JP2005167951A - Tv remote control device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of taking a peep at the other program only during a time interval of commercial messages or finishing the other job inside the house with no fear of missing out on viewing a program a viewer wants to view in real time. <P>SOLUTION: The remote control device is equipped with both a means for notifying an airtime end of the commercial messages and a means for changing TV receiver channels through a remote control. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

Industrial application fields

The present invention relates to a television remote control device.

  Conventionally, a television remote control device includes only means for selecting volume adjustment, timer setting, main / sub sound switching, sound mute, and the like in addition to television channel selection. On the other hand, video recorders having a CM cut function are commercially available as means for omitting viewing of commercial message portions. However, if you are watching a TV program in real time and want to look at other programs only during the commercial message or do other errands at home, you will be notified when the commercial message ends. Otherwise, the viewer may miss a part of the program he / she wants to watch. For this reason, viewers may be forced to endure actions such as peeking at other programs or doing errands at home. As a clue to know the end of the commercial message, there is a method using a plurality of television receivers, but it is difficult to install and carry.

Problems to be solved by the invention

  In this way, in the combination of a TV receiver and a conventional TV remote control device, you don't have to worry about missing a part of the program you want to watch in real time, you can look into other programs only during commercial messages, It was difficult to do other errands.

  The present invention makes it possible for viewers to watch other programs only during a commercial message or to perform other tasks in the house without worrying about missing a part of the program that the viewer wants to watch in real time. It is an object of the present invention to provide a device that performs the above-described process.

Means for solving the problem

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is characterized in that it has a structure having both means for notifying the end of the commercial message broadcast time and means for remotely controlling channel switching of the television receiver.

  First, the outline of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 shows a button of a known TV remote control device such as a power-on button 1, a channel operation button 2, a volume control button 3, a timer setting button 4, a main audio / sub audio switching button 5, an audio mute button 6, and a commercial. It comprises a message end notification function selection switch 7. When the commercial message end notification function is turned on in the TV remote control device 8 having both of these functions, the channel currently displayed on the TV receiver is stored. When the commercial message is broadcast on the channel and the program is resumed, an alarm built in the remote control device is activated. As an alarm, it is possible to take measures such as sound, light, or automatic channel switching.

  A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, a television tuner 9 is built in a television remote control device 8 that also has a commercial message end notification function selection switch 7. As a method of detecting the end of the commercial message, the fact that the audio signal detected by the TV tuner is switched from stereo to monaural is used. The channel operation button 2 controls the infrared signal transmission device 10, and the infrared signal transmission device 10 transmits channel selection information to the television receiver 11 having a video display screen. On the other hand, when the commercial message end notification function selection switch 7 is OFF, the channel selection button 2 is switched so that the channel selection state of the built-in TV tuner 9 is linked to the TV receiver body 11, and the switch 7 is turned on. When on, the switch 7 has a function of switching circuits so that the channel selection state of the built-in TV tuner 9 is not affected by the operation of the channel operation button 2. When the switch 7 is in the ON state, the TV tuner 9 continues to output an audio signal, and a circuit 13 that activates an alarm 12 when the audio signal is switched from stereo to monaural is incorporated in the TV remote control device 8. . As a result, in the case of a monaural broadcast program, if the switch 7 is turned on for the program channel that the viewer was watching, an alarm can be transmitted when the commercial message is resumed. For the convenience of the viewer, the TV remote control device 8 can have both the display of the channel tuned by the TV tuner 9 and the display indicating whether the program is monaural broadcast or stereo broadcast. .

  Hereinafter, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, a microcomputer 14 for image processing is incorporated in addition to the second embodiment. In the first embodiment, the end of a commercial message cannot be known in the case of stereo broadcasting. Therefore, the image signal from the TV tuner 9 is input to the microcomputer 14 for image processing, the end of the commercial message is detected by image processing, and an alarm is activated. As such an image processing method, a known technique used in a commercially available video recorder having a CM cut function can be used. In addition, in a program in which the same content is frequently repeated before and after a commercial message, if the repetition is detected by image processing, it is also possible to have an additional function such that an alarm is activated after the repetition portion ends. Become.

  Hereinafter, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, instead of the TV tuner used in the first embodiment and the second embodiment, a commercial message is included in the TV remote control device 8 also having the commercial message end notification function selection switch 7. A sensor 15 that receives a signal that informs the end, and a circuit 16 that activates an alarm by comparing the information received by the sensor with the channel selection information before pressing the commercial message end notification function selection switch 7 are incorporated. The device 17 that transmits a signal notifying the end of the commercial message is installed apart from the TV remote control device 8. As a method of obtaining information at the end of the commercial message by the device 17, a remote information distribution center determines the end of the commercial message by analyzing a TV image by a person or a computer, and this is performed by using a line such as the Internet. 17, or a method in which the apparatus 17 is connected to the TV tuner or has a built-in TV tuner, and the processor built in the apparatus 17 judges the image by analyzing the image. This is possible. A signal exchanged between the device 17 and the sensor 15 can employ a communication method using radio waves that can be communicated at almost any place in a general house, instead of infrared communication.

The invention's effect

Since this invention consists of an above-described structure, there can exist an effect which is demonstrated below.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the viewer does not have to worry about missing a part of the program that he / she wants to watch in real time, looks at another program only during the commercial message, or conducts other tasks in the house. It became possible to do.

  It is a schematic diagram which shows the outline of this invention.   It is a schematic diagram which shows 1st embodiment of this invention.   It is a schematic diagram which shows 2nd embodiment of this invention.   It is a schematic diagram which shows 3rd embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Power-on button 2 Channel operation button 3 Volume control button 4 Timer setting button 5 Main audio / sub audio switch button 6 Audio mute button 7 Commercial message end notification function selection switch 8 TV remote control device 9 TV tuner 10 Equipped with video display screen TV receiver 11 Infrared signal transmitter 12 Alarm 13 Circuit 14 for detecting switching of audio signal to activate alarm 14 Microcomputer 15 Sensor 16 for receiving a signal notifying completion of commercial message Alarm by comparing sensor information with channel selection information Circuit 17 for starting up a device for transmitting a signal notifying the end of a commercial message

Claims (1)

  A television remote control device comprising: a configuration having both means for informing the end of a commercial message broadcast time and means for remotely controlling channel switching of the television receiver.

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