CN1249104A - Picture in an electronic program guide for video processing system - Google Patents

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CN1249104A
CN1249104A CN97182047A CN97182047A CN1249104A CN 1249104 A CN1249104 A CN 1249104A CN 97182047 A CN97182047 A CN 97182047A CN 97182047 A CN97182047 A CN 97182047A CN 1249104 A CN1249104 A CN 1249104A
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Abstract

A video signal processing system and method provides a Picture-in-Guide (PiG) feature. An Electronic Program Guide (EPG) is displayed in a first image region of a display. The EPG comprises various selectable display areas ('News', 'LANDS END'). In addition, a video image is shown in a second image region (210) of the display. The system includes user-selection means (325) for selecting the various display areas in the first image region and the second image region of the display. In response to the selection of the second image region of the display, a third image region appears on the display, replacing the first and the second image regions.

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The interior picture of electronic program guides that is used for processing system for video
The present invention relates to be used for the electronic program guides (EPG) of television system.Electronic program guides (EPG) is interactively, as to show on a fluorescent screen program guide, and it is similar to the TV listing of seeing in local paper or other printed matters.The information that contains in EPG comprises multiple program characteristics, closes during as channel, program title, zero-time, end, the time in past, remaining time, rank (if getable words), topic class (topic), theme (theme) and programme content summary.EPG is arranged to a bivariate table or sash form usually, with the time on an axle, channel another the axle on.Noninteractive guide resides on the dedicated channel, and just the current program on other channels of roll display is different with this non-interactive guides, and EPG allows the beholder to select any channel any time in advance.The further performance of EPG comprises the ability of single junior unit in the highlighted sash that contains programme information.In case be highlighted, the beholder just can realize the every function at that selected program.For example, if television set is suitably configured and is connected in a tape deck, the beholder can realize touch boxlike video tape record (VCR) etc. so.An example of EPG system is the StarSight  system that is provided by Star Sight Telecast company, the each side of Star Sight  system is at United States Patent (USP) 5,353,121,5,479,268 and 5,479, describe in No. 266, these patents are authorized Young etc., and transfer Star Sight Telecast company.
A problem of EPG system is that it may take whole fluorescent screen and make the beholder cannot see any video frequency program when EPG works.Along with available channel number increases, the user searches EPG to find programs of interest at plenty of time of may using up.So the user may miss the quite most of of current selected program when using EPG.
A solution provides one has the EPG of wicket to show, shows the video frequency program of current selected in this wicket.Show an image, make its part represent a video source, and another part is represented another video source, this demonstration is well-known.The example is respectively picture-in-picture and picture out picture system, i.e. PIP and POP system.
Only provide the PIP image in EPG shows, this problem following is: although the user can see this video frequency program, the user may not know how to turn back to this just viewed channel.For example, a user may search EPG, does not find any interested thing, so wish to return to watch current selected program.
According to an aspect of the present invention, described a video signal processing apparatus, this equipment provides picture performance (being called PiG here) in a kind of guide.This equipment comprises the device that produces a signal, and this signal is suitable for being coupled so that the displayed image that produces on the display has first area of image and second area of image with display unit.First area of image shows electronic program guides, and it has a plurality of demonstrations sub-district or fluorescent screen element, and each shows that the sub-district can be selected to select each program.Second area of image shows a video image, corresponding in the demonstration sub-district of first area of image or the fluorescent screen element chosen one.This equipment further comprises the device of selecting one second area of image and first area of image respectively to show one of sub-district.Produce the selection of signalling reaction selection to described second area of image, replace first and second area of images with the 3rd area of image, this 3rd area of image shows the video image that shows before this in second area of image.
According to a further aspect in the invention, described the method for handling electronic program guides, the step that is comprised is:
Show the electronic program guides that contains a plurality of fluorescent screens element or show the sub-district in showing first district, each fluorescent screen element is represented a selectable program;
When electronic program guides is displayed in demonstration first district, in showing second district, show a form;
A user selection device is provided, is used for selecting fluorescent screen element of electronic program guides and the window in second district;
In this window, show and the selected corresponding program in unit, fluorescent screen of user selection device;
When user selection device was selected this window, with first district and second district that the replacement of the 3rd district shows, the 3rd district showed the chosen program that has shown in window.
According to a further aspect in the invention, for example when the EPG with PiG performance was presented at work, video was displayed in the window portion of EPG.This system is included in the device that EPG shows inner moving cursor.The appropriate users choice device comprises the orientation/options button on mouse or the remote controller.The user at first guides vernier to make this window quilt " highlighted " or makes vernier point to this window, thereby makes the user select this video window.The user presses the selection button on mouse button or the startup remote controller then, thus the selection course of finishing.As the response to this, EPG is replaced by a full fluorescent screen video image, and this image is that image that showed in wicket.
According to other aspects of the invention, the window that comprises in EPG shows can show not to be the video image related with specific TV channel.For example, the video image that shows in wicket may be associated with specific advertiser, the prompting of for example " paying at a glance ".Have, video image can be related with a video-game again.In each case, select wicket to substitute EPG with the video content of full screen display wicket.
Can understand described characteristics better with reference to the accompanying drawings, these accompanying drawings are:
Fig. 1 shows a flow chart, and the operation of the system that comprises the principle of the invention is described;
Fig. 2 is that EPG shows an example, comprises the window of display video image;
The television receiver of Fig. 3 Display Realization aspects of the present invention.
The flowchart text operation of system as shown in Figures 2 and 3 that Fig. 1 shows, these systems will be described below.In Fig. 1, for example, EPG is started in step 110 by pressing a specific button on the remote controller.When EPG was activated, EPG showed first area of image at display device, as shown in Figure 2.In Fig. 2, the program guide part 200 that EPG shows is pointed out program, channel and program duration.In second district that shows, video window part 210 shows the video image of for example representing the current selected program.Shown by the cursor of arrow 220 representatives and/or the highlight bar of being represented by border 230: when being positioned as shown in Figure 2, video window 210 is chosen.
Get back to Fig. 1 now, step 110 back is a step 120, and whether its test cursor current location is located in the video window part that the selected EPG of indication shows to determine cursor, for example approach or point to video window as shown in Figure 2, perhaps make cursor overlap video window.If like this, then step 120 produces the result of "Yes".The another kind of practice is, combines with the test light cursor position, can test the highlight bar position in step 120, and border 230 is brightened.If video window is highlighted, then produce the result of "Yes" in step 120.Result in step 120 "Yes" makes step 120 back follow step 140.If the test result of step 120 is a "No", i.e. cursor and/or the highlighted selection of not pointing out video window then continues to show EPG shown in step 130.
In step 140, system testing determines whether the user has activated options button, for example options button on the remote controller.If no, then show continuation at step 150 EPG.If the result in step 140 is a "Yes", then video window is selected, so step 160 is followed in step 140 back.In step 160, television receiver is tuned to channel shown in the video window.The 3rd window, for example full fluorescent screen can show by tuning vision signal, replace on the display EPG and wicket the two.
Fig. 3 shows the television receiver that is suitable for providing performance shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.System shown in Figure 3 has first input end to receive the TV signal RF_IN of RF frequency.Also have second input to receive base-band television signal VIDEO_IN.Signal RF_IN can be by providing such as antenna or cable system, and signal VIDEO IN can be provided by for example videocassette recorders (VCR).Tuner 305 and IF processor 330 are operated in a conventional manner, with the particular television signal that comprises among tuning and the restituted signal RF_IN.IF processor 330 produces baseband video signal VIDEO, and it is represented by the video frequency program part of tuning TV signal.IF processor 330 also produces a base-band audio signal, and it and Audio Processing part (not shown among Fig. 3) are coupled, for further Audio Processing.Though input 302 shown in Figure 3 is as baseband signal, the television reception function comprises that second tuner and the IF processor that are similar to unit 305 and 330 are used for producing second baseband video signal by signal RF_IN or by the 2nd RF signal source.
System shown in Figure 3 also comprises a master microprocessor (μ P) 310, is used to control each parts of television receiver, as tuner 305, picture-in-picture processing unit 340, video signal preprocessor 355 and Star Sight  data processing module 360.As used herein, various devices represented in term " microprocessor ", includes but not limited to microprocessor, microprocessor, microcontroller and controller.Microprocessor 310 is by serial data bus I 2The C bus sends and receives order and data, with control system, and I here 2The C bus is utilized known I 2C serial data bus agreement.More specifically, the control program that CPU (CPU) 312 execute stores (EEPROM327 as shown in Figure 3) in the μ P310 contain is so that the order that is for example provided by IR remote controller 325 and IR receiver 322 by the user to be provided.For example, " CHANNEL UP (channel the increase) " performance that activates on the remote controller 325 can make CPU312 pass through I 2The C bus is sent " change channel " order together with channel data to tuner 305.As a result, tuner 305 be tuned to next channel in the channel scan list.Another example of control program among the EEPROM327 of memory block is the software of operating shown in realization Fig. 1.
The function of CPU312 by comprising in the 319 control μ P310 of the bus in the μ P310.Particularly CPU312 control assistance data processor 315 and fluorescent screen show (OSD) processor 317.Assistance data processor is extracted auxiliary data from vision signal PIPV, for example Star Sight .
Usually, Star Sight  data only receive on a specific television channel, and television receiver must be tuned to that channel to extract Star Sight  data.For the normal use of the extraction interfering TV receiver that prevents StarSight  data, 312 of CPU the common no time period of television receiver (for example morning 2:00) by be tuned to specific channel start StarSight  data extract.CPU312 configuration decoder 315 makes and extracts auxiliary data from the used horizontal line interval (for example row 16) of Star Sight  data at that time.The Star Sight  data that CPU312 control is extracted from decoder 315 via I 2The C bus is to the transmission of Star Sight  module 360.A processor of this inside modules is to the data format and with in the memory of storage in module.Be that the Star Sight  EPG that response is activated shows, (for example the user activates a particular key on the remote controller 325), CPU315 formative Star Sight  EPG video data from Star Sight  module 360 via I 2The C bus is sent to osd processor 317.
Osd processor 317 is operated in a conventional manner, to produce R, G and B vision signal OSD_RGB, just produces the image that is shown when it is coupled with display unit, represents the fluorescent screen display message, for example picture and/or contain the text of EPG.Osd processor 317 also produces control signal FSW when will showing a fluorescent screen demonstration, this signal is used for switching signal OSD_RGB is inserted into the video output signals of system fast.For example, when the user activated a particular switch on the remote controller 315 and starts EPG, CPU312 started processor 315 and 317, thereby makes row 21 interval the extract closed-caption data (closed caption data) of processor 315 from vision signal PIPV.Processor 317 produces the signal OSD_RGB that represents these closed-caption data.Processor 317 also produces signal FSW to point out when will show captions.
Video signal preprocessor (VSP) 355 is realized traditional vision signal processing capacity, and for example brightness (luma) and colourity (chroma) are handled.The output signal that VSP355 produces is suitable for and the display unit coupling, and for example picture tube or LCD device (not drawing among Fig. 3) are used to produce the image of demonstration.VSP355 also comprises a high-speed switch, and the signal that is used for when being shown image and comprising picture and/or text osd processor 317 being produced is coupled to the outputting video signal path.When wanting videotex and/or picture, the control signal FSW control that this high-speed switch is produced by the osd processor in the primary processor 310 317.
The input signal of VSP 355 is the signal PIPV by 340 outputs of picture-in-picture (PIP) unit.When the user started the PIP mode, PIPV represented a big picture (big picture), wherein inserts a little picture (little picture) and is inserted into wherein.When the PIP mode was invalid, signal PIPV only represented big picture, did not promptly comprise little picture signal in signal PIPV.The operation of described PIP unit 340 is that the performance by PIP unit 340 provides, and PIP unit 340 comprises video switch 342, I 2C interface 341, PIP processor 344 and RAM345.Switch 342 is operation under user control, to determine two incoming video signal VIDEO and VIDEO IN 340 interior large and small picture signal LPIXV and the coupling of SPIXV to the PIP unit.Usually, switch 342 is coupled to signal LPIXV to signal VIDEO, and signal VIDEO IN is coupled to signal SPIXV, but switch 342 can be exchanged connection or an input signal is coupled on two holding wires of large and small picture.I 2C interface 341 provides I 2Two-way control and data-interface between C bus and PIP unit 340 built-in functions.Like this, main μ P 310 can pass through I 2The operation of C bus-controlled switching 342 and PIP processor 344.
When the PIP processing was activated, PIP processor 344 was realized the PIP function in a conventional manner.Briefly, PIP processor 344 is transformed into numerical data to signal SPIXV by the analog to digital converter (ADC) that comprises in the PIP processor 344.This numerical data is by double sampling, to reduce the size of data volume and the little picture image that reduces to show.The data of double sampling are stored among the RAM 345, show time interval until little picture, interval at this moment, the little picture data of being stored is read from RAM 345 and is transformed into the little picture signal of simulation by the digital to analog converter (DAC) that comprises in the PIP processor 344.Show time interval at little picture, a switch that comprises in the PIP processor 344 is simulated little picture signal to this and is included among the signal PIPV.
The little picture ability of the generation of PIP processor 344 also is used to produce the small video image that comprises in the EPG demonstration, for example video image among Fig. 2 210.Yet, show that for EPG the big in other words picture of its key frame is to be produced and be included in the output signal with response high-speed switch signal FSW by VSP 355 by osd processor 317, rather than comprises big picture video signal LPIXV.Like this, when controller 310 detects when starting EPG and showing, for example when the user press suitable key on the remote controller 325, controller 310 made osd processor 317 be used to the demonstration from the Star Sight  of Star Sight  module 360 data generation EPG.Controller 310 also makes PIP processor 340 produce the small video image from the main video signal of current selected.VSP 355 response signal FSW make up EPG video data and small video picture intelligence to produce the demonstration among Fig. 2.
When EPG showed work, controller 310 was carried out the control program that is stored among the EEPROM327.According to the flow chart among Fig. 1, control program monitors the position of position indicating device (for example cursor and/or highlighted) in the EPG demonstration.The user utilizes the position of the directional bond and the options button control position indicating device of remote controller 325.The another kind of practice is that this system can comprise a mouse apparatus.
Be to realize described till now system shown in Figure 3 performance, its parts that are suitable for comprise: ST 9296 microprocessors of being produced by SGS-Thomson Microelectronics are used to provide the performance related with μ P 310; The M65616 picture-in-picture processor of being produced by Mitsubishi (Panasonic) is used to provide described and PIP processor 340 related basic PIP function; And the function that is used to provide VSP 355 by the LA7612 video signal preprocessor that Sanyo (Sanyo) produces.
Should be appreciated that the shown and embodiment that describes and various variation be illustrative purposes for example just here, those skilled in the art can realize various modifications and not depart from scope and spirit of the present invention.

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1. equipment comprises:
Device (310,340,360) is used to produce the signal that is suitable for being coupled to display unit, so that the image that is shown that produces has first area of image and second area of image (210); Described first area of image shows the electronic program guides with a plurality of demonstrations sub-district (" News (news) ", " LANDS END (the ends of the earth) "), and each shows that the sub-district can be selected with selected each program; Described second area of image shows a video image, and this video image is corresponding to chosen in described first area of image demonstration sub-district; And
Device (325) is used to select one of described second area of image and described first area of image and shows the sub-district; Described signal generation device response replaces described first and second area of images by the selection of described choice device to second area of image with the 3rd area of image, and the 3rd area of image shows the video image that shows at second area of image before this.
2. equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said equipment also comprise device (310,220), are used at chosen highlighted this second area of image of described second area of image.
3. equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein said equipment also comprise device (310,220), are used in one of described demonstration sub-district highlighted this demonstration sub-district when chosen.
4. equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said equipment also comprise a cursor that is positioned in the described demonstration, and this cursor is controlled by described choice device (325).
5. equipment as claimed in claim 4, wherein said signal generation device (310,340,360) responds that described cursor (220) is moved to second area of image and the last key of described choice device (325) is activated, replace described first and second area of images with described the 3rd area of image, the 3rd area of image shows the video image that shows at second area of image before this.
6. equipment as claimed in claim 5, one of wherein said demonstration sub-district to first area of image are selected by described cursor being moved on to one of this demonstration sub-district and activating on the described choice device key and realize.
7. equipment as claimed in claim 1, one of wherein said demonstration sub-district is corresponding to the label of a video-game.
8. equipment as claimed in claim 1, one of wherein said demonstration sub-district is corresponding to the label of an advertisement.
9. method of handling electronic program guides, the step that comprises is:
In first district that shows demonstration contain a plurality of fluorescent screens element (electronic program guides of " News (news) ", " LANDSEND (the ends of the earth) ", each fluorescent screen element represents one can select program;
When described electronic program guides is displayed on first district of described demonstration, a form (210) is presented at second district of described demonstration;
Provide a user selection device (322), the described window in one of the fluorescent screen element that is used for selecting described electronic program guides and described second district;
In described window, show the pairing program of selecting by described user selection device of fluorescent screen element;
When selecting described window by described user selection device, first and second districts with the 3rd district replaces described demonstration are presented at the chosen program that described window shows in the 3rd district.
10. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said method further is included in the step of chosen highlighted this window of described window.
11. as the method for claim 10, wherein said method further is included in the step of described fluorescent screen element highlighted chosen fluorescent screen element when chosen.
12. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said selection to window are by user selection device the described window that cursor (220) moves on in the described demonstration to be realized with a key that activates on the described user selection device.
13. as the method for claim 12, wherein said selection to the fluorescent screen element is to realize by fluorescent screen element shown in described cursor is moved on to and a key activating on the described user selection device.
14. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said chosen program are video-games.
15. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said chosen program are advertisements.
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