JPH01307944A - Picture recording reservation controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify a picture recording reservation by storing in advance information containing the contents of a telecast and a telecasting time, displaying this information by a table format on a television receiver and setting the picture recording reservation from this display information. CONSTITUTION:Information containing at least the contents of a telecast and a telecasting time which is stored in advance in a storage means ME is outputted to a television receiver TV by a display control means DC, and displayed by a table format on the television receiver TV. Accordingly, the contents of the telecast and the telecasting time are visible by the same format as a program table of the telecast inserted in a newspaper and a speciality magazine. In such a state, information is selected by a movement of a selecting means SL, for instance, a cursor and flickering of the display which follows up its movement and an inversion display, etc., and in accordance with this selected information, the telecasting time of the selected telecast contents is set to a picture recording reserving means TM of a video picture recording device by a picture recording setting means RS. In such a way, the picture recording reservation of a program can be simplified.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a recording reservation control device for making recording reservations.

[Conventional Techniques With the spread of video recording devices (so-called video tape recorders), recording is automatically performed at preset times.'
Various Jlta have been proposed. These recording devices have a wide variety of settings, such as recording start time, recording channel settings, recording end time, etc., and setting requires considerable effort and experience.

Therefore, so that even elderly people who are not accustomed to operating machines can easily set recording reservations, we have added a function to read the recording start time using a bar code, and to record the same balm at the same time every week. A recording device equipped with this has also been proposed.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, even with such a recording device, there is a problem that the operation is not intuitive and the operation is complicated because it uses a so-called bar code. In particular, when recording the S phase of different channels with consecutive broadcast times, or when the same program is broadcast at different times each week, the settings become extremely complicated even if barcodes are used. turn into. Additionally, in the case of barcodes, reading errors can occur. For this reason, it has been desired to improve a device for easily reserving recording of a desired program.

It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problems and to simplify recording reservation.

The structure of the present invention that achieves the above object will be explained below.

[Means for Solving the Problems] As illustrated in FIG. 1, the recording reservation control device of the present invention is a recording reservation control device that is installed in a video recording device VTR that records television broadcast contents and controls the recording. The control device includes a storage means ME that stores in advance information including at least the content and broadcast time of the television broadcast, and outputs the stored information to the television reception i@iTV, and outputs the stored information to the television reception i@iTV. Display control means DC for displaying the award ceremony on a TV; Selection means SL for selecting desired broadcast content from the displayed information; Recording reservation means for a video recording device VTR to schedule the broadcast time according to the selected information. It is characterized by comprising a recording setting means R9 for setting the TM.

[Operation] The recording reservation control device of the present invention having the above-mentioned configuration is installed in a video recording device that records television broadcast contents, and controls its recording means as follows.

The recording reservation control device outputs information including at least the content and broadcast time of the television broadcast stored in advance in the storage means ME to the television receiver TV by the display control means DC,
It will be displayed on the TV receiver at the awards ceremony. Therefore, the content and broadcast time of the broadcast can be visually confirmed in a format similar to the program guide of television broadcasts published in Shinkai and specialized magazines.

In this state, the selection means SL selects information by, for example, moving the cursor and blinking or inverting the display, etc.
According to this selected information, the recording setting means R5 sets the broadcast time of the selected broadcast content in the recording reservation means TM of the video recording device.

Therefore, the video recording device VTR executes recording by the recording reservation means TM when the time of the program selected based on the content of the broadcast displayed at the award ceremony on the television receiver TV comes.

[Embodiments] In order to further clarify the configuration and operation of the present invention described above, preferred embodiments of the recording reservation control device of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a recording reservation card 1 as an embodiment of the recording reservation control device of the present invention together with a video tape recorder (VTR) 3 and a television receiver 5 connected to the video tape recorder (VTR) 3 via a cable 4. It is a diagram. V
As shown in the figure, the TR3 includes a cassette insertion section 7. into which a video cassette tape is inserted. Time display section 8 that displays the current time. A connecting portion 10 and the like are provided for slidingly inserting a card-shaped recording reservation card 1 from above.

The recording reservation card 1 stores the contents, times, etc. of television broadcast programs for one week or several weeks in advance, and is sold alone or together with weekly magazines, monthly magazines, etc. that explain the contents of the programs. In this embodiment, the contents of the 8th edition are stored in the ROM, as will be described later, but they are stored in a rewritable P.
ROM or battery backed RAM
The information may be stored in a vending machine or the like and may be rewritten. This recording reservation card 1 is used by being connected to the connection section 10 of the VTR 3.

Recording reservation card 1 has "Settings" and "Weekly" on its surface.
Control keys engraved with characters such as "Continuous" 11.12.
13 and a cursor key 21 with up, down, left, and right arrows engraved on it.
．． 22, 23, and 24 are provided. Incidentally, a connector 30 connected to the connection section 10 inside the VTRa is provided at the lowermost end.

Next, the internal configurations of the recording reservation card 1 and the VTR 3 will be explained with reference to FIG. As shown in the figure, the recording reservation card 1 includes a well-known CPU 31. ROM32. R
A key human-powered boat 351, a human-powered boat 38, and the like are provided around the AM 33, which are interconnected by a bus 34.

The ROM32 contains the control program as well as the
The simple contents of the programs aired on a weekly basis and the broadcast start and end times are stored. In addition, the key human-powered boat 35 includes:
The keys 11 to 13 and 21 to 24 provided on the surface of the card are connected, and the operation status of each key is controlled manually. The human output boat 3 is a boat for exchanging data, etc. with the control device of the VTR 3, and when the recording reservation card 1 is installed in the VTR 3, it is connected to the internal bus 45 via the connector 3. Ru.

On the other hand, inside the VTR 3, a well-known CPU 51. ROM52°RAM53.
In addition to the timer 55, a tuner 60 receives television broadcast waves via the antenna 57 and demodulates video and audio signals. A recording/playback unit 65 that records or plays back the demodulated signal on a videotape. A video signal output unit 70 and the like for outputting a video signal to the television 5 is provided at 111. The timer 55 has a calendar function for managing the year, month, and day, and a 24-hour clock function.
When the time preset by the CPU 51 via the internal bus 45 arrives, this is notified to the CPU 51 as an interrupt, and the current time is displayed on the time display section 8.

Further, the tuner 60 can select a channel to demodulate upon receiving a command from the CPU 51.

The demodulated video signal of the selected channel is output to the recording/playback unit 65, but this recording/playback unit 65 has a C
A control signal for the PU 51 is also output, and the recording/playback unit 65
receives this signal, and depending on the recording/playback of the video signal,
It drives a recording/reproducing head (not shown), controls a tape reel driving motor, etc. Furthermore, a video signal output section 70
is a video signal of a certain channel demodulated by the tuner 60, a video signal played by the recording and playback unit 65, and C
The PU 51 reads the image data stored in the RAM 53 and selects one of the generated video signals, stores this in an internal video memory (not shown), and then outputs it to the television receiver 5 at all times. do.

Next, FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the program guide shown in FIG. 4.

The processing executed by each CPU 31.51 of the recording reservation card 1 and VTR 3 (7) will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG. Recording reservation card 1, VTR
3 and when the power is turned on, the card side processing routine shown in FIG. 5 is started, and first, processing such as initialization of the cursor position is performed (step 100). The initial position of the cursor is a predetermined origin, and in the program table shown in FIG. 4, is the position corresponding to the program of the lowest numbered channel and the earliest time slot (number 1flA1 in this embodiment). Thereafter, the program table is read out from the ROM 32 (step 110), and the program data in the area corresponding to the cursor position and the data at the cursor position are output to the VTR 3 through human output (step 120). ). That is, since the television receiver 5 can only display the entire program list at once, one screen worth of program data is output centered on the cursor position. The output program data is once sent to the RA via the connector 30.
The signal is recorded/hidden in M53, and later sent to the video signal output unit 70 under the control of the CPU 51, where it is converted into a video signal and then output to the television receiver a5.

Next, the process waits until a key provided on the front surface of the recording reservation card 1 is operated (step 130), and proceeds to steps 140 and subsequent steps depending on the person's key.

If the manually operated key is a cursor key, cursor data corresponding to any of the operated keys 21 to 24 is output (step 140), and the cursor position information stored in the RAM 33 is output according to the configuration of the program guide. An update process is performed (step 150). For example, if the cursor is
When the upward arrow cursor key 21 is operated in the position of program C3 shown in the figure, the data is
In addition to outputting the video signal output unit 70 of TR3, the cursor position information in the recording reservation card 1 is output from @Hani C3 to program C.
It updates to position 2. Further, when the rightward arrow cursor key 24 is operated, the cursor position information is updated from the position of the program C3 to the position of the program D3. After the above processing, the process returns to step 120 and the processing from step 120 onwards is executed again. Therefore, if the cursor is moved outside the currently displayed area, the area of the program being displayed is also updated by the process of step 120.

If it is determined in step 130 that the key is the "setting" key 11, read out the program start time and channel number corresponding to the current cursor position information from the ROM 32 (step 160); Subsequently, processing is performed to output the recording start time to the CPU 51 of the VTR 3 (step 170). For example, the cursor is program C3
, the start time of this program at 8:45 and channel CH5 are read out and output. The end time of the program is read out (step 180), and the time is output (step 190). In the above example, the end time of 9:30 is read out and output.

On the other hand, if the "weekly" key 12 is pressed manually, the ROM
In step 200), it is determined whether the same program as the program on which the cursor is currently located exists in the next week or later (step 210). If the same program exists in the next week or later, the start time and channel including the date of the Z silk will be read and output, and the end time will be read and output in the same way as when operating the "setting" key described above. (Steps 160-190).

If there is no identical program, the program returns to step 120 and repeats the process starting from the key operator. With this process, even if the same program is aired at a different time the following week,
You can easily reserve this. Note that the processing on the VTRa side will be described later.

If the key is the "continuous" key 13 in step 130, processing is performed to cancel the end time of consecutive programs among the plurality of programs set up to that point (step 220).

As a result, when recording of a plurality of consecutive programs (including those on different channels or on the same channel) is set, the power to the VTR 3 is not turned off every time the broadcast time of one program ends.

The processing on the recording reservation card 1 side has been explained above.
In response to this process, the following process is performed on the VTRa side. As shown in FIG. 6, first, the process waits until data is output from the recording reservation card 1 (step 300), and if data is output, its contents are determined (step 310).

If the content of the output is cursor data (corresponding to step 140 in FIG. 5), the CPU 51 outputs the video signal i1'
170 to update the reverse position of the program being displayed (step 350). For example, if MiC3, the shaded number in FIG. The output is switched to a video signal in which program C3 is displayed in a compressed manner.

On the other hand, if the content of the output from the recording reservation card 1 is program guide data, it is stored in the RAM 53 for a time corresponding to the data output at step 120 in FIG. processing to set the video signal output giPJ 70 as data to be displayed in 5 (step 320);
A process of manually inputting the cursor position data output by the recording reservation card 1 is performed (step 330). Next, a process is performed to set the position of the program to be displayed in reverse video on the video signal output section 70 based on the manually inputted cursor position data (
step 340).

In addition, if the content of the output from the recording reservation card 1 is set time information corresponding to processing on the card side and steps 170 and 190, this information is temporarily stored in the RAM 53 (step 360), and multiple stored time information Processing is performed to set the date and time closest to the current time in the timer 55 (step 370). The timer 55 interrupts the CPU 51 when the set date and time are reached, and the tuner 60. The recording/reproducing unit 65 is driven to record the program of the stored channel onto a video cassette tape.

After completing the processing in steps 310 to 370, the process returns to step 300 and repeats the process from waiting until data is output from the recording reservation card 1.

The processing on the recording reservation card 1 side explained above and the VTRa
Through the process, the user sets the recording reservation as follows.

(1) First, when the recording reservation card 1 is installed in the VTR 3 and the power is turned on, a portion of that day's program guide is displayed on the television receiver 5 at the award ceremony, as shown in FIG. By operating the cursor keys 21 to 24, a desired program can be displayed in reverse video, and if the cursor is operated to move the reverse display outside the currently displayed area, the display area is told in history. Although the process of displaying a program schedule other than that day's program schedule was not specifically explained, a dedicated key may be provided, or the cursor keys 21 and 22 may be combined with other keys to display the previous day's or It is also preferable to configure the program guide for the next day to be displayed.

(2) When the "setting" key 11 of the recording reservation card 1 is operated with the desired program highlighted, the start time, channel, and end time of the program are stored, and the VTR 3 stores the start time and end time of the program. When the time comes, recording starts,
When the end time comes, recording ends.

(3) After making a recording reservation for @Kinu, if you operate the "Weekly" key 12, the contents of the program from the next week stored in advance in the ROM 32 will be searched, and the same program as the currently highlighted program will be searched. If such a date exists, set the start time, channel, and end time including that date. Therefore,
To make a recording reservation without error even if the same program is broadcast in different time slots.

(4) After setting recording reservations for multiple programs, "Continuous"
When the key 13 is operated, settings of end times for programs in consecutive time slots among the programs reserved for recording are canceled. Therefore, when recording a plurality of programs in consecutive time periods, the power to the VTR 3 does not have to be turned off every time each set program ends, which is preferable in terms of durability of the VTR 3.

As explained above, the recording reservation card 1 of this embodiment has the following features:
Since the contents of one week or several weeks worth of programs and their start and end times are stored in advance and displayed on the TV receiver 5 to be used for recording reservations of programs, recording reservations can be made extremely easily. be able to. Since all you have to do is select the program, there is no need to set the time or read barcodes, and the operation is easy even for those who are not familiar with operating machines.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, since it is possible to search for @groups with the same content, even if continuous programs are broadcast in different time slots, the recording reservation can be easily made.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. For example, instead of the cursor keys, there may be a keyboard, a mouse, or a light connected to the screen of the television receiver. It goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented in various ways without departing from the spirit of the present invention, such as a structure in which a desired program is selected with a pen, a structure in which keys for setting operations are provided directly on the VTR, etc.

As detailed above, the recording reservation control device of the present invention allows recording reservations to be made simply by selecting a program while viewing the content of the program displayed at the award ceremony on a television receiver. So,
This has the excellent effect of greatly simplifying program recording reservations.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the basic configuration of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of a recording reservation card 1 as an embodiment of the present invention together with a video tape recorder 3, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the basic configuration of the present invention. A block diagram showing the internal configuration of the card 1 and the video tape recorder 3, FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of program display in the embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a recording reservation card 1.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart 1 showing the processing on the video tape recorder 3 side. 1... Recording reservation card 3... Video tape recorder (VTR) 5... Television receiver 11.12.13... Control keys 21.22.23.24... Cursor key 55...
Timer 60...Tuner 65...Recording and playback section 70...Video signal output section Agent Patent attorney Tsutomu Sadate (and 2 others) Figure 1 Figure 5 Drawing Part 6 Figure 6

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a recording reservation control device that is installed in a video recording device that records television broadcast content and controls the recording, a memory that stores information including at least the television broadcast content and broadcast time in advance. means; display control means for outputting the stored information to a television receiver and displaying it on the television receiver at the award ceremony; selection means for selecting desired broadcast content from the displayed information; 1. A recording reservation control device comprising: a recording setting means for setting the broadcast time in a recording reservation means of a video recording device according to the received information.