JP2007329826A - Broadcast receiver and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a broadcast receiver capable of promptly shifting to the channel of a program reserved to be viewed or canceling the viewing reservation upon the notification of the reservation for the program. <P>SOLUTION: The broadcast receiver 1 comprises: a reservation information storage means 17 for storing the viewing reservation received in a viewing reservation means 16 as reservation information including at least the information of the channel and the time; a reservation information display means 15 for displaying a part or all of the reservation information prescribed time before the time (start time) indicated by the reservation information stored there; a shifting operation reception means 19 for receiving a shifting operation for shifting to the channel indicated by the reservation information to the reservation information displayed there by a prescribed operation regardless of the number of the channel; and a shifting instruction means 18 for instructing a CH selection means 12 to switch to the channel indicated by the reservation information at the point of time of receiving the prescribed operation or at the start time indicated by the reservation information when receiving the prescribed operation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a broadcast receiving apparatus and a program to be incorporated in the apparatus.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a broadcast receiving apparatus, a viewer selects a program channel to be viewed by a remote controller (hereinafter abbreviated as a remote controller) from among a plurality of channels, whereby a broadcast signal of the channel is displayed on a display unit and audio. It is designed to be played on the output section. In addition, in order to save the viewer from having to select a channel while checking a television column of a newspaper when making a reservation for viewing or recording, an electronic program guide (hereinafter abbreviated as EPG) showing the contents of a large number of programs, A technique of selecting a channel while checking program contents is also generally adopted.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a program information notification device that notifies a viewer of information related to a program that a viewer wants to view before the program starts and allows the viewer to reliably view the program. The program information notification device is configured to accept a program specifying information (information relating to a program that the viewer wants to view) input by a remote controller, an assigning unit for assigning an interval time, a notice based on the program specifying information and the interval time. A notice time calculating means for obtaining the time, a setting means for setting the notice time obtained by the notice time calculating means, a time measuring means for measuring the current time, and a judgment for determining whether or not the current time has reached the notice time And a notice notifying means for notifying the viewer of a notice of the start of the program when the current time reaches the notice time.

As described above, in the apparatus described in Patent Document 1, a program that a viewer wants to view is input by a remote controller, and the remaining time until the program starts is notified to the viewer before the program that the viewer wants to view starts. Patent Document 1 also discloses that the elapsed time is indicated when the start time has elapsed.
JP 2000-78494 A

  However, in the prior art including Patent Document 1, it is possible to display the remaining time until the start time and the elapsed time since the program started for the program that the user wants to watch. In order to switch to that channel quickly, it is necessary to select that channel with the remote control.

  Even when the user has reserved viewing for a program in a certain channel and time zone, the user is viewing another program on another channel before the start of the reserved viewing program. In many cases, the user is attracted to the program being viewed, and may be more interested in continuing to view the program that is currently being viewed than the reserved program. In such a case, it is necessary to cancel the viewing reservation, but for that purpose, it is necessary to cancel the work in the same manner as the viewing reservation.

  The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances as described above, and at the time of reservation notification for a program that has been reserved for viewing, broadcasting capable of promptly shifting to the channel of the program and canceling the viewing reservation It is an object of the present invention to provide a receiving device and a program to be incorporated into the device.

  The present invention is constituted by the following technical means in order to solve the above-described problems.

  The first technical means includes broadcast receiving means for receiving a broadcast signal, broadcast reproduction means for reproducing the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiving means, and reception by the broadcast receiving means to be reproduced by the broadcast reproduction means. In a broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a channel selection means for selecting a channel, a viewing reservation means for accepting a viewing reservation from a user, and a viewing reservation received by the viewing reservation means as reservation information including at least channel and time information Reservation information storage means for storing, reservation information display means for displaying a part or all of the reservation information before a predetermined time before the time indicated by the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means, and the reservation information display The transition operation for shifting the reservation information displayed by the means to the channel indicated by the reservation information is not limited to the channel number. The transition operation accepting unit that accepts the user from the operation, and when the predetermined operation is accepted by the transition operation accepting unit, when the predetermined operation is accepted or at the time indicated by the reservation information, the channel selection unit It is characterized by comprising a transition instruction means for instructing to switch to the channel indicated by the reservation information.

  According to a second technical means, in the first technical means, the migration instructing means accepts the migration operation accepting means even if the time indicated by the reservation information has arrived with respect to the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means. When the predetermined operation is not accepted, the apparatus has a means for instructing the reservation information storage means to delete the reservation information.

  The third technical means is the first or second technical means, wherein the transition operation accepting means cancels the viewing reservation indicated by the reservation information for the reservation information displayed by the reservation information display means. The transition instruction means has means for instructing the reservation information storage means to delete the reservation information when the cancel operation is received. It is.

  The fourth technical means comprises any one of the first to third technical means, further comprising CM detection means for detecting a CM from the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiving means, wherein the reservation information display means is the reservation information Is displayed only when the CM is detected by the CM detection means within the predetermined time.

  According to a fifth technical means, in any one of the first to fourth technical means, the reservation information display means changes the display color stepwise from the predetermined time before the time indicated by the reservation information. It is characterized by having a means.

  A sixth technical means is any one of the first to fifth technical means, wherein the reservation information display means has a time indicated by certain reservation information among a plurality of reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means. When it is a predetermined time before arrival, a part or all of the certain reservation information is replaced with a part of the reservation information whose time is included in a predetermined period among other reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means Alternatively, it is characterized by having means for displaying all of them as a list.

  According to a seventh technical means, in the sixth technical means, the list is a list in which reservation information to be displayed is arranged in order of start time.

  The eighth technical means is the sixth or seventh technical means, wherein the viewing reservation means sets the predetermined time and / or the predetermined period for each of a plurality of reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means. It is characterized by having means for making viewing reservations differently.

  According to a ninth technical means, in any one of the sixth to eighth technical means, the viewing reservation means changes the reservation information that overlaps the start time to the end time among a plurality of reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means. On the other hand, it has means for making a viewing reservation with priority, and the reservation information display means displays the list with the priority.

  In a tenth technical means, in any one of the first to ninth technical means, a recording reservation means for accepting a recording reservation from a user, and a recording means for executing the recording reservation accepted by the recording reservation means The broadcast receiving means is capable of simultaneously receiving a plurality of broadcast signals, and the transition operation accepting means is configured to record the recording information at a channel and time indicated by the reservation information with respect to the reservation information displayed by the reservation information display means. The recording operation for recording by the means is received from the user by another predetermined operation regardless of the channel number, and the transition instruction means receives the other predetermined operation by the transition operation receiving means, At the time indicated by the reservation information, the channel selection means is instructed to switch to the channel indicated by the reservation information, and the recording means is instructed to perform recording. Be performed in which was characterized by.

  The eleventh technical means is a program for incorporation into a broadcast receiving apparatus that receives and reproduces a broadcast signal, and a viewing reservation step of accepting a viewing reservation from a user to the control unit of the broadcast receiving apparatus, and the viewing reservation A reservation information storage step for storing the viewing reservation received in the step as reservation information including at least channel and time information, and a predetermined time before the time indicated by the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage step arrives. A reservation information display step for displaying part or all of the reservation information, and a transition operation for shifting the reservation information displayed in the reservation information display step to the channel indicated by the reservation information is performed on the channel number. A transition operation receiving step that is received from the user by a predetermined operation that is not concerned, and the predetermined operation is received by the transition operation receiving step. When mapping, the predetermined operating the accepted time or time in which the reservation information indicates, in which is characterized in that and a step of switching to a channel in which the reservation information indicates.

  According to the present invention, at the time of reservation notification for a program for which viewing reservation has been made, it is possible to promptly shift to the program channel and cancel the viewing reservation.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a viewing reservation confirmation screen in the broadcast receiving apparatus of FIG. 1 and 2, 1 is a broadcast receiving apparatus, 2 is a display screen, 11 is a broadcast receiving means, 12 is a channel (CH) selection means, 13 is a broadcast reproduction means, 14 is a timing means, and 15 is a reservation information display means. , 16 is a viewing reservation means, 17 is a reservation information storage means, 17t is a reservation management table, 18 is a transition instruction means, 19 is a transition operation accepting means, and 20 is viewing reservation confirmation information.

  A broadcast receiving apparatus 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention is based on a broadcast receiving unit 11 that receives a broadcast signal, a broadcast reproduction unit 13 that reproduces a broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiving unit 11, and a user operation or a default value. In addition to the CH selection unit 12 that receives the broadcast reception unit 11 and selects the channel to be reproduced by the broadcast reproduction unit 13, the main features of the present invention include a reservation information display unit 15, a viewing reservation unit 16, and a reservation information storage unit. 17, a transition instruction unit 18 and a transition operation reception unit 19 are provided.

  The broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiving means 11 is basically regardless of transmission means such as terrestrial, satellite, and cable, and may be analog or digital. The CH selection means 12 may be able to select a channel based on a preset channel to which a channel to be selected is assigned to a button on the remote controller. In such a broadcast receiving apparatus, a preset channel management list for associating a channel selection button of the remote controller with a channel number or frequency of a channel to be selected is provided, and when a specific channel selection button is pressed, The corresponding channel is discriminated with reference to this channel management list, and the channel selection operation is performed. Further, it is possible to select a channel while confirming the program contents by using an EPG indicating the contents of many programs.

  Further, as the broadcast reproduction means 13, when the broadcast receiving apparatus 1 includes a video display device and a speaker, the video display device (including a video processing circuit) and a speaker (may include an amplifier) are applicable. If they are not provided, a video output terminal that outputs a video processing signal, an audio output terminal that outputs an audio processing signal (regardless of whether the amplifier is built in), or the like is applicable.

  The viewing reservation unit 16 receives a viewing reservation from the user. As the viewing reservation unit 16, for example, the viewing reservation may be received in a user interactive form while being displayed or output by the broadcast reproduction unit 13. More specifically, G code reservation or a means for acquiring program information is provided, and an electronic program guide is generated from the program information acquired there and displayed on the screen by OSD (On Screen Display) display or the like. A means for performing EPG reservation to be selected by the user or direct input reservation for inputting a channel and a time zone with a remote controller can be adopted as the viewing reservation means 16. In this way, the viewing reservation here is not limited to a reservation for each program, but also includes a reservation for only channel and time designation. Moreover, what is necessary is just to display EPG as a program program based on the program information acquired as data broadcasting, for example, or a program program acquired via the network.

  The reservation information storage unit 17 stores the viewing reservation received by the viewing reservation unit 16 as reservation information including at least channel and time information. The reservation information storage means 17 can be composed of various memories (may be a hard disk), and is preferably stored in the database as a reservation management table 17t.

  The reservation information display means 15 displays a part or all of the reservation information a predetermined time before the time (start time) indicated by the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means 17 arrives. In the following description, the portion of the reservation information that is displayed on the reservation information display means 15 (including the time when “predetermined time (remaining time until start)” is displayed) is referred to as viewing reservation confirmation information. Here, the acquisition of time may be acquired with the timekeeping means 14 provided therein, or may be acquired via a network or by separation from a broadcast signal. Moreover, what is necessary is just to determine suitably 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, etc. as predetermined time.

  The transfer operation receiving means 19 receives a transfer operation for transferring the reservation information displayed on the reservation information display means 15 to the channel indicated by the reservation information from the user by a predetermined operation regardless of the channel number. This predetermined operation corresponds to a predetermined operation such as pressing of the determination key of the remote controller, and is different from an operation of pressing a general channel selection key (such as a numeric key corresponding to a channel). In particular, the predetermined operation is preferably an operation that can be performed by an unskilled person without looking at the remote control.

  When the transition operation accepting unit 19 accepts the predetermined operation, the transition instructing unit 18 switches to the channel indicated by the reservation information with respect to the CH selection unit 12 at the time when the predetermined operation is accepted or at the start time indicated by the reservation information. Instruct.

  Taking the display screen 2 of FIG. 2 as an example, a method for displaying the viewing reservation confirmation information 20 and a method for receiving a predetermined operation will be described. As the viewing reservation confirmation information 20, along with the information 21 of the predetermined time (or time until the start time) described above, the title information 22 of the program reserved for viewing is displayed superimposed on the video by OSD display. The viewing reservation confirmation information 20 further includes a selection area 23 for “confirmation”, a selection area 24 for “confirmation (immediate transition)”, a selection area 25 for “cancel”, and a “recording” area. The selection area 26 or the like may be displayed. The selection areas 23 to 26 can be selected by a remote controller or the like. However, since operations including predetermined operations are desired to be simple as described above, one selection area is selected with the up / down key of the remote control or the jog dial key (or a cross key) at the time of selection. It is better to select.

  In this example, the predetermined operation described above corresponds to an operation for selecting the “confirm” selection area 23 or an operation for selecting the “confirmation (immediate transition)” selection area 24. In the former case, the shift instruction means 18 instructs the CH selection means 12 to switch to the channel indicated by the reservation information at the start time indicated by the reservation information. In the latter case, the transition instruction unit 18 instructs the CH selection unit 12 to switch to the channel indicated by the reservation information when a predetermined operation is received. In addition, description regarding cancellation of viewing reservation and change from viewing reservation to recording reservation will be described later as another embodiment.

  With the configuration as described above, for example, it is possible to quickly switch to a television program to be viewed with a simple operation even before the start of the analogy without being aware of the channel of the television program that is reserved for viewing and desired to be viewed. You don't have to think about how many channels you want to watch, and you can operate the remote's channels without thinking of the push buttons (with only certain keys). As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to promptly shift to a channel of a program for which viewing reservation has been made at the time of reservation notification.

  As another embodiment of the present invention, in the above-described embodiment, the migration instructing unit 18 performs the migration operation on the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage unit 17 even when the time indicated by the reservation information arrives. When the reception unit 19 does not receive a predetermined operation, the reservation unit 19 has a unit that instructs the reservation information storage unit 17 to delete the reservation information. For example, the case where none of the selection areas 23 to 26 in FIG. 2 is selected corresponds to this scene.

  This embodiment is particularly useful in the following situations. For example, when the user makes a viewing reservation for a program in a certain channel and time zone, and the user views another program on another channel before the start of the viewing reservation program, the user This is the case where the user is interested in the program being watched and is interested in continuing to watch the program currently being viewed from the reserved viewing program. In such a scene, it is necessary to cancel the viewing reservation, but in this embodiment, the canceling operation can be easily executed. As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible not only to promptly shift to a channel of a program for which a viewing reservation has been made, but also to cancel the viewing reservation.

  As another embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable that another deletion process based on a user operation can be executed independently of (or in combination with) the reservation information deletion process as described above. . Therefore, in this embodiment, it is preferable that the transition operation accepting unit 19 has a unit that accepts a cancel operation for canceling the viewing reservation indicated by the reservation information for the reservation information displayed by the reservation information display unit 15 from the user. For example, it may be accepted by an operation of selecting the “cancel” selection area 25 in FIG.

  The migration instruction means 18 has means for instructing the reservation information storage means 17 to delete the reservation information when the cancel operation is accepted. Similarly, according to the present embodiment, at the time of reservation notification for a program that has been reserved for viewing, it is possible not only to promptly shift to the channel of the program but also to cancel the viewing reservation.

  As another embodiment of the present invention, in each of the above-described embodiments, it is preferable to include CM detection means for detecting CM (commercial message) from the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiving means 11. The reservation information display means 15 may display the viewing reservation confirmation information only within a predetermined time and only when a CM is detected by the CM detection means. By performing display during the CM, not only can confirmation be performed without disturbing the user's viewing, but also reservation information can be displayed in a large size. As the CM detection means, for example, it may be detected from a signal attached to the broadcast signal, may be detected based on the stereo / mono switching of the broadcast signal, or the feature of the video is extracted from the video signal itself. Or may be detected.

  As another embodiment of the present invention, in each of the above-described embodiments, the reservation information display unit 15 may include a unit that changes the display color step by step from a predetermined time before the time indicated by the reservation information. preferable. For example, a green icon is displayed 30 minutes ago, an orange icon is displayed 10 minutes ago, a red icon is displayed 5 minutes ago, and so on. It is possible to make the user visually recognize whether the program is a reserved viewing program.

  Further, as another embodiment of the present invention, in each of the above-described embodiments, it is preferable that it is possible to cope with a recording reservation, and the broadcast receiving means 11 can simultaneously receive a plurality of broadcast signals by a double tuner or the like. In order to cope with the recording reservation, the broadcast receiving apparatus 1 may be provided with a recording reservation unit that receives a recording reservation from the user and a recording unit that executes the recording reservation received by the recording reservation unit.

  Then, the transfer operation accepting unit 19 in this embodiment performs a recording operation for recording the reservation information displayed on the reservation information display unit 15 on the channel and time indicated by the reservation information by the recording unit. It is possible to accept from the user by another predetermined operation regardless of the number. For example, the reservation information display means 15 may also display a selection area (such as the “recording” selection area 26 in FIG. 2) for changing the viewing reservation indicated by the reservation information to a recording reservation together with the reservation information. . When the transition operation accepting unit 19 accepts the “other predetermined operation” described above, the transition instruction unit 18 instructs the CH selection unit 12 to switch to the channel indicated by the reservation information at the time indicated by the reservation information and the recording. An instruction to perform recording is given to the means.

  According to this embodiment, it is possible to switch from viewing reservation to recording reservation before starting the reservation with a simple operation, and it is not necessary to cancel even in the scene described for canceling the viewing reservation, and the reservation is transferred to the recording reservation. Is possible.

  As another embodiment of the present invention, in each of the above-described embodiments, a plurality of reservation information may be displayed in a list by the reservation information display means 15, and this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. The description will be given with reference. In this embodiment, as a combination with the embodiment in which the display color is changed stepwise in time, all or part of the colors of the list characters and ruled lines may be changed stepwise.

  3 is a diagram showing an example of a reservation management table in the broadcast receiving apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of viewing reservation confirmation information displayed based on the reservation management table of FIG. 3 and 4, 3 is a reservation management table, and 4 is viewing reservation confirmation information.

  In the present embodiment, the reservation information display means 15 has some reservation information (for example, reservation information of “program B”) among a plurality of reservation information (for example, reservation information in the reservation management table 3) stored in the reservation information storage means 17. When the time indicated by () is a predetermined time before the arrival, a part or all of the reservation information (viewing reservation confirmation information 4) is replaced with the time of the other reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means 17. Includes a means for displaying viewing reservation confirmation information 4 of reservation information included within a predetermined period together as a list. Here, the list is preferably a list in which the reservation information to be displayed is arranged in the order of the start time.

  In the example shown in FIG. 3, information such as program ID 31, channel 32, title 33, broadcast date 34, start time 35, end time 36, notification time 37, priority order 38, etc. Stored for programs A to E and the like. In the example illustrated in FIG. 4, the channel 41, the title 42, the broadcast date and time 43, the time 44 until the start time, and the priority order 45 are displayed as the list of the viewing reservation confirmation information 4. In addition, in the viewing reservation confirmation information 4 in FIG. 4, the predetermined time is set to 5 minutes, and the reservation information of the program B (and program C) corresponding thereto is displayed as a list, and the program C (18: 30˜ 2300) includes the information “duplicate” which means “display other overlapping reservation information” at the notification time 37, so that the programs A and D overlapping in that time zone are displayed together as a list. Yes. Naturally, information on whether or not to adopt this “duplication” may be described in the management table 3 separately from the notification time 37. In the example of FIG. 4, one day is adopted as the predetermined period, and information related to the program E that is not within one day from 18:30 on January 1, 2006 is not listed.

  Further, when performing the list display, the viewing reservation unit 16 preferably has a unit for making a viewing reservation by changing the predetermined time and / or the predetermined period for each of the plurality of reservation information stored in the reservation information storage unit 17. . In the example of FIG. 3, program A is 5 minutes before (~ 30 minutes later) as a predetermined time, program B is 5 minutes before (~ 5 minutes later) as a predetermined time, and program E is 10 minutes before (~ 0) as a predetermined time. Minutes later). As described above, it is preferable to display a list in a time series, and to create a plurality of lists in advance indicating the programs that the user wants to watch and how many minutes before the list is displayed. Further, as exemplified by reference numeral 46 in FIG. 4, the past data may not be displayed, or may be displayed with diagonal lines or coloring. Further, the program information of a program that has already started may be deleted from the list (data).

  Further, when performing list display, the viewing reservation unit 16 reserves viewing reservations with priorities given to the reservation information whose start time and end time overlap among the plurality of reservation information stored in the reservation information storage unit 17. It is preferable to have. Then, the reservation information display means 15 may display the list with priorities. In the example of FIG. 3, viewing reservations for programs B to D overlap as time zones, so that the priority order can be set in the user interface at the time of viewing reservation, the setting is stored in the reservation management table 3, and the list display In this case, the priority order 45 may be displayed as shown in FIG.

  In addition, the selection operations such as the “confirmation” selection area 23, the “confirmation (immediate transition)” selection area 24, the “cancel” selection area 25, and the “recording” selection area 26 illustrated in FIG. First, it is necessary to select the target viewing reservation. For the selected viewing reservation (in the example of FIG. 4, display so as to be visible to the user in the frame 47), a user operation is facilitated by displaying a schematic diagram 40 showing operation keys together. The schematic diagram 40 and the operation according to the schematic diagram 40 may be keys that can be operated by the user without looking at the remote controller, and the cross key is illustrated here. Among the four-way controller, assign “Confirm”, which is most likely to be operated, to the enter key, and assign “immediate transition”, which is most likely to be operated next, to the right key that is easy to operate next. It is preferable to assign a key in consideration. In addition, when there is a content of the priority order 45, the viewing reservation with the first priority order may be made visible to the user in the frame 47 as shown in FIG. 4, and the frame 47 may be moved by an operation.

  In addition, when the predetermined time before the viewing reservation is in the power standby state, after the power is turned on, the OSD display or the OSD display and a notification sound may be sounded.

  The broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention has been described above. However, the present invention is directed to broadcast reception provided with broadcast receiving means 11 for receiving broadcast signals, broadcast reproducing means 13 for reproducing broadcast signals received by the broadcast receiving means 11, and the like. A program (hereinafter referred to as a viewing reservation confirmation program) that is incorporated into the device 1 and functions as the broadcast receiving device 1 according to each of the above-described embodiments, and a part or all of the viewing reservation confirmation program are recorded. A form of a computer-readable recording medium (DVD, CD, etc.) can also be adopted. The details are basically in line with the above-described idea and can be easily realized from the above description, but with reference to FIG. 5 to FIG. An application example of the broadcast receiving apparatus will be specifically described.

  Note that the broadcast receiving apparatus and the viewing reservation confirmation program according to the present invention can be applied to various devices and programs in the apparatus such as a television receiver as shown in FIG. is there.

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a television receiver to which the present invention is applied. In the figure, 5 is a television receiver as an example of a broadcast receiving apparatus, 51 is a terrestrial tuner, and 52 is a BS (broadcast satellite). ) Digital tuner, 53 is a terrestrial receiver circuit, 54 is a BS digital receiver circuit, 55 is a program information decoder, 56 is a memory, 56a is a reservation management table, 56b is EPG data, 57 is a controller, 58 is a timer, 59 is an input signal switching unit, 60 is a channel channel selection unit, 61 is an OSD processing unit, 62 is an input processing unit, 63 is a video signal processing unit, 64 is an audio signal processing unit, 65 is a recording processing unit, 66 is a storage unit, Reference numeral 67 denotes a liquid crystal display section as an example of the display section, 68 a speaker, 70 a remote controller, 71 a power button, 72 a channel selection button, and 73 a move / decision button (cross key).

  Here, the terrestrial tuner 51 is a tuner that receives radio waves of a terrestrial TV signal, the BS digital tuner 52 is a tuner that receives radio waves of a BS digital TV signal, and the terrestrial receiver circuit 53 is a signal input to the terrestrial tuner 51. The BS digital receiving circuit 54 is a circuit that receives a signal input to the BS digital tuner 52. The input signal switching unit 59 switches between the video / audio signal from the terrestrial reception circuit 53 and the video / audio signal from the BS digital reception circuit 54. Here, only an example of receiving terrestrial broadcast and BS broadcast is shown, but as an example of the broadcast receiving means 11 in FIG. 1, the configuration of only the terrestrial tuner 51 and the terrestrial receiver circuit 53, or the BS digital tuner. 52 and BS digital receiver circuit 54 only, or other tuner and receiver circuit (for example, for terrestrial digital broadcasting, cable TV broadcasting, communication satellite digital broadcasting, etc.), or any combination thereof Even if it is a structure, it is applicable.

  The video signal and audio signal from the input signal switching unit 59 are output to the video signal processing unit 63 and the audio signal processing unit 64, respectively, where various video processing and various audio processing are performed. Video signals and audio signals that are output signals of the video signal processing unit 63 and the audio signal processing unit 64 are respectively sent to a display (illustrated by the liquid crystal display unit 67) as a display unit and a speaker 68 as an audio unit in the television receiver 5. Supplied. The video signal processing unit 63, the audio signal processing unit 64, the liquid crystal display unit 67, and the speaker 68 correspond to the broadcast reproduction means 13 in FIG.

  The remote controller 70 is provided with a power button 71, a channel selection button 72, and a move / decision button 73 for moving / determining the cursor in the key operation unit. The movement / decision button 73 is easy for the user to perform the position and operation. Therefore, the user can use the predetermined operation “confirmation” “confirmation (immediate transition)” and other operations (cancellation, transition to recording, etc.). It is better to use this button. The input processing unit 62 includes a light receiving unit that receives an operation signal from the remote controller 70, and is a part that processes an operation input from the remote control 70 and the control panel on the main body side, and transmits a signal corresponding to the operation to the control unit 57. To do.

  The remote controller 70, the control panel, the input processing unit 62, and the control unit 57 can accept user operations other than the predetermined operations described above, and can also perform various settings such as volume, luminance, and normal channel selection. Setting contents are input from the remote control 70 or the control panel, and the operation input is transmitted to the control unit 57 via the input processing unit 62. Based on the setting contents, the control unit 57 changes the settings for the channel tuning unit 60, the OSD processing unit 61, the liquid crystal display unit 67, the speaker 68 (or the video signal processing unit 63 and the audio signal processing unit 64), and the like. Instructs to reflect the setting.

  The program information decoding unit 55 decodes program information from the terrestrial wave receiving circuit 53 and the BS digital receiving circuit 54. For example, the contents of the data broadcast may be extracted by the program information decoding unit 55. The timekeeping unit 58 is a part corresponding to the timekeeping unit 14 in FIG. 1, and measures the time for displaying the reservation information and the time for executing the reservation and notifies the control unit 57 of the time. The channel selection unit 60 is a part that performs channel selection in the terrestrial reception circuit 53 or the BS digital reception circuit 54. The channel selection unit 12 of FIG. 1 is connected to the remote control 70, the input processing unit 62, the control unit 57, and the like. Eggplant. In this channel selection, the control unit 57 receives an input from the channel selection button 72 of the remote controller 70 or the channel selection button on the control panel of the main body via the input processing unit 62, and transmits a control signal to the channel selection unit 60. To be executed.

  The memory 56 is an example of the reservation information storage unit 17 in FIG. 1 and is a memory that stores a reservation management table 17t (reservation management table 56a). The memory 56 also has a function of storing program information obtained by the program information decoding unit 55 and storing it as EPG data 56b.

  The control unit 57 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) or MPU (Micro Processing Unit), a ROM that stores a viewing reservation confirmation program (including a viewing reservation program) according to the present invention, and a RAM that is an execution area thereof. The channel selection unit 60 controls channel selection, generates on-screen display data for displaying a GUI (graphical user interface), and supplies the data to the OSD processing unit 61. The OSD processing unit 61 stores a signal for displaying menus for various settings such as a screen for viewing reservation, a screen for displaying reservation information, a screen for accepting a transition operation, and display of channel information and EPG. 56 and output to the liquid crystal display unit 67 (or video signal processing unit 63) to enable superimposition with the video signal.

  Based on the recording reservation or recording instruction from the control unit 57, the recording processing unit 65 performs the input signal switching unit 59 (or the video signal processing unit 63 and the audio signal processing unit 64 with respect to the storage unit 66 formed of a hard disk or various recording media. ) To record the output video / audio signal from (1) as it is or by encoding it.

  The above-described viewing reservation confirmation program is a program for causing the control unit 57 of the television receiver 5 to execute a viewing reservation step, a reservation information storage step, a reservation information display step, a transition operation reception step, and a channel switching step. In a storage area such as a ROM or a storage area accessible to the control unit 57. However, as described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4, various embodiments can be similarly applied.

  Here, the viewing reservation step is a step of accepting a viewing reservation from the user in the viewing reservation means 16 shown in FIG. 1, and the reservation information storage step is a process in the reservation information storage means 17 shown in FIG. In this step, the viewing reservation received in the step is stored as reservation information including at least channel and time information. Further, the reservation information display step is a process in the reservation information display means 15 shown in FIG. 1, that is, viewing reservation confirmation information of the reservation information before the time indicated by the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage step arrives. Is a step of instructing the OSD processing unit 61 to display viewing reservation confirmation information.

  Further, the transfer operation accepting step is a process in the transfer operation accepting means 19 shown in FIG. 1, that is, a transfer operation for transferring the reservation information displayed in the reservation information display step to the channel indicated by the reservation information. This is a step for receiving a user operation such as “confirmation” received from the input processing unit 62 at the time of displaying the reservation confirmation information, in a step of performing a process of accepting from the user by a predetermined operation regardless of the channel number.

  In the channel switching step, when the predetermined operation is received in the process in the transfer instruction means 18 in FIG. 1, that is, the transfer operation receiving step, the channel indicated by the reservation information is received at the time when the predetermined operation is received or at the time indicated by the reservation information. This is the step of switching. For example, when the “confirmation” user operation is received, the channel tuning unit 60 detects the arrival of the start time read from the memory 56 from the time information in the time measuring unit 58, and the channel tuning unit 60 also has the same memory. The channel number read from 56 is instructed to be selected. When the user operation of “confirmation (immediate transition)” is received, the channel selection unit 60 is instructed to select the channel number read from the memory 56 immediately. When a “Cancel” user operation is received, the corresponding reservation information is deleted from the reservation management table 56 in the memory 56. When a user operation of “recording” is accepted, the channel selection unit 60 detects the arrival of the start time read from the memory 56 from the time information in the time measuring unit 58, and the channel selection unit 60 also receives from the memory 56. The channel number read out is instructed to be selected, and the recording processing unit 65 is instructed to perform recording processing from the start time to the end time.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the viewing reservation confirmation process in the television receiver of FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a screen example of the viewing reservation process in the television receiver of FIG.

  The processing example of FIG. 6 is a processing example from when an operation for displaying an EPG is performed on the television receiver 5. First, in a scene where the power is turned on by pressing the power button 71 of the remote controller 70, the input processing unit 62 receives the operation by the EPG display operation (pressing a certain key) of the remote controller 70, and the control unit 57 Transmit to. Thus, the control unit 57 instructs the OSD processing unit 61 to read the EPG data 56b from the memory 56 and display it. Based on this command, the OSD processing unit 61 displays the EPG 80 of FIG. 7 on the liquid crystal display unit 67 so as to be superimposed on the video signal (step S1). In the EPG 80, each program is displayed for each time zone and channel. For example, as shown by a program 81, a broadcast station, a broadcast date, a start time, an end time, a genre, a program name, the number of broadcasts, performers, and Along with information such as broadcast contents, a “viewing reservation” selection area 82 and a “recording reservation” selection area 83 are displayed.

  Subsequently, the control unit 57 determines whether or not a viewing reservation operation has been performed by a predetermined operation (selecting operation of the “viewing reservation” selection area 82 of the program 81 to be viewed on the EPG 80) on the remote controller 70 (step S2). In that case, the viewing reservation is written as reservation information in the reservation management table 56a of the memory 56 (step S3). When there is no viewing reservation operation in step S2 and subsequent to step S3, the control unit 57 acquires time information from the time measuring unit 58 (step S4), and refers to the reservation management table 56a of the memory 56, for a predetermined time period. It is determined whether or not there is a viewing reservation that becomes (step S5).

  If the result of determination in step S5 is that there is no corresponding viewing reservation, the flow returns to step S2 to wait for input of a new viewing reservation operation. On the other hand, when there is a corresponding viewing reservation, the control unit 57 reads out the reservation information (or other reservation information when overlapping display is permitted) from the reservation management table 56a, and the OSD processing unit 61. On the other hand, the viewing reservation confirmation information 20 as illustrated in FIG. 2 or the viewing reservation confirmation information 4 in the list as illustrated in FIG. 4 is displayed (step S6).

  In the display state of step S6, the control unit 57 waits for an operation with the move / decision button 73 of the remote controller 70 (step S7). If there is a corresponding user operation, is the operation “cancel”? (Step S8), it is determined whether it is “transition to recording” (step S9), “immediate transition” (step S10), or other (ie, “confirmation”).

  If it is determined as “confirmed” in steps S8 to S10, the control unit 57 refers to the time information obtained from the reservation management table 56a and the time measuring unit 58, and has the start time indicated by the reservation information arrived? If it does not arrive, time information is acquired again from the time measuring unit 58 (step S12), and the process returns to step S11. If it is determined in step S11 that it has arrived, the control unit 57 sends an instruction to the channel selection unit 60 to switch to the channel indicated by the reservation information (step S13). Also, in the case of YES in step S10, that is, in the case of an immediate transition operation, the control unit 57 immediately executes the process of step S13 regardless of the start time.

  In the case of YES in step S9, that is, when it is determined to be “shift to recording”, the control unit 57 refers to the time information obtained from the reservation management table 56a and the time measuring unit 58, and the reservation information indicates it. It is determined whether or not the start time has arrived (step S14). If the start time has not arrived, time information is obtained again from the timer 58 (step S15), and the process returns to step S14. If it is determined in step S14, the control unit 57 sends an instruction to the channel selection unit 60 to switch to the channel indicated by the reservation information, and also sends the video and video to the storage unit 66 to the recording processing unit 65. An instruction is sent to record audio data (step S16).

  Also, in the case of YES in step S8, that is, in the case of a cancel operation, the control unit 57 instructs the memory 56 to delete the corresponding reservation information in the reservation management table 56a (step S17).

  On the other hand, when it is determined in step S7 that the corresponding user operation has not been performed, the control unit 57 refers to the time information obtained from the reservation management table 56a and the time measuring unit 58, and the start indicated by the reservation information It is determined whether or not the time has arrived (step S18). If the time has not arrived, time information is obtained again from the timer 58 (step S19), and the process returns to step S7. If it is determined in step S18 that it has arrived, the control unit 57 executes the process of step S17.

  As described above, the processing examples described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7 are part of the embodiments described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4 and are not all described. it can.

It is a block diagram which shows one structural example of the broadcast receiver which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the viewing reservation confirmation screen in the broadcast receiving apparatus of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the reservation management table in the broadcast receiver of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the viewing reservation confirmation information displayed based on the reservation management table of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the example of 1 structure of the television receiver to which this invention is applied. FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an example of viewing reservation confirmation processing in the television receiver of FIG. 5. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen of the viewing-and-listening process in the television receiver of FIG.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Broadcast receiving apparatus, 2 ... Display screen, 3 ... Reservation management table, 4,20 ... Viewing reservation confirmation information, 5 ... Television receiver, 11 ... Broadcast receiving means, 12 ... Channel (CH) selection means, 13 ... Broadcast Reproduction means, 14 ... time keeping means, 15 ... reservation information display means, 16 ... viewing reservation means, 17 ... reservation information storage means, 17t, 56a ... reservation management table, 18 ... migration instruction means, 19 ... migration operation acceptance means, 51 ... Terrestrial tuner, 52 ... BS digital tuner, 53 ... Terrestrial receiver circuit, 54 ... BS digital receiver circuit, 55 ... Program information decoding unit, 56 ... Memory, 56b ... EPG data, 57 ... Control unit, 58 ... Timing unit 59 ... Input signal switching unit, 60 ... Channel tuning unit, 61 ... OSD processing unit, 62 ... Input processing unit, 63 ... Video signal processing unit, 64 ... Audio signal processing unit, 65 ... Recording process Parts, 66 ... storage unit, 67 ... liquid crystal display unit, 68 ... speaker, 70 ... remote control, 71 ... power button, 72 ... channel selection buttons, 73 ... mobile-decision button.

Claims (11)

  Broadcast receiving means for receiving a broadcast signal, broadcast reproducing means for reproducing the broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiving means, and channel selecting means for selecting a channel received by the broadcast receiving means and to be reproduced by the broadcast reproducing means A viewing reservation unit that receives a viewing reservation from a user, and a reservation information storage unit that stores the viewing reservation received by the viewing reservation unit as reservation information including at least channel and time information. Reservation information display means for displaying part or all of the reservation information before a predetermined time before the time indicated by the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means arrives, and reservation information displayed by the reservation information display means On the other hand, a transition operation for shifting to the channel indicated by the reservation information is received from the user by a predetermined operation regardless of the channel number. And the reservation information is indicated to the channel selection means at the time when the predetermined operation is received or at the time indicated by the reservation information when the predetermined operation is received by the transfer operation receiving means. A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising transition instruction means for instructing switching to a channel.   If the predetermined operation is not received by the transfer operation accepting unit even when the time indicated by the reservation information has arrived for the reservation information stored in the reservation information storing unit, the transfer instructing unit The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for instructing a storage means to delete the reservation information.   The transition operation accepting means has means for accepting, from the user, a cancel operation for canceling the viewing reservation indicated by the reservation information for the reservation information displayed by the reservation information display means, and the transition instruction means 3. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for instructing the reservation information storage means to delete the reservation information when an operation is received.   CM detection means for detecting a CM from a broadcast signal received by the broadcast receiving means, and the reservation information display means detects a part or all of the reservation information within the predetermined time and the CM by the CM detection means. 4. The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast receiving apparatus is displayed only when it is detected.   The said reservation information display means has a means to change the color of the said display in steps from the said predetermined time before the time which the said reservation information shows, The Claim 1 thru | or 4 characterized by the above-mentioned. Broadcast receiver.   The reservation information display means is a part or all of the certain reservation information when the time indicated by the certain reservation information among a plurality of reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means is a predetermined time before the arrival. And a means for displaying a part or all of reservation information whose time is included within a predetermined period among other reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means as a list. The broadcast receiving device according to any one of 1 to 5.   The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the list includes reservation information to be displayed arranged in order of start time.   The viewing reservation means includes means for making a viewing reservation by making the predetermined time and / or the predetermined period different for each of a plurality of reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means. 8. The broadcast receiving device according to 7.   The viewing reservation means includes means for attaching viewing priority to reservation information that overlaps from the start time to the end time among the plurality of reservation information stored in the reservation information storage means, and displays the reservation information display The broadcast receiving apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display unit displays the list with the priority order.   A recording reservation unit for receiving a recording reservation from a user; and a recording unit for executing the recording reservation received by the recording reservation unit, wherein the broadcast receiving unit can simultaneously receive a plurality of broadcast signals, and The operation accepting unit performs a recording operation for recording the reservation information displayed by the reservation information display unit on the channel and time indicated by the reservation information by the recording unit, regardless of the channel number. The channel is indicated by the reservation information to the channel selection unit at a time indicated by the reservation information when the other operation is received by the transfer operation receiving unit. The release instruction according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein an instruction to switch to and an instruction to execute recording are given to the recording means. The receiving device.   A program for incorporating in a broadcast receiving apparatus that receives and reproduces a broadcast signal, and includes a viewing reservation step for receiving a viewing reservation from a user and a viewing reservation received in the viewing reservation step in the control unit of the broadcast receiving apparatus. A reservation information storing step for storing reservation information including at least channel and time information, and part or all of the reservation information before a predetermined time before the time indicated by the reservation information stored in the reservation information storage step arrives A reservation information display step for displaying the reservation information, and a transition operation for shifting the reservation information displayed in the reservation information display step to the channel indicated by the reservation information by a predetermined operation regardless of the channel number. A transition operation reception step to be received, and the predetermined operation when the predetermined operation is received in the transition operation reception step. Create the time indicated by the time or the reservation information accepting a program for causing and a step of switching to a channel showing the reservation information.

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