JP2007134837A - Transmission bank system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology capable of easily replacing a logo material to be attached and revising an attachment timing by bringing efficiency to a logo attachment job needing two times of works in a registration work for a material registration work, particularly, a program advertisement material. <P>SOLUTION: In a transmission bank system adopting a system wherein a video server files an original material as a broadcast material and thereafter the broadcast material is read from the video server and transmitted therefrom, a transmission process attaches a logo to the broadcast material read from the video server and transmits the resulting material. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a transmission bank system in which broadcast materials composed of video and audio signals are processed by a video server, and in particular, a broadcasting station logo (hereinafter abbreviated as a logo) is used as a program advertisement (hereinafter abbreviated as a number). The present invention relates to a technique for improving the registration operability of a transmission bank system that additionally transmits broadcast material from a video server.

  In recent years, a broadcasting station or the like uses a video server which is a kind of video / audio signal recording / sending device, and broadcast materials such as programs scheduled to be broadcast, CMs (advertisements), and offers are recorded on, for example, magnetic tapes. Generally, a method is adopted in which a plurality of original materials are sequentially read for each original material, stored in advance in a video server as broadcast materials, read out, transmitted / previewed, and broadcast (for example, see Patent Document 1). .

  Here, a system using such a video server includes a transmission bank system (hereinafter abbreviated as transmission bank), a program bank system (hereinafter abbreviated as program bank), a CM bank system (hereinafter abbreviated as CM bank), or This is called an integrated bank system (hereinafter abbreviated as an integrated bank).

  And in broadcasting stations, the broadcasting system is mainly composed of a system called the operation of a computer system that consistently manages the sales, organization, and broadcasting of the broadcasting station, and a transmission control device that is an automatic broadcasting system by a computer. It consists of a called system and a sending bank.

Since the logo addition work is often performed at the time of registration of the number material, a description will be given of an example of the logo addition process accompanying the registration of the number material.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the outline of the sending bank, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an outline of logo addition processing in the CM bank, and FIG. 3 shows an outline of logo addition processing in the integrated bank. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a workflow for registering a numbered material.
In FIG. 4, the sending bank 1 is a program recorded in the input device 101 such as a VTR tape under the control of the controller 103 based on the material data (broadcast material registration instruction) of the broadcasting system 5 connected by the LAN. And CM materials and provided materials are registered in the video server 102. In addition, there is a line recording function that uses a dedicated line, receives distribution of the material to be sent, and registers it in the video server 102. After confirming the registered material on the registration / preview console 104, based on a transmission instruction from the transmission control device 6 connected via the LAN, the controller 103 controls to transmit and broadcast the program, CM, and provision (On Air: (Hereinafter abbreviated as OA).
In many cases, the logo adding work is performed by registering the numbering material, and the processing of adding the logo mark of the broadcasting station on the numbering material image and registering it to the video server is typical. There are two conventional registration procedures: a CM bank method and an integrated bank method.
First, the procedure for adding logos in the CM bank will be described. In FIG. 2 of the block diagram showing the outline of the logo addition processing in the CM bank and FIG. 5A of the schematic diagram showing the workflow for registering the number material, the number material 111 distributed on the dedicated line is displayed in the CM bank 2. Once recorded on the tape of the VTR 113, the material was reproduced from the VTR tape, and the logo adding unit 201 added the logo data and registered it in the video server 107. Thereafter, after confirmation on the registration / preview console 104, the broadcast was sent out (OA).
Next, a procedure for adding a logo in an integrated bank having CM and program providing functions will be described. In FIG. 3 of the block diagram showing the outline of logo addition processing in the integrated bank and FIG. 5B of the schematic diagram showing the workflow for registering the number material, the number material distributed on the dedicated line in the integrated bank 3 is Once automatically registered in the video server 108, the registered number material 203 is reproduced, and re-registered as the number material 204 in the video server while adding logo data. That is, a logoless material 203 and a logo-added material 204 are created on the video server. Thereafter, after confirmation on the registration / preview console 104, the broadcast was sent out (OA).
As a conventional technique for simplifying the processing procedure of the transmission bank, there is Patent Document 2 that simplifies the processing procedure of the sound level.
JP 2001-157160 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2005-210489

As described above, the logo addition work associated with the registration of the numbered material requires two operations in both the CM bank and the integrated bank, which is very time-consuming and requires efficiency. .

  It is an object of the present invention to improve the efficiency of registration and improve the operability of adding a logo performed in a registration operation in a sending bank.

  In the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in a transmission bank system in which the original material is filed on a video server to be broadcast material, and then read out from the video server and transmitted, the broadcast server transmits the original material. When reading the material, a logo adding unit that superimposes a predetermined logo on the broadcasting material is read out, and after the reading from the video server, the predetermined logo is added and transmitted.

  That is, the problem is solved by performing the logo addition process in the sending process.

  According to the present invention described in the previous section, the logo addition management and processing procedures are simplified, and an efficient system operation can be obtained. In addition, it is possible to easily cope with replacement of logo material, change of logo addition timing, and the like.

A first embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of logo addition processing according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an outline of a sending bank, and FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a workflow for registering a numbering material. is there.
In FIG. 4, the sending bank 1 is a program recorded in the input device 101 such as a VTR tape under the control of the controller 103 based on the material data (broadcast material registration instruction) of the broadcasting system 5 connected by the LAN. And CM materials and provided materials are registered in the video server 102. In addition, there is a line recording function that uses a dedicated line, receives distribution of the material to be sent, and registers it in the video server 102. After confirming the registered material on the registration / preview console 104, based on a transmission instruction from the transmission control device 6 connected via the LAN, the controller 103 controls the program, CM, and transmission broadcast (OA) provided. Do.

  The flow from registration to sending will be described with reference to FIG. 1 which is a block diagram showing an outline of logo addition processing according to the present invention and FIG. 5C which is a schematic diagram showing a workflow for registering number materials. In FIG. 1, the number input distributed on the dedicated line is automatically registered as the number material 203 to the video server 109, and the logo adding unit 205 performs logo adding processing at the time of transmission. As a result, it is possible to send the material with the logo without performing the second operation of recording on the VTR tape and registering it in the sending bank as in the prior art. In addition, it is unnecessary to repeat the operation of playing back the material once registered in the video server and re-registering it while adding a logo. The program input and CM input are registered as CM material 115 and program material 116 from the VTR 112 and VTR 114 to the video server 109 as in the past, and after confirmation by the registration / preview console 104, OA is performed.

By using the present invention, the management and processing procedure for adding a logo for registration work can be simplified, and an efficient system operation can be obtained.
In addition, the replacement of logo data can be easily handled in a short time near real time by eliminating the time required for re-registration while playing back the material registered on the video server and adding the replacement logo. It becomes possible. In other words, in the present invention, it is possible to replace logo data and change the addition timing only by changing the information of the logo added at the time of transmission.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the work efficiency of the video server in the transmission bank can be improved.

Block diagram showing an outline of logo addition processing according to the present invention Block diagram showing the outline of logo addition processing in CM bank Block diagram showing an outline of logo addition processing in an integrated bank Block diagram showing the general configuration of the sending bank Schematic diagram showing workflow for registering material

Explanation of symbols

1: sending bank,
5: Broadcasting (business / organization / broadcasting), 6: Transmission control device,
101: input device, 102, 109: video server,
103: Controller, 104: Registration / preview terminal,
111: Number material (program promotional material that is the source of material actually used for broadcasting),
112, 114: VTR, 115: CM material, 116: Program material 203: Number material (no logo), 205: Logo addition section

Claims (1)

In the sending bank system of the method of reading out from the video server and sending it out after filing the original material to the video server to make the material for broadcasting,
When reading the broadcasting material from the video server, a logo adding unit that superimposes a predetermined logo on the broadcasting material,
A transmission bank system configured to add the predetermined logo to the broadcast material read from the video server for transmission.

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