JP3952435B2 - Private program schedule creation system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a private broadcast program guide creation system that separately creates a broadcast program guide that suits individual user preferences from broadcast programs such as television and radio.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Broadcast programs such as TV and radio are announced in advance at the broadcasting station side, and the announced programs are provided to users using newspapers as a medium. The program is selected accordingly. For this reason, in the conventional program guide, all scheduled broadcasts are displayed with time every day, and this is in units of one week or one month, so it is troublesome to find your favorite program. May be overlooked or overlooked.
[0003]
In addition, since the conventional broadcast program guide is limited in space, the amount of information about performers and contents is small. For example, even when a movie in which a favorite actor appears is broadcast, the name of the actor is If it is not listed in the program guide, you may miss a movie broadcast without knowing it.
[0004]
In order to solve such problems, a system for creating a personal program guide is known (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-161653). This known personal program guide creation system displays a program guide that allows a user to efficiently recognize a program that the user particularly wants to watch even when there are many programs that match the user's preference. EPG data storage means for storing EPG data, search information storage means for storing keywords input to the user for program search, and evaluation information for each keyword in association with information for identifying the user, and program Receiving a signal for requesting display of a table and information for identifying a user, a keyword for program search input by a user specified by the information for identifying the user and stored in the search information storage means Is used to search the EPG data stored in the EPG data storage means, and the program detected by this search is allocated based on the evaluation information for each keyword. Create a program guide, it is made of the information display means for displaying.
[0005]
Also, a system for creating a personal program guide that allows a user to easily search for a desired program from a large number of program guides is publicly known (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-308547). In this system, the computer compares the user-desired information indicating the program desired by the user with the program configuration information on which the broadcast schedule of the program is posted, and the program desired by the user from a large number of programs. And a program table in which the selected program is clarified is created.
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, since the above two known examples only create a program guide based on the user's preference and desire, this program creation is centralized, and it is not always necessary to watch at that time, or time Because it is not only a program that can be seen in, there are many cases in which the created program schedule is not particularly interesting, it is impossible to schedule and time, and there is a large amount of information as a private program schedule, narrowing down is doing.
[0007]
In JP-A-11-161653, a program table is created by selecting a program desired by a user from a large number of programs, and the program table is simply printed out. Not only the programs you want to watch are posted.
[0008]
In Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-308547, the user's preference is reflected in the program creation, but this is also the program that the user always wants to watch, and the program that matches the user's convenience (schedule), etc. Are not always listed.
[0009]
An object of the present invention is to provide a private broadcast program table creation system that can narrow down only the programs that the user wants to watch at that time and can provide them, for example, on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
[0010]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, in the invention described in claim 1, in the private program guide creation system, user information registration means for registering user preferences in advance for broadcast contents such as television and radio, ,
When a program is organized at a broadcasting station, the program is selected from the organized programs based on the preference registered in the user information registration means, and the selected program information is provided to the user. Program information providing means,
From the program information sent from the program information providing means, the user selects a program according to his / her schedule and preference, arranges the selected program in the order of items or dates, and again the final private program In addition to creating a table, the final private program table further includes a private program table creating means for allowing the user to input a schedule .
[0011]
[Action]
The user selects one or more of his / her favorite genres, such as drama, action movie, comedy movie, animated movie for movies, and classical, popular songs, enka, etc. for music, If this is registered in the user information registration means as personal information, the broadcast station will create a program guide that matches the preferences of the registered users from the program as soon as the program is organized. To the user. The user selects a program that he / she likes further from the broadcast program created by the broadcast station, and creates a final program schedule in consideration of his / her schedule and the like. The final program guide may be created by a computer on the broadcasting station side and distributed to the user, or may be created by a computer owned by the user.
[0012]
【Example】
The program guide includes both a case where a single broadcasting station creates only a program of its own station and a case where a private program guide is created from programs of a plurality of broadcasting stations. Therefore, in this case, a service provider that provides information may perform the private program guide.
[0013]
FIG. 1 is an example of a system configuration for realizing creation of a private broadcast program guide according to the present invention.
Reference numeral 1 denotes user information registration means for registering user preferences in advance, and user preferences are registered in the user information registration means 1 from the user's personal computer 3 through the Internet line 2.
[0014]
Reference numeral 4 denotes program organization management means for organizing and managing programs in the broadcasting station. Input or update of organization data in the program organization management means 4 is performed from the computer 5.
[0015]
Reference numeral 6 denotes program organization providing means for taking in the program guide organized by the above-described program organization managing means 4, creating a program guide suitable for the user's preference, and providing this to the user. Further, when requested by the user, the program organization providing means 6 creates a further narrowed program table and provides it to the user via the Internet line 2.
[0016]
The private broadcast program table narrowed down in this way is organized by date and time or genre (item) based on the narrowed down contents.
[0017]
The private broadcast program guide creation system is performed according to the above procedure. A more specific example will be described below.
1-1 User Preferences Registration First, when the private broadcast program schedule organization center is accessed via the Internet line 2, items to be registered are displayed on the screen of the personal computer 3. The registration items are as follows.
1 Your name (nickname is acceptable)
2 E-mail address 3 Age 4 Gender [0018]
5 Select the desired genre (multiple choices)
・ Movie: First Run Drama Action Movie Comedy Movie Suspense & Mystery Movie Love Movie SF Movie Musical Movie Youth Movie Horror Movie Adventure Movie History Drama Fantasy Adult Animated Movie Documentary Movie All Other Movies / Music Sports Extra: TV Drama TV Anime Stage Shopping Information Program Documentary Movie [0019]
6 If there is a keyword you want to set, enter it. (May be left blank)
You can set up to 10 keywords within 10 characters.
Example: Director name, performer name, team name, etc. [0020]
7. Finally, enter your desired ID and password.
-Desired ID-Desired password 1-2 ID and password are issued upon registration [0021]
1-3 Information Refinement Program organization providing means 6 automatically searches for the corresponding program information from the program information within the last eight days based on the input information. The information is further narrowed down from this information, and a program guide that displays only favorite programs is created. At this time, since a simple memo can be input, it can be used as a schedule book.
[0022]
1-4 For the second and subsequent times, the corresponding program information is searched from the program information within the last 8 days by using an ID and a password, and similarly, a program guide for only oneself is created.
[0023]
1-5 Option function 1 Sends the latest program information of interest by e-mail based on the input information.
2 Video and audio previews of programs of interest from the broadcast station database are also possible.
[0024]
FIG. 2 shows an example of a part of a program guide which is selected from a user's preference and transmitted from the center to the user.
FIG. 3 is an example of a part of a program table classified by genre selected by the user.
FIG. 4 is an example of a part of a private broadcast program table in which programs narrowed down by the user are displayed in order of date.
[0025]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, since a program table in which only programs preferred by individual users are extracted is created and provided to the user, it is possible to save time and effort to select a favorite program while viewing a normal broadcast program table. It is convenient because it will not be overlooked.
On the other hand, from the broadcasting station side, the contents of the program preferred by the user, the performers, etc. are known, which is effective in program organization.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows an example of a part of a program table created according to user preference.
FIG. 3 is an example of a part of a program table classified by genre narrowed by a user.
FIG. 4 shows an example of a part of a program table in which programs narrowed down by a user are organized in order of date.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 User information registration means 2 Internet line 3 User personal computer 4 Program organization management means 5 Computer 6 Program organization provision means

Claims (1)

User information registration means for registering user preferences in advance for broadcast contents such as television and radio,
When a program is organized at a broadcasting station, the program is selected from the organized programs based on the preference registered in the user information registration means, and the selected program information is provided to the user. Program information providing means,
From the program information sent from the program information providing means, the user selects a program according to his / her schedule and preference, arranges the selected program in the order of items or dates, and again the final private program A private program guide creation means that allows a user to input a schedule for the final private program guide while creating a table;
A private program schedule creation system consisting of

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