JP2952945B2 - Material delivery device - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a material sending device, and is suitably applied to, for example, a case where a commercial material is directly on-air in a broadcasting system.

B. Summary of the Invention The present invention has a simple configuration in that a material sending device can send back-up sending information as a part of main sending information when an abnormality occurs in a broadcast material requiring a back-up. Thus, the burden on the operator can be further reduced.

C Conventional technology In a conventional broadcasting system, as shown in FIG.
A cassette 1 having a tape cassette configuration in which broadcast materials, for example, program materials, commercial (CM) materials, and the like are recorded for each material, is stored in a cassette storage unit 3 of a cart machine 2, and is transmitted in a broadcast order. The cassette 1 containing the materials constituting the ordered list is stored in the cassette storage unit 3.
Automatically and sequentially taken out via a transport mechanism and automatically mounted on a video tape recorder unit 4 composed of a plurality of video tape recorders (VTRs), thus sequentially at the transmission time determined by the transmission order list. The broadcast material information S1 thus reproduced is transmitted as main transmission information S2 to the outside of the cart machine 2 through the switch 5 and is transmitted to the transmission switch 6,
The data is directly sent to the on-air transmission line 8 through the sending device 7.

The cart machine 2 is provided with a device controller 11 constituting a lower computer, and an operator inputs monitoring input information S3 to the device controller 11 based on a transmission order list using a keyboard of a system controller 12 constituting a higher computer, By exchanging control information S11, S12, and S13 between the cassette storage unit 3, the video tape recorder unit 4, and the switch 5, the cassette 1 between the cassette storage unit 3 and the video tape recorder unit 4 is taken out and returned. The recording and reproduction processing in the video tape recorder 4 and the switching processing in the switch 5 can be controlled.

The control state of the cart machine 2 by the system controller 12 is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 13, and particularly when a failure or abnormality occurs in the cart machine 2, a message is displayed.
13A is displayed on the display screen of the monitor 13.

With such a configuration, when the program material and the commercial material are transmitted as the main transmission information S2 in the transmission order determined by the transmission order list, the cart machine 2 particularly transmits the main transmission information based on the commercial material. A back-up video tape recorder 14 is provided as a back-up when there is a possibility that S2 cannot be transmitted, and the back-up transmission information S15 on the abnormal commercial material is transmitted from the back-up video tape recorder 14 to the transmission switching unit 6. To the sending device 7 through

For the cassette 1 in which the program material is recorded in the cart machine 2, it is not necessary to repeat the process of taking out and returning the cassette 1 from the cassette storage unit 3 to the video tape recorder unit 4 so frequently, and once the video is processed. If a cassette is mounted on the tape recorder unit 4, the playback operation can be stably performed over a long period of time, so that there is almost no possibility of occurrence of abnormalities. On the other hand, for commercial materials, the video tape recorder is inserted from the cassette storage unit 3. Since the process of taking out and returning the cassette 1 to the unit 4 must be executed frequently, the possibility of occurrence of an abnormality in the cart machine 2 increases.

When the cassette 1 containing commercial material is mounted from the cassette storage unit 3 to the video tape recorder unit 4 in accordance with the transmission order list, the device controller 11 of the cart machine 2 sends the control information S16 to the back-up video tape recorder 14. In addition, the dubbing information S17 about the commercial material is supplied to the backup video tape recorder 14 through the switch 5, so that the commercial video material to be sequentially transmitted as the transmission information S2 is turned on before the backup video tape recorder is turned on. When the cart machine 2 has an abnormality, the commercial material reproduced from the back-up video tape recorder 14 is used as back-up transmission information S15 from the transmitting device 7 to the on-air transmission line 8 when dubbing occurs.
Can be sent to

However, according to the conventional configuration shown in FIG. 3, the operator constantly monitors whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the cart machine 2.
Is visually monitored, and when the message 13A indicating the occurrence of the abnormality is displayed on the display screen, the transmission switch 6 is switched to the switching input terminal M of the cart machine 2 without losing the timing.
Must be switched to the switching input terminal S on the side of the video tape recorder 14 for backup, and this poses a problem that the burden on the operator is actually large.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and in the event of an abnormal operation that makes it impossible to send a specific broadcast material to a cart machine, a material that can automatically send back-up send information. A transmitting device is proposed.

Means for Solving Problem E In order to solve the problem, according to the present invention, a cassette storing means 3 for storing a cassette 1 containing broadcast materials, and a cassette storing means 3 sequentially from the cassette storing means 3 in the order of the transmission order list. A material reproducing means for reproducing the broadcast material of the cassette 1 taken out, a switch means 5 for outputting the broadcast material as main transmission information S2 at the transmission start time of the transmission order list, and a backup among the broadcast materials in the transmission order list. A recording / reproducing device for backup which outputs dubbed broadcast materials at the transmission start time of the transmission order list and outputs backup transmission information while dubbing necessary broadcast materials; When an abnormal condition that cannot be reproduced from the material reproducing means 4 occurs, a backup recording is performed. Raw devices
14. A material transmitting apparatus characterized in that the backup transmitting information S15 output from 14 is output as main transmitting information S2 through the switch means 5.

F. Operation When an abnormal state occurs in which broadcast materials that require backup among the broadcast materials in the transmission order list cannot be reproduced from the cassette 1, the backup transmission information S15 is transmitted via the switch means 5 to a part of the main transmission information S2. As a result, it is possible to easily realize a material delivery device that can further reduce the burden on the operator with a simple configuration.

G Example Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1 in which parts corresponding to those in FIG. 3 are denoted by the same reference numerals, main sending information S2 sent from a switch 5 of the cart machine 2 is sent to an on-air transmission path 8 through a direct sending device 7, and Backup sending information S15 generated in the backup video tape recorder 14.
Is supplied to the switch 5 and the cart machine 2
When the device controller 11 detects a transmission abnormality for each commercial material, it supplies control information S13 for performing a backup operation to the switch 5,
The backup transmission information S15 supplied from the backup video tape recorder 14 can be supplied to the transmission device 7 as a part of the main transmission information S2.

In the case of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the switch 5 comprises four video tape recorders 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D constituting the video tape recorder section 4, and the reproduction outputs S1A, SB, S
1C and S1D are received as the first, second, third and fourth switch inputs, and the backup transmission information S15 generated in the backup video tape recorder 14.
As the fifth switch input, whereby the switch 5 outputs the backup transmission information S15 to the reproduction outputs S1A to S1A.
With S1D the switcher output line L _OUT1 has been made to allow switching-output to the sending device 7 as the main transmission information S2.

Switcher 5 in this embodiment is adapted to be switching-output Batsukuatsupu videotape recorder 14 as dubbing information S17 reproduced output S1A~S1D video tape recorder 4A~4D the second switcher output line L _OUT2.

In the above configuration, the main transmission information from the cart machine 2
When a transmission order list indicating the transmission order of information materials to be sequentially transmitted is input by the operator as S2, the device controller 11 takes out the corresponding cassette 1 to the video tape recorder unit 4 in accordance with the transmission order and outputs the cassette. The main transmission information S2 is prepared to be transmitted by being mounted on one of the video tape recorders 4A to 4D.

At the time of the preparatory operation, the device controller 11 sends control information S16 to the back-up video tape recorder 14 for the broadcast material (commercial material in this embodiment) requiring the back-up, and the switch 5
Second supplying the Batsukuatsupu video tape recorder 14 to the switcher output line L _OUT2 reproduction output of the Komashiyaru material as dubbing information S17 in.

Thus, the back-up video tape recorder 14
According to the transmission order list, only commercial materials are prepared as backup information prior to on-air.

In this state, when the transmission start time comes for each broadcast material, the device controller 11 sends each video tape recorder of the video tape recorder unit 4 in accordance with the transmission order list.
Reproduction output S1A~S1D obtained from 4A~4D successively sent to the first switcher output line L _OUT1 with switching-in switcher 5.

At the same time, the device controller 11 sends the control information S16 to the back-up video tape recorder 14, so that the broadcast material requiring the back-up (that is, the commercial material) is transmitted from the switch output line L _{OUT1 as the} main transmission information S2 at the timing. The backup video tape recorder 14 is operated to play back, and the backup transmission information S15 including dubbing information is synchronized so as to synchronize with the commercial material transmitted as the main transmission information S2.
Is generated and supplied to the switch 5.

At this time, when the commercial material is normally supplied from the cart machine 2, the device controller S 11 discards the corresponding backup information S 15 by not taking it into the switch 5.

On the other hand, the device controller 11 receives status information from each component of the cart machine 2 and determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred, or predicts the possibility of occurrence of an abnormality and uses this as abnormality information. When the time is reached when the corresponding commercial material is transmitted, the switch 5 is switched back-up by the control information S13 based on the stored abnormality information, so that the switch 5 is supplied from the video tape recorder 14 for backup to the switch 5. controlling the Batsukuatsupu transmission information S15 that is the switching-operating state as is transmitted to the first switcher output line L _OUT1.

The device controller 11 may cause, for example, a cassette jam in the transport mechanism between the cassette storage unit 3 and the video tape recorder unit 4, a power supply abnormality for each element of the cart machine 2, the video tape recorder unit 4.
The tape running abnormality in each of the video tape recorders 4A to 4D, the stop of the rotating drum, and the like are determined to be abnormal.

In the case of this embodiment, in addition to this, a device controller
11 supplies the abnormality information to the system controller 12 as monitoring input information S3, thereby displaying the message on the monitor 13 as a message 13A, thereby notifying the operator of the occurrence of the abnormality.

Thus, according to the above-described configuration, when an abnormality occurs in the cart machine 2, the broadcast material requiring back-up is used when the transmission occurrence time of the broadcast material is reached in the transmission order list, and the switch 5 of the cart machine 2 is used. Then, the backup transmission information S15 is automatically transmitted as a part of the main transmission information S2, so that the burden on the operator can be further reduced.

As a result, the cart machine 2 is used as the transmission switching means.
The configuration (i.e., the switch 5) provided in the first embodiment can be effectively used, so that the overall configuration can be prevented from becoming complicated.

In the above-described embodiment, the tape cassette is used as the cassette for recording the broadcast material. However, the present invention is not limited to this. Any cassette can be used as long as it can store, record, and reproduce the broadcast material.

H Effect of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to realize a material sending apparatus that can further reduce the burden of an operator's switching work with a simple configuration for a broadcast material requiring back-up.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a material feeding device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a connection diagram showing a detailed structure of the switch 5 in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a structure of a conventional material feeding device. FIG. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... cassette, 2 ... cart machine, 3 ... cassette storage part, 4 ... video tape recorder part, 5 ... switch, 11 ... device controller, 12 ... system controller, 13 ... monitor, 14 ... … Back-up video tape recorder.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A cassette storing means for storing a cassette containing broadcast material, and a material reproducing means for reproducing the broadcast material of the cassette sequentially taken out of the cassette storing means in the order of a transmission order list. A switch means for outputting the broadcast material as main transmission information at the transmission start time of the transmission order list; and dubbing and recording the broadcast material requiring back-up among the broadcast materials of the transmission order list, and the dubbed broadcast material. And a backup recording / reproducing apparatus for reproducing the backup at the transmission start time of the transmission order list and outputting the backup transmission information, wherein an abnormal state has occurred in which the broadcast material which requires the backup cannot be reproduced from the material reproducing means. When the backup output from the backup recording / reproducing device is A material sending apparatus for sending tip sending information as said main sending information through said switch means.