JP5052591B2 - Mobile device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal, and more particularly to a mobile terminal having a broadcast receiving function and a function of controlling an external playback device.

  In recent years, a mobile phone that is one of mobile terminals has been proposed that has not only a call function but also a broadcast receiving function and a function of remotely controlling an external device. Is disclosed.

  Users can watch a broadcast program on the go using a mobile phone, but when they are making a call in response to an incoming call request while watching the program, or the state of the radio wave carrying the broadcast information The viewing of the program may be interrupted, for example, when the program becomes worse.

  Even in such a case, if a program for which viewing was interrupted was recorded at home by a recording / playback device in advance, the part that could not be viewed after returning home was instructed to search forward or backward, The program can be played from the part.

  A mobile phone having an external device control function can also be used as a remote control for operating the recording / playback apparatus.

JP 02/007334 Gazette Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-284757

  However, it does not always remember from which part the user can no longer view, and it is very troublesome to find the position where viewing was interrupted after returning home.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal that causes a playback device to play a program from a position where viewing is interrupted on the portable terminal by a simple operation.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a portable terminal for receiving a broadcast program, and detecting means for detecting stop of reception of the program being received, and the detection means detects stop of reception of the program. In this case, the recording device records the program information indicating the received program and the reception stop time, and is stored in the playback device from the external playback device that operates according to the signal received from the portable terminal. Corresponding to the reception stop time recorded by the recording means when there is program information recorded by the recording means in the program information obtained by the obtaining means , And a playback transmission means for transmitting a playback signal for instructing the playback apparatus to start playback of the program indicated by the program information recorded by the recording means .

According to this configuration, even when a reason for interrupting the reception of the broadcast occurs while the broadcast program is being received by the mobile terminal, the program can be easily reproduced from the position where the broadcast could not be received.

It is a figure which shows the function structure of the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the functional structure in the mobile telephone and recording / reproducing apparatus which concern on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart of the reception information recording process in the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart of the reproduction | regeneration instruction | indication process with respect to the external recording / reproducing apparatus from the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart of the video recording program reproduction | regeneration processing in the video recording / reproducing apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which illustrated the reception information recorded in a reception information recording process. It is the figure which illustrated the case where the program of recording information was displayed on the display of the mobile telephone concerning an embodiment of the invention.

<Configuration>
A program playback system 500 according to the present invention shown in FIG. 1 is such that a recording / playback apparatus 400 having recording information receives a playback signal transmitted from a mobile terminal 300 having a broadcast receiving function, and plays back a recorded program based on the playback signal. A mobile phone 300 which is a mobile terminal, and a recording / playback apparatus 400.

  Here, the mobile phone 300 includes a radio unit 10, a modem unit 20, an audio processing unit 30, a broadcast receiving unit 40, an antenna 50, a microphone 60, a speaker 70, an operation unit 80, a display unit 90, a storage unit 100, and a control unit 200. Have

  The control unit 200 includes a reception status detection unit 201, a program reception unit 202, a reception information display control unit 203, a reproduction position reception unit 204, a reproduction transmission unit 210, and an external device control unit 220.

  Further, FIG. 2 shows an enlarged view of the control unit 200 of FIG. 1 and the functional configuration of the recording / playback apparatus 400. The external device control unit 220 of the control unit 200 includes a playback transmission unit 210 and a recording information acquisition unit 211. Consists of.

On the other hand, the recording / playback apparatus 400 includes a recording control unit 410, a recording information transmission unit 420, a playback start position reception unit 430, and a playback control unit 440.
<Mobile phone>
Hereinafter, each component of the mobile phone 300 will be described in detail.

  Here, the radio unit 10 amplifies the reception signal received by the antenna 50, amplifies the transmission signal modulated by the modem unit 20, and transmits the amplified signal from the antenna 50.

  The modem unit 20 demodulates the received signal amplified by the radio unit 10 into a received voice signal and a received data signal, and is transmitted from the transmitted voice signal A / D converted by the voice processing unit 30 and the control unit 200. Modulate the data signal into a transmission signal.

  The voice processing unit 30 D / A converts the received voice signal demodulated by the modulation / demodulation unit 20 to generate sound from the speaker 70, and A / D converts the transmission voice signal acquired from the microphone 60.

  Note that the configuration for realizing the transmission and reception of voice and data itself is not a characteristic part of the present invention, so that a general configuration conventionally used is appropriately adopted and the description thereof is omitted.

  The broadcast receiving unit 40 starts receiving a broadcast in response to an instruction from the control unit 200, and selects a broadcast program instructed by the control unit 200 in response to a broadcast program selection made by the user through the operation unit 50. . Also, an electronic program guide of the broadcast being received is acquired, and a signal indicating program information is sent to the reception status detection unit 201. The program information includes a received program channel, a program name, a broadcast start time including a broadcast date, and a broadcast end time.

  The operation unit 80 includes an on-hook button, an off-hook button, a 5-contact button, a numeric button, and the like. When these button presses are accepted by a user operation, a signal indicating reception of a broadcast program, playback control of an external recording / playback device 400, telephone call, mail transmission / reception, etc. is sent to the control unit 200 according to the received button operation. .

  The display unit 90 is realized by, for example, a liquid crystal panel, and displays an image of a received broadcast program, an image such as a menu or mail that can be executed by the mobile phone 300 in accordance with an instruction from the control unit 200.

  The storage unit 100 stores information indicating the program received from the reception status detection unit 201, the reception start time and the reception stop time of the program as reception information.

  The control unit 200 is configured to include a CPU and a memory (ROM, RAM), and has a function of controlling each unit of the mobile phone 300 in accordance with the operation of the operation unit 80 by the user, and is stored in the ROM. The entire operation of the mobile phone 300 is controlled by the CPU executing the program. The ROM holds a program for realizing an operation that is particularly characteristic of the present invention, that is, an operation for transmitting a program playback instruction to the external recording / playback apparatus 400. The RAM temporarily holds work data for the CPU to execute the program.

  The reception status detection unit 201 detects the start and stop of reception of a broadcast program. When the program information is received from the broadcast receiving unit 40, the program information and the reception start time are stored in the memory with the current time as the reception start time.

  Also, when the reception status detection unit 201 detects the stop of the broadcast program reception, the reception status detection unit 201 determines whether or not the interval between the time when the reception stop is detected and the reception start time in the memory is equal to or longer than a predetermined time. If it is determined that it is longer than the predetermined time, the received program information, the reception start time, and the reception stop time are recorded in the storage unit 100 as reception information.

  In this embodiment, only one broadcast program is recorded in the storage unit 100 only when it is received for 5 minutes or more.

  Here, as a case of detecting the stop of broadcast reception, for example, when a reception request signal is received through the radio unit 10 and the user presses the off-hook button 81, or a program designation different from the received program is used. It may be received through operation of the operation unit 80 by a person.

  The reception stoppage is also detected when the radio wave condition of the broadcast to be received deteriorates and the image and sound cannot be received. In this case, the electric field strength that can recognize at least an image and sound is measured and stored in the memory in advance, and the reception status detection unit 201 detects the reception stop when the electric field strength being received does not reach the electric field strength.

  The program accepting unit 202 accepts designation of a program to be reproduced by the external recording / reproducing apparatus 400 made by the user through the operation unit 80, and sends a signal indicating the accepted broadcast program to the reception information display control unit 204.

  Here, the designation of the program is performed when the recording information acquisition unit 211 receives the recording information from the recording information transmission unit 420 of the recording / playback apparatus 400 and accepts the user's selection from the program in the recording information displayed on the display unit 90. Do.

  When the program received from the program reception unit 202 matches the program of the reception information in the storage unit 100, the reception information display control unit 203 displays the total reception stop time of the program and the recording start time of the program on the display unit 90. When the program does not match, a signal indicating the recording start time of the program received from the program receiving unit 202 is sent to the display unit 90.

  The playback position receiving unit 204 receives the time selected by the user through the operation unit 80 among the reception stop time and the recording start time of the program displayed on the display unit 90, and plays back the received time and the program. The information is sent to the reproduction transmission unit 210 as information.

  The external device control unit 220 transmits and receives control signals to and from the recording / playback apparatus 400, and is realized by, for example, an infrared light emitting element and a light receiving element, communicates with the recording / playback apparatus 400 by infrared, and acquires recording information from the playback transmission unit 210. Part 211.

  Here, playback transmitting section 210 transmits a signal indicating playback start position information received from playback position receiving section 204 to playback start position receiving section 430 of recording / playback apparatus 400.

In addition, when the recording information acquisition unit 211 receives a button press assigned to the operation unit 80 by the user, the recording information acquisition unit 211 transmits a signal requesting recording information to the recording control unit 410 of the recording / playback device 400. The recording information is received from the recording information transmitting unit 420 of the recording / reproducing apparatus 400, and the received recording information is displayed on the display unit 90.
<Recording / playback device>
The recording / playback apparatus 400 according to the present invention has a function of recording a moving image such as a television broadcast program, generating and storing program recording information, obtaining a playback start position from a specified time, and playing back from that position. This is a recording / reproducing apparatus, and the recording / reproducing function of the recording / reproducing apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-041066 has the same configuration. Hereinafter, characteristic components of the recording / playback apparatus 400 according to the present invention will be described.

  The recording control unit 410 receives and records a broadcast program designated by the recording / playback apparatus 400, generates recording information, and writes the recording information in a recording information storage area (not shown).

  Further, when a signal requesting recording information is received from the recording information acquisition unit 211 of the mobile phone 300, the recording information is read out and a signal indicating the recording information is transmitted to the recording information transmission unit 420.

  The recording information is information including the recording date and time of the program, information indicating the recorded program, and the total recording time of the program. The recording information is generated by acquiring an electronic program guide of the recorded program.

  The recording information transmission unit 420 transmits a signal indicating the recording information received from the recording control unit 410 to the recording information acquisition unit 211 of the mobile phone 300.

  When the reproduction start position receiving unit 430 receives a program and time to be reproduced from the reproduction transmitting unit 210 of the mobile phone 300, the reproduction start position receiving unit 430 sends a signal indicating the program and time to the reproduction control unit 440.

  The reproduction control unit 440 obtains the reproduction start position from the time received from the reproduction start position reception unit 430 based on the recording information, and reproduces the program from the obtained position.

<Data>
FIG. 6A illustrates the reception information table 1000 of the mobile phone 300.

  In the present embodiment, the program channel, the reception start time, and the reception stop time in which the interval between the reception start time and the reception stop time is 5 minutes or more are recorded.

FIG. 6B illustrates a recording information table 2000 generated by the recording / playback apparatus 400, and includes recording program channel, recording program name, recording start time, and recording time as the recording information.
<Operation>
Hereinafter, an operation of the program reproduction system having the above-described configuration will be described.
<Reception information recording process>
A process of receiving a broadcast program at the mobile phone 300 and recording the reception information of the program that satisfies a certain condition for the reception time of the program will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing reception information recording processing in the mobile phone 300.

  When the broadcast receiving unit 40 receives a certain broadcast program by the operation of the operation unit 80 by the user, the broadcast receiving unit 40 sends the program information to the reception status detection unit 201, and the reception status detection unit 201 starts receiving the program information and the broadcast program. The time is stored in the memory (step S10).

  Subsequently, when the reception status detection unit 201 detects the reception stop of the broadcast program (step S20), whether or not the interval between the reception status detection unit 201 and the reception start time is 5 minutes or more is detected. Is determined (step S30).

In step S30, when the reception status detection unit 201 determines that the reception time of the program is 5 minutes or longer, the reception status detection unit 201 sets the reception stop time as the time when the reception stop is detected, and the reception stop time, the program information, A signal for writing the reception information indicating the reception start time to the storage unit 100 is transmitted (step S40).
<Playback instruction processing, recorded program playback processing>
Next, the mobile phone 300 receives from the user the selection of the program to be reproduced from the program of the recording information acquired from the recording / reproducing apparatus 400 and the reception stop time indicating the reproduction start position from the reception information of the program. A playback instruction process for instructing the start of program playback from a corresponding position and a recorded program playback process for starting program playback in response to the playback instruction received from the mobile phone 300 will be described.

  Here, FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of a playback transmission process instructing program playback from the mobile phone 300 to the recording / playback apparatus 400, and FIG. 5 shows a program recording / playback process of the recording / playback apparatus 400 that has received the playback signal of the mobile phone 300. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the playback instruction process and the program recording / playback process.

  In FIG. 4, the recording information acquisition unit 211 that has received a button press assigned to the playback instruction of the operation unit 80 by the user transmits a signal requesting transmission of the recording information to the recording control unit 410 of the recording / playback apparatus 400 ( Step S110).

  Next, in FIG. 5, the recording control unit 410 of the recording / playback apparatus 400 that has received the recording information request signal transmitted in step S110 of FIG. 4 reads the recording information and sends the recording information to the recording information transmitting unit 420. (Step S210).

  The recording information transmission unit 420 that has received the recording information transmits the recording information to the recording information acquisition unit 211 of the mobile phone 300 (step S220).

  Next, referring to FIG. 4, the recording information acquisition unit 211 that has received the recording information transmitted from the recording information transmission unit 420 in step S220 of FIG. 5, stores the received recording information in the memory of the mobile phone 300, and performs recording. The program name of the information is displayed on the display unit 90 (step S110).

  Subsequently, the program reception unit 202 receives selection of a program name to be reproduced by the user's operation from the program names displayed in step S110, and the program reception unit 202 sends a signal indicating the program name to the reception information display control unit 203. Send out (step S120).

  Receiving information display control section 203 that has received the program name determines whether or not the program corresponding to the program name matches the program in the received information in storage section 100 (step S130).

  If it is determined in step S130 that the program selected does not match the program of the reception information, the reception information display control unit 203 sends a signal indicating the program and the recording start time to the reproduction / transmission unit 210. (Step S130: N).

  If it is determined that the program selected in step S130 matches the program of the reception information, the reception information display control unit 203 displays the reception information of the program on the display unit 90 (step S130: Y) and playback. The position receiving unit 204 receives the selection of the time indicating the reproduction start position from the user (step S150).

  It is determined whether or not the time received by the playback position receiving unit 204 in step S150 is the recording start time (step S160).

  In step S160, when it is determined that the time received by the playback position receiving unit 204 is the recording start time (step S160: Y), the playback position receiving unit 204 plays the program from the recording start position to the playback transmitting unit 210. A reproduction signal instructing this is sent (step S170).

  In step S160, if the playback position receiving unit 204 determines that it is not the recording start time, it sends a signal indicating the program and the reception stop time to the playback transmitting unit 210 (step S160: N).

  Upon receiving the program reception stop time, the reproduction transmitting unit 210 transmits a reproduction signal instructing the reproduction start position receiving unit 430 to reproduce the program from the position corresponding to the reception stop time (step S180).

  Next, referring to FIG. 5, the playback start position receiving unit 430 that receives the playback signal of the recorded program from the playback transmitting unit 210 in step S170 or step S180 of FIG. 4 sends the program and time or the recording start position to the playback control unit 440. Playback start position information indicating the above is sent (step S230).

  Upon receiving the playback start position information in step S230, the playback control unit 440 determines whether the received playback start position information is the recording start time or the recording start position based on the recording start time of the recording information (step S240).

  In step S240, when the playback control unit 440 determines that the recording start time or the recording start position is reached (step S240: Y), the program is played back from the recording start position of the program (step S250).

In step S240, when the playback control unit 440 determines that it is not the recording start time (step S240: N), the playback control unit 440 obtains a playback start position based on the received time, and plays the program from that position ( Step S260).
<Operation example>
Next, the operation of the program playback system shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7 using the data illustrated in FIG.

  First, in step S110 of FIG. 4, the recording information acquisition unit 211 of the mobile phone 300 displays the program name of the recording information (FIG. 6 (b)) received from the recording information transmission unit 420 of the recording / playback apparatus 400 on the display unit 90. A display example is shown in FIG.

  Next, in step S120 in FIG. 4, the program reception unit 202 receives the program name “Olympic soccer” in FIG. Upon transmission, the reception information display control unit 203 determines whether the program name “Olympic soccer” matches the reception information program of FIG. 6 (a) (step S130). From FIG. 6 (a), the reception information display control unit 203 determines that “Olympic soccer” matches the program of the reception information, and records the reception information and recording information of “Olympic soccer” as shown in FIG. 7 (b). The time zone in which the program is received and the time zone that has not been received within the total recording time from the start time are displayed separately (step S140).

  Next, in the time zone of the reception status 4120 in FIG. 7B, the playback position receiving unit 204 receives the time indicating the playback position in accordance with the user's selection operation.

  For example, if the reception status 4120 “10:15:00 to 10:50:00” is selected, the reception stop time “20040308/10: 15: 00” and the playback program name “Olympic Soccer” The playback position accepting unit 204 sends it to the playback transmitting unit 210 (step S150), and the playback transmitting unit 210 determines that “20040308/10: 15: 00” is not the recording start time (step S160: N) A reproduction signal instructing to reproduce “Olympic soccer” from the position corresponding to “10:15:00” is transmitted to the reproduction start position receiving unit 430 of the device 400 (step S180).

  The playback start position receiving unit 430 that has received the playback signal from the mobile phone 300 in step S180 in FIG. 4 sends “Olympic soccer” and “10:15:00” to the playback control unit 440 (step S230). ”And“ 10:15:00 ”, the playback control unit 440 determines that“ 20040308/10: 15: 00 ”of the recording information“ Olympic soccer ”in FIG. S240: N), a reproduction position corresponding to “20040308/10: 15: 00” is obtained, and “Olympic soccer” is reproduced from the position (step S260).

  Further, FIG. 7 (c) shows a case where the program accepting unit 202 accepts the program name “wonder of nature” by the user's selection operation in FIG. 7 (a).

  Here, in step S150 of FIG. 4, when the playback position reception unit 204 receives a time zone of “13:00:00 to 13:10:00” by the user's operation, the playback program name is sent to the playback transmission unit 210. A signal indicating “wonder of nature” and “13:00:00” is transmitted, and the received reproduction transmitting unit 210 determines that “13:00:00” is the recording start time (step S160: Y) Then, a reproduction signal instructing to reproduce “wonder of nature” from the recording start position is transmitted to the reproduction start position receiving unit 430 of the recording / reproducing apparatus 400 (step S170).

  Subsequently, the playback start position receiving unit 430 of the recording / playback apparatus 400 that has received the playback signal for playing back the “wonder of nature” from the recording start position sends the “wonder of nature” recording start position to the playback control unit 440. The information shown is transmitted (step S230), and the reproduction control unit 440 reproduces “wonder of nature” from the recording start position (step S250).

<Supplement>
As described above, the program reproduction system according to the present invention has been described based on the embodiments. However, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. Hereinafter, modifications of the embodiment will be described.

  (1) Although the mobile phone is shown as the above-described embodiment, it may be a mobile PC or PDA (Personal Digital (Data) Assistants) having a broadcast receiving function.

  (2) The recording / playback apparatus of the embodiment is not limited to this as long as the recording / playback apparatus has a function of generating recording information and starting playback from a position corresponding to a specified time. There may be.

  (3) In the embodiment, the reception information display control unit 202 accepts the selection of a program to be reproduced from the recording information program acquired from the recording / reproducing apparatus 400. However, the reception information display control unit 202 may accept the selection of the program from the reception information program. Alternatively, selection of a program to be played back may be accepted from programs in the electronic program guide received by the mobile phone 300.

  (4) In the embodiment, the program to be selected by the user is displayed on the display unit of the mobile phone, and the reception status of the selected program is displayed, but the recording information is displayed on the television receiver connected to the playback device. May be displayed, a program to be played back may be selected using a mobile phone, and the reception status of the program may be displayed on the television receiver.

  (5) A program for causing a CPU to execute each process (see FIGS. 3, 4, and 5) for realizing each function of the mobile phone shown as the above-described embodiment is recorded on a recording medium or telecommunications It can also be provided through a line or the like. The program is used by being stored in a CPU-readable memory or the like in a mobile terminal equipped with a CPU, and each function of the mobile phone described in the embodiment is performed by the CPU executing the program. Realized.

  Note that the recording medium includes an IC card, an optical disk, a flexible disk, and the like.

40 broadcast receiver
80 operation section
90 display
100 memory
200 control unit
201 Reception status detector
202 program reception
203 Reception information display control unit
204 Playback position reception
210 Playback transmission unit
211 Recording information acquisition unit
220 External device controller
400 External recording / playback device
410 Recording control unit
420 Recording information transmitter
430 Playback start position receiver
440 playback controller
500 program playback system

Claims (2)

A mobile terminal that receives a broadcast program,
Detection means for detecting stoppage of reception of the program being received;
A recording unit that records program information indicating a received program and a reception stop time when the detection unit detects a reception stop of the program;
An acquisition means for acquiring program information stored in the playback device from an external playback device that operates in response to a signal received from the mobile terminal;
When the program information acquired by the acquisition unit includes program information recorded by the recording unit, the program information is recorded from the position corresponding to the reception stop time recorded by the recording unit. A portable terminal comprising: a reproduction transmission unit that transmits a reproduction signal that instructs the reproduction apparatus to start reproduction of a program indicated by program information. The reproduction signal, the mobile terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a reception time.

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