JP2009088705A - Information processor, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To show users without a complicated work which existing reservation is to be deleted to register a new reservation even when the reservations are overlapped in registering the new reservation, and also to allows deletion candidates to be selectable concerning each one of the overlapped reservations. <P>SOLUTION: An information processor makes the list of the overlapped existing reservations among the registered existing reservations stored in a reservation information storage part 7 with respect to time which is designated by the new reservation when a reservation control part 4 detects the unperformable overlapping where overlapping is generated with the registered reservation even after assigning any tuners. An input/output control part 3 performs control, thereby allowing a screen generating part 2 to generate a list screen of overlapping reservations shown in Fig.5 as an example, and to display the list screen on a display screen. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and program having a reservation function capable of making a reservation for performing predetermined processing.

As a related technique of the present invention, there is a recording apparatus that includes a plurality of tuners and can perform recording reservation for each tuner.
In such a recording apparatus, a reservation is received by selecting a tuner to be recorded at the time of reservation, and when a reservation overlaps in the corresponding tuner, a display indicating that there is an overlap is displayed and reservation deletion is accepted. In this way, if there is a reservation overlap even after the reservation is deleted, a duplicate confirmation message is further displayed.

Such a reservation acceptance operation will be described by taking a double tuner recording apparatus as an example.
First, it is assumed that the existing reservation is set as shown in FIG. Assume that the user has reserved a new reservation “start time 12:15, end time 14:00” with tuner # 1 in the state where the existing reservation is set, as shown in FIG.

Since reservations in tuner # 1 overlap, the recording apparatus displays a warning indicating that only one of the recordings can be recorded because there is another overlapping reservation, but accepts the new reservation.
In order to eliminate duplication of reservations, the user transitions the display screen to the reservation list and individually deletes recording reservations.

Further, as a technique related to the present invention, there is a technique that includes a plurality of recording systems, automatically selects a recording system, and displays recording reservation contents with overlapping time zones in each of the recording systems when there is an overlapping recording reservation. Yes (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In this case, the new reservation registration is canceled, the recording reservation of the recording system A is deleted and a new reservation registration is performed, or the recording reservation of the recording system B is deleted and a new reservation is performed. A screen display requesting the user to select whether to register or not is performed.
JP-A-2005-79955

However, in the recording device in which the tuner to be recorded is fixed at the time of reservation as described above, the number of tuners provided in the device decreases the probability of overlapping reservations, but on the other hand, overlapping reservations occur when registering new reservations. In this case, the task of deleting the existing reservation becomes complicated.
In other words, there is a problem that it is difficult to know which existing reservation a user can delete to register a new reservation efficiently.

  In addition, the above-mentioned patent document 1 is for selecting whether to delete a registered recording reservation and perform a new reservation registration for each automatically selected recording system. Furthermore, it has not been considered to make it possible to select deletion candidates for overlapping individual reservations.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a situation, and even when a reservation overlaps when a new reservation is registered, the user can determine which existing reservation can be deleted to register a new reservation without any complicated work. Further, an object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus and program that can select deletion candidates for overlapping individual reservations.

  In order to achieve such an object, the information processing apparatus according to the present invention can accept a plurality of reservations, and if there is an infeasible duplication in the plurality of reservations, the information processing apparatus according to the present invention can A selection screen that enables selection of deletion candidates is generated.

  In addition, the program according to the present invention includes a duplicate reservation detection process for detecting whether or not there is an inexecutable duplicate between the received new reservation and the registered existing reservation, and an inexecutable duplicate by the duplicate reservation detection process. When the screen is detected, the computer is caused to execute selection screen generation processing for generating a selection screen that allows the user to select a deletion candidate for each overlapping reservation.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to indicate to the user, without complicated work, which existing reservation can be registered when a new reservation is deleted even when a reservation overlap occurs when a new reservation is registered. .
Furthermore, deletion candidates can be selected for overlapping individual reservations.

  Next, an embodiment in which an information processing apparatus and a program according to the present invention are applied to a recording apparatus will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  The recording apparatus according to the present embodiment has a function of accepting a plurality of reservations, and when there are non-executable duplications in the plurality of reservations, a selection that allows the user to select a deletion candidate for each overlapping reservation It is possible to provide a user interface screen that generates a screen and allows efficient deletion candidates.

As shown in FIG. 1, the recording apparatus according to the present embodiment includes an input unit 1 that receives an operation input from a user, and a screen generation unit 2 that generates and outputs display data for display on a display screen. The input / output control unit 3 performs the control.
The recording apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of tuners (information processing means) 6, a tuner control unit 5 that controls the tuner 6, and a reservation control unit (duplicate reservation detection unit) 4 that controls reservation information. And a reservation information storage unit 7 for storing the registered reservation information.

The reservation control unit 4 accepts reservation registration by the input unit (selection input means) 1 and causes the screen generation unit 2 to display a screen necessary for reservation registration by the user. In addition, the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage unit 7 is managed, and the registered recording reservation is executed using the tuners 6 (# 1) to (#n) under the control of the tuner control unit 5.
As a result, the broadcast content that can be received by the tuner 6 can be recorded at the reserved time.

Next, the operation according to the present embodiment will be described.
In this embodiment, when a user tries to register a new reservation, the reservation becomes more than the number of tuners in the same time period, and if an inexecutable duplication occurs in the reservation, it is duplicated. A list of existing reservations is displayed so that the user can easily and efficiently select which reservation to delete.

  Further, when the user temporarily selects one existing reservation as a deletion candidate, other reserved programs other than the reserved program by the tuner that is to be used by the reserved program temporarily selected as the deletion candidate are excluded from selection. In other words, only the reserved program having the deletion effect is clearly indicated without including the reserved program having the deletion effect in the selection target so that the user can easily and efficiently select the deletion candidate.

Hereinafter, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
First, as shown in FIG. 3, it is assumed that an existing reservation is set for each tuner. Here, as shown in FIG. 4, it is assumed that the user makes a new reservation of “start time 12:15, end time 14:00” for the existing reservation (step S1).

  When the input unit 1 receives an input for setting a new reservation, the reservation control unit 4 refers to the registered existing reservation information stored in the reservation information storage unit 7 and the tuner 6 capable of executing the input new reservation. It is confirmed whether there is a vacancy (step S2).

In the example of FIG. 4, even if any tuner is assigned, duplication occurs with a registered reservation (step S <b>2; No). When the reservation control unit 4 detects the occurrence of such an infeasible duplication, a duplicate existing reservation is registered from the registered existing reservations stored in the reservation information storage unit 7 for the time designated by the new reservation. A list is created (step S3).
Then, under the control of the input / output control unit 3, the screen generation unit 2 generates a list screen of duplicate reservations as illustrated in FIG. 5 and displays it on the display screen (step S4). In the example of FIG. 5, reservations at all tuners are displayed.

  When the user selects and inputs one deletion candidate from the input unit 1 based on the duplicate reservation list display (step S5), the deletion candidate is displayed as illustrated in FIG. 6 (selection screen generation means). In the example of FIG. 6, the program H “start time 12:00, end time 13:00” is selected as a deletion candidate.

  When the deletion candidate is selected and input in this way, the reservation control unit 4 refers to the registered existing reservation information stored in the reservation information storage unit 7 and is input when the deletion candidate reserved program is deleted. It is confirmed whether there is a vacant tuner 6 capable of executing a new reservation (step S6).

  In the example of FIG. 4, even if a deletion candidate is selected as in the example of FIG. 6, duplication still occurs between the new reservation and the registered reservation (Step S6; No). When the reservation control unit 4 detects that there are still non-executable duplications in this way, the reservations using the same tuner as the tuner used by the reservation selected and input as the deletion candidate in step S5 are listed (step S7).

Then, under the control of the input / output control unit 3, as shown in FIG. 7, the screen generation unit 2 generates a list screen as a gray display other than the notified reserved program on the screen of FIG. 5 (selection screen generation means), It is displayed on the display screen (step S8).
In this way, the objects other than the selection target of the next deletion candidate are grayed out, and the target that the user should select as the deletion candidate next is displayed in an easy-to-understand manner.

When the user selects and inputs one next deletion candidate from the input unit 1 on the basis of the duplicate reservation list display in which other than deletion candidate selection targets are masked in gray (step S9), the reservation control unit 4 displays the reservation information. The registered existing reservation information stored in the storage unit 7 is referred to, and it is confirmed whether or not there is an empty tuner 6 that can execute the input new reservation when the candidate program to be deleted is deleted. (Step S6).
In the example of FIG. 8, the program C “start time 13:00, end time 14:00” is selected as a deletion candidate.

In the example of FIG. 4, when a deletion candidate is selected as in the example of FIG. 8, there is no duplication in which a new reservation cannot be executed, so that a reservation becomes possible (step S <b>6; Yes). For this reason, as illustrated in FIG. 8, the screen generation unit 2 generates a screen in which the reservation button on the overlap list screen is enabled and displays the screen on the display screen (step S10).
When the user clicks and inputs a reservation button on the input unit 1 from the screen illustrated in FIG. 8, the reservation is completed.

As described above, in a recording apparatus equipped with a large number of tuners, when a user tries to set a new reservation, many existing reserved programs may correspond to inexecutable duplication.
According to the present embodiment, when such duplication occurs, the user can make a reservation for a new reservation by selecting it as a deletion candidate, and the user is troubled by explicitly expressing only the selection target program of the deletion candidate. Therefore, it is possible to provide a user interface screen that can efficiently select reservations for deletion candidates.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the recording device is a recorder that determines which tuner will record the program reserved at the time of reservation, or when duplication occurs in all the tuners at the time of reservation, etc. Even so, it is possible to provide a user interface screen that can be surely and easily grasped by the user while selecting a deletion candidate one by one as to which existing reservation can be deleted to efficiently register a new reservation.

Each of the above-described embodiments is a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to this, and various modifications can be made based on the technical idea of the present invention.
For example, in the embodiment described above, the reservation to be deleted is selected as the deletion candidate, but conversely, a method of selecting a program to be reserved may be used. In that case, instead of deleting all the recorded programs that were not selected in the program to be reserved, the reservation may be deleted according to the following rules, for example.
・ By linking with the viewing recommendation function, priorities are assigned to reserved programs, and those with lower priorities are automatically deleted.
-Reschedule to reduce tuner free time and automatically delete reservations

  Also, although described as a recording apparatus, the present invention is not limited to this as long as it is provided with a plurality of information processing means and can accept reservations. For example, various information processing apparatuses such as playback apparatuses that accept viewing reservations are also described. The invention is equally applicable.

In addition, by recording a processing procedure for realizing the recording apparatus as the above-described embodiment on a recording medium as a program, the above-described functions according to each embodiment of the present invention can be performed by a program supplied from the recording medium. It can be realized by causing a CPU of a computer constituting the system to perform processing.
In this case, the present invention can be applied even when an information group including a program is supplied to the output device from the above recording medium or from an external recording medium via a network.
That is, the program code itself read from the recording medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the recording medium storing the program code and the signal read from the recording medium constitute the present invention. It will be.
As this recording medium, for example, flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD + RW, magnetic tape, non-volatile A memory card, ROM or the like may be used.

  According to the program according to the present invention, each function in each of the above-described embodiments can be realized in an information processing apparatus controlled by the program.

As described above, the present invention displays a screen on which a duplicate reservation can be confirmed. Therefore, in a hard disk recorder incorporating a plurality of TV tuners, when a user explicitly assigns a tuner during reservation, the reservation overlaps. Even if this occurs, it is possible to provide a user interface that makes it possible to easily select a reservation deletion candidate.
The present invention is applicable not only to a hard disk recorder but also to various uses such as a PC (Personal Computer) equipped with a TV tuner.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the video recording apparatus as embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of this video recording apparatus. It is a figure for demonstrating the reservation overlap in this video recording apparatus. It is a figure for demonstrating the reservation overlap in this video recording apparatus. It is a figure which shows the example of a display screen of this recording device. It is a figure which shows the example of a display screen of this recording device. It is a figure which shows the example of a display screen of this recording device. It is a figure which shows the example of a display screen of this recording device. It is a figure for demonstrating the reservation overlap in a common double tuner recording device. It is a figure for demonstrating the reservation overlap in a common double tuner recording device.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Input part 2 Screen generation part 3 Input / output control part 4 Reservation control part 5 Tuner control part 6 Tuner 7 Reservation information storage part

Claims (7)

  A plurality of reservations can be accepted, and when there is an infeasible duplication in the plurality of reservations, a selection screen is generated that allows a user to select a deletion candidate for each overlapping reservation. Information processing device. A duplicate reservation detection means for detecting whether or not there is an infeasible duplication between the accepted new reservation and the registered existing reservation;
A selection screen generating unit that generates a selection screen that allows the user to select a deletion candidate for each overlapping reservation when the duplicate reservation detection unit detects an inexecutable duplication; An information processing apparatus characterized by the above. A selection input means for receiving a selection input;
The duplicate reservation detection means determines whether or not there is an infeasible overlap between the registered existing reservation and the new reservation when the deletion candidate reservation is deleted each time the deletion candidate is selected and input by the selection input means. Detect
3. The information processing according to claim 2, wherein the selection screen generation unit generates a selection screen every time a deletion candidate is selected and input by the selection input unit based on a detection result by the duplicate reservation detection unit. apparatus. Reservation control means to accept and manage reservations,
4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the duplicate reservation detecting unit detects whether there is an inexecutable duplicate for the reservation managed by the reservation control unit.   The reservation control unit receives a new reservation together with the deletion candidate deletion when the deletion candidate is selected and input by the selection input unit and the duplicate reservation detection unit determines that there is no non-executable duplication. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4. A plurality of information processing means,
When the duplicate reservation detection means detects a duplicate that cannot be processed by the information processing capability of the plurality of information processing means between the received new reservation and the registered existing reservation, The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the information processing apparatus is determined. A duplicate reservation detection process for detecting whether there is an infeasible duplication between the accepted new reservation and the registered existing reservation;
When a duplicate that cannot be executed is detected by the duplicate reservation detection process, a selection screen generation process that generates a selection screen that allows the user to select a deletion candidate for each duplicate reservation is executed on the computer. A program characterized by letting

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