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CN104135677B
CN104135677B CN201410408028.9A CN201410408028A CN104135677B CN 104135677 B CN104135677 B CN 104135677B CN 201410408028 A CN201410408028 A CN 201410408028A CN 104135677 B CN104135677 B CN 104135677B
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The invention discloses a kind of program-related information management methods, comprising the following steps: obtains initial program relevant information from multiple program playback terminals by network;Merge the initial program relevant information to generate the complete programs relevant information comprising all initial program relevant informations;The program playback terminal is sent by network by complete programs relevant information.The invention also discloses a kind of program-related information managing devices, comprising: information acquisition unit, for obtaining initial program relevant information from multiple program playback terminals by network;Information combination unit, for merging the initial program relevant information to generate the complete programs relevant information comprising all initial program relevant informations;Information transmitting unit sends the program playback terminal by network for complete programs relevant information.Program-related information management method according to the present invention and device can prevent user's tuning uneven.

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A kind of program-related information management method and device
Technical field
The present invention relates to TV and communication field more particularly to a kind of program-related information management method and devices.
Background technique
Such as digital TV integrated machine or set-top box can watch the requirement of TV programme according to user and receive from broadcasting and TV The TV signal of operation platform (for example, local broadcasting and TV operation platform), there are mainly three types of the circulation ways of the TV signal: having Line digital television signal (DVB-C), terrestrial digital signal (DVB-T) and satellite digital television signal (DVB-S), three of the above pass The TV signal of broadcast mode is propagated in a manner of radiofrequency signal, after digital TV integrated machine or set-top box receive TV signal, It is both needed to execute demodulation, digital code stream signal demultiplexing, program and defines information/business information (PSI/SI, Program Specific Information/Service Information) resolving.
PSI information includes Program Association Table (PAT), CAT Conditional Access Table (CAT), Program Map Table (PMT) and the network information Table (NIT), to specify how to be correctly found specific program in the digital code stream for carrying multiple programs from one.It is mentioned in PSI It is provided with the information of joint mesh composition and correlation, so that program playback terminal or set-top box can be correctly to digital codes Stream is demultiplexed.SI information includes service describing table (SDT), business group mapping table (BAT), Event Information Table (EIT), time Date table (TDT) and TOT Time Offset Table (TOT) can form institute by data provided by SI by organizing in an orderly manner The electronic program guides (EPG) of meaning.
However, due in the difference of various regions broadcasting and TV operation platform, data transmission procedure unstable factor and each section The signal difference of mesh playback terminal present position may lack in the TV signal that digital TV integrated machine or set-top box receive Part or all in PSI/SI information, this will cause user's tuning uneven, that is, user cannot collect from local broadcasting and TV All TV programme of operation platform.
Summary of the invention
To solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a kind of program-related information management methods, comprising the following steps:
Initial program relevant information is obtained from multiple program playback terminals by network;
Merge the initial program relevant information to generate the complete programs correlation for including all initial program relevant informations Information;
The program playback terminal is sent by network by complete programs relevant information.
The present invention also provides a kind of program-related information managing devices, comprising:
Information acquisition unit, for obtaining initial program relevant information from multiple program playback terminals by network;
Information combination unit is believed with generating comprising all initial program correlations for merging the initial program relevant information The complete programs relevant information of breath;
Information transmitting unit sends the program playback terminal by network for complete programs relevant information.
It is related that program-related information management method according to the present invention can provide complete program for program playback terminal Information prevents user's tuning uneven.Meanwhile the program-related information from different program playback terminals is concentrated in together into progress It is more flexible to can be management method for back-stage management.
Detailed description of the invention
Attached drawing is used to provide further understanding of the disclosure, and constitutes part of specification, with reality of the invention It applies example to be used to explain the disclosure together, does not constitute the limitation to the disclosure.In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 shows the schematic flow diagram of program-related information management method according to embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 shows the schematic diagrames of the program-related information of another embodiment according to the present invention;
Fig. 3 shows the process of the merging step of the program-related information management method of another embodiment according to the present invention Figure;
Fig. 4 shows the work structuring block diagram of the program-related information managing device of another embodiment according to the present invention.
Through the above attached drawings, it has been shown that the specific embodiment of the disclosure will be hereinafter described in more detail.These attached drawings It is not intended to limit the scope of this disclosure concept by any means with verbal description, but is by referring to specific embodiments Those skilled in the art illustrate the concept of the disclosure.
Specific embodiment
With reference to Fig. 1, according to embodiment of the present invention, a kind of program-related information management method is provided, including Following steps:
Step 101: initial program relevant information is obtained from multiple program playback terminals by network;
Step 102: merging the initial program relevant information to generate includes the complete of all initial program relevant informations Program-related information;
Step 103: program playback terminal being sent by network by complete programs relevant information.
Herein, program playback terminal is any display terminal for referring to receive TV signal and play out.
The program-related information management method described in detail below for how realizing embodiment according to the present invention.
The requirement of TV programme, such as the program playback terminal meeting of digital TV integrated machine or set-top box are watched according to user The TV signal from local broadcasting and TV operation platform is received, the TV signal is demodulated system to generate digital code stream, digital code It include audio data, video data and PSI/SI information in stream, wherein PSI information is for indexing positioning program channel, SI Information includes EGP information data.When lacking part or all in PSI/SI information, user is possible to viewing less than this All program channels that ground broadcasting and TV operation platform provides.For example, if lacking a part of pat table, it will cause index less than right It should be in the program channel of this part pat table, if lacking the information of a part of pmt table, it will lead to not obtain respective program Audio-video pid information, if lacking the information of a part of SDT table, it will cause not identify program name and type, if The information of lack part EIT table, it will obtain less than weekly (schedule) information.
For this purpose, the program-related information management method of embodiment according to the present invention includes by network from multiple Program playback terminal obtains the step of initial program relevant information.The initial program relevant information includes in PSI/SI information Part or all, or the programme information including having completed parsing, channel information etc., generally, according to described first Beginning program-related information can know the program that respective program playback terminal can play.
In order to be generated completely using the incomplete initial program relevant information that is possible to from multiple program playback terminals Program-related information, the program-related information management method of embodiment according to the present invention include merging the initial section The step of mesh relevant information to generate includes the complete programs relevant information of all initial program relevant informations.
Merging mode includes but is not limited to add and classification processing mode, both processing modes described below, it should Understand, the present invention is not limited by described execution sequence, because according to the present invention, these processing modes can adopt It sequentially or is simultaneously carried out with other.
Addition treatment process in, when initial program-related information directly about PSI/SI information when, firstly, will come from The program-related information of first program playback terminal is stored into list;Then, the program-related information by storage into list Compared with the program-related information from second program playback terminal, when the program correlation letter from second program playback terminal When breath includes new data content, such as new pmt table information, SDT table information or EIT table information, then it will be broadcast from second program The new data content for putting the program-related information of terminal is added in list with prescribed form;Then played to from multiple programs The program-related information of terminal executes similar processing.
When initial program-related information is to have passed through the channel letter that parsing PSI/SI information obtains in program playback terminal When breath and EPG information, firstly, by storing from the program-related information of first segment mesh playback terminal into list;Then, it will deposit The program-related information in list is stored up compared with the program-related information from second program playback terminal, when from second When the program-related information of program playback terminal includes new data content, such as the channel of entire channel CCTV3 as shown in Figure 2 The EPG information of information or the program " Avenue of Stars " in channel CCTV3, then by the program phase from second program playback terminal The new data content for closing information is added in list with prescribed form;It is then related to the program from multiple program playback terminals Information executes similar processing.The content that the channel information includes include but is not limited to Service_ID, Service_Name, Service_Type, the content that the EPG information includes include but is not limited to Service_ID, Event_ID, Start_Time, Duration、Event_Name、Text。
Classification process is mainly classified or is sorted to program according to specific classifying rules, in classification process In, when initial program-related information directly about PSI/SI information when, firstly, the program from program playback terminal is related Information is stored into list;Then, identify program classification rule as defined in the initial BAT table in SI information (for example, local broadcasting and TV Operation platform requires individually display high-definition program), since the compiling rule of initial BAT table is varied, in order to ensure program is broadcast BAT table can correctly be identified by putting terminal, and the BAT table is updated in such a way that program playback terminal can parse.For example, By identifying that the Bouquet_ID of BAT table parses program classification title and classification, these information are then updated into section The information that mesh playback terminal can parse.In addition it is also possible to be mended according to specific requirement to the program classification rule in BAT table It fills and deletes.Classification process can prevent certain program playback terminals from cannot parse diversely defined in BAT table save The problem of mesh classifying rules.
It is understood that initial program relevant information is also possible to PSI/SI information and has led in program playback terminal The combination of parsing PSI/SI information obtained channel information and EPG information is crossed, correspondingly, complete programs relevant information may include Part or all in PSI/SI information and the combination by parsing PSI/SI the information channel information generated and EPG information.
Finally, the program-related information management method of embodiment according to the present invention includes by complete programs correlation The step of information is sent to program playback terminal by network.As one that the complete programs relevant information is in PSI/SI information When part or all of, program playback terminal is sent by the information, is parsed by the program playback terminal to play use The desired TV programme in family.When the complete programs relevant information is channel information and EPG information, the program playback terminal Directly play these information.Complete programs relevant information is provided for program playback terminal as a result, prevents user's tuning uneven.Together When, the program-related information from different program playback terminals is concentrated in together into carry out back-stage management, program can be made related Approaches to IM is more flexible.
In order to advanced optimize the program-related information of the national program playback terminal of management, program phase according to the present invention Approaches to IM is closed before the step of obtaining initial program relevant information from multiple program playback terminals by network, is also wrapped It includes and program playback terminal is divided into corresponding section according to the different broadcasting and TV operation platforms for providing program service for program playback terminal The step of mesh playback terminal.
For example, the program-related information management method of another embodiment according to the present invention the following steps are included:
Step 201: for the region of different broadcasting and TV operation platform services, being broadcast by network from the different programs of each region It puts terminal and obtains initial program relevant information;
Step 202: the initial program relevant information being merged based on each region respectively to be formed and be directed to each region Complete programs relevant information;
Step 203: corresponding region being sent by network by the complete programs relevant information for each region Program playback terminal.
Specifically, it can identify that initial program relevant information was previously mentioned by which broadcasting and TV operation platform in several ways For.For example, may include the mark difference in the digital code stream demodulated by TV signal in initial program relevant information The Network_ID of the broadcasting and TV operation platform and Service_Provider_Name for representing different broadcasting and TV operation platform titles (SPN).Both data may be used to identify the source of initial program relevant information.
It is described in detail how to realize the program-related information pipe of another embodiment according to the present invention below with reference to Fig. 3 The merging step of reason method, by taking addition is handled as an example:
Initial program relevant information is obtained from n-th of program playback terminal by network;
Identify the broadcasting and TV operation platform mark of the initial program relevant information;
Judge to identify in list with the presence or absence of the broadcasting and TV operation platform, if it does not exist, then being based on the broadcasting and TV operation Platform establishes new sublist, if it is present by from n-th of program playback terminal initial program relevant information with belonging to Program-related information under the sublist of the broadcasting and TV operation platform compares;
Judge that the initial program relevant information from n-th of program playback terminal is related to program of the storage into sublist Whether information is identical, if it is different, then by the new data content of the program-related information from n-th of program playback terminal to advise The formula of fixing is added in the sublist, if identical, the counter of the sublist adds 1;
When it is more than to preset number (being greater than 10 times) that the counter, which counts, by the section of storage in the sub-list Mesh relevant information is sent to each program playback terminal covered by the broadcasting and TV operation platform as complete programs relevant information, And it is spaced the initial section reprocessed after presetting the time (being greater than 4 hours) and there is broadcasting and TV operation platform mark Mesh relevant information;
Similar processing then is executed to the program-related information from multiple program playback terminals, it is final merge obtain pair It should be in the complete programs relevant information of specific broadcasting and TV operation platform.
When initial program-related information is channel information and EPG information, can for example obtain in the data defined with table 1 Hold
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Operator identifier Number Channel information 1 EPG information packet 1 Channel information 2 EPG information packet 2 …… Channel information n EPG information packet n
The request got from program playback terminal is preferably based on to send complete programs relevant information to by network Respective program playback terminal.
Similarly, this merging step can also be simply adapted to the case where need not identifying broadcasting and TV operation platform mark, Details are not described herein.
In order to further improve and abundant program-related information, especially EPG information, another embodiment party according to the present invention The program-related information management method of formula further includes being runed by network from third party after step 102 and/or step 202 Platform obtains additional program relevant information, and the additional program relevant information is added in complete programs relevant information.
The additional program relevant information can assist in complete programs relevant information and generate obvious EPG letter more abundant Breath.It is desirable that, the EPG information in complete programs relevant information after being added include poster, program classification, recommend mark, The contents such as program abstract.
With reference to Fig. 4, another embodiment according to the present invention additionally provides a kind of program-related information managing device, packet It includes: information acquisition unit, for obtaining initial program relevant information from multiple program playback terminals by network;Information merges single Member, for merging the initial program relevant information to generate the complete programs correlation letter for including all initial program relevant informations Breath;Information transmitting unit sends program playback terminal by network for complete programs relevant information.
In summary, each program playback terminal receives the TV signal from broadcasting and TV operation platform, depending on programme information pipe Reason device is obtained the initial program relevant information parsed by TV signal and merged by network generates complete programs correlation Information, which retransmits, returns to each program playback terminal.
Another optional embodiment according to the present invention, the program-related information managing device can be directed to different broadcasting and TV The region of operation platform service obtains initial program relevant information from the different program playback terminals of each region by network; Information combination unit can merge respectively the initial program relevant information based on each region to be formed and be directed to each region Complete programs relevant information;And information transmitting unit can pass through the complete programs relevant information for each region Network is sent to each program playback terminal of corresponding region.
Therefore, optional embodiment according to the present invention, the program-related information managing device further includes playback terminal Division unit, for being divided program playback terminal according to the different broadcasting and TV operation platforms for providing program service for program playback terminal For corresponding program playback terminal, so as to manage the program playback terminal in the whole nation in such a way that each region is mutually independent Program-related information.
Optional embodiment according to the present invention, the program-related information managing device further include that acquisition request is single Member is requested for receiving from program playback terminal, to be believed complete programs correlation based on the request from program playback terminal Breath is sent to corresponding program playback terminal by network.
Optional embodiment according to the present invention, the program-related information managing device further include information adding unit, For obtaining additional program relevant information from third party's operation platform by network, and the additional program relevant information is added It is added in complete programs relevant information
Optional embodiment according to the present invention, the complete programs relevant information include a part in PSI/SI information Or channel information and EPG information whole and/or that pass through parsing PSI/SI information generation.
Although content disclosed above shows the exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, it should be noted that without departing substantially from power Under the premise of benefit requires the scope of the present disclosure limited, it may be many modifications and modify.According to described herein open real The function, step and/or movement for applying the claim to a method of example are not required to the execution of any particular order.In addition, although the disclosure Element can describe or require with original form, be unless explicitly limited odd number it is also contemplated that multiple.
Above-described specific embodiment has carried out further the purpose of the disclosure, technical scheme and beneficial effects It is described in detail, it should be understood that being not used to limit the disclosure the foregoing is merely the specific embodiment of the disclosure Protection scope, it is all the disclosure spirit and principle within, any modification, equivalent substitution, improvement and etc. done should all include Within the protection scope of the disclosure.

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1. a kind of program-related information management method, which comprises the following steps:
Initial program relevant information is obtained from multiple program playback terminals by network;
It includes all first for merging the initial program relevant information obtained from multiple program playback terminals respectively to generate The complete programs relevant information of beginning program-related information;The complete programs relevant information includes a part in PSI/SI information Or channel information and EPG information whole and/or that pass through parsing PSI/SI information generation;
The program playback terminal is sent by network by complete programs relevant information.
2. program-related information management method according to claim 1, which is characterized in that passing through network from multiple programs It further include providing program clothes according to for each program playback terminal before playback terminal obtains the step of initial program relevant information The step of program playback terminal is divided into corresponding the multiple program playback terminal by the different broadcasting and TV operation platforms of business.
3. program-related information management method according to claim 1 or 2, which is characterized in that complete programs are related It further include the step that request is received from program playback terminal before the step of information is sent to the program playback terminal by network Suddenly, it is broadcast to send corresponding program by network for complete programs relevant information based on the request from program playback terminal Put terminal.
4. program-related information management method according to claim 1 or 2, which is characterized in that further include by network from Third party's operation platform obtains additional program relevant information, and the additional program relevant information is added to complete programs phase Close the step in information.
5. a kind of program-related information managing device characterized by comprising
Information acquisition unit, for obtaining initial program relevant information from multiple program playback terminals by network;
Information combination unit, for merging the initial program relevant information obtained from multiple program playback terminals respectively To generate the complete programs relevant information for including all initial program relevant informations;The complete programs relevant information includes PSI/ In SI information part or all and/or pass through parsing PSI/SI information generate channel information and EPG information;
Information transmitting unit, for sending the program playback terminal by network for complete programs relevant information.
6. program-related information managing device according to claim 5, which is characterized in that further include that playback terminal divides list Program playback terminal is divided into accordingly by member, the different broadcasting and TV operation platforms for providing program service according to program playback terminal The multiple program playback terminal.
7. program-related information managing device according to claim 5 or 6, which is characterized in that further include acquisition request Unit is requested for receiving from program playback terminal, thus based on the request from program playback terminal that complete programs are related Information is sent to corresponding program playback terminal by network.
8. program-related information managing device according to claim 5 or 6, which is characterized in that further include that information addition is single Member for obtaining additional program relevant information from third party's operation platform by network, and the additional program correlation is believed Breath is added in complete programs relevant information.
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