KR100723741B1 - Method and apparatus for processing viewer input information in digital multimedia broadcasting - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for processing viewer input information in a digital multimedia broadcast, which enables a news article of a news service performed as an additional broadcast of a DMB broadcast to be serviced together with a comment input by the viewer. To this end, the present invention provides a single character service method of digital multimedia broadcasting in which a short message service is provided through an additional broadcasting channel of a digital multimedia broadcasting. In the state displayed on, inputting a comment on the content of the short-term data is transmitted to the remote communication, receiving the comment data in the digital multimedia broadcasting system and transmitting along with the short-term data of the additional broadcasting channel and And receiving the short character data and the comment data in the digital multimedia broadcasting terminal and displaying them together on the screen.

DMB, Supplemental Broadcasting, News, Comments, Mobile Networks

Description

Method and apparatus for processing viewer input information in digital multimedia broadcasting {TELEVIEWER INPUT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM}

1 is a view briefly illustrating a data processing flow of a viewer input information processing method in a digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating a digital multimedia broadcasting system system to which the method of the present invention is applied;

3 is a view showing in detail the configuration of the DMB terminal shown in FIG.

4 is a view showing a data configuration of comment information input in relation to a news service by an additional broadcast of a digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention;

5 is a diagram illustrating a state in which comment information is displayed on a screen together with a news article according to a news service of a digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention;

6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a method for processing viewer input information in a digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: DMB terminal, 12: DMB broadcasting system,

14: mobile communication base station, 16: base station controller,

18: mobile switching center, 20: comment management server,

22: DMB receiver, 24: signal processing unit,

26: decoder, 28: data extraction unit,

30: display drive unit, 32: display unit,

34: key input, 36: memory,

38: Microprocessor.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of processing viewer input information in digital multimedia broadcasting. More particularly, the present invention relates to viewer's reply data on a news article serviced through additional broadcasting of digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB). A method and apparatus for processing viewer input information in digital multimedia broadcasting for processing.

As is well known, as digital audio storage media such as CD, DVD, etc., are rapidly spreading, and the demand for digital broadcasting with high quality is increasing, the limitation of sound quality of existing FM broadcasting can be overcome. Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) was introduced.

The digital audio broadcasting (DAB), unlike conventional AM and FM broadcasting, can not only secure high-quality sound, but also show excellent reception on the go, as well as audio signals such as video or text. It is possible to transfer data at high speed.

Accordingly, in view of the ability to transmit digital data such as video and text at high speed, a digital multimedia broadcasting (hereinafter referred to as DMB broadcasting) service capable of various multimedia services including video rather than audio broadcasting has been recently performed. .

The DMB broadcast is to transmit a video based on the MPEG-4 type video compression algorithm so that a high quality broadcast can be received not only from a fixed receiver but also from a mobile receiver. A channel is included so that a single character service can be provided as an additional broadcasting channel together with a video broadcasting channel, and a broadcast transmission service of a news article is also possible as such a single character service.

The receiver receiving the DMB broadcast can receive a desired news content through a short message service and display it on the screen using a news service as an additional broadcast.

However, in the case of a news article providing service as an additional broadcast in such a DMB broadcast, the news article information created from the broadcast transmission side can be unidirectionally transmitted to a plurality of unspecified broadcast receivers. It is not possible to post the opinions or personally held information with the corresponding news articles, and it is difficult to exchange opinions or share information about news articles with other viewers.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object thereof is to provide a digital multimedia broadcasting service that enables a news article of a news service performed as an additional broadcasting of DMB broadcasting to be serviced together with a comment input by a viewer. To provide a method and apparatus for processing viewer input information in.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, in the short message service method of digital multimedia broadcasting providing a short text service through an additional broadcasting channel of a digital multimedia broadcasting, the digital multimedia broadcasting terminal provides a service through an additional broadcasting channel. In the state of displaying the short-term data on the screen, inputting a comment on the content of the short-term character data to transmit to the remote communication, receiving the comment data in the digital multimedia broadcasting system single-character of the additional broadcasting channel And transmitting the data together with the data, and receiving the short text data and the comment data from the digital multimedia broadcasting terminal and displaying them together on the screen. .

Hereinafter, the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

That is, FIG. 1 is a diagram briefly illustrating a data processing flow of a viewer input information processing method in a digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, in the method of processing viewer input information according to the present invention, in a DMB broadcasting system transmitting a DMB broadcast, a news service is performed as a short-term service through an additional broadcasting channel to transmit news article data through a broadcasting channel. When transmitting, the DMB terminal receives the news article data and displays it on the screen.

In this state, when a viewer having a corresponding DMB terminal inputs a comment using a comment input program tool provided in the corresponding DMB terminal to input personal opinion or personally held information about a news article displayed on the screen, The input comment input data is transmitted to the mobile communication system through the mobile communication network.

In the mobile communication system, the comment input data received from the DMB terminal is provided to the DMB broadcasting system, and the DMB broadcasting system connects the comment data input by the viewer with the relevant news article to the news article data through the additional broadcasting channel. Send together.

Accordingly, the DMB terminal can display the news article on the screen and display the comment input by the viewer as well as the comment input by the viewer of the other terminal on the screen.

2 is a diagram showing a digital multimedia broadcasting system system to which the method of the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the present invention, the DMB terminal 10, the DMB broadcasting system 12, the mobile communication base station 14, the base station controller 16, the mobile communication switchboard 18, and the comment management server ( 20).

The DMB terminal 10 is portable and mobile, while receiving a DMB broadcast and enabling a voice call and data communication through a mobile communication network, thereby providing a news service of an additional broadcast channel broadcast from the DMB broadcast system 12. It receives information and displays it on the screen. In addition to inputting a viewer's comment on a news article, it receives a comment information input for each news article and displays it on the screen together with the news article.

The DMB broadcasting system 10 provides a news service of a single character service as an additional broadcast through an independent data channel of DMB broadcasting, and transmits comment data inputted by viewers received from the comment management server 20 to the corresponding news article. Send it together as comment information.

The mobile communication base station 14 is a network termination device which is directly connected to a subscriber terminal by performing baseband signal processing, wired / wireless conversion, and transmission / reception of a radio signal, which is a DMB terminal 10 by processing RF radio signals. Transmit / receive a voice call signal, a voice guide message, or a data signal.

The base station controller 16 is located between each responsible base station 14 and each mobile switching center 18 to manage and control each of the mobile communication base stations 14 and 16.

The mobile communication switch 18 receives and receives comment input data by data transmission and communication with the DMB terminal 10 through a mobile communication network while performing a call / outgoing call processing function of a mobile communication terminal subscriber. Provide service to send to.

The comment management server 20 is connected to a mobile communication network through an intelligent network, collects the comment input data for a specific news article received from the DMB terminal 10 via a mobile communication network for each news article, and then set in advance It is provided to the DMB broadcasting system 12 at predetermined time intervals every predetermined period so that the comment data can be transmitted together with the news article.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 3, the DMB terminal 10 includes a DMB receiver 22, a signal processor 24, a decoder 26, a data extractor 28, a display driver 30, and a display unit ( 32, key input section 34, memory 36, microprocessor 38, digital signal processing section 40, baseband conversion section 42, and RE signal processing section 44.

The DMB receiver 22 receives a news article information signal according to a short-term service as an additional broadcast through a DMB broadcast channel, and the signal processor 24 converts the received signal according to the DMB broadcast into an intermediate frequency signal. Then, the signal processing for sampling the intermediate frequency signal and converting it into a digital signal is performed.

The decoder 26 decodes the signal-processed DMB broadcast signal to classify image / audio data and text data, and the data extractor 28 is configured to extract news article data from the decoded broadcast signal. The comment data will be extracted.

The display driver 30 is driven by the control process of the microprocessor 38 to display the news article data on the display unit 32 and to display the comment data connected to the news article.

The key input unit 34 performs a key input function for inputting a viewer's opinion or personal information according to a news article displayed on the display unit 32 in a text form, and the memory 36 extracts the data. The comment data of the news article extracted through the unit 28 is stored, and the stored comments are displayed together when the news article associated with the comment is displayed.

The microprocessor 38 controls the news article data from the data extraction unit 38 to be displayed on the display unit 32, and the comment input data inputted by the key operation of the key input unit 34 controls the mobile communication network. Through the comment management server 20 to be transmitted.

The digital signal processor 40 performs a data processing function of encoding or decoding an audio signal SPEECH and a data signal transmitted / received with the baseband converter 42, and multipath noise. Digital signal processing processor that equalizes for rejection.

The baseband converter 42 converts a signal to be transmitted and received into a baseband signal, performs functions such as digital-to-analog conversion and analog-to-digital conversion processing, and transmits message data input from the microprocessor 38. (TX DATA) is converted into a transmission message signal (TXIQ) and output to the RF signal processor 44, or the received message signal (RXIQ) input from the corresponding RF signal processor 44 is converted to the reception message data (RX DATA). To the digital signal processor 40.

The RF signal processor 44 converts a transmission message signal into a radio frequency (RF) signal and outputs it to an antenna, or converts an RF signal applied from the antenna into a reception message signal (RXIQ) and converts it into a baseband converter 42. Will output

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 4, the news service of the DMB broadcast received by the DMB terminal 10 is provided with a unique news number for each news article information data, and a comment input is input by the viewer. When the data is transmitted through the mobile communication network, the news number uniquely assigned to the news article is transmitted together to distinguish it from other comment data.

In addition, the comment information data received by the DMB terminal 10 together with the news article information data is transmitted with a news number assigned to the news article and a comment sequence number uniquely assigned to each comment.

The comment management server 20 can find a news article to which the corresponding comment is connected through the news number of the comment input data received from the DMB terminal 10 through a mobile communication network, and comments on the collected comment data, respectively. The sequence number will be specified.

Accordingly, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the news article is displayed on the display unit 32 of the DMB terminal 10, and a plurality of comment data received in connection with the news article are displayed. In response to the comments being displayed at the same time, when a comment input program tool is executed according to the viewer's key input unit 34 operation, a comment input window is generated to allow the viewer to arbitrarily input and transmit a comment.

Next, FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the viewer input information processing method in the digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, the flowchart according to the embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 6 will be described in detail in parallel with the operation of the apparatus of FIG. 2.

First, the DMB terminal 10 receives news article data according to a news service as an additional broadcast from the DMB broadcasting system 12 and displays it on the screen of the display unit 32 (step S10), and the display state of the news article. In response to the viewer's manipulation of the key input unit 34, a comment input program tool is executed to input a comment on the news article (step S11).

When a comment is input according to the viewer's key input unit 34 operation, the comment input data is transmitted to the mobile communication switch 18 through the mobile communication network together with the news number uniquely assigned to the news article (step S12). ), The mobile communication switch 18 provides the received comment input data to the comment management server 20 (step S13).

Accordingly, the comment management server 20 collects the comment input data connected with the news article found by the news number, and assigns a comment sequence number according to the news article for the collected comment data. On the other hand (step S14), the transmission period of the data is set for the comments connected to each news article (step S15).

Next, the comment management server 20 provides the DMB broadcasting system 12 with the comment input data collected for the news article at a time interval according to the transmission period of the set data (step S16). The DMB broadcasting system 12 transmits the news article and the comment data collected and connected to the news article according to a time interval set in advance by the comment management server 20 through an additional broadcasting channel (step S17).

Accordingly, the DMB terminal 10 receives the news article and the comment data connected to the news article through an additional broadcasting channel, so that the news article and the comment data can be displayed together as shown in FIG. 5. (Step S18).

On the other hand, it is determined whether a key input for re-entering a comment is made by a viewer's arbitrary operation (step S19), and if it is determined that the comment is input again, the process of step S18 is repeatedly performed in step S11.

On the other hand, the present invention is not limited to the above-described typical preferred embodiments, but can be carried out in various ways without departing from the gist of the present invention, various modifications, alterations, substitutions or additions are common in the art Those who have knowledge will easily understand. If the implementation by such improvement, change, replacement or addition falls within the scope of the appended claims, the technical idea should also be regarded as belonging to the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, for a news article service serviced through an additional broadcasting channel of DMB broadcasting, a comment of a news article arbitrarily input by a viewer is received through a mobile communication network and collected, and then a predetermined time period of a transmission period is determined. The comment data collected at intervals can be transmitted along with the news article through an additional broadcasting channel, so that the news article and comments about the news article can be displayed together on the DMB terminal. As the viewers can easily input and post comments, the interactive data service of the DMB broadcasting becomes possible.

Claims (19)

In the text data processing method, Receiving a digital broadcast signal through a broadcast channel; Extracting a unique identifier of the service program information from the received broadcast signal; Receiving text data corresponding to service program information in the received broadcast signal; Transmitting the input text data on an additional channel along with the extracted unique identifier. The method of claim 1, The service program information includes article content of a news service. The method of claim 1, The service program information includes comment data received for a news article. The method of claim 1, Wherein the broadcast channel and the additional channel are different channels. The method of claim 1, And separating and displaying the received program information into article contents and comment data. The method of claim 1, Classifying and collecting the received text data by the unique identifiers, and respectively assigning text data identifiers; Transmitting the collected text data with an assigned text data identifier. The method of claim 6, And wherein said transmitting step transmits said collected text data with an assigned text data identifier at a time interval of a set transmission period. The method of claim 6, Wherein the text data identifier is sequentially assigned corresponding to a unique identifier of the service program information. In the text data processing apparatus, A receiver which receives a digital broadcast signal through a broadcast channel; A data extraction unit for extracting a unique identifier of service program information from the received broadcast signal; An input unit for receiving text data corresponding to service program information in the received broadcast signal; And a signal processor to transmit the input text data through the additional channel together with the extracted unique identifier. In the text data processing method, Transmitting service program information through a broadcast channel with a unique identifier of the information; Extracting text data and identification information from the received information and comparing the identification information with a unique identifier of the service program information to identify associated service program information; Transmitting the extracted text data over the broadcast channel with the identified associated service program information. The method of claim 10, The service program information includes article content of a news service. The method of claim 10, The service program information includes comment data received for a news article. The method of claim 10, And the received information is received on a different channel than the broadcast channel. The method of claim 10, The determining may further include assigning a text data identifier to the extracted text data. The method of claim 14, Wherein the text data identifier is sequentially assigned corresponding to a unique identifier of the service program information. The method of claim 14, Wherein the text data identifier is transmitted with text data. In the text data processing apparatus, A first server extracting text data and identification information from the received information and comparing the identification information with a unique identifier of the service program information to confirm associated service program information; And a second server for transmitting service program information through a broadcast channel with a unique identifier of the information, and also transmitting text data extracted from the first server through the broadcast channel together with the identified associated service program information. The device is configured by. The method of claim 17, And the first server receives the received information through a mobile communication network. The method of claim 17, Wherein the text data includes received comment data for a news article.

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