CN102769788A - connected tv - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a networked television. The networked television includes an image processing unit and a network unit. The image processing unit receives and processes an image and an audio signal to generate a multimedia signal, and outputs a multimedia segment in the multimedia signal according to a control signal. The network unit receives and converts the multimedia segment into a network packet, and transmits the network packet to an electronic device through a network according to the control signal.

Description

connected tv

technical field

The invention relates to a TV, especially a networked TV.

Background technique

Most of today's electronic products provide users with the function of connecting peripheral devices, providing users with simple control of peripheral devices and viewing functions, but they cannot share their favorite content (such as movies, music) or files to the remote end in real time. friends or family. Users often need to use a computer to share their favorite content with others, or use a storage device (such as CD, USB, etc.) to store the content to be shared, and then deliver it to friends or family members so that they can watch it. content. Such a method often causes inconvenience in use during the operation (such as preparing the CD, the time required for USB copying, excerpting the desired segment, etc.).

Contents of the invention

An embodiment of the present invention provides a networked television. The networked TV includes an image processing unit and a network unit. The image processing unit receives and processes an image and audio signal to generate a multimedia signal, and outputs a multimedia segment in the multimedia signal according to a control signal. The network unit receives and converts the multimedia segment into a network packet, and transmits the network packet to an electronic device through a network according to the control signal.

Another embodiment of the present invention is a networked television, including a display device, a data processing unit, a data retrieval unit and a network unit. The data processing unit receives an external data signal and outputs an image signal to the display device. The data capture unit captures a first data in the image signal according to a first control signal. The network unit receives and converts the first data into a first network packet, and transmits the first network packet to an electronic device through a network according to the first control signal.

In the networked TV of the embodiment of the present invention, the user can conveniently share the file to be transmitted with the remote friends or family members, which improves the convenience of operation.

Description of drawings

The drawings described here are used to provide further understanding of the present invention, constitute a part of the application, and do not limit the present invention. In the attached picture:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention;

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention.

Figure number:

11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61 ~ connected TV;

111, 311, 511～image processing unit;

112, 218, 315, 414, 515 ~ network unit;

12, 22, 32, 42, 52, 62～Internet;

13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63 ~ the second electronic device;

14 ~ connection interface;

15 ~ external signal source;

211, 34 ~ tuner;

212～image and sound decoder;

213～zooming controller;

214～display device;

215～data bus;

216, 55～input/output interface;

217～image and sound coder;

312, 413, 512～image capture unit;

313, 513, 613～receiver;

314, 514, 614～controller;

44 ~ storage device;

411～decoding unit;

412～play unit;

54～video player;

611～data processing unit;

612～data acquisition unit;

64～the third electronic device.

Detailed ways

The aforementioned and other technical contents, features and effects of the present invention will be clearly presented in the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment with reference to the drawings. The directional terms mentioned in the following embodiments, such as: up, down, left, right, front or back, etc., are only directions referring to the attached drawings. Accordingly, the directional terms are used to illustrate and not to limit the invention.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention. The networked TV 11 receives audio and video signals from an external signal source 15 through a connection interface 14 . Then, it is processed by the image processing unit 111 in the networked TV 11, and the processed image signal is sent to a display panel (not shown on the figure) for display, and the processed sound signal is sent to an audio device (not shown on the figure). ) to play. The networked TV 11 is controlled by a remote control, and receives control signals transmitted by the remote control through an infrared interface, bluetooth interface, radio frequency interface or other similar interfaces. When the user wants to share the content while watching a TV program, the user can control the networked TV 11 through a remote control to transmit the content that the user wants to share to the second electronic device 13 through the network 12 .

The connected TV 11 further includes a network unit 112 for connecting to the network 12 . The network unit 112 can be set by the user to connect to the second electronic device 13 through the network 12, and convert the image signal and audio signal transmitted by the image processing unit 111 into a network data with a specific network format, and then transmit it to the second electronic device 13. Two electronic devices 13 . The second electronic device 13 may be a personal computer connected to the network, a server or a social networking site. The network unit 112 allows the user to set different network connection information, such as an IP address or a website address, and store it in a storage device. The user can choose to share what he wants to see through the remote control of the networked TV 11. The content is delivered to the electronic device at a specific location on the network.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention. The networked TV 21 includes a tuner 211 , a video and audio decoder 212 , a zoom controller 213 , a display device 214 , a data bus 215 , an input/output interface 216 , a video and audio encoder 217 and a network unit 218 . The tuner 211 is used to receive digital or analog TV signals through the antenna, transmit the image and sound decoder 212 through the bus 215 for processing to generate a first image signal, and then send it to the zoom controller 213 through the data bus 215 to generate a corresponding A second image signal with a display resolution of the display device 214 is displayed by the display device 214 . The display device 214 may support various display resolutions, and the zoom controller 213 can adjust the resolution of the first image signal according to the user's requirement. The video and audio decoder 212 can demultiplex, demodulate or decode the received signal. The input/output interface 216 is used for connecting external audio-visual devices, such as DVD audio-visual players, Blu-ray players, and the like. The input/output interface 216 transmits the received signal to the image and audio decoder 212 for decoding to generate a third image signal and an audio signal. The third image signal is transmitted to the zoom controller 213 through the data bus 215 for generating a second image signal conforming to the display specification of the display device 214 and displayed by the display device 214 . In this embodiment, the data bus 215 is used as the tuner 211, video and audio decoder 212, zoom controller 213, display device 214, input/output interface 216, video and audio encoder 217 and network unit 218 in the networked TV 21. a data transmission medium.

When a user wants to share the content he or she sees while watching TV programs, videos or network information played by the networked TV 21, the user can encode the image content into After the file in a specific format is converted into a network data in a specific network format by the network unit 218 , it is then transmitted to the second electronic device 23 through the network 22 . After receiving the network data, the second electronic device 23 decodes the network data through a decoder in the second electronic device 23 and then displays it. In this embodiment, the video and audio decoder 212 and the video and audio encoder 217 can support multiple video and audio formats. When the video and audio decoder 212 finds that a first format of the received data is not supported, the video and audio decoder 212 can download the decoder related to the first format through the network 22, and update the video and audio decoder 212 Supported formats. Similarly, when the image and sound encoder 217 converts the received audio and video data into a second format that is playable by the second electronic device 23, if the image and sound encoder 217 does not support the second format, the image and sound The audio encoder 217 can download the encoder related to the second format through the network 22, and update the supported format of the image and audio encoder 217. The user can also manually update the firmware of the image and sound decoder 212 and the image and sound encoder 217 through an external storage device, such as a USB flash drive, through the input/output interface 216 of the networked TV 21 .

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention. The tuner 34 is used to receive an analog TV signal or a digital TV signal, and transmit it to the image processing unit 311 of the networked TV 31 . The image processing unit 311 processes the analog TV signal or the digital TV signal to generate an audio and video signal, which is displayed by the display device of the networked TV 31 . The networked TV 31 further includes a receiver 313 , a controller 314 , an image capture unit 312 and a network unit 315 . The receiver 313 is used for receiving a control signal corresponding to a remote controller of the connected TV 31 and sending it to the controller 314 . When the user wants to share the content he or she sees while watching the TV program played by the networked TV 31, the user can send the control signal to the controller 314 through the remote control, and the controller 314 will control the image capture unit 312 Capture the TV program watched by the user, and convert it into a multimedia file in a first format that can be played by the second electronic device 23 through the image capture unit 312, and then convert it into a network packet file through the network unit 315 Afterwards, it is sent to the second electronic device 33 through the network 32.

In another embodiment, the network unit 315 allows the user to set different network connection information, such as an IP address or a website address, and the user chooses to share what he or she wants to watch through the remote control corresponding to the networked TV 31. The received content is transmitted to an electronic device at a specific location on the network, a social networking site or an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) file transfer server. The networked TV 31 may further include a storage device for temporarily storing the TV programs watched by the user. When the user wants to share the content he has seen, he can choose to combine the played TV program segment with the TV program segment captured by the image capture unit 312, and then convert it into the multimedia file. In addition, the user can search for related data online through the teltext or electronic program guides (EPG) of the analog TV signal or the digital TV signal received by the tuner 34 . If the user is watching a video played on TV and wants to know more about the video, he can use the TV information or the electronic program list to search for relevant data on the Internet through the Internet search engine for the title of the video.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention. The networked TV 41 has a connection port, such as a USB connection port, for connecting a storage device 44 . The storage device 44 includes a plurality of image files (such as JPG or JPEG image files), audio files (such as MP3 files), multimedia video files or other types of files. This embodiment is described by taking a multimedia video file as an example, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The decoding unit 411 can decode multimedia audio and video files in different formats, such as RMVB format, MP4 format, MPG format or MPEG format and so on. The decoding unit 411 decodes a multimedia audio-visual file to generate an image and audio file, which is played by the playing unit 412 . When the user wants to share the content he sees, he can send a control signal to the image capture unit 413 of the network TV 41 through a remote controller of the network TV 41 to control the image capture unit 413 to capture a video played by the playback unit 412. video clips. Then the video clip is converted into a network packet file by the network unit 414 , and then sent to the second electronic device 43 through the network 42 .

In this embodiment, the decoding unit 411 can support multimedia audio-visual files in multiple multimedia audio-visual formats, and has a built-in list of supported formats. When the decoding unit 411 finds that a first format of the received multimedia audio-visual file is not supported, the decoding unit 411 can download a decoder related to the first format through the network 42, and update the supported format list of the decoding unit 411. The user can also manually update the firmware of the decoding unit 411 through another external storage device, such as a USB flash drive or a memory card, through an input/output port of the networked TV 41 . Or the user can control the networked TV to update the firmware of the decoding unit 411 through an update website on the network 42 . In another embodiment, the Internet-connected TV 41 can automatically connect to the update website every time it is turned on or connected to the network 42, and confirms whether there is a new version of firmware that needs to be updated. If so, the Internet-connected TV 41 will automatically update the firmware. It should be noted that the firmware mentioned here is not limited to the firmware of the decoding unit 411 , it may also be the firmware or program of the playback unit 412 or the image capture unit 413 .

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention. The networked TV 51 is connected to an audio-video player 54 through an input/output interface 55 . The input/output interface 55 may be a separate video input interface (Separate Video), a color difference terminal interface, an AV terminal interface, an S-video interface or an HDMI interface, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The video player 54 may be a VCD player, a DVD player, a Blu-ray player or other similar video players, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The image processing unit 511 receives a multimedia signal from the video player 54 and converts it into a video signal that can be played by the connected TV 51 . When the user wants to share what he sees, he can send a control signal to the receiver 513 of the connected TV 51 through a remote control of the connected TV 51 , and the receiver 513 forwards the received control signal to the controller 514 . In another embodiment, the receiver 513 may decode the received control signal, and transmit the decoded control signal to the controller 514 . The control signal may contain network information, which is used to indicate the network location and related information of the target device that the user wants to share. The control signal controls the image capture unit 512 to capture a video clip played by the image processing unit 511 . Then the video clip is converted into a network packet file by the network unit 515 , and then transmitted to the second electronic device 53 through the network 52 .

In this embodiment, the second electronic device 53 may be a personal computer connected to the network, a server or a social networking site. The network unit 515 allows the user to set different network connection information, such as IP location or URL, and the user selects the content to be shared and seen by the remote control of the connected TV 51 to a specific location on the network of electronic devices. The network unit 515 can also create a user's usage record, recording the network IP location or URL that the user has used, for the convenience of the user.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a networked television according to the present invention. Different from the above-mentioned embodiments, this embodiment describes that the user shares the network information or audio-visual content browsed on the network when surfing the Internet. The network information may directly share the URL of the webpage currently browsed by the networked TV or share a snapshot of the webpage in the form of a snapshot. Page snapshots may be stored as image files and dated. The second electronic device 63 may be a network information provider or a network service provider. For example, the second electronic device 63 is an online news website. When the user wants to analyze the online news he sees, he can send a control signal to the receiver of the Internet-connected TV 61 through a remote control of the Internet-connected TV 61. 613 , the receiver 613 forwards the received control signal to the controller 614 . In another embodiment, the receiver 613 may decode the received control signal, and transmit the decoded control signal to the controller 614 . The control signal may contain network information, which is used to indicate the network location and related information of the target device that the user wants to share. The control signal controls the data retrieval unit 612 to obtain a web address or a webpage snapshot of the webpage currently viewed by the user from the data processing unit 611 . Then the URL or the webpage snapshot is converted into a network package file by the network unit 615 and then sent to the third electronic device 64 through the network 62 . In addition, the data processing unit 611 in this embodiment can also process image and audio signals or other multimedia signals like the aforementioned image processing unit, and the data capture unit 612 can also capture images like the aforementioned image capture unit The signal being processed by the processing unit or the video and audio signal currently being displayed by the connected TV.

In another case, the user uses the Internet-connected TV 61 to connect to a second electronic device 63 with a network service through the network 62, and sends a file or data to the second electronic device 63, and obtains it through the network service. A URL corresponding to the uploaded file. The data processing unit 611 transmits the URL to the network unit 615 , and the network unit 615 converts it into a network packet file, and then transmits it to the third electronic device 64 through the network 62 . The user of the third electronic device 64 can connect to the website to download the file uploaded by the user. Although the foregoing embodiments are all described by taking image sharing as an example, the present invention is not limited thereto. Those skilled in the art can apply the spirit of the present invention to other types of data. For example, if a user is browsing a file (which may be a file on the Internet or a file stored on a connected TV or a computer connected to a connected TV), if the user chooses to share the file, the user The networked TV can be controlled by the remote control to directly transfer files to the target device.

But the above-mentioned person is only preferred embodiment of the present invention, when can not limit the scope of the present invention implementation with this, promptly all the simple equivalent changes and modifications that are done according to the patent scope of the present invention and the content of the description of the invention, All still belong to the scope that the patent of the present invention covers. In addition, any embodiment or scope of claims of the present invention does not need to achieve all the objectives or advantages or features disclosed in the present invention. In addition, the abstract and the title are only used to assist in the search of patent documents, and are not used to limit the scope of rights of the present invention.

Claims (15)

1. A networked TV, characterized in that, comprising: an image processing unit, receiving and processing an image and audio signal to generate a multimedia signal, and outputting a multimedia segment in the multimedia signal according to a control signal; and A network unit receives and converts the multimedia segment into a network packet, and transmits the network packet to an electronic device through a network according to the control signal. 2. The networked TV according to claim 1, further comprising a data bus used as a data transmission medium between the image processing unit and the network unit. 3. The networked TV according to claim 1, further comprising: a tuner for receiving a radio frequency signal; and An image and audio decoder receives and processes the wireless radio frequency signal to generate image and audio signals. 4. The networked TV according to claim 1, further comprising; a display device with a display resolution; and A scaling controller receives the multimedia signal, and controls a resolution of an image signal in the multimedia signal so that the resolution conforms to the display resolution. 5 . The networked television as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an image capture unit, which captures the multimedia segment from the multimedia signal after receiving the control signal. 6 . 6. The networked TV according to claim 1, wherein the network unit includes a storage device storing a plurality of URLs or IP locations, which can be selected by a user through a remote controller corresponding to the networked TV . 7. A networked TV, characterized in that, comprising; a display device; A data processing unit, receiving an external data signal and outputting an image signal to the display device; a data capture unit, which captures a first data in the image signal according to a first control signal; and A network unit receives and converts the first data into a first network packet, and transmits the first network packet to an electronic device through a network according to the first control signal. 8. The networked TV according to claim 7, wherein the data acquisition unit can acquire a current display data of the display device according to a second control signal, and generate a first display data through the network unit and a second network packet, the network unit transmits the second network packet to the electronic device. 9. The networked TV according to claim 7, wherein the data acquisition unit stores a current display screen of the display device as a picture, and generates a second network packet through the network unit, The network unit then transmits the second network packet to the electronic device. 10. The networked television according to claim 7, wherein the data capture unit adds time information to the picture. 11. The networked TV according to claim 7, wherein if the display device is currently browsing a website, the data retrieval unit retrieves a URL or an IP address of the network, and passes through the network The unit is transmitted to the electronic device. 12. The networked TV according to claim 7, wherein the control signal is generated by a remote control corresponding to the networked TV, and a user can input a value of the electronic device through the remote control. IP location or a URL. 13. The networked TV according to claim 7, wherein the network unit comprises a storage device storing a plurality of URLs or IP addresses for a user to select through a remote control corresponding to the networked TV. 14. The networked TV according to claim 7, further comprising a data bus used as a connection between the data processing unit, the display device, the data acquisition unit and the network unit A data transmission medium. 15. The networked TV according to claim 7, wherein the external data signal is a digital or analog TV signal, and the connected TV receives the digital or analog TV signal through a tuner.

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