IP Library Granted Patent US 9,451,212
Granted Patent B2
US 9,451,212 · App. 14/161,731 · Granted Sep 20, 2016

Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus, transmission method, program, and broadcast system

Inventor: Naohisa Kitazato (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Sony Corporation
H04N7/165H04N21/2396H04N21/4305H04N21/4383H04N21/44209H04N21/858H04N21/8547
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Patent No.
US 9,451,212
App. No.
14/161,731
Granted
Sep 20, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

To realize a service of data content that can interlock with AV content of programs without providing a band for broadcasting data content in a broadcast band for digital television broadcast, provided is a reception apparatus that receives an audio and/or video (AV) content, the apparatus including: an extraction section to extract trigger information from the AV content, the trigger information being related to an application program that is executed interlocking with a progress of the AV content, the trigger information including a trigger type; and a control section to control one of an activation of the application program, a dispatch of an event of the application program being executed, and an end of the application program being executed in accordance with the trigger type included in the extracted trigger information.

Claims (26)

1. An apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to receive a transport stream of a digital television broadcast signal having trigger information inserted into not all Program Clock Reference (PCR) packets of the transport stream but only PCR packets at adequate timings to enable successful interlocking with an audio visual content on a network server;

circuitry configured to extract the trigger information from the adequate timings of the PCR packets to access data content interlocking with the audio visual content on the network server, wherein the trigger information comprises a diffusion parameter which controls access timing to the network server so as to avoid a concentration of access to the network server, and wherein the diffusion parameter indicates a period of time by which access to the network server is to be delayed; and

circuitry configured to initiate access to the data content on the network server based on the trigger information.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the data content comprises an application program interlocking with the audio visual content on the network server.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the trigger information further comprises a trigger type to control the application program including at least one of an activation of the application program and an end of the application program being executed.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the diffusion parameter is a discrete parameter which controls the access timing to the network server so as to avoid the concentration of access to the network server.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to output an execution result of an application program that implements the data content.

6. A method comprising:

receiving a transport stream of a digital television broadcast signal having trigger information inserted into not all Program Clock Reference (PCR) packets of the transport stream but only PCR packets at adequate timings to enable successful interlocking with an audio visual content on a network server;

extracting the trigger information from the adequate timings of the PCR packets to access data content interlocking with the audio visual content on the network server, wherein the trigger information comprises a diffusion parameter which controls access timing to the network server so as to avoid a concentration of access to the network server, and wherein the diffusion parameter indicates a period of time by which access to the network server is to be delayed; and

accessing the data content on the network server based on the trigger information.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the data content comprises an application program interlocking with the audio visual content on the network server.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the trigger information further comprises a trigger type to control the application program including at least one of an activation of the application program and an end of the application program being executed.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the diffusion parameter is a discrete parameter which controls the access timing to the network server so as to avoid the concentration of access to the network server.

10. The method of claim 6 , further comprising outputting an execution result of an application program that implements the data content.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving a transport stream of a digital television broadcast signal having trigger information inserted into not all Program Clock Reference (PCR) packets of the transport stream but only PCR packets at adequate timings to enable successful interlocking with an audio visual content on a network server;

extracting the trigger information from the adequate timings of the PCR packets to access data content interlocking with the audio visual content on the network server, wherein the trigger information comprises a diffusion parameter which controls access timing to the network server so as to avoid a concentration of access to the network server, and wherein the diffusion parameter indicates a period of time by which access to the network server is to be delayed; and

accessing the data content on the network server based on the trigger information.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the data content comprises an application program interlocking with the audio visual content on the network server.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the trigger information further comprises a trigger type to control the application program including at least one of an activation of the application program and an end of the application program being executed.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the diffusion parameter is a discrete parameter which controls the access timing to the network server so as to avoid the concentration of access to the network server.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises:

outputting an execution result of an application program that implements the data content.

16. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the diffusion parameter indicates a random period of time by which access to the network server is to be delayed and an event activated.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2017
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: SATURN LICENSING LLC
Reel/Frame 043177/0794 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2014
From: KITAZATO, NAOHISA
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032365/0698 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-287228 · Dec 18, 2009 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 13515247
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