KR980011361A - Schedule recording method in video cassette recorder - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a video recording method for a video cassette recorder, comprising: a first step of displaying a menu OSD (On Screen Display) screen when there is a menu key input and waiting for a user's selection; If the selection of the user is a timer program, displaying the OSD screen listing reservation information set in accordance with the sequence number and waiting for selection by the user; A third step of displaying an OSD screen for selecting a recording method including a scheduled recording every day, and awaiting a user's selection, when a sequence number to be stored by the user is selected; A fourth step of automatically setting a reservation start date to a current date and displaying an OSD screen for receiving reservation information when the recording method selected by the user is daily or weekly scheduled recording; A fifth step of storing the reservation information inputted by the user together with the selected recording method corresponding to the sequence number; And a sixth step of waiting for the reserved recording based on the stored reservation information and the recording method and performing the reserved recording. Thus, the reserved recording can be performed every day and every week from exactly the desired date.

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Description

Schedule recording method in video cassette recorder

1 is a schematic block diagram of a typical video cassette recorder.

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart showing a schedule recording process according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 3 is a view showing an OSD screen for setting a reservation recording according to the related art and the present invention; FIG.

DESCRIPTION OF THE REFERENCE NUMERALS

10: key input unit 20:

30: tuner and modulator 40: signal processor

41: OSD unit 50: Deck unit

In particular, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for recording a video cassette recorder. More particularly, the present invention relates to a video cassette recorder in which a recording method such as daily, weekly, The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for recording a schedule on a video cassette recorder so that the user can perform scheduled recording every day or every week on a precise desired date.

In general, the reserved recording function of the video cassette recorder is a function of reserving and recording a broadcast program in advance by setting the user's reservation information (for example, date, start time, end time, channel, recording, speed) , It is a very useful function that allows a user to automatically record a desired broadcast program in the absence of the user so that the user can watch it next time.

The broadcast program is normally broadcast on the same time and on the same channel on a daily or weekly basis. Accordingly, in order to solve the inconvenience of the user setting up the schedule recording for such a periodically broadcast program, Setting was possible.

On the other hand, when setting the reservation information, the user can set the daily schedule recording and the weekly scheduled recording. Particularly, the schedule start time, the end time, the channel, the recording speed, Could be set, but the date was automatically set to the date the current video cassette recorder's timer has.

If the user sets the recording start time and the end time at the time of setting the schedule recording every day or every week incorrectly to the time before the present time of the timer of the current video cassette recorder, the microcomputer of the video cassette recorder has already recorded the day In the case of weekly recording, the next scheduled date will be automatically changed to the scheduled recording date.

Accordingly, at this time, when the user corrects the erroneous reservation start time and end time and exits, the reservation recording is performed every day and every week from the next date or next week date, and the recording of the reservation broadcast program broadcasted on the same day is missed.

Referring to the OSD screen ((1) - (7)) for the conventional scheduled recording setup of FIG. 3, the user first looks at the main menu OSD screen 1 and selects a timer program, 2).

Next, the OSD screen 3 is displayed when a sequence number indicating the order in which the reservation information is stored is input, and the user inputs desired reservation information (channel, start time, end time, recording speed) And the OSD screen 4 is displayed.

In this case, in the example, it means that the weekly recording is set to Saturday and the recording is set every week from the current date (Saturday). However, since the current time is set at 14 o'clock and the reservation start time is set to 10 o'clock, It is automatically set and saved.

Accordingly, when the user does not know that the reservation date is automatically set next week, the OSD screen 6 is displayed by selecting the sequence number to be corrected by displaying the OSD screen 5 for correcting the reservation time.

At this time, the user changes the reservation start time and end time only to 15 o'clock and 16 o'clock, and the reservation date is automatically changed to next Saturday. Therefore, the recording of the broadcast program desired to be broadcast on that day, that is, I miss you.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to set a recording method such as a daily schedule, a weekly scheduled recording, etc., at the time of setting the reserved recording, and automatically set the date to the current date every day, And a reservation recording method in a video cassette recorder in which a reservation recording can be performed every day or every week from exactly the desired date.

A method for setting and executing a scheduled recording in a video cassette recorder according to the present invention is a method for setting and executing a scheduled recording in a video cassette recorder, comprising the steps of: displaying a menu OSD screen when a menu key is input; Wow; A second step of displaying an OSD screen listing scheduled reservation information corresponding to the sequence number if the timer program of the user is selected and waiting for selection by the user; A third step of displaying an OSD screen for selecting a recording method including a reserved recording every week every day when the sequence number to be stored by the user is selected and waiting for selection by the user; A fourth step of automatically setting a reservation start date to a current date and displaying an OSD screen for receiving reservation information when the recording method selected by the user is daily or weekly scheduled recording; A fifth step of storing the reservation information inputted by the user together with the selected recording method corresponding to the sequence number; And a sixth step of waiting for reservation recording based on the stored reservation information and the recording method and performing reserved recording.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a video cassette recorder and includes a key input unit 10, a microcomputer 20, a tuner and a modulation unit 30, a signal processing unit 40, an OSD unit 41, (50).

In this configuration, the key input unit 10 is an input means for operating the video cassette recorder. The key input unit 10 includes a plurality of keys including a menu key, numeric keys for various selections and inputs, direction keys, And transmits the key signal to the microcomputer 20. The microcomputer 20 detects the key signal on the infrared carrier wave from the remote controller and applies the key signal to the microcomputer 20 using the remote controller.

The microcomputer 20 is a means for controlling the overall operation of the video cassette recorder. The microcomputer 20 is a means for controlling the overall operation of the video cassette recorder based on the menu key signal, the numeric key signal and the direction key signal from the key input unit 10, (E.g., date, channel, start time, end time, recording speed) and a recording method (for example, daily reservation recording, Very scheduled recording) and switches the reservation waiting state to control the scheduled recording.

Meanwhile, the microcomputer 20 outputs a tuning signal (PLL data) corresponding to the channel when the reserved recording is performed, and controls the signal processing unit 40 and the deck unit 50, which will be described later, to control the recording.

The tuner and modulation unit 30 converts the broadcast signal corresponding to the PLL data for channel tuning from the microcomputer 20 into a radio frequency (RF) input terminal RF IN) and modulates the applied video and audio signals into a predetermined channel (for example, channel 3 and channel 4) and outputs the modulated video and audio signals to the RF output complex (RF OUT).

On the other hand, under the control of the microcomputer 20, the signal processing unit 40 converts the video signal and the audio signal from the broadcast signal applied from the tuner and modulation unit 30 and the line input terminal LINE IN into a signal And processes the video and audio signals reproduced from the deck unit 50 into video and audio signals that are easy to display and outputs them to the line output terminal LINE OUT and the tuner and modulation unit 30 ).

In addition, the OSD (On Screen Display) unit 41 in the signal processing unit 40 outputs a character (font) signal corresponding to a character control signal from the microcomputer 20 to a video signal or a blue- And outputs the combined data.

The deck unit 50 includes a deck mechanism to which a video tape is loaded, a loading motor, a head drum, a drum motor, a capstan motor, and the like. Based on the control of the microcomputer 20, The video and audio signals are recorded on a video tape, or the video and audio signals recorded on the video tape are read out.

Next, a flow chart of FIG. 2, which shows the above-described constituent unit with a method of reserved recording in a video cassette recorder, and an OSD screen ((8) - (15)) screen for setting a reserved recording according to the present invention in FIG. Will be described in detail.

First, the microcomputer 20 determines whether a menu key signal is applied from the key input unit 10 (step 200).

At this time, when the menu key signal is applied from the key input unit 10, the microcomputer 20 applies a predetermined character control signal to the OSD unit 41 in the signal processing unit 40 to display the menu OSD screen shown in (3) And waits for the user's selection (step 202).

Next, the microcomputer 20 determines whether the user selects the timer program (TIMER PROGRAM) of '2' for the reserved recording setting on the menu OSD screen based on the number key signal from the key input unit 10 ). At this time, when the timer program is selected, the microcomputer 20 reads out the reservation information stored in the memory (not shown) and applies a predetermined character control signal to the OSD unit 41 to obtain a sequence number and reservation information as shown in (9) And displays the list of OSD screens and waits for the user's selection (step 206).

The OSD screen displayed at this time displays predetermined reservation information corresponding to the sequence number. Accordingly, the user selects an empty sequence number or a sequence number for correction using the number keys of the key input unit 10, The reservation information of the broadcast program to be reserved is stored.

Accordingly, the microcomputer 20 determines that the sequence number selected by the user is applied as a numeric key signal through the key input unit 10 (step 208).

At this time, when the sequence number is applied, the microcomputer 20 applies the predetermined character control signal to the OSD unit 41 to select an OSD screen 10 as shown in FIG. 3 (10) for selecting a recording method (daily reserved recording, And waits for the user's selection (step 210).

At this time, if the user wishes to record a broadcast program to be scheduled to be scheduled to be recorded only once, 'SINGLE' is recorded, '2' DAILY is recorded when repeatedly recording every day, and 'WEEKLY' is recorded when recording is repeated every week .

Next, when the number key signal from the key input unit 10 is '3' (step 212), the microcomputer 20 displays an OSD screen for inputting reservation information as shown in (11) of FIG. 3, The current date of the timer of the current video cassette recorder is automatically set and the input is waited for (step 218), and the inputted reservation information and the automatically set current date are registered in advance in correspondence with the sequence number determined in step 208 And stores it in a memory (not shown) together with a recording method (weekly recording) (220).

If the number key signal from the key input unit 10 is '2' in step 212, the OSD screen for inputting reservation information is similar to (11) of FIG. 3 And the reservation date is automatically set to the current date of the timer of the current video cassette recorder and the input is waited for (step 214), and the inputted reservation information and the automatically set current date are stored in the order determined in step 208 (216) in the memory (not shown) together with the reserved recording method (daily recording) corresponding to the number.

Although not shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2, when the user operates the menu key after inputting the reservation information in order to correct the reservation start time and end time error setting, an OSD screen 13 similar to (9) If the sequence number ('1') set previously is input for correction, the same OSD screen 14 as that of (10) is displayed. When '3' is again selected at this time, the OSD screen 15 is displayed, The current date at the time of entering the OSD screen 15 is set again so that the reserved date can be changed from the current date to the reserved recording every week Recording can be performed).

After the steps 214 and 218, the microcomputer 20 switches to the reserved recording standby mode. Then, the microcomputer 20 sets the tuner, the modulation unit 30, the signal processing unit (not shown) according to the reserved recording information and the reserved recording method, 40), and controls the deck unit 50 to perform reserved recording (step 222).

As described above, according to the present invention, when a reservation recording is set, particularly, a recording method such as a daily reservation or a weekly reservation recording is set first, and a reservation date of a broadcast program to be reserved is input, The present date can be automatically set so that the reservation recording can be performed every day or every week from the desired date exactly.

Claims (1)

A method for setting up and performing scheduled recording in a video cassette recorder, the method comprising: a first step of displaying a menu OSD (On Screen Display) screen and waiting for a user's selection if a menu key is input; If the selection of the user is a timer program, displaying the OSD screen listing reservation information set in accordance with the sequence number and waiting for selection by the user; A third step of displaying an OSD screen for selecting a recording method including a scheduled recording every day, and awaiting a user's selection, when a sequence number to be stored by the user is selected; A fourth step of automatically setting a reservation start date to a current date and displaying an OSD screen for receiving reservation information when the recording method selected by the user is daily or weekly scheduled recording; A fifth step of storing the reservation information inputted by the user together with the selected recording method corresponding to the sequence number; And a sixth step of waiting for reservation recording based on the stored reservation information and the recording method and performing scheduled recording. ※ Note: It is disclosed by the contents of the first application.