Obtaining metadata program information during channel changes
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorBrant L. Candelore
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Abstract
An apparatus including a remote command receiver, a decode logic, and a database is described herein. The remote command receiver may detect a remote control command that selects a program. The decode logic may receive a video signal from an access device that is the target of the detected remote control command and separate from the apparatus. The decode logic may capture a video frame that is rendered by the apparatus based on the video signal from the access device, and may decode the captured video frame to generate metadata regarding the selected program. The apparatus may generate a user interface using the metadata stored in the database that is different from the user interface generated by the access device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a remote command receiver to detect a remote control command that selects a program;
- a decode logic that receives a video signal from an access device, the access device being a target of the detected remote control command and being separate from the apparatus, the decode logic
- to capture a video frame that is rendered by the apparatus based on the video signal from the access device, and
- to decode the captured video frame to generate metadata regarding the selected program, wherein metadata, provided for the selected program by a service provider, is restricted to the access device by the service provider of DTV programming;
- and
- a database to store the metadata regarding the selected program, wherein the apparatus generates a user interface using the metadata stored in the database that is different from the user interface generated by the access device.
A method comprising:
- detecting by a digital television (DTV) a remote control command that selects a program;
- receiving by the DTV a video signal from an access device, the access device being a target of the detected remote control command and being separate from the DTV;
- capturing by the DTV a video frame that is rendered by the DTV based on the video signal from the access device;
- decoding by the DTV the captured video frame to generate metadata regarding the selected program, wherein metadata, provided for the selected program by a service provider, is restricted to the access device by the service provider of DTV programming;
- storing by the DTV the metadata regarding the selected program in a database that is included in the DTV;
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- generating a user interface using the metadata stored in the database that is different from the user interface generated by the access device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.