Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is a Digital Television structured flowchart of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the method flow diagram that provides of digital television information of the present invention.
Fig. 3 provides user's message catalog establishing method flow chart.
Fig. 4 a to Fig. 4 c is an instance graph of setting OSD about the user.
Fig. 5 is about the instance graph of information is provided.
Among Fig. 1
10: tuner 20: broadcast signal process portion
21: channel decoder 22: stream decoder
23: packets of information separated part 30: decoder
31: image decoder 32: the sound accompaniment decoder
33: additional information decoder 34: image processing part
35: sound accompaniment handling part 40: the information test section
50: memory 60: control part
Among Fig. 2
S10: Menu key ' is connected ' in input automatically
S20: remove to show OSD according to the input of Menu key, and by OSD setting-up time and selection message catalog
S40: the current time=setting-up time S41: connect TV
S42: the channel of selecting the user selected program place
S43: the details that extract the corresponding information catalogue
S44: the inventory that deposits extraction in
S45: whether choose the message catalog channel of selecting by the user
S46: the message catalog of explicit user choosing and the details of respective directories
Among Fig. 3
S21: key S22 ' is connected ' in input automatically: select channel
S23: channel decoding S24: stream decoder
S25: additional information decoding S26: detect the regional information data
S27: whether choose channel S28: select succeeding channel
S29: represent corresponding OSD S30: select area and information category
S31: setting-up time is connected in input
S32: deposit selected area, information category, time in
Embodiment
Below, with reference to accompanying drawing Digital Television and information providing method thereof are illustrated.
At first Digital Television is described as follows with reference to Fig. 1.
This digital TV is made up of following components, promptly be provided with broadcast signal process portion (20), it is in the Digital Television that is provided with tuner (10), by tuner (10), the broadcast singal that receives is separated into image information, sound information and additional information, and then handles; Be provided with decoder (30), it will be decoded image information, sound information and the additional information handled by broadcast signal process portion (20) respectively; Be provided with information test section (40), it will detect the regional information data from the life information data of the additional information by decoder (30) decoding; Be provided with memory (50), it will store the time of detected regional information data and user's setting; Be provided with control part (60), it presses the control figure TV setting-up time energized of memory (50) storage, and with reference to the regional information data that are stored in memory (50), message catalog and the details relevant with catalogue that the user is selected are deposited in the memory, can go display message catalogue and the details relevant with catalogue simultaneously.
The broadcast signal process portion (20) here is made up of following components.That is, the broadcast message that receives by tuner (10) is converted to the channel decoder (21) of digital broadcast signal; Broadcast singal by channel decoder (21) conversion is decoded as the stream decoder (22) of the stream (Stream) of image information, sound information and additional information; Separate and export the packets of information separated part (23) of image information, sound information and the additional information of decoding respectively by stream decoder (22).
Decoder (30) is made up of following components.That is the image decoder (31) that the image information of separating by packets of information separated part (23) is decoded; The sound accompaniment decoder (32) that the sound information that separates by packets of information separated part (23) is decoded; In the additional information of separating by packets of information separated part (23), the additional information decoder (33) that the additional information of life information data is decoded.
Observation has the Digital Television operating sequence of said structure and can learn, control part (60) is read automatic connection Menu key from remote controller (omitting the figure) or keyboard (omitting among the figure) input, and, search each broadcasting channel that (Search) remembers into automatic channel successively from memory (50) by tuner (10).
If the channel broadcasting signal that input is selected through tuner (10), channel decoder (21) is converted to digital broadcast signal with its broadcast singal so; And stream decoder (22) will be decoded into the broadcast singal through channel decoder (21) conversion certain stream of image information, sound information and additional information, and be exported.
At this moment, by the broadcast singal of stream decoder (22) decoding, can be rendered as down the form shown in the tabulation 1.
[table 1]
ID image I D sound accompaniment ID adds the ID image |
Then,, can be input to packets of information separated part (23), be separated into image information, sound information, additional information afterwards respectively and export by stream decoder (22) as the broadcast singal of table 1 form.
To decode by image decoder (31), sound accompaniment decoder (32) and additional information decoder (33) respectively by image information, sound information and additional information that packets of information separated part (23) is separated.
At this moment, the image information data by image decoder (31) decoding can pass through image processing part (34) and realizes; Sound information data by sound accompaniment decoder (32) decoding can realize through sound accompaniment handling part (35).
Additional information decoder (33) will the several data flow in additional information in, the data with ID relevant with life information are decoded, be reassembled into as in the life information data shown in the table 2.
[table 2]
Regional information kind of information content |
Information test section (40) will receive the life information data of reformulation as shown in table 2, and from the life information data of input, detect the regional information data.In other words, the regional information data also may show the information of particular locality in the life information data.
[table 3]
Regional information 1, information 2, information N |
Detected regional information data are the regional information data desire area that will provide and the kind of information, therefore, regional portion information data are put in order with specific modality, and are deposited into memory (50).
The data form that is deposited into memory (50) lining is as shown in table 3.
Each channel of having stored is selected successively by tuner (10), and carry out to be detected the operation of regional information data repeatedly, the regional information data of detected each channel are deposited into memory (50) by the form shown in the table 3.
Control part (60) will be controlled above-mentioned operation, promptly channel search the time by detecting the regional information data, the regional information data that are stored in memory (50) lining are shown with the OSD form.
The user by showing the OSD of regional information data, removes to select the area and the information category of the information of wishing to get by remote controller and keyboard, and the automatic setting-up time of connecting of input.At this moment, to the information category user in area, can be from 1 to M.The area of input and the time of information category and setting will be deposited into memory (50).
The power supply of Digital Television disconnects (off), and is converted to after the holding state, and control part (60) will will be connected digital TV power supply automatically by the setting-up time that is deposited into memory (50) lining.
Simultaneously, control part (60) will will be selected corresponding channel by tuner (10) according to the area and the information category that are deposited into memory (50) lining.
Afterwards, broadcast signal process portion (20) and decoder (30) will be identical with aforesaid situation to the operation of the broadcast singal in frequency-selecting road.
Information test section (40) extraction is deposited into memory (50) lining with the corresponding details of each information category after, will be deposited into memory (50) to the details of extracting.
The details that have each information category of memory (50) lining, its form that is deposited into memory (50) lining is as shown in table 4.
[table 4]
Information 1 detailed content information 2 detailed content information N detailed contents |
Control part (60) will read the details of each information category of memory (50) lining, then with the OSD form, in the time of with the digital TV power supply of connection, show.
To aforesaid the present invention, promptly Digital Television information approach is provided, describe as follows.
As shown in Figure 2, Digital Television of the present invention provides information approach, at first, connects Menu key (S10) by the user automatically by remote controller or keyboard input.
Then, show corresponding OSD according to the input of Menu key, and the OSD by having shown, remove to select area and information category, so as to trying to achieve required automatic connection setting-up time and information (S20).
Again in detail, as shown in Figure 3,, so, will select channel (S22) according to the automatic channel table if Menu key (S21) is connected in input automatically, and receiving broadcast signal.
At this moment, the automatic channel table be the user by methods such as automatic inputting channels, the prior channel of setting and having remembered.
Then,, carry out channel decoding (S23), and the broadcast singal of conversion is flowed decoding (S24) with the stream form of image information, sound information, additional information for the broadcast singal that will receive is converted to digital signal.
Then, in additional information stream, only the life information data are decoded (S25), and in decoded life information data, detect regional information data (S26).At this moment, detected data are stored with specific modality.
Judge in the automatic channel table whether the selection of channel finishes (S27), this judged result (S27) is not if finish the selection of channel, so, select the next channel (S28) of automatic channel table, then each channel is carried out repeatedly the operation in S23~S26 stage.
On the one hand, judged result (S27) is if finish the channel selection of automatic channel table, promptly finish regional information Data Detection to each channel, so, just show the OSD (S29) of stored expression regional information data, so that allow the user can remove to select required area and information category.
Shown in Fig. 4 a, by OSD, the user at first selects required area; Then shown in Fig. 4 b,, and in N information category, select more than one information category (S30) according to the area by OSD.
Then, import the automatic connection setting-up time (S31) of the connection TV power supply that will carry out.At this moment, the OSD that carries out in order to import setting-up time is shown in Fig. 4 c.
Then, area, information category and the setting-up time imported by the OSD shown in Fig. 4 a to Fig. 4 c are stored (S32).
After this, the state of TV is the standby mode state.
If finish the selection (S20) of automatic connection setting-up time and required area and information category, to judge so whether the present time of TV is the setting-up time of having stored (S40).
Judged result (S40), if be the time of setting now, so, when connecting digital TV power supply (S41), go to select and the area of storing corresponding, exist the channel (S42) of information category catalogue.
By selecting to extract the details (S43) of corresponding information kind in the broadcast singal additional information that channel receives, and store (S44).
Go to have judged whether to finish the channel selection (S45) that has stored information kind catalogue; Judged result (S45) if do not finish channel selection, so, be selected to exist the channel of other stored information kind catalogues, and carry out the operation in S42~S44 stage repeatedly.
If promptly the user so, by S42~S44 stage, will select to exist the corresponding channel of each information category, and extracts each details by 2 above information categories that OSD has selected the area.
On the one hand, judged result (S46) is if finished the channel selection of each information category, so, Netherlands with the user selects shows with the OSD form with the canned data catalogue and with the corresponding details of each catalogue, and offers user (S46).
At this moment, the information category catalogue that explicit user is selected reaches and the corresponding details OSD of each catalogue, as shown in Figure 5.
For example, if selected the M kind information categories such as traffic, commemorative activity in tortoise tail area and tortoise tail area,, will show area, each catalogue and relevant details so just as shown in Figure 5.
Therefore, if the user selects the information category of required area and this area, set automatic turn-on time again, so, the present invention will connect in setting-up time in the TV power supply, will provide this area and the details relevant with information category.
By above-mentioned explanation, if the professional person in not breaking away from technological thought scope of the present invention, can carry out numerous variations or correction so as can be known.
And technical scope of the present invention is not the example content that is limited to record, but should determine according to the interest field of applying for a patent.