CN101193198A - Device allocation method for STB of personal video tape recorder - Google Patents
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The invention relates to a device distributing method for a personal video recorder set-top box device, comprising the following steps: a) a shareable turner module is searched; if found, go to the step b); if not found, go to the step c); b) a shareable de-multiplexing module is searched in the found shareable turner module; if found, a turner module and a de-multiplexing module which are distributed are outputted, and a success code is return; if not found, go to the step d); c) an idle turner module is searched; if found, go to the step d); if not found, a failure code is returned; and d) an idle de-multiplexing module is searched in the found idle turner module; if found, a turner module and a de-multiplexing module which are distributed are outputted, and a success code is returned; and if not found, a failure code is return. The invention has the advantage that the device distributing method for the personal video recorder set-top box device can improve a utilization rate of the personal video recorder set-top box device.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of device allocation method of set-top box, relate in particular to a kind of personal video record (Personal Video Recorder, PVR) device allocation method of set-top box.
Background technology
Along with the continuous development of digital television techniques, common digital TV set-top box can not satisfy the needs that people live, and STB of personal video tape recorder begins to enter people's life.By STB of personal video tape recorder, the consumer can get off the performance recording of liking, and plays when liking.Record, playback, (Picture in Picture PIP) is accepted by people as the basic function of STB of personal video tape recorder picture-in-picture, and becomes the technology that industry generally adopts.
STB of personal video tape recorder all has two even more tuner module (tuner module), demultiplexing module (Demux) and AV decoder usually, changes the program that platform is play other frequency when recording to be supported in.For set-top box, the program of different frequent points must be worked on different tuner modules, and a tuner module can connect one or more demultiplexing module.
Prior art is watched program under other frequency in order to allow the user can change platform when recording certain program, wherein a kind of technical scheme is to adopt the fixedly mode of tuner module and demultiplexing module, being about to certain tuner module and certain demultiplexing module couples together and is specifically designed to main window and changes platform, another tuner module links to each other to be specifically designed to other demultiplexing module and records, as:
Be exclusively used in main window and change platform: tuner module 0 → demultiplexing module 0
Be exclusively used in and record: tuner module 1 → demultiplexing module 1
Adopting fixedly, the shortcoming of the mode of tuner module and demultiplexing module is:
A. can only carry out one the tunnel at most records;
B. can't carry out picture-in-picture, even carry out the platform that changes that picture-in-picture also can influence main window.If tuner module 1 is being recorded the program under the frequency 1, tuner module 0 is play carrying out 2 times picture-in-pictures of frequency, and then main window can only be play the program with the identical frequency of picture-in-picture program, can't change to other channel.
C. recording different with the channel on the tuner module 0 time on the tuner module 1 can not be carried out time shift (TimeShift) operation, and in progress channel is recorded in time shift.
The another kind of technical scheme of prior art is to use idle, and perhaps identical with the broadcast work of main window, picture-in-picture equipment is recorded.This scheme can be carried out two-way and recorded, and also can carry out picture-in-picture, as:
Tuner module 0 → demultiplexing module 0: record+the main window broadcast
Tuner module 1 → demultiplexing module 1: record+picture-in-picture
But the shortcoming of this technical scheme is:
A. record when carrying out simultaneously when two-way, must use the equipment identical or idle, play other channel different with the record channel so main window can not change platform with the channel of recording owing to play.
B. time shift need take one the tunnel and records, and having under the situation of time shift, can not record other channel.
Summary of the invention
For the device allocation method that overcomes the prior art STB of personal video tape recorder can not play, ordinary file is recorded and time shift such as records at the defective of switching at any time in the work, is necessary to provide a kind of device allocation method that improves utilization rate of equipment and installations.
A kind of device allocation method of STB of personal video tape recorder, it may further comprise the steps: a. looks for a sharable tuner module, then enters step b if find, and if not, then enters step c; B. in the sharable tuner module that finds, look for a sharable demultiplexing module,, then enter steps d if not if the tuner module and the demultiplexing module that find then output to be distributed return success; C. look for the tuner module of a free time, then enter steps d, then return failure if not if find; D. in the tuner module of the free time of finding, look for the demultiplexing module of a free time,, then return failure if not if the tuner module and the demultiplexing module that find then output to be distributed return success.
Compared to prior art, the device allocation method of above-mentioned STB of personal video tape recorder can realize carrying out simultaneously two-way or recording of multichannel more, can when recording, play (change platform or open picture-in-picture), also can when all tuner modules are all recorded, change platform, improve the STB of personal video tape recorder usage ratio of equipment greatly.
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Fig. 1 is the flow chart of the device allocation method of the STB of personal video tape recorder that provides of embodiment of the present invention.
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing embodiment of the present invention is described in further details.
See also Fig. 1, flow chart for the device allocation method of the STB of personal video tape recorder that embodiment of the present invention provided, the device allocation method of this STB of personal video tape recorder can carry out equipment (tuner module and demultiplexing module) for the work that will carry out (such as playing, recording or time shift) and distribute, if can't distribute, then return failure, if can distribute, then return success, and export the tuner module and the demultiplexing module (please making Tuner among the figure and Demux into tuner module and demultiplexing module respectively) of being distributed.The device allocation method of this STB of personal video tape recorder may further comprise the steps:
Step 10: look for the tuner module that to share to carry out this work, then enter step 20 if find; If not, then enter step 30.The step of specifically searching shared tuner module is as follows:
10.1: n=0 is set;
10.2: whether at work to judge tuner module (n), if having then change 10.3; If not then change 10.4;
10.3: judge that the current working frequency points of tuner module (n) is whether consistent with the work institute frequency that requires, if selecting tuning device module (n) is then changeed step 20; If not then changeing 10.4;
10.4:n increase 1 certainly,, then do not find sharable tuner module, execution in step 30 if n reaches the maximum of tuner module number; Then change 10.2 if not;
Step 20: look for the demultiplexing module that to share at the tuner module of sharing, return success, and export the tuner module and the demultiplexing module of being distributed if find then; Then enter step 40 if not.
Concrete steps are as follows:
20.1: m=0 is set;
20.2: if m reaches the demultiplexing module number of the maximum that is connected with tuner module (n), then the demultiplexing module that can share, execution in step 40 are not found in expression; Otherwise carry out 20.3;
20.3: detect m demultiplexing module that links to each other with tuner module (n), be Conn demultiplexing module (m), reached maximum then carry out 20.4 if this demultiplexing module can not carry out can carrying out simultaneously on this work or this demultiplexing module number of this work; Use this Conn demultiplexing module (m) and tuner module (n) to carry out work otherwise select for use, this work is joined in the Work List that carries out on Conn demultiplexing module (m) and the tuner module (n), devices allocation finishes, tuner module and demultiplexing module that output is distributed return success.
20.4:m increase 1 certainly, carry out 20.2.
Step 30: look for the tuner module of a free time, then enter step 40 if find; Then return failure if not.Concrete steps are as follows:
30.1：n＝0；
30.2: if n reaches the sum of tuner module maximum, then expression can't be found the empty tuner module, can't distributing equipment, the devices allocation process finishes, and returns failure.
30.2: whether idle, if idle, then execution in step 40 if detecting tuner module (n); If not idle, then carry out 30.3;
30.3:n increase 1 certainly, carry out 30.2.
Step 40: look for the demultiplexing module of a free time, if the tuner module and the demultiplexing module that find then output to be distributed return success; Then return failure if not.Concrete steps are as follows:
40.1: f=0 is set;
If 40.2 f reaches the sum of demultiplexing module, then expression can't distributing equipment, the devices allocation process finishes;
40.3 detect demultiplexing module (f), carry out if be operated on the demultiplexing module (f), then carry out 40.4; Do not carry out if be operated in, then select for use demultiplexing module (m) and tuner module (n) to carry out this work, and this work joined in the Work List on demultiplexing module (m) and the tuner module (n), devices allocation finishes, tuner module and demultiplexing module that output is distributed, return success;
40.4:f increase 1 certainly, change 40.1.
This STB of personal video tape recorder mainly can carry out following work:
1. play (main window and picture-in-picture window all belong to broadcast), need to use tuner module and demultiplexing module.
2. common document recording needs to use tuner module and demultiplexing module.
3. time shift is recorded, and needs to use tuner module and demultiplexing module.
Common 1,2 priority is identical, and 3 priority is lower.Wherein the distribution of 1 and 3 tuner module and demultiplexing module can realize by above-mentioned steps.According to 1,2 characteristics different,, can proceed following steps for the tuner module of common document recording and being distributed in of demultiplexing module through after returning failure in the above-mentioned steps with 3 priority levels:
Step 50: the system medium priority of searching is lower than the work of common document recording, carry out step 60 if find then; Then return failure if not.
Step 60: establishing the lower work of this priority is LOW_WORK, carry out step 70 then.
Step 70: remove the equipment records of LOW_WORK, be about to LOW_WORK and in the Work List of tuner module and demultiplexing module, remove, return step 10 then and proceed devices allocation;
Step 80: if exported the tuner module and the demultiplexing module of being distributed, then stop LOW_WORK, return success; If returning failure then restores LOW_WORK, return in the Work List of its original employed tuner module, demultiplexing module, return step 50, proceed searching of the lower equipment of next priority.
Compared to prior art, the device allocation method of above-mentioned STB of personal video tape recorder can realize carrying out simultaneously two-way or recording of multichannel more, can when recording, play (change platform or open picture-in-picture), also can when all recording, all tuner modules change platform, the work of high priority can be seized the work of low priority, common document recording is seized time shift and is recorded, and has improved the STB of personal video tape recorder usage ratio of equipment greatly.
In addition, those skilled in the art also can do other variation in spirit of the present invention.The variation that these are done according to spirit of the present invention all should be included within the present invention's scope required for protection.
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1. the device allocation method of a STB of personal video tape recorder, it may further comprise the steps:
A. look for a sharable tuner module, then enter step b, if not, then enter step c if find;
B. in the sharable tuner module that finds, look for a sharable demultiplexing module,, then enter steps d if not if the tuner module and the demultiplexing module that find then output to be distributed return success;
C. look for the tuner module of a free time, then enter steps d, then return failure if not if find;
D. in the tuner module of the free time of finding, look for the demultiplexing module of a free time,, then return failure if not if the tuner module and the demultiplexing module that find then output to be distributed return success.
2. the device allocation method of STB of personal video tape recorder as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the device allocation method of this STB of personal video tape recorder is to carry out devices allocation to playing with the work of recording.
3. the device allocation method of STB of personal video tape recorder as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that, this broadcast work comprises that main window is play with picture-in-picture (Picture in Picture, picture-in-picture) window plays, and this work of recording comprises that common document recording and time shift record.
4. the device allocation method of STB of personal video tape recorder as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, this broadcast work is identical with the priority of this common document recording work, and the priority that work is recorded in this time shift is lower.
5. the device allocation method of STB of personal video tape recorder as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, after the devices allocation of this common document recording work is returned failure, carries out following steps:
E. search system's medium priority and be lower than the work of common document recording, then carry out step f if find; Then return failure if not;
F. setting the lower work of this priority is LOW_WORK;
G. remove the equipment records of LOW_WORK, be about to LOW_WORK and in the Work List of tuner module and demultiplexing module, remove, return step a then and proceed devices allocation;
H. if exported the tuner module and the demultiplexing module of being distributed, then stop LOW_WORK, return success, if device allocation method returns failure and then restores LOW_WORK, return in the Work List of its original employed tuner module, demultiplexing module, return step e, proceed searching of the lower equipment of next priority.
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