JP2000358199A - Broadcast receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a broadcast receiver which can surely inform a user of the schedule information to which his/her desired program is newly added and can avoid a case where the user never fails to watch or record the program. SOLUTION: In regard to a broadcast receiver which receives a broadcast where the program schedule information are transmitted in addition to the program contents, a program deciding means 5 decides whether a newly added program is desired by a user according to the program selection information 2 with which the user selects the programs and also the information 4 on the newly added program. A program information means 6 informs visually or aurally the user of his/her desired program.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a broadcast receiving apparatus such as a television receiver, a satellite broadcast decoder, and a terrestrial digital broadcast decoder, and more particularly to a broadcast receiving program schedule information together with program contents. The present invention relates to a broadcast receiving device having a function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In digital broadcasting and the like, program schedule information (description regarding a program to be broadcast) is sent together with the program contents. In a conventional broadcast receiving apparatus, a program table is created using the program schedule information, presented to a user, and the user is used to select a program. In addition, to help users select programs they want to watch or record from a huge number of programs, programs are classified and displayed according to genre, and the user is allowed to input keywords, and only programs related to the keywords are extracted. Some of them have a function of displaying the information.

[0003]

As described above, a program to be watched or a program to be recorded can be efficiently searched from a huge number of programs by program search, genre classification, keyword search, and the like. However, since the program schedule information is updated daily, the user can periodically display a program table or perform a search in order to know whether the program schedule information has been updated or to know the details of the update. If this is neglected, there is a problem that a program that one wants to watch or a program that one wants to record is missed, or the recording is missed. The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and when a user's favorite program is newly added to the schedule information,
An object of the present invention is to provide a broadcast receiving apparatus that can surely inform a user of the information, and prevents the user from losing view of the program or recording.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, (1) a broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast to which program schedule information is transmitted together with program contents, wherein program narrowing information for a user to narrow down a program is used. A program narrowing-down information inputting means for inputting and selecting, a new program information extracting means for detecting an update of the program schedule information and extracting a newly added new program information, and a program narrowing-down information input means based on the program narrowing-down information and the new program information. Program determining means for determining whether the newly added program is the corresponding program desired by the user. If the program determining means determines that the program is the corresponding program, the program is visually recognized by the user. And (2) providing program schedule information together with program contents. In a broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast transmitted by a user, a program narrowing-down information input means for inputting and selecting program narrowing-down information for a user to narrow down a program, and an update of the program schedule information is detected, and a newly added new New program information extracting means for extracting program information; program determining means for determining whether the newly added program is the corresponding program desired by the user based on the program narrowing information and the new program information, When the program determining means determines that the program is the corresponding program, the program visually or audibly informs the user of the program, and a reservation confirming means for confirming whether or not to reserve the program with the user; If the user desires to make a reservation with the confirmation means, the reservation registration means for registering the program as program reservation information; On the basis of, in the period from the program start time to the end time, to provide a broadcast receiving apparatus characterized by comprising a program reservation execution means for executing a processing for displaying or recording the program, (3)
2. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a program notification stopping unit that stops a function of the program notifying unit. A broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 2 is provided.

[0005]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a program narrowing-down information input means 1 allows a user to input or select in advance program narrowing-down information 2 which is information for narrowing down a user's favorite program. 2 and 3 are diagrams showing examples of screen display of the program narrowing-down information input means 1 in FIG. For example, the program narrowing-down information input means 1 displays a list of program genres on the screen as shown in FIG. 2 and allows the user to select a favorite genre among them by remote control operation or the like. In this case, information indicating the genre selected by the user is stored in the receiving device as program narrowing-down information 2.

[0006] The program narrowing-down information input means 1 is provided in FIG.
There is also a method of allowing a user to input a keyword on a keyword input screen as described above, and narrowing down programs by using the keyword. As a method of inputting a keyword, for example, the character input position is moved with the left and right cursor buttons of the remote control transmitter, the character is changed with the up and down cursor buttons, and when the character is determined, the determination button is pressed to determine the character. In this case, the information of the keyword specified by the user is stored in the receiving device as the program narrowing-down information 2.

[0007] A plurality of keywords can be designated to narrow down to only programs related to all of these keywords, a method using genres and keywords can be used together, or programs can be narrowed down by completely different methods. The program narrowing-down information 2 is information such as genre information and keywords for narrowing down the program specified by the user by the program narrowing-down information input unit 1. How to actually narrow down programs based on this information will be described later.

In FIG. 1, new program information extracting means 3
Detects program schedule information sent by broadcasting and extracts newly added new program information 4. In a general digital broadcast receiver, a signal transmitted by broadcasting is converted into a data stream in a format called a transport stream through a circuit such as a tuner. This transport stream includes video data, audio data, program information data, and the like of a plurality of programs, and displays programs and program guides by extracting necessary data from these and decoding them. .

The program information is, for example, DVB (Digital Video B
In broadcasting conforming to the roadcasting standard, EIT (Event Information) included in the transport stream
Table, specified in ETS 300 468). Therefore, the new program information extracting means 3
For example, if information such as the broadcast date and time of each program that can be obtained from the EIT, the program name, and a description of the program contents is stored, and if program information of a new broadcast date and time that is not the date and time already stored is found, , It can be determined that the new program information 4 has been added. The new program information 4 is information such as the broadcast date and time of the program newly added to the program schedule extracted by the new program information extracting means 3, the program name, the description of the program content, and the like.

The program judging means 5 judges whether the newly added program is the corresponding program desired by the user based on the program narrowing-down information 2 and the new program information 4, and sends the judgment result to the program notifying means. 6 and the reservation confirmation means 7. In the program narrowing-down information input means 1, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, when the user inputs a keyword related to a program to be narrowed down, it is determined whether or not the keyword exists in the new program information 4, for example, in the document of the program description. , It can be determined whether the program is a relevant program.
In this case, not only the keyword itself but also synonyms of the keyword and other words associated with the keyword (for example, football from J-League, etc.) are used as the determination conditions, so that more effective narrowing down is performed. You can also.

When the program determining means 5 determines that the program is a relevant program, the program notifying means 6 visually or audibly notifies the user of the fact. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen display example of the program notification means 6 in FIG. FIG.
, A message “The desired program has been added to the schedule”, the broadcast date and time of the program, the broadcast channel, and the program name are displayed on the screen. Information for performing these displays can be obtained from the new program information 4. By this display, the user can know that a desired program has been newly added to the program schedule and an outline of the program.

When the program determining means 5 determines that the program is a relevant program, the reservation confirming means 7 visually or audibly informs the user of the program, and determines whether or not to reserve the program. To confirm. FIG. 5 is FIG.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a screen display example of the reservation confirmation means 7 in FIG.
In this example, the message “The desired program has been added to the schedule” will be displayed on the screen, the broadcast date and time of the program, the broadcast channel, the program name, and whether the user will reserve the program will be displayed. I have confirmed. This display allows the user to know that the program he / she wants has been newly added to the program schedule and to know the outline of the program, and to determine whether or not to reserve the program, for example, by using the remote control transmitter. After selecting "Yes" or "No" with the left and right cursor buttons, the selection can be made by pressing the decision button.

[0013] The reservation registration means 8 registers the program as program reservation information 9 when the user desires to reserve the program by the reservation confirmation means 7. That is, information necessary for reservation such as a channel on which the program is broadcast, a broadcast date, a start time, and an end time is extracted from the new program information 4 and added to the program reservation information 9 and stored. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of the program reservation information 9. Broadcast date, start time,
It includes information such as end time and channel. For example,
On April 4, 1999, from 10:00 to 11:00, 8 channels were reserved. The program reservation executing means 10 performs processing for displaying the program on a screen or recording the program on a recording device during a period from the program start time to the end time stored in the program reservation information 9.

When it is troublesome to notify the user visually and audibly by the program notifying means 6,
If the function is temporarily unnecessary, a program notification stopping means for stopping the function may be provided. Similarly,
In the case where it is troublesome or temporarily unnecessary to notify the user visually and audibly by the reservation confirmation means 7, it is needless to say that a reservation confirmation stop means for stopping the function may be provided. is there.

[0015]

According to the broadcast receiving apparatus of the present invention, when a user's favorite program is newly added to the schedule information, the user can be notified of the information without fail. This is an extremely excellent effect that no recording or recording is lost.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a screen display example of a program narrowing-down information input unit 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a screen display example of the program narrowing-down information input means 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen display example of a program notification means 6;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen display example of a reservation confirmation means 7;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of program reservation information 9;

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 program narrowing down information input means 2 program narrowing down information 3 new program information extracting means 4 new program information 5 program judging means 6 program notifying means 7 reservation confirming means 8 reservation registering means 9 program reservation information 10 program reservation executing means

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast to which program schedule information is transmitted together with program contents, wherein: a program narrowing information input means for inputting and selecting program narrowing information for narrowing a program by a user; A new program information extracting means for detecting the update and extracting the newly added new program information; and the newly added program is a corresponding program desired by the user based on the program narrowing down information and the new program information. Program judging means for judging whether or not the program is judged to be a relevant program by the program judging means, and a program notifying means for visually or audibly notifying the user of the program. Broadcast receiving device. 2. A broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast to which program schedule information is sent together with program contents, wherein: a program narrowing information input means for inputting and selecting program narrowing information for a user to narrow down a program; A new program information extracting means for detecting the update and extracting the newly added new program information; and the newly added program is a corresponding program desired by the user based on the program narrowing down information and the new program information. A program determining means for determining whether or not the program is determined to be a relevant program, when the program is determined to be applicable, visually or audibly notifying the user, and determining whether or not to reserve the program. Reservation confirmation means for confirming with the user, and when the user desires a reservation with the reservation confirmation means, the program is reserved Program registration execution means for executing processing for displaying or recording the program during a period from a program start time to an end time based on the program reservation information. Characteristic broadcast receiving device. 3. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising program notification stopping means for stopping a function of said program notifying means. 4. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a reservation confirmation stopping means for stopping a function of said reservation confirmation means.