Customized television: standards compliant advanced digital television

Author

Bais, Michel ; Cosmas, John ; Dosch, Christoph ; Engelsberg, Andreas ; Erk, Alexander ; Hansen, Per Steinar ; Healey, Pat ; Klungsoeyr, Gunn Kristin ; Mies, R. ; Ohm, Jens-Rainer ; Paker, Yakup ; Pearmain, Alan ; Pedersen, Lena ; Sandvand, Åsmund ; Schäfe

Author_Institution

KPN Res., Leidschendam, Netherlands

Volume

48

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

151

Lastpage

158

Abstract

This paper describes a European Union supported collaborative project called CustomTV based on the premise that future TV sets will provide all sorts of multimedia information and interactivity, as well as manage all such services according to each user´s or group of user´s preferences/profiles. We have demonstrated the potential of recent standards (MPEG-4 and MPEG-7) to implement such a scenario by building the following services: an advanced EPG, weather forecasting, and stock exchange/flight information.

Keywords

code standards; digital video broadcasting; information services; interactive television; multimedia communication; television receivers; television standards; video coding; CustomTV; European Union; MPEG-4; MPEG-7; TV equipment; TV sets; TV standards; advanced EPG; advanced digital television; collaborative project; customized television; flight information; image coding; interactive TV; multimedia information; stock exchange; user preferences; weather forecasting; Digital TV; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Layout; MPEG 4 Standard; MPEG 7 Standard; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Streaming media; TV broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBC.2002.1021281

Filename

1021281