An Implementation of TV Anytime based Personalized EPG for an Advanced IPTV Application

향상된 IPTV 응용을 위한 TV Anytime 기반 개인형 전자 프로그램 가이드 구현

  • Pyo, Shin-Jee (School of Engineering Information and Communications University) ;
  • Lim, Jeong-Yeon (School of Engineering Information and Communications University) ;
  • Kim, Mun-Churl (School of Engineering Information and Communications University)
  • 표신지 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부) ;
  • 임정연 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부) ;
  • 김문철 (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
  • Published : 2006.06.21

Abstract

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is an efficient system which serves various contents to subscribing consumers by using the IP over a broadband connection. The IPTV services can be multi-channel broadcasting service, VoD, T-Commerce, video conference, on-line game and so on. TV Anytime metadata provides various description tools for TV program contents by which TV program contents can serve more information. In this paper, we mention about the overview and feature of IPTV and TV Anytime metadata, propose the essential functions in the EPG program of IPTV and survey the description tools for the proposed functions in EPG. Finally, we show the authored metadata and the implementation of advanced EPG application.

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