WO2002052837A1 - Procede et systeme pour la transmission d'informations relatives aux programmes de television - Google Patents
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- the present invention refers to a method for providing information about TV-programs, and a combined TV reception and computer system, according to the preamble of claim 1 and 3, respectively.
- a user having a TV, or a personal computer, adapted to receive digital video broadcasting signals for the display of TV-programs, can in some cases access the internet via a web browser using the TV or PC, and have both TV and internet applications displayed on the screen at the same time.
- EP 0 848 554 A3 discloses a method, according to which a window overlaying a TV- program display provides for a user to demand and receive additional information from internet sources on the TN-program showed. However, the method according to EP 0 848 554 A3 does not give the user any support in selecting TV-programs.
- US 6 005 565 A discloses a method in which a TV-program, an internet on-line window, and an electronic program guide are displayed, and a user establishes search terms for an internet search, the result of which is integrated with the program guide.
- the object of the invention is met by a method for providing information about TV- programs, and a combined IN reception and computer system, having to the characterizing features of claim 1 and 3, respectively.
- the user device is provided with a search term retrieval software, and the search terms are retrieved using this search term retrieval software.
- search term retrieval software This provides for the electronic program guide search to be carried out using search terms, retrieved from a wide variety of information types accessible through the internet.
- - fig. 2 is a flow diagram showing steps in a method according to one embodiment of the invention.
- - fig. 3 shows a schematic example of a result, displayed to a user, of one embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 1 is an schematic illustration of a system comprising a user device UD for reception of digital video broadcasting signals DNB-T transmitted from a broadcasting unit BU in a digital television broadcasting network.
- the user device UD comprises a traditional type of TN-set and a so called digital TV box, connected to the TN-set.
- the TV box is adapted to convert the digital TV signals to analogue signals for the TV-set, as is known in the art.
- the digital TV box has computational capacity and is provided with a telephone modem and a browser software to access the internet and display web sites on the TN-set. It can be controlled by a user via a remote control unit.
- the user device UD could also be a personal computer provided with suitable hardware to display digitally broadcasted TV programs.
- the user device UD could also be a combination of a TV box, a personal computer and an analogue TV-set, or a Personal Digital Assistant, adapted to receive digital TV signals through a GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) system or a UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) network. If it is adapted for mobile communications it could also arranged for use in a vehicle environment.
- GPRS General Packet Radio Service
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- a user can access an electronic program guide EPG which is provided via the digital video broadcasting signals DVB-T and contains information about available TV channels and TV programs schedules, as well as other information services.
- EPG electronic program guide
- the user accesses a homepage HTML, stored in a homepage server HS, via the internet.
- a homepage server HS can display the homepage HTML, and a TV-program, simultaneously, in separate windows on the same screen.
- the user device is provided with a software for retrieving subject words in the homepage HTML.
- the subject words could be contained in the text content of the homepage HTML, and /or the script tags of the homepage HTML.
- a natural language recognition algorithm of the type described in US 5 598 557 A could be used to find the subject words.
- the user device UD utilizes the subject words extracted from the homepage HTML to search the electronic program guide for TV programs having subjects being the same or similar to the one treated in the homepage HTML.
- subject words could be stored in connection to information about each TV program, and/or the TV programs could be arranged into categories.
- a search result SR is created, and displayed to the user on the user device.
- the user device can display the search result SR in a separate window beside the windows for the homepage HTML, and the TV-program.
- the TV-program displayed on the screen does not necessarily have to treat the same subject as homepage HTML and the search result SR.
- the search result SR will contain information about TV programs treating the same subject or similar subjects as the homepage HTML.
- the search result SR containing the relevant TV programs could be displayed in a list in which the sequence could be chronological with regards to broadcasting times, or arranged according to the relevance of the TV programs, as established during the search. If the sequence in the list is chronological, an indication at each entry in the list could be provided, showing the relevance of the entry in relation to the homepage.
- the indication could be in the form of a number in a predetermined interval, whereby one end of the interval corresponds to a high relevance, and vice versa.
- the indication could also take the form of a colored area, at which the color itself, e.g., green, yellow, etc., denotes the relevance of the entry, i.e. the TV-program.
- the steps of retrieving search terms from script tags of, or from text in, the homepage HTML, searching the electronic program guide EPG, and generating and displaying a result set of search results of TV programs can be carried out by at least one computer program.
- This computer program can be loaded into the user device from a computer program code carrying device, such as a compact disc.
- the computer program code could also be transmitted via the digital video broadcasting signal, or through the computer network, e.g. the internet or an intranet.
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SE0004800A SE0004800D0 (sv) | 2000-12-22 | 2000-12-22 | A method and system for TV program information |
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EP1377046A2 (fr) * | 2002-06-25 | 2004-01-02 | Microsoft Corporation | Recherche de texte d'un guide de programme |
CN100428709C (zh) * | 2002-12-13 | 2008-10-22 | 陈晓月 | 一种分类自动搜索互联网信息并广播到数字电视的系统 |
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EP1377046A2 (fr) * | 2002-06-25 | 2004-01-02 | Microsoft Corporation | Recherche de texte d'un guide de programme |
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CN100428709C (zh) * | 2002-12-13 | 2008-10-22 | 陈晓月 | 一种分类自动搜索互联网信息并广播到数字电视的系统 |
US10489414B2 (en) | 2010-03-30 | 2019-11-26 | Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc | Companion experience |
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