CN101199202A - Equipment with red alert function of detecting redundancy message - Google Patents
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Abstract
An apparatus (20) provides an emergency alert function that detects redundant notifications of emergency events. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus (20) includes a signal receiving element (21) operative to receive first emergency alert signals representing a first notification of a first emergency event and second emergency alert signals representing a second notification of a second emergency event. A processor (27) enables an alert output responsive to the first emergency alert signals. The processor (27) suppresses the alert output responsive to the second emergency alert signals if at least two predetermined conditions are satisfied. The at least two predetermined conditions include the first emergency event being a same type of event as the second emergency event, and the first emergency event having an expiration time within a predetermined time period before or after an expiration time of the second emergency event.
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Technical field
Present invention relates in general to a kind of equipment with emergency alert function, for example TV-signal receiver, wireless set or miscellaneous equipment, more specifically, the present invention relates to a kind of Apparatus and method for that is used to provide the emergency alert function that the redundant notification to emergency detects.
Background technology
Emergency such as bad weather, natural calamity, fire, civil emergencies, war, toxic chemical leakage, radiation leakage or other this condition may be fatal for the individual who has no to prepare.Relevant with weather in emergency circumstances, the mechanism such as National Meteorological Bureau (NWS) and NOAA (NOAA) can detect severe weather conditions prior to the public usually.By using the modern meteorological checkout equipment such as Doppler radar and meteorological satellite, NWS and NOAA can send the early warning to bad weather condition, and this has saved many life.Yet,, must be sent to the intended recipient in order to make this warning more effective.
The Emergency Alert Message that is provided by the source such as NWS and NOAA can be provided particular device, and the emergency alert function of using specific region message coding (SAME) technology is provided.Typically, project one or more emergencies of the equipment requirements user by selecting of use SAME technology such as one or more channels of being monitored for the reception Emergency Alert Message, one or more geographic locations of interests and activation emergency alert function, the setting up procedure of execution emergency alert function.In case finish this setting up procedure, then can enter geographical position that Emergency Alert Message indication and user select and the corresponding emergency of emergency type when taking place in setting up procedure what comprise the SAME data, activate emergency alert function.When activating this emergency alert function, can provide such as alarms such as audio frequency and/or video messaging output, notify emergency to the individual.
For having the equipment of use, may repeat repeatedly the notice of emergency such as the emergency alert function of technology such as SAME technology.For example, the issues in 24 hours that tropical storm warning may be before its expection be landed, but in fact this storm may pace up and down a few days before landing.In this case, may repeat issue (for example per 6 hours etc.) to the repeatedly notice of same incident.Similarly, if for example the user set his/her equipment monitors by the employed a plurality of channels of a plurality of transmitters, then the notice to same incident or similar incidents may repeat repeatedly.In this case, because the SAME transmitter may be in slightly different time broadcast emergency alert signals, so equipment may receive the repeatedly notice to same incident.In this case, can cause the alarm output of repeated trigger such as warning to repeatedly notifying of same incident or similar incidents, this may destroy consumer's life.
Therefore, need a kind of Apparatus and method for that is used to provide the emergency alert function of the redundant notification that can avoid the problems referred to above and detect emergency thus.The present invention is directed to these and/or other problem.
Summary of the invention
According to an aspect of the present invention, a kind of equipment with emergency alert function is disclosed.According to exemplary embodiment, this equipment comprises and is used to receive expression to first Emergency Alert Message of first notice of first emergency and the expression device to second Emergency Alert Message of second notice of second emergency.Processing unit is enabled alarm output in response to first Emergency Alert Message.If satisfy at least two predetermined conditions, then this processing unit suppresses alarm output in response to second Emergency Alert Message.Above-mentioned at least two predetermined conditions comprise: first emergency is to have deadline in the predetermined amount of time before or after the deadline of second emergency with the incident of the second alarm events same type and first emergency.
According to a further aspect in the invention, a kind of method that is used to provide emergency alert function is disclosed.According to exemplary embodiment, this method may further comprise the steps: receive first Emergency Alert Message of expression to first notice of first emergency; In response to first Emergency Alert Message, enable alarm output; Receive second Emergency Alert Message of expression to second notice of second emergency; If satisfy at least two predetermined conditions,, suppress alarm output then in response to second Emergency Alert Message; Wherein above-mentioned at least two predetermined conditions comprise: first emergency is to have deadline in the predetermined amount of time before or after the deadline of second emergency with the incident of the second alarm events same type and first emergency.
According to another aspect of the invention, a kind of TV-signal receiver with emergency alert function is disclosed.According to exemplary embodiment, this TV-signal receiver comprises signal receiving element, and the operation of this signal receiving element is used to receive expression to first Emergency Alert Message of first notice of first emergency and expression second Emergency Alert Message to second notice of second emergency.Processor links to each other with signal receiving element, and enables alarm output in response to first emergency alert signals.If satisfy at least two predetermined conditions, then this processor suppresses alarm output in response to second Emergency Alert Message.Above-mentioned at least two predetermined conditions comprise: first emergency is to have deadline in the predetermined amount of time before or after the deadline of second emergency with the incident of the second alarm events same-type and first emergency.
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By with reference in conjunction with the accompanying drawings to the following description of embodiments of the invention, above-mentioned and further feature of the present invention and advantage and preparation method thereof will become apparent, and will understand the present invention better, in the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is suitable for realizing exemplary environments of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the block diagram that has the equipment of emergency alert function according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3 shows the flow chart of the illustrative steps that is used to provide emergency alert function;
Fig. 4 shows the flow chart that is used to according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention to detect to the step of the redundant notification of emergency; And
What Fig. 5 showed according to the present invention another exemplary embodiment is used to detect flow chart to the step of the redundant notification of emergency.
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The example here shows the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and this example is not considered as limiting the scope of the invention by any way.
Referring now to accompanying drawing,, show and be suitable for realizing exemplary environments 100 of the present invention more specifically with reference to Fig. 1.In Fig. 1, environment 100 comprises: such as the sender unit of one or more signal emitting-sources 10; Such as the residential device of housing unit 15 (promptly 1,2,3...N, wherein N can be any positive integer); And the signal receiving device such as equipment 20.
According to exemplary embodiment, signal emitting-source 10 emissions can be by the signal that comprises audio frequency, video and/or Emergency Alert Message of each equipment 20 reception.According to exemplary embodiment, this Emergency Alert Message can be the management board such as NWS and/or provide such as other management board of government organs etc.Signal emitting-source 10 can come the transmitting emergency alarm signal according to the primitive form that is provided by management board, perhaps can give additional other data of numerical data of expression Emergency Alert Message, perhaps can adopt the ad hoc fashion that is suitable for its specific transmission format needs to revise Emergency Alert Message.Each equipment 20 can provide one or more alarm outputs in response to emergency alert signals, so that notify this emergency to the individual thus.Signal emitting-source 10 can pass through any wired or wireless link (for example land, cable, satellite, optical fiber, Digital Subscriber Line, but be not limited to this) and/or the broadcasting and/or the multicast apparatus of other type are transmitted into TV-signal receiver 20 with signal.
With reference to Fig. 2, show the block diagram of the exemplary embodiment of the equipment 20 among Fig. 1.In Fig. 2, equipment 20 comprises: the signal receiving device such as signal receiving element 21; Tuner such as tuner 20; Demodulating equipment such as demodulator 23; Audio amplification device such as audio frequency amplifier 24; Audio output device such as loud speaker 25; Decoding device such as decoder 26; Processing unit and storage device such as processor and memory 27; Video process apparatus such as video processor 28; And the video output device such as display 29.For example, some in the said elements can use integrated circuit (IC) to realize.For describe clear for the purpose of, the certain conventional elements such as specific control signal, power supply signal and/or other element that are associated with equipment 20 can be shown in Fig. 2.
According to exemplary embodiment, Emergency Alert Message comprises data, and these data comprise the SAME data that are associated with emergency.The SAME data comprise the digital coding of representing such as the information of duration of the specific geographical position that influenced by emergency, emergency type (for example, hurricane warning, radiological hazard warnings, civil emergencies etc.) and issuing time and event notice and so on.NWS and other management board use the SAME data to improve the specificity of emergency alarm and the frequency that reduces false alarm.According to the present invention, can also in Emergency Alert Message, comprise other data and information.
Processor and memory 27 can be operated various processing and the data storage function that is used for actuating equipment 20.According to exemplary embodiment, processor 27 receives Emergency Alert Messages from decoder 26, and determines whether the emergency alert function of activated equipment 20 based on being included in data in this Emergency Alert Message.According to this exemplary embodiment, processor 27 compares data in the Emergency Alert Message and the user setup data that is stored in the memory 27, to determine whether to activate this emergency alert function.Here, what will describe after a while is, the setting up procedure of the emergency alert function of equipment 20 allows the project of emergency type (for example, hurricane warning, radiological hazard warnings, civil emergencies etc.) of user's selection such as geographical position that is suitable for and activation emergency alert function and so on.
When having activated the emergency alert function of equipment 20, processor 27 outputs are used to enable one or more control signals of various operations.According to exemplary embodiment, this control signal is enabled one or more alarm outputs (for example, the sense of hearing and/or visual), so that notify emergency to the individual thus.This control signal is also enabled other operation of equipment 20, for example makes equipment 20 switch to power on mode from shutdown/standby mode.
Now, turn to Fig. 3, show the flow chart 300 of the illustrative steps that is used to provide emergency alert function.For example and explanation, will step among Fig. 3 be described with reference to the equipment among the figure 2 20.Step among Fig. 3 only is exemplary, is not intended to limit by any way the present invention.
In step 310, the setting up procedure of the emergency alert function of actuating equipment 20.According to exemplary embodiment, the user provides input (for example, use unshowned remote control equipment) to carry out this setting up procedure at the screen menu to equipment 20 in response to what show by display 29.According to exemplary embodiment, the user can select following at least project during the setting at step 310 place:
A. enable/forbid-user can select to enable or forbid emergency alert function.
B. monitoring and controlling channels-user can select one or more channels of being monitored in order to receive Emergency Alert Message.For example, the user can select with following NWS transmission frequency in one or more corresponding channel: 162.400MHz, 162.425MHz, 162.450MHz, 162.475MHz, 162.500MHz, 162.525MHz and 162.550MHz.Channel can manually be selected by the user, perhaps can use the automatic tuning pattern to select, and all channels that this automatic tuning pattern automatic tuning is associated with emergency alert function are so that discern one or more channels that highest signal strength is provided thus.
C. geographical position-user can select one or more geographic locations of interests.For example, the user can select particular continent, country, zone, state, area code, postcode, city, rural area, county borough, subregion and/or other definable geographical position.This geographical position can be represented by the position code such as Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) position code.
D. event type-user can select to be used to activate one or more emergencies of emergency alert function.For example, the user can specify the incident such as civil emergencies, radiological hazard warnings and/or hurricane warning that is used to activate emergency alert function, but does not comprise the incident such as thunderstorm observation.The user can also select whether can activate emergency alert function by traditional warning tones that NWS and/or other alarm mechanism provide.According to the present invention, the different orders of severity or alert level (for example, report, observation, warning etc.) can be represented different " incident ".For example, can think that thunderstorm observation is the incident that is different from the thunderstorm warning.
E. one or more alarm outputs that will provide when activating emergency alert function can be provided alarm output-user.According to exemplary embodiment, the vision and/or the sense of hearing that the user can select to provide at each emergency that activates emergency alert function are exported.For example, the user can select to show visual message (for example, the NWS text message shows as closed-caption) and/or with equipment 20 be tuned to particular channel.For example, the user can also select from acoustically exporting the expectation volume of warning tones (for example, alarm, siren etc.) and/or audio message (for example, NWS audio message) and every kind.According to the present invention, can also provide the alarm output of other type.
According to the present invention, can also provide other menu to select at step 310 place and/or can omit above-mentioned menu some in selecting.Select corresponding storage in memory 27 with the user during step 310 setting up procedure.
In step 320, at Emergency Alert Message, the channel that equipment 20 monitoring are selected during the setting up procedure of step 310 by the user.According to exemplary embodiment, tuner 22 monitoring selected channels, and receive the Emergency Alert Message of importing thus.According to the present invention, equipment 20 can all operations pattern (for example, comprise when start and during closing device 20 and/or at the playback duration of audio frequency that is write down and/or video content) monitoring and controlling channels and receive Emergency Alert Message.
In step 330, determine whether the emergency alert function of activated equipment 20.According to exemplary embodiment, processor 27 compares with the data that are stored in the memory 27 by the data that will be included in the input Emergency Alert Message, carries out above-mentioned definite.As previously indicated, Emergency Alert Message can comprise the data such as the SAME data, this data representation includes emergency type (for example, hurricane warning, radiological hazard warnings, civil emergencies etc.) and is subjected to the information in the specific geographical position that emergency influences.According to exemplary embodiment, processor 27 is provided with these SAME data data (being project C and the D in the step 310) and compares with being stored in respective user in the memory 27, so that determine whether to activate emergency alert function thus.In this manner, by the emergency of Emergency Alert Message indication corresponding to:
(1) the arbitrary geographic position selected at the project C place of step 310 of user and (2) by the user when any one occurrence type of the project D place of step 310 selection, the emergency alert function of activated equipment 20.
If the definite result at step 330 place negates that then process flow returns step 320, continues the monitoring selected channel at step 320 place tuner 22.Alternatively, if be sure in definite result at step 330 place, then process flow advances to step 340, in step 340, is provided with 20 one or more alarms outputs are provided, and notifies emergency to the individual thus.
According to exemplary embodiment, at step 340 place, processor 27 is selected (that is, project E) according to the user during step 310 setting up procedure, enables one or more warning outputs, and this alarm output can be in fact the sense of hearing and/or vision.For example, in step 340, can (for example provide by loud speaker 25 such as warning tones, siren, alarm etc.) and/or the voice output of NWS audio message and so on, and can control the volume of this voice output according to the level of sound volume that during the setting up procedure of step 310, is provided with by the user.Can also provide vision output by display 29 at step 340 place, so that notify emergency to the individual.According to exemplary embodiment, under the control of processor 27, can be at step 340 place provide such as NWS text message (for example, closed-caption shows) and/or from the supplementary of video output of particular channel and so on to show by display 29.
According to another exemplary embodiment, the alarm output that provides at step 340 place can be based on the order of severity or the alert level of specific alarm event.For example, emergency can be categorized into one of three different alert level categories (for example report, observe and warn).Utilize this classification schemes, can provide alarm output by the non-interfering notifying device such as the LED of flicker, because grade 1 is least serious emergency type at the emergency of grade 1 or report grade.Alarm output at the emergency of grade 2 or observation grade can have certain audio frequency constituent (for example, radio message).Can provide the alarm output of the emergency of grade 3 or alert level by the alarm of siren or other type, so this is the most serious emergency type.According to the present invention, can also provide the sound and the visual alarm output of those alarm outputs other type in addition of clearly describing here.
Turn to Fig. 4 now, show the flow chart 400 of the step of the redundant notification that is used to detect emergency according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.For example and explanation, will step among Fig. 4 be described with reference to the equipment among the figure 2 20.In Fig. 4, suppose in response to influencing one or more geographical position L1i (wherein, " i " is positive integer value) the first emergency E1 of type T1 first Emergency Alert Message of indicating, activated the emergency alert function (seeing the step 330 among Fig. 3) of equipment 20.In addition, suppose to send at time I1, and have duration H1 for the notice of incident E1.Can according to send time I1 and duration H1 calculate incident E1 deadline F1 (that is, I1+H1).Suppose also among Fig. 4 that the user had before selected equipment 20 that the alarm output (seeing the project E in the step 310 among Fig. 3) of audible alarm and visual text form of message is provided when activating emergency alert function.Therefore, suppose that in Fig. 4 the user had before received these sense of hearings and the visual alert output at incident E1.Step among Fig. 4 only is exemplary, and is not intended to limit by any way the present invention.
In step 402, processor 27 detects second Emergency Alert Message that whether receives at the second emergency E2.Before processor 27 detects reception to second Emergency Alert Message of the incident E2 of the type T2 that influences one and a plurality of geographical position L2i (wherein, " i " is positive integer), repeat the step 402 among Fig. 4.In addition, suppose all to send, and have duration H2 at time I2 at any notice of incident E2.Therefore, can according to send time I2 and duration H2 calculate incident E2 deadline F2 (that is, I2+H2).
In case processor 27 detects the reception at second Emergency Alert Message of incident E2 at step 402 place, process flow advances to step 404, determines that at step 404 processor 27 whether incident E2 are the incidents with incident E1 same type.In other words, processor 27 determines in step 404 whether T1 is identical with T2.If definite result of step 404 is sure, then processing procedure advances to step 406, and in step 406, processor 27 determines whether incident E1 influences all identical geographical position with incident E2.In other words, processor 27 determines in step 406 whether all position L1i are identical with all position L2i.
If definite result of step 406 is sure, then process flow advances to step 408, and in step 408, processor 27 determines that whether incident E2 are the renewals to incident E1.From step 408, process flow advances to step 410, in step 410, and the alarm of processor 27 suppression equipments 20 output.Then, in step 412, processor 27 makes at the text message of incident E2 and replaces text message at incident E1.In this manner, in step 412, the user only receives the text message at incident E2 of renewal, and this is because this message is considered to the renewal to incident E1.
Referring again to step 406, if processor 27 determines that incident E1 is not to influence all identical geographical position (promptly with incident E2, all position L1i and all position L2i are incomplete same), then process flow advances to step 414, in step 414, processor 27 is determined the deadline of the F1 whether in the predetermined amount of time " t " before or after the deadline of incident E2 of incident E1.In other words, processor 27 determines in step 414 whether F1 equals F2 and adds or deduct predetermined amount of time " t ", and wherein " t " can set (for example, 30 minutes etc.) according to design alternative.
If definite result of step 414 is sure, then process flow advances to step 416, and at step 416 place, processor 27 determines whether incident E2 is the incident identical with incident E1.From step 416, process flow advances to step 418, and at step 418 place, processor 27 is determined at detected second Emergency Alert Message of step 420 emergency alert function of activated equipment 20 whether.Here, before details about the activation of the emergency alert function of equipment 20 has been described with reference to the step 330 among the figure 3.Therefore, whether processor 27 detects at the indicated emergency E2 of detected second Emergency Alert Message of step 402 with following corresponding in step 418: the arbitrary geographic position that (1) is selected at the project C place of step 310 by the user and (2) are by any one occurrence type of user in the selection of the project D place of step 310.
If definite result of step 418 is sure, then process flow advances to step 420, at step 420 place, and the alarm of processor 27 suppression equipments 20 output.From step 420, if perhaps definite result of step 418 negates, process flow advances to step 422, and in step 422, processor 27 makes position L1i and L2i be merged into text message at incident E1.In step 422, processor 27 also is re-set as H2 with the duration of incident E1.
Referring again to 404 and 414, if definite result of arbitrary step negates in these steps, then process flow advances to step 424, and in step 424, processor 27 determines that incident E2 is different with incident E1.From step 424, process flow advances to step 426, and at step 426 place, processor 27 is determined at detected second Emergency Alert Message of step 402 emergency alert function of activated equipment 20 whether.Here, before provided details about the activation of the emergency alert function of equipment 20 with reference to the step 330 among the figure 3 and the step 418 among Fig. 4.If the definite result in step 426 is sure, then process flow advances to step 428, and at step 428 place, processing unit 27 is enabled alarm tone (alarm) and the text message alert output of equipment 20 at incident E2.In this manner, the user will receive the sense of hearing and visual notification once more, and this is because incident E2 is considered to be different from the incident of incident E1.On the contrary, if in definite result of step 426 negate, then process flow advances to step 430, in step 430, removes second Emergency Alert Message at incident E2 in processor 27 slave units 20.
Turn to Fig. 5 now, show the flow chart 500 of step of redundant notification that is used to detect emergency of another exemplary embodiment according to the present invention.Flow chart 500 among Fig. 5 in fact with Fig. 4 in flow chart 400 similar.Particularly, the step 402 among Fig. 4 to 412 and step 416 to 430 respectively with Fig. 5 in step 502 to 512 and step 516 to 530 identical.Therefore, for describe clear for the purpose of, will these identical steps be described no longer.In Fig. 5, step 513 and 514 is new, and expression is according to the additional predetermined conditions that can be used to detect redundant notification of the present invention.
As shown in Figure 5, by processor 27 execution in step 513, to determine whether the notice at incident E1 is to send at the predetermined amount of time before or after the notice of incident E2 " t ".In other words, processor 27 determines whether equal to add or deduct predetermined amount of time " t " at the incident of the sending I2 of incident E2 at the time of the sending I1 of incident E1 at step 513 place, and wherein " t " can set (for example, 30 minutes etc.) according to design alternative.This notice can be sent from multiple source.
If definite result of step 513 is sure, then process flow advances to step 514, and at step 514 place, processor 27 determines whether the duration H1 of incident E1 equals the duration H2 of incident E2.In other words, processor 27 determines at step 514 place whether H1 equals H2.If definite result of step 514 is sure, then process flow advances to step 516, and step 516 is equal to previous described step 416 here.If the definite result in step 513 and 514 negates, then process flow advances to step 524, and step 524 is equal to previous described step 424 here.
Implementing when of the present invention, be noted that when determining that notice is whether redundant, can adopt arbitrarily suitable mode to come various aspects of the present invention among combined diagram 4 and Fig. 5.For example, can adopt of the predetermined condition merging of any desired mode with expression in predetermined condition and Fig. 5 step 513 and 514 of expression in Fig. 4 step 404,406 and 414.
In addition, the aspect among Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 can also be combined with another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, in this exemplary embodiment, the user's input based on notice reception is formerly confirmed suppresses alarm output.According to exemplary embodiment, suppose to come the emergency alert function of activated equipment 20 in response to first Emergency Alert Message that first notice of the first emergency E1 is represented.Therefore, processor 27 is enabled alarm output such as audible alarm and siren in response to first Emergency Alert Message.Then, the user can confirm the reception that this alarm is exported by predetermined input is provided to equipment 20.For example, the user can press at the predetermined key on the remote control equipment (not shown) of equipment 20, presses equipment 20 from one's body predetermined key, presses the touch-screen of equipment 20, and voice command and other device are provided.In case the user provides predetermined input to confirm the reception to first notice to equipment 20, processor 27 section is at the fixed time gone up the one or more alarm outputs that suppress the redundant notification of same event type.In addition, though in Fig. 4 step 406 and 414 and/or Fig. 5 step 513 and 514 in other predetermined condition represented those conditions satisfy, processor 27 also can suppress alarm output in this manner.
In accordance with a further exemplary embodiment of the present invention, be associated with the incident that has suppressed alarm output therein or can be stored in the memory 27 with data that other message merges mutually, and can import in response to the user, obtain, to show by display 29 by processor 27.In this manner, the user can check information relevant with the incident that has suppressed alarm output therein or that merge mutually with other message.
As described here, the invention provides a kind of Apparatus and method for that is used to provide the emergency alert function that the redundant notification to emergency detects.The present invention can also be applicable to the various equipment that have or do not have integrated display device.Therefore, employed here phrase " TV-signal receiver " can represent to receive and to handle the system or equipment (including, but not limited to television set, computer or the monitor that comprises integrated display device) of TV signal and such as set-top box, personal video recorder (PVR) and can not comprise the computer of integrated display device or the system or equipment the miscellaneous equipment.
Although the present invention has been described as having decision design, can in spirit and scope of the present disclosure, have further revised to the present invention.Therefore, the application is intended to use general principles of the present invention to contain all variants of the present invention, purposes or modification.In addition, the application is intended to contain and followingly departs from from of the present invention: the known or habitual measure the correlative technology field of the present invention; And the interior technical scheme of restriction that falls into claims.
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1. equipment (20) with emergency alert function comprising:
Be used to receive first Emergency Alert Message that first notice of first emergency is represented and the device (21) of second of second emergency being notified second Emergency Alert Message of representing;
Processing unit (27) is used for enabling alarm in response to described first Emergency Alert Message and exports;
If satisfy at least two predetermined conditions, then described processing unit (27) suppresses described alarm output in response to described second Emergency Alert Message;
Wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions comprise: described first emergency is to have deadline in the predetermined amount of time before or after the deadline of described second emergency with the incident of the described second alarm events same type and described first emergency.
2. equipment according to claim 1 (20), wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions also comprise: described first notice is to send in the predetermined amount of time before or after described second notice.
3. equipment according to claim 1 (20), wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions also comprise: described first emergency influences at least one identical geographical position with described second emergency.
4. equipment according to claim 1 (20), wherein, if described first emergency is the incident with the described second emergency same type, and the user provides predetermined input to confirm the reception of notifying described first, then described processing unit (27) suppresses described alarm output in response to described second Emergency Alert Message, and need not to satisfy described at least two predetermined conditions.
5. equipment according to claim 1 (20), wherein, described alarm output comprises the alarm that can listen.
6. method (300,400) that is used to provide emergency alert function comprising:
First Emergency Alert Message (320) that reception is represented first notice of first emergency;
In response to described first Emergency Alert Message, enable alarm output (340);
Second Emergency Alert Message (402) that reception is represented second notice of second emergency;
If satisfy at least two predetermined conditions,, suppress described alarm output (420) then in response to described second Emergency Alert Message;
Wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions comprise: described first emergency is to have deadline in the predetermined amount of time before or after the deadline of described second emergency with the incident of the described second alarm events same type and described first emergency.
7. method according to claim 6 (300,400), wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions also comprise: described first notice is (513) of sending in the predetermined amount of time before or after described second notice.
8. method according to claim 6 (300,400), wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions also comprise: described first emergency influences at least one identical geographical position (406) with described second emergency.
9. method (300 according to claim 6,400), wherein, if described first emergency is the incident with the described second emergency same type, and the user provides predetermined input to confirm the reception of notifying described first, then described processing unit (27) suppresses described alarm output in response to described second Emergency Alert Message, and need not to satisfy described at least two predetermined conditions.
10. method according to claim 6 (300,400), wherein, described alarm output comprises the alarm that can listen.
11. the TV-signal receiver (20) with emergency alert function comprising:
Signal receiving element (21) is used to receive first Emergency Alert Message that first notice of first emergency is represented and second Emergency Alert Message that second notice of second emergency is represented;
Processor (27) is connected with described signal receiving element (21), and described processor (27) is enabled described alarm output in response to described first emergency alert signals;
If satisfy at least two predetermined conditions, then described processor (27) suppresses described alarm output in response to described second Emergency Alert Message;
Wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions comprise: described first emergency is to have deadline in the predetermined amount of time before or after the deadline of described second emergency with the incident of the described second alarm events same type and described first emergency.
12. TV-signal receiver according to claim 11 (20), wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions also comprise: described first notice is to send in the predetermined amount of time before or after described second notice.
13. TV-signal receiver according to claim 11 (20), wherein, described at least two predetermined conditions also comprise: described first emergency influences at least one identical geographical position with described second emergency.
14. TV-signal receiver according to claim 11 (20), wherein, if described first emergency is the incident with the described second emergency same type, and the user provides predetermined input to confirm the reception of notifying described first, then described processing unit (27) suppresses described alarm output in response to described second Emergency Alert Message, and need not to satisfy described at least two predetermined conditions.
15. TV-signal receiver according to claim 11 (20), wherein, described alarm output comprises the alarm that can listen.
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