KR20180117581A - Apparatus and method for displaying sports player's record - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for displaying sports player′s records. A method of controlling a content playback terminal according to the present invention includes a step of transmitting a player record request signal to a player record management server when a player record request is received during a live broadcast content reproduction for a sports game; and a step of controlling the display of a received player record while playing live broadcast content when receiving a player record between players which face each other at a point in the sport game from a player record management server according to the player record request signal. It is possible to easily select and confirm game record information.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SPORTS PLAYER'S RECORD [0002]

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for displaying a past game record of athletes participating in an athletic event, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for displaying a past athletic record of athletes participating in the athletic event while watching a predetermined athletic content The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for allowing a user to confirm the operation of the apparatus.

There are many cases where live broadcasts are made for people who can not directly watch on a variety of athletic events such as baseball and soccer.

However, viewers who watch live sports broadcasts like this may want to check past record of the players participating in the sport.

Of course, in the past, if a broadcasting station changes its players, it sends out information on a player who has been replaced. This is because it corresponds to information provided by a broadcasting station, and thus it can not satisfy various needs of viewers.

For example, some people who watch baseball games are curious about the relative strength of the pitcher and batter, while others may be curious about the batter's recent batting average.

However, it is not desirable to broadcast all the information about each athlete in the broadcasting station because it interferes with watching sports games.

On the other hand, even if the respective viewers are provided with means for acquiring information on athlete competitors through a separate process at a desired point of time, the broadcast content playback points may be different depending on the manner of receiving the broadcast contents There may be problems.

For example, viewers watching a baseball game want to know the relative total of the pitcher and the batter at the current time, so they can ask the external server for their relative total, but in this case, they do not specify who the batter or pitcher is The incorrect information may be received if the reproduction time of the actual broadcast content is different as described above.

Published Japanese Patent Application No. 10-2001-0035356

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems and it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for enabling a viewer who watches a sports game broadcast to easily select and check past game record information for athletes participating in a sport game And a method thereof.

In order to accomplish the above object, a content playback terminal according to the present invention transmits a player game request signal corresponding to the sports game content to a player record management server when a player's competition game request is detected during playing an athletic game content A player record request part; When receiving a competition game record list including at least one competition game record of the athlete participating in the athletic competition from the player's record management server according to the athlete competition record request signal, And a display control unit for controlling the display of the list.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a control method of a content reproduction terminal according to the present invention is a control method for a content reproduction terminal according to the present invention, To the management server; When the relative total list including at least one relative total among the players participating in the athletic competition is received from the player's record management server according to the relative total list request signal, Is displayed.

As described above, according to the present invention, for example, a viewer who is watching a sports game broadcast can easily confirm the relative total among the athletes as an example of a game record of the athlete players.

In particular, by precisely grasping the time point requested by the user on the basis of the time information on the server, it is possible to identify without fail the player the viewer wants to know.

In addition, when channel switching is performed while simultaneously checking the athletic broadcast and the athlete's game record, the user's convenience is automatically improved by automatically updating the athletic record of the athlete in the broadcast in the channel in which the change is made.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an overall communication system including a content reproduction terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a functional block diagram of the content playback terminal of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing screen states displayed on the display unit during the operation of the content reproduction terminal of FIG. 1,
4 to 7 are views each showing a screen state displayed on the display unit during the operation performing step of the contents reproducing terminal of FIG. 1,
FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 are control flow diagrams of a content playback terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in order to facilitate understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. In particular, the present invention can be configured by combining at least any one of individual components, individual functions, or individual steps included in each embodiment.

In particular, some claims of the claims for convenience include alphabets such as '(a)' for convenience, but these alphabets do not define the order of each step.

Hereinafter, each signal referred to in the embodiments of the present invention may refer to one signal transmitted by one connection or the like, but may also mean a series of signals transmitted for the purpose of performing a specific function . That is, in each embodiment, a plurality of signals transmitted after a predetermined time interval or after receiving a response signal from the counterpart device can be represented by a single signal name for convenience.

The overall configuration of the entire communication system including the content reproduction terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is as shown in FIG.

As shown in the figure, the entire communication system may include a broadcasting server 300, a content reproducing terminal 100, and a player record management server 200. [

Here, the broadcast server 300 broadcasts a broadcast for a sporting event, and can relay broadcasts of professional sports such as baseball, soccer, volleyball, basketball, and the like.

As described above, the broadcasting server 300 transmits an athletic broadcast (content) to be displayed on the content reproduction terminal 100 as described later, and communicates with the player history management server 200 to share necessary information can do.

For example, if the broadcasting server 300 broadcasts a sports game, the broadcasting server 300 may match the live channel information with information about the athletes participating in the athletic event and provide the information to the athletic record management server 200.

The player record management server 200 manages a competition record of each athlete and generates and provides a competition record list including a competition record for athletes when there is a request from the content reproduction terminal 100 Function. The competition record of each player may be directly input by the manager, but may be received from the broadcasting server 300 as described above.

In particular, the player record management server 200 can identify the athletic events being broadcast on each broadcast channel at the present time in cooperation with the broadcast server 300.

Therefore, when the player record management request signal is received from the content reproduction terminal 100 as described later, the player record management server 200 transmits the content identification information (for example, broadcast channel information or exercise The content reproduction terminal 100 can identify the athletic game that the user of the content reproduction terminal 100 is currently watching by using the unique identification number of the competition content identification, etc., extract information on the athletes participating in the confirmed athletic event, As shown in FIG.

In particular, when the player record management server 200 further includes predetermined time information in the player game request signal received from the content reproduction terminal 100, The players who are confronted with each other at that point of time), and then transmit the competition game record list including the corresponding information to the content reproduction terminal 100.

Here, the time information includes real-time time information corresponding to the current real-time time, content playback elapsed time information corresponding to elapsed time from the playback start time of the athletic sports content currently watched by the user of the content playback terminal 100, Or the frame order information corresponding to the order of the frame of the content being reproduced in the content reproduction terminal 100 and further may be the specific time information determined in accordance with the predetermined algorithm in the content reproduction terminal 100. [

Such time information is used to specify a player whose content playback terminal 100 user wants to know the game record.

For example, if it is assumed that the user of the content reproduction terminal 100 is currently watching the baseball game, the content reproduction terminal 100 transmits the above-described time information to the relative total list request signal together with the baseball game identification information The player history management server 200 checks whether the batter and the pitcher are at the time point corresponding to the corresponding time information of the baseball game, After extracting the entire record, it is possible to generate the relative total list.

It is needless to say that the player record management server 200 has to manage information about the batter and the pitcher at each baseball field in each time slot.

The player record management server 200 may collect and manage information of all the stadiums currently playing at each stadium.

On the other hand, the content reproduction terminal 100 receives and reproduces / displays the broadcast content from the broadcast server 300 as described above, and requests the player record management server 200 to record the specific players, .

The specific functional blocks of the contents reproducing terminal 100 are as shown in FIG.

The content playback terminal 100 may include a user input unit 110, a display unit 120, a player record request unit 130, and a display control unit 140, as shown in FIG.

The user input unit 110 performs a function of receiving various requests from the user. For example, the user input unit 110 receives a request to reproduce an athletic performance content from a user, or receives a competition record request for a player corresponding to an athletic content currently being reproduced.

The display unit 120 displays various menus and information according to the operation of the content reproduction terminal 100 and particularly performs a function of displaying various contents to be reproduced by the content reproduction terminal 100. [

The display unit 120 may include an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) having low power consumption, for example, and a touch screen integrated with a touch pad, which is an example of the user input unit 110. [

An example in which a live broadcast of baseball received from the outside is displayed on the display unit 120 is shown in FIG. 3 (a).

The channel switching processor 150 performs a function of changing a channel for receiving an athletic competition content from the outside. For example, if the athletic competition content is a live broadcast content assigned to each channel, The processing unit 150 processes the channel switching and allows the user to watch different sports contents.

Here, the channel switching method may be performed by a special process as well as a conventional channel switching method.

For example, in the case where a relative total list between the pitcher and the batter is displayed as described later, a 'soccer ball game' button may be provided in the corresponding list. At this time, the user presses the corresponding ' The channel switching processing unit 150 can switch to the channel corresponding to the item selected by the user.

The process of selecting any one of the plurality of selection items in the form of a pop-up list corresponds to a known technique, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 3 (b) shows a form in which the "other ball field game" button is included in the relative total list.

Meanwhile, the player record requesting unit 130 transmits a player game request signal corresponding to the currently playing athletic game content to the player's record management server 200 when a user's request for a player game is recorded during playing the athletic game content.

For example, the player record requesting unit 130 may generate a player game request signal including content identification information capable of identifying the athletic game content being reproduced, and may transmit the generated player game request signal to the player records management server 200.

Here, the content identification information may be a unique number of each sports game content, or broadcast channel information broadcasting the sports game content.

In the following description of the present embodiment, the athletic game content being reproduced at the present time in the content reproduction terminal 100 is a live broadcast content of a baseball game, and when the user requests a relative full list, And transmits a relative total list request signal corresponding to the athletic game content to the player record management server 200. [

In the relative total list request signal of the player record requesting unit 130, the content identification information and the time information corresponding to the sports game content currently being reproduced are included in the request for the player record management server 200 .

Here, the time information may be real-time time information corresponding to the current real-time time, which is confirmed by the built-in timer.

Also, the time information may correspond to the content playback elapsed time information corresponding to the elapsed time from the playback start time of the sports game content. Here, the content playback elapsed time information may be, for example, For example, a baseball game start time), it may mean a time elapsed from the start time of the detected content.

Even in the case of real-time relay broadcast, time delay may occur depending on a region or a specific viewer group. In this case, the player record request unit 130 stores the content playback elapsed time information in the relative total list request signal The above-described player record management server 200 can accurately determine who the players are currently watching and who want to know the past record, without having to consider the broadcast time delay processing for each viewer at all will be.

Alternatively, if the athletic activity content being played back by the content playback processor is not a live broadcast broadcast content but a VOD content, for example, the time information described above may be a frame corresponding to a unique number or the like of each frame included in the VOD content It may be sequence information.

If the athletic game content is live broadcast content, the time information may be determined by the athlete record request unit 130 based on time information extracted from the athletic game content.

For example, if time information is continuously included in a frame of an athletic content received from the broadcast server 300, the athlete record request unit 130 may generate a time stamp including a time included in a frame at the time when a user's relative full list request is detected Or if the time information is included only in the frame corresponding to the start time point of the athletic performance content, the athlete record request unit 130 may include the time information included in the base athletic content frame The broadcast reception delay value is calculated by comparing the time information with the actual time information at the time of receiving the sports game content frame and the broadcast reception delay value is calculated by adding the broadcast reception delay value to the actual time at which the user's relative total list request is detected Time information can be calculated and included in the relative total list request signal.

On the other hand, the relative total list received from the player record management server 200 may include a player change menu. If the player change request unit 130 detects a player's player change through the operation of the player change menu, It is possible to transmit a relative total list request signal including information on a player who has been changed by the user to the player record management server 200.

For example, in FIG. 3 (b), when the user clicks or selects the batter name 124 on the relative total list, the name of the batter that the user can select is displayed in the form of a pop-up list, When the batter name is selected, the player record requesting unit 130 can transmit a relative total list request signal including the selected batter name to the player recording management server 200.

The process of selecting any one of the plurality of selection items in the form of a pop-up list corresponds to a known technique, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Accordingly, the player record management server 200 can provide a competition record, for example, a relative total result, for the players directly selected by the user of the content reproduction terminal 100.

In addition, as described above, the channel switching processor 150 can switch to another broadcasting channel. At this time, the player record requesting unit 130 transmits a relative total list request signal corresponding to the switched broadcasting channel to the player recording management server 200).

For example, if the channel switching processing unit 150 is broadcasting another sports game content, the player record request unit 130 may generate a relative total list request signal including identification information on the other sports game content And transmit it to the player record management server 200.

In addition, the player record requesting unit 130 may transmit a player game record request signal including various information according to the user's selection to the player history management server 200. To this end, A period selection menu for selecting a competition period check period, a recording type selection menu for selecting a competition type, and the like.

These various menus may be displayed according to separate user operations or may be included in a part of a competition game record list received from the player's record management server 200 and displayed by the display control unit 140 as described later .

For example, if the user selects a specific baseball field, the player record request unit 130 may transmit a player game request signal including the baseball field identification information to the player history management server 200, If the user selects' 3 years' as the recording period, the user can transmit the player record request signal requesting the record of the home run and the hit 'to the player record management server 200 when the' hits' is selected. To the player record management server 200, a player record request signal requesting recording of the player record.

The above-described process of the player record requesting unit 130 may be repeatedly performed according to a user's selection, or may be automatically performed according to a predetermined time.

For example, whenever a user presses a 'refresh' button (not shown), for example, the player record requesting unit 130 can request a player record management server 200 for a player record list, It may transmit a player game list request signal automatically every time.

Or may be automatically performed by the player record management server 200 in updating of this player competition list.

Also, the player record requesting unit 130 may request and receive data in different formats according to the before and after the start of the game. The received and displayed states are shown in FIGS.

FIG. 4 shows a state in which data before pre-match line is requested and received, FIG. 5 shows a state in which data after pre-race license is requested and received, FIG. , FIG. 7 shows a state in which data after the competition is requested and received.

For this, the player record requesting unit 130 needs to acquire and manage information on the start time of each competition from the player record management server 200 in advance, and it is necessary to manage the information necessary for each time slot to the player record management server 200 Or may process the information received from the player history management server 200 according to the current time.

The display control unit 140 receives the athletic competition record list including at least one of the athletes participating in the athletic competition from the athletic record management server 200 according to the athletic competition record request signal, And controls the display of the competition game record list while maintaining the reproduction of the competition game record.

Specifically, when the relative total list including at least one relative total among the players participating in the athletic competition is received from the player's record management server 200 in accordance with the relative total list request signal, the display control unit 140 controls the playback of the athletic game content And the received relative total list is displayed.

FIG. 3 (b) shows a state in which the exercise game content and the relative total list are displayed together by the display control unit 140. FIG.

Referring to FIG. 3 (b), it can be seen that the exercise game play screen 121 is continuously displayed, and the relative total list 122 between the pitcher and the batter is displayed in a screen area.

As described above, when the channel switching is performed to reproduce other athletic sports content, the display control unit 140 controls the display control unit 140 such that the players in the other athletes' The mobile terminal performs the function of updating the existing relative full list with the received relative full list while maintaining the reproduction of the received other athletic sports content.

Therefore, whenever the channel switching is performed, the relative total of the athletes who are broadcasting on the corresponding channel can be automatically displayed on the contents reproducing terminal 100 even if there is no separate operation by the user.

The state in which the content is displayed on the content playback terminal 100 after the channel is switched is shown in Fig. 3 (c).

That is, it can be seen that the competition scene 121 'of the other ballpark where the channel is switched is displayed, and the relative total list 122' between the current batter and the pitcher in the ballpark is displayed.

Also, as described above, the display control unit 140 responds to the selected (changed) player from the player's record management server 200 as the user of the content reproduction terminal 100 directly designates a specific player If the relative total list including at least one relative total is received, the existing relative total list may be updated and displayed by the newly received relative total list.

The display control unit 140 may determine whether it is a 'landscape view mode' or a 'portrait view mode' using a built-in sensor (not shown). If the content playback terminal 100 ) Is a well-known technique, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The display control unit 140 may arrange the display screen of the game play list and the play screen of the sports game content according to whether the determined view mode is the 'landscape view mode' or the 'portrait view mode'.

For example, the display control unit 140 superimposes the display screen of the sports game content and the display screen of the competition record list as shown in FIG. 3 (b), and when the determined viewing mode is the 'portrait viewing mode' As shown in FIG. 6, the play screen of the athletic game contents is arranged at the upper part and the display screen of the game record list is arranged at the lower part so that the remaining data of the game record list at the lower stage can be displayed through scrolling of the user .

Hereinafter, the communication and control flow between the content playback terminal 100 and the player record management server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

First, it is assumed that the player record management server 200 has collected information related to baseball players in advance and stored them (step S1). In particular, the player record management server 200 may cumulatively store past game records with the teams belonging to each baseball player, and may also include information on which teams are currently playing each other on each broadcast channel, You may be managing information about who you are.

On the other hand, when the content playback terminal 100 receives the relative total list request between the current batter and the pitcher from the user (step S5) while the baseball live broadcast of the specific channel is being reproduced and displayed (step S3) And transmits the generated relative total list request signal to the player management server 200 (step S7).

The player record management server 200 extracts broadcast channel information from the relative total list request signal received from the content reproduction terminal 100 and determines who is the current pitcher and the batter of the playing team in the broadcast channel, (Step S9) and transmits the list to the content reproduction terminal 100 (step S11).

As a matter of course, when additional time information is included in the relative total list request signal of the content reproduction terminal 100, the player record management server 200 determines that the pitcher and the batter It is of course possible to provide a past relative history between the two.

Here, the relative total list may include a relative total of a predetermined period (for example, the past three years).

When the relative reproduction list is received from the player record management server 200, the content reproduction terminal 100 can display the received relative exclusive list in one area of the screen while maintaining reproduction of the baseball live broadcast (step S13 ).

As a result, viewers of the baseball game can continue to watch the baseball game, and can easily confirm the past relative distance between the current pitcher and the batter.

Hereinafter, a process performed in the content playback terminal 100 when channel switching is performed after the process of FIG. 8 will be described with reference to FIG.

That is, in a state in which a relative total list between the batter and the pitcher is displayed together with the baseball live broadcast (step S21), when the channel change request is input from the user (step S23), the content reproduction terminal 100 And displays the broadcast of the other field game (step S25).

At this time, in addition to the channel switching process, the content reproducing terminal 100 transmits a relative total list request signal to the player's record management server 200, which requests the relative total between the pitcher and the batter of that other pitch (step S27).

Subsequently, the content reproduction terminal 100 displays the relative total list between the pitchers and the other players received from the player's record management server 200 in accordance with the relative total list request signal, instead of the relative total list which has been displayed (step S29) .

Therefore, the user can view the game of the other ball pitch by changing the channel, and can check the relative total between the pitcher and the batter in the other ball field game without any manipulation.

Meanwhile, it goes without saying that the process of performing each of the above-described embodiments can be performed by a program or an application stored in a predetermined recording medium (for example, a computer-readable). Here, the recording medium includes an electronic recording medium such as a RAM (Random Access Memory), a magnetic recording medium such as a hard disk, and an optical recording medium such as a CD (Compact Disk).

At this time, the program stored in the recording medium may be executed on hardware such as a computer or a smart phone to perform each of the above embodiments. In particular, at least one of the functional blocks of the contents reproducing terminal according to the present invention described above can be implemented by such a program or an application.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described specific embodiments, and various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. It is to be understood that such variations and modifications are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.

100: content reproduction terminal 200: player recording management server
300: Broadcast server 110: User input
120: display unit 130: player record request unit
140: display control unit 150: channel switching processing unit

Claims (14)

(a) transmitting a player record request signal to a player record management server when a player record request is detected during a live broadcast broadcast content reproduction for a sports competition;
(b) if the player game record among the players confronting each other at the corresponding time point participating in the sports game is received from the player's record management server according to the player game record request signal, And controlling the displayed player game record to be displayed. The method according to claim 1,
The sports game is a baseball game,
Wherein the player game record includes a relative total list between the pitcher and the batter at the corresponding time point. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the athlete record request signal of step (a) includes content identification information and time information corresponding to the live broadcast content,
Wherein the time information includes at least one of real-time time information corresponding to a real-time time, time information extracted from the content, content playback elapsed time information corresponding to elapsed time from the playback start time of the content, And the corresponding frame sequence information. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the live broadcast content for the sporting event is a live broadcast content assigned to a specific channel,
(c) after the step (b), if the user's channel change request is detected, processing the channel change;
(d) transmitting, to the player record management server, a player record request signal corresponding to the other live broadcast content when the other live broadcast content is being broadcast on the channel switched in the step (c);
(e) receiving a competition game record among the athletes participating in the other athletic games from the athletics record management server according to the athlete record request signal of the step (c), while maintaining the reproduction of the other live broadcast contents, Further comprising the step of controlling so as to update the player game record. The method according to claim 1,
The player game record received from the player record management server further includes a player change menu,
(f) transmitting, to the player record management server, a player game request signal including information on a player changed by the user when the player's player change through the operation of the player change menu is detected;
(g) updating the displayed player game record if the player game record including information on the changed player is received from the player's record management server according to the player game request signal. A method of controlling a playback terminal. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 5. An application program stored on a computer readable medium for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 5 in combination with hardware. A player record request unit for transmitting a player record request signal corresponding to the live broadcast content to a player record management server when a player record request is detected during playback of a live broadcast content for a sporting event;
When receiving the competition game record among the players confronting each other at the corresponding time point participating in the sports game from the player's record management server according to the competition game record request signal, And a display control unit for controlling the display to be displayed. 9. The method of claim 8,
The sports game is a baseball game,
Wherein the player game record includes a relative total list between the pitcher and the batter at the time point. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the player record request signal of the player record request unit includes content identification information and time information corresponding to the live broadcast content,
Wherein the time information includes at least one of real-time time information corresponding to a real-time time, time information extracted from the content, content playback elapsed time information corresponding to elapsed time from the playback start time of the content, And the corresponding frame sequence information. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the live broadcast content for the sporting event is a live broadcast content assigned to a specific channel,
And a channel switching processing unit for processing the channel switching when a user's channel switching request is detected,
When the other broadcast live broadcasting contents are being broadcast on the channel switched by the channel switching processing unit, transmits a player game record request signal corresponding to the other live broadcast contents to the player record management server,
Wherein the display control unit maintains the reproduction of the other live broadcast contents when the player record of the players participating in the other sport game is received from the player record management server according to the player record request signal, So as to be updated. 9. The method of claim 8,
The player game record received from the player record management server further includes a player change menu,
The player record request unit transmits a player record request signal including information on a player changed by the user to the player record management server when the player's change of the player through the operation of the player change menu is detected,
Wherein the display control unit updates the displayed player game record when a player game record including information on a changed player is received from the player's record management server according to the player game request signal. 9. The method of claim 8,
The player record requesting unit may include at least one of a competition place selection menu for selecting a competition place, a period selection menu for selecting a competition game record confirmation period, and a recording type selection menu for selecting a competition game type And transmits the selected information to the player record management server by including the selection information according to the selection information in the player record request signal. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the display control unit determines whether the display mode is the 'landscape view mode' or the 'portrait view mode' using the built-in sensor, and if the determined viewing mode is 'landscape view mode' When the determined viewing mode is the 'portrait viewing mode', the playback screen of the live broadcast content is placed at the top and the display screen of the player game record is placed at the bottom, So that the remaining data of the player game record at the bottom is displayed through scroll movement.

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