KR20070001689A - Method and system for providing extra broadcasting information using object segmentation - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and a system for providing extra broadcasting information by using the object segmentation are provided to offer object information through another path, not the broadcasting program offering path. A broadcasting system(200) is linked with a broadcasting center(600), receives the broadcasting content information from the broadcasting center and transmits the broadcasting content signal to a terminal(100). The broadcasting system includes a broadcasting content providing server(300) and an object information providing server(400). A download/streaming server(330) transmits the broadcasting content information to the terminal. A live server(360) provides the broadcasting content information received from the broadcasting center to the terminal in real time.

Description

Method and system for providing additional broadcasting information using object segmentation {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EXTRA BROADCASTING INFORMATION USING OBJECT SEGMENTATION}

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing broadcast additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 to 4 are diagrams for describing object information for each broadcast content scene according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 and 7 are flowcharts illustrating a method for providing broadcast additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ***

100; Terminal 110; Broadcast content signal processor

120; Object information manager 130; Information output

133; Voice information output unit 136; Video information output section

140; Object information extracting unit 150; Broadcast additional information server connection

200; Broadcast system 300; Broadcast content provision server

400; Object information providing server 500; Menu delivery system

600; Broadcast center 700; communications network

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing broadcast additional information by using object segmentation. More particularly, the present invention relates to a broadcast service by efficiently providing additional information using object segmentation to an existing broadcast service provided by a mobile communication wireless Internet service. The present invention relates to a method and system for providing broadcast additional information using object segmentation that effectively delivers additional information associated with content to a user and provides broadcast communication convergence service using the same.

The broadcast content related service currently being provided in the mobile communication wireless Internet has a return channel called mobile communication, but is only a one-way service for watching broadcast content.

On the other hand, there are two types of broadcast contents currently provided in mobile communication wireless Internet, a download type service for storing and playing contents on a terminal, and a streaming type service for receiving and displaying a signal on a screen in real time.

However, both can only watch the broadcast contents of the terminal screen, and there is no broadcast linkage service using other return channels.

For example, in the current wireless Internet broadcasting service, a user can access a wireless Internet menu providing system, search a menu, select content, and access content information on a selected content to a download server or a streaming server to display a desired broadcast content. Is made to watch the broadcast content.

That is, in the case of one-way broadcasting content, the terminal accesses a download / streaming server to receive and display desired content, and in the case of real-time broadcasting, the terminal connects to a live broadcasting server and the live broadcasting server is provided from the corresponding broadcasting center. Receive and display content.

However, the terminal communicates with the wireless Internet content providing system through the wireless Internet, and transmits and receives signals, but does not receive additional data or related services only through the broadcast content providing room.

Accordingly, in the case of a broadcast content providing service, there is an increasing need for providing additional information related to broadcast content such as drama, music video, and movie.

For example, while watching a sports game, the viewer may want to obtain various related information necessary for watching the sports game, such as a previous record or a profile and performance of the player.

On the other hand, there is a form of providing additional information about the broadcast content through a method such as PPL (Product Placement) that enjoys the effect of indirect advertising by appearing in a movie or drama.

However, the current mobile communication wireless Internet broadcasting service has a problem that it is difficult to provide detailed information other than the brand (Brand) for the specific product as well as the related information required for watching sports events.

The present invention has been created to solve the above problems and to meet the need for providing additional broadcast information for current broadcast content. The object of the present invention is included in broadcast content when providing broadcast content through wireless Internet. The present invention provides a method and system for providing broadcast additional information using object segmentation that provides broadcast additional information, which is detailed information about an object selected by a terminal, by providing object information about an object.

In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing broadcast additional information by using object segmentation. The method includes: A-1) object region information indicating an area of a broadcast content information and an object included in the broadcast content information; And receiving object information from the object information providing server, the object information including object time information indicating a time when the broadcast content information including the object is output to the terminal. A-2) selecting, by the terminal, an object target from the broadcast content information, and extracting object region information and object time information on the selected object; A-3) the terminal accessing a broadcast additional information providing server that provides detailed information on the selected object corresponding to the extracted object region information and time information; And A-4) receiving, by the terminal, detailed information on the selected object that is the selected object target from the broadcast additional information providing server.

In addition, the broadcast additional information providing system using the object segmentation according to the present invention for achieving the above object, the object area information and the object which is information indicating the object included in the broadcast content information in conjunction with a broadcast content providing server An object information providing server providing object information including object time information which is information on a time at which broadcast content information including a content is output to a terminal; Receives broadcast content information and the object information, outputs broadcast content information in which the object information exists, and accesses a broadcast additional information providing server that provides detailed information on a selected object among the broadcast contents through the object information; And a terminal for receiving detailed information, wherein the terminal comprises: an information output unit configured to synchronize and output the broadcast content information and the object information processing unit; An object information extracting unit extracting object information on a selected object among objects included in the broadcast content information output through the information output unit; And a broadcast additional information providing server connection unit for designating an object corresponding to the extracted object information among the objects included in the broadcast content information and connecting to a broadcast additional information providing server that provides detailed information about the selected object. It is characterized by.

Hereinafter, a method and a system for providing broadcast additional information using object division according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments. Like reference numerals designate like elements throughout the drawings.

First, a broadcast additional information providing system using object segmentation according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing broadcast additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 2 to 4 are diagrams for describing object information for each broadcast content scene according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5. Is a block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, a system for providing broadcast additional information using object division according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a broadcast system 200 and a terminal 100.

The broadcast system 200 receives broadcast content information from the broadcast center 600 in cooperation with a broadcast center 600 for producing broadcast content, and transmits the broadcast content information and the object to a terminal 100 connected through a communication network. The broadcast content signal including the information is transmitted.

That is, the broadcast system 200 includes a broadcast content providing server 300 and an object information providing server 400, and the broadcast content providing server 300 provides the broadcast content information.

In addition, the broadcast content providing server 300 may include a download / streaming server 330 and a live server 360 according to a method of providing the broadcast content information to the terminal 100. .

The download / streaming server 330 transmits the broadcast content information to the terminal 100 in the same manner as the download method and the streaming method described in the prior art, and the live server 360 broadcast content received from the broadcast center 600. Provides information to the terminal 100 in real time.

Meanwhile, the broadcast content information is information for displaying content corresponding to a menu selected by the terminal 100 through the menu providing system 500 on the terminal 100, and includes voice information and image information.

In addition, the object information providing server 400 provides the object information to the terminal 100, and the object information includes object area information and object time information as information for identifying an object included in the broadcast content information. Preferably, the method further includes link information and link description information.

In this case, the object information providing server 400 may transmit the object information to the terminal 100 through a path different from a path for transmitting the broadcast content information from the broadcast content providing server 300.

This is to not change the manner in which the broadcast content providing server 300 transmits the broadcast content information to the terminal 100, and to selectively transmit the object information.

When the broadcast content information is displayed on the terminal 100, the object region information is as follows. For example, the object region information is region information occupied by an object included in the displayed broadcast content.

2 is a scene of a broadcast advertisement, and shows a broadcast content screen displayed on a terminal screen at a preset time interval.

Examples of the object included in the broadcast content screen, that is, the broadcast content information include all the props displayed on the terminal screen, such as a jacket worn by a woman, pants, a jacket worn by a man, pants and a bag. You can be a target.

The object information is information for identifying an object included in the broadcast content screen as described above, and includes object area information and object time information. The object information further includes link information and link description information.

The object region information is information on an area occupied by the object on the screen. For example, when the object is a jacket worn by a woman, the object region information corresponds to information on an area occupied by the jacket on the terminal screen. do. That is, as shown in Fig. 6, it is preferable that the broadcast content screen displayed on the terminal can be represented by coordinates.

Meanwhile, the total time that the broadcast advertisement is displayed is 15 seconds, and the time when the jacket is displayed is 2 seconds to 7 seconds, that is, 6 seconds in total.

Then, as shown in FIG. 2, the broadcast content displayed on the terminal screen corresponds to A 510, B 520, C 530, D 540, E 550, and F scene 560. In addition, it can be seen that the object region information for the jacket is gradually different in each scene.

For example, when the area occupied by the jacket in the scene A (510) to scene F (560) is referred to as the first region 320 to the sixth region 340, respectively, as shown in FIG. The area 320 corresponds to an area consisting of coordinate information (5, 1), (6, 1), (6, 3), and (5, 3), and the sixth area 340 is approximately, coordinates Corresponds to the area consisting of information (5, 1), (8, 0), (8, 2), (5, 2).

On the other hand, such object region information is specified as the coordinates are further subdivided, which may be changed according to a setting.

In addition, the object time information is information on a time when the object is displayed on the terminal screen. That is, the object time information includes information on the total time of displaying the object and information on the time when the broadcast content including the object is displayed during the entire time of displaying the broadcast content.

Therefore, in the above example, the object time information for the jacket is information including any one or more of '6 seconds' and '2 seconds to 7 seconds', and preferably the time information corresponding to the respective object area information. It may include.

The object link information includes location information of a server such as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for accessing a broadcast additional information providing server that provides broadcast additional information, which is a detailed description of each object included in broadcast content information. The link description information refers to information describing the link information.

The terminal 100 receives the broadcast content signal by accessing a broadcast system through a communication network. That is, the broadcast content information is received from the broadcast content providing server 300 and the object information is received from the object information providing server 400.

More specifically described as follows. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the information output unit 130, the object information extracting unit 133, and the server connecting unit 136 are included. Preferably, the broadcast content signal processing unit 110 and the object information managing unit 120 are included. ), And the like.

The broadcast content signal processor 110 processes the broadcast content signal received by the terminal 100 from the broadcast system 200. That is, the image information to be received from the broadcast content providing server 300, audio content information and object information received from the object information providing server is separated and transmitted to the object information management unit 120.

The object information manager 120 receives the object information from the broadcast content signal processor 110 and manages object area information, object time information, link information, link description information, and the like included in the object information. That is, the object information is stored in correspondence with each object included in the broadcast content information.

The information output unit 130 synchronizes and outputs the broadcast content information and the object information received from the broadcast content signal processor 110. On the other hand, it is preferable that the object information can also be received from the object information management unit.

In this case, the audio content information is output to the voice information output unit 133 such as a speaker, and the video content information is displayed on the video information output unit 136 such as a terminal screen.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 3, when the broadcast content information is output, the information output unit 130 also outputs object information present indication information indicating whether an object for the broadcast content information is present. desirable.

The object presence indication may be displayed in the form of a predetermined icon. That is, the information output unit 130 may indicate whether object information exists through the output of the preset icon.

The object information extracting unit 140 extracts object information on the object selected by an external input from the information output unit 130, that is, the broadcast content information displayed on the terminal screen.

On the other hand, the method of selecting the object can be selected by moving the direction key provided in the terminal 100, it is possible to use a touch pad screen. This is not limited thereto, and may vary depending on the function of the terminal 100.

For example, as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4 of the broadcast content information displayed on the touch pad screen, when a jacket worn by a woman is selected, the object information extracting unit 140 attaches to a jacket corresponding to the object. Extract object information for

That is, object area information and object time information of the jacket are extracted. On the other hand, since the object area information and the object time information is the same as mentioned above, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In addition, the object information extracting unit 140 transmits the extracted object region information and object time information to the object information managing unit 120, and the object information managing unit 120 corresponds to the object region information and the object time information. Link information, link description information, and the like are transmitted to the information output unit 130.

The broadcast additional information providing server connection unit (hereinafter referred to as a server connection unit) 150 connects the terminal 100 to a broadcast additional information providing server (not shown) that provides detailed information about the selected object. Receive the detailed information from the additional information providing server.

That is, the broadcast additional information providing server connection unit 150 links the terminal 100 to the server connection unit 150 through link information corresponding to the object information extracted by the object information extraction unit 140. In this case, the link is preferably such that the link information output to the information output unit is selected by an external input.

For example, the additional broadcast service information server provides, detailed information, such as close-up image information, price information for the jacket to the device as shown in Fig.

Hereinafter, a method of providing broadcast additional information using object division according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments.

6 and 7 are flowcharts illustrating a method for providing broadcast additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention. Descriptions of elements, names, and the like mentioned below are the same as those described in the description of FIGS. 1 to 6, and thus, detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 6, the terminal 100 requests the provision of broadcast content through a menu search through the menu providing system 500 (S510), and receives a broadcast content signal corresponding to the request from the broadcast system. do. That is, broadcast content information is received from the broadcast content providing server, and object information on the broadcast content information is received from the object information providing server 400 (S520).

The terminal receiving the broadcast content signal as described above separates the signal, and transmits the object information to the object information manager 120 among them, and synchronizes the broadcast content information and the object information (S540). The broadcast content information synchronized with the object information is output (S550).

At this time, the terminal 100 preferably outputs object information present indication information indicating whether object information corresponding to the broadcast content information exists.

In this case, when a predetermined object is selected from the objects included in the broadcast content information from the outside, the terminal 100 stops outputting the broadcast content information (S610). However, when a predetermined object is not selected, the terminal 100 continuously outputs the broadcast content information while waiting for selection of an object target (S560).

When the object is selected, the terminal 100 extracts object area information and object time information of the selected object and outputs link information corresponding to the extracted information (S620).

When the link information is selected by a method of selecting the link information, the terminal 100 is connected to a server corresponding to the link information. That is, the terminal 100 accesses the broadcast additional information providing server that provides detailed information about the selected object and receives the detailed information from the broadcast additional information providing server (S630).

In addition, the terminal 100 monitors whether the reception of the detailed information is completed (S640). If the reception is completed, whether there is object information corresponding to broadcast content information to be output after being interrupted in S610. If it is not present (S650), if not present, the process after S620 is repeated, and if present, the broadcast content information to be output later is output again (S660).

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the present invention belongs to the present invention without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the following claims. Anyone skilled in the art will have the technical idea of the present invention to the extent that various changes or modifications can be made.

As described above, according to the method and system for providing broadcast additional information using the object division according to the present invention, the terminal may receive detailed information about an object included in the broadcast content information while receiving broadcast content information. There is. That is, by selecting a prop in the drama or advertisement while the terminal receives room content information such as a drama or an advertisement, it is possible to receive detailed information about the prop.

In addition, the object information enhancing server provides the object information through a path different from the path where the broadcast content providing server provides the broadcast content information, so that the terminal may selectively receive the object information, and download or stream the broadcast content information. There is an effect that does not burden the transmission speed of the signal to take and the processing speed of the terminal.

Claims (15)

A-1) The terminal includes object content information indicating a broadcast content information, a region of an object included in the broadcast content information, and object time information indicating a time when the broadcast content information including the object is output to the terminal. Receiving object information from an object information providing server; A-2) selecting, by the terminal, an object target from the broadcast content information, and extracting object region information and object time information on the selected object; A-3) the terminal accessing a broadcast additional information providing server that provides detailed information on the selected object corresponding to the extracted object region information and time information; And A-4) The method for providing broadcast additional information using the object segment, characterized in that the terminal receives from the broadcast additional information providing server detailed information on the selected object of the selected object. According to claim 1, After the step A-1) before the step A-2) And displaying, by the terminal, the object information in synchronization with the broadcast content information and outputting the same on the terminal screen.  The terminal of claim 1 or 2, wherein the terminal comprises: When the broadcast content information is output to the terminal screen, the object information present indication information indicating that there is object information corresponding to the broadcast content information is output together with the broadcast content information. How to Provide More Information. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein in the step A-2) And selecting the object target, wherein the terminal outputs connection information for accessing the broadcasting additional information providing server to the terminal screen. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein in the step A-3) And when the terminal connects to the broadcast additional information providing server, the terminal stops outputting the broadcast content information. The method of claim 5, wherein in the step A-4) And if the terminal completes the reception of the detailed information, outputting the broadcast content information again. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the broadcast content information is Broadcast additional information providing method using the object segment, characterized in that it comprises audio content information and image content information. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the object information providing server And transmitting the object information to the terminal through a path different from a path for transmitting the broadcast content information in the broadcast content providing server. Object information including object region information, which is information representing an object included in the broadcast content information, and object time information, which is information on a time when the broadcast content information including the object is output to a terminal in association with a broadcast content providing server; Providing object information providing server; And Receives broadcast content information and the object information, outputs broadcast content information in which the object information exists, and accesses a broadcast additional information providing server that provides detailed information on a selected object among the broadcast contents through the object information; Broadcast additional information providing system using the object segment, characterized in that it comprises a terminal for receiving the detailed information. The method of claim 9, wherein the terminal An information output unit configured to synchronize and output the broadcast content information and the object information processing unit; An object information extracting unit extracting object information on a selected object among objects included in the broadcast content information output through the information output unit; And And a broadcast additional information provision server connection unit for designating an object corresponding to the extracted object information among the objects included in the broadcast content information and connecting to a broadcast additional information provision server that provides detailed information about the selected object. Broadcast additional information providing system using the object segmentation. The method of claim 10, wherein the object information extraction unit System for providing broadcast additional information using object segmentation, characterized in that for extracting the object area information and the object time information for the selected object. The method of claim 10, wherein the information output unit And the broadcast additional information providing server access unit stops outputting the broadcast content information when the broadcast additional information providing server access unit connects to the broadcast additional information providing server. The method of claim 10, wherein the information output unit And the object information present indication information indicating that the object information corresponding to the broadcast content information exists together with the broadcast content information. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 10, wherein the object information is The system of claim 1, further comprising access information for accessing the broadcast additional information providing server. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 10, wherein the object information providing server And the object information is transmitted to the terminal through a path different from a path for transmitting the broadcast content information in the broadcast content providing server.

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