JP2007019725A - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, program, and record medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing apparatus and an information processing system capable of informing of the time of re-calling to a user who has made a call if a called user who receives a call and cannot answer the call during viewing of a content. <P>SOLUTION: When a call is terminated at an information processing apparatus capable of content viewing and telephone calling from other information processing apparatus during content viewing, call termination is rejected during content viewing, while a time when call termination can be received or a remaining time duration until call termination can be received is informed to the other information processing apparatus to which call termination is rejected. In addition, when a call is originated to other information processing apparatus, a time when call termination can be received or a remaining time duration until call termination can be received for the other information processing apparatus is displayed, if call termination is rejected by the other information processing apparatus during content viewing. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing system, a program, and a recording medium, and more particularly, to an incoming call process while viewing content.

  First, “content” used in this specification refers to moving images, still images, audio, text information, and other information. The channels for obtaining these contents are multimedia data such as videos, still images, and audio obtained via the Internet, TV broadcasting (regardless of terrestrial, satellite, digital, and analog broadcasting), and radio broadcasting (analog Assume multimedia data such as moving images, still images, and voices obtained from recording media such as digital broadcasts (SD) and SD (Secure Digital) cards.

  On the other hand, in recent years, information communication terminals such as mobile phones that can view contents such as television programs have become widespread. In such information communication terminals, there is a problem that when a call is received while watching a TV program, the viewing is hindered. Generally, the incoming call rejection function is used to reject an incoming call while watching a TV program. .

However, since the user who has made the call cannot know the time when the user who has received the call can respond, it is not known when the user who has made the call should make a call again.
With respect to such problems, in Patent Document 1, when a telephone call is received while watching a TV program, the end time of the TV program being watched is acquired, and the time to call back to the user who made the call is spoken. I try to respond.
JP 2004-282537 A

  However, since the method disclosed in Patent Document 1 can only notify the end time of a television program at the time of making a call, it cannot cope with the following problems.

The end time of the TV program and the viewing state of the user change dynamically. For example, when a TV program such as a sports program being watched is extended, a telephone call is made until the extended program ends. I don't want you to spend it.
Also, when a user who is watching a TV program selects a channel that is different from the TV channel being watched, or when the user turns off the TV and stops watching the program, Even if the end time of the TV program that was being watched has not been reached, there is a case where a user who makes a call can be in a safe state.

  As described above, when the end time of the television program changes, there is a problem that the changed time cannot be notified to the user who has called the telephone.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-described circumstances, and when a user who has received a call cannot respond to the incoming call while viewing the content, when the user who has made the call re-calls. An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing system, a program, and a recording medium capable of knowing what to do.

In order to solve the above problems, the following configuration is adopted.
The information processing apparatus on the receiving side includes a communication unit that communicates with another information processing apparatus, a content viewing unit for viewing content, a content information acquisition unit that acquires information about the content to be viewed, and the content When there is an incoming call from the other information processing apparatus during viewing, a rejection unit for rejecting a response to the incoming call according to an instruction from the user, and when the incoming call is rejected by the rejection unit, the content information Content information notifying means for notifying the other information processing apparatus.

Here, the content information is the viewing end time of the currently viewed content or the remaining time until the viewing end.
When the content being viewed is changed, or when viewing of the content being viewed is stopped, the content information notification means sends the content information after the change to the other information processing apparatus. Notice.

  Further, the content is a television program, the content information is television program information, and the viewing end time of the content being viewed or the remaining time until the viewing end is obtained with reference to the end time of the television program information.

  The information processing apparatus on the transmission side includes a communication unit that communicates with the other information processing apparatus, and after the transmission to the other information processing apparatus by the communication unit, the other information processing apparatus Content information display means for displaying the content information when the content information is notified from the other information processing apparatus.

  The content information is information after change when there is a change in the viewing end time of the currently viewed content or the remaining time until the viewing end, or the viewing end time of the content or the remaining time until the viewing end. is there.

Furthermore, a transmission suppression means is provided, and when the information on the content is notified from the other information processing device, the information is sent to all the information processing devices until the time specified based on the notified content information. The transmission or the transmission to the other information processing apparatus is suppressed.
Here, the specified time is a case where there is a change in the viewing end time of the content being viewed or the remaining time until the viewing end, or the viewing end time of the content or the remaining time until the viewing end. This is the information after the change.

The information processing system is configured by connecting the information processing apparatus described above and another information processing apparatus via a network.
For example, the information processing apparatus includes: a communication unit that communicates with the other information processing apparatus; a content viewing unit for viewing content; a content information acquisition unit that acquires information about the content to be viewed; Content information notifying means for notifying the other information processing apparatus of the content information when an incoming call is received from the other information processing apparatus.
In addition, the other information processing apparatus includes: a communication unit that communicates with the information processing apparatus; and information on content that the information processing apparatus is viewing after the communication unit transmits the information to the information processing apparatus. Is provided with content information display means for displaying the content information when notified from the information processing apparatus.

  The present invention can also solve the above-described problems by a program for realizing the functions of the information processing apparatus or information processing system configured as described above or a computer-readable recording medium recording the program. it can.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, when viewing the content and the user who has received the call cannot respond to the incoming call, it is possible to know when the user who has made the call should re-call.

Hereinafter, an example of a preferred embodiment of an information processing apparatus and an information processing system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Here, the information processing apparatus according to the present invention may be any apparatus as long as the apparatus includes a communication unit that can view content and can communicate with other information processing apparatuses. For example, it may be a mobile phone, a video phone device, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a PC (Personal Computer), a server device, a database device, an image processing device, an image forming device, a multimedia processing device, a broadcasting device, You may apply to a content storage apparatus.
In addition, the information processing system according to the present invention is a system in which the information processing apparatuses as described above are configured to be able to communicate with each other via a network. However, it may be a wired system, a wireless system, or any communication form.

  In the description of the embodiments below, the present invention is based on a videophone system using a videophone device capable of viewing content such as a TV program and a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) video as an example of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention. A case where the information processing system according to the above is configured will be described. Specifically, while a user is watching a TV program, an incoming call is received from another user, and the called user does not make a call in response to the incoming call. A case will be described in which the program end time, that is, the time until the time when the response becomes possible is notified.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram for explaining an example of a connection configuration of an information processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the information processing system according to the present embodiment includes at least a called-side device 1 (called-side videophone device) and a calling-side device 2 (called-side videophone device). The incoming call side device 1 and the outgoing call side device 2 are connected to each other by a network 3 such as a telephone network or the Internet.

The called side device 1 and the calling side device 2 are videophone devices capable of viewing content such as television programs and DVD videos.
The called device 1 and the calling device 2 communicate with other devices via the network 3. Although omitted in FIG. 1, in addition to the called side device 1 and the calling side device 2 shown in the figure, other devices not shown are connected to the network 3.
In addition, the called device 1 receives a known television wave and acquires the content of the television program. This is performed using, for example, a television antenna or an antenna cable.

When the callee device 1 is viewing a content such as a TV program or a DVD video, when a call is received from the call device 2, the end time of the content such as the TV program or the DVD video being viewed, that is, The time required until the time at which a response can be made is notified to the calling side device 2 via the network 3.
The notification of the time required until the time at which this response can be made may be performed by using a voice message prepared in advance such as a response message of a conventional answering machine, or by transmitting character information or the like. May be.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a state in which received content information is reproduced by voice in the calling side device 2. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a state in which received content information is displayed as character information in the calling side 2 device.
When the calling side device 2 receives the notification from the called side device 1, for example, a message such as “I cannot answer now. Please try again in 10 minutes” is sent to the user using the calling side device 2. It is conveyed by voice as shown in FIG. 2, or is conveyed by character information as shown in FIG.

  When the end time of the TV program being viewed on the called side device 1 is extended and the time required for the called side device 1 to be able to respond changes, it is displayed on the calling side device 2 as shown in FIG. Message is updated. In FIG. 3, at the time of 20:12, the called side device 1 was able to respond after 10 minutes, but the end of the TV program being viewed on the called side device 1 by 20:20 An example of a message displayed on the calling side device 2 when the time is extended and the called side device 1 becomes available after 17 minutes at 20:20 is shown. That is, in FIG. 3, the end time of the TV program currently being viewed on the called device 1 was 20:22, but this is an example in which this is extended to 20:37.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a functional configuration of the callee device 1 in the present embodiment. In the figure, the callee device 1 includes a communication unit 11, a content viewing unit 12, a content information acquisition unit 13, and content information. It consists of a notification means 14 and a rejection means 15.
The communication unit 11 communicates with other devices. The content viewing means 12 performs processing for viewing content. The content information acquisition unit 13 acquires information on content to be viewed. The content information notifying means 14 notifies the calling side device 2 of content information when an incoming call is received from the calling side device 2 while viewing the content. The rejection unit 15 rejects a response to an incoming call when there is an incoming call from the calling side apparatus 2 while viewing the content based on an instruction from the user of the called side apparatus 1.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the called device 1 in the present embodiment.
In the figure, the communication unit 101 makes a call with the calling device 2 via the network 3 or acquires EPG (Electric Program Guide) information. FIG. 6 shows an example of EPG information. As in the well-known TV column, the numbers such as “19” (reference numeral 61) and “20” (reference numeral 62) in the leftmost column indicate that the time is 19:00 and 20:00. Characters such as “8ch” (reference numeral 63) and “10ch” (reference numeral 64) represent television channels, that is, eight channels and ten channels. When a time and a television channel are designated, information such as what program is being broadcast, for example, a program name, an ID for uniquely identifying the program, and from what time to what time is known.

  The call processing unit 102 manages call processing. When an incoming call is received through the communication unit 101, the incoming call processing unit 105 is instructed to perform incoming call processing. In addition, the telephone call from the call processing unit 104 is transferred to the communication unit 101. Then, the call voice and video from the communication unit 101 are transferred to the video phone processing unit 117, and the voice and video from the video phone processing unit 117 are transferred to the communication unit 101.

The address storage unit 103 holds an address used when the called device 1 performs communication, for example, a telephone number, an IP (Internet Protocol) address, a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) address, or the like.
The call processing unit 104 performs a known videophone call processing.
The incoming call processing unit 105 performs processing when an incoming videophone call is received.
The operation input unit 106 processes input from the user. This is, for example, remote control input or input using buttons provided on the apparatus.

The non-response partner holding unit 107 holds information about a user who is a target of notification of the time required for making a telephone response.
The flag information storage unit 108 holds a notification flag. Using the notification flag, it is determined whether or not to notify the time required for making a telephone response.
The remaining time notification unit 109 notifies the time required until a telephone response is possible via the communication unit 101.

The viewing state monitoring unit 110 monitors the viewing power state of the display unit 116 such as the ON / OFF state of the display power and the TV channel being viewed.
The viewing state holding unit 111 holds the ON / OFF state of the display power supply of the display unit 116 and the viewing state such as the TV channel being viewed.
The broadcast data receiving unit 112 receives a television broadcast wave.
The program selection processing unit 113 performs channel selection processing for the television channel, and stores the channel selection channel in the viewing state holding unit.

The EPG information accumulation unit 115 accumulates EPG information.
The EPG information acquisition processing unit 114 acquires EPG information periodically, for example, every one minute. Here, the EPG information in the television broadcast wave received by the broadcast data receiving unit 112 is acquired, but may be acquired via the Internet, for example.
Display unit 116 displays a TV program, a partner image at the time of a videophone call, or the like on a display.
The videophone processing unit 117 performs input / output processing of audio and video during a videophone call.

The communication means 11 shown in FIG. 4 includes the communication unit 101, the call processing unit 102, the address storage unit 103, the call processing unit 104, the incoming call processing unit 105, and the videophone processing unit 117 shown in FIG.
4 includes the broadcast data receiving unit 112, the program selection processing unit 113, and the display unit 116 shown in FIG. The content information acquisition unit 13 includes a viewing state monitoring unit 110, a viewing state holding unit 111, an EPG information acquisition processing unit 114, and an EPG information storage unit 115.
4 includes the incoming call processing unit 105, the non-response partner holding unit 107, the flag information storage unit 108, and the remaining time notification unit 109 shown in FIG.
The rejection unit 15 shown in FIG. 4 includes the communication unit 101, the call processing unit 102, the operation input unit 106, the watching button 42 or the end button 43, which will be described later, shown in FIG.

  Next, the flow of processing when the called device 1 receives a call will be described using the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a screen display when the called device 1 receives a call. FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a remote controller of the called device 1.

In step S <b> 101, when the called device 1 receives a call from the calling device 2 via the network 3, the communication unit 101 passes this to the call processing unit 102. The call processing unit 102 instructs the incoming call processing unit 105 to perform incoming call processing, and the incoming call processing unit 105 displays on the display unit 116 to inform the user that the incoming call has been received.
For example, as shown in FIG. 8, information such as “From 072-235-xxxx is a telephone call, press the“ viewing button ”when responding after the program ends” is displayed on the display of the display unit 116. Alternatively, information such as “It is a telephone from 072-235-xxxx, please press the“ viewing button ”when responding after the program ends” and a well-known telephone bell are output by voice.

In step S102, when the operation input unit 106 receives an input indicating that a call is made in response to an incoming call, for example, when the call button 41 on the remote controller 4 in FIG. In order to instruct the well-known telephone incoming call processing, the process proceeds to step S103.
Further, when the operation input unit 106 receives an input indicating that the communication is disconnected without responding to the incoming call, for example, when the end button 43 on the remote control 4 in FIG. 9 is pressed, the call processing unit 102 receives the input. On the other hand, in order to instruct a well-known telephone communication disconnection process, the process proceeds to step S109.
Further, the operation input unit 106 notifies the caller of the time until the response becomes possible without immediately responding to the incoming call due to, for example, pressing the viewing button 42 on the remote controller 4 in FIG. When an input indicating that is received, the process proceeds to step S104 in order to instruct the incoming call processing unit 105 to perform notification processing of the time until response is possible.
In this way, the operation input unit 106 notifies the incoming call processing unit 105 that each input has been made.

In step S103, the videophone processing unit 117 performs a well-known videophone call process. When the call ends, the process proceeds to step S109.
That is, the incoming call processing unit 105 instructs the call processing unit 102 to perform a known call process when receiving an instruction for incoming call processing from the operation input unit 106.
When the call processing unit 102 receives a call processing instruction from the incoming call processing unit 105, the call processing unit 102 passes the voice and video from the video phone processing unit 117 to the communication unit 101, and also processes the voice and video from the communication unit 101 to video phone processing. To part 117.
The video phone processing unit 117 reproduces audio and video received from the call processing unit 102. In addition, the voice and video of the user of the called device 1 are acquired by a microphone, a camera, etc., and passed to the call processing unit 102.
The communication unit 101 performs voice and video communication with the calling side device 2 via the network 3.

In step S104, when the incoming call processing unit 105 receives an instruction from the operation input unit 106 to notify the time until response is possible, the incoming call processing unit 105 refers to the viewing state holding unit 111 and checks whether the display unit 116 is turned on. Check if it is OFF. The viewing state holding unit 111 always knows whether the power of the display of the display unit 116 is ON or OFF.
When the display is turned off, the incoming call processing unit 105 proceeds to step S109 to instruct the call processing unit 102 to disconnect the telephone communication.
When the display is turned on, the incoming call processing unit 105 instructs the non-response partner holding unit 107 to store the address of the calling side device 2, such as a telephone number, IP address, or SIP address. Control goes to step S105.

In step S <b> 105, the incoming call processing unit 105 stores the address (telephone number, IP address, or SIP address) of the communication partner that has made the call in the non-response partner holding unit 107. Then, the process proceeds to step S106.
FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of the non-response partner holding unit 107 that holds the address to which the content information is notified, which the called device 1 has. In the figure, the SIP addresses “bob@example.com” and “alice@example.com” of two communication partners are stored in a table format. As described above, when a call is received from a plurality of users while viewing the content, the time required until the user can respond or the time when the user can respond may be notified to the plurality of users.

In step S106, the incoming call processing unit 105 instructs the viewing state monitoring unit 110 to acquire program information currently being viewed. Upon receiving an instruction to acquire program information currently being viewed from the incoming call processing unit 105, the viewing state monitoring unit 110 acquires the currently selected television channel from the viewing state holding unit 111. Then, based on the acquired TV channel and the current time, the EPG information storage unit 115 is referred to acquire the program information currently being viewed and stored, and the process proceeds to step S107.
As the program information currently being viewed, for example, as shown in FIG. 11, a TV channel, a program name of the TV program, and a program ID for uniquely identifying the program are held. The program information illustrated in FIG. 11 indicates that the channel is “8”, the program name is “Boxing”, and the program ID is “126528”.

  In step S107, the viewing state monitoring unit 110 stores the currently viewed television channel in the viewing state holding unit 111, and proceeds to step S108.

In step S108, the incoming call processing unit 105 stores a notification flag in the flag information storage unit 108, thereby enabling a notification flag indicating whether or not to notify the time required for making a telephone response, and in step S109. Move on.
For example, when the value 1 is written in the flag information storage unit 108, the notification flag is valid, and the time required for making a telephone response is notified.
When the value 0 is written, the notification flag is invalid, and the time required until the telephone response is possible is not notified.

  In step S109, when the call processing unit 102 receives an instruction to disconnect communication from the operation input unit 106, the call processing unit 102 instructs the communication unit 101 to disconnect communication with the calling side device 2, and the communication unit 101 calls the calling side. The communication with the device 2 is disconnected.

  Next, the flow of processing when notifying the time required until the callee side device 1 can make a telephone response will be described using the flowchart of FIG. This process is executed by the remaining time notification unit 109.

First, in step S151, the flag information storage unit 108 is referred periodically, for example, every one minute, and it is checked whether or not a notification flag indicating whether or not to notify the time required for making a telephone response is valid. For example, when the value 1 is written in the flag information storage unit 108, it is determined to be valid, and when the value 0 is written, it is determined to be invalid.
If it is determined that the notification flag is invalid, the process ends. If it is valid, the process proceeds to step S152.
Note that the notification flag is enabled in step S108 of FIG. 7 and immediately after the communication is disconnected in step S109, the processing of step S151, that is, the reference of the flag information storage unit 108 by the remaining time notification unit 109 is started. Also good.

  In step S152, the viewing state monitoring unit 110 is instructed to investigate whether the display of the display unit 116 is ON or OFF. The viewing state monitoring unit 110 refers to the viewing state holding unit 111, and the display is turned on or off. And the result is transmitted to the remaining time notification unit 109. When the power is OFF, the process proceeds to step S162 in order to instruct the EPG information acquisition processing unit 114 to acquire EPG information. If it is ON, the process proceeds to step S153.

  In step S153, the EPG information acquisition processing unit 114 is instructed to acquire the latest EPG information, and the EPG information acquisition processing unit 114 acquires the EPG information in the television broadcast wave received by the broadcast data reception unit 112. This is stored in the EPG information storage unit 115, and the process proceeds to step S154. Here, EPG information is acquired from a television broadcast wave, but may be acquired via the Internet or the like.

  In step S154, program information such as the program name and program ID stored in step S106 is acquired from the viewing state monitoring unit 110, and the EPG information stored in the EPG information storage unit 115 is referred to and specified by the acquired program information. The channel and end time of the program to be played are acquired, and the process proceeds to step S155.

  In step S155, the viewing state monitoring unit 110 is instructed to acquire the currently selected television channel, and the viewing state monitoring unit 110 obtains the currently selected television channel from the viewing state holding unit 111. The process moves to S156.

In step S156, it is checked whether the channel of the program stored in step S106 is the same as the channel currently being viewed acquired in step S155. If not, the process moves to step S162. If they are the same, the process proceeds to step S157.
In step S157, the current time is acquired by the timer of the remaining time notification unit 109. Then, control goes to a step S158.

  In step S158, the current time acquired in step S157 is compared with the end time of the program acquired by referring to the EPG information in step S154. If the current time has passed the end time of the program, the process proceeds to step S162. If not, the process moves to step S159.

In step S159, the difference between the end time of the program acquired by referring to the EPG information in step S154 and the current time acquired in step S157 is calculated, and this is taken as the time required to be able to respond to step S160. Move.
In step S160, communication is performed so as to acquire the address of the notification destination accumulated in the non-response partner holding unit 107 in step S105 and notify the address and the time required until the response can be calculated calculated in step S159. Instructing the unit 101, the communication unit 101 transmits the time required until the instructed response becomes possible to the instructed address via the network 3, and the process proceeds to step S161.

Here, the notification of the time required until the response becomes possible is performed, for example, by adding a description “remaining-time = 00000000002300” to the well-known SIP NOTIFY message.
This “remaining-time” represents 4 digits: year, 2 digits: month, 2 digits: day, 2 digits: time, 2 digits: minute, and last 2 digits: second in order from the top. In other words, “remaining-time = 0000000000000300” represents that the time required for response is 23 minutes.

  In step S161, the process waits without performing any processing for a certain period of time, for example, 1 minute, and proceeds to step S151.

  In step S162, if the display power is OFF in step S152, or if the channels compared in step S156 are not the same, or the current time acquired in step S157 is acquired by referring to the EPG information in step S154. If the end time of the program has passed, the time required until the response becomes possible is set to 0, and the process proceeds to step S163.

In step S163, in the same procedure as in step S160, the time required until the response becomes possible is set to 0, the transmission is performed to the address stored in step S105, and the process proceeds to step S164.
In step S164, the notification flag is invalidated by writing a value of 0 in the flag information storage unit 108, and the process ends.

  As described above, the called-side device 1 can notify the calling-side device 2 of the time required to be able to respond.

  In the above example, the time required until the time at which a response can be made periodically is notified. For example, until the time when the response becomes possible, such as when the EPG information is updated and the end time of the TV program being viewed is changed, or when the TV channel is changed, the response time is changed. You may notify the time which takes.

In addition, when the program being viewed ends or when viewing is stopped, the callee side device 1 is notified to the user who has notified the time required to be able to respond when the response to the telephone becomes possible. May automatically make a call.
Further, it is possible to notify not the time required until response is possible but the response time.
In the above example, the flag information storage unit is referred to every 1 minute, but may be referred to at any time interval such as every 1 second or every 10 seconds, or may be referred to at random time intervals. .

Next, the calling side device 2 in the present embodiment will be described.
FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of a functional configuration of the calling side device 2 in the present embodiment. In FIG. 13, the calling side device 2 includes a communication unit 21, a content information display unit 22, and a transmission suppression unit 23.

The communication unit 21 communicates with other information processing apparatuses.
The content information display means 22 transmits information to other information processing apparatuses by the communication means 21 and then displays information on the content being viewed by the other information processing apparatuses when notified from the other information processing apparatuses. indicate.
When the content information is notified from the other device, the transmission suppression unit 23 suppresses transmission until a specified time based on the notified content information.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the calling side device 2 in the present embodiment.
In the figure, the communication unit 201 performs processing such as making a call with the called device 1 via the network 3.
The call processing unit 202 manages call processing. When an incoming call is received through the communication unit 201, the incoming call processing unit 206 is instructed to perform incoming call processing. In addition, the telephone call from the call processing unit 204 is transferred to the communication unit 201.

The address storage unit 203 holds an address used when the calling side device 2 performs communication, for example, a telephone number, an IP address, a SIP address, and the like.
The call processing unit 204 performs a well-known telephone call process.
The operation input unit 205 processes input from the user and passes the input information to the call processing unit 204.
The incoming call processing unit 206 performs processing when an incoming call is received.
The message display processing unit 207 performs processing for displaying a message from the called device 1.
The message display information storage unit 208 stores a message to be displayed in addition to the message from the called device 1.
The display unit 209 displays a message from the called device 1 on the display.

13 includes a communication unit 201, a call processing unit 202, an address storage unit 203, an outgoing call processing unit 204, and an incoming call processing unit 206.
The content information display unit 22 includes a message display processing unit 207, a message display information storage unit 208, and a display unit 209.
The outgoing call suppression unit 23 includes a call processing unit 202, a message display processing unit 207, a message display information storage unit 208, and a display unit 209.

  Next, the flow of processing when receiving a notification of the time required for the calling side device 2 to make a telephone response will be described using the flowchart of FIG. This process is executed by the message display processing unit 207.

In step S201, the communication unit 201 receives a notification of the time required until the called side device 1 can answer the call from the called side device 1, and proceeds to step S202.
In step S202, the time required for the callee side device 1 to make a telephone response is acquired from the notification received in step S201, and the process proceeds to step S203.
Extraction of the time until the response becomes possible is performed by analyzing information such as “remaining-time = 00000000002300” in the SIP NOTIFY message.

In step S203, it is checked whether or not the time taken until the callee side device 1 can respond to the telephone call obtained in step S202 is zero. If not 0, the process proceeds to step S204. In the case of 0, the process proceeds to step S205.
In step S204, a pre-generated message such as “I can't respond right now. Please try again later.” Is acquired from the message display information storage unit 208, and the callee device 1 acquired in step S202 receives this message. The time until the response becomes possible is added, the message display as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the display of the display unit 209, and the process is terminated.
Note that the call processing unit 202 may not perform the call processing from the call processing unit 204 when the time until the callee device 1 becomes available is not zero.

FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a screen display displayed on the calling side device 2 that the called side device 1 is ready to answer.
In step S205, if the time until the callee side device 1 becomes available for response checked in step S203 is 0, a pre-generated message such as “TV viewing status has changed. Is obtained from the message display information storage unit 208, a message as shown in FIG. 16 is displayed on the display of the display unit 209, and the process proceeds to step S206.
A message may be transmitted by voice.
At this time, a telephone call may be automatically made to the called device 1.

In step S206, when 10 minutes have elapsed since the message was displayed in step S205, the message display on the display of the display unit 209 performed in step S205 is deleted, and the process is terminated.
In this example, the message display on the display is erased after 10 minutes have passed since the message was displayed. However, it is not limited to 10 minutes, but any time such as 5 seconds or 1 minute has elapsed. You may delete the message afterwards.

  When configured as described above, the calling side device 2 can notify the user of the calling side device 2 of the time required until the user of the called side device 1 can respond. Even when the time required for the user of the called device 1 to change is changed, the calling device 2 can notify the user of the calling device 2 of the changed time.

  In the above example, the calling side device 2 periodically receives a notification of the time when the user of the called side device 1 can respond, and notifies the user of the calling side device 2. The notification of the time when the response is possible from the side apparatus 1 may not be received periodically, and may be received only when the initial time when the response becomes possible has changed. Then, the calling side device 2 may calculate the time required until the response becomes possible and notify the user of the calling side device 2 periodically, for example, every minute or every second.

In addition, when the user of the calling side device 2 cannot answer when the user of the calling side device 2 makes a call, the user of the calling side device 2 sets the calling side device 1 when making a call again. You may have forgotten what you want to tell the user.
In order to prevent this, if the called device 1 is not available when a call is made, the calling device 2 displays a screen for inputting a memo and wants to store or convey the input memo. May be stored by voice input. Then, the callee device 1 can respond and these memos and voices may be displayed when the user of the caller device 2 makes a call again.

In the above example, an example in which a television program is being viewed has been shown, but it is also possible to notify the time when the called device 1 can respond while viewing a content such as a DVD. Content such as DVDs can be easily checked for content playback time, so when a phone call is received while viewing DVD content, the remaining time of the content is notified as the time required to be able to respond. May be.
Further, when the user who is viewing the DVD content pauses, rewinds, fast-forwards, etc. and the remaining time of the content changes, the changed remaining time may be notified to the calling side device 2.

  Similarly, when a video game is being played, for example, the time until the video game is ended may be notified as the time required until response is possible. In addition, when the time until the video game ends is changed, the changed time may be notified.

  In the above example, an example of making and receiving a call while watching a TV program has been described. However, the call is not limited to this, but is sent by a chat system or e-mail that performs character-based conversation in real time through a computer network. Similarly, the present invention can be applied to incoming calls.

In addition, it is realizable also as a computer program which implement | achieves each function of the receiving side apparatus 1 and the calling side apparatus 2 of this invention. This program is stored in a computer-readable recording medium, and each process is realized by the program.
As the recording medium, the main memory itself may be a program medium, or a program medium provided with a program reading device as an external storage device and readable by inserting the recording medium therein.

  Here, the program medium includes a tape system such as a magnetic tape and a cassette tape, a disk system such as a magnetic disk such as a flexible disk and a hard disk, an optical disk such as a CD-ROM / MO / MD / DVD, and an IC card (memory card). Or a card system such as an optical card, or a medium carrying a fixed program including a semiconductor memory such as a mask ROM, FPROM, EEPROM, flash ROM, or the like.

Further, in the present embodiment, since the configuration is connectable to a network, the program stored in the storage device may be directly supplied from the server computer via the network. In this case, the storage device of this server computer is also included in the recording medium of the present invention.
As described above, by programming and distributing the functions of the above-described embodiments, the cost can be reduced, and the portability and versatility can be improved.

It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating an example of the connection structure of the information processing system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure showing a mode that the received content information is reproduced | regenerated with the audio | voice in the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure showing a mode that the received content information is displayed by character information in the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is the schematic of the function structure of the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of EPG information. It is a flowchart for demonstrating an example of the process when the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention makes a telephone call. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the screen display when the information processing apparatus (calling side) according to the embodiment of the present invention receives a call. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the remote control of the information processing apparatus (calling side) according to the embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the data structure of the non-response partner holding | maintenance part which hold | maintains the notification target address of the content information which the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention has. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the data structure which hold | maintains the program information of the content in viewing which the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention has. It is a flowchart for demonstrating an example of the process at the time of notifying the time required until a telephone response becomes possible in the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is the schematic of the function structure of the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating an example of the process at the time of receiving the time required until a telephone response becomes possible in the information processing apparatus (calling side) which concerns on embodiment of this invention. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a screen display displayed by the information processing apparatus (calling side) according to the present invention that the information processing apparatus (calling side) according to the embodiment of the present invention can respond. is there.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Information processing apparatus (calling side apparatus), 2 ... Information processing apparatus (calling side apparatus), 3 ... Network, 4 ... Remote control, 11 ... Communication means, 12 ... Content viewing means, 13 ... Content information acquisition means, 14 ... content information notification means, 15 ... rejection means, 21 ... communication means, 22 ... content information display means, 23 ... outgoing call suppression means, 41 ... call button, 42 ... viewing button, 43 ... end call button, 101 ... communication , 102 ... Call processing section, 103 ... Address storage section, 104 ... Call processing section, 105 ... Call processing section, 106 ... Operation input section, 107 ... Non-response partner holding section, 108 ... Flag information storage section, 109 ... remaining time notification unit, 110 ... viewing state monitoring unit, 111 ... viewing state holding unit, 112 ... broadcast data receiving unit, 113 ... program selection processing unit, 114 ... EPG information acquisition processing unit, 115 EPG information storage unit 116 ... display unit 117 ... video phone processing unit 201 201 communication unit 202 ... call processing unit 203 ... address storage unit 204 ... call processing unit 205 ... operation input unit 206 ... arrival Call processing unit, 207... Message display processing unit, 208... Message display information storage unit, 209.

Claims (17)

  Communication means for communicating with another information processing apparatus, content viewing means for viewing content, content information acquisition means for obtaining information of the content to be viewed, and the other information processing while viewing the content An information processing apparatus comprising: content information notification means for notifying the other information processing apparatus of the content information when an incoming call is received from the apparatus.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content information is a viewing end time of a currently viewed content or a remaining time until the viewing ends.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content information is information after the change when the content viewing end time or the remaining time until the viewing end is changed. Processing equipment.   4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content is a television program, the content information is television program information, and a viewing end time or a remaining time until the viewing end of the content being viewed. Is obtained by referring to the end time of the TV program information.   5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the content being viewed is changed, the content information notification unit sends information about the changed content to the other information processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus characterized by notifying.   5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content information notification unit notifies the other information processing apparatus of content information when the viewing of the currently viewed content is stopped. An information processing apparatus characterized by the above.   7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when there is an incoming call from the other information processing apparatus while viewing the content, a response to the incoming call is rejected according to an instruction from the user. An information processing apparatus comprising a refusal means for performing   A communication unit that communicates with another information processing device; and after the transmission to the other information processing device by the communication unit, information on content viewed by the other information processing device An information processing apparatus comprising: content information display means for displaying information on the content when notified from the information processing apparatus.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the content information is a viewing end time of a currently viewed content or a remaining time until the viewing end.   9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the content information is information after the change when the content viewing end time or the remaining time until the viewing end is changed. apparatus.   11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein when the information on the content is notified from the other information processing apparatus, the time is determined based on the notified information on the content. An information processing apparatus comprising a transmission suppression means for suppressing transmission.   11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein when the information on the content is notified from the other information processing apparatus, the time is determined based on the notified information on the content. An information processing apparatus comprising: a transmission suppression unit that suppresses transmission to the other information processing apparatus.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the specified time is a viewing end time of a currently viewed content or a remaining time until the viewing end.   13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the specified time is information after a change when there is a change in a viewing end time of the content or a remaining time until the viewing end. Information processing apparatus. In an information processing system in which an information processing device and another information processing device are connected via a network, the information processing device includes:
Communication means for communicating with the other information processing apparatus, content viewing means for viewing content, content information acquisition means for obtaining information of the content to be viewed, and the other information while viewing the content Content information notifying means for notifying the other information processing device of the content information when an incoming call is received from a processing device;
The other information processing apparatus
The information processing apparatus communicates with the information processing apparatus, and after the transmission to the information processing apparatus by the communication means, the information processing apparatus is notified of information of the content being viewed by the information processing apparatus. A content information display means for displaying the content information.   The function of the information processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, the function of the information processing device according to any of claims 8 to 14, or the information processing system according to claim 15 in a computer. A program that realizes the functions of.   A computer-readable recording medium on which the program according to claim 16 is recorded.

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