US 2006/0225095 A1Published application

Information processing system, information processing device and method, recording medium, and program

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsMotoki Tsunokawa, Hiroko Hirosawa

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Abstract

An information processing system, an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a computer program can easily provide a user with program information, which is easier to see for the user, and display the program information on a limited screen space effectively. An EPG server of the service provider creates EPG information on the basis of information on programs of a broadcasting station and lays open the EPG information to the outside of the EPG server. An editing server acquires and edits the EPG information periodically at predetermined intervals and lays open edited EPG information to the public. A hard disk recorder requests the edited EPG information from the editing server through a network on the basis of an instruction of a user and causes a monitor to display the edited EPG information supplied from the editing server on the basis of the request. The invention can be applied to an EPG providing system.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An information processing system, comprising:

a first information processing apparatus that provides information on broadcast content through a network;
a second information processing apparatus connected to the network for communicating with the first information processing apparatus;
and
a third information processing apparatus connected to the network for communicating with the second information processing apparatus;
the first information processing apparatus including first supplying means for supplying the information on the broadcast content to the second information processing apparatus;
the second information processing apparatus including:
first acquiring means for acquiring the information on the broadcast content from the first information processing apparatus;
editing means for editing the information on the broadcast content to form an image corresponding to the information on the broadcast content with an image size larger than a size of a display screen on which the image is displayed and with a constitution in which a broadcast schedule of the broadcast content, broadcasting station names corresponding to the broadcast schedule, times corresponding to the broadcast schedule, and a function button or a predetermined mark for changing the broadcast schedule, which is displayed by operation of a user, are always displayed in the display screen;
and
second supplying means for supplying the edited information on the broadcast content to the third information processing apparatus;
and
the third information processing apparatus including:
second acquiring means for acquiring the edited information on the broadcast content from the second information processing apparatus;
and
display control means for controlling display of the image corresponding to the edited information on the broadcast content.

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An information processing apparatus, comprising:

editing means for editing information on broadcast content to form a first image corresponding to the information on the broadcast content with an image size larger than a size of a display screen on which the first image is displayed and with a constitution in which a broadcast schedule of the broadcast content, broadcasting station names corresponding to the broadcast schedule, times corresponding to the broadcast schedule, and a function button or a predetermined mark for changing the broadcast schedule, which is displayed by operation of a user, are always displayed in the display screen.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/545,211Filed 19 Feb 2004
Priority: JP 2003-04643824 Feb 2003
Published: 5 Oct 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H04N 5/76
Details of television systems: television signal recording
H04N 21/26283
Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the…:…
H04N 21/4143
Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance: embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
H04N 21/4147
Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance: pVR [Personal Video Recorder]