KR20110124642A - Contents playing apparatus, method and system for providing contents - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A content providing system is provided to enable a user to conveniently write comment information about content. CONSTITUTION: A user inputs a command through a remote controller or a user terminal while watching the broadcasting. A content reproduction unit(210) transmits the command and the command identification information to a content providing system(100). The content providing system determines the target content reproduction unit(220) to transmit the command information. The content providing system transmits all receives command information to a plurality of content reproduction units(200).

Description

Contents playback apparatus, method and system for providing contents

The present invention relates to a content reproducing apparatus, a content providing system, and a method thereof, in which a content reproducing apparatus in which content is reproduced can not only confirm comment information about specific content of other users, but also selectively comment information corresponding to a specific condition. The present invention relates to a method and system that can easily check the opinions of other users while consuming content.

Content is provided through various media. Content can be consumed by users by being played on a user device. Users may want to show their opinions or responses to others while consuming content. Therefore, a lot of comments or comments are uploaded to the contents disclosed in various web pages.

In the past, in order to leave a response or comment on various contents, a user had to access a specific web page or a specific channel (eg, a chat channel, a chat room). That is, users could leave comments about the content only at a specific location or a specific service provided on the communication network.

In addition, conventionally, not only the comments can be selectively viewed according to the preferences and characteristics of the users, but all users have no choice but to view the same comments uniformly.

However, as the consumption forms of the contents are diversified and the environments in which the contents can be consumed are diversified, such conventional methods may not be able to meet the needs of users. For example, a user watching a particular broadcast program may want to leave a comment about the broadcast program. To this end, in the related art, it is necessary to use a service that can leave a comment on a corresponding broadcast program by accessing a separate web space (for example, a web page) that can leave a comment after a specific broadcast program or during a broadcast. However, this procedure is very cumbersome and can be very inefficient in current broadcasting environments where bidirectional data communication is possible.

Therefore, the user can upload the comment information immediately and directly while consuming the content, and the uploaded comment information can be easily transmitted to the other users who are consuming the content, so that the user can match the preferences and characteristics of each user. Optionally, a method, apparatus, and system capable of viewing comments may be required.

Accordingly, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a method and system that can easily and conveniently leave comment information about content when the content is consumed by a plurality of content playback devices connected through a communication network.

In addition, when comment information about various contents is generated, the present invention provides a method and system for selectively providing comment information on content consumed by a user to the user.

In addition, it is to provide a method and system that can conveniently check the news provided by a particular user by providing only the comment information prepared by a specific user specified in advance.

In addition, when comment information about a specific content is written for a specific location, the comment information can be displayed to the user who confirms the comment information at the location where the comment information is written, so that the comment information can be exposed to the intention or situation of the creator. And to provide a system.

The content providing method for achieving the technical problem is that the content providing system receives comment information including comment identification information for the content played in the first content playback device from the first content playback device or the user terminal Determining, by the content providing system, a second content playback device to transmit the comment information among a plurality of content playback devices connected to the content providing system based on comment identification information included in the comment information, and the determined And transmitting the comment information to a second content reproducing apparatus.

The content providing method may further include displaying the transmitted comment information in the second content player when the content is played in the second content player.

The user terminal may include a mobile terminal of a user consuming the content.

The determining of the second content player to transmit the comment information among the plurality of content player connected to the content providing system may include: identifying the content based on the content identification information included in the comment identification information; And reproducing the identified content of the content reproducing apparatus of the content reproducing apparatus, or determining the content reproducing apparatus that has received the content as the second content reproducing apparatus.

The content providing method may further include determining whether the preset setting information and the comment identification information correspond to each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses. At least a part of the playback device may be determined as the second content playback device.

The content identification information may include at least one of unique information of the content or short content information corresponding to the unique information of the content.

The comment identification information includes comment author information including at least one of author unique information corresponding to the comment information or author short form information corresponding to the author unique information, or location information or the location of the content corresponding to the comment information. It may further include at least one of the comment position information including at least one of the position short information corresponding to the information.

The content providing method may include displaying the content on the second content player when the content is played on the second content player, when the comment information corresponds to preset setting information based on the comment creator information. The method may further include controlling the second content player to not display the comment information when the comment information corresponds to preset setting information based on the content creator information.

The content providing method may further include displaying the comment information on the second content playback device when the content corresponding to the content location information of the content is played when the content is displayed on the second content playback device. It may further include.

The content providing method may further include displaying only one of the comment information and the second comment information in the second content player when the second comment information identical to the comment information is received.

The comment identification information may be information included in the comment information automatically by the first content reproducing apparatus or the user terminal, or may be information directly input by the user.

The first content playback device or the second content playback device may include at least one of a TV, a set-top box, an IPTV, a mobile terminal, or a computer.

The content may be a broadcast program.

The content providing method for solving the technical problem is a step of receiving a plurality of comment information including comment identification information to the content playback device, a predetermined content in the content playback device of the plurality of comments information based on the comment identification information Selecting comment information to be displayed while content is playing, and displaying selected comment information on the content playing apparatus while the predetermined content is being played.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a content providing method for inputting comment information by a first user at a specific location while a specific content is being played, and when the specific location is played while the specific content is played in a content playback device. The comment information may be displayed on the content playback device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a content providing method for inputting comment information by a first user who is watching a first broadcast program and when a second user views the first broadcast program in a content playback device. The comment information input by the first user may be displayed on the content reproducing apparatus. The content providing method may be stored in a computer readable recording medium recording a program.

The content providing system for solving the technical problem is a receiving module for receiving comment (comment) including comment identification information for the content played in the first content playback device from the first content playback device or a user terminal, A control module for determining a second content playback device to transmit the comment information among a plurality of content playback devices connected to the content providing system based on the comment identification information included in the comment information, and the determined second content playback device And a transmission module for transmitting the comment information.

The control module may identify the content on the basis of the content identification information included in the comment identification information, and determine the content playback device that is playing or received the identified content as the second content playback device.

The control module determines whether the preset setting information and the comment identification information correspond to each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses. It may be determined as the second content reproducing apparatus.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a content reproducing apparatus for displaying or not displaying comment information received by the receiving module based on the comment module and the comment module for receiving comment information including comment identification information from the outside. And a control module for determining at least one of the viewpoints.

The control module may determine whether the comment information corresponds to preset setting information, and determine whether to display the comment information according to the determination result.

The content reproduction apparatus for solving the technical problem is to play the target content determined based on the receiving module for receiving comment information about the content received and reproduced by the content reproduction apparatus and the comment identification information included in the comment information And a control module for transmitting the comment information to a content providing system for transmitting the comment information to a device.

When there is a request for inputting the comment information from a user, the control module may generate comment identification information to be included in the comment information and include it in the comment information.

Content playback apparatus, content providing method and the system according to the present invention can easily and conveniently leave comment information about the content when the content is consumed by a plurality of content playback devices connected through a communication network to comment on the content There is an effect to reduce the need to access a separate web page or service to leave.

In addition, comment identification information, such as content that the user wants to leave comment information, a specific position in the content, or author information, is automatically generated, so that the user can easily write a comment, and the comment identification information is suitable for a suitable user. Comment information left in the location can be exposed to other users.

In addition, since only the comment information prepared by the specific user specified in advance is provided to the user, the news provided by the specific user can be conveniently confirmed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In order to better understand the drawings cited in the detailed description of the invention, a brief description of each drawing is provided.
1 is a view showing a schematic system configuration for implementing a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a view showing a schematic configuration of a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a view showing a schematic configuration of a content playback apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram for describing a method of inputting comment information by a user according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a UI provided to a user by a content player according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a view for explaining the concept of a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a diagram illustrating an example of comment information for a content providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

In order to fully understand the present invention, the operational advantages of the present invention, and the objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention and the contents described in the accompanying drawings.

Also, in this specification, when any one element 'transmits' data to another element, the element may transmit the data directly to the other element, or may be transmitted through at least one other element And may transmit the data to the other component.

Conversely, when one element 'directly transmits' data to another element, it means that the data is transmitted to the other element without passing through another element in the element.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a view showing a schematic system configuration for implementing a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 1, in order to implement a content providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a content providing system 100 and a plurality of content reproducing apparatuses 200 may be provided.

The content providing system 100 may implement the technical idea of the present invention while transmitting and receiving predetermined information with the content providing server 300 through wired or wireless communication. The content providing server 300 may provide predetermined content to at least one of the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200. In addition, the content providing server 300 may maintain information about the content provided to each of the plurality of content playback apparatus 200. The content providing system 100 may implement the technical idea of the present invention while transmitting and receiving the necessary information with the content providing server 300. That is, comment information according to the spirit of the present invention may be selectively provided to at least some of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses 200. If necessary, the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200 may selectively display the received comment information. According to an implementation example, the content providing system 100 may be installed and implemented by being included in the content providing server 300. Hereinafter, for convenience of description, the content provided by the content providing server 300 will be described as an example of a broadcast program. However, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and predetermined content may be transmitted to at least some of the plurality of content playback apparatuses 200, and it may be possible to determine which content is being played back in each of the content playback apparatuses 200. The average expert in the technical field of the present invention can easily deduce that the present invention can be applied to all network environments.

Each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses 200 may refer to a data processing apparatus capable of reproducing content. Reproducing content may mean displaying text or image information, converting audio information into a corresponding audio signal, and / or playing video information according to the type of content. In addition, each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200 may perform bidirectional communication with the content providing server 300 and / or the content providing system 100. That is, the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200 may implement the technical idea of the present invention by requesting predetermined information or transmitting predetermined information to the content providing server 300 and / or the content providing system 100. Can be.

When the content is a broadcast program, each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200 may be implemented as an IPTV, a set-top box, a computer, or a mobile terminal capable of receiving and playing a broadcast program. In addition, the content providing server 300 may be implemented as a predetermined broadcasting station system, and may perform a function of a video on demand (VOD) server. In addition, the content providing server 300 may provide predetermined content to at least some of the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200 in a manner of broadcast casting, multi casting, or the like. For example, when the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200 is connected to the content providing server 300 and / or the content providing system 100 through a wired or wireless Internet network, the content providing server 300 performs multicasting. Through the plurality of content playback apparatus 200 can know the information about the content received and played. When the content providing server 300 provides content to each of the content playback apparatuses 200 through broadcasting (eg, DMB), the content from each of the content playback apparatuses (for example, the mobile terminal 200). The providing system 100 may receive information on the content currently being played. Alternatively, the content providing system 100 may broadcast the content information corresponding to the content while transmitting the content to the content reproducing apparatus (for example, the mobile terminal 200).

The content providing server 300 or the content providing system 100 is not meant to be implemented as any one physical device. Each of the content providing server 300 and / or the content providing system 100 may perform a plurality of functions by combining a plurality of physical devices through communication as necessary. In addition, according to the implementation example, the content providing server 300 and the content providing system 100 may be implemented as any one physical device.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a user may consume content through any one of the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200 (eg, 210), and leave a comment about the content. Then, the other user who is consuming the same content can check the comment information left by the user through the content player (eg, 220).

For example, the user 1 may watch the broadcast program 1 of the channel 1 and want to leave a comment about the broadcast program 1. Then, the user 1 may transmit comment information to the content providing system 100 through a content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) or his mobile terminal. Then, the comment information may be displayed to the user 2 who is watching the broadcast program 1 through another content reproducing apparatus (eg, 220). To this end, the content providing system 100 may determine what the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 220) playing the broadcast program 1 is, and transmit the comment information to the determined content reproducing apparatus (eg, 220). . According to an implementation example, the broadcast program 1 viewed by the user 2 may be rebroadcast. Or it may be a VOD file. In any case, in the case of the same broadcast program, the comment information may be displayed. According to an exemplary embodiment, the content providing system 100 transmits all of the comment information received from each of the plurality of content playback apparatuses 200 to each of the content playback apparatuses 200, and each of the content playback apparatuses 200 Optionally, comment information may be displayed. Alternatively, the content providing system 100 extracts comment information corresponding to a specific condition and transmits the comment information to a predetermined content player (eg, 210), and the content player (eg, 210) is selectively displayed among the transmitted comment information. You may. Alternatively, the time point displayed may be selected.

The selection of comment information to be transmitted by the content providing system 100 or the selection of comment information to be displayed by each of the content reproducing apparatus 200 may be performed based on comment identification information included in each comment information.

The comment identification information may include at least one of the author information of the comment information, the identification information of the content corresponding to the comment information, or the location information of the content corresponding to the comment information.

Input of the comment information may be performed by each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200. To this end, each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200 may provide a predetermined UI. Predetermined comment information input by each of the plurality of content reproduction apparatuses 200 includes input of comment information through a remote controller capable of controlling each of the plurality of content reproduction apparatuses 200. It can be used to mean. In addition, the comment information may be input using a user's mobile terminal (eg, a mobile phone). When the mobile terminal can be connected to each of the content playback apparatus 200 through a predetermined communication, for example, near field communication (NFC) such as Bluetooth, the comment identification information may be automatically transmitted to the mobile terminal. . Then, the user may be sent to the content providing system 100 comment information including the content information input by the user and the comment identification information transmitted from any one of the content reproducing apparatus 200. When the comment information is transmitted to the content providing system 100 through the mobile terminal, the content providing system 100 may provide a predetermined MO (Mobile Oriented) service function. Alternatively, the mobile terminal may serve as a remote controller of each of the content playback apparatus 200. In this case, the content information input by the user is transmitted to any one of the content playback apparatus 200, and any one of the content playback apparatus 200 generates comment identification information to transmit comment information to the content providing system 100. It may be. According to an embodiment, some of the comment identification information may be directly input by the user, and some of the comment identification information may be automatically generated by any one of the content player 200. For example, the author information may be directly input by the user, and the content identification information may be automatically generated by any one of the content reproducing apparatus 200 and included in the comment information.

The comment information may include content information that the user wants to leave and comment identification information for identifying the comment information. The content information is not limited to text information but may include image information, audio information, and / or video information. The comment identification information may be expressed as abbreviated information that can briefly express information input by the user or information input by the user. Alternatively, the abbreviated information may be automatically generated by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210), and the generated information may be included in the comment information and transmitted to the content providing system 100.

As described above, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a user may write and post a comment about the content immediately without accessing a specific web page, service, or service channel while consuming the content, and the comment is unconditionally or randomly exposed. It can be selectively exposed to a specific user only in a specific user or a specific situation.

Hereinafter, the embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail.

2 is a view showing a schematic configuration of a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the content providing system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a control module 111, a receiving module 112, and a transmission module 113.

In addition, the content providing system 100 may refer to a set of components that are separately implemented for each function or role for implementing the technical idea of the present invention. For example, each of the control module 111, the receiving module 112, and the transmitting module 113 may be located in different physical devices or may be located in the same physical device. In addition, according to the embodiment, a combination of software and / or hardware configuring each of the control module 111, the receiving module 112, and the transmitting module 113 may also be located on different physical devices, and different physical devices may be used. Configurations located in the device may be organically combined with each other to realize the functions that each module performs. For example, at least one of the control module 111, the receiving module 112, or the transmitting module 113 is installed in the content providing server 300, and the remaining components are installed in the content providing system 100. And organically combined with each other to implement the technical idea of the present invention.

Herein, a module may mean a functional and structural combination of hardware for carrying out the technical idea of the present invention and software for driving the hardware. For example, the module may mean a logical unit of a predetermined code and a hardware resource for performing the predetermined code, and does not necessarily mean a physically connected code or a kind of hardware. Can be easily inferred by the average expert in the art.

The receiving module 112 may receive comment information from any one of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses 200 (for example, 210). Alternatively, the receiving module 112 may receive the comment information from a separate user terminal (eg, a user's mobile phone, etc.) used by the user of the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210). The comment information may include comment identification information. The comment identification information may include content identification information for identifying the content. It may also include author identification information that can identify the author. It may also include information about the location in the specific content corresponding to the comment information. Such comment identification information may be transmitted to which of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses 200 (eg, 220) to transmit the comment information, whether the transmitted comment information is displayed on the apparatus (eg, 220), or transmitted. It may be used to determine when to display the comment information and the like.

The control module 111 may include the comment among a plurality of content playback devices 200 connected to the content providing system 100 based on comment identification information included in the comment information received by the reception module 112. The content playback device (eg, 220, hereinafter, “target content playback device”) to which the information is to be transmitted may be determined. Then, the transmission module 113 may transmit the comment information to the determined target content playback device (eg, 220).

The target content reproducing apparatus (eg, 220) may display all of the comment information transmitted from the content providing system 100, or selectively display only a part of the transmitted comment information. This will be described later.

On the other hand, the control module 111 may use the content identification information included in the comment identification information as an example of the method for determining the target content playback device (eg, 220) using the comment identification information. The control module 111 may identify the content corresponding to the comment information based on the content identification information included in the comment identification information. Then, the control module 111 may determine the target content playback device (eg, 220) that is playing the identified content or received the content. For example, the comment information may include predetermined content identification information for identifying a broadcast program called "ch11. 9 o'clock news". The content identification information may be created with a full name of a broadcast program or may include predetermined content short information that may indicate the full name of the broadcast program. The short content information is shorter than a full name but is predetermined information that can represent the broadcast program. For example, the content short information may be a hash value obtained through a predetermined hash fuction. Alternatively, other identification information for identifying the broadcast program itself and / or shorter identification information for reducing the capacity of the identification information may be used as the content identification information. Accordingly, the control module 111 may know that the comment information is a comment about “ch11. 9 o'clock news” by using the content identification information.

Then, the control module 111 may transmit the comment information to the user who is currently watching the "ch11. 9 o'clock news". Alternatively, the comment information may be transmitted to the content playback apparatus (eg, 220) that has received the “ch11. 9 o'clock news”. Receiving the "ch11. 9 o'clock news" may mean a device recording or downloading the "ch 11. 9 o'clock news" when the content playback apparatus is a broadcast receiving apparatus such as a set-top box or an IPTV. . Accordingly, the comment information may be exposed when the received "ch11.9 o'clock news" is actually played by the target content playback apparatus (eg, 220). Accordingly, the comment information written by the user who is viewing the "ch11.9 o'clock news" may be displayed to other users who are currently viewing the "ch11.9 o'clock news" or viewed later. The control module 111 may obtain information on which device is playing what content or has been transmitted from the content providing server 300.

The control module 111 may use preset information set in each of the plurality of content playback apparatuses 200 as well as the comment identification information to determine the target content playback apparatus (eg, 220). The content providing system 100 receives the setting information stored in each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatus 200, and transmits only the comment information corresponding to the received setting information to the target content reproducing apparatus (eg, 220). It may be. For example, the specific user may be configured not to receive comment information about the specific content. Then, the control module 111 receives the corresponding setting information, and the comment information about the specific content is used by the specific user using the content identification information included in the comment information (eg, 230 may not be transmitted. Alternatively, a specific user may be configured not to receive only comment information written by a specific author or comment information written by a specific author. Then, the control module 111 transmits only the comment information written by the specific author to the content player (eg, 230) used by the specific user or created by the specific author using the author identification information included in the received comment information. The comment information may be controlled not to be transmitted to the content playback device (eg, 230).

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the control module 111 determines the target content playback apparatus (eg, 220) to transmit the comment information using only the comment identification information, and the determined comment information is the target content. When transmitted to a playback device (eg, 220), the target content playback device (eg, 220) may determine whether to display the comment information based on preset setting information.

3 is a view showing a schematic configuration of a content playback apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses 200 may include a control module 211 and a receiving module 212. The receiving module 211 may provide comment information on content received and reproduced by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) in a predetermined input UI (not shown) provided in the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) or the It may receive an input from a user terminal that can communicate with the content playback device (eg, 210).

Then, the control module 211 may transmit the comment information to the content providing system 100 to transmit the comment information to the target content playback device (eg, 220). As described above, the target content reproducing apparatus (eg, 220) may be a device that reproduces the content or receives the content. Alternatively, the device may be determined based on comment identification information included in the comment information and predetermined setting information set in each device.

The control module 211 may automatically generate comment identification information to be included in the comment information when a request for input of comment information is received from a user.

4 is a view illustrating a method of inputting comment information by a user according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, the user may input the content information apparatus (eg, 210) to input comment information. By selecting a predetermined button or a predetermined UI provided in the remote controller 250 for controlling the content playback device (for example 210), or the user terminal 260 that can be connected to the content playback device (for example 210). An input of comment information may be requested to the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210). Then, the user can enter a comment he wants to leave. In this case, the user may directly input comment identification information as well as the comment he / she wants. In addition, the comment and the comment identification information may be separated by a predetermined symbol. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 7, a user may input a comment “Player is good” through the content player (eg, 210), the remote controller 250, and / or the user terminal 260. Can be. The user may input comment identification information through a predetermined symbol separately from the comment. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the predetermined regular expression "/ u * /" may be a rule for displaying comment author identification information included in the comment identification information. The regular expression "/ c * /" may be a rule for displaying content identification information included in the comment identification information. The regular expression "/ t * /" may be a rule for displaying comment position information included in the comment identification information. In this way, the user may directly input comment identification information about his comment. In addition, the user may not only input comment identification information itself including content identification information, author identification information, and / or comment position information, but also short information of the comment identification information. The abbreviated information of the comment identification information may refer to information that can express the comment identification information and whose data amount is shorter and can be easily input. For example, when the author identification information is "Hong Gil Dong", predetermined numbers, symbols, and / or data corresponding to the "Hong Gil Dong" may be short information of the author identification information. For example, a hash value of 111, abc, or a predetermined hash function may be short information corresponding to the "Hong Gil Dong". Comment identification information corresponding to the short information may be pre-stored in at least one of the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) or the content providing system 100. Content identification information and / or content location information may also be defined in a similar manner.

In addition, the content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention may automatically generate comment identification information as described above and transmit the comment identification information to the content providing system 100 together with the comment input by the user.

For example, the user may input only a comment called "Player is good". Then, the control module 211 may automatically generate content identification information, author identification information, and / or comment position information to meet a predetermined regular expression. Then, the generated comment identification information may be transmitted to the content providing system 100 together with the comment input by the user. The content identification information may be generated using predetermined information (eg, EPG information, etc.) received by the content playback device (eg, 210), and the creator identification information may be generated in advance by the content playback device (eg, 210). May be entered. When a plurality of users uses the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210), the creator identification information may be generated by going through a predetermined process so that the user selects who he is. Alternatively, when the remote controller 250 is assigned to each user, the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may generate the creator identification information by determining which remote controller 250 is used. Alternatively, when the comment is input using the user terminal 260, the identification information of the user terminal 260 is checked, and the creator is identified by identifying a user corresponding to the identified identification information of the user terminal 260. Identification information can also be generated automatically. The comment position information may be implemented as predetermined time information or tag information that may determine in which part of the content the comment information is input, such as when a user requests comment information input or when a comment input is completed. In this case, the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may automatically generate the comment position information by identifying such time information or tag information. Therefore, even if a user inputs only a comment that he wants to leave, the comment identification information may be automatically generated by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) and included in the comment information, thereby improving user convenience.

When a user inputs a comment using the user terminal 260, the comment information including the comment may be transmitted to the content providing system 100 through the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210). The user terminal 260 may directly transmit the comment information to the content providing system 100. For example, a user may input a comment using his mobile phone. Then, the content playback device (eg, 210) may receive the input comment using a predetermined communication (eg, IR, blotus, or NFC). Then, the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may generate comment identification information corresponding to the received comment and transmit the comment information to the content providing system 100. Alternatively, when the user informs the content playback device (eg, 210) of the completion of comment input, the content playback device (eg, 210) may generate comment identification information and transmit the comment to the user terminal 260. Then, the user provides the content input system 100 in a predetermined manner (for example, wireless Internet, SMS, or MMS, etc.) together with the comment inputted by the user and the comment identification information transmitted from the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210). Can also be sent to.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a UI provided to a user by a content player according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, one of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses 200 may provide a UI as illustrated in FIG. 5. The UI provided by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may be received from the first area 10 or the content providing system 100 where content received from the outside (eg, the content providing server 300, etc.) is reproduced. The second region 20 may display the comment information, and the third region 30 may display information input by a user who uses the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210). In addition, the UI may include a predetermined position UI 40 that can indicate the reproduction degree of the content played in the first area 10, that is, the position of the portion currently being played in the content.

Content (eg, a broadcast program) may be played in the first region 10. When the content is a broadcast program, the content may be main broadcast or rebroadcast. When the content is the main broadcast, the comment information displayed in the second area 20 may be comment information input by another user who is currently watching the main broadcast. When the content is rebroadcast, comment information inputted by another user into the main broadcast corresponding to the rebroadcast and / or comment information inputted by another user currently watching the rebroadcast may be displayed in the second area 20. have. That is, the content providing system 100 and / or the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may treat the main broadcast and the re-broadcast as the same content. Of course, the main broadcast and rebroadcast may be treated as different contents.

As illustrated in FIG. 5, the second area 20 may display comments included in author information and comment information received by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210). According to an embodiment, the comment information may be input or information about a time displayed on the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may be displayed together with the comment information.

All comment information received by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may be displayed in the second area 20. Alternatively, the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may control whether the received comment information is displayed or a display time (position).

For example, preset content setting information may be stored in the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210). Then, the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may first determine whether the received comment information corresponds to the setting information, and determine whether to display the comment information according to the determination result. Alternatively, information about when the received comment information is displayed based on comment identification information (eg, comment position information) included in the comment information may be checked. Then, the content playback apparatus (eg, 210) may determine when to display the confirmed comment information.

In the third area 30, a content controller (eg, 210), a remote controller 250 capable of controlling the content player (eg, 210), or the content player (eg, 210) is used. Predetermined information (eg, comments, etc.) input by the user's user terminal 260 may be displayed. In addition, at least some of the comment identification information automatically generated by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may be displayed in the third area 30.

In addition, a user may input a comment through the remote controller 250 or the user terminal 260 and input comment identification information according to a predetermined rule (regular expression). If the user wants to input comment position information, the user may check the predetermined position information by selecting the position UI 40. For example, when the location UI 40 is selected, time information or location information of a part currently being played in the content being played in the first area 10 may be displayed. In some embodiments, when the location UI 40 or another predetermined UI (not shown) is selected, location information may be automatically input to the remote controller 250 or the user terminal 260.

The comment identification information does not necessarily need to be displayed on the remote controller 250, the user terminal 260, and / or the third area 30 so that the user can visually confirm the comment. Even if the comment identification information is not input by the user, the comment identification information may be automatically generated by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) and included as meta information (meta) of the comment information. Of course, as shown in FIG. 7, the remote controller 250, the user terminal 260, and / or the third area 30 may be displayed together with the comments input by the user so that the user can visually check. It may be.

6 is a view for explaining the concept of a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, a user of a predetermined content player (eg, 210) may consume content called MLB. The user may want to leave a feeling for a particular player as a comment while consuming content called MLB. Then, the user can input comments using the remote controller 250 or the user terminal 260 owned by the user while watching the broadcast. The comment input by the user may be a comment “Player is good” as shown in FIG. 6.

Then, the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may transmit the comment (“Player is good.”) Input by the user and the comment identification information to the content providing system 100. The comment "Player is good" and the comment identification information may be included in the comment information. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the user terminal 260 may directly transmit the comment information to the content providing system 100. The comment identification information may be information input by a user or automatically generated by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) and included in the comment information. For example, the comment identification information corresponds to content identification information (eg, MLB or abbreviated information thereof) that may represent the content, author identification information (eg, ABC or abbreviated information thereof), or a location where a user inputs a comment. It may include at least one of the comment position information (or abbreviated information thereof). The comment identification information is inputted and displayed in the same format as the comment ("Player is good.") So that the user or other users can visually confirm it, but the user or other users cannot confirm it, but the meta information of the comment information It may also be included as. In some embodiments, at least a portion of the comment identification information (eg, author identification information) may be displayed as shown in FIG. 6, and the remaining comment identification information (eg, content identification information and / or comment location information) may be displayed. It may not be.

Then, the content providing system 100 may determine a target content playback device (eg, 220) to transmit the comment information. The content providing system 100 determines a target content player (eg, 220) by using comment identification information included in the comment information or by setting information preset in the target content player (eg, 220). Can be based.

According to an implementation example, the content providing system 100 may transmit all received comment information to each of the plurality of content playback apparatuses 200, and each of the content playback apparatuses 200 displays the comment information. You can also decide whether or not to display it.

Alternatively, the content providing system 100 determines a content reproduction apparatus (eg, 220) to which the comment information is to be transmitted based on comment identification information (eg, content identification information), and the content reproduction apparatus (eg, 210). May determine whether to display received comment information based on the comment information and preset setting information. Of course, it is possible to determine when to display the comment information based on the comment identification information.

For example, when comment position information is included in the comment identification information, the target content playback apparatus (eg, 220) transmits the comment information to the second area 20 when a part corresponding to the comment position information is played. Can be displayed. If the content (eg, MLB) is a main broadcast or live broadcast, the comment information may be displayed as soon as the comment information is received. Since there is a time taken for the comment information to be transmitted from the content player (for example, 210) to the target content player (for example, 220), the time or position corresponding to the comment position information is best displayed immediately. At may be to display the comment information. When the content reproduced by the target content reproducing apparatus (eg, 220) is re-broadcast, and the comment information is input through the main broadcast by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210), the comment information is the target content reproducing apparatus. A time point received at (eg, 220) and a time point at which the comment information is displayed may be different from each other. In this case, the comment information may be displayed when a part corresponding to the comment position information is played in the target content player (eg, 220).

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of comment information for a content providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, a user inputs a comment (“Player is good.”) As shown in FIG. 7 by using a content player (eg, 210), a remote controller 250, or a user terminal 260. can do. You can also enter comment identification. The comment identification information may be automatically generated by the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210).

The comment identification information may be defined by a predetermined rule (eg, regular expression). For example, as shown in FIG. 7, "/ u ABC /" may mean comment identification information indicating that the creator of the comment "Player is good." Is ABC. "/ c MLB /" may mean comment identification information indicating that the content corresponding to the comment "Player is good." "/ t 10: 05 /" may mean comment identification information indicating that the comment "Player is good." is a comment input about 10 minutes and 5 seconds after the start of the content.

It will be readily apparent to the average expert in the art that the rule or regular expression that can express the comment identification can vary in addition to the manner shown in FIG. In addition, as described above, the comment identification information may be used as short information defined in a predetermined manner in addition to the manner shown in FIG. The user may input the summary information. Alternatively, even if the user inputs all comment identification information, the content reproducing apparatus (eg, 210) may generate abbreviated information corresponding thereto and include it in the comment information. Then, the content providing system 100 or the target content reproducing apparatus (eg, 220) may determine all the comment identification information corresponding to the abbreviated information and determine whether to send the comment information, whether to display or not, or when to display the comment information. have.

The content providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be implemented as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. Computer-readable recording media include all kinds of recording devices that store data that can be read by a computer system. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, hard disk, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, and also in the form of carrier waves (e.g., transmission over the Internet). It also includes implementations. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. And functional programs, codes and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers in the art to which the present invention belongs.

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

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Receiving, by the content providing system, comment information including comment identification information about content played by the first content playback device from the first content playback device or the user terminal;
Determining, by the content providing system, a second content playback device to transmit the comment information among a plurality of content playback devices connected to the content providing system based on comment identification information included in the comment information; And
And transmitting the comment information to the determined second content player.
According to claim 1, The content providing method,
And when the content is played in the second content player, displaying the transmitted comment information in the second content player.
The method of claim 1, wherein the user terminal,
And a mobile terminal of a user consuming the content.
The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the second content playback apparatus to transmit the comment information among the plurality of content playback apparatuses connected to the content providing system comprises:
Identifying the content based on the content identification information included in the comment identification information; And
And determining the content playback device that has been identified among the plurality of content playback devices or the content playback device that has received the content as the second content playback device.
According to claim 1, The content providing method,
Determining whether the preset setting information and the comment identification information correspond to each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses,
And determining, by the second content player, at least a portion of the plurality of content player corresponding to the comment identification information and the setting information.
The method of claim 1, wherein the content identification information,
Content at least one of the unique information of the content or content short information corresponding to the unique information of the content.
The method of claim 1, wherein the comment identification information,
Comment author information including at least one of author unique information corresponding to the comment information or author short form information corresponding to the author unique information; or
Comment location information including at least one of location information about the content corresponding to the comment information or location short information corresponding to the location information;
Content providing method further comprising at least one of.
The method of claim 7, wherein the content providing method,
When the content is played on the second content playback device,
Displaying the comment information on the second content reproducing apparatus when the comment information corresponds to preset setting information based on the comment creator information; or
And controlling the second content player to not display the comment information based on the content creator information if the comment information corresponds to preset setting information.
The method of claim 7, wherein the content providing method,
When the content is displayed on the second content playback device,
And when the portion corresponding to the content location information of the content is reproduced, displaying the comment information on the second content playback device.
According to claim 1, The content providing method,
And when the second comment information identical to the comment information is received, only one of the comment information and the second comment information is displayed on the second content player.
The method of claim 7, wherein the comment identification information,
And information included in the comment information automatically by the first content reproducing apparatus or the user terminal, or information directly input by the user.
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first content reproducing apparatus or the second content reproducing apparatus comprises:
Content providing method comprising at least one of a TV, a set-top box, an IPTV, a mobile terminal, or a computer.
The method of claim 1, wherein the content is:
Content providing method characterized in that the broadcast program.
Receiving a plurality of comment information including comment identification information by the content reproducing apparatus;
Selecting comment information to be displayed while a predetermined content is played in the content playback apparatus based on the comment identification information; And
And displaying the selected comment information on the content player while the predetermined content is being played.
Inputting comment information by a first user at a specific location while playing specific content; And
And displaying the comment information on the content player when the specific location is played while the content is played on the content player.
Inputting comment information by a first user watching the first broadcast program; And
And when a second user views the first broadcast program in a content player, displaying the comment information input by the first user in the content player.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 16.
A receiving module for receiving comment information from the first content playback apparatus or the user terminal, the comment information including comment identification information for the content played back in the first content playback apparatus;
A control module for determining a second content playback device to transmit the comment information among a plurality of content playback devices connected to the content providing system based on the comment identification information included in the comment information; And
And a transmission module for transmitting the comment information to the determined second content playback device.
The method of claim 17, wherein the control module,
And identifying the content on the basis of the content identification information included in the comment identification information, and determining the content playback device that is playing or received the identified content as the second content playback device.
The method of claim 18, wherein the control module,
It is determined whether the preset setting information and the comment identification information correspond to each of the plurality of content reproducing apparatuses. Content providing system judged to be a playback device.
In the content playback device,
The content playback apparatus includes a receiving module for receiving comment information including comment identification information from the outside; And
And a control module for determining whether or not to display the comment information received by the receiving module based on the comment identification information.
The method of claim 21, wherein the control module,
And determining whether the comment information corresponds to preset setting information, and determining whether to display the comment information according to a determination result.
In the content playback device,
The content reproducing apparatus includes a receiving module for receiving comment information on content received and reproduced by the content reproducing apparatus; And
And a control module for transmitting the comment information to a content providing system for transmitting the comment information to a target content playback apparatus that is determined based on comment identification information included in the comment information.
The method of claim 23, wherein the control module,
And generating comment information to be included in the comment information and including the comment information in the comment information when a user inputs the comment information.

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