JP2006157684A - Av equipment including screen display setting device, and on-screen display screen display setting method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide AV equipment including an image display device capable of freely changing the size, position and transmission rate of on-screen display of a menu screen or the like on the user-desired level, and performing screen display that cannot prevent video of a program or the like being viewed. <P>SOLUTION: The AV equipment is provided while includes a screen display setting device, in which when changing display attributes, such as display position, size and transmission rate of a menu screen or the like, a key accompanied with remote controller directionality is operated to continuously make these display attributes shifted, the menu screen is temporarily displayed on an image display device in accordance with the continuously shifted display attributes, and any arbitrary one of continuously shifting the temporary display is selected and determined. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an AV device having an image display device capable of on-screen display, and more particularly to an AV device having an image display device capable of freely changing the size, display position, and transmittance of a display screen including on-screen display. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a display screen display setting method including an on-screen display screen in an AV device having an image display device capable of on-screen display, and in particular, the size, display position, and transmittance of the display screen including the on-screen display. The present invention relates to a display setting method that can be freely changed.

  In recent years, image display devices in AV equipment such as liquid crystal televisions, plasma televisions, rear projection televisions, and the like have undergone significant progress. The same situation applies to an image display apparatus that reproduces an image from an image reproduction apparatus such as a DVD player. On the other hand, when a user views a desired image by playing back a TV program or a recorded recording, the operability and functions of the AV device such as a TV can be changed depending on the situation of the program and the viewing environment at that time. In order to make optimal settings, the fact that various AV menus are provided in ordinary AV equipment has become so general that no further explanation is required.

When the on-screen display of the menu screen is performed on a large display screen, the on-screen display area is increased in proportion to the increase in the size of the display screen, and the size of displayed characters and the like is increased accordingly. Therefore, even if the size of the menu screen is set to an appropriate size that does not cover the entire display screen at the initial setting stage, a user who is watching a TV program or a playback image displays the menu screen on a large screen. When this is done, the menu screen displayed on the display screen and the size of characters constituting the menu screen are displayed larger than necessary, which may hinder smooth viewing for the user.

Further, since the menu screen is displayed at a predetermined screen position set in advance by the initial setting, there may be a situation that is not preferable for the user, for example, an important subtitle is hidden while watching a movie. Furthermore, if the background of the menu screen is not translucent by default, or if the transmissivity is set low even though it is translucent, the menu screen overlaps and the image being viewed is hidden. Inconvenience may occur.

In order to overcome the above-described problems, various ideas have been disclosed so far. In Patent Document 1, a distance between an input device such as a remote controller and a display screen is detected, and a size and a display position corresponding to the operation distance are automatically calculated by a certain program, thereby a menu screen or the like. A device for properly performing the on-screen display is disclosed. Furthermore, Patent Document 2 discloses a device that allows the transmittance of an on-screen display screen to be selected between a normal transmittance and a translucent transmittance by a transparency switching button.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-274087 JP 2001-223955 A

  As described above, according to Patent Document 1, it is possible to continuously change the menu screen to an appropriate size or display position, but the distance between the input device such as a remote controller and the display screen based on a certain program. As a result, the menu screen is changed mechanically, so that, for example, when multiple users are viewing images on the same TV receiver at the same time, The size and position of the menu screen to be changed differ between when a user operates the remote controller and when a user who is viewing at a position closest to the display screen operates the remote controller. Since it is not possible to freely change to an optimal menu screen according to the viewing situation of the user, there remains a problem that the displayed menu screen interferes with viewing.

  On the other hand, according to Patent Document 2, it is possible to control the transmittance of the on-screen display screen, but there is a limitation that there are only two options of transmittance, normal transmittance and translucent transmittance. There remains a problem that it is not possible to respond to the user's desire to increase transparency a little.

  A general method for changing the display setting of the menu screen according to the prior art is as shown in FIG. When the user viewing the program on the TV opens the menu screen (S10), the transparency of the background of the menu screen is set to zero normal transparency, and the program being viewed is partially hidden by the menu screen. I have. Therefore, the user desires to change the transmittance, and selects an item for changing the transmittance setting from the menu screen (S20). Next, the user operates to change the transmittance setting through the menu screen (S30). However, since the only option for changing the transmittance setting allowed by the user in S30 is to select zero transmittance or 50% transmittance, in this case, the user can cope with other than selecting 50% transmittance. Can not do it. Even if we wanted to make the menu screen more transparent so that the program being watched was not disturbed, we couldn't do anything more.

  In order to overcome the above-described problems of the prior art, the present invention can freely change the size, position, and transmittance of an on-screen display such as a menu screen to a user-desired level, and It is an object of the present invention to provide an AV device having an image display device that enables screen display that does not interfere with video such as a program being viewed by a user.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention includes at least an image display device, a screen display setting device, and a remote control unit, and an on-screen display screen is displayed according to the display attributes of its size, display position, and transmittance. An AV device configured to display on a display device, wherein the screen display setting device continuously transitions at least one of the display attributes within a certain range by the image display device and the remote operation unit. Display attribute transition means for causing the display attribute transition means to perform provisional display means for provisionally displaying the on-screen display screen on the image display device in accordance with the display attributes that are continuously shifted by the display attribute transition means And any one of the continuously transitioned displays temporarily displayed on the image display device by the temporary display means. There is provided an AV device including a screen display setting device characterized by comprising a display determining means for determining the display as the display of on-screen display.

Furthermore, the present invention includes at least an image display device, a screen display setting device, and a remote control unit, and displays an on-screen display screen on the screen display device according to the display attributes of the size, display position, and transmittance. Display setting method of a menu screen in an AV device,
A display attribute transition step for continuously transitioning at least one of the display attributes within a certain range by the image display device and the remote control unit, and a transition by the display attribute transition step. A provisional display step for provisionally displaying the on-screen display screen on the image display device in accordance with the display attributes, and a continuously transitioned display temporarily displayed on the image display device by the provisional display step. The present invention provides an on-screen display screen display setting method comprising a display determination step of selecting an arbitrary one and determining the selected display as a menu screen display.

According to the present invention, when a menu screen is displayed on a display screen of an image display device such as a television receiver, the menu screen interferes with an image being viewed by a simple operation of a remote control unit such as a remote controller. Thus, the size, display position, and transmittance of the menu screen can be freely set at a level desired by the user.

Specific embodiments according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an AV device including a menu screen display setting device according to an embodiment of the present invention, taking a television receiver (hereinafter referred to as a television receiver) as an example. A television receiver 1 shown in FIG. 1 includes at least a microcomputer 2 (hereinafter referred to as a microcomputer), a television monitor 3 (hereinafter referred to as a television monitor), a remote controller 4 (hereinafter referred to as a remote controller), a remote controller light receiving unit 5, A memory 6 is provided. Here, the microcomputer 2 corresponds to a screen display setting device, the television monitor 3 corresponds to an image display device, and the remote controller 4 corresponds to a remote operation unit.

Further, FIG. 1 shows a block diagram inside the microcomputer 2. The key input processing unit performs a reception process of each key code input input from the remote controller 4 or the device main body key. The key discrimination processing unit discriminates each key code received by the key input processing unit and transmits it to an operation control unit and a transition operation control unit described later. The operation control unit controls basic operations of the television receiver, such as channel switching, volume change, and power ON / OFF. The control unit indicates a CPU in the microcomputer 2, and controls the entire device including control of the operation control unit, a transition operation control unit described later, a display control unit described later, etc. It also controls reading and writing storage. The memory 6 is a non-volatile memory such as E2PROM, and stores data such as an initial value of the microcomputer 2 and channel data.

When the key determination processing unit determines that the key code input by the user's remote control 4 operation or the like is a specific key code related to the menu screen display setting, the transition operation control unit Obtains data related to the menu screen display position setting, screen transmissivity setting, and screen size setting corresponding to the specific key code transmitted from the computer, and the display position control to be described later corresponding to the specific key code. Part, screen transmittance control unit, and screen size control unit.

The display position control unit grasps the data of the display position of the currently displayed menu screen on the television monitor 3, calculates data for changing the display position of the menu screen on the television monitor 3, and performs the transition operation Data related to the display position setting of the menu screen transmitted from the control unit is grasped, and all the data is transmitted to the screen display control unit described later.

The screen transmittance control unit grasps the data of the screen transmittance on the TV monitor 3 of the currently displayed menu screen, calculates data for transitioning the screen transmittance of the menu screen on the TV monitor 3, Data related to the screen transmittance setting of the menu screen transmitted from the transition operation control unit is grasped, and all the data is transmitted to a screen display control unit described later.

The screen size control unit grasps the data of the size of the currently displayed menu screen on the TV monitor 3, calculates data for changing the size of the menu screen on the TV monitor 3, and the transition operation control unit The data related to the size setting of the menu screen transmitted from is grasped, and all of the data is transmitted to the screen display control unit described later.

The screen display control unit performs display control such as menu screen display and OSD (on-screen display) display, and performs display processing according to the screen display position, screen transmittance, and screen size set and changed based on the user's operation. I do. Data is obtained from the above-described display position control unit, screen transmittance control unit, screen size control unit, etc., and control processing related to screen display is performed corresponding to each data.

In the television receiver having the above configuration, the television monitor 3, the remote controller 4, and the microcomputer 2 constitute display attribute transition means, provisional display means, and display determination means in the present invention.

In the television receiver having the above configuration, a menu screen display setting method according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a procedure for changing the display setting of the menu screen for explaining an embodiment according to the present invention. For example, a user who is watching a movie on TV opens a menu screen when he wants to make a timer recording reservation for a music program that will start airing 30 minutes from now on a channel different from the channel currently being viewed ( S100), as shown in FIG. 3, it is assumed that the main part of the video being viewed is hidden by the menu screen.

Here, the user operates the remote controller 4 to change the display position of the menu screen and move it to a position that does not interfere with the currently viewed image, and the setting menu as shown in FIG. A screen display setting item is selected from a plurality of items on the screen (S200). When an item for screen display setting is selected, the setting menu screen displays three items, the display position, the transmittance, and the size, as shown in FIG. 3B. In order to change the display position, the user operates the remote controller 4 to select a display position from among the above three items (S300). Here, the key code data input from the remote controller 4 is discriminated by the key discrimination processing unit and transmitted from the transition operation control unit to the screen display control unit via the display position control unit.

When the display position is selected in the screen display setting menu as described above, the display position control unit calculates data for transitioning the display position of the menu screen on the TV monitor 3, and via the screen display control unit, The screen shown in FIG. 4A is displayed on the television monitor 3. On the screen, arrows in eight directions are displayed so as to surround the setting menu screen. The arrows in the eight directions correspond to existing setting +/− keys, movement keys, or numeric keys of the remote controller 4, respectively. For example, in the remote controller 4 shown in FIG. 7, eight keys 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 6, 3, 2 surrounding 5 are set with 5 being the center of the numeric key array. Furthermore, it is possible to correspond to the transition to the arrow in the above eight directions.

When the user moves the menu screen to the upper left corner of the TV monitor 3, as shown in FIG. 4B, a specific key on the remote controller 4 corresponding to the arrow pointing in the upper left direction among the eight directions is pressed. When pressed down once, the movement of the position of the menu screen starts at a predetermined interval. The predetermined interval is set as a default in the initial setting, or an item can be provided on the menu screen as appropriate, and the user can select and set it from 10 mm, 20 mm, or the like. In addition, by pressing the key for a long time, the menu screen can be shifted to the direction of the arrow continuously selected for a long time when the menu screen is long pressed (S400). Here, based on the key code data input from the remote controller 4, the display position control unit calculates data for changing the display position of the menu screen on the TV monitor 3, and transmits the data to the screen display control unit. is doing. As described above, the step of continuously transitioning the menu screen in the selected arrow direction corresponds to the display attribute transition step, and the step of displaying the menu screen continuously transitioning in the arrow direction on the television monitor 3 is provisional display. Corresponds to the step.

  In addition, during the temporary display in which the menu screen is displayed while continuously changing at a predetermined interval as described above, the key that has been previously pressed is pressed again as shown in FIG. It is possible to temporarily stop the screen that has transitioned with. In addition, when a temporary display is performed by long-pressing a key, by canceling the pressing of the key, it is possible to temporarily stop a screen that is changing at a constant interval. In either case, when the screen once stopped is changed again, it is possible to cope with it by pressing the key corresponding to the direction to be changed.

  When the menu screen reaches the desired display position, the user once stops the transition at a constant interval by the above method, and when the determination key is pressed, the confirmation screen prompts the user to determine as shown in FIG. Is displayed (S500). Here, when “Yes” is selected, the display position of the menu screen that is temporarily displayed on the television monitor 3 is determined as the display position selected by the user and stored in the memory 6. The menu screen is displayed at the display position determined at this stage. If “No” is selected, the screen once returns to the stop screen of FIG. Here, based on the key code data input from the remote controller 4, the display position control unit grasps the data related to the display position setting of the menu screen transmitted from the transition operation control unit, and the data is sent to the screen display control unit. Sending. As described above, the step of determining the menu screen that has reached the desired display position corresponds to the display determination step.

Through the above steps, the menu screen can be moved to a display position that does not interfere with the viewing of the movie being watched. Therefore, the user finishes the screen display setting (YES in S600) and is currently watching In order to make a timer recording reservation for a music program that will be broadcast 30 minutes from now on a channel different from the channel, select NO in S700 to return to the menu screen (S100), and start the timer recording reservation operation again To do.

On the other hand, when the display position of the menu screen is selected and determined in step S500 (YES in S500), if the size of the menu screen is too large to interfere with movie viewing, the user should change the screen size. become. To return to the screen display setting screen, the user selects NO in S600 and returns to S200. Since the screen display setting menu screen of FIG. 3B is displayed, the size is selected here (S300).

The screen shown in FIG. 5A is displayed on the television monitor 3. On the screen, two-direction arrows corresponding to one diagonal line of the rectangular setting menu screen are displayed. The arrows in the two directions correspond to existing setting +/− keys, movement keys, or numeric keys of the remote controller 4, respectively. For example, in the remote controller 4 shown in FIG. 7, the numeric keys 1 and 9 can be made to correspond to the transition to the arrow in the above two directions.

When the user further reduces the menu screen toward the upper left corner of the television monitor 3, as shown in FIG. 5B, the remote controller 4 corresponding to the arrow facing the upper left corner of the two directions is specified. By depressing the key once, the reduction of the menu screen starts at a predetermined interval. Further, by pressing and holding the key, the menu screen can be reduced in the direction of the arrow selected continuously for a long time when the menu screen is pressed (S400). Conversely, when it is desired to enlarge and display the menu screen, the menu is displayed at a predetermined interval by pressing down a specific key of the remote controller 4 corresponding to the arrow pointing in the lower right corner direction among the two directions. The screen starts to expand. In any case, based on the key code data input from the remote controller 4, the screen size control unit calculates data for changing the menu screen size on the TV monitor 3, and the data is sent to the screen display control unit. Sending. As described above, the step of continuously transitioning the menu screen in the selected arrow direction corresponds to the display attribute transition step, and the step of displaying the menu screen continuously transitioning in the arrow direction on the television monitor 3 is provisional display. Corresponds to the step.

  In addition, during the temporary display in which the menu screen is displayed while continuously transitioning at a predetermined interval as described above, the key that has been previously pressed is pressed again as shown in FIG. It is possible to temporarily stop the screen that has transitioned with. In addition, when a temporary display is performed by long-pressing a key, by canceling the pressing of the key, it is possible to temporarily stop a screen that is changing at a constant interval. In either case, when the screen once stopped is changed again, it is possible to cope with it by pressing the key corresponding to the direction to be changed.

  When the menu screen reaches the desired size, the user once stops the transition at a predetermined interval by the above method, and when the determination key is depressed, a confirmation screen prompting the user to determine is displayed as shown in FIG. It is displayed (S500). Here, when “Yes” is selected, the size of the menu screen that is temporarily displayed on the television monitor 3 is determined as the size selected by the user, and is stored in the memory 6. Will be displayed at the size determined at this stage. If “No” is selected, the screen once returns to the stop screen of FIG. Here, based on the key code data input from the remote controller 4, the screen size control unit grasps the data related to the menu screen size setting transmitted from the transition operation control unit, and transmits the data to the screen display control unit. is doing. As described above, the step of determining the menu screen that has reached the desired size corresponds to the display determination step.

Through the above steps, the menu screen can be reduced to a size that does not interfere with the viewing of the movie being watched. Therefore, the user ends the screen display setting (YES in S600), and the channel currently being watched that was initially considered In order to make a timer recording reservation for a music program that will start airing 30 minutes from now on a channel different from that in S700, NO is selected in S700 to return to the menu screen (S100), and the timer recording reservation operation is started again. .

On the other hand, when the size of the menu screen is selected and determined in step S500 (YES in S500), if the transmittance of the menu screen is too low to interfere with movie viewing, the user changes the screen transmittance. It will be. To return to the screen display setting screen, the user selects NO in S600 and returns to S200. Since the screen display setting menu screen shown in FIG. 3B is displayed, the transmittance is selected here (S300).

The screen shown in FIG. 6A is displayed on the television monitor 3. On the screen, a bar indicating the current transmittance is displayed. Corresponding to the direction keys of the remote controller 4, for example, in the remote controller 4 shown in FIG. 7, transitions of high and low transmittance can be associated with the keys of the direction keys RIGHT and LEFT. In this example, it is assumed that when the LEFT key is pressed, the number of bars increases, the transmittance increases, and the transparency increases.

When the user increases the transmittance of the menu screen, as shown in FIG. 6B, the transmittance of the menu screen increases at predetermined intervals by pressing the LEFT key of the remote controller 4 once. Further, by pressing and holding the key, the transmittance can be continuously increased for the time the menu screen is pressed (S400). On the other hand, when it is desired to display the menu screen with a reduced transmittance, the transmittance of the menu screen is lowered at predetermined intervals by pressing the RIGHT key of the remote controller 4 once. In either case, based on the key code data input from the remote controller 4, the screen transmittance control unit calculates data for transitioning the transmittance of the menu screen on the TV monitor 3, and controls the screen display control. Sending to the department. As described above, the step of continuously transitioning the menu screen in the selected arrow direction corresponds to the display attribute transition step, and the step of displaying the menu screen continuously transitioning in the arrow direction on the television monitor 3 is provisional display. Corresponds to the step.

  During the temporary display in which the menu screen is displayed while continuously changing at a predetermined interval as described above, as shown in FIG. Screens that are changing at intervals can be temporarily stopped. In addition, when a temporary display is performed by long-pressing a key, by canceling the pressing of the key, it is possible to temporarily stop a screen that is changing at a constant interval. In either case, when the screen once stopped is changed again, it is possible to respond by pressing the direction key corresponding to the direction to be changed.

  When the menu screen reaches the desired transmittance, the user temporarily stops the transition at a predetermined interval by the above method, and when the determination key is pressed, the confirmation screen prompts the user to determine as shown in FIG. Is displayed (S500). Here, when “Yes” is selected, the transmittance of the menu screen that is temporarily displayed on the television monitor 3 is determined as the transmittance selected by the user and stored in the memory 6. The menu screen is displayed with the transmittance determined at this stage. If “No” is selected, the screen once returns to the stop screen of FIG. Here, based on the key code data input from the remote controller 4, the screen transmittance control unit grasps data related to the transmittance setting of the menu screen transmitted from the transition operation control unit, and the data is displayed on the screen display control unit. Is sending to. As described above, the step of determining the menu screen that has reached the desired transmittance corresponds to the display determining step.

Through the above steps, the menu screen has been changed to a transmittance that does not interfere with the viewing of the movie being watched. Therefore, the user ends the screen display setting (YES in S600), and is currently watching In order to make a timer recording reservation for a music program that will be broadcast 30 minutes from now on a channel different from the channel, select NO in S700 to return to the menu screen (S100), and start the timer recording reservation operation again To do.

In the description of the above embodiment, even when any of the display attributes of the menu screen, that is, the display position, the size, and the transmittance is changed, the display attributes are changed by a key operation with directionality. When the limit point within a certain range that can be transitioned by pressing the key is reached, it is possible to automatically start the transition in the reverse direction by turning back from the limit point and display it temporarily. It is also possible to set it back to the value. Furthermore, it is possible to allow the user to select one of them on the menu screen. In the above description of the embodiment, the display attributes determined by the user, that is, the display position, size, and transmittance are stored in the memory 6 so that the menu screen is displayed at that time. It is automatically displayed according to the position, size, and transmittance, but each time it can be set to return to the initial value or center value, either of which can be displayed on the menu screen to the user. It is also possible to select.

The AV equipment provided with the menu screen display setting method according to the present invention is not limited to a television receiver, and is applicable to all AV equipment that displays image data such as a DVD playback device. In addition, the menu screen display setting method according to the present invention can be handled only by the setting of the microcomputer, and the remote control unit does not require a joystick or a remote control transmitter equipped with a dial type mechanism, and can be handled only by the remote control. There is no need to worry about cost pressures when possible.

The block diagram which shows the structure of AV apparatus containing the menu screen display setting apparatus explaining the Example of this invention The flowchart which shows the procedure of the display setting change of the menu screen explaining the Example of this invention The figure which shows an example of the menu screen explaining the Example of this invention The figure which shows an example of the setting screen of a display position change which shows the Example of this invention The figure which shows an example of the setting screen of a screen size change which shows the Example of this invention The figure which shows an example of the setting screen of the screen transmittance change which shows the Example of this invention The figure which shows an example of the remote controller which shows the Example of this invention The flowchart which shows the procedure of the display setting change of the menu screen by prior art

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Television receiver 2 Microcomputer 3 Television monitor 4 Remote controller 5 Remote controller light-receiving part 6 Memory

Claims (2)

An AV device that includes at least an image display device, a screen display setting device, and a remote control unit, and displays an on-screen display screen on the screen display device according to the display attributes of its size, display position, and transmittance. And
The screen display setting device
Display attribute transition means for continuously transitioning at least one of the display attributes in a certain range by the image display device and the remote control unit;
Provisional display means for tentatively displaying the on-screen display screen on the image display device according to the display attributes that are continuously shifted by the display attribute transition means;
Display determining means for selecting any one of the continuously transitioned displays temporarily displayed on the image display device by the temporary display means and determining the selected display as the display of the on-screen display screen When,
AV equipment including a screen display setting device characterized by comprising: A screen in an AV device that includes at least an image display device, a screen display setting device, and a remote control unit, and displays an on-screen display screen on the screen display device in accordance with the display attributes of the size, display position, and transmittance. Display setting method,
A display attribute transition step in which at least one of the display attributes is continuously shifted in a certain range by the image display device and the remote control unit;
A provisional display step of tentatively displaying the on-screen display screen on the image display device according to the display attributes that are continuously changed by the display attribute transition step;
A display determination step of selecting any one of the continuously transitioned displays temporarily displayed on the image display device by the temporary display step, and determining the selected display as a display of an on-screen display screen;
Display setting method of on-screen display screen consisting of.

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