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US 7,690,019 B2Granted
Receiving apparatus and receiving method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Yamamoto, Atsushi Mizutome, Teruki Kikkawa
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Abstract
In order to make it possible to easily judge a time until a program can be actually audio visually enjoyed after the program is selected, a receiving apparatus includes a controller which receives plural contents such as plural streaming broadcasts via a network, outputs video data of the contents to a display apparatus, estimates a time until each of the plural broadcast contents becomes audio visually enjoyable, and displays information on the estimated time on the display apparatus in association with program names of the plural contents data.
Claims10
A receiving apparatus comprising:
- a reception unit constructed to receive content data and content list data via a network, wherein the content list data comprises information including a content name for specifying each of a plurality of receivable contents data on the receiving apparatus;
- a content processing unit constructed to process the content data received by the reception unit to generate video data and audio data;
- a generating unit constructed to generate a content list based on the content list data received by the reception unit, for displaying the content name of each of the plurality of receivable contents data in a list format;
- an output unit constructed to output the content list generated by the generating unit and the video data and audio data to a display apparatus;
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- a control unit constructed to generate rank information based on an estimated time period from a selection of the content in the content list by a user until the content is reproducible,
- wherein the estimated time period is determined automatically after the receiving apparatus starts up and before the receiving apparatus starts reception of a manipulation for selection by the user, and provides an estimate of the time period from a selection of the content in the content list by a user until the content is reproducible,
- wherein the generating unit generates the content list including the rank information of each content data and the content name of each content data, and the display apparatus displays the content list including the rank information automatically after the receiving apparatus starts up and before the receiving apparatus starts reception of a manipulation for selection by the user.
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A receiving method performed by a receiving apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- receiving content data and content list data via a network, wherein the content list data comprises information including a content name for specifying each of a plurality of receivable contents data on the receiving apparatus;
- processing the content data received by the receiving step, to generate video data and audio data;
- generating a content list, based on the content list data received in the receiving step, for displaying the content name of each of the plurality of receivable contents data in a list format;
- outputting the generated content list and the video data and audio data to a display apparatus;
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- controlling to generate rank information based on an estimated time period from a selection of the content in the content list by a user until the content is reproducible,
- wherein the estimated time period is determined automatically after the receiving apparatus starts up and before the receiving apparatus starts reception of a manipulation for selection by the user, and provides an estimate of the time period from a selection of the content in the content list by a user until the content is reproducible,
- wherein, the generating step generates the content list including the rank information of each content data and the content name of each content data, and the content list including the rank information is displayed the display apparatus automatically after the receiving apparatus starts up and before the receiving apparatus starts reception of a manipulation for selection by the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.