| US 7,457,582 B2 | ||
| Broadcast program scene notification system | ||
| Tomihisa Kamada, Tokyo (Japan); Yasuyuki Sekiguchi, Nisshin (Japan); and Toshimizu Abiko, Alichi (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Access Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/570,314 PCT Filed Aug. 25, 2004, PCT No. PCT/JP2004/012164 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Feb. 28, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/022913, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 2005. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2003-306310 (JP), filed on Aug. 29, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0035664 A1, Feb. 15, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04H 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 455—3.01 [455/3.06; 455/3.03; 455/412.1] | 19 Claims |
| 1. A broadcast program scene notification method directed to a terminal device having data communication capability and broadcast
receiving/reproducing capability, the method comprising the steps of:
registering desired scene information specifying a desired scene within a broadcast program, the scene being desired by a
user at said terminal device, together with communication address information of the terminal device; classifying and managing
scene information as to a real scene appearing in the broadcast program;
checking whether or not said real scene corresponds to said desired scene;
transmitting to the terminal device of the user, scene information indicating for the user that broadcast of the desired scene
is going to start or has started, when said real scene corresponds to said desired scene;
wherein, a start of the broadcast program scene is notified substantially in real time;
receiving from each terminal device, audience information including at least an information item indicating that broadcast
receiving/reproducing capability has been turned on, in response to the notification of said broadcast program scene; and
checking a status of audience.
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