JP4275052B2 - Display device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a display equipment, and more particularly, relates to a display equipment having a function of recording detachably mounted video or still image data to the recording medium was, in particular, applicable as a television receiver The present invention relates to a display device.

  Conventionally, electronic devices such as personal computers and television receivers have an input / output interface (hereinafter referred to as a card slot) for detachably mounting a recording medium such as a memory card or a PC card (hard disk card). (See, for example, Patent Document 1). The card slot is provided with a connector for connecting to the PC card, and the connector on the card slot side and the connector on the PC card side are fitted and electrically connected. Usually, an electronic device is provided with an ejecting means for discharging a PC card mounted and fixed in a card slot.

When recording the moving image on a recording medium such as a memory card installed in the card slot, the electronic device displays the recording time of the moving image data, the remaining recordable time of the recording medium, and records a still image. In some cases, there is a function of displaying the remaining recordable number of recording media. Thereby, the user can easily confirm the remaining recordable time of the recording medium, the remaining recordable number of sheets, and the like.
JP 2004-165706 A

  However, when displaying the remaining recordable time of a recording medium or the like when recording moving image or still image data, if there is one card slot, there is only one recording medium that can be mounted. However, if there are two or more card slots, there are two or more recordable media. For example, if two media are loaded at the same time, which data is There is a problem that it is not known whether the data is recorded on the recording medium.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is a display device having a function of recording a moving image / still image data by detachably mounting a plurality of recording media, and includes a plurality of tuners. when recording a television broadcast signal to Rokunakadachi body, together with the identification information of the recording destination to become a recording medium, to be able to display the identification information of the tuner it has been made for the purpose of.

In order to solve the above problems, the first technical means includes a plurality of input / output interfaces for detachably mounting a recording medium in a display device including means for recording moving image and / or still image data ; A plurality of receiving means for receiving a television broadcast signal, and the television broadcast signal received by any of the plurality of receiving means is attached to the input / output interface as the moving image and / or still image data When recording on any of a plurality of recording media, the identification information of the receiving unit is displayed together with the recording destination information including the identification information of the recording medium that is the recording destination .

According to a second technical means, in the first technical means, the television broadcast signal received by one of the plurality of receiving means is viewed or recorded on one recording medium and received by the other receiving means. A television broadcast signal different from the television broadcast signal is recorded on the other recording medium .

According to the present invention, in a display device having a function by mounting a plurality of recording media detachably recording a moving / still image data, comprising a plurality tuners, when recording a television broadcast signal to serial Rokunakadachi body In addition, since the identification information of the tuner can be displayed together with the identification information of the recording medium that is the recording destination, it is possible to easily identify which tuner data is recorded on which recording medium, and it is easy to manage a plurality of recording media Become.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a display device according to a reference example of the present invention, in which a plurality of recording media (hereinafter represented by a memory card) are detachably mounted to record moving image / still image data. The reference example of the display apparatus of this invention comprised as a television receiver provided with the function is shown. The display device 10 includes an antenna 11 that receives a television broadcast signal, a video signal detected from the television broadcast signal received by the antenna 11 and outputs a video signal and an audio signal, and a memory card that is an external memory. Slot portions (input / output interfaces) 13 and 14 into which A and B are inserted, and an external memory control portion 15 that communicates with the memory card A inserted into the slot portion 13 or the memory card B inserted into the slot portion 14 The switching unit 16 that switches between the signal output from the receiving unit 12 and the signal output from the external memory control unit 15, and the video signal input from the switching unit 16 is converted into an R, G, B signal and output. The video processing unit 17, the audio processing unit 18 that reproduces and outputs the audio signal input from the switching unit 16, and the video processing unit 17 A display unit 19 such as a liquid crystal display for inputting a video signal, a speaker 20 for inputting and outputting the audio signal output from the audio processing unit 18, and a memory 21 including a semiconductor memory for storing various data and programs The light receiving unit 22 that receives infrared rays output from the remote controller 30 and the control unit 23 that controls each of the above elements are provided.

  The antenna 11 and the receiving unit 12 correspond to the receiving unit of the present invention, and the switching unit 16, the video processing unit 17, the audio processing unit 18, the display unit 19, and the speaker 20 correspond to the output unit of the present invention. In addition, the external memory control unit 15 corresponds to means for recording the moving image and / or still image data of the present invention. As the remote controller 30, a remote controller having a key configuration similar to the key configuration shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 1, memory cards A and B are, for example, semiconductor memory cards, PC cards (hard disk cards), and the like, and are attached to and detached from the slot portions 13 and 14 serving as input / output I / Fs of the memory cards A and B. It is installed as possible. The television broadcast signal received by the antenna 11 and the receiving unit 12 is processed by the video processing unit 17 / audio processing unit 18, the video signal is output from the display unit 19, and the audio signal is output from the speaker 20, respectively. Can watch broadcast programs.

  When the display device 10 tries to record the program being viewed on either of the memory cards A and B, as shown in FIG. 5 to be described later, the display device 10 displays the identification information of the memory card A or memory card B as the recording destination. Display recording destination information. The identification information of each memory card is acquired by the external memory control unit 15 and stored in the memory 21 when the memory card is inserted into the slot unit 13 or the slot unit 14. When recording a program (moving image data), the control unit 23 reads the identification information of the memory card that is the recording destination from the memory 21 and sends it to the video processing unit 17.

  In addition, the control unit 23 calculates the remaining recordable time for the memory card that is the recording destination based on a recording mode that is set in advance or set by the user, and further, the program is started by the timer function after the recording is started. The elapsed time from the start of recording is counted, and this information is sent to the video processing unit 17. The video processing unit 17 generates recording destination information from the identification information of the recording destination memory card read from the memory 21, the recording mode, the remaining recording time, the elapsed time from the start of recording, and the like. The processing unit 17 adds the video signal output from the switching unit 16 to generate a composite video signal, and causes the display unit 19 to display an OSD.

  In the above description, a case where a program that is moving image data is recorded has been described. However, a desired scene in the program may be captured as a still image, and the still image may be recorded in the memory card A or the memory card B. In this case, the video processing unit 17 generates recording destination information from the identification information of the memory card that is the recording destination read from the memory 21 and the current recording number, the remaining recordable number, and the like. The unit 17 adds the video signal output from the switching unit 16 to generate a composite video signal, and causes the display unit 19 to display an OSD.

  The recording destination information can be hidden after being displayed for a predetermined time from the start of recording the program. The time for displaying the recording destination information may be adjustable by user setting. Further, as shown in FIG. 4 to be described later, the remote controller 30 may be provided with a display / non-display switching key, and the display / non-display of the recording destination information may be switched by this display / non-display switching key.

  As described above, when the recording of the moving image or the recording of the still image (hereinafter, the recording of the moving image is described as a representative example) is started, the display device 10 records the memory card A or the memory card B as the recording destination. Since the destination information can be displayed, it can be easily understood which memory card is being recorded at the time of recording.

  Even when only one of the memory card A and the memory card B is mounted in the slot portion 13 or the slot portion 14, the recording destination information may be displayed in the same manner as described above. In one case, since the recording destination is determined by the memory card, the recording destination information may be hidden.

As another example , the recording destination memory card may be identified by voice. When the program being viewed is recorded on either of the memory cards A and B, audio data including identification information of the memory card A or the memory card B as a recording destination is output as audio. The identification information of each memory card is acquired by the external memory control unit 15 when the memory card is inserted into the slot unit 13 or the slot unit 14 and stored as audio data in the memory 21. When recording a program, the control unit 23 reads audio data including identification information of a memory card that is a recording destination from the memory 21 and sends the audio data to the audio processing unit 18, and outputs the audio data from the audio processing unit 18 to the speaker 20. Let

  Here, which of the memory card A and the memory card B is to be recorded can be determined based on the priority order preset in the slot portions 13 and 14. This priority order may be preset by default, or may be arbitrarily set by the user. As a specific processing example, for example, when the priority order is set in the order of the slot portion 13 and the slot portion 14, the memory card A mounted in the slot portion 13 is prioritized, and the recording destination information of the memory card A is Is displayed. At this time, when the storage capacity of the memory card A is full, the recording destination may be automatically switched to the memory card B and recorded on the memory card B.

As another example , the remaining capacities (that is, free capacities) of the memory cards A and B mounted in the slot portion 13 and the slot portion 14 are calculated, and the memory card A or B is determined based on the result. You may decide whether to record. If the remaining capacity of the memory card B is larger, the memory card B has priority and the recording destination information of the memory card B is displayed. The calculation process of the remaining capacity is executed by the external memory control unit 15.

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the display device 10 shown in FIG. 1, further comprising an antenna 24 and a receiver 25, a plurality tuners It is good also as a structure of. For example, when the receiving unit 12 is an analog tuner and the receiving unit 25 is a digital tuner, different programs are simultaneously recorded on the memory cards A and B, or received by the other tuner while watching the program on one tuner. It is possible to use the program such that another program is recorded on the memory card A or the memory card B (so-called back recording). When a plurality of tuners are used as described above, the recording destination information shown in FIG. 5 does not know which memory card records the program received by which tuner. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 8 described later, information (that is, tuner identification information) indicating which tuner (program source) the program to be recorded is received may be displayed together.

  Here, as described above, the display device 10 can record both moving image data and / or still image data in the memory card A or the memory card B. At this time, in order to facilitate management of moving image / still image data, a moving image may be recorded on the memory card A (or memory card B), and a still image may be recorded on the memory card B (or memory card A). As shown in FIG. 4, the remote controller 30 includes a recording key for recording moving image data and a still image recording key for recording still image data. These keys and a memory card as a recording destination are stored in advance. Correlate. For example, when the recording key is pressed, moving image data is recorded on the memory card A, and when the still image recording key is pressed, still image data is recorded on the memory card B.

  3 is an external view showing an example of the display device 10 shown in FIG. 1. The display device 10 has an LED portion 26 in the vicinity of the slot portions 13 and 14 on the right side of the front surface, and volume adjustment and channel selection at the center of the upper surface. A main body operation unit 27 for performing the operation, and a remote control light receiving unit, a power lamp, a timer lamp, and other various interface units 28 are provided in the lower right part of the front surface.

  4 is an external view showing an example of a remote controller 30 for operating the display device 10 shown in FIG. 3. The remote controller 30 records a power key 31 for turning on / off the display device 10 and moving image data. A recording key 32 for recording still image data for recording still image data, and a display / non-display switching key 34 for switching display / non-display of the recording destination information of the memory card. Operation instruction information from the remote control 30 enters the remote control light receiving unit of the interface unit 28, and various processes are executed. The display device 10 can perform recording processing, playback processing, initialization processing, protection processing, and the like on the memory cards A and B. As contents that can be recorded and played back by the memory cards A and B, still images, Various video data such as moving images and electronic books can be used.

  3A is a perspective view of the display device 10 as viewed obliquely from the front, and FIG. 3B is a partial view of the state where the memory cards A and B are inserted into the display device 10 as viewed from above. In the present embodiment, the slot portions 13 and 14 for inserting the memory cards A and B are provided on the upper right side of the display device 10, but the positions where the slot portions 13 and 14 are provided are not limited thereto. The LED unit 26 is composed of two LEDs in this example, but it is sufficient that the LED unit 26 has at least one LED. The LED unit 26 can change the emission color of the LED in accordance with the slot unit in which the memory card to be recorded is installed. For example, when the memory card A mounted in the slot unit 13 is used as a recording destination, the LED emits blue light during recording, and when the memory card B installed in the slot unit 14 is used as a recording destination, the LED is red during recording. Make it emit light. In this way, it is possible to identify which memory card is recorded based on the difference in emission color. In this case, at least one LED may be provided.

  As another embodiment, the recording destination memory card may be identified based on the difference in the number of LEDs emitted. For example, when the memory card A mounted in the slot 13 is a recording destination, the number of light emission of the LED is 1, and when the memory card B mounted in the slot 14 is the recording destination, the number of light emission of the LED is Two. Thus, it is possible to identify which memory card is recorded based on the difference in the number of light emission. In this case, two or more LEDs may be provided.

  Further, as described above, the recording destination memory card may be identified by voice. When the program being viewed is recorded on either of the memory cards A and B, audio data including identification information of the memory card A or the memory card B as a recording destination is output as audio. The identification information of each memory card is acquired by the external memory control unit 15 when the memory card is inserted into the slot unit 13 or the slot unit 14 and stored as audio data in the memory 21. When recording a program, the control unit 23 reads audio data including identification information of a memory card that is a recording destination from the memory 21 and sends the audio data to the audio processing unit 18, and outputs the audio data from the audio processing unit 18 to the speaker 20. Let

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of recording destination information displayed by the display device 10.
FIG. 5A is a diagram showing recording destination information displayed when video data is recorded. In this way, “recording” indicating the operating state of the display device 10 is displayed, and the recording destination information is the recording destination: card A (identification information of the memory card A), time: 00:00:10 (from the start of recording) Elapsed time), remaining time: 02:50:40 (remaining recording time of memory card A), recording mode: SP (recording mode at the time of recording) is included. In this recording mode, HQ (high image quality) / SP (normal) / LP (low image quality) can be set according to the bit rate of moving image data to be recorded, and the remaining time changes depending on the setting of the recording mode. Will do.

  FIG. 5B is a diagram showing recording destination information displayed when still image data is recorded. In this way, “recorded” indicating the operation state of the display device 10 is displayed, and as recording destination information, recording destination: card B (identification information of the memory card B), number of sheets: 10 (current recording number of sheets) , Remaining number: One or more of 125 sheets (average of remaining recordable number of memory cards B) is included. Note that the remaining number varies depending on the data amount of the still image to be recorded.

  The recording destination information shown in FIG. 5 (A) and FIG. 5 (B) includes, for example, recorded channel information, a user name (for example, father, mother, sister, etc. for a family), a user-specific ID, Information such as prohibited items (for example, a message such as “channel operation prohibited during recording”) may be included.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating another example of the recording destination information displayed on the display device 10. In this example, the recording destination information shown in FIG. 5A is displayed as a bar, so that the user can more intuitively grasp the remaining recordable time of the memory card.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating another example of the recording destination information displayed on the display device 10. In this example, when copying (that is, dubbing) moving image and / or still image data from one of a plurality of memory cards (for example, memory card A) to the other (memory card B) (information dubbing) In the example, card A) and information indicating the dubbing destination (card B in this example) may be displayed. Similarly, in the case of a move, when moving a moving image and / or still image data from one of a plurality of memory cards (for example, memory card A) to the other (memory card B) (information indicating the source of the movement) In the example, card A) and information indicating the move destination (card B in this example) may be displayed.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating another example of the recording destination information displayed on the display device 10. In this example, as shown in FIG. 2, in the case of a plurality of tuners, which tuner received when recording moving image and / or still image data on a memory card (memory card A in this example) as a recording destination. Information indicating whether it is a thing (in this example, a digital tuner) is added. Thereby, the user can easily grasp on which memory card the program received by which tuner is recorded.

Figure 9 is a flowchart for explaining an example of a display process of recording destination information by Viewing device 10. In this example, processing for recording moving image data based on the configuration of the display device 10 shown in FIG. 1 will be described. First, the external memory control unit 15 of the display device 10 determines whether or not a memory card is inserted into the slot unit 13 or the slot unit 14 (step S1), and determines that a memory card is installed (in the case of YES). The memory card identification information is acquired and stored in the memory 21 (step S2). In step S1, if a memory card is not loaded (in the case of NO), the memory card is placed in a waiting state for loading in step S1.

  Next, the control unit 23 determines the start of video recording (Step S3). This determines whether or not the recording key 32 of the remote controller 30 has been pressed. If it is determined that the recording key 32 has been pressed (in the case of YES), a memory card to be a recording destination is selected according to the priority order (step S4). The video processing unit 17 reads the identification information of the selected memory card from the memory 21 and records the recording destination information from the identification information of the recording destination memory card, the recording mode, the remaining recordable time, the elapsed time from the start of recording, and the like. Is added to the video signal output from the switching unit 16 to generate a composite video signal, which is displayed on the display unit 19 in an OSD manner (step S5). In step S3, when recording is not started, that is, when pressing of the recording key 32 is not confirmed (in the case of NO), a recording instruction is waited in step S3.

  Next, the control unit 23 determines whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed from the display of the recording destination information (step S6). If it is determined that the predetermined time has elapsed (in the case of YES), the control unit 23 stores the recording destination information of the memory card. Not displayed (step S8). If it is determined in step S6 that the predetermined time has not elapsed (NO), it is determined whether the display / non-display switching key 34 of the remote controller 30 is pressed (step S7), and display / non-display is performed. When it is determined that the switch key 34 has been pressed (in the case of YES), the process proceeds to step S8, and the recording destination information of the memory card is not displayed. If it is not confirmed in step S7 that the display / non-display key 34 is pressed (NO), the process returns to step S6.

  Further, it is determined whether or not the display / non-display switching key 34 of the remote controller 30 is pressed (step S9). If it is determined that the display / non-display switching key 34 is pressed (YES), the process proceeds to step S5. Display the recording destination information of the selected memory card. If it is not confirmed in step S9 that the display / non-display key 34 has been pressed (NO), the process ends.

  As described above, the case where the display device 10 of the present invention is applied to a television receiver has been described as a representative example. However, the display device 10 of the present invention can record / reproduce moving images and / or still image data on a plurality of memory cards. The present invention may be applied to a personal computer or the like, and may further be applied to a recording / reproducing apparatus capable of recording / reproducing on two or more recording media such as a memory card, DVD, CD, BD, and HD, In this case, a display device may be externally connected to the recording / reproducing device, and the recording destination information may be displayed on the display device.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the display apparatus which concerns on the reference example of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the display apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is an external view which shows an example of the display apparatus shown in FIG. It is an external view which shows an example of the remote control for operating the display apparatus shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the recording destination information which a display apparatus displays. It is a figure which shows the other example of the recording destination information which a display apparatus displays. It is a figure which shows the other example of the recording destination information which a display apparatus displays. It is a figure which shows the other example of the recording destination information which a display apparatus displays. It is a flow diagram for explaining an example of a display process of recording destination information by Viewing device.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Display apparatus, 11, 24 ... Antenna, 12, 25 ... Reception part, 13, 14 ... Slot part, 15 ... External memory control part, 16 ... Switching part, 17 ... Video processing part, 18 ... Audio | voice processing part, 19 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS ... Display part, 20 ... Speaker, 21 ... Memory, 22 ... Light receiving part, 23 ... Control part, 26 ... LED part, 27 ... Main body operation part, 28 ... Interface part, 30 ... Remote control, 31 ... Power key, 32 ... Recording Key, 33 ... Still image recording key, 34 ... Display / non-display switching key.

Claims (2)

In a display device comprising means for recording moving image and / or still image data,
A plurality of input / output interfaces for detachably mounting the recording medium, and a plurality of receiving means for receiving a television broadcast signal ;
When a television broadcast signal received by any of the plurality of receiving means is recorded as any one of a plurality of recording media attached to the input / output interface as the moving image and / or still image data, The display device displays the identification information of the receiving means together with the recording destination information including the identification information of the recording medium . 2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the television broadcast signal received by one receiving means of the plurality of receiving means is viewed or recorded on one recording medium and received by the other receiving means. A display device, wherein a television broadcast signal different from the signal is recorded on the other recording medium .

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