WO2008105572A1 - Système et procédé de construction d'une interface utilisateur de guide électronique de programme à matrice - Google Patents

Système et procédé de construction d'une interface utilisateur de guide électronique de programme à matrice Download PDF

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WO2008105572A1
WO2008105572A1 PCT/KR2007/001220 KR2007001220W WO2008105572A1 WO 2008105572 A1 WO2008105572 A1 WO 2008105572A1 KR 2007001220 W KR2007001220 W KR 2007001220W WO 2008105572 A1 WO2008105572 A1 WO 2008105572A1
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Zino Lee
Myoung-Jun Kim
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/262—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists
    • H04N21/26283—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/431—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/431—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
    • H04N21/4312—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/431—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
    • H04N21/4312—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
    • H04N21/4314—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/458—Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations
    • H04N21/4586—Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/4821—End-user interface for program selection using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
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    • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
    • H04N5/44—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards
    • H04N5/445—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards for displaying additional information

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  • the present invention relates to a system and a method for the construction of an electronic program guide user interface.
  • EPG electronic program guide
  • European Patent No. 1,097,584 discloses a user interface called "mosaic EPG". As illustrated in Fig. 1, the user interface of European Patent No. 1,097,584 displays the guide information about currently available programs in the form of mosaics consisting of thumbnail images (1 Ia) and channel logos (1 Ib). The thumbnail images (1 Ia) and the channel logos (1 Ib) are transmitted through broadcasting network, decoded by the set-top unit and displayed as mosaics.
  • a large bandwidth is required for the transport of the thumbnail images (1 Ia) and the channel logos (1 Ib).
  • the bandwidth required for the thumbnail images (1 Ia) and the channel logos (1 Ib) increases significantly as the number of channels increases.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide efficient system and a method for the construction of an electronic program guide user interface. More particularly, the object of the present invention is to provide a system and a method for the construction of an electronic program guide user interface that reduces the broadcasting bandwidth required for the transport of EPG data and enables the user to efficiently rearrange the on-screen EPG guide.
  • a matrix user interface construction system comprising:
  • EPG electronic program guide
  • headend server for EPG data transport, which transports program guide listings that constitute EPG data and includes program title, program start time and genre through a broadcasting network, along with an updated channel logo when a particular channel loge has been updated;
  • a digital broadcasting receiver comprising b-1) an EPG data management module which manages the EPG data transported from the EPG headend server, b-2) a channel logo management module which checks from the received EPG data if the channel logo has been updated and, in that case, manages the updated channel logo, b- 3) a user-specific program genre information management module which manages program genre information and program sequence information in response to user's input and b-4) an EPG user interface management module which displays the program guide information in response to user's request signal for EPG guide information,
  • the display of the program guide information is performed by generating temporary program guide information by classifying currently available programs by genre based on the EPG data managed by the EPG data management module, rearranging the temporary guide information based on the program genre information and the program sequence information determined by the user referring to the user- specific program genre information management module, and creating an EPG guide window to display the EPG data on user screen into which each of the programs belonging to a particular genre is represented in a mosaic format by a channel logo corresponding to each of the programs saved in the channel logo management module.
  • a matrix user interface construction system which is characterized in that the EPG user interface management module further displays an EPG descriptive information guide window guiding descriptive information on a program on which a cursor is located.
  • a matrix user interface construction method comprising the steps of:
  • EPG electronic program guide
  • EPG headend server in an EPG data management module, b-2) checking from the received EPG data if channel logo has been updated and, in that case, saving the updated channel logo in a channel logo management module, b-3) saving program genre information and program sequence information in a user-specific program genre information management module in response to user's input and b-4) in response to user's request signal for EPG guide information, generating temporary program guide information by classifying currently available programs by genre based on the EPG data managed by the EPG data management module, rearranging the temporary guide information based on the program genre information and the program sequence information determined by the user referring to the user-specific program genre information management module, and creating an EPG guide window to display the EPG data on user screen into which each of the programs belonging to a particular genre is represented in a mosaic format by a channel logo corresponding to each of the programs saved in the channel logo management module.
  • a matrix user interface construction method which is characterized in that an EPG descriptive information guide window guiding descriptive information on a program on which a cursor is located is displayed along with the EPG guide window.
  • the system and method for the construction of a matrix user interface in accordance with the present invention reduce the broadcasting bandwidth required for the transport of EPG data and enable the user to efficiently rearrange the on-screen EPG guide.
  • the system and method for the construction of a matrix user interface further provide the advantages including categorization by genre, easy construction of EPG user interface using channel logos, flexible modification of user interface by the user, and so forth.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates an embodiment of the conventional user interface called mosaic
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the matrix electronic program guide user interface system in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the matrix electronic program guide user interface construction method in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the matrix electronic program guide user interface system in accordance with the present invention. Mode for the Invention
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the matrix electronic program guide user interface system in accordance with the present invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the matrix electronic program guide user interface construction method in accordance with the present invention.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the matrix electronic program guide user interface system in accordance with the present invention. The present invention is described in further detail referring to Figs. 2 to 4.
  • the matrix electronic program guide user interface system in accordance with the present invention comprises an EPG headend server (100) and a digital broadcasting receiver (200).
  • the EPG headend server (100) provides EPG data. Examples of EPG data include program title, program start time, genre, channel, main actor, director, synopsis, etc.
  • the channel logo is provided only when it has been newly updated. In other words, the channel logo is not included in the EPG data unless it has been updated. Instead, the previously downloaded channel logo, which is managed by the channel logo management module (202) of the digital broadcasting receiver (200), is utilized.
  • the EPG data managed by the EPG data management module (201) is provided in common to all receivers connected with the digital broadcasting network.
  • Temporary program guide information is created based on the program title, program start time, genre and channel included in the EPG data managed by the EPG data management module (201). If the channel logo included in the EPG data is an updated one, the channel logo management module (202) records and saves the new channel logo replacing the previously downloaded channel logo.
  • program genre and program sequence in a particular genre can be changed by the user.
  • the program genre set as “drama” can be changed to "movie” by the user. If there are several programs belonging to a particular genre, their sequence can also be changed by the user.
  • Change of genre or program sequence is managed by the user-specific program genre information management module.
  • the data managed by the program genre information management module is user-dependent. That is, it can be changed by the user.
  • Change of program genre can be accomplished by providing the "Genre change, etc.” menu (500) provided as one of the EPG application menus.
  • the EPG user interface management module (204) creates an EPG guide window (300) and displays the program guide information on the user screen.
  • genres and programs are displayed in the EPG guide window (300) in a mosaic format.
  • the program is not represented by the thumbnail image file of the program but by the channel logo managed by the channel logo management module (202).
  • the thumbnail image data for the corresponding program is not required.
  • the user interface is simplified and a prompt construction of the user interface is possible.
  • the process of constructing the user interface is as follows.
  • Temporary program guide information is created by classifying currently available programs by genre, based on the EPG data managed by the EPG data management module (201).
  • the temporary program guide information is common to all users.
  • the temporary guide information is rearranged based on the program genre information and program sequence information determined by the user. Consequently, the temporary program guide information common to all the users is changed into the user-specific EPG user interface.
  • the present invention further provides the advantages including categorization by genre, easy construction of EPG user interface using channel logos, flexible modification of user interface by the user, and so forth, in addition to the advantages provided by the mosaic EPG user interface.
  • a matrix EPG user interface based on channel logos which enables simple user interface construction and modification of user interface arrangement by the user is attained.
  • the EPG user interface management module (204) displays a EPG descriptive information guide window (400) on the screen along with the EPG guide window (300).
  • the EPG descriptive information guide window (400) displays the descriptive information of the corresponding program when the cursor is positioned on a particular channel logo in the EPG guide window (300).
  • the descriptive information may be adequately selected from the EPG data, including content title, program start time, main actor, synopsis, rating, etc.
  • the descriptive information provided through the EPG descriptive information guide window (400) provides the information about the corresponding program when the cursor is positioned on a particular channel logo in the EPG guide window (300) by manipulating the four direction buttons on the remote control.

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La présente invention concerne un système et un procédé de construction d'une interface utilisateur de guide électronique de programme (GEP) à matrice. Selon un mode de réalisation préféré de l'invention, la largeur de bande de radiodiffusion nécessaire pour le transport de données GEP est significativement réduite et l'utilisateur peut efficacement réorganiser l'écran de guide GEP.
PCT/KR2007/001220 2007-02-28 2007-03-13 Système et procédé de construction d'une interface utilisateur de guide électronique de programme à matrice WO2008105572A1 (fr)

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