KR20100073453A - Method for providing the contents continuousplay service of iptv - Google Patents

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KR20100073453A
KR20100073453A KR1020080132129A KR20080132129A KR20100073453A KR 20100073453 A KR20100073453 A KR 20100073453A KR 1020080132129 A KR1020080132129 A KR 1020080132129A KR 20080132129 A KR20080132129 A KR 20080132129A KR 20100073453 A KR20100073453 A KR 20100073453A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/472—End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content
    • H04N21/47217—End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing an ear show service of an IPTV that provides a ear show service for a content produced by a series of IPTV. The present invention relates to a method of providing a ear show service of an IPTV. Checking whether there is a reproduction request, if there is a reproduction request for the content of the next round, downloading the content of the next round, and reproducing the content of the next round.

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Method for providing the contents continuousplay service of IPTV

The present invention relates to an IPTV, and more particularly, to a method of providing an ear TV service for providing an ear TV service for contents produced by a series of IPTV.

Recently, the broadcasting environment is changing due to the development of technology and changing demands of viewers. In other words, the transition from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting, diversified broadcasting media such as cable and satellite from terrestrial broadcasting, and providing interactive services in conjunction with communication networks, the recent broadcasting environment has undergone more severe changes than any other fields. have.

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is an example of a representative service that emerged from this background. IPTV is an interactive television service provided by using a high-speed internet network, which is connected to a content providing server through an internet network through a TV set-top box. The information service, video content, and broadcast content of the content providing server are provided to the television receiver through the set top box.

IPTV is a type of Digital Convergence in that it is a convergence of the Internet and TV, and it is different from the general public broadcasting in that viewers can selectively watch a program they want to watch at a convenient time.

In addition, in addition to the general broadcasting service, the IPTV has various functions by integrating Internet service, data broadcasting service, and personal video recorder (PVR) service.

As such, as functions are gradually diversified, IPTV needs to build a user interface that provides various menus for users to easily use.

At this time, the consideration should be the ease of use that puts the user's position first. Ease of use has been improved in order to easily and conveniently perform an input operation performed by a user to perform a certain function, or to minimize an input procedure.

The above-described technology is described for understanding the background of the present invention, and does not mean a conventional technology well known in the art.

In the related art, a follow-up service is provided to improve ease of use. When the user requests the subsequent service for the content broadcasted to the series, the subsequent watch service provides a guide for providing the next content when playback of each content is completed, or starts buffering when the content is selected. In addition, there was a problem that the broadcast between each content is cut off because the advertisement is broadcast.

The present invention was devised to improve the above-mentioned problem, and an object thereof is to provide a method for providing a subsequent viewing service of an IPTV that enables continuous viewing of contents produced by a series.

The configuration of the present invention, which is invented to achieve the above-described object, is as follows.

In one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a subsequent viewing service of an IPTV, including: reproducing content, checking whether there is a request for reproducing the next content produced by the content and the series during the content reproducing; If there is a reproduction request for the content, it is characterized in that it comprises the step of downloading the content of the next round and the content of the next round.

The playing of the content may further include arranging and displaying a list of contents of the next round on the screen of the IPTV.

The step of checking whether there is a playback request for the content of the next round is characterized in that the display is confirmed so that the playback of the content of the next round can be requested when a set time elapses after the content playback.

In addition, the content and the content of the next round is characterized in that played by the download and play.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for providing a follow-up service of an IPTV includes determining whether a plurality of series-produced contents are selected when the contents are produced by a series, and selecting a plurality of series-produced contents. And requesting and downloading the selected series-produced content and continuously playing each of the series-produced content.

The step of checking whether a plurality of contents produced by the series is selected is characterized by listing and selecting information on the contents produced by the series.

According to the present invention configured as described above, it is possible to continuously watch the content broadcast in the series.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a method for providing a follow-up service of an IPTV according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a block diagram of an IPTV service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the IPTV 100, a network, a VoD (VIDEO ON DEMAND) server 210 and a content DB 220 are provided.

The IPTV 100 requests content according to a user's selection and reproduces the downloaded content. The IPTV 100 includes a memory unit 110, a controller 120, an AV output unit 130, and a key input unit 140.

The memory unit 110 stores OS programs and application programs necessary for the operation of the IPTV 100, and stores downloaded various contents.

The AV output unit 130 decodes the content to perform general signal processing for processing the audio data and the video data so that the user can view the content through the display apparatus and the speaker. Here, the display device includes a CRT (CATHOD RAY TUBE), an LCD (LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY), an OLED (ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE), a PDP (PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL) and the like. In addition, when a user selects a menu and inputs various information such as personal information and content information by using the key input unit 140, an input character, various menus, EPG, etc. are displayed by using an OSD (ON SCREEN DISPLAY). To provide an interface between the user and IPTV.

The key input unit 140 generates various key signals according to the key operation so that the user can control the operation of the IPTV 100. For this purpose, a key and menu selection for channel selection, volume control, character input, content Various keys for selection and request, content playback, etc. are provided.

The controller 120 controls the IPTV 100 as a whole. When a key signal for a subsequent service is input from the key input unit 140, the controller 120 requests the VoD server 210 for the contents produced by the series, and the VoD server. The content downloaded from the 210 is stored in the memory unit 110, and the content is continuously reproduced through the AV output unit 130.

The operation of the controller 120 will be described in detail with reference to the embodiments of FIGS. 2 and 3.

The VoD server 210 reads the requested content from the content DB 220 and transmits the requested content to the IPTV 100 when there is a subsequent service request from the IPTV 100 through the network.

In general, in order to provide VoD service, web page provision, subscriber authentication, information on subscribers, for example, ID, password, billing information, service request history, etc. are managed. As it can be easily carried out by those skilled in the art, detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

Finally, the content DB 220 stores and provides contents such as various videos and images such as movies and dramas.

Hereinafter, the first and second embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

2 is a flowchart of a method for providing a subsequent look-up service of an IPTV according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

According to the first embodiment of the present invention, in the method of providing a subsequent viewing service of an IPTV, when a user requests a content by manipulating the key input unit 140 (S110), the VoD server 210 stores information about the corresponding content in a content DB ( Read at 220). In this case, when the corresponding content is a content produced by the series, the content information on the content is transmitted to the IPTV 100.

When the information about the content is transmitted, the control unit 120 lists the information on the content on the screen through the AV output unit 130 (S120).

After listing the list, it is checked whether the user selects one of the contents (S130), and if one of the contents is selected at this time, the VoD server 210 requests the download of the corresponding contents.

The VoD server 210 reads the requested content from the content DB 220 and downloads the requested content to the IPTV 100 (S140).

The controller 120 stores the downloaded content in the memory unit 110 and reproduces the stored content through the AV output unit 130 (S150). In this case, the control unit 120 reproduces the downloaded content by using the download and play method of decoding and immediately playing the content through the AV output unit 130.

When the content is played back, the controller 120 checks the playback time in the content information, counts the time, and checks whether the set time has elapsed (S160). For example, if the content playback time is 120 minutes and the set time is 10 minutes, it is checked whether 110 minutes have elapsed.

Here, the setting time is a time for checking whether to request the next play of the content after playing the content, and may be variously set within the content play time.

After setting the content, the user checks whether the set time has elapsed, and when the set time has elapsed, displays whether or not the next time content is to be played back by using the OSD to check whether there is a next time content play request.

As a result of the check, if there is a content reproduction request for the next round, the VoD server 210 requests the next round of contents.

The VoD server 210 reads the content of the next round from the content DB 220 and downloads the content to the IPTV 100 (S180).

Accordingly, the controller 120 stores the next round of contents in the memory unit 110 and checks whether the currently playing contents is completed and when the currently playing contents is finished playing, the downloaded next contents of the memory are stored in the memory 110. The unit 110 reads the data through the AV output unit 130 (S150).

This process is repeated until the last content is played and then ends. On the other hand, if the user does not request to play the next content while performing such a process, after ending the content currently being played, the following service ends.

That is, in the first embodiment of the present invention, in case of content produced by a series, when a set time has elapsed after playing a content currently being played, it is checked whether there is a request for playing the next content and downloads the next content according to the result. To play.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a subsequent look-up service of an IPTV according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

According to the second embodiment of the present invention, in the method of providing a follow-up service for an IPTV, when a user requests a content playback by manipulating the key input unit 140 (S210), the VoD server 210 provides information about the corresponding content in a content DB. Read at (220). In this case, when the content is content produced by the series, information about the content is transmitted to the IPTV 100.

When the information about the content is transmitted, the control unit 120 lists the information on the content on the screen through the AV output unit 130 (S220).

After listing the list, it is checked whether one of the contents is selected by the user (S230). At this time, if one of the contents is selected, the controller 120 determines that the selected contents are the contents produced by the series. Displayed so as to know whether to display the selection whether the display (S240).

In this case, if the subsequent view is not selected, only the currently selected content is requested to the VoD server 210, and then the corresponding content downloaded is played and terminated.

On the other hand, if the user selects to continue, the VoD server 210 requests the provision of contents produced by the selected series.

The VoD server 210 reads the content from the content DB 220 and downloads the content to the IPTV 100 (S250).

Accordingly, the controller 120 stores the content in the memory unit 110 and reproduces the content selected by the user (S260). In this case, the contents selected by the user among the series contents are first played. On the other hand, the control unit 120 is to reproduce the downloaded content using a download and play method that is immediately decoded by the AV output unit 130 to play.

On the other hand, if the playback of the currently playing content is completed by checking whether the currently playing content is completed (S270), and checking whether the played content is the last content (S280), if it is the last content, terminates the resume service, and the last content. Otherwise, the downloaded next content is read and reproduced through the AV output unit 130 (S290).

This process is repeated until the last content is played and then ends.

That is, in the second embodiment of the present invention, in the case of content produced by a series, all contents of the series are downloaded and sequentially played.

For reference, in the above-described second embodiment, the user may select at least two or more of the contents to be viewed by the user, and in this case, the selected contents may be sequentially played according to the turn.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, it is merely exemplary and various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible to those skilled in the art. Will understand. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the claims.

1 is a block diagram of an IPTV service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flow chart of a method for providing a follow-up service for an IPTV according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flow chart of a method for providing a follow-up service for an IPTV according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: IPTV 110: memory unit

120: control unit 130: AV output unit

140: key input unit 210: VoD server

220: content DB

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Playing content; Checking whether there is a play request for the next content produced by the content and the series during the content play; Downloading a content of the next time when there is a play request for the content of the next time; And The method of providing a subsequent viewing service of the IPTV, comprising the step of playing the next content. The method of claim 1, wherein the playing of the content further comprises listing and displaying a list of contents of the next round on the screen of the IPTV. The method of claim 1, wherein the checking of the next request for playback of the next content comprises: displaying and confirming the playback of the next content after a preset time elapses. How to provide ear show service of IPTV. The method of claim 1, wherein the content and the next next content are reproduced in a download and play manner. If the content is produced in a series, checking whether a plurality of the contents produced in the series are selected; Requesting and downloading the selected content produced by the series when a plurality of content produced by the series is selected; And And continuously playing each content produced by the series. The method of claim 5, wherein the checking of whether a plurality of series-produced contents are selected comprises selecting and listing information on the series-produced contents. The method of claim 5, wherein the content produced in the series is reproduced in a download and play manner.
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