Method of providing television program information
AssigneeSony United Kingdom Limited
InventorsJose Alexandre SIMOES RODRIGUES, Tassilo Volker Raesig, Frank Fritz Heider, Ruediger Hnyk
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Abstract
A method of providing information, comprising: capturing, at a first receiver receiving a television broadcast signal, a live image of a television channel of the television broadcast signal; transmitting the captured live image from the first receiver to a server, the server being remotely located from the first receiver; transmitting the captured live image from the server to a second receiver; and displaying the captured live image together with information associated with the television channel at the second receiver.
Claims15
A method of providing information, comprising:
- capturing, at a first receiver receiving a television broadcast signal, a live image of a television channel of the television broadcast signal;
- transmitting the captured live image from the first receiver to a server, the server being remotely located from the first receiver;
- transmitting the captured live image from the server to a second receiver;
- and
- displaying the captured live image together with information associated with the television channel at the second receiver.
A receiver, including:
- a tuner adapted to receive a television broadcast signal;
- a microprocessor adapted to capture a live image from a television channel of the television broadcast signal and adapted to associate a further captured live image with information on a further television channel;
- a display unit adapted to display the further captured live image together with the information;
- and
- a transmission unit adapted to transmit the captured live image to a server and adapted to receive the further captured live image from the server.
A server, including:
- a transmission unit including a microprocessor, adapted to receive, from a first receiver, a captured live image from a television channel broadcast in a television signal, and adapted to transmit the captured live image to a second receiver in association with metadata, the metadata enabling the identification of the television channel or of a program of the television channel to which the captured live image relates.
A system, including:
- a first receiver;
- a second receiver;
- and
- a server;
- wherein the first receiver includes a tuner adapted to receive a television broadcast signal, a data processor adapted to capture a live image from a television channel of the television broadcast signal, and a transmission unit adapted to transmit the captured live image to the server,
- wherein the server includes a transmission unit including a microprocessor, adapted to receive, from the first receiver, the captured live image, and adapted to transmit the captured live image to the second receiver together with metadata, the metadata enabling the identification of the television channel or of a program of the television channel to which the captured live image relates, and
- wherein the second receiver includes a transmission unit adapted to receive the captured live image and the meta data from the server, a data processor adapted to associate the captured live image with information on the television channel or the program identified from the meta data, and a display unit adapted to display the captured live image together with the information.
A computer program product including program instruction adapted to cause a computer to execute a method comprising
- capturing, using a microprocessor, at a first receiver receiving a television broadcast signal, a live image of a television channel of the television broadcast signal;
- transmitting the captured live image from the first receiver to a server, the server being remotely located from the first receiver;
- transmitting the captured live image from the server to a second receiver;
- and
- displaying the captured live image together with information associated with the television channel at the second receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.