JP2003348482A - Information reception display apparatus and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information reception display apparatus and an information reception display method capable of making popup display of information coincident with information required by a user among all received program information items. <P>SOLUTION: The information reception display apparatus includes: a program information acquisition means for acquiring program information from a received digital broadcast signal; a selected information storage means for storing information selected by the user; a comparison means for comparing the program information from the program information acquisition means with the selected information from the selected information storage means and providing an output of information when the information is coincident with the selected information among the program information items; and a display means for displaying the information from the comparison means by means of a popup menu. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information receiving and displaying apparatus and method, and more particularly, to an information receiving and displaying apparatus capable of pop-up display of information of a received program information that matches information selected by a user. And methods.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, digitalization has advanced in the broadcasting field, and digital broadcasting capable of broadcasting a large number of programs using multiple channels has been started in various countries around the world.

In digital broadcasting, an electronic program guide (Electronic Program Guide) is used in order to allow a user to easily select a desired program from a large number of programs.
e) is prepared. The electronic program guide is superimposed on a digital broadcast signal and transmitted (SI (Service I)).
ninformation), and includes program data for the next week on all channels.
The user can use the electronic program guide as an auxiliary means necessary for selecting a program, such as selecting a desired program or making a program reservation.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a conventional information receiving and displaying apparatus. The information receiving and displaying device includes a tuning unit 30.
1, a program information sampling unit 302, and a video signal processing unit 303
, A video synthesis unit 304, a video display unit 305, a system controller 306, and a program information storage unit 307.

[0005] The tuning unit 301 is provided with a system controller 3
In response to a tuning command from 06, a desired channel is selected and a digital broadcast signal is received. Then, the received digital broadcast signal is subjected to desired processing such as high-frequency processing and demodulation processing, and is output to the program information extracting unit 302 as a transport stream.

The program information extracting section 302 classifies the transport stream from the channel selecting section 301 into a digital video signal, a digital audio signal, and program information, outputs the digital video signal to the video signal processing section 303, and outputs a digital audio signal. Is output to an audio signal processing unit (not shown). Then, it outputs the program information to the system controller 306.

[0007] The video signal processing unit 303 performs predetermined processing such as analog conversion on the digital video signal from the program information extracting unit 302 and outputs the digital video signal to the video synthesizing unit 304 as video data.

[0008] The video synthesizing section 304 is composed of the video signal processing section 30.
3 and the program information data from the system controller 306, and outputs the resultant to the video display unit 305 as a video signal.

The video display unit 305 is a display device such as a monitor, and outputs a video signal from the video synthesis unit 304 to the screen.

The system controller 306 includes a tuning unit 3
A channel selection command is issued to 01. Also, the program information sampling unit 30
2 is stored in the program information storage unit 307.
Further, when there is a program information display request from a user via an input unit (not shown), predetermined processing is performed on the program information from the program information storage unit 307, and the program information is output to the video compositing unit 304 as program information data. .

[0011] The program information storage unit 307 stores program information from the system controller 306.

[0012]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional information receiving and displaying apparatus, not only the program information required by the user but also all received program information is displayed, so that the user has a huge amount of program information. It is difficult to select and display only desired information from among them.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and stores information required by a user as selection information in advance, and when all received program information includes information that matches the selection information. Another object of the present invention is to provide an information reception display device and an information reception display method capable of extracting the information from all program information and displaying the information in a pop-up manner.

[0014]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information receiving and displaying apparatus for acquiring program information from a received digital broadcast signal, and selecting information for accumulating selection information from a user. A storage unit that compares the program information from the program information acquisition unit with the selection information from the selection information storage unit, and outputs, when there is information that matches the selection information in the program information, Display means for displaying information from the comparison means on a pop-up screen.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information receiving and displaying method, wherein a first step of storing selection information from a user, a second step of obtaining program information from a received digital broadcast signal, Comparing the selection information accumulated in the first step with the program information acquired in the second step,
A third step of determining whether there is information matching the selection information in the program information; and a third step of displaying the information as a pop-up screen when it is determined in the third step that there is information matching the selection information. It is characterized by comprising four steps.

[0016]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an information receiving and displaying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The information receiving and displaying device includes a channel selecting section 101, a program information extracting section 102, a video signal processing section 103, a video synthesizing section 104, a video display section 105, a system controller 106, and a program information storage section 107. , Selection information storage unit 108, program information comparison unit 109, and input unit 110
Consists of

The tuning unit 101 includes a system controller 1
In response to a tuning command from 06, a desired channel is selected and a digital broadcast signal is received. Then, the received digital broadcast signal is subjected to desired processing such as high-frequency processing and demodulation processing, and is output to the program information sampling unit 102 as a transport stream.

The program information extracting section 102 classifies the transport stream from the channel selecting section 101 into a digital video signal, a digital audio signal and program information, outputs the digital video signal to the video signal processing section 103, and outputs a digital audio signal. Is output to an audio signal processing unit (not shown). Then, the program information is output to the system controller 106.

The video signal processing unit 103 performs predetermined processing such as analog conversion on the digital video signal from the program information sampling unit 102 and outputs the digital video signal to the video synthesizing unit 104 as video data.

The video synthesizing unit 104 includes the video signal processing unit 10
Then, the selection information data from the program information comparison unit 109 is combined as a pop-up screen with the video data from No. 3 and output to the video display unit 105 as a video signal.

The video display unit 105 is a display device such as a monitor, and outputs a video signal from the video synthesis unit 104 to a screen.

The system controller 106 selects the tuning unit 1
A channel selection command is issued to 01. Also, the program information comparison unit 1
09 is stored therein, and the program information from the program information sampling unit 102 is stored in the program information storage unit 107.
A comparison request is sent to the program information comparison unit 109. Further, the selection information from the input unit 110 is stored in the selection information storage unit 108.

The program information storage unit 107 stores program information from the system controller 106.

The selection information storage unit 108 is a storage medium such as a non-volatile memory and an SD card, and stores selection information from the system controller 106.

The program information comparison unit 109 obtains all program information from the program information storage unit 107 and obtains selection information from the selection information storage unit 108 when there is a comparison request from the system controller 106. Then, it is searched whether or not there is information matching the selection information in all the program information, and if so, the matching information is extracted and output to the video synthesizing unit 104 as selection information data.

The input section 110 outputs selection information input by the user through input means such as a remote controller to the system controller 106.

Next, the flow of processing of the information receiving and displaying apparatus will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

The system controller 106 selects the tuning unit 1
01 and the program information via the program information sampling unit 102 (S201), the program information is stored in the program information storage unit 107 (S202), and a comparison request is made to the program information comparison unit 109 (S201). S203).

Upon receiving the comparison request, the program information comparing unit 10
9 performs acquisition of all program information from the program information storage unit 107 and acquisition of selection information from the selection information storage unit 108;
It is determined whether there is information matching the selection information in the program information (S204).

If there is information matching the selection information ("YES" in S204), the information is transferred to the video synthesizing unit 10
4 and displayed as a pop-up screen (S2
05). Here, the displayed pop-up screen may be deleted by a user's operation of the remote controller, or may be automatically deleted after a predetermined time has elapsed.

In the present embodiment, information matching the selected information is searched from all the program information. However, search may be performed only from the updated program information.

In this embodiment, only information that matches the selected information is searched. However, information that includes a part of the selected information or is inferred from the selected information is used as the program information comparing unit 1.
09 and may be obtained as selection information data.

For the contents to be displayed in a pop-up, the matching program information may be displayed as it is, or the contents to be displayed in a pop-up in the program information comparing section 109 may be regenerated.

[0035]

As described above, according to the information receiving and displaying apparatus and method of the present invention, information required by the user is stored in advance, and information matching the information is extracted from the received program information. By pop-up display, the program information required by the user can be obtained immediately, and it is possible to flexibly cope with an increase in received program information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an information receiving and displaying device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of the information receiving and displaying apparatus according to the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional information receiving and displaying device.

[Explanation of symbols]

101, 301 Tuning section 102, 302 Program information sampling unit 103, 303 Video signal processing unit 104, 304 Video synthesis unit 105, 305 Video display unit 106, 306 System controller 107, 307 program information storage unit 108 Selection information storage unit 109 Program information comparison unit 110 Input unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. Program information acquisition means for acquiring program information from a received digital broadcast signal, selection information accumulation means for accumulating selection information from a user, program information and selection information accumulation means from the program information acquisition means And comparing means for comparing the selected information with the selected information, and when there is information matching the selected information in the program information, comparing means for outputting the information, and display means for displaying information from the comparing means on a pop-up screen. An information receiving and displaying device comprising: 2. A first step of storing selection information from a user, a second step of obtaining program information from a received digital broadcast signal, and a step of storing the selection information stored in the first step and a second step of A third step of comparing the program information acquired in the step and determining whether there is information matching the selection information in the program information, and determining that there is information matching in the third step And a fourth step of displaying the information as a pop-up screen when the information is received.