JP2008252175A - Information processor and reserved video recording method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor and a reserved video recording method such that real-time information can be acquired automatically and reflected on reserved video recording of a program. <P>SOLUTION: A net retrieval function unit 35 receives a direct keyword from a web site specified with a URL related to a selected pull-down menu and performs keyword retrieval using the direct keyword from a program reservation table 39, and a program reserving function unit 37 reserves video recording of a retrieved program. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus such as a personal computer, and more particularly to an information processing apparatus having a function for reserved recording of broadcast program data and a reserved recording method used in the apparatus.

In general, in a technique for automatically recording a TV program to be broadcast, a technique is used in which the program list data obtained is searched for using a keyword, and the program corresponding to the keyword is automatically reserved for recording. In such a search technique, a technique for searching for music is also disclosed. For example, a technique for searching a music dictionary from a melody based on voice or a musical instrument to find a target music is disclosed (see Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-138691

  However, with the technique described above, the search is performed by the user himself / herself, and real-time information cannot be automatically acquired from a website on the Internet and reflected in the reserved recording.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-described circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an information processing apparatus and a reservation recording method capable of automatically acquiring real-time information and reflecting the information in a reserved recording of a program. To do.

  In order to achieve the above object, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus for recording a program by using program guide information, wherein a plurality of predetermined selection menu information and the selection menu information are recorded. And a storage means for storing the program information and the address of the website associated with the selected selection menu information when the plurality of selection menu information is selected. From the storage means, receiving means for receiving keyword information from the website specified by the read website address, and reading out the program guide information from the storage means and reading out the program guide Search means for performing a keyword search for the information using the keyword information received by the receiving means; and The information processing apparatus characterized by comprising a, a timer recording means for performing reserved recording of programs is searched by search means.

  Further, it is a reservation recording method for recording a program by using program guide information, wherein a plurality of predetermined selection menu information, a website address associated with each of the selection menu information, and the program information And when the plurality of selection menu information is selected, the address of the website associated with the selected selection menu information is read from the storage means and the read-out A receiving step of receiving keyword information from a website specified by an address of the website; reading out the program guide information from the storage means; and the keyword received by the receiving step with respect to the read program guide information A search step for performing a keyword search using information, and the search step Reserved recording method characterized by having a reservation recording step of performing reserved recording of the searched program is provided.

  According to the present invention, real-time information can be automatically acquired and reflected in reserved recording of a program.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
First, the configuration of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. This information processing apparatus is realized as, for example, a notebook personal computer 10.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the notebook personal computer 10 with the display unit opened. The computer 10 includes a computer main body 11 and a display unit 12. The display unit 12 incorporates a display device composed of a TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display) 17, and the display screen of the LCD 17 is positioned substantially at the center of the display unit 12.

  The display unit 12 is attached to the computer main body 11 so as to be rotatable between an open position and a closed position. The computer main body 11 has a thin box-shaped housing, and has a keyboard 13 on its upper surface, a power button 14 for powering on / off the computer 10, an input operation panel 15, a touch pad 16, and a speaker. 18A, 18B, etc. are arranged.

  The input operation panel 15 is an input device that inputs an event corresponding to a pressed button, and includes a plurality of buttons for starting a plurality of functions. These button groups also include operation buttons for controlling the TV function of the computer 10.

  Further, a remote control unit interface unit 20 for executing communication with a remote control unit for controlling the TV function of the computer 10 is provided on the front surface of the computer main body 11. The remote control unit interface unit 20 includes an infrared signal receiving unit and the like.

  The computer 10 can receive and reproduce broadcast program data such as terrestrial digital TV broadcast. An antenna terminal 19 for terrestrial digital TV broadcasting is provided on the right side surface of the computer main body 11.

  Next, the system configuration of the computer 10 will be described with reference to FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the computer 10 includes a CPU 101, a north bridge 102, a main memory 103, a south bridge 104, a graphics processing unit (GPU) 105, a video memory (VRAM) 105A, a sound controller 106, a BIOS- A ROM 109, a LAN controller 110, a hard disk drive (HDD) 111, a DVD drive 112, an Internet connection unit 114, an embedded controller / keyboard controller IC (EC / KBC) 116, a digital TV tuner 117, and the like are provided.

  The CPU 101 is a processor that controls the operation of the computer 10, and executes an operating system, a TV application 30, and the like that are loaded from the hard disk drive (HDD) 111 to the main memory 103. The CPU 101 also executes a BIOS (Basic Input Output System) stored in the BIOS-ROM 109. The BIOS is a program for hardware control.

  The north bridge 112 is a bridge device that connects the local bus of the CPU 101 and the south bridge 104. The north bridge 102 also includes a memory controller that controls access to the main memory 103. The north bridge 102 also has a function of executing communication with the GPU 105 through a PCI EXPRESS standard serial bus or the like.

  The GPU 105 is a display controller that controls the LCD 17 used as a display monitor of the computer 10. A display signal generated by the GPU 105 is sent to the LCD 17. The display signal can also be sent to an external TV 1 and an external HDMI monitor via interfaces 3 and 4 provided in the computer main body 11, respectively.

  The south bridge 104 controls each device on an LPC (Low Pin Count) bus and each device on a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus. The south bridge 104 incorporates an IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) controller for controlling the HDD 111 and the DVD drive 112. Further, the south bridge 104 has a function of executing communication with the sound controller 106.

  The sound controller 106 is a sound source device and outputs audio data to be reproduced to the speakers 18A and 18B.

  The Internet connection unit 114 is a device that mediates connection with the Internet, such as a LAN (Local Area Network), a modem, and the like. The embedded controller / keyboard controller IC (EC / KBC) 116 is a one-chip microcomputer in which an embedded controller for power management and a keyboard controller for controlling the keyboard (KB) 13 and the touch pad 16 are integrated. . The embedded controller / keyboard controller IC (EC / KBC) 116 has a function of powering on / off the computer 10 in accordance with the operation of the power button 14 by the user. Further, the embedded controller / keyboard controller IC (EC / KBC) 116 has a function of executing communication with the remote control unit interface 20.

  The digital TV tuner 117 is a receiving device that receives a digital broadcast program such as terrestrial digital TV broadcast, and is connected to the antenna terminal 19. The digital TV tuner 117 includes a tuner circuit 201 and an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) demodulator 202. The tuner circuit 201 receives a broadcast signal of a specific channel from TV broadcast signals input from the antenna terminal 19. An OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) demodulator 202 demodulates a broadcast signal of a specific channel received by the tuner circuit 201 and extracts a transport stream (TS) from the broadcast signal of the specific channel. A transport stream is a data stream obtained by multiplexing broadcast program data that has been compression-encoded. In terrestrial digital TV broadcasting, a transport stream (TS) corresponding to broadcast program data of each channel includes compression-coded moving image data, compression-coded audio data, and graphics data. Graphics data is also compressed and encoded. The graphics data includes subtitle data, still images, and character / graphic data. Still images and text / graphics data are included as data broadcasts in the broadcast program data of each channel. Data broadcasting provides weather forecasts, news, etc.

  In terrestrial digital TV broadcasting, subtitles are referred to as “Caption data”, still images are referred to as “Picture”, and character / graphic data is referred to as “Figure”. Script information describing a procedure for presenting the graphics data is added to the graphics data. This script information is described in a script language called BML (Broadcast Markup Language). The script information specifies when and where each component element constituting the graphics data is displayed.

  Next, FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the TV application.

  The TV application 30 includes a recording function section 31, a playback function section 32, an indirect keyword user input function section 33, a program reservation indirect keyword storage area 34, a net search function section 35, a program reservation direct keyword storage area 36, a program reservation function section. 37. The recording function unit 31 records the TV program received by the digital TV tuner 117. When a TV program is received via the Internet connection unit 114, it is recorded. The playback function unit 32 plays back the program data recorded by the recording function unit 31 and stored in the HDD 111 or the like as storage means. The indirect keyword user input function unit 33 selects one menu by a user operation from a predetermined pull-down menu (indirect keyword: a plurality of selection menu information) described later. The program reservation indirect keyword storage area 34 is a storage area in, for example, the HDD 111 that stores Internet addresses (URL: Uniform Resource Locator) corresponding to the pull-down menu and the pull-down menu described above. The net search function unit 35 searches the information 38 on the Internet based on the Internet address via the Internet connection unit 114 to search for desired information. The program reservation direct keyword storage area 36 is, for example, a storage area in the HDD 111 that stores keywords (direct keywords) searched by the net search function unit 35. The program reservation function unit 37 receives the program reservation table 39, performs keyword search using the keyword directly in the received program reservation table 39 (program guide data), and directly reserves a program related to the keyword.

  Next, a reservation recording method to which the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  The CPU 101 loads the TV application 30 from the HDD 111 to the main memory 103. The indirect keyword user input function unit 33 of the TV application 30 detects an indirect keyword input by the user (step S101). For example, the indirect keyword is input by a pull-down menu 50 as shown in FIG. The pull-down menu 50 includes, for example, “Today's sale No. 1 TV”, “Today's online search No. 1 talent”, “Today's sale No. 1 CD”, “Stock Price”, “Weather”, and the like. Can be mentioned. For example, it is assumed that the indirect keyword is selected from the “Today's sales No. 1 CD” pull-down menu 50.

  The TV application 30 stores the indirect keyword: “Today's sales No. 1 CD” in the program reservation indirect keyword storage area 34 (step S102). The net search function unit 35 accesses the URL http://www.003.co.jp, which is a URL corresponding to the indirect keyword: “CD of today's sales No. 1”, via the Internet. For example, it is assumed that the URL is a website that publishes a daily ranking 41 of CD singles as shown in FIG. The net search function unit (receiving means for receiving keyword information) 35 accesses the website, and the net search function unit 35 analyzes the syntax of the website. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the source code of the website is read, and “Artist 1”, which is the artist ranking 1 in the table tag “<table”, is extracted and received (step S103). Thus, the URL corresponding to the indirect keyword is a website capable of analyzing the syntax.

  The direct keyword “artist 1” received by the net search function unit 35 is stored in the program reservation direct keyword storage area 36. The program reservation function unit 37 directly reads the keyword: “Artist 1” from the program reservation direct keyword storage area 36, performs keyword search using the keyword directly on the received program reservation table 39 (program guide data), and directly The program related to the keyword is reserved (step S104).

  As a modification, when a URL corresponding to an indirect keyword is registered, if the website corresponding to the URL is a site corresponding to an API (Application Program Interface), The net search function unit 35 transmits a predetermined command. For example, if you want to search for information on the title with the second highest CD sales, send the command “CD_RANK (Fn1, Fn2)” to a website that supports the API. Information on the second-ranked title is transmitted to the net search function unit (receiving means for receiving keyword information) 35. The net search function unit 35 performs a keyword search using the direct keyword that is the received keyword on the program guide data, and reserves a program directly related to the keyword.

  Next, FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a TV application corresponding to a learning function which is another embodiment of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. The difference from the above-described embodiment is that a learning function unit 55 and a learning result information storage area 56 are further provided. The learning function unit 55 learns whether or not the user adopts the direct keyword received by the net search function unit 35. For example, direct keywords that have not been adopted by the user are excluded from keyword searches for program guide data. Learning is also performed according to the viewing status of the recorded program data. For example, if the recorded program data is deleted without being reproduced, the direct keyword corresponding to the deleted program data (direct keyword used to search the deleted program data from the program guide data) is also used. Remove from keyword search for program schedule data. The learning result information is stored in the learning result information storage area 56 in the HDD 111 or the like.

  With reference to the flowchart of FIG. 9, the reservation recording method by the TV application corresponding to the learning function will be described.

  Steps S201 to S203 are the same as steps S101 to S103 described above. The learning function unit 55 of the TV application 30 includes direct keywords that have not been adopted by the user based on the learning result information stored in the learning result information storage area 56 among the direct keywords received by the net search function unit 35. Then, it is removed from the keyword search target for the program guide data (step S204).

  The learning function unit 55 prompts the user to select whether or not to record the direct keyword received by the net search function unit 35 (whether to remove from the keyword search target for the program guide data), and the selection result is learned result information. The data is stored in the storage area 56 (step S205). When a keyword is directly selected in step S205, the program reservation function unit 37 performs a keyword search using the keyword directly on the received program reservation table 39 (program guide data), and directly searches for a program related to the keyword. A reservation is made (step S206). It should be noted that the learning result information stored in the learning result information storage area 56 can be manually added or deleted directly with keywords.

  As described above, it is possible to automatically acquire a real-time direct keyword from the Internet without directly inputting the keyword by the user and reflect it in the reserved recording of the TV program. In addition, since a learning function is provided, it is possible to perform reserved recording of TV programs according to user preferences.

  Further, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as they are, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of components disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine a component suitably in different embodiment.

The perspective view showing the general view of the computer concerning one embodiment of the present invention. The block diagram which shows the example of the system configuration | structure of the computer which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The block diagram which showed the function structure etc. of TV application which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The flowchart explaining the reservation recording method which concerns on the computer which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The schematic diagram which showed the pull-down menu. The schematic diagram which showed the website which publishes the daily ranking of CD single. The schematic diagram which showed the source code of the website which publishes the daily ranking of CD single. The block diagram which showed the function structure of the TV application etc. corresponding to the learning function which is another embodiment which concerns on the information processing apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The flowchart explaining another embodiment of the reservation recording method concerning the computer which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... TV, 10 ... Computer, 30 ... TV application, 101 ... CPU, 103 ... Main memory, 105 ... Display controller (GPU), 105A ... Video memory (VRAM), 114 ... Internet connection part, 117 ... Digital TV tuner.

Claims (10)

An information processing apparatus for recording a program by using program guide information,
Storage means for storing a plurality of predetermined selection menu information, a website address associated with each of the selection menu information, and the program information;
When the plurality of selection menu information is selected, the address of the website associated with the selected selection menu information is read from the storage means, and from the website specified by the read website address Receiving means for receiving keyword information;
Search means for reading out the program guide information from the storage means and performing keyword search on the read program guide information using the keyword information received by the receiving means;
Reservation recording means for performing reservation recording of the program searched by the search means;
An information processing apparatus comprising: The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The system further comprises an analysis unit that accesses the website and analyzes the syntax of the website, the analysis unit extracts a keyword by analyzing the syntax of the website, and the extracted keyword An information processing apparatus, wherein the information is received by the receiving means. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The website is a site corresponding to the application program interface, and by transmitting a predetermined command to the website, the website assigns a keyword corresponding to the predetermined command to the predetermined command. An information processing apparatus that transmits to the source of the information. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The learning means further comprises one or more of a function for analyzing the viewing status of the program recorded by the reserved recording means and a function for analyzing the adoption status of the keywords received by the receiving means. An information processing apparatus characterized in that the analysis result is reflected in the reserved recording of a program. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,
The information processing apparatus characterized in that the analysis result can be set manually. A scheduled recording method for recording a program by using program guide information,
A storage step of storing a plurality of predetermined selection menu information, a website address associated with each of the selection menu information, and the program information in a storage unit;
When the plurality of selection menu information is selected, the address of the website associated with the selected selection menu information is read from the storage means, and from the website specified by the read website address A receiving step for receiving keyword information;
A search step of reading the program guide information from the storage means, and performing a keyword search on the read program guide information using the keyword information received by the receiving step;
A reserved recording step of performing a reserved recording of the program searched by the searching step;
A scheduled recording method characterized by comprising: The reservation recording method according to claim 6,
A reservation recording method, wherein the website is accessed, keywords are extracted, and the extracted keywords are received by the receiving step. The reservation recording method according to claim 6,
The website is a site corresponding to the application program interface, and by transmitting a predetermined command to the website, the website assigns a keyword corresponding to the predetermined command to the predetermined command. A scheduled recording method characterized by transmitting to a transmission source of The reservation recording method according to claim 6,
It has at least one of a function for analyzing the viewing status of the program that has been reserved and recorded in the reserved recording step and a function for analyzing the adoption status of the keywords received in the receiving step, and the analysis result is displayed as a program. The scheduled recording method, which is reflected in the scheduled recording. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9,
The scheduled recording method, wherein the analysis result can be manually set.

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