摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a program guide system which is appropriate for monitoring interactive television program guide advertisement usage. SOLUTION: Advertisement usage may be monitored by monitoring, when advertisements are transmitted from a television distribution facility to user television equipment. Advertisement usage information may also be monitored by monitoring, when advertisements are received by the user television equipment. Advertisement utilization information may also be monitored, at which advertisements are displayed by a program guide. Comparatively less important data can be filtered from among the collected advertisement usage data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an appropriate advertisement for each user, regarding a television system. SOLUTION: The invention relates to a method for presenting a targeted advertisement to a user in an electronic program guide (EPG), including: monitoring a television program selected by the user; collecting information about a user's interest corresponding to the television program selected by the user; displaying a plurality of television schedule information items containing times and channels; and displaying the targeted advertisement simultaneously with the plurality of television schedule information items displayed, wherein the advertisement is targeted to the user in response to the user's interests. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display an extremely large amount of notice information that is provided together with contents and relating to the contents, so that the contents change in accordance with time, a user can easily select them in accordance with their own volition, and they do not overflow into a content display area. SOLUTION: Contents of dynamic images or music with a nature of change in accordance with time are transmitted by communication or broadcast, and link information that acquires notice information, such as advertisements, to be displayed together with the display of the contents is transmitted by communication or broadcast. The contents and the notifying information are received, so that the contents are displayed in a content display area on a display screen of a display device and the link information, separately from them, is displayed in a ticker display area on the same display screen as that of the contents in such a way that the link information is changed in accordance with time and can be selected by a user. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
An electronic program guide (EPG) organizes and presents programming information to the viewer and allows for creation of queries to facilitate both simple and complex searches of the programming information. The EPG is configured to automatically identify programs that a viewer is likely to prefer. The EPG collects viewing preferences of a viewer and, using these preferences, automatically develops queries for identifying programs that the viewer is likely to watch. The EPG also enables multiple viewers to merge their individual queries into one composite query or to run queries in background to periodically check for programs and notify the viewer when a program is identified. Queries are saved in an EPG database in a hierarchic structure with directories and sub-directories to make it easy for a viewer for organizing and retrieval. Also the EPG creates queries for a channel, network name or program using a 10-key keypad. The EPG is configured to interpret the data as representing all possible choices.
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce power consumption by controlling power supply to respective process blocks, according to the operation mode. SOLUTION: A signal processing section and a resolution conversion section provided in a signal processing section 20 are provided, while being divided into: a signal processing section 24A and a resolution conversion section 25A, used for monitoring operation wherein a viewing angle is adjusted before photography and moving picture processing; and a signal processing section 24B and a resolution conversion section 25 used for still picture processing. Furthermore, respective processing blocks are hierarchically separated and provided, according to various processing contents of the monitoring processing and still picture processing, to provide a configuration where the power source supplied to the respective processing blocks is separable, and only necessary processing blocks are supplied with the power source according to the operation modes. In a monitoring mode which is dominant to the power consumption, the blocks are operated at a lower clock frequency than conventionally, and consequently, power source supplied to the processing blocks necessary for the monitoring operation is lowered to reduce the power consumption. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT