Design and implementation of a novel roboticized EPG system of network TV

Author

Yang, Can ; Chen, Zhi-cong ; Lian, Bin-xiong ; Huang, Hui-ze

Author_Institution

New Media Lab., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

12-15 July 2009

Firstpage

1516

Lastpage

1522

Abstract

In this paper, a novel scheme is proposed for the network TV or IPTV system to automatically grab electronic program guide (EPG for short) information by Web searching. The scheme can be used to realize EPG information roboticized acquirement and delivery in network TV system by analyzing and extracting the EPG information from relative Web pages on Internet. This approach can maximally reduce manpower of EPG maintenance and greatly promote the popularization of network TV. This paper introduces the operating principle and Implementation of a roboticized EPG System, which shows a successful utilization in the real Banacast Network TV System.

Keywords

IPTV; Internet; Banacast Network TV System; IPTV system; Internet; Web pages; Web searching; roboticized electronic program guide system; Cybernetics; Digital TV; IP networks; IPTV; Internet; Machine learning; Robotics and automation; Robots; Watches; Web pages; Banacast; EPG System; Network TV; Roboticized;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Baoding

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3702-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3703-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMLC.2009.5212274

Filename

5212274