IP Library Granted Patent US 12689782
Granted Patent B2
US 12689782 · App. 18/805,629 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Video display system, video display device, contents server, video display method, and video display program

Inventor: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Ibaraki, JP)
Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
H04N21/25866G06Q30/0241H04N5/76H04N21/4325H04N21/44016H04N21/4622H04N21/6543H04N21/6582H04N21/812
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Patent No.
US 12689782
App. No.
18/805,629
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a system configured to enable mutual communications between a contents server and a video display device, the contents server is configured to accumulate a plurality of video contents, receive operator analysis information transmitted from the video display device, select at least one video content from the plurality of accumulated video contents based on the operator analysis information received by an operator information receiving unit, and transmit the selected content to the video display device. The video display device is configured to receive a digital broadcast wave, select a digital broadcast program, acquire the operator analysis information of the video display device, transmit the acquired operator analysis information to the contents server, receive the video content transmitted from the contents server, and select and display one of the digital broadcast program selected by a digital broadcast program selector and the video content received by a video contents receiving unit.

Claims (17)

1 . A video display apparatus in a content distribution system including a server configured to distribute contents and the video display apparatus, the video display apparatus comprising:

a communication interface configured to communicate with the server to receive the contents from the server;

a display configured to display the received contents; and

a controller,

wherein the controller is configured to:

transmit operator information related to an operator who operates the video display apparatus to the server via the communication interface,

receive content list information transmitted from the server via the communication interface,

display the received content list information on the display,

transmit a distribution request of a selected content to the server via the communication interface when a content desired to be reproduced is selected by the operator from the content list information displayed on the display,

receive via the communication interface the content distributed from the server in accordance with the distribution request of the content and the operator information, and

display the received content on the display,

wherein the content distributed from the server is divided into two or more main program video parts that are different from an advertisement video, and

wherein the main program video parts include one or more first video parts in which fixed video data is distributed regardless of a number of views of the content based on the operator information and one or more second video parts in which video data changed depending on the number of views of the content based on the operator information is distributed.

2 . The video display apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the communication interface is configured to further communicate with a mobile information terminal that the operator who operates the video display apparatus possesses.

3 . The video display apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the operator information transmitted to the server via the communication interface is based on information received from the mobile information terminal.