JP2007243302A - Program recording apparatus, portable terminal, program recording/reproducing system, and recorded program display method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time and effort for deleting or storing programs by displaying recorded programs so as to be easily recognized, and enabling a user to easily select a desired program and to easily operate apparatuses without considering the difference between them. <P>SOLUTION: A program recording apparatus 10 records all programs of all channels simultaneously into an HDD 14, acquires program table data, generates a recording-related program table in which the recorded programs of the HDD 14 are associated with the program table, and causes a television receiver to display the recording-related program table. When a user selects a desired program from the recording-related program table, the program recording apparatus 10 causes the television receiver to reproduce and display the recorded data of the selected program. A cellular phone terminal 1 acquires the recorded data of all the programs of the program recording apparatus 10 and the recording-related program table through a cradle 2 etc., and displays them on a display. When the user selects a desired program from the recording-related program list, the cellular phone terminal 1 displays the recorded data of the selected program on the display. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention displays a program recording device for recording a television program, a portable terminal capable of viewing the television program, a program recording / playback system having the program recording device and the portable terminal, and information of the recorded television program. The present invention relates to a recorded program display method.

  In recent years, television broadcast recording devices (hereinafter referred to as “recording devices”) equipped with large-capacity HDDs (hard disk drives) have become widespread, and recording of television programs (hereinafter referred to as “programs” as appropriate) Playback and viewing can be done easily. In particular, a recording device having a plurality of tuners has recently appeared, and it is also possible to simultaneously receive and record a program of a plurality of channels, and later reproduce and view the recorded program.

  In recent years, mobile phone terminals equipped with a television program viewing function have been commercialized. By using the mobile phone terminals, it is possible to view television programs not only at home but also on the go. ing.

  In JP-A-2005-151164 (Patent Document 1), a broadcast signal storage that includes a plurality of tuners and that can receive and record television broadcast signals of all television broadcast channels that can be received. An apparatus is disclosed. According to the broadcast signal storage device, a reservation operation is performed in advance by automatically recording and storing as program data divided into television broadcast programs based on program information data included in the received television broadcast signal. TV broadcast signals broadcast on all television broadcast channels are sequentially stored without the need to perform broadcasts or check broadcast programs for reservation operations, and televisions included in the stored television broadcast signals John broadcast programs can be freely played back at any time.

  Also, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-339041 (Patent Document 2), a server device distributes a program guide of a television program to a mobile phone, and a user refers to the program guide to view a desired television set. A content providing system, a server device, and a mobile device that can reserve and view John programs are disclosed. According to the technology described in this publication, when the server device receives a television program viewing request from the mobile phone, the server device converts the data format of the recorded television program into a data format suitable for display on the mobile phone, The data is transmitted to a mobile phone, thereby enabling the user to view a television program at any location using the mobile phone.

Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-151164 (FIG. 1) Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2003-339041 (FIG. 1)

  By the way, in a conventional recording apparatus, a list of a plurality of recorded programs is displayed on a screen of a television receiver or the like, thereby informing the user what program is being recorded. ing. That is, for example, as shown in FIG. 8, the broadcast date and time and the program name of each recorded program are displayed in a list on the television screen. Therefore, the user selects a desired program from the list. Thus, the desired program can be viewed.

  In addition, depending on the recording apparatus, there is a model in which each recorded program is classified for each folder according to a predetermined classification condition. That is, for example, as shown in FIG. 9 and FIG. 10, each program is classified into folders classified by genre such as “movie” and “sport” as shown in FIG. Thus, it is classified into a folder for each title of each program, so that the user can view a desired program by selecting a desired genre or title from the folder for each genre or title. It has become.

  However, in the case of the above-mentioned list, it is good if the number of recorded programs is small. However, for example, when all the programs for all the channels for one day are recorded, all the programs for all the channels are recorded. Will be displayed in a list, making it very difficult to view, and the user will have a hard time finding a desired program.

  In addition, in the case of the above-described folder division, it is only necessary that the user can completely manage each folder division. For example, all programs for all channels for one day are recorded and automatically divided into folders. In such a case, it is impossible to know which program is stored in which folder, and the user has to perform a very complicated operation such as opening each folder in order to search for a desired program. Disappear.

  In particular, when a program recorded by a recording device is considered to be viewed by, for example, a mobile phone terminal, selecting a desired program from the list display or the folder divided as described above is performed by the user. This is a very troublesome task.

  In addition, a user interface is different between a recording device that plays back a recorded program in accordance with an instruction from a user and a television receiver that receives and displays a television program in real time. When operating the apparatus and the television receiver, it is necessary to operate with the user interface in mind.

  Further, in the case of a conventional recording apparatus, when a recorded program is deleted or stored, for example, the user deletes which program and on the other hand how to store which program. It is necessary to choose what to do individually, which is a very troublesome task.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of such circumstances, and can display in an easy-to-understand manner what a recorded program is, and a desired program can be selected from these recorded programs. Program recording device, portable terminal, and program that can be easily selected and that allows the user to operate each device without being aware of the difference between devices, and that can reduce the effort of deleting and saving programs An object is to provide a recording / playback system and a recorded program display method.

  The program recording apparatus of the present invention includes a recording unit having a function of simultaneously recording data of a plurality of television programs, a program guide acquiring unit for acquiring data of a television broadcast program guide, and a television recorded in the recording unit. A recording-related program guide generating unit that generates data of a recording-related program guide in which a John program is associated with the program guide; and when a desired television program is selected from the recording-related program guide by the user, the selected television program The above-described problem is solved by having a playback unit that plays back the recorded data.

  The portable terminal of the present invention also includes a data transfer unit that acquires at least recording data of a plurality of television programs and data of a recording-related program guide in which the recorded television programs are associated with a television broadcast program guide. And a reproducing unit that reproduces recorded data of the selected television program when a user selects a desired television program from the recording-related program table, thereby solving the above-described problem.

  The program recording / playback system of the present invention comprises a program recording device and a portable terminal, and the program recording device records data of a plurality of television programs at the same time and acquires data of a television broadcast program guide. Recording-related program guide data in which the recorded television program is associated with the program guide is generated, and when a desired television program is selected from the recording-related program guide by the user, recording of the selected television program is performed. Data is reproduced, and the mobile terminal acquires recording data of a plurality of television programs recorded by the program recording device and data of a recording related program table, and a desired television program is selected by the user from the recording related program table. When this is done, the recorded data of the selected television program is reproduced to solve the above-mentioned problem.

  The recorded program display method of the present invention relates to a step of simultaneously recording data of a plurality of television programs, a step of acquiring data of a television broadcast program guide, and the recorded television program associated with the program guide. A step of generating data of a recording-related program guide, a step of displaying the recording-related program guide on a screen, and when a desired television program is selected from the recording-related program guide, the selected television program The recorded data is reproduced and displayed on the screen to solve the above-described problem.

  That is, according to the present invention, by generating a recording related program table in which the recorded television program is associated with the program table, the user can record in the same manner as when selecting and viewing a television program from the program table. A television program can be selected.

  According to the present invention, by generating a recording related program guide in which a recorded television program is associated with a program guide, it is possible to easily display what kind of program the recorded program is, and the user can A desired program can be easily selected from these recorded programs, and the user can operate each device without being aware of the difference between the devices. Further, according to the present invention, predetermined evaluation item information indicating the reproduction status of a television program is generated, and based on the evaluation item information, the recorded television program is deleted or stored, and at least one of quality is selected. By determining the priority order, it is possible to reduce the trouble of deleting and saving programs.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  In the following description, as an embodiment of the program recording apparatus, portable terminal, program recording / playback system, and recorded program display method of the present invention, a program recording / playback system comprising the program recording apparatus 10 and the mobile phone terminal 1 is described. Of course, the content described here is merely an example, and it goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to this example. In the present embodiment, the mobile phone terminal 1 is taken as an example of the mobile terminal of the present invention. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and is naturally applicable to mobile terminals of a type such as PDA (Personal Digital Assistants). Is possible.

[Schematic configuration of program recording / playback system]
FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of the entire program recording / playback system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In the program recording / playback system of the present embodiment, the program recording device 10 is a stationary HDD-equipped program recording device provided in the home of the user of the mobile phone terminal 1, for example, and all television broadcasts of all channels. At least a function for receiving and recording the program, and a function for receiving and recording program table (so-called EPG) data of all television programs of all the channels.

  The user's mobile phone terminal 1 includes a function of receiving and recording a television broadcast of at least one channel in addition to all the functions of a general mobile phone terminal, and an external device such as the program recording device 10 And a function for playing back a recorded program transferred from the program recording device 10 through the memory card 3.

  In the system of this embodiment, the data transfer performed between the mobile phone terminal 1 and the program recording device 10 is, for example, via the cradle 2 or the memory card 3, for example, the Internet (not shown) or the like. May be done through.

  The cradle 2 has a charging function and a data transfer function of the mobile phone terminal 1. In the case of this embodiment, the cradle 2 is connected to the program recording device 10, and when the mobile phone terminal 1 is placed, the video data of the program recorded in the program recording device 10 is transferred to the mobile phone. In addition to the transfer to the terminal 1, the data (hereinafter referred to as “recording related program guide data”) in which the recorded program and the program guide recorded and transferred by the program recording apparatus 10 are also transferred to the mobile phone terminal 1. Further, various information (for example, evaluation item information described later) supplied from the mobile phone terminal 1 is transferred to the program recording device 10. Details of the recording related program guide and the evaluation item information will be described later.

  The memory card 3 is a large-capacity semiconductor memory card. In the case of the present embodiment, both the program recording device 10 and the mobile phone terminal 1 are provided with a memory card slot to which the memory card 3 can be attached and detached, and through the memory card 3, the video data of the program and the recording related program guide are provided. Data, evaluation item information, etc. can be transferred to each other.

[Schematic configuration of program recording device]
The program recording apparatus 10 of the present embodiment includes an all-ChTV broadcast / program guide data receiving unit 12, a TV receiver I / F (interface) unit 13, an HDD 14, an external device I / F unit 16, a memory card R / W (reader). A writer) unit 15, an evaluation item information storage unit 15, a system control unit 11 and the like.

  The all-ChTV broadcast / program guide data receiving unit 12 has a function capable of receiving television broadcasts of all channels and program guide data (EPG data) for the television programs of all channels. The television program data and program guide data of all channels received by the receiving unit 12 are sent to the HDD 14 through the system control unit 11. Note that the program guide and television program data may be acquired through the Internet, for example. In that case, the entire ChTV broadcast / program guide data receiving unit 12 has a function of connecting to the Internet.

  Under the control of the system control unit 11, the HDD 14 records all television programs of all channels received by the all ChTV broadcast / program guide data receiving unit 12. In the case of the present embodiment, not only the general program guide data as shown in FIG. 2, for example, as shown in FIG. Recording related program guide data in which the program being recorded and the program guide are associated with each other is also recorded. The program guide data shown in FIG. 2 is an example, and the program recording apparatus 10 can make a recording reservation by using the program guide data.

  Under the control of the system control unit 11, the TV receiver I / F unit 13 uses a remote controller (not shown) or the like to view a television program or program guide video signal that the user desires to view, and if necessary, the above-described recording. The video signal of the related program guide is output to a television receiver (not shown) or the like. Here, the video signal of the output television program is one of the television programs received by the all-ChTV broadcast / program guide data receiving unit 12 or a program recorded in the HDD 14. It is the video signal of the television program read from inside. The TV receiver I / F unit 13 can output either a digital video signal or an analog video signal according to the specifications of the connected television receiver.

  Under the control of the system control unit 11, the external device I / F unit 16 outputs a digital video signal, program guide data, recording related program guide data, etc. of a television program recorded in the HDD 14 to the external device, In addition, various types of information (for example, evaluation item information to be described later) supplied from an external device is captured and sent to the system control unit 11. Here, the digital video signal of the television program output to the external device is converted into a data format that can be handled by the external device connected to the external device I / F unit 16 and output. In the example of FIG. 1, the cradle 2 is connected to the external device I / F unit 16. In this case, the external device I / F unit 16 is connected to a mobile phone terminal such as a so-called MPEG4. The video data converted into the data format that can be handled in 1 is output. The data format conversion process may be performed by the system control unit 11 or the external device I / F unit 16 itself.

  The memory card R / W unit 17 is configured so that the memory card 3 can be attached and detached, and when the memory card 3 is mounted, data can be written to the memory card 3 under the control of the system control unit 11. / Read out. In the case of this embodiment, a digital video signal, program guide data, recording related program guide data, etc. of a television program recorded in the HDD 14 are written in the memory card 3, and various information is stored from the memory card 3. Is read out. Here, the digital video signal of the television program written to the memory card 3 is converted into a data format corresponding to the use of the memory card 3. When the memory card 3 is inserted into the mobile phone terminal 1 as in the example of FIG. 1, video data converted into a data format that can be handled by the mobile phone terminal 1 such as MPEG4 is stored in the memory card 3. Written. The conversion processing of the data format may be performed by the system control unit 11 or the memory card R / W unit 17 itself.

  The evaluation item information storage unit 15 is composed of, for example, a semiconductor memory, and which is deleted or stored from all television programs of all channels recorded in the HDD 14 under the control of the system control unit 11, or Information on evaluation items for determining how much the data compression rate should be stored and updated.

  The system control unit 11 controls each unit of the program recording apparatus 10. That is, in this embodiment, the system control unit 11 controls the reception of television broadcasts and program guide data in the all-ChTV broadcast / program guide data receiving unit 12, the recording / playback control of the HDD 14, the programs and programs recorded in the HDD 13. Generation of recording-related program guide data associated with the table, data output control in the TV receiver I / F unit 13, data transfer control in the external device I / F unit 16, data in the memory card R / W unit 17 Write / read control, information write / read / update control in the evaluation item information storage unit 15 and the like are performed. The system control unit 11 also performs various signal processing such as data format conversion described above as necessary, and also performs various processing according to instructions from a user through a remote controller (not shown).

[Details of recording-related program guide and evaluation items]
Next, details of the recording-related program guide and evaluation items will be described below.

  When a program is recorded in the HDD 14 in a state where playback and viewing are possible, the program recording apparatus 10 of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, for example, records in which the recorded program and the program table are associated with each other. It has a function to create a related program guide.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the recording-related program table is a list in a format according to the general program table shown in FIG. 2, and all television programs of all channels are arranged in time order by channel. In addition, each program display area in the recording related program table and the recorded program data are linked. That is, the recording related program table is a list in which the program table and the actual recorded program are associated with each other, and by selecting each program display area in the recording related program table, the recorded program linked to that area is selected. Can be played. In the present embodiment, the recording-related program table is a program that can be recorded and reproduced and viewed by a dedicated display that can be identified by the user, such as background color, frame color classification, pattern classification, marking, etc. Thus, it is possible to distinguish between a program that is currently being broadcast and a program that is not recorded. Specifically, in the case of the example of FIG. 3, programs A to E and G are recorded and can be reproduced and viewed, programs F and H to J are currently being broadcast, and programs K to M are not yet broadcast. It is a recorded program. In the recording-related program table of FIG. 3, for example, when the display area of the program A is selected from the recorded program display areas by the user, the recorded program A linked to the display area is reproduced. It becomes like this.

  As described above, according to the program recording / playback system of the present embodiment, the program recording apparatus 10 performs long-time and multi-channel program recording such as all television programs of all channels by the large-capacity HDD 14. The mobile phone terminal 1 can capture and reproduce the recording data of the program recording device 10. In addition, according to the present embodiment, each long-time and multi-channel recorded program as described above is associated with the program guide to be a recording related program guide, and the recording related program guide is used for the television receiver or the mobile phone terminal 1. By displaying in a user-selectable state on the screen, the user can easily know what the recorded program is, and a desired program can be selected from the recorded programs. A program can be easily selected. Therefore, the user can view the program without being aware of the difference in operability between the television receiver and the program recording apparatus 10 or the difference in operability of the mobile phone terminal 1 as in the prior art.

  In addition, the program recording apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment deletes or stores which of all recorded television programs of all channels is recorded based on, for example, an evaluation item indicating a user's past playback / viewing situation or the like. Alternatively, it has a function of determining the compression rate of the recorded data and executing deletion or storage, compression processing, and the like. FIG. 4 shows an example of a recording-related program table when several programs are deleted or saved based on the information of the evaluation items. Specifically, in the example of FIG. 4, the programs A, C to E are recorded and can be reproduced and viewed, the programs F and H to J are currently being broadcast, and the programs K to M are not yet broadcast. It is a recorded program.

  Here, the evaluation items include, for example, whether or not a recorded program has been played back (whether or not the user has viewed the program), past playback frequency of the recorded program, and fast playback, skip playback, repeated playback, etc., when the recorded program is played back. For example, the mobile phone terminal 1 may be used. That is, for example, when there is evaluation item information indicating that a recorded program is reproduced or repeated for a certain program broadcast every week on a certain channel and the reproduction frequency is high, the same program will be displayed at a later date. Is recorded, the program recording apparatus 10 determines that the priority of the program is high and stores the recorded program or reduces the data compression rate to maintain high image quality. Conversely, the recorded program is played back. If there is evaluation item information indicating that the program has not been performed, fast-forward playback has been performed, or skip playback has been performed, when the same program is recorded at a later date, the program recording apparatus 10 determines that the priority of the program is It is determined that the recorded program is low, and the recorded program is deleted or the data compression rate is increased to reduce the data amount.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the evaluation items are associated not only with the reproduction operation of the recorded program in the program recording apparatus 10 but also with respect to the program viewing operation performed at the mobile phone terminal 1, for example. That is, when each program recorded by the program recording device 10 and the recording related program table are transferred to the mobile phone terminal 1, the mobile phone terminal 1 receives and views the program or plays the recorded program. When viewing is performed or an operation such as setting of reproduction frequency, fast-forwarding, skip reproduction, or the like is performed, information on the evaluation item according to the operation performed on the mobile phone terminal 1 is the cradle 2 described above. Or is fed back to the program recording device 10 via the memory card 3. The program recording apparatus 10 in this case performs deletion or storage of the recorded program, determination of the data compression rate, and the like based on the evaluation item information fed back from the mobile phone terminal 1.

  Thus, according to the program recording / playback system of the present embodiment, the user's past playback / viewing situation is learned, and all television programs of all recorded channels are deleted based on the obtained evaluation items. Alternatively, storage, determination of data compression rate, etc. are executed, so that the user can operate each device without being aware of the difference between devices, and can efficiently delete and save recorded programs, etc. Thus, high operability can be realized.

[Internal configuration of mobile phone terminal]
FIG. 5 shows a schematic internal circuit configuration of the mobile phone terminal 1 of the present embodiment.

  In FIG. 5, a data line is a transmission line for transmitting various data such as voice data, e-mail data, and image data. The control line is a transmission line for transmitting various control information such as control data from the control unit 40 configured by a CPU (Central Processing Unit).

  The antenna 42 is an antenna for transmitting and receiving signal radio waves to and from a base station of the mobile phone network, and is connected to the communication circuit 41. The communication circuit 41 performs frequency conversion, modulation, demodulation, and the like of transmission / reception signals.

  The call voice data received by the antenna 42 and the communication circuit 41 is sent to the voice processing unit 52, and the other received data is sent to the control unit 40 and appropriately processed. Sent from the control unit 40 to each unit. The received data other than the call voice is data related to packet communication. For example, e-mail data, moving image or still image data, music data, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) data, program code data, etc. Can be mentioned.

  The voice processing unit 52 when the call voice data is supplied from the antenna 42 and the communication circuit 41 decodes the call voice data, converts the decoded call voice data into an analog voice signal, and the analog voice. A signal is sent to the speaker 50 or an earphone jack (not shown).

  The speaker 50 is built in the terminal body, amplifies the supplied analog audio signal by an internal amplifier, converts the audio signal into audible audio, and outputs the audio signal to the outside. As a result, the call voice is output from the speaker 50.

  The microphone 51 is built in the terminal main body, converts input sound into an analog sound signal, amplifies it with an internal amplifier, and sends the analog sound signal to the sound processing unit 52.

  When the call voice signal is supplied from the microphone 51, the voice processing unit 52 converts the call voice signal into digital voice data, encodes it, and sends the encoded call voice data to the communication circuit 41. As a result, a call voice signal is transmitted from the antenna 42.

  The display unit 43 includes a liquid crystal display or the like and a display driving circuit for driving the liquid crystal display. The display driving circuit drives the liquid crystal display based on the display signal supplied from the control unit 40 and the image signal supplied from the image processing unit 53. As a result, images such as images and characters, video of the recorded program, and video such as the recording related program table are displayed on the display.

  The operation unit 44 includes operators such as a numeric keypad (keyboard), a power button, a speech / end button, and an operation signal generator that generates an operation signal corresponding to the operation of these operators. The user operates the operation unit 44 to make incoming and outgoing calls and e-mail texts for a call, send and receive e-mails, connect to the Internet, select a desired recorded program from a recording-related program table, and make the selection Instructed operations such as start playback, fast forward, skip playback, etc. of the recorded program.

  The image processing unit 53 decompresses and decodes compressed and encoded image data read from the built-in memory or the memory card 3 under control of the control unit 40, image data acquired via the Internet, etc. Then, the image data after the decompression decoding is sent to the display unit 43 via the data line. The image processing unit 53 performs compression encoding of still image and moving image data captured by a camera unit (not shown), and stores the compression encoded image data under the control of the control unit 40. Send to memory for storage.

  The external device I / F unit 54 is an interface unit for connecting to the data transmission / reception terminal of the cradle 2 and other external devices, for example. When the mobile phone terminal 1 according to the present embodiment is placed in the cradle 2 connected to the program recording apparatus 10 described above, the external device I / F unit 54 transmits the recorded program from the program recording apparatus 10 through the cradle 2. Data and recording-related program guide data are received, and evaluation item information representing the playback / viewing status and the like on the mobile phone terminal 1 is transferred.

  The memory card R / W unit 55 is a reader / writer that writes data to and reads data from the memory card slot to which the above-described memory card 3 is attached and detached, and the loaded memory card 3. When the memory card 3 on which the recorded program is recorded by the program recording device 10 is loaded, the memory card R / W unit 55 receives the recorded program from the program recording device 10 via the memory card 3. Data and recording-related program guide data are received, and evaluation item information representing the playback / viewing status and the like on the mobile phone terminal 1 is transferred.

  The large-capacity storage unit 46 is, for example, a built-in HDD or a large-capacity built-in semiconductor memory. When data of a recorded program is supplied through the external device I / F unit 54, the large-capacity storage unit 46 stores the data.

  The memory unit 45 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM (Random Access Memory). The ROM is an OS (Operating System), control program code for the control unit 40 to control each unit, various initial setting values, font data, dictionary data, various sound data such as ringtones and key operation sounds, and the present embodiment. A program code for performing control for playback / viewing of a recorded program according to the present embodiment, a program code for generating evaluation item information according to the present embodiment, a program code for various applications installed in the terminal, The device identification information (ID) of the terminal is stored. This ROM includes a rewritable ROM such as NAND-type flash memory (NAND-type flash memory) or EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), e-mail data, telephone book and e-mail address book data, Various data related to communication such as schedule book data, communication history, communication charges, etc., dictionary data, sound data, and other various user setting values can be stored. The RAM stores data as needed as a work area when the control unit 40 performs various data processing.

  The control unit 40 includes a CPU, and performs various controls of the terminal, playback / viewing of the recorded program according to the present embodiment, generation of evaluation item information, and the like based on the OS and various programs stored in the memory unit 45. Process.

  In addition, although not shown in FIG. 5, the terminal according to the present embodiment includes a general mobile phone terminal such as a digital camera unit, an infrared communication function, an electronic wallet function, a battery, and a power control function. Each component is also provided.

[Control flow for viewing recorded programs]
FIG. 6 shows a series of flowcharts from program recording and recording-related program guide generation to program recording playback of the present embodiment, playback of the recorded program, and setting of evaluation items according to program playback. The flowchart of FIG. 6 is processing mainly performed by the system control unit 11 of the program recording apparatus 10. Note that the flowchart of FIG. 6 can also be applied to the processing of the control unit 40 when viewing the recorded program on the mobile phone terminal 1 of the present embodiment. However, in that case, the cellular phone terminal 1 acquires the recording-related program guide data and the program recording data from the program recording device 10 as described above. In the following description, only the flowchart in the program recording apparatus 10 will be described.

  In FIG. 6, the system control unit 11 first acquires program guide data through a television broadcast, the Internet, or the like as step S1. If a program guide that has already been acquired is stored in the internal memory or the like, the program guide data stored in the internal memory is acquired in step S1.

  Next, the system control unit 11 records all television programs of all channels on the HDD 14 as processing of step S2 and acquires data of the recorded programs. At the same time, the system control unit 11 generates the above-mentioned recording related program guide in which the recorded program and the program guide are associated with each other and displays it on a screen of a television receiver or the like, for example.

  Next, in step S3, the system control unit 11 waits for a user to select a desired recorded program, and selects a program display area from the recording-related program table through a remote controller or the like. Then, the process proceeds to step S4.

  In step S4, the system control unit 11 performs a process of playing back the recorded program linked to the selected program display area.

  After that, the system control unit 11 generates or updates evaluation item information based on the contents of instructions such as playback of the recorded program and user fast-forward during the playback as the process of step S5.

[Control flow when transferring recorded program to mobile phone terminal]
In FIG. 7, the program recording apparatus 10 of the present embodiment records all television programs of all channels, transfers the recorded data to the mobile phone terminal 1, and then returns evaluation item information feedback from the mobile phone terminal 1. A series of flowcharts up to receiving are shown. The flowchart in FIG. 7 is processing mainly performed by the system control unit 11 of the program recording apparatus 10.

  In FIG. 7, the system control unit 11 first acquires program table data and records all television programs of all channels as in step S1 and step S2 described above as processing of step S11.

  Next, the system control unit 11 performs processing such as deletion or storage of recorded data and data compression based on already existing evaluation item information as processing in step S12.

  Next, the system control unit 11 transfers the program recording data and the recording-related program table data to the mobile phone terminal 1 as the process of step S13.

  After that, when receiving feedback of evaluation item information from the mobile phone terminal 1 in step S14, the system control unit 11 updates the old evaluation item information to the new evaluation item information fed back as a process of step S15.

[Summary]
As described above, according to the present embodiment, by recording all television programs of all channels and creating and displaying a recording related program table in which the recorded programs are associated with the program table, the user can record. It is easy to know what kind of program is already recorded, and a desired program can be easily and efficiently selected from the recorded programs. The recorded program can be viewed with the same user interface as the program viewing using the program guide, and the program viewing operation can be performed without being conscious of the difference between devices. Further, according to the present embodiment, priorities such as program deletion and storage, data compression rate, etc. are automatically determined and executed based on the evaluation items, and the user does not have to perform these operations. In addition, high operability is realized, and the program recording apparatus 10 can also prevent the recording capacity of the HDD 14 from being reduced due to unnecessary program recording and unnecessary high-quality data.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, when data of a recorded program is transferred from the program recording device 10 to the mobile phone terminal 1, the recorded program related table data is taken over. It is possible to easily know what kind of program is already completed, and it is possible to easily and efficiently select a desired program from them. Furthermore, the recorded data transferred from the program recording apparatus 10 to the mobile phone terminal 1 is already deleted unnecessary programs or stored programs to be viewed based on evaluation items indicating the user's past playback / viewing status and the like. Therefore, the user can view only the program that he / she wants to view, and the mobile phone terminal 1 can also prevent the storage capacity from being reduced due to storage of unnecessary programs and unnecessary high-quality data.

  The description of each embodiment described above is an example of the present invention. For this reason, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and it is needless to say that various modifications can be made according to the design or the like as long as the technical idea according to the present invention is not deviated.

  The mobile terminal of the present invention is not limited to the mobile phone terminal described in the above-described embodiment, and can be applied to various mobile terminals such as a PDA, a car navigation system, and a portable AV device.

It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the program recording / reproducing system of this invention embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the program table which the program recording device of this embodiment receives. It is a figure which shows an example of the recording relevant program table concerning this embodiment when all the television programs of all the channels are recorded. It is a figure which shows an example of the recorded program related table concerning this embodiment when an unnecessary program is deleted or only a required program is preserve | saved. It is a block diagram which shows the schematic internal circuit structure of the mobile telephone terminal of each embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows a series of flow from the program recording of the program recording device of this embodiment and the production | generation of a recording related program schedule to the reproduction | regeneration of a recorded program, and the setting of the evaluation item according to program reproduction. The program recording apparatus of this embodiment records all the television programs of all the channels, transfers the recorded data to a mobile telephone terminal, and is a flowchart which shows a series of flows until it receives feedback of evaluation item information from a mobile telephone terminal. is there. It is a figure which shows an example of the list of each recorded program in the conventional recording device. In a conventional recording device, it is a figure which shows an example in the case of displaying each recorded program divided into folders for every genre. In the conventional recording device, it is a figure which shows an example in the case of displaying each recorded program divided into folders for every title.

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  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mobile phone terminal, 2 Cradle, 3 Memory card, 10 Program recording device, 11 System control part, 12 All ChTV broadcast and program schedule data receiving part, 13 TV receiver I / F part, 14 HDD, 15 Evaluation item information storage Unit, 16 external device I / F unit, 17 memory card R / W unit, 40 control unit, 41 communication circuit, 42 antenna for communication, 43 display unit, 44 operation unit, 45 memory unit, 46 large capacity storage unit, 50 Speaker, 51 Microphone, 52 Audio signal processing unit, 53 Image signal processing unit, 54 External device I / F unit, 55 Memory card R / W unit

Claims (13)

A recording unit having a function of simultaneously recording data of a plurality of television programs;
A program guide acquisition unit for acquiring television broadcast program guide data;
A recording-related program guide generating unit for generating data of a recording-related program guide in which a television program recorded in the recording unit is associated with the program guide;
When a desired television program is selected by the user from the recording-related program table, a playback unit that plays back recording data of the selected television program;
A program recording apparatus comprising: The program recording device according to claim 1,
The recording-related program guide generating unit generates data of the recording-related program guide by making at least an area of a recorded television program that can be reproduced and viewed distinguishable from other areas. The program recording device according to claim 1,
An evaluation item information generating unit for generating predetermined evaluation item information indicating the reproduction status of the television program in the reproducing unit;
A priority determining unit that determines at least one of priority of deletion or storage of television programs recorded in the recording unit and quality based on the evaluation item information generated by the evaluation item information generating unit; A program recording apparatus comprising: The program recording device according to claim 1,
A program recording apparatus comprising: a data transfer unit for transferring data of a television program recorded in the recording unit and data of a recording related program guide generated by the recording related program guide generating unit to a predetermined external device . The program recording device according to claim 4,
Evaluation item information representing the reproduction status of the television program on the external device is acquired via the data transfer unit, and based on the evaluation item information, the television program recorded in the recording unit is deleted or A program recording apparatus comprising: a priority determining unit that determines at least one of storage and quality priorities. A data transfer unit that acquires at least recording data of a plurality of television programs and data of a recording-related program guide in which the recorded television programs are associated with a television broadcast program guide;
When a desired television program is selected by the user from the recording-related program table, a playback unit that plays back recording data of the selected television program;
A portable terminal characterized by comprising: The mobile terminal according to claim 6,
Evaluation item information generation for generating evaluation item information used for determining priority of at least one of deletion or storage of recorded television programs and quality based on the reproduction status of television programs by the reproduction unit A portable terminal characterized by having a unit. The mobile terminal according to claim 7,
The data transfer unit outputs the evaluation item information generated by the evaluation item information generation unit to a predetermined external device that has generated the recording data of the television program and the data of the recording related program guide. Mobile device. Simultaneously record data of a plurality of television programs, acquire data of a television broadcast program guide, generate recording-related program guide data in which the recorded television program is associated with the program guide, and record the data A program recording device for reproducing recorded data of the selected television program when a desired television program is selected by the user from the related program table;
When recording data of a plurality of television programs recorded by the program recording device and data of the generated recording related program guide are acquired, and a desired television program is selected from the recording related program guide by the user , A portable terminal that plays back the recorded data of the selected television program,
A program recording / playback system comprising: The program recording / playback system according to claim 9,
The program recording / reproducing system, wherein the program recording / reproducing system generates the data of the recording related program table by distinguishing at least an area of a recorded television program that can be reproduced and viewed from other areas. The program recording / playback system according to claim 9,
The program recording device generates predetermined evaluation item information indicating a reproduction status of the television program, and based on the evaluation item information, the recorded television program is deleted or stored, and at least one of quality is selected. A program recording / playback system characterized by determining priority. The program recording / playback system according to claim 9,
The mobile terminal generates evaluation item information used to determine the priority order of at least one of deletion or storage of recorded television programs and quality based on the playback status of the television programs, and A program recording / reproducing system, wherein the generated evaluation item information is output to the program recording device. Simultaneously recording data of a plurality of television programs by a recording unit;
Acquiring data of a television broadcast program guide by a program guide acquisition unit;
Generating data related to a recording related program schedule by associating the television program recorded in the recording section with the program guide by a recording related program schedule generating section;
Displaying the recording related program table generated by the recording related program table generating unit on the screen;
When a desired television program is selected from the recording-related program table by the user, the recorded data of the selected television program is reproduced by the reproduction unit and displayed on the screen;
A recorded program display method characterized by comprising:

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