WO1998037692A1 - Method for presenting on a television screen a composite image combining the television picture and internet data information - Google Patents
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- WO1998037692A1 WO1998037692A1 PCT/FR1998/000322 FR9800322W WO9837692A1 WO 1998037692 A1 WO1998037692 A1 WO 1998037692A1 FR 9800322 W FR9800322 W FR 9800322W WO 9837692 A1 WO9837692 A1 WO 9837692A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
- H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
- H04N21/462—Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
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- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
- H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
- H04N21/431—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
- H04N21/4312—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
- H04N21/4316—Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
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- H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
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- H04N7/00—Television systems
- H04N7/14—Systems for two-way working
- H04N7/141—Systems for two-way working between two video terminals, e.g. videophone
- H04N7/147—Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals
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- the invention relates to the presentation and use of information transmitted over the Internet.
- Devices are known, which will hereinafter be called “Internet terminals", which are in the form of a box intended to be connected on the one hand to the telephone network and on the other hand to a television set.
- the Internet terminal is provided with control means, for example in the form of a remote control, which make it possible to control access to such or such Internet resource, retrieval of the desired information and their display on the television screen. to which the Internet terminal is connected.
- Such a configuration is however not limiting, and various variants can be envisaged, in particular transmission by a channel other than a telephone line, such as cable network, cellular radiotelephony (GSM), radiotelephony on local loop, reception of data by satellite, etc.
- a channel other than a telephone line such as cable network, cellular radiotelephony (GSM), radiotelephony on local loop, reception of data by satellite, etc.
- the television is used as a display device for computer data produced by the Internet terminal.
- the Internet terminal provides for this purpose either a signal applied directly to the video stages of the television via a SCART socket, or a modulated UHF signal applied to the antenna socket of the television.
- One of the aims of the present invention is to allow the display on the television screen of a composite image combining a television image proper, transmitted to the television by radio or by a cable network, and of a image of digital computer data produced by the Internet terminal connected to this television.
- the link with the website can be used as a return channel for the transmission of response information sent by the spectator, such as voting, request for information on a subject presented through the television image, active and direct participation in a televised game, etc.
- the method of the invention is characterized by the steps consisting in: establishing a connection to a remote Internet resource from an Internet terminal connected to the television set, and loading Internet data from this resource; from the loaded Internet data, determining the position on the screen of at least one display window and the corresponding informative content of this Internet data; receiving on a television input the television image signal; controlling the input signal from the television so as to display on the display screen a composite image comprising, in the region delimited by said window, the informative content of Internet data and, on the rest of the screen, the television picture.
- the step of controlling the input signal of the television set includes a selective piloting of the fast switching pin of a television viewing socket during the periods corresponding to the scanning of the window, and the substitution of the television image signal by the informative content of the Internet data during these periods.
- the step of controlling the television input signal comprises the application to the television of a multiplex composite video signal including the informative content of Internet data during the periods corresponding to the scanning of the window, and the television image signal the rest of the time.
- the composite image is an overlay of a full screen Internet data page and of the television image signal, the full screen Internet data page comprising the informative content of the Internet data in the region of the screen delimited by the window, and a uniform range of color defined as transparent on the rest of the screen;
- the television picture signal is at least partially made up of teletext information; the method further comprises the following steps: introduction by the user into the Internet terminal of data in response to the informative content displayed on the television; and transmission by the Internet terminal of this data to a remote Internet site.
- the reference 10 designates an Internet terminal of a general type which is in itself known, that is to say in the form of a box intended to be connected to a television set 12 for the display of the data returned by the Internet, this unit comprising, for the introduction of navigation commands, a receiver 14 such as an infrared receiver controlled by a remote control 16 available to the user.
- a receiver 14 such as an infrared receiver controlled by a remote control 16 available to the user.
- the Internet terminal 10 can be provided with a microcircuit card reader 18, for example for reading a card in which the connection data to the Internet access provider are stored, a card which is for example addressed to the user after subscription a subscription to this provider.
- the box For access to a remote Internet site such as 20, the box includes a modem appropriately connected to the switched telephone network 22, with a bidirectional link via the conventional protocols (TCP / IP) used for this type of link.
- the television has a television signal input 24, for example example a radio signal or a cable network signal.
- This signal will produce the display of a television image 26 on the screen of the television set 12.
- the object of the invention is to produce a composite image combining this television image 26 with computer data embedded in one or more window (s) 28 for the display of corresponding computer content 30 coming from data returned by the Internet.
- the spectator will then have, in addition to the sound and the image of the TV signal (which does not contain specific information), one or more Internet “blocks" embedded in this image and which can evolve dynamically according to commands sent by the remote website.
- the television picture can be partially, or even totally, made up of a teletext signal, therefore able to combine purely analog information and digital data, the latter being transmitted by the TV signal during the return periods. weft, as is well known per se.
- the Internet terminal retrieves the SYNC synchronization signal from the television, synchronizes on this signal, and comes to control by a CTRL signal the fast switching pin of the television's SCART socket 12 during the corresponding periods. to the scanning of window (s) 28, then replacing during these periods the television image by the informative content INFO of the Internet data.
- the data returned by the Internet network includes not only the informative content 30 of the windows 28, but also the position of these windows on the television screen.
- the position of these windows is defined by attributing buzzing the window-bounded regions of the screen with informative content of Internet data in the usual manner, and assigning the regions outside these windows a uniform range of a color defined as transparent.
- the superimposition of the Internet data range - which is a full screen range - and the television image signal - also full screen - by simple digital addition of the signals will give the desired composite image, without the need for it. multiplexing between the television image on the one hand and the Internet data window on the other.
- This method according to the invention advantageously applies, for example, to television broadcasts of games, contests, votes, etc.
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EP98909567A EP0906692A1 (en) | 1997-02-21 | 1998-02-19 | Method for presenting on a television screen a composite image combining the television picture and internet data information |
AU64062/98A AU6406298A (en) | 1997-02-21 | 1998-02-19 | Method for presenting on a television screen a composite image combining the television picture and internet data information |
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FR9702057A FR2760165B1 (en) | 1997-02-21 | 1997-02-21 | METHOD FOR PRESENTING ON A DISPLAY SCREEN OF A TELEVISION A COMPOSITE IMAGE COMBINING A TELEVISION IMAGE AND AN INFORMATIVE CONTENT OF INTERNET DATA |
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