Broadcast receiver and broadcast receiving system
AssigneeMaxell, Ltd.
InventorsYasunobu Hashimoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka
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Abstract
The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.
Claims5
An application activating method of activating an application to be executed in a broadcast receiver, the application being in cooperation with a broadcast program, the application activating method comprising:
- an automatic activation setting step of setting whether or not to permit automatic activation of an application based on setting by a user operation;
- a receiving step of receiving a broadcast signal;
- a first application activating step of activating an application when 1) application control information contained in the received broadcast signal indicates the automatic activation of the application and 2) the automatic activation of the application is set to be permitted in the automatic activation setting step;
- a launcher screen displaying step of displaying an application launcher screen on a display, the application launcher screen showing applications that can be executed in the broadcast receiver;
- a second application activating step of activating an application on a basis of a user operation through the displayed application launcher screen;
- a communicating step of communicating with an external portable terminal;
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- a third application activating step of activating an application on a basis of an activation request by a user operation through the external portable terminal, which is received in the communicating step.
A broadcast receiver comprising:
- a tuner configured to receive a broadcast signal;
- a display configured to display an image;
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- a processor configured to execute:
- an automatic activation setting process of whether or not to permit automatic activation of an application based on a user operation;
- a first application activation process of activating an application when application control information contained in the broadcast signal received by the tuner indicates the automatic activation of the application and when the automatic activation of the application is set to be permitted in the automatic activation setting process;
- a launcher screen display process of displaying an application launcher screen on the display, the application launcher screen showing applications that can be executed in the broadcast receiver;
- a second application activation process of activating an application on a basis of a user operation through the displayed application launcher screen;
- communication with an external portable terminal;
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- a third application activation process of activating an application by a signal in response to an operation to the external portable terminal, the signal being received through the communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.