KR20030055645A - Broadcast receiving apparatus adapted to preference and capacities of personal multimedia device and broadcast service method using the same apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a broadcast receiving apparatus suitable for user terminal performance and taste and a broadcast service method using the apparatus. In particular, the broadcast receiving apparatus receives a request signal for content or additional information from the user terminal and sends the request signal to the user terminal. A broadcast receiving device for transmitting requested content or additional information, comprising: a data storage unit for storing various broadcast content and additional information; A terminal manager to check whether the user terminal is a registered terminal; A data processor that reads the requested content or additional information from the data storage unit, converts the requested content or additional information, and transmits the converted content to the terminal manager; And a data transmitter which receives the converted broadcast content or additional information from the terminal manager and transmits the converted broadcast content or additional information to the user terminal. According to the present invention, content of a type suitable for a plurality of user terminals and additional information according to a preference of each user may be provided to a plurality of user terminals according to the performance and user taste of the user terminal. In addition, the viewer may receive the broadcast content and additional information without inputting an ID and password for confirmation in the broadcast receiving device.

Description

BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS ADAPTED TO PREFERENCE AND CAPACITIES OF PERSONAL MULTIMEDIA DEVICE AND BROADCAST SERVICE METHOD USING THE SAME APPARATUS}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to multimedia broadcasting, and more particularly, to a broadcast receiving apparatus suitable for performance and taste of a user terminal for providing broadcast content and additional information to a user terminal, and a broadcast service method using the apparatus.

Broadcasting may be referred to as a service that provides information in the form of video and audio to an unspecified number of users. Among such broadcasts, digital television broadcasts can transmit and receive various data in addition to video and audio signals, unlike analog television broadcasts based on NTSC, PAL or SECAM.

Conventional digital broadcast receivers reproduce multimedia signals through a receiver connected to a receiver, and provide information such as an electronic program guide when playing a received broadcast signal. Therefore, in order to reproduce and provide information based on taste information such as what content the user enjoys watching, a procedure for confirming the user is required. This verification process is performed by the user inputting an ID and password. Due to such a confirmation procedure, there is a problem in the conventional digital broadcast reception device that an additional interaction occurs between a user and a receiver. In addition, since the receiver must be shared among all viewers, it is difficult to provide information such as a program guide according to the taste of each viewer to each viewer.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, and a broadcast receiving apparatus suitable for performance and taste of a user terminal that provides additional information or broadcast content desired by a user through a user terminal used by a viewer in a desired form, and The present invention provides a broadcast service method using a device.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a broadcast receiving apparatus suitable for the performance and taste of a user terminal capable of receiving broadcast contents and additional information without inputting an ID and password for the user's confirmation, and a broadcast service method using the apparatus. There is.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a broadcast receiving apparatus in a broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of serving information in a broadcast receiving device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to solve such a problem, the present invention stores information for identifying a user terminal in advance.

The broadcast receiving device according to the first aspect of the present invention receives a request signal for content or additional information from a user terminal and transmits the requested content or additional information to the user terminal, and includes a data storage unit, a terminal manager, a data processor, and a data transmitter. Is made of. The data storage unit stores various broadcast contents and additional information, and the terminal manager checks whether the user terminal is a registered terminal. The data processor reads the requested content or additional information from the data storage unit, converts the content or additional information to the user terminal, and transmits the converted content or additional information to the terminal manager.

In this case, if the broadcast reception device may further include a broadcast signal receiver, the broadcast signal receiver receives a broadcast signal provided by a service company, demodulates, demultiplexes, and transmits the demodulated signal to the data storage. The apparatus may further include a user interface unit, and the user interface unit receives the contents input through the receiver and transmits the contents to the data processor or the terminal manager.

In this case, the terminal manager preferably stores an identifier for the registered terminal in advance, and checks whether the user terminal is a registered terminal by comparing the identifier with a terminal identifier included in the request signal transmitted from the user terminal.

In addition, the terminal manager detects performance information of the user terminal or user preference information when using the user terminal and transmits the detected information to the data processor, and the data processor converts the content or additional information based on the detected information. Do.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the broadcast reception device according to the first aspect of the present invention receives a request signal for content or additional information from a user terminal and confirms whether the user terminal is a registered terminal. If the user terminal is a registered terminal, the performance information of the user terminal or taste information of the user when using the user terminal is detected, and the content or additional information is converted based on the detected information. The converted content or additional information is transmitted to the user terminal to provide a broadcast service.

When checking whether the user terminal is a registered terminal, it is preferable to check whether the user terminal is a registered terminal by comparing the identifier of the registered terminal and the identifier of the registered user terminal.

Next, a broadcast service receiving apparatus and a service method thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

First, a broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the broadcast service system according to the present invention includes a receiver 10, a broadcast receiving device 20, a home network 30, and a plurality of user terminals 40.

The broadcast receiving device 20 may receive a digital broadcast and transmit the digital broadcast to the receiver 10, and the user may transmit desired content to the broadcast receiving device 20 through the receiver 10. The broadcast reception device 20 is connected to the user terminal 40 through the home network 30. In addition, when the broadcast receiving device 20 receives a request signal for specific content or additional information from the user terminal 40 through the home network 30, the user terminal 40 which has transmitted the request signal belongs to a certain terminal. The requested content and additional information are converted into a form suitable for the performance of the user terminal 40 and the taste of the user, and are transmitted to the user terminal 40.

As the user terminal 40, an IMT-2000 terminal, a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or the like may be used.

Hereinafter, a broadcast reception device and a broadcast service method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a broadcast receiving apparatus in a broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of serving information in a broadcast receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the broadcast reception device 20 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a broadcast signal receiver 21, a data storage unit 22, a data processor 23, a terminal manager 24, and a data transmitter. 25 and the user interface 26.

The broadcast signal receiver 21 receives a digital broadcast signal transmitted from a service provider, demodulates it, de-multiplexes a broadcast signal of a selected broadcast channel, and extracts broadcast content and additional information. The data storage unit 22 stores broadcast content and additional information transmitted from the broadcast signal receiving unit 21. The data processor 23 reads the broadcast content requested by the user, additional information, and the like from the data storage unit 22, transcodes them to the user, and transmits them to the terminal manager 24. The terminal manager 24 manages an identifier for determining whether the user terminal can be connected to the broadcast receiving device 20, information on terminal performance, and information on user's taste. In response to a request from the user terminal 40 of FIG. 1, the data transmitter 25 transmits appropriate broadcast content and additional information to the user terminal 40 of FIG. 1 through the home network 30 of FIG. 1.

In addition, the user interface unit 26 receives the contents input by the user through the receiver (10 in FIG. 1) and transmits the contents inputted to the data processor 23 or the terminal manager 24 to transmit broadcast content and additional information desired by the user. It is received from the processor 23 or the terminal manager 24 and provided to the receiver 10.

Next, a method of servicing data in the broadcast reception device 20 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

First, when the data transmitter 25 receives a request signal for broadcast content and additional information desired by the user from the user terminal 40 through the home network 30 (S301), the data signal is sent to the terminal manager 24. Transfer (S302). The terminal manager 24 checks the terminal identifier included in the request signal and compares it with the identifier of the registered user terminal already stored (S303). In the case of a registered terminal, performance information and user taste information of the terminal are acquired (S304). If it is not a registered terminal, this signal is invalidated (S311). In this case, the performance information of the terminal may include, for example, a screen size of a terminal, a color reproduction capability, a video reproduction capability, or an audio reproduction capability. There is this.

The terminal manager 24 requests the data processor 23 to specify the type of broadcast content and additional information by using performance information of the user terminal, user taste information, and the like (S305). The data processing unit 23 reads the broadcast content and the additional information requested by the user from the data storage unit 22 and converts the broadcast content and additional information in accordance with the designated form (S306).

In this form of conversion, for example, the content consisting of video and audio is converted into audio information (when the user terminal does not support video playback or the user does not want the video information), and conversion into text information (user terminal Does not support video and audio playback or the user only wants text) or a conversion to a combination of audio and text information. In addition, there is a case in which the size of the video frame is reduced to match the screen size of the user terminal, or the case of converting the video frame into a summary video in consideration of the storage capacity of the user terminal.

When the broadcast content and the additional information converted in step S306 are transferred to the terminal manager 24, the terminal manager 24 transmits the broadcast content and the additional information to the data transmitter 25 (S307). The data transmitter 25 transmits the data to the requested user terminal 40 through the home network 30 (S308).

As described above, according to the present invention, content appropriate to a plurality of user terminals and additional information according to a preference of each user may be provided to a plurality of user terminals according to the performance and user taste of the user terminal. In addition, the viewer may receive the broadcast content and additional information without inputting an ID and password for confirmation in the broadcast receiving device.

Claims (7)

A broadcast receiving device receiving a request signal for content or additional information from a user terminal and transmitting the requested content or additional information to the user terminal, A data storage unit storing various broadcast contents and additional information; A terminal manager to check whether the user terminal is a registered terminal; A data processor that reads the requested content or additional information from the data storage unit, converts the requested content or additional information, and transmits the converted content to the terminal manager; And Data transmission unit for receiving the converted broadcast content or additional information from the terminal manager to transmit to the user terminal Broadcast receiving device comprising a. The method of claim 1, And a broadcast signal receiver configured to receive, demodulate and demultiplex broadcast signals provided by a service provider, and transmit the demodulated signals to the data storage. The method of claim 1, And a user interface unit which receives the contents input by the user through the receiver and transmits the contents to the data processor or the terminal manager. The method of claim 1, The terminal manager previously stores an identifier for a registered terminal, and compares the identifier with a terminal identifier included in the request signal transmitted from the user terminal to confirm whether the user terminal is a registered terminal. And a broadcast receiving device. The method of claim 1, The terminal manager detects performance information of the user terminal or user taste information when using the user terminal and transmits the detected information to the data processor. The data processor converts the content or the additional information based on the detected information. Broadcast receiving apparatus, characterized in that. A first step of receiving a request signal for content or additional information from a user terminal; A second step of confirming whether the user terminal is a registered terminal; If it is determined that the user terminal is a registered terminal, detecting a performance information of the user terminal or taste information of the user when using the user terminal; Converting the content or the additional information based on the detected information; And A fifth step of transmitting the converted content or additional information to the user terminal Broadcast service method comprising a. The method of claim 6, And checking whether the user terminal is a registered terminal by comparing an identifier of a registered terminal, in which the second step is stored in advance, with an identifier of the user terminal.