JP2006339854A - Recording and reproducing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording and reproducing apparatus that obtains information about a broadcasting schedule of selected programs including a new program so as to reserve the programs. <P>SOLUTION: The recording and reproducing apparatus is characterized by allowing a user to reserve a prescribed program by selecting the prescribed program data from a broadcasting date and time of the program data whose program name matches a searched program name. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a recording / reproducing apparatus capable of recording and reproducing video information.

  It is known that a recording / reproducing apparatus capable of recording and reproducing video information can make a recording reservation for a program including video information using an electronic program guide (EPG).

In this regard,
(A) A function of retaining the past EPG information data of all past channels broadcast to date for a predetermined period.

(B) A function of holding EPG information data for all future channels of programs to be broadcast. (C) To select (specify) a program from the past EPG information data of (A) in order to pre-record a program in which the user does not recognize the scheduled rebroadcast date among irregular rebroadcast programs As a candidate for a program that pre-records a program that matches the keyword in the future EPG information data by searching for the keyword of each program from the future EPG information data of (B) using that keyword. There has been known one that provides a reserved program recording device having a function of setting a reserved recording for a candidate program that is presented to a user and selected by the user.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-193943

  However, the conventional apparatus can improve the search accuracy when searching for a program similar to a program broadcast in the past from a future program, but selects (specifies) a program from the past EPG information data. ), And new programs that have not been broadcast in the past (new keywords are assigned as keywords) are not included in the search target, so information on programs scheduled to be broadcast in the future can be obtained. There was a problem that it was not possible to make a reservation.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording / reproducing apparatus capable of obtaining information on future broadcast schedules of a selected program including a new program and making a program reservation.

In order to achieve the above object, the recording / reproducing apparatus of the present invention comprises a receiving means for receiving program data including broadcast date and time and program including video information from outside the apparatus;
Recording means for recording the program data and the program by the receiving means;
Output means for forming an electronic program guide using the program data received by the receiving means and outputting the electronic program guide for presentation to a user;
Instruction means for causing a user to instruct predetermined program data from the electronic program guide from the output means;
The program data of the recording means is searched with the program name of the predetermined program data instructed by the instruction means, the program data that is scheduled to be broadcast after the search time and matches the program name is extracted, and the matched program Control means for outputting the data broadcast date and time to the output means,
Recording reservation of a predetermined program in the recording unit is performed by causing the user to select predetermined program data from the broadcast date and time of the matched program data extracted by the control unit and output from the output unit. It is characterized by letting.

  Since a program scheduled to be broadcast that matches the program name of the program selected by the user in the electronic program guide can be presented, even if a new program that has not been reserved for recording is broadcast irregularly, Reservations can be made easily.

In addition, receiving means for receiving program data including broadcast date and time, name of performers, and video information from outside the apparatus;
Recording means for recording the program data and the program by the receiving means;
Output means for forming an electronic program guide using the program data received by the receiving means and outputting the electronic program guide for presentation to a user;
Instruction means for causing a user to instruct predetermined program data from the electronic program guide from the output means;
The program data of the recording means is searched for the performer name of the predetermined program data instructed by the instruction means, the program data that is scheduled to be broadcast after the search time and matches the performer name is extracted, and the match Control means for outputting the broadcast date and time of the program data to the output means,
Recording reservation of a predetermined program in the recording unit is performed by causing the user to select predetermined program data from the broadcast date and time of the matched program data extracted by the control unit and output from the output unit. It is characterized by letting.

  And since a program scheduled to be broadcast that matches the performer name of the program selected by the user in the electronic program guide can be presented, it is a case where a program in which a performer who has not reserved recording so far is broadcast irregularly. However, it is possible to easily reserve a program.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain information on future broadcast schedules of selected programs including new programs and make a program reservation.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of an example in which program information is displayed from an electronic program guide and a program scheduled in the future is reserved from the program information. FIG. 4 shows a processing flow in the case of FIG.

  FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of a recording / reproducing apparatus (video recording apparatus) 10 including an embodiment according to the present invention. First, FIG. 3 will be described.

  In FIG. 3, a video recording device 10 includes a so-called terrestrial broadcast reception tuner (hereinafter abbreviated as a terrestrial tuner) 1, and the terrestrial tuner 1 is connected to an antenna terminal 11. A reception signal from a broadcast reception antenna (hereinafter abbreviated as a terrestrial antenna) 20 is supplied.

  A reception signal from a so-called satellite (BS / CS) broadcast receiving antenna (hereinafter abbreviated as satellite antenna) 30 is sent to an external satellite broadcast receiving tuner (hereinafter abbreviated as BS / CS tuner) 31. The supplied and demodulated digital data signal and the decoded analog television signal are taken out.

  Further, an analog television signal taken out from the external BS / CS tuner 31 is supplied to the analog input terminal 12 of the video recording apparatus 10, and a digital data signal taken out from the BS / CS tuner 31 is sent to the video recording apparatus. 10 data input terminals 13 are supplied.

  Then, a digital data signal supplied to the data input terminal 13 is supplied to a control CPU (Central Processing Unit) 2 and, for example, an electronic program guide (EPG) is included in the digital data signal. Data (program data) is acquired, and an electronic program guide is formed.

  The superimposed EPG data is also extracted from the analog television signal received and demodulated by the terrestrial tuner 1 built in the video recording apparatus 10 and supplied to the control CPU 2. An electronic program guide is also formed for the terrestrial EPG data (program data).

  Further, the network connection terminal 17 from the communication unit 16 constituting the video recording apparatus 10 is connected via a network 70 such as the Internet, and EPG data (program data) is acquired by access from the control CPU 2 to obtain an electronic program guide. Is formed.

  Then, the user operates the remote control device 50 using the electronic program guide, and the remote control receiver 15 provided in the video recording device 10 receives the output of the remote control device 50 and is supplied to the control CPU 2. Thus, when the broadcast time zone and the broadcast channel of the program to be recorded are set, the recording device 3 (for example, HDD and DVD-RAM drive. Only one of these may be used depending on the set content. ) Is driven, and a control signal for channel selection or the like is supplied to the built-in terrestrial tuner 1 and the external BS / CS tuner 31. As a result, the video signal and the audio signal of the television signal received and demodulated and decoded by the built-in terrestrial tuner 1 and the external BS / CS tuner 31 are recorded in the recording device 3. In recording and reproduction by the recording apparatus 3, known A / D, D / A conversion, and the like are performed, but illustration is omitted.

  Further, the video signal and audio signal of the television signal recorded in the recording device 3 are reproduced under the control of the control CPU 2 and taken out to the output terminal 14 through the mixer 4. Then, the signal taken out to the output terminal 14 is supplied to the receiver 40 to display a video signal and output an audio signal.

  Further, an image of the electronic program guide formed by the control CPU 2 and an image of other operation guides are supplied to the mixer 4 and superimposed on the video signal reproduced from the recording device 3. As a result, the images such as the electronic program guide and the operation guide are superimposed on the screen of the video signal received by the receiver 40 and displayed.

  When the EPG data (program data) is acquired and the electronic program guide is formed in the video recording device 10, for example, an image of the electronic program guide [2] as shown in FIG. Is done.

  Next, FIGS. 1 and 4 will be described.

  In the conventional video recording apparatus, it is possible to easily set a recording reservation for a program that is broadcast regularly (weekly / daily, etc.). However, it is necessary to check the broadcast schedule in advance and manually set the recording reservation. Therefore, a method for realizing recording reservation of a program broadcast irregularly by the following user operation without checking the broadcast schedule in advance by the user will be described.

(1) Program data received from the Internet or broadcast waves is stored in the video recording device [10] (step S401). The program data is stored in a recording device of the video recording device 10 or a RAM (not shown).

(2) When the user instructs the video recording device [10] to make a reserved program recording (step S402), the electronic program guide [2] is created from the program data in the video recording device [10] and displayed on the screen. (Step S403).

(3) When the user selects a search target program from the electronic program guide [2], the detailed information of the selected program is displayed as the program information screen [3] and the program name is extracted (step S404).

(4) Using the program name of the program selected by the user from the electronic program guide [2] as a key, the control CPU 2 searches the program data in the video recording device [10] (step S405), and the program with the same program name Data is extracted (step S406).

  Along with the selected program data (program contents, performers, etc.), information on the scheduled broadcast date and time of the program data extracted as a future broadcast schedule is displayed on the program information screen [3] (step S407). This is because the broadcast scheduled date and time are extracted and collected from the program data of the same program name extracted in step S406, and the characters “Broadcast scheduled” are displayed in area A (this is illustrated in the video recording apparatus 10). This can be realized by displaying it in the area B as shown in the program information screen [3] in FIG. Thereby, the user can grasp the broadcast schedule for the next and subsequent times even for programs that are not regularly performed every week and every day.

(5) If the user does not select performer information (No in step S411) and there is a future broadcast schedule in the program information screen [3] (step S408), the user wants to make a recording reservation from here By selecting the broadcast time (step S409), a reservation registration screen for the selected program as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed (step S410).

  Next, FIGS. 2 and 4 will be described. FIG. 2 shows an example in which performer information is displayed from an electronic program guide and a program scheduled in the future is reserved from the performer information. FIG. 4 shows a processing flow in the case of FIG.

  In a conventional video recording device, when searching for a program by performer, the search is performed using a registered performer name (the number of registered members is limited), or the performer name is input by the user using the remote control device 50. (Manual input) is required, and it is necessary to search using it as a key. Therefore, the program search by the performer is realized by the following user operation without the user manually inputting the performer name.

(1)-(4) (Same as the description of FIGS. 1 and 4)
(5) When the user selects a performer depending on whether or not the user selects a performer to be searched on the program information screen [3] (step S411 Yes), selecting a performer name from the program information; It is judged (step S412), and the performer information screen [4] of the selected performer can be displayed as shown in FIG.

(6) Using the performer selected by the user from the program information screen [3] as a key, the control CPU 2 searches the program data in the video recording device [10] (step S413), and the program in which the same performer appears Data is extracted (step S414 Yes). If there is no corresponding program data (No at step S414), the process is terminated.

  When the corresponding program data is extracted in step S414, information on the selected performer (such as a profile), information on other appearing programs in which the selected performer appears, and information such as the scheduled broadcast date and time of the appearing program are displayed. It is displayed on the performer information screen [4] (step S415). This is because the scheduled broadcast date and time are extracted and collected from the program data extracted in step S414, the characters “Broadcast scheduled” are displayed in area A of the performer information screen [4], and the scheduled broadcast date and time are displayed in area B. This can be realized by displaying as shown in the performer information screen [4] in FIG.

  As described above, the user can search the electronic program guide for a program in which a desired performer appears only with a simple operation.

(7) (Same as the description of FIGS. 1 and 4)
As described above, according to the present invention, since the program information is displayed from the electronic program guide and the program scheduled in the future is reserved from the program information, the recording reservation can be performed only with a simple user operation. It takes only a short time, and the number of user operations can be reduced.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of reservation according to an embodiment of the present invention. The schematic of another reservation in connection with the embodiment. The schematic block diagram of the recording / reproducing apparatus concerning the embodiment. The flowchart of the reservation in connection with the embodiment. The example of the reservation registration screen of the program in connection with the embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

2 Control CPU
3 Recording device 10 Recording / playback device (video recording device)
50 Remote control device

Claims (2)

Receiving means for receiving program data including broadcast date and time and program including video information from outside the apparatus;
Recording means for recording the program data and the program by the receiving means;
Output means for forming an electronic program guide using the program data received by the receiving means and outputting the electronic program guide for presentation to a user;
Instruction means for causing a user to instruct predetermined program data from the electronic program guide from the output means;
The program data of the recording means is searched with the program name of the predetermined program data instructed by the instruction means, the program data that is scheduled to be broadcast after the search time and matches the program name is extracted, and the matched program Control means for outputting the data broadcast date and time to the output means,
Recording reservation of a predetermined program in the recording unit is performed by causing the user to select predetermined program data from the broadcast date and time of the matched program data extracted by the control unit and output from the output unit. A recording / reproducing apparatus characterized in that: Receiving means for receiving program data including broadcast date and time, name of performer, and video information from outside the apparatus;
Recording means for recording the program data and the program by the receiving means;
Output means for forming an electronic program guide using the program data received by the receiving means and outputting the electronic program guide for presentation to a user;
Instruction means for causing a user to instruct predetermined program data from the electronic program guide from the output means;
The program data of the recording means is searched for the performer name of the predetermined program data instructed by the instruction means, the program data that is scheduled to be broadcast after the search time and matches the performer name is extracted, and the match Control means for outputting the broadcast date and time of the program data to the output means,
Recording reservation of a predetermined program in the recording unit is performed by causing the user to select predetermined program data from the broadcast date and time of the matched program data extracted by the control unit and output from the output unit. A recording / reproducing apparatus characterized in that:

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