KR101445359B1 - Apparatus for providing guide pop up of user-customized recommending broadcast and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus and method for providing a guide popup of a customized recommendation program for providing viewing comfort and providing customized contents in an interactive broadcast service system are provided.

An apparatus for providing a guide pop-up of a customized recommendation program includes a recommendation program creation unit for creating a list of customized recommendation programs using the broadcast program guide information provided from the interactive broadcast system, And a controller for displaying a list of the created customized recommendation programs in the form of a guide popup on a part of a screen of the broadcast output apparatus of the user in response to a guide popup service providing a guide popup and a request of a user, The guide pop-up automatically rolls the guide contents guiding the selection of the category of the recommended program at a predetermined time interval, and expands and displays the detailed list in response to the user's additional command.

Interactive broadcasting, broadcast contents, recommended programs, guide popups, set-top boxes

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device and a method for providing a guide pop-

The present invention relates to a guide pop-up display apparatus and method for a customized recommendation program, and more particularly, to a guide pop-up display apparatus and method for displaying a guide pop-up guide for guiding a customized recommendation program in an interactive broadcast service system, The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for displaying a guide pop-up of a customized recommendation program displayed in a pop-up form on a part of a screen of an output apparatus.

Interactive broadcasting service is a service that can receive digital multimedia contents such as games, education, living information, etc. through a TV, and viewers can use various services such as games, additional information, shopping, etc. by simply operating a remote controller.

Generally, TVs for watching interactive broadcasting are called various concepts such as Smart TV, Enhanced TV, Intelligent TV, and Internet TV (IP-TV). Theoretically, an interactive TV is a TV that allows the viewer to control what is to be watched and when to watch. In addition to general broadcasting functions, a TV with integrated Internet service, data broadcasting service and PVR (Personal Video Recorder) it means.

On the other hand, the interactive broadcasting service is a service that allows a viewer and a broadcasting station to interact with each other, rather than transmitting a program unilaterally from a broadcasting station as in the conventional broadcasting. To this end, the broadcasting station may additionally produce contents in which the bidirectional function is implemented in addition to the program, and transmit the contents to the viewer, and the viewer may display the doctor through the return channel.

Since the interactive broadcasting service transmits the broadcasting program as the digital multimedia data, the broadcasting program can be broadcast while broadcasting the information about the broadcasting program and transmitted to the user terminal together with the broadcasting program. The program information, and the type of the broadcast program, the broadcast time, the detailed information, etc., and searches for and selects a desired broadcast program and watches the broadcast program at a desired time have.

Accordingly, a mosaic EPG (Mosaic EPG) service for displaying images of various channels on one screen and selecting a desired channel from among them is provided so that a user can more easily search and select various broadcast programs provided through different broadcast services .

1 is a diagram illustrating a mosaic EPG screen according to the prior art.

Referring to FIG. 1, the mosaic EPG 10 can display 16 to 20 moving pictures at the same time on the current channel, but can be composed of several pages to cover the entire channel.

However, the mosaic EPG 10 according to the prior art provided only information to the user that it would broadcast a certain program only on a certain channel. That is, the broadcasting schedule table (time and program title, genre, plot, and other related information) for each channel is transmitted to the TV or digital set-top box, and when the user presses a specific key of the remote controller, .

In addition, since the mosaic EPG 10 according to the related art is a service for browsing a program pool that matches the viewing conditions of the user on the entire screen, it occupies a large portion of the screen and hinders viewing of the content currently being watched .

On the other hand, Korea Prior Art No. 10-0621583 discloses a digital broadcast receiving apparatus and a program guide using the same, which can easily be viewed or reserved for a user's favorite program, as prior art for providing programs and genres preferred by viewers Method ".

The prior art includes a reading unit for reading program guide information from a data signal included in a broadcast signal, an extraction unit for extracting items selected by the user from the read program guide information, And a control unit for outputting a broadcast program, a reservation program for a user's preference program using a digital broadcast receiving apparatus and a broadcast notification technique are disclosed. However, as a method for providing update and viewing history information for a series selected by a user, .

One embodiment of the present invention provides a guide pop-up of a recommended program capable of providing a guide pop-up of a customized recommendation program in a pop-up form using a minimum space on a part of a screen, Device and method therefor.

Also, an embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing a guide pop-up of a recommended program that notifies updated status of each of a plurality of collections through separate management of a concert selected by a user and identifies broadcast contents that have already been viewed do.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention can provide local information such as weather, news, and events corresponding to the local information using the local information included in the smart card installed in the set-top box, And provides a device and method for providing a guide pop-up of a recommended program.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing a guide pop-up of a recommended program in a two-way broadcast service system, the apparatus comprising: A recommendation program creating unit for creating a list of customized recommendation programs, a guide popup providing unit for providing a guide popup for guiding the created customized recommendation programs, and a list of customized recommendation programs created in response to user requests Wherein the guide pop-up includes a step of automatically rolling the guide contents guiding the selection of the category of the recommended program at a predetermined time interval, Addition of In response to a command provides a pop-up guide will offer customers tailor-made programs like device that displays a detailed list expand.

The guide pop-up providing apparatus of the customized recommendation program may include a viewing history analyzing unit for analyzing the viewing history information of the user and collecting and storing the viewing history of the user's preferred works, and a viewing history analyzing unit for analyzing the viewing history information, And a program update management unit for notifying the update information of the user through the guide pop-up.

In addition, the guide pop-up providing apparatus of the customized recommendation program may further include a region data extracting unit for selectively extracting the area data corresponding to the area information based on the area information included in the smart card.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a guide pop-up of a recommended program in a two-way broadcast service system, the method comprising: receiving guide information of a broadcast program from a two- Creating a list of customized recommender programs using the stored guide information of the programs, and providing a guide popup for guiding the customized recommender program when a specific key signal is input from the user , And the guide pop-up is a guide pop-up of a customized recommendation program in which the guide contents for guiding the selection of the category of the recommended program are automatically changed at predetermined time intervals and the detailed list is expanded and displayed in response to the user's add command Way Provided.

Wherein the guide pop-up providing method of the customized recommendation program comprises the steps of: analyzing the user's viewing history information, collecting and storing a viewing history of the user's favorite works, And notifying the user of the update when the preset workpiece has been updated.

The method of providing a guide pop-up of the customized recommendation program may further include selectively providing local data corresponding to the local information from the broadcast program guide information based on the local information included in the smart card .

According to one aspect of the present invention, the guide pop-up of the user-customized recommendation program may display the minimum guide content corresponding to each category on a part of the screen so as not to interfere with the viewing of the content currently being watched.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a TV viewing convenience of a user by informing the update status of a specific crop through the management of a selected crop, and identifying a program that has already been viewed.

According to another aspect of the present invention, data of a specific area corresponding to the local information such as weather and news can be selectively provided using the local information included in the smart card installed in the set- have.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . Also, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without departing from the other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

Hereinafter, a guide pop-up display apparatus and method of a customized recommendation program according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 2 to FIG.

2 is a schematic block diagram of a general two-way broadcast service system.

2, the two-way broadcasting service system includes a broadcasting company 100, a two-way broadcasting system 200, a user terminal 300, and the Internet 400.

The broadcasting company 100 provides various broadcasting programs, that is, broadcasting contents, to the interactive broadcasting system 200. At this time, the provided broadcast contents may include related additional information and an EPG for the additional information.

The bidirectional broadcasting system 200 manages broadcasting contents and EPG provided from the broadcasting company 100, distributes broadcasting contents to the user terminal 300, and processes a user response signal input from the return channel.

The user terminal 300 is an apparatus for using an interactive broadcasting service and generally comprises a broadcasting output device 310, a set-top box 320 and a remote controller 330.

The broadcasting output apparatus 310 outputs the broadcasting contents received from the bidirectional broadcasting system 200 and transmits the user response signal received through the remote controller 330 to the bidirectional broadcasting system 200 through the return channel of the settop box 320. [ .

The set top box 320 is a digital broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving broadcast contents transmitted via the Internet 400 and receives EPG information related to all programs as well as image data and provides the EPG information to a user. That is, after receiving the EPG information, the set-top box 320 outputs and displays the EPG information on the screen of the broadcast output apparatus 310, so that the user can easily search the desired program information. The set-top box 320 is equipped with a smart card including user authentication information and area information.

The Internet 400 transmits the broadcast contents provided by the interactive broadcasting system 200 to the set top box 320 of the user terminal 300 and transmits a response signal from the user terminal 400 to the interactive broadcasting system 200 An IP (Internet Protocol) network using a unicasting protocol or a multicast routing protocol.

3 is a detailed configuration diagram of a digital broadcast receiving apparatus to which a guide popup providing method of a customized recommendation program according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

Referring to FIG. 3, a digital broadcast receiving apparatus 320 to which a method of providing a guide pop-up of a recommended program according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied includes a communication network interface 321, a recommended program creating unit 322, An audio data analyzer 323, a viewing history analyzer 324, a local data extractor 325, a guide popup demultiplexer 326, a data storage 327, and a controller 328. Here, the data storage unit 327 includes a program information storage unit 327a and a viewing history information storage unit 327b.

The communication network interface 321 is connected to the bidirectional broadcasting system 200 through the Internet 400 and performs communication for receiving guide information of a broadcasting program. The guide information of a broadcast program includes information such as a program title, a rating, a time, and a channel related to programs to be broadcasted for a predetermined period.

The recommended program creating unit 322 creates a recommendation program based on the guide information of the broadcast program provided from the interactive broadcasting system 200 by using the recommendation program creating unit 322. For example, Create a list of recommended programs for each category such as 'User selected content', 'Customized service', 'Weather', 'News', 'Events', and 'Recommended services'. In the embodiment of the present invention, the recommended program list may be one prepared in the bidirectional broadcasting system 200.

The program update management unit 323 manages the newly updated program among the provided program guide information. If there is an update notification request from a user for a specific crop, the program update management unit 323 notifies the update of the specific crop through the guide pop-up.

The viewing history analyzing unit 324 analyzes the viewing history information of the user for each program. In particular, it collects viewing histories of workpieces of various series of user preferences, and stores the collected viewing histories in the viewing history information storage unit 327b so that the program update management unit 323 can use them.

The area data extracting unit 325 selects and extracts area data related to local information such as news, weather, and advertisement based on the area information included in the smart card installed in the digital receiving apparatus 320. That is, data corresponding to an area in which the user is located is extracted from the data related to all the areas provided from the two-way broadcasting system and provided through a guide pop-up. Typically, a smart card is used for viewing rights of a user or for activating a set-top box, but the location of the set-top box can be easily grasped by using the address information of the user's identification information included in the smart card.

The guide popup supplier 326 provides a guide popup to guide the customized recommendation program. The guide pop-up is overlaid on a part of the screen of the broadcast output device 310 so as not to interfere with the viewing of the broadcast contents being watched by the current user in a pop-up form, and the guide pop-up is displayed as a guide Rolling the content at certain time intervals. The guiding content is rolled in time in a small space in text format and expands the detailed information in response to a viewer's selection command.

The data storage unit 327 stores various information related to the provision of the guide pop-up of the recommended program, and includes a program guide storage unit 327a for storing guide information of the broadcast program provided from the interactive broadcasting system 200, And a viewing history information storing unit 327b for storing the viewing history information of the user for each of the broadcast contents analyzed by the searching unit 324.

The control unit 328 controls the overall operation of the digital receiving apparatus 320 and transmits a customized recommendation to a part of the screen of the user's broadcast output apparatus 310 using the guide information of the broadcast program received from the bidirectional broadcast system 200. [ Provides a pop-up guide to guide the program.

Also, the controller 328 can selectively provide the area data corresponding to the user's area from the data received from the interactive broadcasting system 200, based on the area information included in the smart card. That is, when the bidirectional broadcasting system 200 provides data related to all areas to the broadcast receiving apparatus 320, the control unit 328 controls the area data extracting unit 325 so that the area where the broadcast receiving apparatus 320 belongs And provides it through a guide pop-up.

The guide pop-up providing apparatus of the customized recommendation program according to an embodiment of the present invention displays the guide pop-up for guiding the customized recommendation program in a pop-up form on a part of the screen of the broadcast output apparatus 310 in response to the user's command And the guide pop-up classifies the guide contents of the recommended programs into categories and rolls them temporally. The guide pop-up may be immediately provided through a hot key included in the remote controller.

In addition, the guide pop-up providing apparatus of the customized recommendation program according to the embodiment of the present invention notifies the update status of each of the multi-colored objects through the separate management of the selected multi- I will. In addition, local data such as weather, news, and advertisement are selected using the local information included in the smart card.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a guide popup of a customized recommendation program according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

First, in step S11, the control unit 328 stores the guide information of the broadcast program provided from the interactive broadcasting system 200 in the program guide information storage unit 327a. The guide information of a broadcast program includes information such as a program title, a rating, a time, and a channel related to programs to be broadcasted for a predetermined period.

In step S12, the control unit 328 creates a list of recommended programs for each category to be provided to the user from the guide information of the broadcast program stored in step S11 through the recommended program creation unit 322. [

In step S13, the control unit 328 determines whether a guide request for a recommended program, that is, a request for a guide pop-up to guide a recommended program, has been received from the user, and if a request for a guide pop-up has not been received, On the other hand, if a request for the guide pop-up is received, the flow advances to step S14 to provide a guide pop-up for guiding the created recommended program. The guide pop-up is displayed in an overlay so as not to interfere with the viewing of the broadcast contents currently being viewed by the user in a pop-up form using a minimum space on a part of the screen of the broadcast output device 310, The guiding content guiding the selection of the category is automatically rolled. The category of the guide content may be, for example, a 'box office', 'new recommended content', 'popular content', 'education feature content', 'user selected content', 'customized service', 'weather' ',' Event ',' recommended service 'and so on. Since the guide pop-up only displays the category and the minimum guide content, and the category and the guide content are rolled in time, the guide information can be efficiently provided using the minimum space.

Next, in step S15, the control unit 328 determines whether or not to select the guide contents for each category by the user. If the guide contents are not selected, the step S15 is repeatedly performed. On the other hand, , The process advances to step S16 to stop the automatic change of the guide content and determine whether the guide content selected by the user is the user's favorite work.

As a result of the determination in step S16, if the guide content selected by the user is a concerto composed of several series such as drama, the process proceeds to step S17 to analyze the viewing history information of the user, And then, in step S18, provides update information of the work to the broadcast output device 310 of the user. The content of the concatenated material may be part of the data of the content identifier, and when inserting information related to the concavity of the concavity, it is possible to easily confirm whether or not the concaved material is present and the number of the concavity.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S16 that the guidance content selected by the user is not a workpiece, the flow advances to step S19 to provide a list of recommended programs of the category corresponding to the selected guidance content. At this time, the guide pop-up may be extended to a guide pop-up including a list in which a predetermined number of, for example, three to four recommended program lists can be displayed in a mini-guide pop-up state for displaying guide contents.

Next, in step S20, the control unit 328 determines whether a specific content has been selected by the user. If the content is not selected, the control unit 328 repeats step S20. On the other hand, if the content is selected, To provide detailed information of the selected content.

In the above-described configuration, when content information of specific area information such as news, weather, advertisement, etc. is requested from the user, the content information of the specific area information such as the bidirectional broadcasting system 20 may selectively provide specific area data corresponding to the user among the broadcast contents provided by the user.

5 is a diagram illustrating a guide pop-up of a customized recommendation program according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5A, the guide pop-up 500 is overlaid and displayed in a pop-up form on a part of the screen of the broadcast output apparatus 310 when a user requests a guide pop-up of a recommended program. The guide pop-up 500 may be displayed on the screen of the broadcast output device 310 by pressing a specific key of the remote controller 330 designated by a hot key so that a guide pop-up for guiding the recommended program is displayed.

The guide contents displayed on the guide pop-up 500 and guiding the category of the recommended program may be set to be automatically rolled at a predetermined time interval, for example, at intervals of 3 seconds, and the categories of the recommended programs include 'box office' New Featured Content, Popular Content, Educational Featured Content, User Selected Content, Customized Service, Weather, News, Events, and Recommendation Services.

The guide contents of the guide pop-up 500 may include information such as a title, a genre, a still shot, a content summary, a rating, a broadcast time, and a broadcast time of a recommended program for each category.

The guide pop-up 500 stops automatic rolling of the guide contents when a specific key input of the remote controller 330 is received, and then operates according to the key input. That is, if the user desires to check the list of recommended programs for each category, the user can select a 'more' item on the guide pop-up 500, for example, by pressing the lower direction key of the remote controller, As shown, the recommended program list 510 for each category can be expanded downward and displayed.

The recommended program list displayed on the guide pop-up 500 may be composed of a predetermined number, for example, three to four, in one page. The user may select a specific program from the recommended program list, . In this case, as shown in (c) of FIG. 5, a confirmation pop-up for the selection is displayed before moving to the individual service such as detailed information confirmation of the specific program, . That is, if the 'OK' button of the confirmation pop-up is selected, the detailed description screen of the program is displayed. If the 'Cancel' button of the confirmation pop-up is selected, the screen does not move.

On the other hand, when it is desired to check a list of more recommended programs in addition to the recommended program list, for example, by pressing the left direction key of the remote controller, a 'More' item on the guide pop- A detailed list 510 of recommended programs for each category can be displayed in more detail, as shown in FIG. 5 (d).

One embodiment of the present invention may also be embodied in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, the computer-readable medium may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes any information delivery media, including computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transport mechanism.

While the methods and systems of the present invention have been described in connection with specific embodiments, some or all of those elements or operations may be implemented using a computer system having a general purpose hardware architecture.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

1 is a diagram illustrating a mosaic EPG screen according to the prior art.

2 is a schematic block diagram of a general two-way broadcast service system.

3 is a detailed configuration diagram of a digital broadcast receiving apparatus to which a guide popup providing method of a customized recommendation program according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a guide popup of a customized recommendation program according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating a guide pop-up of a customized recommendation program according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE REFERENCE SYMBOLS

10: EPG 100: Broadcasting company

200: bi-directional broadcasting system 300: user terminal

310: broadcast output device 320: digital broadcast receiving device

330: remote controller 321: communication network interface

322: a recommended program creation unit 323: a program update management unit

324: viewing history analyzing unit 325: local data extracting unit

326: Guide pop-up providing unit 327: Data storing unit

327a: program information storage unit 327b: viewing history information storage unit

400: Internet 500: recommended program guide pop-up

510: Detailed list of recommended programs

Claims (11)

An apparatus for providing a guide pop-up of a recommended program in an interactive broadcast service system, A recommended program creating unit for creating a list of customized recommended programs by using the program guide information provided from the interactive broadcasting system, A guide popup supplier for providing a guide popup for guiding the created customized recommendation program, A controller for displaying a list of the created customized recommendation programs in the form of a guide pop-up on a part of a screen of the broadcast output device of the user in response to a user's request, A viewing history analyzing unit analyzing the viewing history information of the user and collecting and storing viewing histories of the user's preferred works, A program update manager for notifying updated information of the designated workpiece through the guide pop-up in response to a request of the user by identifying and providing the updated content and the already watched content with respect to the workpiece designated in advance by the user, Lt; / RTI > Wherein the guide pop-up is a guide pop-up of a customized recommendation program in which the guide contents for guiding the selection of the category of the recommended program are automatically rolled at predetermined time intervals and the detailed list is expanded and displayed in response to the user's additional command Device. delete The method according to claim 1, A local data extracting unit for extracting and extracting local data corresponding to the local information based on the local information included in the smart card, Wherein the guide pop-up providing device of the customer-recommended recommendation program further includes: A method for providing a guide pop-up of a recommended program in an interactive broadcast service system, Receiving and storing guide information of the broadcast program from the bi-directional broadcast system, Creating a list of customized recommender programs using guide information of the stored programs, Providing a guide pop-up for guiding the user-customized recommendation program when a specific key signal is input from the user, Analyzing the user's viewing history information, collecting and storing viewing histories of the user's preferred works, and Identifying and providing updated content and already viewed content with respect to the workpiece designated by the user in advance and notifying the update when the designated workpiece is updated in response to the user's request Lt; / RTI > Wherein the guide pop-up is a guide pop-up of a customized recommendation program in which the guide contents for guiding the selection of the category of the recommended program are automatically rolled at predetermined time intervals and the detailed list is expanded and displayed in response to the user's additional command Way. delete 5. The method of claim 4, Selecting and providing local data corresponding to the local information from the program guide information based on the local information included in the smart card To provide a guide pop-up for a customized referral program. 5. The method of claim 4, Wherein the guide pop-up is provided by operation of a hot key included in the remote controller. 5. The method of claim 4, Wherein the guide pop-up displays a minimum guide content corresponding to a category of a recommended program on a part of a screen of the broadcast output device of the user. 5. The method of claim 4, Wherein the guide pop-up provides a list of additional guide contents by displaying a list of recommended programs corresponding to the selected category in response to the user's selection command, thereby providing a list of additional guide contents. 10. The method of claim 9, Wherein the list is provided by a guide pop-up extending in a direction corresponding to a direction key operated on the remote control. 10. The method of claim 9, Wherein the recommendation program list includes at least one of a title, a genre, a broadcast time, a broadcast time, an image, a rating, and a summary of contents of each program.

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