JP4930621B2 - Playlist creating apparatus, method thereof, dubbing list creating apparatus, and method thereof - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a digital recorder that can record a digital image of a television broadcast or the like on an HDD or a DVD, and more particularly to a digital recorder that can create a playlist.

In recent years, in HDD recorders, the capacity of recording media has increased, and the number of users who enjoy a large amount of digital images (for example, programs) stored on the recording medium has increased. In that case, the user can create a playlist and select and play only the favorite programs. The user can also dubbing a favorite digital image to another recording medium and storing it. However, at present, it is necessary for a user to select a desired digital image one by one when creating a playlist from a plurality of digital images or recording to another recording medium. It is expected that much time and labor will be required due to the increase in digital images accompanying the increase in the capacity of the medium.

One means for solving this problem is a recording / reproducing apparatus (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-62921). The document describes a method of extracting a program whose conditions such as the same time zone as the program selected by the user match a plurality of programs recorded on a recording medium.

JP 2004-62921 A

However, the above document describes a method for extracting a program whose conditions such as the same time period as the program selected by the user match, but how to display the program retrieved from the recording medium, It is not considered how to handle it. An object of the present invention is to select a desired digital image from a plurality of programs and easily select a digital image when creating a playlist or dubbing to another recording medium using these digital images. An object of the present invention is to provide a playlist creation device capable of

Randomly accessible digital image recording / playback apparatus, comprising: a digital image recorded on a recording medium and information on the digital image displayed on a display means; and information on the digital image recorded on the recording medium. And a control means for selecting a digital image based on the digital image selected from the digital image recorded on the recording medium. Information indicating a digital image is overwritten and displayed on the display means via the output means.

  User convenience is improved.

Image of program selection screen when creating a playlist Image of playlist selection screen Image of playlist selection screen Block diagram of playlist creation device Playlist creation process flow Playlist creation process flow Dubbing program selection screen image diagram to other recording media Image of dubbing list selection screen Image of dubbing list selection screen

  Examples of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 shows an image of a program selection screen when creating a playlist when using the present invention. 00
1 is the TV screen display area, and 002 is the program that has already been recorded (in the figure, only the text is shown, but the thumbnail image of the still image or movie and the accompanying program title, recording date and time, channel In FIG. 1, at least recorded program 1 to recorded program 10 are recorded, and the program information at that time is displayed. An area where the program group is present is displayed as a program list. Reference numeral 003 denotes a program selected by the user to create a playlist. In the figure, the user selects the recorded program 1. Further, an area where the selected program group is present is displayed as a playlist creation screen. When a user selects a playlist creation target program from the program list, 004 displays a program that matches certain conditions with the selected program as a playlist additional program candidate on the display screen as a telop. At this time, the conditions used for the search and the information not registered in the playlist (cancel) are also displayed.

Next, FIG. 2 shows a playlist selection screen when the present invention is used. 005 corresponds to the telop in FIG. The user can select whether to add all the candidate programs from the telop to the play list, individually add them, or cancel them. When the user selects the (1) th program from the telop, it is registered on the playlist creation screen and displayed as 006.

FIG. 3 shows another example of displaying a playlist candidate program when the user selects a desired program. This is a program list of programs that match the search conditions with the user's selected program,
Thumbnails are displayed as still images or moving images in a different area from the playlist creation screen (shown as a search result screen in the figure). In this search result screen, the user can select whether to add all candidate programs to the playlist, add only the desired program, or cancel this mode. Since the search programs can be displayed as thumbnails, user convenience is improved.

A block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. It is assumed that a plurality of programs and their associated information (also referred to as sub information, hereinafter omitted) are stored in the recording unit. When the user selects a program to be registered in the playlist from the program, selection information is notified to the control unit from the input unit. The control unit searches for the information attached to the other program on the recording medium based on the information attached to the user-selected program and the search condition, and selects a program candidate. A playlist creation screen is already stored in the memory unit. The auxiliary information of the candidate program selected by the control unit is displayed as a telop on the playlist creation screen and displayed on the display screen.
When displaying candidate programs as thumbnails, arbitrary frame information (in the case of still image thumbnails, moving image information at arbitrary positions in the case of moving image thumbnails) of the candidate program determined by the control unit is displayed by the image processing unit. Image decompression processing is performed and stored in the memory unit. And it overlaps with the program candidate area | region of the play list creation screen previously preserve | saved at the memory part, and when all the searches are complete | finished, it displays on a display screen.

Next, the flow of processing is shown in FIG. When the user selects a program to be added to the playlist on the playlist creation screen, the program is first registered in the playlist. Then, based on the attached information, an attached information search for other programs is performed to check whether the conditions match. If the conditions match, the program is a playlist candidate program. When the conditions do not match, the attached information of the next program is analyzed to check whether the conditions match. This process is repeated until all programs are searched. After searching all the programs, a telop in which only the candidate programs are picked up is created by the control unit, displayed on the playlist creation screen, and waits for the user to select a program in the telop. Next, when the user selects add all from the telop, all candidate programs are registered in the playlist, and the screen returns to the playlist creation screen. When the user selects one of the displayed programs, the program is registered in the playlist. And if there are other candidate programs, create a telop again and display it on the playlist creation screen,
Wait for user to select in telop. When cancel is selected, the display of the telop is stopped, the play list creation screen is displayed, and the user program selection waits.

FIG. 6 shows a flowchart when displaying candidate programs as thumbnails. Although it is almost the same as the telop display method, when a candidate program is found, a still image thumbnail or a moving image thumbnail at an arbitrary position of the program is pasted and displayed in the search result area of the memory unit.

In the above-described processing flow, when searching for a candidate program, a search was made based on the attached information. This attached information is, for example, recorded using the recording start time, recording end time, and recording channel of the recorded program. You may carry out by selecting the program of the same conditions as the program which the user selected from the inside. Also, when the user records a desired program, the title name of the program is also recorded, and a program similar to the first few characters of the recorded program selected by the user at the time of creating the playlist is searched from the recorded program and the playlist is recorded. Can be a candidate for addition to Further, when information that the content of the program is a series such as a sequel to a movie is added to a program stream recorded in various broadcasts or storage media, the information is recorded. When a user creates a playlist, a recorded program having series information similar to the series information of the recorded program selected by the user is searched from all the recorded programs to be candidates for addition to the playlist.

Attached information recorded by the user together with the program recording will be described. When a user records a program, the recorded program recording start time, recorded program recording end time, recorded program end time, recorded program channel information, recorded program title name, and recorded program series information data are simultaneously recorded. Record. This information is recorded, for example, in accordance with the VIDEO RECORDING standard (VR standard), time information is recorded with PL_CREATE_TM in the Video Manager Information area, and other information is recorded in the Test Data Manager area, Manufacture's Information that the user can use freely. Record in the Table area. Also, a free format that does not conform to the VR standard may be created and recorded on another recording medium.

FIG. 7 shows an image of a dubbing program selection screen (hereinafter referred to as a dubbing selection screen) to another recording medium when the present invention is used. Reference numeral 007 denotes a television screen display area, and 008 denotes already recorded programs. In FIG. 7, at least recorded program 1 to recorded program 10 are recorded, and program information at that time is displayed. The area where the program group at that time is located is displayed as an HDD program list. Reference numeral 009 denotes a program selected by the user for creating a dubbing on another recording medium. In the example, the user selects the recorded program 1. Also, the area where this selected program group is located is D
The dubbing list to VD is displayed. 010 is displayed as a telop when the user selects a recorded program to be dubbed to another recording medium, and displays a recorded program that matches certain conditions with the selected recorded program. This condition will be described later. In this telop, it is possible to select a recorded program that matches a selected condition with a recorded program selected by the user, and invalidity of selection.

Next, FIG. 8 similarly shows a playlist selection screen when the present invention is used. “011” corresponds to the telop in FIG. 7, and the user selects a program to be registered in the dubbing list to DVD from the telop. 012 displays the program selected by the telop of 011 added to the dubbing list to DVD.
The processing flow of the present invention will be described. First of all, as a premise, the recorded program that the user recorded and dubbed the program recorded in various broadcasts such as terrestrial digital broadcasting and terrestrial analog broadcasting and storage media such as DVD, recording date and time, recording start time, recording end time Assume that a plurality of recorded program channels are recorded on a recording medium.
(1) A user selects a dubbing selection screen for another recording medium for the purpose of dubbing to another recording medium.
(2) The user selects a desired recorded program to be dubbed to another recording medium from the program list in the HDD program list (recorded program 1 in FIG. 7).
(3) Recording date / time, recording start time, recording stop time, recording channel of the user-selected recording program are compared with the same information of other recording programs, the recording date / time is different, the recording start time, recording end time,
The program of the recording channel is searched, and the recording program satisfying the condition is picked up.
(4) The recorded program selected by the user is displayed on the DVD dubbing list screen, and (3)
The recorded program picked up in is displayed as a 010 telop as a candidate for a dubbing list to DVD.
(5) The user designates and selects a desired program from 010 as 011.
(6) The recorded program selected in 011 is added to the DVD dubbing list screen.
(7) Next, information other than the program selected in 011 is displayed again as a telop as in 010. The user repeats until there is no search result or there is no desired recorded program in the search result and “not register on DVD dubbing list” is selected.
(8) Return to the screen for selecting a desired program from the HDD program list in (2) and wait for the user's selection.

In this process flow, in (3), using the recording date / time, recording start time, recording end time, and recording channel of the recorded program, a method for selecting a program of the same condition as the program selected by the user from the recorded programs Although explained, you may search with the following information.

Title name of recorded program; when a user records a desired program, the title name of the program is also recorded. A program similar to the first few characters of the recorded program selected by the user in the dubbing list to DVD is searched from the recorded programs and set as a candidate for addition to the dubbing list to DVD.

Series information of the recorded program; if information that the program content is a series such as a sequel to a movie is added to a program stream recorded on various broadcasts or storage media, record that information. deep. When the user selects the dubbing list to DVD, the recorded program having the same series information as the series information of the recorded program selected by the user is searched from all the recorded programs and added to the dubbing list to DVD. To do.

The attached information that the user records together with the program recording is the same as in the first embodiment. Also,
If the capacity of the other recording medium is small when dubbing to another recording medium, if the recorded program selected by the user is dubbed at the same rate, there is a possibility that the recording capacity is insufficient and not all of the recording capacity can be dubbed. In such a case, the rate is calculated from the recording data selected by the user and the recorded program picked up by the search, and the dubbing rate is optimized according to the capacity of the recording medium to be dubbed. The dubbing rate is calculated from the total recording time of the program selected by the user and the recorded program picked up by the search. In this case, the dubbing rate may be determined in consideration of the original recording rate.

FIG. 9 shows a selection screen image at the time of optimizing the dubbing rate. The rate is calculated according to the capacity of the recording medium to be dubbed in advance between the recorded program selected by the user and the search program, and the user selects 'Add all by bit rate conversion' in 012 telop. ,
014 can be registered in a DVD dubbing list in a lump and can be selected at a dubbing rate optimized according to the capacity of other recording media, reducing the user's effort.

001 ... TV screen display area, 002 ... recorded program, 003 ... program specified by user for creating playlist, 004 ... telop (overwrite display), 005
... Search result screen, 006 ... Playlist addition program, 007 ... TV screen display area, 008 ... Recorded program, 009 ... Program specified by user for creating dubbing list, 010 ... Telop (overwrite display), 011 ... Telop (overwrite display), 012 ... Dubbing list addition program, 013 ... Dubbing list addition program, 0
14 ... Dubbing list additional program

Claims (6)

A device connectable with the display means,
An output means for outputting a digital image recorded on the recording medium and information relating to the digital image to a display means;
Control means for selecting a digital image based on information about the digital image recorded on the recording medium and controlling the output means;
The control means outputs the list of digital images to a first area in the display means, and when a user's designation operation is inputted, the user designates information related to the digital image designated by the user. A digital image other than the digital image is selected from the digital images recorded on the recording medium,
Outputting a list of information indicating the selected digital image to a second area on the display means, outputting the second area to be displayed on the same screen as the first area, and A digital image recording / reproducing apparatus, wherein information indicating a plurality of digital images is arranged and displayed so as to be adjacent to each other on the second area. In claim 1,
The control means rearranges information indicating the selected digital image by information relating to a digital image other than information relating to the digital image designated by the user, and displays the digital image on and off the display means by overwriting the information. apparatus. In claim 1,
The control means displays on the display means information indicating the selected digital image as well as selection information relating to the digital image specified by the user. In claim 2 or 3,
The digital image recording / reproducing apparatus, wherein the control means displays information relating to a digital image in which information indicating the selected digital image is rearranged. In any one of Claims 1 thru | or 4,
A digital image recording / reproducing apparatus characterized in that a reduced image is displayed on the display means as information indicating the digital image selected by the control means. In any one of Claims 1 thru | or 5,
The digital image recording / reproducing apparatus, wherein the digital image is a recorded program.

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