CN100502493C - Digital television receiver program searching method - Google Patents
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The invention provides a program search method of digital TV receiver, which is characterized in that: attaining the program information from the service information by which building the program data base; inputting the search information via a user interface, using the input search information as keyword to search the corresponding program information in said program data base and displaying the searched program information; user selects one program according to the displayed program information. With said invention, user can attain the list of relative programs by searching the input keyword, and limit the content, header, language, and the type of program according to different subsegments provided by the EPG of SI, while said channel can be switched on directly in the list.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to digital television techniques, it is particularly related to the program searching of digital television receiver in the digital television system that comprises information on services (SI), is a kind of digital television receiver program searching method concretely.
Background technology
Current each physical channel of simulated television system can only transmit a program, and does not contain the out of Memory except that A/V, and the user can only find out them by the TV announce in advance on inquiry newspaper or the TV and want the program seen.
Digital television system is owing to can transmit a plurality of programs in a physical channel, the virtual channel sum increases greatly, has more aggravated the difficulty that the user searches relevant information, makes them have information many more, the sensation of having no way of doing it more.
As seen Digital Television has not only transmitted the AV signal of program itself, but also has transmitted a large amount of information on services (SI), and an important composition of these information on services is exactly EPG (electronic program guides).Described EPG content comprises: program name, program source, program length, Pgmtime, program category and programme content introduction etc.The function of the EPG of the existing demonstration of some end products at present information, but function of browse mostly only is provided, when program was more, the user need spend a certain amount of time oneself to search, and promptly time-consuming effort again is very inconvenient.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to, a kind of digital television receiver program searching method is provided, make the digital television receiver that a plurality of programs of transmission, virtual channel sum increase greatly in a physical channel have program search feature easily and efficiently, search relevant programme in order to help digital cable customers.
Technical scheme of the present invention is:
A kind of digital television receiver program searching method obtains programme information, and adopts described programme information to set up program database from information on services (SI);
By a user interface inputted search information, be that keyword carries out searching of corresponding programme information in described program database with the search information of importing, the programme information that finds out is shown;
The user chooses a certain program according to the programme information that shows.
The described programme information that obtains from information on services (SI) is meant: by electronic program guides (EPG) information in the information on services (SI) is handled, obtain programme information from EIT table wherein.
Described EIT table comprises fields such as programm name, programme content, program category, programme language, and sets up described program database according to described each field.
Adopt a remote control to described user interface inputted search information.
Described remote control is meant: the remote control that can carry out the literal input.
Described remote control is meant: the remote control that can look like shape literal and letter input.
Described remote control is meant: can adopt phonetic to carry out the remote control of literal input.
Described user interface includes: search information input frame, Option Box and function of search key.
Described search information input frame comprises: programm name input frame, programme content input frame.
Described Option Box comprises: program category Option Box, choice of language frame.
Described function of search key comprises: beginning search key, quick key for searching, ESC Escape.
Described keyword is a plurality of keywords; Program category option and choice of language are specified according to the standard of described information on services, are all scopes under the default situations.
The program information database that EPG information among the SI is formed is carried out keyword search item by item, and the Pgmtime scope of search is not less than the current time, carries out the coupling of program category and programme language again, returns Search Results.
When returning Search Results, sort according to program broadcasting time, that is: the interior programme information of period that comprises the current time comes the foremost, and the programme information of later broadcast comes the back, thus form a tabulation; This tabulation comprises channel, broadcast slot and respective program information.
When described user interface was waited for user's selection, the user used described remote control that tabulation is browsed, and selected to carry out when a certain and changed the platform operation, switched to corresponding channel; Or select the cancellation function, and end search this time, return current channel.
A kind of digital television receiver program searching method comprises following concrete steps:
Step 1, employing have the remote controller and the digital television receiver wireless connections of literal input function;
Step 2, by electronic program guides (EPG) information in the information on services (SI) is handled, from EIT table wherein, obtain programme information; Described EIT table comprises fields such as programm name, programme content, program category, programme language, and sets up described program database according to described each field digital television receiver one side;
Step 3, on digital television receiver the explicit user interface, this user interface includes programm name input frame, programme content input frame; Program category Option Box, choice of language frame; Beginning search key, quick key for searching, ESC Escape;
Step 4, by described remote controller to described programm name input frame and programme content input frame input correspondent keyword, the EPG information among the SI is retrieved;
Step 5, return Search Results, wait for that the user selects;
Step 6, change platform or withdraw from operation according to selecting.
The present invention has realized the program searching method on a kind of digital television receiver.Utilize the method can allow the user obtain the tabulation of respective program by the method for input keyword retrieval, the different son sections that provided according to EPG information among the SI, can in programme content, program title, programme language and program category, be limited successively, and can in tabulation, be directly switch to this channel.
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Fig. 1 is search routine figure of the present invention;
Fig. 2 implements for the present invention is concrete searches flow chart fast;
Fig. 3 is the rough schematic view of user interface of the present invention.
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing specific embodiments of the invention are described.
At first utilize EIT among the SI to show to obtain all information of program, set up program database.
The present invention utilizes the entering method keyboard on the remote controller, and input is wished information inquiring by multiple query composition mode, to provide search result list in user interface.
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of many subitems combinatorial search, and combinatorial search is about to the program name, programme content, and program category reaches selected language and searches for jointly, for the user provides multiple choices.
The user at program name input frame, imports keyword in the programme content input frame respectively, and selects the language 101 of program category and use, and speech selection is defaulted as the language of whole supports.
After beginning search, whether in program name input frame have input 103, if having, then it is deposited in the program name entry 104 in the query composition data structure if at first judging; If do not have, then continue.Whether in programme content input frame have input 105, if having, then it is deposited in the programme content item 106 in the query composition data structure if judging then; If do not have, then continue.Then, judge whether program category has input 107, if do not have, judge these several this moment, if then point out the user to re-enter or show whole the rendition lists 109,113 whether all less than importing.Selection is re-entered and is then returned 101, otherwise generates search result list 114. If have, then it is deposited in the program category item 108 in the query composition data structure, continue to deposit choice of language in the query composition data structure programme language item 110.According to the compound option of keyword program database is searched for 111, the channel that broadcasts this program is pressed arrived sequence arrangement at a specified future date in the recent period then, generate ranking results and tabulate 112.On user interface, show ranking results tabulation 114.The user chooses a certain program 117 after browsing this tabulation, or search returns 101 again, or returns a menu 116.
Fig. 2 is for searching schematic diagram fast, and this function is to select to meet the program of search condition on the basis of combinatorial search in the history channel of having browsed for the user, and a kind of method of fast return in fact is provided.
With common searching class seemingly, the user is respectively at program name input frame, programme content input frame, input keyword, and select program category and language 201.Speech selection is defaulted as the language of whole supports.
After beginning search, utilize the combinatorial search of above-mentioned input value to generate search result list 203.Then, utilize sort algorithm to generate ranking results tabulation 204.Ranking results channel list and historical record channel table are carried out and operation 205, and the channel bank that historical viewings is crossed is listed in the foremost 206 of ranking results channel list.
At last, the ranking results channel list is shown in user interface that wherein the channel crossed of historical viewings shows 207 with different colours.The user behind the turntable, can find the channel program of once having seen halfway fast like this.The user chooses a certain program 210 after browsing this tabulation, or search again, or returns a menu 209.
Fig. 3 is the rough schematic view of search engine user interface, two input frames " program name " is arranged, " programme content " and two comboboxs " program category ", " choice of language ".Preceding two are used for the inputted search keyword, the project decision that latter two option is supported by the SI relevant criterion.Its concrete step of implementing is:
Step 1, employing have the remote controller and the digital television receiver wireless connections of literal input function;
Step 2, by electronic program guides (EPG) information in the information on services (SI) is handled, from EIT table wherein, obtain programme information; Described EIT table comprises fields such as programm name, programme content, program category, programme language, and sets up described program database according to described each field digital television receiver one side;
Step 3, on digital television receiver the explicit user interface, this user interface includes programm name input frame, programme content input frame; Program category Option Box, choice of language frame; Beginning search key, quick key for searching, ESC Escape;
Step 4, by described remote controller to described programm name input frame and programme content input frame input correspondent keyword, the EPG information among the SI is retrieved;
Step 5, return Search Results, wait for that the user selects;
Step 6, change platform or withdraw from operation according to selecting.
The remote controller principle: will be provided with the keyboard (being similar to cell phone keyboard) of tape input method on the remote controller, same receiver domestic demand is provided with supports multi-lingual input method software to handle the literal input of remote controller.
The present invention has realized the program searching method on a kind of digital television receiver.Utilize the method can allow the user obtain the tabulation of respective program by the method for input keyword retrieval, the different son sections that provided according to EPG information among the SI, can in programme content, program title, programme language and program category, be limited successively, and can in tabulation, be directly switch to this channel.Thereby made things convenient for digital television receiver user's use.
Above embodiment only is used to illustrate the present invention, but not is used to limit the present invention.
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1. a digital television receiver program searching method is characterized in that, obtains programme information from information on services, and adopts described programme information to set up program database;
By a user interface input characters search information, be that keyword carries out searching of corresponding programme information in described program database with the text search information of importing, the programme information that finds out is shown;
The user chooses a certain program according to the programme information that shows; Wherein
Employing can be carried out the remote control of literal input to described user interface input characters search information;
Describedly comprise quick search by a user interface input characters search information, described quick search is for selecting to meet the program of search condition in the history channel of having browsed for the user on the basis of combinatorial search.
2. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the described programme information that obtains from information on services is meant: by the electronic program guide information in the information on services is handled, obtain programme information from EIT table wherein.
3. method according to claim 2 is characterized in that, described EIT table comprises fields such as programm name, programme content, program category, programme language, and sets up described program database according to described each field.
4. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the described remote control that can carry out the literal input is meant: can adopt phonetic to carry out the remote control of literal input.
5. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described user interface includes: search information input frame, Option Box and function of search key.
6. method according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described search information input frame comprises: programm name input frame, programme content input frame.
7. method according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described Option Box comprises: program category Option Box, choice of language frame.
8. method according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described function of search key comprises: beginning search key, quick key for searching, ESC Escape.
9. method according to claim 7 is characterized in that, described keyword is a plurality of keywords; Program category option and choice of language are specified according to the standard of described information on services, are all scopes under the default situations.
10. method according to claim 7, it is characterized in that, the program information database that electronic program guide information in the information on services is formed is carried out keyword search item by item, the Pgmtime scope of search is not less than the current time, carry out the coupling of program category and programme language again, return Search Results.
11. method according to claim 10 is characterized in that, when returning Search Results, sort according to program broadcasting time, that is: comprise the interior programme information of period of current time and come the foremost, and the programme information of later broadcast comes the back, thereby form a tabulation; This tabulation comprises channel, broadcast slot and respective program information.
12. method according to claim 11 is characterized in that, when described user interface was waited for user's selection, the user used described remote control that tabulation is browsed, and selected to carry out when a certain and changed the platform operation, switched to corresponding channel; Or select the cancellation function, and end search this time, return current channel.
13. method according to claim 10 is characterized in that comprising following concrete steps:
Step 1, employing have the remote controller and the digital television receiver wireless connections of literal input function;
Step 2, by the electronic program guide information in the information on services is handled, from EIT table wherein, obtain programme information; Described EIT table comprises fields such as programm name, programme content, program category, programme language, and sets up described program database according to described each field digital television receiver one side;
Step 3, on digital television receiver the explicit user interface, this user interface includes programm name input frame, programme content input frame; Program category Option Box, choice of language frame; Beginning search key, quick key for searching, ESC Escape;
Step 4, by described remote controller to described programm name input frame and programme content input frame input correspondent keyword, the electronic program guide information in the information on services is retrieved;
Step 5, return Search Results, wait for that the user selects;
Step 6, change platform or withdraw from operation according to selecting.
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