IP Library Granted Patent US 10,862,600
Granted Patent B2
US 10,862,600 · App. 16/199,096 · Granted Dec 8, 2020

Apparatus and method for an advanced television systems committee (ATSC) 3.0 application running on a non-ATSC 3.0 service

Inventor: Graham Clift (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
H04H60/19H04H20/106H04H60/15H04H60/39
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,862,600
App. No.
16/199,096
Granted
Dec 8, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A reception apparatus includes a memory configured to store a television receiver application. The reception apparatus further includes processing circuitry configured to display, via a television broadcaster application, a user interface that provides a plurality of services for user selection. The processing circuitry is further configured to receive a user selection of a service from the plurality of displayed services. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine whether the selected service is an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 1.0 service. In response to the determination that the selected service is the ATSC 1.0 service, the processing circuitry is further configured to continue execution of the television broadcaster application along with a display of the contents of the selected service.

Claims (33)

1. A reception apparatus comprising:

a memory configured to store a television receiver application; and

processing circuitry configured to:

display an initial Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) service;

display, via a television broadcaster application while the initial ATSC service is displayed, a user interface that provides a plurality of services for user selection,

receive a user selection of an ATSC 1.0 service from the plurality of displayed services, and

change the display of the initial ATSC service to a display of the selected ATSC 1.0 service and continue execution of the television broadcaster application and the display of the user interface along with the display of the selected ATSC 1.0 service.

2. The reception apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

determine whether a change television broadcaster application command is received,

in response to the determination that the change television broadcaster application command is received, determine whether the change television broadcaster application command specifies another television broadcaster application, and

change the television broadcaster application to the another television broadcaster application in response to the determination that the change television broadcaster application command specifies the another television broadcaster application.

3. The reception apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

query, by the television broadcaster application to the television receiver application, for information regarding each ATSC 1.0 service that the reception apparatus is capable of accessing, and

receive, by the television broadcaster application from the television receiver application in response to the query, a list of each ATSC 1.0 service that the reception apparatus is capable of accessing.

4. The reception apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:

determine each ATSC 1.0 service from the received list that is associated with the television broadcaster application, wherein each ATSC 1.0 service associated with the television broadcaster application is included in the displayed plurality of services.

5. The reception apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the television broadcaster application is one of a broadcaster application included in a digital television broadcast stream or a native broadcaster application stored in the memory.

6. The reception apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the initial ATSC service is an ATSC 3.0 service.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by a processor in a reception apparatus, causes the processor to perform a method comprising:

displaying an initial Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) service;

displaying, via a television broadcaster application while the initial ATSC service is displayed, a user interface that provides a plurality of services for user selection;

receiving a user selection of an ATSC 1.0 service from the plurality of displayed services; and

changing the display of the initial ATSC service to a display of the selected ATSC 1.0 service and continuing execution of the television broadcaster application and the display of the user interface along with a display of the selected ATSC 1.0 service.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises:

determining whether a change television broadcaster application command is received;

in response to the determination that the change television broadcaster application command is received, determining whether the change television broadcaster application command specifies another television broadcaster application; and

changing the television broadcaster application to the another television broadcaster application in response to the determination that the change television broadcaster application command specifies the another television broadcaster application.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 7 , the method further comprising:

querying, by the television broadcaster application to a television receiver application, for information regarding each ATSC 1.0 service that the reception apparatus is capable of accessing; and

receiving, by the television broadcaster application from the television receiver application in response to the query, a list of each ATSC 1.0 service that the reception apparatus is capable of accessing.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 9 , the method further comprises:

determining each ATSC 1.0 service from the received list that is associated with the television broadcaster application, wherein each ATSC 1.0 service associated with the television broadcaster application is included in the displayed plurality of services.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 7 , wherein the television broadcaster application is one of a broadcaster application included in a digital television broadcast stream or a native broadcaster application stored in a memory of the reception apparatus.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 13, 2022
From: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
To: SATURN LICENSING LLC
Reel/Frame 062072/0850 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 11, 2022
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062048/0427 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 23, 2018
From: CLIFT, GRAHAM
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047569/0516 →