JP2970429B2 - Simultaneous recording VTR status display system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a simultaneous recording VTR status display system, and more particularly, to a simultaneous recording VTR status display system of a television automatic program control device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a television automatic program control device, when a television automatic program control device controls a controlled device based on operation data to broadcast a program, any video device, CM bank, or film device is used. , On-air data consisting of a series of character data indicating which program is being broadcast is displayed on the display screen of the monitor device as it is.

In the simultaneous recording VTR status display method,
Similar to the display of on-air data in the automatic television program control device, a series of character data indicating which video device is recording which program is displayed on the video display terminal as it is.

[0004]

In the above-described conventional simultaneous recording VTR status display method, a series of character data indicating the usage status of video equipment is displayed as it is, similarly to the display of normal on-air data. The operator must confirm the usage status of the video equipment by confirming the series of character data one by one, and it takes time to confirm the data.

[0005] Further, since data is displayed on the display screen only for the number of data display lines, it is not possible to confirm a video device that is not currently used by only the displayed data, and it is not possible to confirm a video device that is currently used. I can't know the schedule after that.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, to reduce the time for data confirmation, and to easily confirm a video device that is not currently used and a recording schedule of the video device. It is an object of the present invention to provide a simultaneous recording VTR status display system.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Simultaneous recording V according to the present invention
The TR status display system is a simultaneous recording VTR status display system that displays the usage status when different programs are recorded in a plurality of video devices, and is used for automatic program transmission.
Input means for inputting recording information including recording start time information, recording time information, a program name, and identification information of a video device for recording the program, which are output control data, and generating means for generating graphic data indicating the usage status of the video devices each, the graphic data generated by said generating means have a display means for displaying in correspondence with the plurality of video devices respectively, before
The notation generation means includes a plurality of the plurality of
Video devices and recording time on the horizontal axis
Is configured to generate graphic data,
The display means displays the image based on the graphic data.
The video devices correspond to the vertical axes on the screen,
The recording time of the device is displayed on the horizontal time axis on the screen.
It is characterized by showing .

[0008]

When a VTR recording start time information, a VTR recording time information, a VTR recording program name information and a VTR number information of a program are input to a data input section, a plurality of videos are converted by the data conversion section based on the recording information. It generates graphic data indicating the usage status of each device.

[0009] The graphic data is output from the data output unit to the CRT, and a rectangular area corresponding to each video device and indicating a simultaneous recording state is displayed on the screen.

Thus, the simultaneous recording status of each video device can be displayed for several hours in one screen, and the simultaneous recording status of each video device can be displayed in one screen in real time. Therefore, the time for data confirmation can be shortened, and it becomes easy to confirm each video device that is not currently used and to confirm a recording schedule of each video device.

[0011]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of an automatic television program control apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention.
In the figure, an automatic television program control apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a CPU 1, a memory 2 for storing program transmission control data for a plurality of days, and a display / addition / change / display of program transmission control data stored in the memory 2. A video display terminal 3 for deleting, a time generating device 4 for time collation, an external device 5 to be controlled, an input / output interface 6 for exchanging data between the devices, and a control status are displayed. It comprises a monitor display 7.

The CPU 1 collates the program transmission control data stored in the memory 2 with the time information from the time generator 4, and when they match, controls the external device 5 according to the program transmission control data. Further, the CPU 1 always displays the digestion status of the program transmission control data on the monitor device 7 in conjunction with the control processing.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the video display terminal 3 of FIG. In the figure, a video display terminal 3 is provided with a data input unit 31, a data conversion unit 32, and a data output unit 33, in addition to the functions for displaying, adding, changing, and deleting program transmission control data. The CRT 8 is connected to the data output unit 33.

The data input unit 31 receives the current time information 101 from the CPU 1 via the input / output interface 6 and the VTR.
Recording start time information 102 and VTR recording time information 103
When VTR recorded program name information 104 and VTR number information (identification information of each video device) 105 are input, the character information is passed to the data conversion unit 32.

The data conversion unit 32 converts the character information from the data input unit 31 into graphic data indicating the usage status of each video device and passes the graphic data to the data output unit 33. The data output unit 33 outputs the graphic data converted by the data conversion unit 32 to the CRT 8, and displays the simultaneous recording status of each video device in real time.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing graphic data displayed on the CRT 8 of FIG. In the figure, the display screen of the CRT 8 includes video equipment VTR-A, VTR-B, and VT.
Rectangular areas a to e indicating the simultaneous recording status of RC, VTR-D, and VTR-E are displayed.

That is, the rectangular area “a” corresponds to the video equipment VTR-
A indicates that recording of a program is performed between “16:00” and “16:40”, and the rectangular area b indicates the video equipment VTR.
-B indicates that the recording of the baseball program is performed from "15:00" to "17:00".

The rectangular area c is a video equipment VTR-C
Indicates that the program is recorded during the period from “17:20” to “18:00”, and the rectangular area e is the video device VTR-
E indicates that recording of the program "Drama A" is performed between "16:00" and "18:00".

Note that a rectangular area d indicates that a program is recorded from "15:40" to "16:40" in the video equipment VTR-D, and the data conversion unit 32 calculates the coordinates of each program. It consists of the points d1 to d4.

In this case, the VTR recording start time information 102
X, the width of the rectangular area d obtained from the VTR recording time information 103 is dx, and the VTR machine information 105
Is y, the vertical width of the rectangular area d as a fixed value is dy, the coordinates of the point d1 are (x, y), the coordinates of the point d2 are (x + dx, y), and the coordinates of the point d3 are ( x + dx,
y + dy) and the coordinates of the point d4 are (x, y + dy).

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the data converter 32 of FIG. The conversion processing of character data into graphic data by the data conversion unit 32 will be described with reference to FIGS.

The data input unit 31 receives current time information 101 from the CPU 1 via the input / output interface 6 per second,
VTR recording start time information 102, VTR recording time information 103, VTR recorded program name information 104, and VTR number information 105 are input.

The data converter 32 is a data input unit 31 per second.
To present time information 101 and VTR recording start time information 10
2, VTR recording time information 103, VTR recording program name information 104, and VTR number information 105, VT
From the R recording start time information 102, the X of the point d1 of the rectangular area d
The coordinates (x) are obtained (step S1 in FIG. 4).

Next, the data conversion unit 32 obtains the Y coordinate (y) of the point d1 of the rectangular area d from the VTR machine information 105 (step S2 in FIG. 4), and obtains the rectangular area d (BOX) from the VTR recording time information 103. The width (dx) is obtained (step S3 in FIG. 4).

Since the vertical width of the rectangular area d is a fixed value set in advance, the data converter 32 calculates the X coordinate (x) of the point d1, the Y coordinate (y) of the point d1, The coordinates (x + dx, y) of the point d2 are determined by the horizontal width (dx) of the rectangular area d and the vertical width (dy) of the rectangular area d, which is a fixed value.
The coordinates (x + dx, y + dy) of the point d3 and the coordinates (x, y + dy) of the point d4 are obtained (step S4 in FIG. 4).

The data converter 32 calculates the points d1 (x, y) and d2 (x + dx,
y), point d3 (x + dx, y + dy), point d4 (x, y
+ Dy) Graphic data is generated by connecting the respective parts with ruled lines (step S5 in FIG. 4).

As described above, when the VTR recording start time information 102, the VTR recording time information 103, the VTR recorded program name information 104, and the VTR number information 105 of the program are input to the data input unit 31, the data conversion unit 32 Generates graphic data indicating the usage status of each of the plurality of video devices based on the recording information, and outputs the graphic data from the data output unit 33 to the CRT 8 to generate the video device VT.
RA, VTR-B, VTR-C, VTR-D, VTR
-E By displaying rectangular areas a to e indicating the simultaneous recording status of each on the screen, the video equipment VTR-A, VT
The simultaneous recording status of each of RB, VTR-C, VTR-D, and VTR-E can be displayed for several hours in one screen.

Further, the CPU 1 sends to the video display terminal 3 VTR recording start time information 102, VTR recording time information 103, and VTR recorded program name information 10.
4 and VTR number information 105 are output every second, so that the video devices VTR-A, VTR-B, VTR-C, VTR
-The simultaneous recording status of each of the D and VTR-E can be displayed in real time on one screen.

Therefore, the time for data confirmation can be reduced, and the video equipment VTR-A, which is not currently used, can be used.
Check each of VTR-B, VTR-C, VTR-D, and VTR-E, and check video equipment VTR-A, VTR-B, VTR
It is possible to easily confirm the recording schedule of each of -C, VTR-D, and VTR-E.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, when recording information including recording start time information of a program, recording time information, a program name, and identification information of a video device for recording the program is input. In addition, by generating graphic data indicating the usage status of each of the plurality of video devices based on the recording information and displaying the graphic data in correspondence with each of the plurality of video devices, it is possible to reduce the time for data confirmation, There is an effect that it is possible to easily check a video device that is not being used and a recording schedule of the video device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of an automatic television program control device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a video display terminal of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing graphic data displayed on the CRT in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the data conversion unit in FIG. 2;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 CPU 2 Memory 3 Video display terminal 4 Time generation device 5 External device 7 Monitor display 8 CRT 31 Data input unit 32 Data conversion unit 33 Data output unit

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. Simultaneous recording V for displaying a use situation when different programs are recorded in a plurality of video devices.
A TR situation display system, automatic program transmission control data
Recording start time information of the program is the data and recording time information and the program name and the input means for inputting recording information including the identification information of the video apparatus to record the program, the plurality of video based on the video recording information possess a generating means for generating graphic data indicating the usage status of each device to, and display means for displaying the graphic data generated by said generating means in correspondence with the plurality of video devices respectively, said generating means
Represents the plurality of video devices on a vertical axis on the screen of the display means.
A graph in which each unit is assigned and the recording time is assigned on the horizontal axis
And the display means is configured to generate
The column is a vertical axis on the screen based on the graphic data.
Each of the above video devices, and record the compatible video devices.
The image time is displayed on the time axis of the horizontal axis on the screen.
Simultaneous recording VTR status display system, characterized in that it was. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating unit calculates a display area of the program on the display screen based on the recording start time information, the recording time information, and the identification information, and calculates the graphic based on the display area. The simultaneous recording VTR status display system according to claim 1, wherein the system is configured to generate data. 3. The display means generated by the generation means.
Graphics data to each of the plurality of video devices.
3. The simultaneous recording V according to claim 1, wherein the simultaneous recording V is configured to be displayed in real time.
TR status display system.