MHEG data, AVI (Audio video interleaved), and the like.

In FIG. 2, the DTV converts the received content into an Internet service form through the content converter 60 in response to a request from a user through the Internet and transmits the received content to the requesting object. In the case of DVCR under DTV, when the digital content being recorded or the digital content already recorded is requested, the digital content is converted into an Internet service through a content converter and then sent to the requesting party. Will be sent to.

The present invention provides a means for checking digital contents existing on a home network in a home through an internet network, and thus, the contents are viewed in the concept of checking the status and operation control of home appliances in the home through the Internet. This has the effect of adding the concept of Contents Viewing. This is a useful invention that allows Internet users to check the contents of the DTV they are watching at home, and to check whether the contents of the recorded contents match what they want.

Claims (5)

A content converter for converting content into a form capable of internet service, an internet service server for providing data output from the content converter in the form of internet service, and data output from the internet service server are connected to an internet network through a digital interface. Content providing apparatus for home appliances via the Internet, characterized in that consisting of an Internet access device. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the contents are multimedia data such as MPEG stream, MHEG data, AVI (Audio video interleaved), and the like. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content converter converts the content into data of an Internet service type such as MPEG stream, MHEG data, AVI, and the like. And converting the content in the home appliance into data in a form capable of internet service, and controlling and confirming the content in the home appliance. The device of claim 4, wherein the device capable of internet service with the content in the home appliance can transmit the digital content to the person who requested the internet service even if there is no request for a new internet service. How to provide content.