JP2007123964A - Television receiver with built-in disk drive - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the ease of use of a user by allowing content set by one device to be also handled by the other device effectively in a television receiver with a built-in disk drive. <P>SOLUTION: In a disk-side microcomputer 11 when arbitrary phonetic language and/or subtitle language is set preferentially from a plurality of kinds of phonetic languages and/or subtitle ones, the disk-side microcomputer 11 transmits the preferentially set information to a television-side microcomputer 21 via bus communication 35 constantly. When a broadcasting signal is received which contains the plurality of kinds of phonetic languages and/or subtitle ones; the television-side microcomputer 21 sets output the phonetic language and/or display subtitle one based on the preferentially set information transmitted from the disk-drive-side microcomputer 11, and starts the viewing of the received broadcasting signal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a disk device built-in type television receiver in which a control unit of a disk device and a control unit of a television receiving device are connected by bus communication and a preferred audio language and / or subtitle language can be set. Relates to the device.

  In the DVD standard, AC3 (Audio Code number 3) is adopted as an audio compression method, and AC3 is also adopted as an audio compression method in the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), which is a standard for terrestrial digital television broadcasting in the United States. . Such a DVD player adopting AC3 is provided with a function capable of setting in advance the audio language, subtitle language, and menu language to be prioritized on the setup screen. Similarly, a digital television receiver that adopts AC3 as the audio compression method may have a function that can set in advance the audio language, subtitle language, and menu language to be prioritized on the setup screen.

  On the other hand, not only such digital broadcasting but also conventional analog broadcasting, in audio multiplex broadcasting, for example, bilingual broadcasting such as Japanese on the right channel and English on the left channel is performed. You can set the voice language.

By the way, in such a television receiver with a built-in DVD player, the DVD-side control means and the TV-side control means are connected by bus communication. Therefore, paying attention to this point, a system has been proposed in which an arbitrary process on the DVD side and an arbitrary process on the TV side are made common by communication between both control means (see, for example, Patent Document 1). Specifically, the TV-side control means stores various setting items relating to the setting items executed by the TV-side control unit, such as image quality settings and channel presets, and control data of the setting items in association with the TV data stored in advance. Corresponding memories are provided, and the DVD-side control means associates the setting items executed by this, for example, the setting items of the disc menu relating to the selection of the main image and the option image, and the control data of the setting items. A DVD memory stored in advance is provided correspondingly, and data having substantially the same control content stored in both memories is stored only in the TV memory and deleted from the DVD memory. ing. Then, the control means on the DVD side is configured to execute the deleted control data by sharing the television memory as necessary.
JP 2002-215596 A

  As described above, the DVD player has a function capable of setting in advance the audio language, subtitle language, and menu language to be prioritized on the setup screen, and the television receiving apparatus also has the audio language and subtitle language to be prioritized on the setup screen. In some cases, a menu language can be set in advance. However, any of these priority settings is effective only in the device. For example, the content set in the DVD player is also effective in the television receiver. It is not a working system.

  As for sharing, as described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, only control data common to both is shared, and both of the settings need to be performed in each device. there were. That is, the setting of one device does not effectively affect the setting of the other device.

  The present invention was devised to solve such a problem, and the purpose of the present invention is to receive a disk device built-in television receiver that improves the user-friendliness by treating the contents set in one device as valid in the other device. To provide an apparatus.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the disk device built-in type television receiver of the present invention is such that the disk device control means and the television reception device control means are connected by bus communication, and the preferred speech language and In a television receiver with a built-in disc device capable of setting a subtitle language, an arbitrary audio language and / or subtitle language is preferentially set from a plurality of types of audio languages and / or subtitle languages in one control means. In such a case, the other control means performs the audio output and / or subtitle display by making the priority setting valid.

  More specifically, when any audio language and / or subtitle language is preferentially set from a plurality of types of audio languages and / or subtitle languages in the control means on the disk device side, the disk device side The control means transmits the priority setting information to the control means on the television receiver side. When receiving a broadcast signal including a plurality of types of audio languages and / or subtitle languages, the control means on the television receiver side receives the output audio language and the output audio language based on the priority setting information transmitted from the control means on the disk device side. // Set the display subtitle language.

  In this case, when one audio control unit and / or subtitle language is preferentially set, the one control unit is configured to always transmit the priority setting information to the other control unit. Alternatively, when one of the control means prioritizes any audio language and / or subtitle language, the priority setting information is transmitted to the other control means at the time of priority setting and at the subsequent power-on. You may comprise.

  As a result, the other control means automatically sets the audio language and subtitle language based on the priority setting information transmitted from the one control means when setting the speech language and subtitle language of the own device. be able to. Therefore, the user can save the trouble of setting the same contents set in one device again in the other device.

  In the state where any audio language and / or subtitle language is preferentially set by the one control means, when any audio language and / or subtitle language is preferentially set by the other control means, The one control means is configured to enable the priority setting and perform subsequent audio output and / or caption display. As a result, every time priority setting is performed in one of the devices, the priority setting is effectively applied to the other device thereafter.

  According to the disk device built-in television receiver of the present invention, the other control means, based on the priority setting information transmitted from one of the control means when setting the speech language or subtitle language of the own device. , Can automatically set audio language and subtitle language. For example, the priority audio language set on the setup screen of the disk device can be commonly used in the television receiver. Therefore, the user can save the trouble of setting the same contents set in one device again in the other device.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a main part of a television receiver with a built-in disk device (for example, DVD device) according to the present embodiment. However, in the present embodiment, the disc playback processing by the DVD device and the video and audio signal processing by the television receiving device are well-known processing, so here they are simply referred to as a disc signal processing unit and a TV signal processing unit, respectively. It is shown by a functional block.

  That is, the television receiver with a built-in disk device of the present embodiment is a device in which a disk control system 10 that reproduces a disk 13 and a TV control system 20 are functionally linked and stored in one housing. A disk-side microcomputer (disk-side control means) 11 that controls the entire disk control system 10 and a TV-side microcomputer (television-side control means) 21 that controls the entire TV control system 20 are connected bidirectionally by bus communication 35. It has a configuration.

  The disk-side microcomputer 11 controls a disk signal processing unit 12 that performs a determination process for determining the type of the disk 13 loaded in the main body and a reproduction process according to the type of the disk. The output of the disk signal processing unit 12 is connected to a display unit 26 such as a CRT or a display via a switching circuit 25. In addition, the disk signal processing unit 12 includes an OSD circuit 12a for displaying various setting screens including a setup screen for performing various settings on the disk device side.

  Further, the disk-side microcomputer 11 has a function capable of setting in advance the audio language, subtitle language, and menu language to be prioritized on the setup screen, and includes a disk-side memory unit (EEPROM, etc.) 14 for storing the setting contents. Yes.

  On the other hand, the output of the tuner circuit 22 that receives a television signal is connected to a TV signal processing unit 24, and the output of the TV signal processing unit 24 is connected to a display unit 26 such as a CRT or a display via a switching circuit 25. Has been. The output of the TV signal processing unit 24 is connected to the internal speaker 28 via the amplifier 27. The TV signal processing unit 24 includes an OSD circuit 24a for displaying various setting screens including a setup screen for performing various settings on the television receiver side.

  The TV-side microcomputer 21 decodes the television signal received via the tuner circuit 22 into a video signal and an audio signal, displays the video signal on the display unit 26, and outputs the audio signal from the internal speaker 28. 24 is controlled. In addition, the TV-side microcomputer 21 has a function that can set in advance the audio language, subtitle language, and menu language to be prioritized on the setup screen, and includes a TV-side memory unit (EEPROM, etc.) 29 for storing the setting contents. Yes.

  The TV-side microcomputer 21 is connected to the output of a receiving unit 31 that receives various operation signals from the remote controller 41. The TV side microcomputer 21 controls the operation of the disk control system 10 and the TV control system 20 based on various operation signals transmitted from the remote controller 41. That is, in this embodiment, all control signals including power on / off of the disk control system 10 are transmitted to the disk side microcomputer 11 through the TV side microcomputer 21. The switching control of the switching circuit 25 is performed by the TV-side microcomputer 21.

  Next, in the television receiver with a built-in disk device having the above-described configuration, processing operations performed by the TV-side microcomputer 21 and the disk-side microcomputer 11 when the audio language or subtitle language priority setting process is performed using the remote controller 41. explain. Here, the flowchart shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 shows processing operations performed by the disk-side microcomputer 11 and the TV-side microcomputer 21 when the audio device or subtitle language priority setting process on the disk device side is performed using the remote controller 41. Will be described with reference to FIG. 2 shows the processing operation of the disk-side microcomputer, and FIG. 3 shows the processing operation of the TV-side microcomputer 21.

  The user uses the remote controller 41 to display a setup screen on the disk device side on the display unit 26. In the setup screen, a mode for presetting the audio language and subtitle language to be prioritized is prepared. In the setting mode, the audio language and subtitle language to be prioritized are set (step S11). The setting contents are stored in the disk side memory unit 14 (step S12).

  As a result, when the disc 13 is loaded and played back, the disc-side microcomputer 11 first determines whether each set language stored in the disc-side memory unit 14 is recorded on the disc 13 and is recorded. If so, playback is executed according to the set language. For example, if “English” is set as the audio language and “Japanese” is set as the subtitle language on the setup screen, “English”, “Japanese” and “Spanish” are set as audio languages on the playback disc. Is recorded, and "English" and "Japanese" are recorded as the subtitle language, "English" is set as the playback audio, "Japanese" is set as the subtitle language, Start playback. If such a preferentially set language is not recorded on the disc 13, the playback audio and the displayed subtitles are reproduced based on the default value of the audio language and the default value of the subtitle language prepared in advance in the apparatus. Set the language. When priority setting is prohibited on the disc 13 side, reproduction is started in the audio language and subtitle language recorded on the disc 13.

  Thus, when the audio language and the subtitle language to be prioritized are set, the priority setting information is constantly transmitted from the disk side microcomputer 11 to the TV side microcomputer 21 (step S13).

  On the other hand, in the TV-side microcomputer 21, for example, when the user receives a desired channel using the remote controller 41 (when it is determined Yes in step S21), first, a plurality of types of audio languages are included in the information of the received channel. Whether or not a subtitle language is included is determined (step S22). As a result, when a plurality of types of audio languages and subtitle languages are included (for example, when the broadcast content of the reception channel is a foreign movie or the like), the determination in step S22 is Yes, so the TV side Based on the priority setting information transmitted from the disk-side microcomputer 11, the microcomputer 21 determines whether or not the priority-set language matches any of the language information included in the received broadcast signal of the movie. (Step S23). For example, the received movie contains “English”, “Japanese”, and “Spanish” as the audio language, and “English” and “Japanese” as the subtitle language. Therefore, the TV side microcomputer 21 sets “English” as the output sound and “Japanese” as the subtitle language. Then, viewing of the received movie is started (step S24).

  On the other hand, when the information of the reception channel includes only one type of audio language and subtitle language (however, the subtitle language may not be included) (when determined No in step S22), Viewing of the received movie is started by the received audio language and subtitle language (step S25).

  If a plurality of types of audio languages and subtitle languages are included, but the language does not match the preferentially set language (when determined No in step S23), the TV-side microcomputer 21 Based on the default value of the audio language and the default value of the subtitle language prepared in advance, the language of the reproduced audio and the display subtitle is set, and viewing of the received movie is started (step S26).

  Thus, according to the present embodiment, the TV-side microcomputer 21 is based on the priority setting information transmitted from the disk-side microcomputer 11 when receiving a broadcast signal including a plurality of types of audio languages and subtitle languages. , Can automatically set audio language and subtitle language. Therefore, the user can save the trouble of setting the priority setting information set on the disk device again on the television receiving device side.

  In the above embodiment, the processing operation by the disk-side microcomputer 11 and the TV-side microcomputer 21 when the audio device or subtitle language priority setting process is performed on the disk device side is described. Regarding the processing operation by the TV-side microcomputer 21 and the disk-side microcomputer 11 when the language or subtitle language priority setting process is performed, the processing operations of the TV-side microcomputer 21 and the disk-side microcomputer 11 are just opposite to the above. is there.

  In addition, in the state where the priority setting of the audio language and the subtitle language is performed on the disc device side as described above, when the priority setting of the audio language and the subtitle language is subsequently performed from the setup screen also on the television receiver side, Thereafter, the contents set with priority on the television receiver side are reflected on the disk unit side. In other words, the latest priority setting information performed by either the television receiver or the disk device effectively acts on both devices.

  In the above embodiment, the priority setting information set by one microcomputer is constantly transmitted to the other microcomputer. However, the priority setting information is transmitted to the other microcomputer at the time of priority setting and at the subsequent power-on. The other microcomputer may be configured to update and store the priority setting information in the memory unit of its own device. Thereby, the priority setting information set in both the microcomputers can always be kept at the same information when the apparatus is operating.

  Note that, when setting the audio language or subtitle language to be prioritized, it may be configured to allow the user to select whether or not to reflect the setting contents to the other device. As a result, when the user selects not to reflect, different priority settings can be made in each of the television receiver and the disk device.

It is a functional block diagram which shows the electrical constitution of the principal part of the television receiver with a built-in disk apparatus of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the processing operation by the disk side microcomputer at the time of performing the priority setting process of the audio | voice language or subtitle language by the disk apparatus side. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the processing operation by the TV side microcomputer at the time of performing the priority setting process of the audio | voice language or subtitle language by the side of a disc apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Disk control system 11 Disk side microcomputer 12 Disk signal processing part 12a OSD circuit 13 Disk 14 Disk side memory part 20 TV control system 21 TV side microcomputer 22 Tuner circuit 24 TV signal processing part 24a OSD circuit 25 Switching circuit 26 Display part 27 Amplifier 28 Speaker 29 TV side memory part 30 Receiving part 35 Bus communication 41 Remote control

Claims (5)

In the disk device built-in television receiver in which the control device of the disk device and the control device of the television receiver are connected by bus communication, and the audio language and / or subtitle language to be prioritized can be set.
When any audio language and / or subtitle language is preferentially set from a plurality of types of audio languages and / or subtitle languages in the control means on the disk device side, the control means on the disk device side gives priority to the priority. When the setting information is transmitted to the control means on the television receiving device side, and the control means on the television receiving device receives a broadcast signal including plural kinds of audio languages and / or subtitle languages, the control on the disc device side is performed. An output audio language and / or a display subtitle language is set based on priority setting information transmitted from the means. In the disk device built-in television receiver in which the control device of the disk device and the control device of the television receiver are connected by bus communication, and the audio language and / or subtitle language to be prioritized can be set.
In one control means, when an arbitrary audio language and / or subtitle language is preferentially set from among a plurality of types of audio languages and / or subtitle languages, the other control means also enables the priority setting to be effective. A television receiver with a built-in disk device, which performs output and / or caption display.   3. The disk according to claim 2, wherein when one audio control unit and / or subtitle language is preferentially set, the one control unit constantly transmits the priority setting information to the other control unit. Built-in television receiver.   When one of the control means prioritizes an arbitrary audio language and / or subtitle language, the priority setting information is transmitted to the other control means at the time of priority setting and after the power is turned on. 3. The disk device built-in television receiver according to claim 2, wherein the control means stores the received priority setting information in a memory unit. In a state where any audio language and / or subtitle language is preferentially set by the one control means, when any audio language and / or subtitle language is preferentially set by the other control means, 3. The disk device built-in television receiver according to claim 2, wherein the priority setting is also valid in the control means to perform subsequent audio output and / or subtitle display. 4.