KR20010011364A - Moving picture service method in portable phone with television receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing a moving picture service in a portable phone integrated with a television receiver(or a TV phone) is provided to download moving picture data to the TV phone, and to select a desired moving picture file. CONSTITUTION: A controller downloads moving picture data from a computer, and stores the moving picture data in a memory. In a moving picture mode, the controller outputs a moving picture file list for the stored moving picture data on a screen of a portable phone integrated with a television receiver. If a user selects a file of the moving picture file list and requests the execution of the selected file, the controller executes corresponding moving picture file and outputs moving picture on the screen.

Description

MOVING PICTURE SERVICE METHOD IN PORTABLE PHONE WITH TELEVISION RECEIVER}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable phone, and more particularly to a service method of a portable telephone combined with a television receiver.

Currently, products incorporating television receivers in portable telephones have been developed and commercialized. Such a composite product is called a portable telephone combined with a television receiver (hereinafter referred to as a "TV phone"), and the TV phone is provided with a television reception function as well as a mobile phone call or data communication.

Although the TV phone as described above can receive and watch TV broadcasts, it cannot watch video material other than TV broadcasts.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for providing a video service to a user in a TV phone.

1 is a block diagram showing a state in which a television receiver combined portable telephone to which the present invention is applied is connected to a computer;

2 is a video service processing flow chart according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description and the annexed drawings, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram showing a state in which a TV phone 102 to which the present invention is applied is connected to a computer 100. In the TV phone 102, the control unit 104 performs voice signals and data processing for a conventional telephone call or data communication, and controls each part of the TV phone of FIG. An RF (Radio Frequency) transceiver 106 connected to the controller 104 transmits and receives an RF signal according to voice and video with a base station through an antenna, and converts the received RF signal into a baseband digital signal. The digital signal of the baseband applied from the control unit 104 is converted into an RF signal and transmitted. The memory 108 connected to the control unit 104 includes an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable and Programmable ROM), a flash memory, a random access memory, and the like for processing and controlling the control unit 104. Various reference data are stored, and a working memory of the controller 104 is provided. The keypad 110 connected to the control unit 104 includes various numeric keys and function keys, and provides the control unit 104 with a key signal according to a key operation. The liquid crystal display (LCD) 112, which is a display device connected to the control unit 104, displays various types of information as an image under the control of the control unit 104, and displays an image according to a TV broadcast. The audio input / output unit 114 connected to the controller 104 inputs / outputs audio according to a telephone call or outputs audio according to a TV broadcast. The computer interface 116 connected to the control unit 104 is connected to the computer 100.

In the present invention, the user of the TV phone 102 as described above first connects the TV phone 102 with the computer 100 to download video data from the computer 100 to the TV phone 102. Let's do it. At this time, the control unit 104 of the TV phone 102 downloads moving image data through the computer interface 116 connected to the computer 100 and stores it in the memory 108. In this state, when the user inputs a key set to select the video mode on the keypad 110, the controller 104 performs the video mode.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a video service process according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and shows a processing flowchart of the controller 104 when the video mode is changed. When the video mode is entered in step 202 of FIG. 2, the control unit 104 executes steps 202 to 206. In steps (202) to (206), a video file list relating to video data previously downloaded and stored in the memory 108 is output on the screen of the TV phone 102, that is, the screen of the LCD 112, and the user The controller 110 selects a file in the moving image file list through the keypad 110 to make an execution request. At this time, the user searches for a desired file in the video file list. When the user selects a desired file and makes an execution request, the control unit 104 executes the corresponding video data in steps 208 to 210 and terminates. Until the video is output on the screen of the LCD (112). In this case, when the audio related to the video is stored together, the controller 104 also outputs the audio through the speaker or earphone of the audio input / output unit 114. If the end is confirmed in step 210, it goes to the standby state in step (212).

The present invention as described above is summarized as follows. First, the user uses the computer 100 to store moving picture data in the memory 108 of the TV phone 102. The user then uses the search key to search for the desired file in the video file list. Next, the user selects and executes a file to be executed and enjoys video, voice, music, etc. through the speaker or earphone of the LCD 112 and the audio input / output unit 114.

Therefore, TV phones can be used to watch videos as well as watch TV broadcasts.

Meanwhile, in the above description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. In particular, in the embodiment of the present invention has been an example of downloading the video data from the computer 100, it may be wirelessly received or transmitted via the RF transceiver 106. And you can enjoy all kinds of video and audio along with RM, Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG), AVI, MOV.

As described above, the present invention has the advantage of downloading video data to a TV phone, selecting and viewing a video file desired by a user, and listening to voice and music.

Claims (2)

A portable telephone with a television receiver having a computer interface for connecting with a computer, Downloading and storing video data from the computer; A first step of outputting a video file list of the stored video data on a screen of the television receiver combined portable telephone when the video mode is entered; And a second process of outputting a video on the screen by executing corresponding video data when a file selection and execution request of the video file list is requested. The video service method of claim 1, wherein the second process further comprises outputting audio associated with the video together with the video.