JP2009272899A - Television receiver corresponding to plurality of display languages - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to correctly understand display contents by always and properly displaying a character string in a television corresponding to a plurality of display languages. <P>SOLUTION: A television obtains information of a character string to be displayed (S1) and calculates a length of the character string (S2). Next, the television obtains a length of a display space wherein the character string is displayed (S3) and determines whether or not the length of the character string is longer than that of the display space (S4). When the length of the character string is shorter than that of the display space (NO in S4), the television displays the character string on a screen as it is (S5). When the length of the character string is longer than that of the display space (YES in S4), the television searches a character database part (S6). When there is a short character string having the same meaning as that of the character string to be displayed (YES in S7) and the character string is shorter than the length of the display space (YES in S8), the television displays the short character string (S9). When there is no proper character string (NO in S7), the television displays the original character string in a scroll format (S10). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a television receiver corresponding to a plurality of display languages having an on-screen display function.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a television receiver that has an on-screen display function (hereinafter referred to as an OSD function) and displays a currently selected channel and volume as characters and symbols on a screen is known. There is also known a television receiver that can display program information transmitted from a broadcasting station as digital information together with video / audio signals on a screen as a television program guide (for example, see Patent Document 1).

In the television receiver described in Patent Document 1, the number of character strings that the built-in control microcomputer can display in the column for displaying the program name in the TV program guide and the character string of the program name in the transmitted program information When the latter is larger than the former, a symbol indicating omission such as “...” Is added to the end of the program name character string and the information is omitted. Therefore, when the user looks at the TV program guide, it can easily identify whether the program name displayed in the TV program guide is omitted, and the user can find other information sources such as newspapers. By referencing, it is possible to know a program name that is not omitted easily.
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  By the way, in the information displayed on the TV screen by the OSD function, in addition to the TV program guide, functions of the television receiver such as a menu screen displayed when various settings such as image and sound are performed. There is a screen that displays itself. Specifically, for example, there is a menu screen for adjusting the brightness, image quality, and sound quality of the screen of the television receiver. This screen includes “brightness adjustment”, “image quality adjustment”, “sound quality adjustment”, etc. A character string is displayed as a setting item. Then, the user can select any setting item by operating the remote controller to move the cursor to the position of the desired setting item.

  The character string such as “Brightness Adjustment” displayed on the menu screen is stored in advance in a memory built in the television receiver, and is set to a character string having a length that fits in a predetermined display space on the menu screen. ing.

  On the other hand, there is a television receiver corresponding to a plurality of display languages (hereinafter referred to as a “multi-display language compatible TV”) that can switch the characters displayed on the screen to different languages according to the destination country. In the compatible television, when the language setting is switched according to the destination country, the item name displayed on the screen is changed from the default language to the designated language. At this time, depending on the item name, the changed character string may exceed a predetermined display space on the screen.

  For example, on a multi-display language compatible TV set with Japanese as the default, when the display language setting is switched to English, the English `` BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT '' corresponding to `` brightness adjustment '' in Japanese is a character string Since the length becomes long, there is a possibility that it does not fit in a predetermined display space of the menu screen.

  On the screen that displays the function of the television receiver itself, such as the menu screen, the problem is solved by omitting the character string as in the case of the program guide disclosed in Patent Document 1. It is not appropriate to plan. In other words, on the screen that displays the function of the television receiver itself, the user needs to be able to correctly grasp the contents simply by looking at the display screen. I cannot understand the display contents of.

  Therefore, the present invention solves the above problems, and even when the display language setting is switched from the default, an inappropriate character string such as a part missing is not displayed on the screen. It is an object of the present invention to provide a television receiver corresponding to a plurality of display languages, in which a user can correctly understand display contents by looking at a screen.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 includes a character string determining means for determining a character string to be displayed on-screen on a screen (hereinafter referred to as a display character string), and the character string determining means. In a television receiver that supports a plurality of display languages, including an on-screen display means for displaying the determined display character string on the screen, the display language is switched to a language other than the default language. The language translation means for translating the display character string determined by the character string determination means into the switched language, and the length of the display space on the screen required by the character string translated by the language translation means (Hereinafter referred to as a display character string length) a length calculation means, a display character string length calculated by the length calculation means, and a display character string display And comparing means for comparing the length of the display space allocated on the screen, and as a result of comparison by the comparing means, when it is determined that the display character string length is longer than the length of the display space The display character string includes a replacement display means for displaying the display character string by replacing it with another character string having the same meaning as that of the display space or shorter than the display space.

  According to a second aspect of the invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the replacement display means stores a plurality of preset character strings in association with the length of each character string and information representing meaning contents. When the database unit and the comparison means determine that the display character string length is longer than the display space length, the display character string is selected from the character strings stored in the character database unit. Searching means for searching for a character string having the same meaning and the length of the character string being the same as or shorter than the length of the display space.

  The invention according to claim 3 is the invention according to claim 2, wherein the search means is synonymous with the display character string from among the character strings stored in the character database section, and the length of the character string is the display space. Scroll display means for displaying the display character string in a scroll form in a display space allocated on the screen when a character string having a length equal to or shorter than the length of the character string cannot be searched. It is characterized by.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the second or third aspect of the present invention, the present television receiver is connected to an external server, and a character string stored in the character database unit is downloaded from the external server. It is updated by a character string.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the display language setting is switched from the default language on the multi-display language-compatible television, the translated character string should be displayed if it is longer than the length of the display space. Since the character string is synonymous with it and replaced with another character string that fits in the display space, the user can easily understand the display content of the screen by looking only at the display on the screen.

  According to the invention of claim 2, since the character string to be replaced is retrieved from the character database section in which a plurality of character strings are stored in association with the information representing the length of each character string and the meaning content, more appropriate characters A column is displayed.

  According to the invention of claim 3, when the proper character string to be replaced cannot be retrieved from the character string stored in the character database unit, the translated character string is displayed in the scroll format, so that the user scrolls. By performing the operation, the entire translated character string can be seen and the display content of the screen can be understood.

  According to the invention of claim 4, since the character database part is updated with a new character string downloaded from the external server, a more appropriate character string is displayed in the display space.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5. As shown in FIG. 1, the television 1 for multiple display languages according to the present embodiment is separated from a digital signal received by the antenna 2 and the receiving unit 3 into a video / audio signal and an information signal. An A / V decoder 5 that decodes the video / audio signal and a screen 6 that displays the decoded video signal as an image are provided. The user can view the image displayed on the screen 6. The information signal separated by the separator 4 is decoded by the information decoder 7 and transmitted to the microprocessor 8 described later for processing.

  The multi-display language-compatible television 1 includes a microprocessor 8 (character string determination means, on-screen display means, language translation means, length calculation means, comparison means, replacement display means, search, which controls the entire television. And a scroll display means), and the user transmits an operation signal a to the microprocessor 8 by operating the remote controller 9 to change various settings such as channel change, volume change, and screen brightness setting. can do. Specifically, the operation signal a transmitted from the remote controller 9 is received by the microprocessor 8 via the infrared light receiving unit 10, and the television 1 corresponding to the multiple display language is variously changed according to the operation signal received by the microprocessor 8. Make it work. Further, the microprocessor 8 processes an information signal received via the information decoder 7 and adds information on a new character string included in the information signal to a character database unit 18 described later. This will be described in detail later.

  Now, the microprocessor 8 displays an on-screen display menu screen (hereinafter referred to as OSD display) on the screen 6 in response to the operation signal a from the remote controller 9, and the OSD display screen is used to brighten the user. A case of adjusting the height will be described. First, when the user presses the menu button 9m of the remote controller 9, the microprocessor 8 reads display screen data stored in advance in the storage unit 11, outputs the data to the image composition unit 12, and displays the data on the screen 6 as a menu screen. indicate.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of the menu screen M displayed on the screen 6. The character string “adjustment menu” is displayed as a title in the upper display space 13, and selection items are displayed in the lower three display spaces 14, 15, and 16. The character strings “brightness adjustment”, “image quality adjustment”, and “sound quality adjustment” are displayed. In a state where the menu screen M is displayed, the user can move the cursor 17 up and down by operating the remote controller 9 to select one of the selection items. The menu screen M is an example when the display language is set to Japanese by default.

  In the multiple display language compatible television 1, the display language can be switched to a language other than the default language according to the destination. For example, when the destination is English-speaking, the display language setting is switched to English at the shipping stage. Alternatively, in an area where there are two or more official languages, English / French, French / German, etc. are switched by user settings. When the setting of the display language is switched as described above, the microprocessor 8 translates and displays the character string displayed on the screen 6 with reference to the dictionary 8a included in the microprocessor 8 itself.

  Specifically, when the menu screen M is displayed by the user operating the remote control 9 as in the above example, the microprocessor 8 uses the Japanese character strings “adjustment menu” “brightness adjustment” “image quality adjustment”. "Sound quality adjustment" is translated into English strings "ADJUSTMENT", "BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT", "VISUAL QUALITY ADJUSTMENT", "SOUND QUALITY ADJUSTMENT", and displayed in the predetermined display spaces 13-16 of the menu screen M, respectively. decide.

  However, since the character string display spaces 13 to 16 on the screen are fixed, the translated character string may exceed the length of the display spaces 13 to 16 depending on the character string. Therefore, in the television 1 for multiple display languages, the length of the character string translated by the microprocessor 8 is compared with the lengths of the display spaces 13 to 16, and the length of the character string is longer than the length of the display space. When it is determined that the character string is long, another character string that is synonymous with the character string and is equal to or shorter than the length of the display space is searched from the character database unit 18, and the searched character string is displayed in the display spaces 13 to 13. 16 is displayed.

  The character database unit 18 is composed of a RAM, and a large number of character strings are stored in association with the length of each character string and information representing meaning contents. Specifically, for example, “BRIGHTNESS ADJ” is stored as character string length X and meaning content “brightness adjustment”.

  Hereinafter, the display procedure of the character string executed by the microprocessor 8 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The microprocessor 8 first acquires information on the character string to be displayed (S1). In the above example, the microprocessor 8 acquires the translated character strings “ADJUSTMENT”, “BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT”, “VISUAL QUALITY ADJUSTMENT”, and “SOUND QUALITY ADJUSTMENT”.

  Next, the microprocessor 8 calculates the length of the character string from the acquired font information of the character string and the number of blanks between words, and stores the calculated value as the character string length A (S2). Furthermore, the microprocessor 8 acquires the length of the display spaces 13 to 16 on the screen, stores this as the display space length B (S3), and whether the character string length A is longer than the display space length B. It is determined whether or not (A> B) (S4).

  Here, for example, when the character string is “ADJUSTMENT” and the length A of this character string is shorter than the length B of the display space 13, the microprocessor 8 makes a NO determination in S4, The column “ADJUSTMENT” is displayed as it is on the menu screen M (S5). FIG. 4 shows a state in which the character string “ADJUSTMENT” is displayed as it is in the title display space 13 of the menu screen M.

  If the character string is “BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT” and the length A of this character string is longer than the length B of the display space 14, the microprocessor 8 makes a determination of YES in S4, and the character database section. 18 searches are performed (S6). The microprocessor 8 determines whether or not there is a character string whose semantic content is “brightness adjustment” from among many character strings stored in the character database unit 18 (S7). If there is (YES in S7), it is determined whether or not the length of the character string is shorter than the length B of the display space 14 (S8).

  Since the character string stored in the character database unit 18 is stored in association with the length of each character string and information representing the semantic content, the microprocessor 8 can easily synonymously with the character string to be displayed. Thus, another character string shorter than the length of the display space 14 can be searched from a large number of character strings stored in the character database unit 18. For example, the microprocessor 8 can easily search for “BRIGHTNESS ADJ” which is synonymous with “BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT”. Then, the microprocessor 8 displays the short expression “BRIGHTNESS ADJ” found as a result of the search in the display space 14 of the menu screen M (S9). A state in which the character string “BRIGHTNESS ADJ” is displayed in the display space 14 of the menu screen M is shown in FIG.

  Similarly, the microprocessor 8 finds “VISUAL QLTY ADJ” from the character database 18 for the character string “VISUAL QUALITY ADJUSTMENT”, and “SOUND QLTY ADJSTMENT” for the character string “SOUND QUALITY ADJUSTMENT”. Can be found. FIG. 4 shows a state in which the character strings “VISUAL QLTY ADJ” and “SOUND QLTY ADJ” are displayed in the display spaces 15 and 16 of the menu screen M. Each abbreviation “BRIGHTNESS ADJ”, “VISUAL QLTY ADJ”, “SOUND QLTY ADJ” is synonymous with the original character strings “BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT”, “VISUAL QUALITY ADJUSTMENT”, “SOUND QUALITY ADJUSTMENT”. It is possible to correctly understand the display contents by looking at the character strings displayed on .about.16.

  Note that the character string stored in the character database unit 18 is not limited to a shortened form, but may be a character string having the same number of characters as the original character string. For example, “LIGHT” for “BRIGHTNESS” and “CONTROL” for “ADJUSTMENT” may be stored as synonymous character strings.

  When the microprocessor 8 does not find a synonymous character string even after searching the character database unit 18 (NO in S7), and a synonymous character string can be found, the character string length is If it is longer than the length of the display space (NO in S8), the microprocessor 8 displays the original character string in the scroll space in the display space (S10). For example, FIG. 5 shows a mode in which the character string “BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT” is displayed in the display space 14 in a scroll format. In this case, for example, the user can scroll the character string left and right or up and down by operating the cross key 9c of the remote controller 9 to see the entire character string.

  Note that the multi-display language-compatible television 1 of the present embodiment is connected to an external server 22 installed in the broadcasting station 21 via broadcast radio waves, and the microprocessor 8 is transmitted from the external server 22. The character database unit 18 is updated using character string information included in the digital signal received by the receiving unit 3. For example, the external server 22 transmits a new character string “LIGHT CONTROL” together with length information of the character string and information indicating the semantic content (brightness adjustment), and the microprocessor 8 receives the received new character string “LIGHT CONTROL”. Is stored in the character database unit 18 together with the length information of the character string and the information indicating the meaning content.

  By performing the update as described above, the character string stored in the character database unit 18 is expanded, so that a more appropriate character string can be found when the microprocessor 8 searches the character database unit 18.

  In addition, developers who design display screens such as menu screens only need to design so that the length of the character string in the language set by default fits in the display space. You can speed up.

The block diagram of the television receiver corresponding to the some display language which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the example of the menu screen by the display language set by default in the television receiver. The flowchart which shows the display procedure of the character string in the television receiver. The figure which shows the example of a menu screen when the display language in the television receiver is switched to English. The figure which shows the state by which the character string was displayed on the display space in the scroll format in the television receiver.

Explanation of symbols

1 Television receiver corresponding to a plurality of display languages 6 Screen 8 Microprocessor (character string determination means, on-screen display means, language translation means, length calculation means, comparison means, replacement display means, search means, scroll Display means)
13 to 16 Display space 18 Character database section 22 External server

Claims (4)

A character string determining means for determining a character string to be displayed on-screen on the screen (hereinafter referred to as a display character string);
In a television receiver corresponding to a plurality of display languages, comprising on-screen display means for displaying a display character string determined by the character string determination means on a screen,
A language translation means for translating the display character string determined by the character string determination means into the switched language when the display language is switched to a language other than the default language;
A length calculation means for calculating the length of the display space on the screen required by the character string translated by the language translation means (hereinafter referred to as display character string length);
Comparison means for comparing the display character string length calculated by the length calculation means with the length of the display space allocated on the screen for displaying the display character string;
As a result of comparison by the comparison means, when it is determined that the display character string length is longer than the display space length, the display character string is synonymous with it and is the same as the display space length. Or a display device that replaces and displays another character string that is shorter than that. A television receiver that supports a plurality of display languages. The replacement display means includes
A character database unit that stores a plurality of character strings set in advance in association with information representing the length of each character string and meaning content;
When the comparison means determines that the display character string length is longer than the display space length, it is synonymous with the display character string from the character strings stored in the character database unit. 2. The television corresponding to a plurality of display languages according to claim 1, further comprising search means for searching for a character string having a character string length equal to or shorter than a length of the display space. Receiver.   The search means has the same meaning as the display character string from the character strings stored in the character database unit, and the length of the character string is the same as or shorter than the length of the display space. The plurality of display languages according to claim 2, further comprising scroll display means for displaying the display character string in a scroll format in a display space allocated on the screen when the column cannot be searched. A television receiver that supports.   4. The television receiver is connected to an external server, and a character string stored in the character database unit is updated with a new character string downloaded from the external server. A television receiver corresponding to a plurality of display languages described in 1.

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