JP2005328211A - Data input system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To build up a data input system capable of simply moving a cursor to a desired position with a comparatively small number of button operation times. <P>SOLUTION: A remote controller is provided with a particular movement operating button in the vicinity of UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT buttons in addition to a center shaft and the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT buttons which are ordinarily provided to the remote controller. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

The present invention relates to a system for inputting a name for recorded data in an electronic apparatus such as a video recording / reproducing device, a DVD player, a DVD recorder, an HDD recorder, and a composite product incorporating one or more of them.

Conventionally, as this type of technique, in a document processing method for editing a document for a stage displayed on an editing screen of a display unit based on document format information, the beginning or end of a line indicated by a cursor on the editing screen 2. Description of the Related Art A document processing method is known that controls display of movement of the cursor to the same line in an adjacent stage or to the beginning or end of an adjacent line based on a pressed state of an instruction key for instructing movement to (See Patent Document 1).
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  In the prior art, in the column editing operation by document input or the like, the cursor has to be moved to the beginning and end of the next row, and the beginning and end keys are required on the keyboard. On the other hand, in a device that is generally controlled using a remote controller, such as a video recording device or a video playback device, there are only normal front / back / up / down buttons on the remote controller, and a file name or the like is input to the recorded data. Therefore, there is a problem that the number of button operations is inevitably increased for editing on the data editing screen, and it is necessary to shorten the time by improving the efficiency of character input as much as possible.

  The present invention was made to alleviate the above problems, and in addition to the center button and front / rear / left / right buttons that are permanently installed in the remote controller, by providing specific movement operation buttons in the vicinity of the front / rear left / right buttons, It is an object to construct a data input system in which the number of button operations is relatively small and the cursor can be easily moved to a desired position.

  In order to achieve the above object, after inputting video and / or audio signals and editing identification data such as a title name by a plurality of combinations of remote controller operations such as cursor movement and determination on the identification data editing screen, the identification is performed. A data system used in a recording and / or reproducing device for recording data on a recording medium, wherein the identification data editing screen is composed of a plurality of stages composed of rows and columns of a plurality of characters, symbols, etc. The total number of characters per line of all rows arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions has at least twice the number of characters per column of all rows arranged in the vertical direction. .

In addition, a cursor indicating the currently selected character is displayed, and the position of the cursor is controlled based on the operation of the remote controller. The remote controller is positioned at least on the decision button and on the front, back, left and right of the decision button. An up / down / left / right button which is a direction button for designating each direction; and a line head button and / or a line end button located in the vicinity of the direction button, and when the line head button or the line end button is pressed, Each of the cursors moves to a predetermined end portion and enters a cursor position determination standby state. Next, when a direction button different from the end direction is pressed, the cursor moves in the direction indicated by the button and enters a cursor position determination state. Input system. Of course, if the number of characters per column of all rows arranged in the vertical direction has at least twice the number of characters per row of all rows arranged in the horizontal direction, the column head button The same effect can be obtained with the end button.

As the line head button is pressed, the cursor moves to the leftmost column in the leftmost row and enters a cursor position determination standby state. Next, when a direction button other than the left button is pressed, a direction button instruction other than the left button is indicated. The cursor moves to the direction and enters the cursor position determination state.When the left button is pressed after the head button is pressed, the cursor moves to the leftmost column of the original stage and enters the cursor position determination standby state. Each time the button is pressed, the cursor moves to the leftmost column on the left side and enters the cursor position determination standby state, and the cursor position determination standby state is maintained until a direction button other than the left button or the determination button is pressed. The

On the other hand, as the end button is pressed, the cursor moves to the rightmost column in the rightmost stage and enters the cursor position determination standby state. Next, when a direction button other than the right button is pressed, a direction button instruction other than the right button is indicated. When the right button is pressed, the cursor moves to the rightmost column of the original stage, enters the cursor position determination standby state, and each time the right button is pressed, the cursor moves to the right. Moves to the rightmost column of the next stage and enters the cursor position determination standby state, and the cursor position determination standby state is maintained until the direction button other than the right button or the determination button is pressed, and it is simple and few The cursor can be moved to a desired position by the number of button operations.

In another embodiment, the remote controller includes a center button and at least one operation button arranged on each of the front, rear, left and right of the center button, and one remote controller is provided on each of the front, rear, left and right for performing the normal cursor movement. In addition to the operation buttons, at least one specific movement operation button is provided in the vicinity thereof, and the identification data editing screen is composed of a plurality of rows and columns, and a plurality of the rows arranged vertically and horizontally. In order to input identification data by the remote controller, by controlling the cursor indicating the character currently selected on the identification data editing screen, the position of the cursor, and continuing to press the specific movement operation button, The moving speed of the cursor is accelerated in the direction indicated by the specific moving operation button according to the time the cursor moving speed is pressed. And supplies the over data input system.

As described above, according to the invention according to claim 1, the cursor is moved to the leftmost column of the leftmost column or the rightmost column of the rightmost column by jumping over the column to the line head and line end buttons. By providing a function, it is possible to increase the data input efficiency from a limited number of keys such as a remote controller.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the line head button is located near the left of the left button and the line end button is located near the right of the right button, it can be operated without a sense of incongruity.
According to the invention according to claim 3, by making the background image of the cursor in the cursor position determination standby state different from the background image of the cursor in the cursor position determination state, the operator can quickly view the cursor position determination standby state. It is possible to tell whether there is a cursor position determination state.
According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, by continuing to press the specific movement operation button, the moving speed of the cursor is accelerated in the direction indicated by the specific movement operation button according to the time of pressing. It can be further improved.

Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a hard disk recorder for the system according to the present invention. When a signal for displaying the identification data editing screen transmitted from the remote control 1 is received by the remote control light receiver 2 and the identification data editing screen is displayed superimposed, it is stored in the OSD memory 4 in the CPU 3. The image data of the identification data editing screen and the image data recorded on the hard disk 5 transmitted via the reproduction switching unit 7 are decoded and superimposed by the decoder 8, converted into an analog signal by the D / A converter 9, and the video signal Is input to the television 10, and the identification data editing screen is displayed on the television screen. When outputting only the identification data editing screen instead of superimposing, the identification data editing screen stored in the OSD memory 4 in the CPU 3 is blocked by blocking the image data from the hard disk 5 by the reproduction switching unit 7. Only the image data is decoded by the decoder 8, then converted to an analog signal by the D / A converter 9, and the video signal is input to the television 10.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows a button layout of the remote controller according to the embodiment of the present invention. A determination button 21 is arranged at the center, a right button 20 near the right of the decision button 21, a left button 19 near the left, an upper button 17 near the upper, a lower button 18 near the lower, and a right button 20 near the right. A line end button 15 is arranged near the left of the line end button 16 and the left button 19.

FIG. 5 is a file name input screen according to the present invention. Conventional file name input screens had the hassle of having to switch the screen display for each category such as hiragana, katakana, alphabet, etc., but according to the present invention, by using the start button and the end button, The categories are displayed on the screen at a time, and character input editing can be performed efficiently. In actual verification, on the identification data editing screen of FIG. 4, it takes about 4 seconds when the cursor is moved from the end of the line, that is, the small letter “O” to “A” with the left button. Can be moved within. From this, it can be seen how the present application makes the character input more efficient.

Hereinafter, the operation procedure of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. It is confirmed whether the line head button 15 is pressed (S1). If YES, the leftmost column is moved to the leftmost column (S2), the cursor position determination standby state is set, and the cursor background image is changed ( S3), it is determined whether a direction button other than the left button 19 has been pressed (S4). If YES, it is determined whether the first left button 19 has been pressed after pressing the head button 15 (S5). The cursor is moved to the beginning of the line on the left side (S6), and the process returns to S4.
If NO in S4, the cursor is moved (S17) and the cursor position is determined (S18).
If YES in S5, the cursor is moved to the beginning of the original line (S7), the cursor position is set to the standby state (S8), and the process returns to S4.
Next, if NO in S1, it is determined whether the line end button 16 has been pressed (S9). If YES, the cursor is moved to the rightmost column in the rightmost stage (S10), and the cursor position is set to the standby state. Further, the background image of the cursor is changed (S11), and it is determined whether a direction button other than the right button 20 is pressed (S12). If NO, whether the right button 20 is pressed first after the line end button 16 is pressed. (S13), if NO, the cursor is moved to the end of the line on the right side (S14) and the process returns to S12.
If YES in S12, the cursor is moved (S17), the cursor position is determined, and the background image of the cursor is changed (S18).
If YES in S13, the cursor is moved to the end of the original line (S15), the cursor position is set to the standby state (S16), and the process returns to S12.
Here, the cursor position determination standby state refers to a state immediately after the start button or the end button is pressed, and waits for the next operation, that is, the left button or the right button is pressed. The position determination state means a state in which characters are input when the left button or the right button is operated and then the determination button is pressed.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the operation of the cursor according to the present invention. When the cursor is in the cursor position determination state at the first position of the cursor, when the line head button 15 is pressed, the cursor is positioned at the position of “A”. The position determination standby state is entered. Next, when the lower button 18 is pressed twice, the cursor is in the cursor position determination state at the position “sa”. On the other hand, if the left button 19 is pressed when the cursor position is “A” and the cursor is in the cursor position determination standby state, the leftmost column “in” of the stage where the cursor was first placed becomes the cursor position determination standby state. Each time the left button 19 is pressed, the cursor moves to the leftmost column on the left side of “ha”, “a”, and enters a cursor position determination standby state. When the cursor is in the cursor position determination state at the first cursor position, pressing the end-of-line button 16 enters the cursor position determination standby state at the "DO" position. When the right button 20 is pressed next, the cursor is first displayed. When the right button is pressed, the cursor position is determined at the rightmost column in the next row to the right. It will be in a standby state.

Next, the operation procedure of the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

It is confirmed whether or not the head button 15 is pressed (S1). If YES, the cursor is moved to the left adjacent column (S2), and it is confirmed whether or not the head button 15 is pressed and held (S3). If YES, the cursor moving speed to the left is accelerated (S4), and it is confirmed again whether the head button is pressed (S5). If YES, the process returns to S4. If the answer is NO in S3 (stopping the start of the line head button), the cursor position is determined (S11). In addition, in the case of NO in S5, the cursor position is also determined (S11). In S1, if NO, it is confirmed whether the line end button 16 is pressed (S6). If YES, the cursor is moved to the right adjacent column (S7), and the line end button 16 is long pressed. (S8), if YES, the moving speed of the cursor to the right is accelerated (S9), and it is confirmed again whether the end-of-line button 16 has been pressed for a long time (S10). At S8, if NO, the cursor position is determined (S11), and if NO at S10, the cursor position is also determined (S11). Also, in the case of NO in S6, the cursor position is determined (S11).
Generally speaking, if the line head button 15 or the line end button 16 that is a specific movement operation button is continuously pressed, the moving speed of the cursor is accelerated according to the pressing time, and when the pressing is stopped, the cursor stops and the cursor position is determined. It becomes a state.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a hard disk recorder in a system according to an embodiment. It is a flowchart figure which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart figure which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a button layout diagram of the remote controller according to the present embodiment. It is a file name input screen which concerns on this embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

1 ... Remote controller 2 ... Remote controller signal receiver 3 ... CPU
4 ... OSD memory 5 ... Hard disk drive 6 ... RAM
7... Playback switching unit 8... Decoder 9... D / A converter 10... Television 11 .. Antenna 12. 13 ... A / D converter 14 ... Encoder 15 ... Head button (specific movement operation button)
16 ... End-of-line button (specific movement operation button)
17... Upper button 18... Lower button 19... Left button 20... Right button 21.

Claims (4)

  Video and / or audio signals are input, identification data such as a title name is edited by a plurality of combinations of remote controller operations such as cursor movement and determination on the identification data editing screen, and then the identification data is recorded on a recording medium A data system for use in a recording and / or playback device, wherein the identification data editing screen is composed of a plurality of stages composed of rows and columns of a plurality of characters, symbols, etc., and the stages are arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction The total number of characters per line in all rows arranged in the horizontal direction is at least twice the total number of characters per column in all rows arranged in the vertical direction, and is currently selected. A cursor indicating characters is displayed, and the position of the cursor is controlled based on the operation of the remote controller. At least a determination button, an up / down / left / right button that is a direction button for designating each direction positioned before, after, and left and right of the determination button, and a head button and / or a line end button positioned in the vicinity of the direction button, Each of the cursors moves to a predetermined end position according to the depression of the line head button or the line end button, and enters a cursor position determination standby state. Next, when a direction button different from the end direction is pressed, the cursor moves to the direction indicated by the button. A data input system characterized by moving the cursor and determining the cursor position.   The data input system according to claim 1, wherein the line head button is located in the vicinity of the left of the left button, and the line end button is located in the vicinity of the right of the right button.   The data input system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the background image in the cursor position determination standby state is different from the background image in the cursor position determination state. Video and / or audio signals are input, identification data such as a title name is edited by a plurality of combinations of remote controller operations such as cursor movement and determination on the identification data editing screen, and then the identification data is recorded on a recording medium A data input system for use in a recording and / or playback device, wherein the remote controller includes a center button and at least one operation button disposed on each of the front, rear, left and right of the center button, and before and after performing the normal cursor movement In addition to each one of the operation buttons located on the left and right, at least one specific movement operation button is provided in the vicinity thereof, and the identification data editing screen has a plurality of rows and columns, and the steps vertically and horizontally. In order to input identification data by the remote controller, The specific movement operation according to the time during which the cursor movement speed is depressed by controlling the cursor indicating the character currently selected on the different data editing screen and the position of the cursor and continuing to depress the specific movement operation button. A data input system in which a moving speed of a cursor is accelerated in a direction indicated by a button.

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