JP2005252843A - Mobile terminal device, program recording system, and program recording method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile terminal device, program recording system and program recording method in which a television program under viewing at present can be immediately recorded by remote control. <P>SOLUTION: A mobile terminal device is a mobile terminal device 11 including a function of displaying a television program, which comprises a television broadcast reception section 25 for receiving radio waves of a television program and a mail control section 212 for acquiring a channel number of the television program from the radio waves received by the television broadcast reception section 25 and creating video recording request mail that requests television program recording, based on the acquired channel number. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a portable terminal device, a program recording system, and a program recording method.

  In recent years, a method for making a recording reservation for a television program using a server that distributes a television program guide installed on the Internet has been developed. The user acquires a television program guide from the program recording server, and makes a recording reservation for the television program by remote operation using an e-mail, the web, or the like based on the television program guide. Patent Document 1 discloses a system for making a recording reservation for a television program using such a portable terminal.

In this system, a user receives a program guide of a television program distributed from a server device by a mobile phone, and makes a recording reservation for the television program from the mobile phone to the server device with reference to the program guide.
The server device records the television program reserved for recording by the recording reservation. When a user requests viewing of a television program recorded on the server device, the server device transmits the recorded television program to the mobile phone. As a result, the user can view the recorded television program.

Patent Document 2 discloses a system for recording a television program that has received a recording request from a user. In the system disclosed in Patent Document 1, a user views a television program using a mobile terminal device. At this time, when the user wants to record a program, program recording information of the program to be recorded is transmitted from the portable terminal device to the recording center. The recording center stores the program requested to be recorded from the portable terminal device in accordance with the program recording information.
When a user makes a recording request for a program that he / she requested to record from the recording device at home to the recording center, the video data of the program is transmitted from the recording center. Accordingly, the user can receive the video data of the program by the recording device, and can record and view the program requested to be recorded.

  As described above, in order to record a television program, it is necessary to obtain program information from a recording reservation server for the television program in advance. Therefore, it is impossible to immediately remotely record a television program that is currently being viewed using the mobile terminal device. In addition, when it is necessary to stop watching TV while watching TV in a remote place, or when there is a scene to be recorded by any means, it has not been possible to immediately perform remote recording.

For example, in the system disclosed in Patent Document 1, the user receives distribution of a program guide from the server device, and makes a recording reservation for the server device using the program guide. For this reason, the user cannot immediately make a recording reservation for the TV program being viewed, and misses the opportunity to record a scene to be recorded.
Further, for example, in the system disclosed in Patent Document 2, a user can temporarily record a program to be recorded in a recording center, and then request to transmit the stored program again from a recording device at home to view the recorded program. it can. For this reason, the user cannot easily record the program to be recorded on the recording device.

Furthermore, some portable terminal devices with a television display function can record television programs themselves, but the capacity is not enough to satisfy the storage capacity of the portable terminal device. In addition, the viewer must always care about the remaining capacity of the mobile terminal device with a television display function.
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  The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and provides a portable terminal device, a program recording system, and a program recording method capable of immediately recording a currently viewed television program by remote control. The purpose is to provide.

A portable terminal device according to the present invention is a portable terminal device having a function of displaying a television program, wherein the television program is received from a radio wave receiving means for receiving radio waves of the television program, and the radio waves received by the radio wave means. Program information obtaining means for obtaining the program information, and mail control means for creating a recording request mail for requesting recording of the television program based on the program information obtained by the program information obtaining means It is. Preferably, the mail control means can create the recording request mail based on a predetermined mail format.
With such a configuration, it is possible to send a recording request mail while watching a TV in a mobile phone with a TV display function or a PHS (Personal Handyphone System), and this mail function can be used immediately to a remote recording device. Recording can be started.

  The portable terminal device has a program schedule in which the program information is associated with an end time of the television program, and the program information acquisition unit acquires the program information, and from the program schedule, the television program The mail control means creates the recording request mail based on the program information and the end time of the television program.

On the other hand, a mobile terminal device according to the present invention is a mobile terminal device having a function of displaying a TV program, and includes a radio wave receiving unit that receives radio waves of the TV program, and a radio wave received by the radio wave receiving unit. Program information acquisition means for acquiring program information of a TV program, and a tone signal for requesting recording of the TV program based on the program information acquired by the program information acquisition means, and outputting the tone signal Tone signal control means. Preferably, the tone signal is a push tone.
In such a configuration, in a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone with a TV display function or a PHS, it is possible to immediately start recording in a remote TV recording device using a call function (push tone transmission) while watching TV. .

  Further, the program information can be a channel number of the television program.

  The program recording system according to the present invention has such a portable terminal device and a program recording device for recording the television program, and the portable terminal device and the program recording device are connected via a communication network. In the recording system, the program recording device receives the recording request mail and records the television program according to the received recording request mail.

  On the other hand, the program recording system according to the present invention has such a portable terminal device and a program recording device for recording the television program, and the portable terminal device and the program recording device are connected via a telephone line network. In this program recording system, the program recording apparatus inputs the tone signal and records the television program according to the input tone signal.

  The program recording method according to the present invention is a method for recording a television program, the step of receiving radio waves of the television program, the step of acquiring program information of the television program from the received radio waves, and the acquisition And a step of generating a recording request mail for requesting recording of the television program based on the program information and a step of outputting the generated recording request mail.

  On the other hand, a program recording method according to the present invention is a method for recording a television program, the step of receiving radio waves of the television program, the step of acquiring program information of the television program from the received radio waves, The method includes a step of creating a tone signal for requesting recording of the television program based on the acquired program information, and a step of outputting the created tone signal.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a mobile terminal device, a program recording system, and a program recording method capable of immediately recording a television program currently being viewed by remote control.

The program recording system according to the present invention is a portable terminal device with a television display function, where the user is required to stop viewing for some reason while viewing the television, or when there is a scene that the user wants to record. This is a system for recording a television program by remotely operating a television recording device installed in the same location.
In addition, the present invention is a portable telephone, PHS, PDA (Personal Data Assistance, Personal Digital Assistants), etc. that can send / receive e-mails or send push tones and display television. It can be applied to a terminal device.
The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Embodiment 1 of the Invention
First, an outline of a television program recording system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a program recording system according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, the program recording system is generally indicated by reference numeral 1.
In FIG. 1, 11 is a mobile phone, 12 is a base station, 13 is an Internet network, 14 is a program recording device, and 15 is a data transmission line.

  As shown in FIG. 1, in the program recording system 1, a user who is watching a television program using the mobile phone 11 needs to stop viewing the television program. Then, the mobile phone 11 automatically creates an electronic mail (hereinafter simply referred to as mail) in a specific format. This mail is a mail requesting the program recording device 14 to record a television program that the user is watching (hereinafter, this is referred to as a recording request mail).

  The cellular phone 11 transmits a recording request mail of the created television program to the program recording device 14. The mail transmitted from the mobile phone 11 is received by the base station 12 that relays the mail. Receiving this mail, the base station 12 transmits this recording request mail to the program recording device 14 via the Internet network 13 and the data transmission line 15 such as a telephone line. As a result, the user can remotely control the program recording device 14 from the mobile phone 11 via the base station 12 and record the TV program being viewed on the program recording device 14.

Next, the internal configuration of the mobile phone 11 according to the present invention will be described. The mobile phone 11 according to the present invention is a device having a function of creating a mail in a specific mail format in addition to the television display function.
An example of the internal configuration of the mobile phone 11 is shown in the block diagram of FIG. The cellular phone 11 includes a control unit 21, a storage unit 22, a display unit 23, a radio unit 24, a television broadcast receiving unit 25, a transmitter / receiver unit 26, an operation unit 27, and a speaker unit 28.

The control unit 21 includes a central processing unit such as a CPU, and executes various processes using programs and data necessary for the operation of the mobile phone 11.
The control unit 21 includes a television control unit 211 and a mail control unit 212. The television control unit 108 performs display control on the display unit 23 of radio waves related to the television program received by the television broadcast reception unit 105 and performs output control on the speaker unit 28. The mail control unit 212 creates and transmits a TV program recording request mail based on the received TV program channel information.

  The storage unit 22 includes a storage medium such as a RAM and a ROM, and stores data of various processes performed by the control unit 21 and a computer program. Further, in the storage unit 22, a mail format of a recording request mail created by the mail control unit 212 is set. In addition, a plurality of predetermined mail formats may be set in the storage unit 22 so that the mail control unit 212 supports other types of program recording devices 14.

The display unit 23 includes a liquid crystal display device that displays a television image, a mail creation screen, and the like.
The wireless unit 24 is a wireless module or the like for wireless communication with the base station 12, and implements a communication protocol necessary for wireless communication.
The TV broadcast receiving unit 25 is a receiving module that receives radio waves related to a TV program, an antenna that receives the radio wave, and a tuner that extracts a TV program signal designated by the control unit 21 from a plurality of received TV programs. Etc.

The transmission / reception unit 26 is a microphone, a speaker, an A / D conversion circuit, a D / A conversion circuit, or the like that inputs and outputs audio.
The operation unit 27 includes operation buttons for performing key input and the like, and operation input of the mobile phone 11 is performed.
The speaker unit 28 is composed of a speaker or the like, and outputs the sound of the TV program being viewed.

Next, the internal configuration of the program recording apparatus 14 according to the present invention will be described. The program recording apparatus 14 according to the present invention is an apparatus having a mail receiving function and capable of recording a program in a specific mail format.
An example of the internal configuration of the program recording device 14 according to the present invention is shown in the block diagram of FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the program recording device 14 includes a control unit 31, a storage unit 32, a communication control unit 33, and a television broadcast reception unit 34.

The control unit 31 is configured by a central processing unit such as a CPU. The control unit 31 executes various processes using a computer program and processing data for making a reservation for recording a television program and playing the television program.
The control unit 31 includes a mail analysis unit 311, a recording processing unit 312, a reproduction processing unit 313, and a television control unit 314. The mail analysis unit 311 analyzes the recording request mail transmitted from the mobile phone 11 via the base station 12 based on the mail format. The recording processing unit 312 recognizes the recording start time and the recording end time of the television program by a timer (not shown), records the television program in a predetermined data compression format, and stores it in the storage unit 32.

  The reproduction processing unit 313 reads the recorded television program from the storage unit 32, converts the recorded television program into an instructed data compression format, and reproduces it. The television control unit 314 performs output control on the radio wave recording processing unit 312 related to the television program received by the television broadcast receiving unit 34.

  The storage unit 32 is configured by a recording medium such as a RAM and a ROM, and stores application programs such as a recording reservation program for television programs and various processing data. Further, for example, a program recording table for program recording performed by the recording processing unit 312 can be stored.

The communication control unit 33 is configured by a communication modem device, for example, and implements a communication protocol for communicating with the base station 12.
The TV broadcast receiving unit 34 is a receiving module that receives radio waves related to a TV program, an antenna that receives the radio wave, and a tuner that extracts a TV program signal designated by the control unit 31 from a plurality of received TV programs. Etc.

The operation unit 35 includes an operation button for performing key input, a remote controller, a wireless module that performs wireless communication with the remote controller, and the like, and performs operation input of the recording device 14.
The input / output unit 36 includes an external input terminal from a display device (not shown), an output terminal for external output, and the like.

  Next, the processing operation of the program recording system 1 according to the present invention will be described. FIG. 4 shows an example of processing operations performed by the program recording system 1. Here, it demonstrates, referring FIG. 5 suitably. In FIG. 4, the base station 12 transfers the recording request mail received from the mobile phone 11 to the program recording device 14, but the processing operation is omitted.

  The control unit 21 sets a mail format that can be analyzed by the program recording apparatus 14 in the storage unit 22 by the mail control unit 212. The user is viewing a television program with the mobile phone 11 having a television display function (S101). Specifically, when the user operates the operation unit 27, the television control unit 211 controls output of radio waves received by the television broadcast receiving unit 25. As a result, the television program is displayed on the display unit 23, and sound is output from the speaker unit 28.

  When the user has to stop watching the TV for some reason (S102), the mobile phone 11 acquires the channel information currently being viewed from the TV control unit 211 (S103). Based on the information, the mail control unit 212 creates a recording request mail in a format that can be analyzed by the program recording device 14 (S104).

  For example, when the user forcibly terminates the viewing of the television being watched by the user, the mail control unit 212 acquires the channel information immediately before the termination and automatically creates a recording request mail. Further, for example, “Create recording request mail” may be provided in the menu bar for selecting the operation of the mobile phone 11 so that the user can select when the user stops watching the television.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of a recording request mail created by the mobile phone 11. In the recording request mail shown in FIG. 5, “destination”, “subject”, and “message” are determined by the mail format. As shown in FIG. 5, the mail control unit 212 is at the user's home, for example. A destination “tv_rec@abcd.ne.jp” indicating the program recording device 14 and a subject “TV recording” indicating a recording request are read from the storage unit 22 as a mail format. At the same time, the mail control unit 212 inputs the channel number “channel = 12” currently being viewed in the message column from the acquired channel information.

  The mail control unit 212 transmits the created mail from the wireless unit 24 to the base station 12 (S105). When receiving the recording request mail transmitted from the mobile phone 11, the base station 12 transfers the recording request mail to the program recording device 14 at the user's home (remote location) via the Internet network 13 and the data transmission line 15.

  The program recording apparatus 14 receives mail from the base station 12 by the communication control unit 33 (S201). The control unit 31 uses the mail analysis unit 311 to analyze the recording request mail defined in a preset mail format (S202). Specifically, in the case of the recording request mail shown in FIG. 5, the mail analysis unit 311 recognizes the mail subject “TV recording” and the channel number (channel = 12) in the message column.

  The recording processing unit 312 extracts the analysis result by the mail analysis unit 311 and starts program recording based on the extracted content, and the program recording apparatus 14 starts program recording (S203). In response to the start of recording, the TV control unit 314 controls the output of radio waves related to the TV program received by the TV broadcast receiving unit 34, and the recording processing unit 312 stores data indicating the output TV program in the storage unit 32. Store (S204).

  Also, the recording time can be set in the storage unit 32 as a mail format that can be analyzed by the program recording device 14. Specifically, the recording processing unit 312 ends the recording when a recording time set in the storage unit 32 has elapsed by a timer (not shown). Thereby, the program recording device 14 can be recorded only for a specific time.

  As described above, in the program recording system 1 according to the present invention, the mail control unit 212 acquires channel information of the TV program being viewed and creates a recording request mail based on the channel information. Therefore, since the TV display function and the mail creation / transmission function are linked, when the user interrupts the viewing for some reason while watching the TV, the program recording device 14 in the remote location can immediately start recording. it can. Even when there is a scene to be recorded even if it is not interrupted, the user can start recording by controlling the program recording device 14 from a remote place.

  Further, a mail format that can be analyzed by the program recording device 14 is registered in the storage unit 22 of the mobile phone 11 in advance. This makes it possible to automatically acquire TV program information when creating a recording request mail. Accordingly, the recording request mail can be transmitted to the program recording device 14 to start recording without the user inputting information on the television program such as channel information and recording start time.

  Furthermore, the user can easily record a television program by easily performing a remote operation using the mobile phone 11. Therefore, it is not necessary to mount a recording function on the mobile phone 11, and the system of the mobile phone 11 can be simplified. Further, since it is not necessary to mount a recording storage area in the mobile phone 11, it is possible to avoid an increase in the cost of the mobile phone 11.

  Further, since the storage area of the mobile phone 11 is smaller than that of the home program recording device 14, the user has to record a TV program that is a moving image while caring for the storage capacity of the mobile phone 11. On the other hand, in the program recording system 1 according to the present invention, a TV program is recorded on the program recording device 14 by remote operation from the mobile phone 11. This makes it possible to record a television program without worrying about the remaining storage capacity, as in the case where a recording function is implemented in the mobile phone 11.

Embodiment 2 of the Invention
In the second embodiment of the present invention, a case where the program recording apparatus can be controlled by a push tone via a telephone line will be described.
FIG. 6 shows a configuration example of the program recording system in the present embodiment. In FIG. 6, 40 is a program recording system, 41 is a mobile phone, 42 is a base station, 43 is a telephone network, 44 is a program recording device, and 45 is a data transmission line. As shown in FIG. 6, in this program recording system 40, the base station 42 and the program recording device 44 are connected by a telephone line network 43.

  The block diagram of FIG. 7 shows an example of the internal configuration of the mobile phone 41 in the present embodiment. The mobile phone 41 in the present embodiment transmits a recording request mail using a push tone. In FIG. 7, reference numeral 51 denotes a control unit. In FIG. 7, the same reference numerals are assigned to the same processing units as those in the mobile phone 11, and the description thereof is omitted here.

  As illustrated in FIG. 7, the control unit 51 includes a push tone control unit 512 instead of the mail control unit 212. The push tone control unit 512 controls the output of a recording request signal for a television program using a push tone based on the received channel information of the television program. The push tone control unit 512 sets a format that can be analyzed by the program recording device 44 in the storage unit 22.

  An example of the internal configuration of the program recording apparatus 44 in this embodiment is shown in the block diagram of FIG. The program recording device 44 in the present embodiment is a device that can be controlled by a push tone by the telephone line network 43, and can control program recording in a specific mail format.

  In FIG. 8, reference numeral 61 denotes a control unit. Further, in FIG. 8, the same processing units as those in the program recording device 14 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted here. As illustrated in FIG. 8, the control unit 61 includes a push tone detection unit 611 instead of the mail analysis unit 311. The push tone detector 611 detects a tone signal received from the mobile phone 41 via the base station 42.

  In such a configuration, when the user wants to record on the remote program recording device 44 while watching the television with the mobile phone 41, the user transmits a recording request signal from the mobile phone 41 by a push tone. As a result, the program recording device 44 can start recording via the telephone line network 43.

Other embodiments.
When the mobile phone has a schedule function related to a TV program, the ON / OFF of the program recording apparatus can be controlled by the schedule of the TV program. FIG. 9 shows an example of the display screen at this time.
Now, a user is watching a television program displayed on a television using a mobile phone. When the user wants to record the TV program being watched by the program recording device at home, the mobile phone creates a recording request mail to be transmitted to the program recording device as described above. At the time of creation, the mobile phone acquires the end time of the TV program being viewed from the TV program schedule.

  The mobile phone adds the end time of the acquired television program to the recording request mail as in the message field “End time = 22: 00” shown in FIG. That is, the mobile phone can add the OFF time of the program recording device by the schedule function. As a result, the user can end the recording of the program recording apparatus at a specific time from a remote location using the mobile phone.

It is a schematic diagram which shows one structural example of the program recording system which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows an example of the internal structure of the mobile telephone which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows an example of an internal structure of the program recording apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement process by the program recording system which concerns on this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the display screen in the mobile telephone which concerns on this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows the other structural example of the program recording system which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows another example of the internal structure of the mobile telephone which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows another example of the internal structure of the program recording apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows another example of the display screen in the mobile telephone which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 program recording system, 11 mobile phone, 12 base station, 13 internet network,
14 program recording device, 15 data transmission line 21 control unit, 211 TV control unit, 212 mail control unit, 22 storage unit,
23 display unit, 24 radio unit, 25 TV broadcast receiving unit, 26 transmitter / receiver unit,
27 operation unit, 28 speaker unit 31 control unit, 311 mail analysis unit, 312 recording processing unit, 313 reproduction processing unit,
314 TV control unit, 32 storage unit, 33 communication control unit, 34 TV broadcast reception unit,
35 operation unit, 36 input / output unit 40 program recording system, 41 mobile phone, 42 base station, 43 telephone line network,
44 program recorder, 45 data transmission line,
51 control unit, 511 push tone control unit, 61 control unit,
611 Push tone detector

Claims (10)

A mobile terminal device having a function of displaying a TV program,
Radio wave receiving means for receiving radio waves of the television program;
Program information acquisition means for acquiring program information of the television program from the radio waves received by the radio means;
A portable terminal device comprising: mail control means for creating a recording request mail for requesting recording of the television program based on the program information acquired by the program information acquisition means.   2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the mail control unit creates the recording request mail based on a predetermined mail format. The portable terminal device has a program schedule that associates the program information with the end time of the television program,
The program information acquisition means acquires the program information, acquires an end time of the television program from the program schedule,
3. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the mail control unit creates the recording request mail based on the program information and an end time of the television program. A mobile terminal device having a function of displaying a TV program,
Radio wave receiving means for receiving radio waves of the television program;
Program information acquisition means for acquiring program information of the television program from radio waves received by the radio wave reception means;
A portable terminal device comprising tone signal control means for creating a tone signal for requesting recording of the television program based on the program information acquired by the program information acquisition means and outputting the tone signal.   4. The portable terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the tone signal is a push tone.   6. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the program information is a channel number of the television program. 7. A portable terminal device according to claim 1, and a program recording device for recording the television program, wherein the portable terminal device and the program recording device are connected via a communication network. A recorded program recording system,
The program recording apparatus is a program recording system that receives the recording request mail and records the television program in accordance with the received recording request mail. 7. A portable terminal device according to claim 4, and a program recording device for recording the television program, wherein the portable terminal device and the program recording device are connected via a telephone network. A program recording system,
The program recording apparatus is a program recording system for inputting the tone signal and recording the television program according to the input tone signal. A method of recording a television program,
Receiving radio waves of the television program;
Obtaining program information of the television program from the received radio wave;
Creating a recording request email for requesting recording of the television program based on the acquired program information;
And a step of outputting the created recording request mail. A method of recording a television program,
Receiving radio waves of the television program;
Obtaining program information of the television program from the received radio waves;
Creating a tone signal for requesting recording of the television program based on the acquired program information;
A program recording method comprising: outputting the created tone signal.

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