Patent ID: 7437301
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information viewing equipment which links content of interest rendered by media to its reference information, and which is connected to an information searching equipment across a computer network, comprising: a capturing unit to capture said content of interest; an obtaining unit to obtain first content-identifying information to identify the content of interest from the captured content of interest; a transmitting unit to transmit the first content-identifying information to the information searching equipment across a computer network; a receiving unit to receive information across the computer network; and an outputting unit to output information based on the received reference information; wherein when the receiving unit receives reference information joined with second content-identifying information which is registered in a database of the information searching equipment and is judged to be matched with the first content-identifying information by the information searching equipment, the outputting unit outputs the received reference information, and wherein when the receiving unit receives notification information of unregistered data which informs that there is no reference information joined with second content-identifying information which is registered in a database of the information searching equipment that is judged to be matched with the first content-identifying information in the database of the information searching equipment, the outputting unit outputs a message which indicates that no reference information which the user of information viewing equipment searches is registered in the database of the information searching equipment.