KR20170055316A - Apparatus for Hybrid Radio Services, system having the same and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus for providing a hybrid radio service according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a location information processing module for obtaining location information of the hybrid radio service; A broadcast receiving module for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a broadcasting station; Related radio service providing server connection information from the radio service location identification server and transmits the program identification request message and the program identification information including the location information to the radio service location identification server, And a hybrid service processing module for connecting to the radio service location identification server using the connection information and receiving the program related data.

Description

 [0001] Apparatus for Hybrid Radio Service [0002] <

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hybrid radio service provision apparatus, a system including the hybrid radio service provision apparatus, and a method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a technology for providing a radio service in a hybrid form in parallel with a communication network.

Radio broadcasting is classified into an analog method such as AM or FM and a digital radio method such as DAB. In the case of analog method, a radio service in which an audio signal is modulated by amplitude or frequency modulation method, to be.

In a conventional method of providing FM in a hybrid form, information of the FM channel being received is transmitted to a specific server (RadioDNS) on the broadband to provide Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) on the Internet Receive. The receiver connects to the server using the provided FQDN, and provides additional data such as a streaming address or an image of the same program to the listener.

In the case of FM, when providing a hybrid service for such additional data transmission, in an area where the FM signal is not good, the server may be connected to the service server through the above process, and the service may be automatically connected or additional data such as text, image, To improve the listening environment of the listener.

However, in the case of conventional FM broadcasting, a separate data channel such as RDS (Radio Data System) is required to identify program information being received. As shown in FIG. 1, the RDS is a standard designed to transmit a Program Identifier (PI) code and a Program Associated character for identifying a program. The RDS is a PI (Program Identifier) code to identify the program being received at the receiving end of the radio.

The PI code of the RDS is represented by a 16-bit value in one block as shown in FIG. 1 and generally refers to a broadcaster. The PI code of the RDS is very important information for the hybrid radio service and should be transmitted to a specific server (RadioDNS server in one embodiment) as the frequency information being listened to. However, if the RDS signal is not transmitted, only the frequency information can be grasped, so additional means for identifying the program is needed.

Patent Publication No. KR 10-2006-0127114

The embodiment of the present invention allows the receiving device to identify the program of the FM being listened to using the listener's location information so as to identify the program being listened without transmitting additional signals such as a separate RDS and to provide a hybrid radio service A hybrid radio service providing apparatus, a system including the hybrid radio service providing apparatus, and a method thereof.

The technical problems of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned technical problems, and other technical problems which are not mentioned can be understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

An apparatus for providing a hybrid radio service according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a location information processing module for obtaining location information of the hybrid radio service; A broadcast receiving module for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a broadcasting station; Related radio service providing server connection information from the radio service location identification server and transmits the program identification request message and the program identification information including the location information to the radio service location identification server, And a hybrid service processing module for connecting to the radio service location identification server using the connection information and receiving the program related data.

In addition, the program identification information may include at least one of country information, frequency information, and location information.

The mobile communication terminal may further include a communication module for performing communication with the radio service location identification server and the radio service providing server.

The multimedia data processing module may further include a multimedia data processing module for decoding and outputting the program related data received from the radio service providing server.

The location information processing module may receive the GPS signal from the GPS satellite to obtain its latitude and longitude.

In addition, the hybrid service processing module may transmit the program identification request message when receiving a bad reception signal or a hybrid service request from a listener.

Also, a hybrid radio service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a radio receiver for receiving a radio signal transmitted by a broadcasting station and transmitting a program identification request message for a currently received program; And receiving, by the radio receiver, the radio service providing server connection information for identifying the broadcasting program and the program of the program currently being received by the radio receiver and providing the identified program related service, upon reception of the program identification request message from the radio receiver Lt; RTI ID = 0.0 > a < / RTI > radio service location identification server.

The radio receiver may further include a radio service providing server for transmitting program related streaming or additional data received by the radio receiver to the radio receiver when the radio receiver is connected to the radio receiver.

In addition, the radio receiver may access the radio service using radio service providing server connection information providing the identified program related service.

In addition, the radio receiver may transmit the program identification request message to the radio service location identification server when receiving the radio signal reception failure or the hybrid service request from the listener.

In addition, the radio receiver may transmit program identification request information including at least one of country information, frequency information, and location information when transmitting the program identification request message.

In addition, the radio receiver may output program-related streaming or additional data received from the radio service providing server.

The radio receiver may further include: a location information processing module for obtaining location information of the radio receiver; A broadcast receiving module for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a broadcasting station and obtaining a country code and frequency information for the radio signal; And program identification information including the location information, the country code, and the frequency information to the radio service location identification server, and receives the program related radio service providing server connection information from the radio service location identification server And a hybrid service processing module for connecting to the radio service location identification server using the program related radio service providing server connection information and receiving the program related data.

The multimedia data processing module may further include a multimedia data processing module for decoding and outputting the program related data received from the radio service providing server.

The radio service location identification server stores data including at least one of domain information, frequency information, and PI code for each broadcasting station in advance, and when receiving a request for program identification of a currently received program from the radio receiver, From the stored data, the broadcasting station providing the program and the PI code, and provide connection information of a radio service providing server providing the service corresponding to the identified broadcasting station and the PI code to the radio receiver.

In addition, the radio service location identification server may store a uniform region or a non-uniform region when the region information is stored.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a hybrid radio service, the method comprising: transmitting a program identification request message for requesting a program identification to a program currently being listened to when receiving a radio signal reception failure or a hybrid service request from a listener; Receiving radio service providing server connection information according to the program identification through a communication network; And connecting the radio service providing server to the radio service providing server using the radio service providing server connection information to receive additional data for the program currently being listened through the communication network.

In addition, the step of transmitting the program identification request message may transmit program identification information including at least one of country information, frequency information, and location information of the program currently being listened to.

The method may further include processing the additional data received from the radio service providing server and displaying the processed additional data on a screen.

In addition, the step of processing the additional data and displaying the additional data on the screen may display at least one of a song name, lyrics, tag service, and program related additional information related to the program currently being listened to.

The present technique enables identification of a radio program being listened from the listener's location information, thereby enabling a hybrid radio service to be provided without transmitting a separate RDS signal.

1 is a diagram showing a conventional RDS signal format.
2 is an overall system configuration diagram for providing a hybrid service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is an example of a message format transmitted to a radio service location identification server for grasping connection information of a radio application server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a detailed configuration diagram of a radio receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a hybrid radio service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a radio domain configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a positional information coordinate diagram according to a broadcasting region having a single radius value according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 illustrates an embodiment of a positional information coordinate map according to a broadcast region having one or more radius values according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a block diagram of a computer system to which a radio service location identification server for providing a hybrid radio service according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. It should be noted that, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals even though they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the embodiments of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the difference that the embodiments of the present invention are not conclusive.

In describing the components of the embodiment of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. Also, unless otherwise defined, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the relevant art and are to be interpreted in an ideal or overly formal sense unless explicitly defined in the present application Do not.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

2 is an overall system configuration diagram for providing a hybrid service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A radio receiver 100 located in a radio propagation region by the radio station 11 and receiving a radio broadcast, a radio service location identification server 200 connected to the radio receiver 100 via a communication network, and a radio service provider server 300 ). At this time, the communication network includes various communication networks including the 3G and LTE mobile communication networks, and the present invention does not limit the specific communication network.

The radio receiver 100 receives a radio signal having a specific frequency transmitted from the radio station 11. If the reception of the radio signal is not good or the listener wants to receive the associated supplementary data service, the radio receiver 100 obtains its location information from the GPS satellite 20 and transmits it to the radio service location identification server 200 Transmits a request message composed of the frequency information of the currently received radio signal and the position information received from the GPS satellite 20. To this end, the radio receiver 100 may be equipped with a receiving device such as a GPS receiver, and the location information may include latitude and longitude data of the radio receiver 100. [

The radio receiver 100 receives a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) related to a broadcast program currently being received from the radio service location identification server 200, To the providing server (300). Accordingly, the radio receiver 100 can receive the additional data such as text, image, and web data associated with the broadcast program being received from the radio service providing server 300 and provide it to the screen, thereby improving the listening environment of the listener.

The radio service location identification server 200 identifies a radio broadcast program received by the radio receiver 100 using the location information of the radio receiver 100 received from the radio receiver 100, And provides connection information (FQDN) to the radio receiver 100.

When the radio service providing server 300 receives a request for a radio service from the radio receiver 100, the radio service providing server 300 provides the radio receiver 100 with additional data such as text, images, and Web data associated with the broadcast program being received by the radio receiver 100 do.

As described above, in the case of the FM radio station 11 which does not separately transmit the RDS signal, the PI (Program Identifier) code corresponding to the station information of the broadcasting station can not be grasped, but the position information of the listener To identify the radio broadcast area 10. Generally, in the case of FM frequency, the transmission strength is adjusted so that the broadcasting areas having the same frequency are not overlapped, so that when the position information of the listener is provided, the PI code of the radio station 11 can be grasped together with the frequency information.

The request message (Query) transmitted by the radio receiver 100 to the radio service location identification server 200 is configured in the form of "frequency> <latitude> <longitude> <gcc> <fm.radiodns.org> . 3 is an example of a message format transmitted to a radio service location identification server for grasping connection information of a radio application server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, an FM signal broadcast at a frequency of 103.9 MHz, such as "10390.33.450701.126.570667.ef1.fm.radiodns.org ", latitude with a value of 33.450701, longitude with a value of 126.570667, and ef1 Code) and fm.radiodns.org format.

4 is a detailed configuration diagram of a radio receiver 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A radio receiver 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a broadcast receiving module 110, a location information processing module 120, a hybrid service processing module 130, a communication module 140, and a multimedia data control module 150 .

The broadcast receiving module 110 receives a digital radio broadcast signal such as a DAB including an FM radio. That is, the broadcast receiving module 110 receives the channel or frequency selected by the listener, and receives and reproduces the related radio program and the related supplementary data service. In addition, the broadcast receiving module 110 may include an international country for identifying a program currently being received by the hybrid service processing module 130 when the received signal is not good during listening, or when the listener desires to receive the associated additional data service through the communication network. Code, and frequency information.

The location information processing module 120 locates location information composed of the latitude and longitude of the listener from the GPS signal and transmits the location information to the hybrid service processing module 130 when a hybrid service connection request is received from the listener.

When a radio service location identification request is generated at the request of the terminal itself or the listener, the hybrid service processing module 130 transmits a message (international country code, frequency, and location information) received from the broadcast receiving module 110 and the location information processing module 120 Information) and transmits a request message for grasping radio application connection information to the radio service location identification server 200. When the hybrid service processing module 130 receives radio service providing server connection information, which is a reply message, from the radio service location identification server 100, the hybrid service processing module 130 transmits the radio service providing server connection information to the radio service providing server 300 Application server) and receives the radio program related service data being listened to.

The communication module 140 is implemented through an LTE modem or the like and communicates with a communication network. The communication module 140 communicates with the radio service location identification server 200 or the radio service provision server 300.

The multimedia data processing module 150 decodes and processes the service data received from the radio service providing server 300 and reproduces the sound through the speaker 160 or outputs the sound data to the display unit 170.

Hereinafter, a hybrid radio service method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

First, the radio service location identification server 200 receives and stores service identification information for each program in advance (S101).

The radio receiver 100 transmits the program identification information and the identification request message to the radio service location identification server 200 (S103) when a reception signal failure or a hybrid service request occurs (S102). At this time, the program identification information may include country information, frequency, and location information (latitude, longitude).

Upon receiving the identification request message from the radio receiver 100, the radio service location identification server 200 identifies the PI code of the station being listened to by the receiver using the program identification information (S104). At this time, the radio service location identification server 200 uses the service identification information for each program stored in advance in the radio service location identification server 200 or the broadcasting area, frequency, and corresponding broadcasting company information secured from the outside, Identify the PI code. Techniques for identifying PI codes will be described in more detail later.

Then, the radio service location identification server 200 identifies the program through the identified PI code and transmits the connection information and service identification information of the radio service providing server providing the service related to the program to the radio receiver 100 (S105). In this case, the radio service providing server connection information may be provided in the form of "http: // <fqdn> / <ServiceIdentifier> Can be provided.

Then, the radio receiver 100 connects to the radio service providing server 300 using the radio service providing server connection information (S106), and requests additional data related to the program.

Accordingly, the radio service providing server 300 provides the radio receiver 100 with streaming or related additional data related to the radio program currently being received by the listener through the radio receiver 100 (S107). At this time, the streaming or related additional data may include an address (URL: Uniform Resource Locator) of a server capable of receiving actual application data, for example, a streaming address or an address where an image such as a slide show can be downloaded, .

Thereafter, the radio receiver 100 decodes streaming or related supplementary data received from the radio service providing server 300 and outputs the decoded streams through the display unit or the speaker (S108).

Various algorithms can be applied to the method of identifying the broadcasting company and the PI code in step S104, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

As shown in step S101, data is provided in advance in the radio service location identification server 200 or in a separate external device. The data may be configured as shown in FIG. Assuming that the vehicle 30 shown in Fig. 6 is the position of the listener, the listener is located in the area 32 of the FM broadcast station 31. [

As shown in FIG. 6, the radio service location identification server 200 has related data including all sphere, frequency and PI code, and when it receives an identification request message from the radio receiver 100, And obtains the corresponding broadcasting station (the broadcasting station 31 in Fig. 6) and the corresponding PI code.

Also, the radio service location identification server 200 includes connection information (radio service providing server name and service identification information) of the radio service providing server provided by the relevant broadcasting station in addition to all the sphere, frequency and PI code, And transmits the connection information of the radio service providing server to the corresponding radio receiver 100.

The connection information of the radio service providing server is, for example, "http: // <fqdn> / <ServiceIdentifier>" in one embodiment as shown in FIG. And may be delivered as an answer message to the request message.

At this time, the domain information provided in the radio service location identification server 200 may have a uniform domain range or a non-uniform domain range as shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a positional information coordinate map according to a broadcasting region having a single radius value according to an embodiment of the present invention. And FIG.

 Referring to FIG. 7, in the case of a uniform region, an error may occur in identifying the PI code of the broadcasting station because the propagation region may differ from the region where the radio wave actually reaches. In the case of FIG. 8, the range is approximated in eight directions, and the accuracy can be increased compared to FIG. It is also possible to establish a region that is calculated to a very precise range through actual measurement of the broadcasting area.

As described above, according to the present invention, even in the case of FM broadcasting in which the RDS signal is not transmitted, the position information of the listener is transmitted without directly transmitting the existing PI code, and the service related to the listening radio program is received through the communication network, The Internet streaming service can be alternatively received and the high quality image or the web service can be provided through the communication network instead of the broadcasting network and can be provided to the display of the listener, thereby providing the same effect as the visual radio.

In addition, when the present invention is applied, it is possible to provide various information (song name, lyrics, tag service, program related additional information, or related additional additional information) related to the radio program being listened to.

9 is a block diagram of a computer system to which a radio service location identification server for providing a hybrid radio service according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

9, a computing system 1000 includes at least one processor 1100, a memory 1300, a user interface input device 1400, a user interface output device 1500, (1600), and a network interface (1700).

The processor 1100 may be a central processing unit (CPU) or a memory device 1300 and / or a semiconductor device that performs processing for instructions stored in the storage 1600. Memory 1300 and storage 1600 may include various types of volatile or non-volatile storage media. For example, the memory 1300 may include a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM (Random Access Memory).

Thus, the steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by processor 1100, or in a combination of the two. The software module may reside in a storage medium (i.e., memory 1300 and / or storage 1600) such as a RAM memory, a flash memory, a ROM memory, an EPROM memory, an EEPROM memory, a register, a hard disk, a removable disk, You may.

An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor 1100, which can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. Alternatively, the storage medium may be integral to the processor 1100. [ The processor and the storage medium may reside within an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may reside within the user terminal. Alternatively, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

100: Radio receiver
200: radio service location identification server
300: radio service providing server
110: broadcast receiving module
120: Position information processing module
130: Hybrid service processing module
140: Communication module
150: Multimedia data processing module
160: Speaker
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Claims (20)

A location information processing module for acquiring location information of the user;
A broadcast receiving module for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a broadcasting station; And
Transmitting the program identification request message and the program identification information including the location information to the radio service location identification server and receiving the program related radio service providing server connection information from the radio service location identification server, A hybrid service processing module for connecting to the radio service location identification server using the information and receiving the program related data,
And a controller for controlling the hybrid radio service provider. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the program identification information comprises:
Wherein the information is at least one of country information, frequency information, and location information. The method according to claim 1,
A communication module for performing communication with the radio service location identification server and the radio service providing server,
Further comprising: means for receiving the radio signal from the base station. The method according to claim 1,
And a multimedia data processing module for decoding and outputting the program related data received from the radio service providing server
Further comprising: means for receiving the radio signal from the base station. The method according to claim 1,
The location information processing module,
And receives the GPS signal from the GPS satellite to acquire its own latitude and longitude. The method according to claim 1,
The hybrid service processing module includes:
And transmits the program identification request message when a reception signal is bad or a hybrid service request is received from a listener. A radio receiver for receiving a radio signal transmitted by a broadcasting station and transmitting a program identification request message for a program currently being received; And
Upon reception of the program identification request message from the radio receiver, identifies a broadcast program and a program of a program currently being received by the radio receiver, and provides radio service providing server connection information for providing the identified program related service to the radio receiver A radio service location identification server;
The hybrid radio service providing system comprising: The method of claim 7,
And a radio receiver for receiving program-related streaming or additional data received by the radio receiver from the radio receiver when the radio receiver is connected to the radio receiver,
Further comprising: means for receiving a radio signal from the radio base station. The method of claim 8,
The radio receiver includes:
And accessing the radio service using radio service providing server connection information providing the identified program related service. The method of claim 8,
The radio receiver includes:
And transmits the program identification request message to the radio service location identification server when receiving the radio signal reception failure or the hybrid service request from the listener. The method of claim 8,
The radio receiver includes:
And transmits program identification request information including at least one of country information, frequency information, and location information together when transmitting the program identification request message. The method of claim 8,
The radio receiver includes:
And outputs the program related streaming or additional data received from the radio service providing server. The method of claim 8,
The radio receiver includes:
A location information processing module for acquiring location information of the user;
A broadcast receiving module for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a broadcasting station and obtaining a country code and frequency information for the radio signal; And
Transmitting a program identification request message and program identification information including the location information, the country code and frequency information to the radio service location identification server, and upon receiving the program related radio service providing server connection information from the radio service location identification server, A hybrid service processing module for connecting to the radio service location identification server using the program related radio service providing server connection information and receiving the program related data,
And a control unit for controlling the hybrid radio service providing system. 14. The method of claim 13,
And a multimedia data processing module for decoding and outputting the program related data received from the radio service providing server
Further comprising the step of: The method of claim 8,
Wherein the radio service location identification server comprises:
Data including at least one of domain information, frequency information, and PI (Program Identifier) code for each broadcasting company is stored in advance,
A radio service providing server for identifying a broadcasting station providing the program and a PI code from the stored data and providing a service corresponding to the identified broadcasting station and the PI code when receiving a program identification for a program currently being received from the radio receiver, And provides the connection information of the hybrid radio service to the radio receiver. 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the radio service location identification server comprises:
And stores the information in the form of a uniform domain range or a non-uniform domain range when storing the domain information by the broadcaster. Receiving a program identification request message for requesting a program identification for a currently listening program when receiving a radio signal reception failure or a hybrid service request from a listener;
Receiving radio service providing server connection information according to the program identification through a communication network; And
Connecting to the radio service providing server using the radio service providing server connection information, receiving supplementary data for the program currently being listened through the communication network
And transmitting the hybrid radio service. 18. The method of claim 17,
Wherein the transmitting the program identification request message comprises:
And transmitting program identification information including at least one of country information, frequency information, and location information for the program currently being listened to. 18. The method of claim 17,
Processing the additional data received from the radio service providing server and displaying it on the screen
The method of claim 1, further comprising: The method of claim 19,
Processing the additional data and displaying the additional data on a screen,
And displaying at least one of a song name, a lyrics, a tag service, and program related additional information related to the program currently being listened to.

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