CN101262585B - Information inquiry method and device for digital TV programs - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a method for inquiring the information of a digital television program and a device thereof. The method comprises the steps that the electronic program guide (EPG) of a digital television is enquired, analyzed and calculated on the basis of time periods according to inquiry instruction information containing an inquiry time period input by a customer; the information of the television program in the inquiry time period obtained by inquiry is output. The method of the invention can inquire the information of the television program in the time period by taking the time period as an inquiry condition according to the inquiry instruction information in a digital format input by the customer and can input and display the inquiry result on the program inquiry interface of a television in the mode of a program list for the customer to further select and operate. Therefore, the method of the invention solves the technical problem that the customer fails to rapidly inquire the information of the television program in a certain special time period, aiming at the information of the electronic program guide currently.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the digital television information treatment technology, especially relate to and a kind ofly digital television program is carried out information query method and equipment based on the period.
Background technology
Along with the develop rapidly of electronic technology and video transmission technologies and the continuous maturation of digital television techniques, digital TV set-top box has been come into huge numbers of families, make the user can better enjoy the good service that Digital Television is brought to life, the quantity of TV programme also increases greatly simultaneously, enrich the colleague that the user selects TV programme, when channel of selecting to watch and program, brought inconvenience also for the user.
At present, the method that the solution digital TV set-top box is carried out TV programme inquiry and selection is: transmit electric program menu (Electronic Program Guide in digital television programs information, EPG) information, and sort according to the searched time of coming out time and TV services of TV programme, and be presented at TV program list on the program inquiry/selection interface of television set.The user promptly can check the performance guide information of this channel by selecting channel, comprises programme information, the reproduction time of program, program brief introduction or the like.
Have the display packing of general electric program menu now, be based on channel and time, the electronic programming data enumerated that such method focus is at each channel, as when navigating to channel CCTV1, can view this channel all the rendition lists in one week.This method makes the user be concerned about the program that this channel broadcasts easily, with broadcast time of determining a program whether in the own suitable time of watching.Yet, because TV programme is too much, and most of the rendition lists all are since zero point, this has just brought inconvenience to searching in the program process the user, particularly for the TV user of only being concerned about the program of all channels in a period of time, all will switch to a channel at every turn, search the program of a period then, if want to see the program that other channels should the period, repeat switching channels again and search the program that this channel should the period, inquiry velocity is quite slow.
The display packing of another electric program menu is with the program category under the program, as video display, and news, performance, the demonstration of classifying such as physical culture.Really like this, brought very big convenience to the user, yet because programme information is too much, can cause the specific period of one of user inquiring during program map information, waste time and energy, such as, the user wants that the program of checking may turn over a lot of pages and just can inquire at second day 8 o'clock to 9 o'clock; And operator seldom carries out accurate and detailed classification to program at present, and great majority all are that program all is set to the video display class.
Therefore, in today that digital television techniques develops rapidly, be necessary when guaranteeing to provide comprehensive TV program information to introduce to the user by electric program menu, also will for the user provide a kind of convenient, inquire about the information query method of TV programme efficiently.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to propose a kind ofly digital television program is carried out information query method and equipment based on the period, solving at present at electric program menu (EPG) information, the user can't quick search the technical problem of TV program information in some specific periods.
For addressing the above problem, the present invention discloses a kind of information query method of digital television program, comprising:
Comprise the query statement information of inquiring about the period according to user's input, the electric program menu information of Digital Television is carried out query analysis and statistics by the period;
The TV program information that inquiry obtained to be positioned within the described inquiry period is exported.
Wherein, described electric program menu information is to obtain by resolving the digital television program code stream information that receives.
More excellent, the described step that electric program menu information is carried out query analysis and statistics by the period comprises:
Read the TV program list of each channel in the described electric program menu information;
Resolve the information of each TV programme in this TV program list, judge whether the play start time of this TV programme was positioned within the described inquiry period, if then this TV programme is one of Query Result;
All TV programme that check out are added up.
More excellent, the present invention also comprises step: the described TV program information that inquiry obtains is preserved.
More excellent, the described programme information that obtains according to querying condition is exported in the mode of the rendition list, and each TV program information in described the rendition list comprises programm name and programm name information and play start time information.
More excellent, described query statement information is by the digital television remote controller input, is included as the described inquiry period information of digital pattern of the input and the control information of inquiring about.
Correspondingly, the present invention also discloses a kind of information inquiry equipment of digital television program, comprising:
The command reception unit is used to receive user's input and comprises the query statement information of inquiring about the period;
The programme information memory cell is used to preserve electric program menu information;
The programme information query unit is connected with described command reception unit and described programme information memory cell, and described electric program menu information is carried out query analysis by the period, and statistical query obtains all and is positioned at TV program information within the described inquiry period;
The programme information output unit is connected with described programme information query unit, is used to export the TV program information within the described inquiry period.
Wherein, described programme information query unit comprises:
The programme information read module is used for reading the TV program list of described each channel of electric program menu information;
The query analysis module, be connected with described programme information read module, be used for resolving the information of this each TV programme of TV program list, judge whether the play start time of this TV programme was positioned within the described inquiry period, if then this TV programme is one of Query Result;
The Information Statistics module is connected with described query analysis module, is used for all TV programme that checks out are added up.
More excellent, equipment of the present invention also comprises: the electric program menu information acquisition unit, with described programme information memory cell, be used for search and receive searching the digital television program code stream information, and obtain described electric program menu information by resolving described code stream information, and the described electric program menu information that will obtain is saved to described programme information memory cell.
More excellent, described query statement information is by the digital television remote controller input, is included as the described inquiry period information of digital pattern of the input and the control information of inquiring about.
Compared with prior art, the present invention has following beneficial effect:
1, the invention provides based on the inquiry of period digital television programs information, query statement information by user's input digit form, can it be querying condition the period promptly, inquire TV program information corresponding in this period, and with the mode of Query Result with the rendition list, input also is shown on the program inquiry interface of television set, for the further selection operation of user, therefore, the present invention is for the TV program information of user inquiring in some specific periods provides simply, querying method fast;
2, the user of the present invention query statement information of utilizing remote controller to carry out the simple numerical form gets final product, and realizes simple, easy to operate.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic flow sheet of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a structural representation of the present invention.
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It is the information query method and the equipment of querying condition with the period that the present invention proposes a kind of, electric program menu (EPG) information that TV set-top box is obtained is inquired about, the mode of Query Result with TV program list exported on the program inquiry interface of TV, make the user can find it fast, easily and pay close attention to interior TV program information of period.
Please refer to shown in Figure 1ly, is the schematic flow sheet of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.Present embodiment is to be example with a TV set-top box, opens set-top box from the user, to finish a TV programme inquiry in the period according to user's needs, elaborates essence of the present invention place.
Present embodiment specifically comprises the steps:
Step S110: opening power, set-top box powers on, the beginning system initialization;
Wherein, the step of system initialization not only is to recover the information such as default parameters of each element in the set-top box, and hardware driving is set, also parse electric program menu (EPG) information in the top end stops stream information with the TV programme that receives, and the current electric program menu information that obtains is kept in the internal memory of set-top box.
Step S120: program list information of preserving when reading power down and predetermined information;
The present invention is provided with the rendition list that (or last time) search before the power down is come out and the programme information of consumer premise needs and can power down preserve, so that next time, start still existed, is user-friendly to and query manipulation with this.
Step S130: receive input and comprise the query statement information of inquiring about the period;
Wherein, query statement information is by the digital television remote controller input, is included as the described inquiry period information of digital pattern of the input and the control information of inquiring about.For example, the zero-time of described inquiry period information and the form of concluding time all can for the year-moon-Ri-hour-minute, also be that concrete digital following form a: YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM represent in each letter.
This described inquiry period information can be carried out the simple numerical input by remote controller fully, need not to import complicated representatives such as Chinese character; The user imports after the described inquiry period information, presses the control button that begins to inquire about, and promptly can begin inquiry.Therefore, the input of query statement information realizes simply among the present invention, and easy to operate.
Step S140: electric program menu information is carried out query analysis and statistics by the period;
This step specifically can comprise:
A, from the internal memory of set-top box, read the TV program list of each channel in the described electric program menu information;
B, resolve the information of each TV programme in this TV program list, judge whether the play start time of this TV programme was positioned within the described inquiry period, if then this TV programme is one of Query Result;
C, all TV programme that check out are added up.
Step S150: export all TV program information that inquiry obtains in the mode of the rendition list;
The purpose of this step is to export Query Result, mode with tabulation, this is inquired about the information of several TV programme that obtain, comprise that each TV program information comprises programm name and programm name information and play start time information, with the tabulation mode export to display device (such as, television set) query interface is selected or scheduled program for the user.
And, in output, also Query Result is preserved.
Step S160: be used to select the operation of scheduled program or broadcast program.
This step is that the user obtains Query Result by the Query Result output of step S150, can pass through remote controller, the TV programme in the TV program list that shows is selected operations such as broadcast or predetermined broadcast.If the user selects to play, then be directly switch to selected program and play; If the user carries out the scheduled program operation, then can soon play preceding about 1 minute prompting user and watch the TV programme of being scheduled at this program.
In addition, as improvement of the present invention, can pass through shortcut, eject this query interface at the played in full screen state, and can this interface be optimized, be set to the ChannelList size as program, so just can watch program on one side,, not influence and watch main body Yi Bian inquire about.
In addition, please also refer to shown in Figure 2ly, be the result schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.This embodiment is still to be example in set-top box, further describes how to realize digital television program is carried out information inquiry based on the period.
Present embodiment comprises:
Electric program menu (EPG) information acquisition unit 210, be used for search and receive searching the digital television program code stream information, and obtain electric program menu (EPG) information by resolving described code stream information, and the described electric program menu information that will obtain is saved to programme information memory cell 220;
Programme information memory cell 220 is used to preserve described electric program menu information;
Wherein, the user can import described query statement information by remote controller 300, and described query statement information is included as the described inquiry period information of digital pattern of the input and the control information of inquiring about.
Programme information query unit 230, be connected with described command reception unit 240 and described programme information memory cell 220, described electric program menu information is carried out query analysis by the period, and statistical query obtains all and is positioned at TV program information within the described inquiry period;
Programme information output unit 250 is connected with described programme information query unit 230, is used for exporting described TV program information of inquiring about within the period in the mode of the rendition list.
Described programme information output unit 250 exports Query Result to display unit 400, and such as television set, the user obtains Query Result by the query interface on the television set.
Wherein, described programme information query unit 230 comprises:
Programme information read module 231 is used for reading the TV program list of described each channel of electric program menu information;
Query analysis module 232, be connected with described programme information read module 231, be used for resolving the information of this each TV programme of TV program list, judge whether the play start time of this TV programme was positioned within the described inquiry period, if then this TV programme is one of Query Result;
Thus, the present invention is by the query statement information of user's input digit form, can it be querying condition the period promptly, inquire TV program information corresponding in this period, and with the mode of Query Result with the rendition list, input also is shown on the program inquiry interface of television set, for the further selection operation of user.
To sum up, the present invention has following beneficial effect:
1, the invention provides based on the inquiry of period to digital television programs information, provide simply for the user inquires about TV program information in some specific time periods, querying method fast;
2, the user of the present invention query statement information of utilizing remote controller to carry out simple number format gets final product, and realizes simple, easy to operate.
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1. the information query method of a digital television program is characterized in that, comprising:
Step 1, opening power, set-top box powers on, the beginning system initialization;
Step 2, program list information of preserving when reading power down and predetermined information;
Step 3 receives the query statement information of inquiring about the period that comprises of user's input;
Step 4 is carried out query analysis and statistics to the electric program menu information of Digital Television by the period, and described electric program menu information is to obtain by resolving the digital television program code stream information that receives;
Step 5 is exported the TV program information that inquiry obtained to be positioned within the described inquiry period;
Step 6 according to the selection of user to Query Result, is carried out the operation of broadcast program or scheduled program;
Wherein,
In the described step 1, the step of system initialization is:
Recover the default parameters information of each element in the set-top box, hardware driving is set, from the top end stops stream information of the TV programme that receives, parse electric program menu information, and the current electric program menu information that obtains is kept in the internal memory of set-top box;
In the described step 4, the step that electric program menu information is carried out query analysis and statistics by the period comprises:
Read the TV program list of each channel in the described electric program menu information;
Resolve the information of each TV programme in this TV program list, judge whether the play start time of this TV programme was positioned within the described inquiry period, if then this TV programme is one of Query Result;
All TV programme that check out are added up;
In the described step 6, carry out broadcast program and be operating as: be directly switch to user-selected program and play.
2. the information query method of digital television program according to claim 1 is characterized in that, in the described step 5, also comprises: the TV program information that inquiry obtains is preserved.
3. the information query method of digital television program according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, in the described step 5, export in the mode of the rendition list according to the programme information that querying condition obtains, each TV program information in described the rendition list comprises programm name and programm name information and play start time information.
4. according to the information query method of any one described digital television program of claim 1 to 3, it is characterized in that, described query statement information is by the digital television remote controller input, is included as the inquiry period information of digital pattern of the input and the control information of inquiring about.
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