JP2003153117A - Electronic program table receiving function for a plurality of systems, and television receiver having display function therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a television receiver equipped with an electronic program table receiving function for automatically merging the electronic program table information of a different system when electronic program table information composed of a plurality of different systems is received, and a merged electronic program table is presented to a user. SOLUTION: This receiver is provided with receiving means (11 and 12) for receiving the electronic program table information composed of a plurality of systems of ground wave broadcasting, satellite broadcasting and cable broadcasting or the like, recording means (13 and 14) for recording the electronic program table information from the receiving means, control means for merging the electronic program table information recorded by a plurality of recording means, storage means 16 for storing the merged electronic program table information, and display means 17 for reporting and displaying the merged electronic program table information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a television receiver having a plurality of types of electronic program guide receiving functions and a display function used at home and the like, and particularly to electronic program guide information by a plurality of methods. The present invention relates to a television receiver, a television receiving method, and a computer program used therefor capable of performing integrated processing of and displaying to a user as if it were a single system.

Here, the electronic program guide information is information necessary for displaying the program guide, for example, information including program name, broadcast time, channel, program genre, performer, etc. Is distributed by terrestrial broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, and cable broadcasting.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional method of providing television program guide information, there is a program guide display device disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 07-193762.

The program guide display device receives an electronic program guide broadcast by a single system and provides the user with television program guide information.

However, in recent years, due to the diversification of services due to the increase in the number of broadcasters, a plurality of broadcasters have also performed electronic program guide broadcasting by a plurality of methods. Since the electronic program guides of the plurality of methods are transmitted and displayed to the user in a form completed in each method, the information of a certain program is not included in the program guide information of a certain method, but is not included in the other program guide information. There was such a bad effect that it existed.

Therefore, one television receiver has a plurality of types of program guide information, and it is necessary for the user to switch and display each program guide in order to obtain necessary program information. As a result, the operability is deteriorated and the information providing efficiency is reduced.

[0007]

As described above, since the electronic program guides of different systems depending on the broadcasters each have their own system, the program guide corresponding to the information of each system is presented to the user. Was.

Therefore, since a plurality of display systems are mixed even with one program guide display function for a television receiver, when the user tries to obtain all program information, the program guides of all the systems are displayed. I couldn't get it without selecting and displaying.

Therefore, according to the present invention, electronic program guide information of a plurality of different systems is received and stored, and the information is integrated and managed, so that the electronic program guide information of a plurality of systems can be easily handled by the user as one program guide information. The purpose is to be able to provide.

[0010]

In order to solve the above problems, a television receiver according to claim 1 of the present invention receives electronic program guide information of a plurality of systems by terrestrial broadcasting, satellite broadcasting and the like. Receiving means, recording means for recording electronic program guide information from the receiving means, control means for integrally processing electronic program guide information recorded by a plurality of recording means, and integrated electronic program guide information are stored. The storage means and the display means for transmitting and displaying the integrated electronic program guide information are provided.

A television receiving method according to a second aspect of the present invention includes a step of receiving electronic program guide information of a plurality of systems by terrestrial broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, etc., and electronic program guide information from the step. A step of recording, a step of integrating the electronic program guide information recorded in the plurality of steps, a step of storing the integrated electronic program guide information, and a display of the integrated electronic program guide information. And steps.

A recording medium according to claim 3 of the present invention records a computer program for carrying out the television receiving method according to claim 2, and the program according to claim 4 of the present invention is the computer. It is about the program itself.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention.
Will be explained. The present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and can be implemented in various modes without departing from the scope of the invention.

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of a television receiver having an electronic program guide receiving function according to the present embodiment.

The television receiver shown in FIG. 1 comprises a first electronic program guide receiving circuit 11 and a second electronic program guide receiving circuit 1.
2, a first memory circuit 13, a second memory circuit 14, an information control circuit 15, a third memory circuit 16, and a display device 17.

The first electronic program guide receiving circuit 11 receives an electronic program guide broadcast distributed by terrestrial broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, cable broadcasting or the like.

The second electronic program guide receiving circuit 12 receives an electronic program guide broadcast of a system or a broadcaster different from that of the first electronic program guide receiving circuit 11.

The first storage circuit 13 is a flash memory, an EEPROM or the like for recording the program guide information received by the first electronic program guide receiving circuit 11.

The second storage circuit 14 is a flash memory or an EEPROM for storing the program guide information received by the second electronic program guide receiving circuit 12.

The information control circuit 15 includes the first storage circuit 13
And the program guide information stored in the second storage circuit 14 is integrated.

The third storage circuit 16 includes the information control circuit 15
It is a flash memory or an EEPROM for storing the program guide information integrated by the.

The display device 17 is, for example, a monitor device having an on-screen function for presenting a program guide to the user, an electronic display tube, or the like.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a detailed structure of the information control circuit 15 for integrally processing the program guide information.

The information control circuit 15 includes a CPU (15a),
Program ROM (15b), work RAM (15
c), the first external information input unit 15d, the second external information input unit 15e, the storage unit controller 15f, and the display unit controller 15g.

The CPU (15a) is an information control circuit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) that integrally processes the program guide information.

The program ROM (15b) is a CPU
A computer program for controlling each bullet connected to (15a) is stored.

The work RAM (15c) is a CPU (15
a) is used to control the writing and reading of data, and the CPU (15a) temporarily stores data when the program guide information is integrated.

The first external information input means 15d and the second external information input means 15e are means for inputting information from the program guide information storage section.

The storage unit control device 15f is a control unit of the device for recording the integrated program guide information in the storage unit, and the display unit control device 15g is a control unit of the device for displaying the program guide information. is there.

Next, the operation of the television receiver having the electronic program guide function receiving function according to this embodiment will be described.

First, in a receiving environment in which electronic program guide information of a plurality of systems is distributed by a plurality of broadcasters,
The electronic program guide receiving circuit 11 of 1 receives electronic program guide information of a certain system. The first electronic program guide receiving circuit 11 stores the program guide information such as the obtained program title, channel, broadcast time, and program genre in the first storage circuit 13.

On the other hand, the second electronic program guide receiving circuit 12 is
Program guide information such as program titles, channels, broadcast times, and program genres obtained by receiving electronic program guide information of a broadcaster's method different from the method received by the first electronic program guide receiving circuit 11 is displayed. It is stored in the second storage circuit 14.

The information control circuit 15 includes the first storage circuit 13
And each program guide information is acquired from the 2nd memory | storage circuit 14, and each information is integrated and arranged according to a kind.
Then, after the program guide information integrated by the information control circuit 15 is stored in the storage third storage device, the integrated program guide information is provided to the user via the display device 17.

Here, a processing procedure for integrating a plurality of pieces of electronic program guide information will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. In an environment in which electronic program guide broadcasting by a plurality of methods can be received, the first electronic program guide receiving circuit 11 and the second electronic program guide receiving circuit 12 receive electronic program guide broadcasting of different methods (step 1). .

The received electronic program guide data is classified according to the type of the program guide information such as the program title, channel, broadcast time, program genre, etc., and the first storage circuit 1
3, stored in the second storage circuit 14 (step 2).

The information control circuit 15 acquires the first and second program guide information in the work RAM (15f) by using the first external information input means 15d and the second external information input means 15e (step 3). ).

The CPU (15a) reads the means for integrating the program guide information from the program ROM (15b), and uses the first and second program guide information acquired previously as the program title, channel, broadcast time, program Classification is performed based on the type of program guide information such as genre (step 4).

Then, the CPU (15a) sorts and combines the first and second program guide information classified by the program guide information based on the program guide information, not the division of the first and second program guides. (Step 5).

The CPU (15a) stores the combined program guide information described above in the third storage circuit 16 using the storage unit controller 15f (step 6).

The CPU (15a) displays the program guide information stored in the third storage circuit on the display device 17 using the display controller 15g. The presentation method at this time displays the program information stored in the above-mentioned third storage circuit as one program guide information. By using the above display method, it is possible to provide the user with program guide information of different methods as one piece of information.

As described above, according to the television receiver or the image receiving method having the electronic program guide function receiving function of the present invention, even if the electronic program guide information of a plurality of different systems, the program is automatically By combining the table information, the information can be presented to the user as if it were an electronic program guide of one system.

In the present embodiment, the form having two electronic program guide receiving means is presented, but the same effect can be obtained even when the number is two or more.

[0043]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention.
According to the television receiver having the electronic program guide receiving function and the display function thereof, it is possible to receive the electronic program guide information of a plurality of different systems and display the received program guide information after the integrated processing. Therefore, there is an effect that all integrated program guide information can be presented by a single program guide display without switching operation of a plurality of program guides to the user.

Further, claim 2 or 3 or 4 of the present invention
According to the television image receiving method having the electronic program guide receiving function and the display function thereof according to the present invention, the electronic program guide information of a plurality of different systems can be displayed by a single program guide display, which is complicated for the user. There is an effect that all the program guide information of a plurality of methods can be easily obtained without any operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a hardware configuration diagram of a television receiver having an electronic program guide display function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of an information control circuit.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for integrating a plurality of electronic program guide information.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 First Electronic Program Guide Reception Circuit 12 Second electronic program guide receiving circuit 13 First memory circuit 14 Second memory circuit 15 Information control circuit 16 Third memory circuit 17 Display 15a CPU 15b Program ROM 15c Work RAM 15d First external information input means 15e Second external information input means 15f Storage unit control device 15g Display unit control device

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A receiving means for receiving electronic program guide information of a plurality of systems by terrestrial broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, etc., a recording means for recording electronic program guide information from the receiving means, and a plurality of the recording means. And a control unit for integrating the recorded electronic program guide information, a storage unit for storing the integrated electronic program guide information, and a display unit for transmitting and displaying the integrated electronic program guide information. Television receiver characterized by. 2. A step of receiving electronic program guide information of a plurality of systems by terrestrial broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, etc., a step of recording electronic program guide information from said step, and an electronic program recorded in a plurality of said steps. A television receiver including a step of integrating the program guide information, a step of storing the integrated electronic program guide information, and a step of transmitting and displaying the integrated electronic program guide information. Method. 3. A step of receiving electronic program guide information of a plurality of systems by terrestrial broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, etc. on a computer, a step of recording electronic program guide information from said step, and a plurality of steps recorded in said step. A program for executing a step of integrating the electronic program guide information, a step of storing the integrated electronic program guide information, and a step of transmitting and displaying the integrated electronic program guide information Computer readable recording medium. 4. A step of receiving electronic program guide information of a plurality of systems by a terrestrial broadcast, a satellite broadcast, etc. on a computer, a step of recording electronic program guide information from the step, and a step of recording the electronic program guide information from the plurality of steps. And a step of storing the integrated electronic program guide information, a step of storing the integrated electronic program guide information, and a step of transmitting and displaying the integrated electronic program guide information.