JP4945679B2 - Display device and method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a display device and a method.

  Conventionally, in a recording apparatus using a large-capacity storage medium such as a hard disk, a method of recording content data such as a program while repeating overwrite recording in an area different from the normal recording area (hereinafter referred to as “loop recording”). Known as “method”).

  In addition, in order to prevent a program recorded in the loop recording method from being overwritten, there is also a recording device having a function of moving content data recorded in the loop recording method to a normal recording area (for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2008-11402 A

  However, with the conventional technology disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is not possible to easily grasp content data whose recording method has been changed.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a display device and method capable of easily grasping content data whose recording method has been changed.

In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, a display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of first contents recorded in a first recording method for simultaneously recording a plurality of first content data on a storage medium. Predetermined content data of one content data is recorded on the storage medium as new second content data of the second content data recorded by the second recording method for recording one second content data on the storage medium. Later, when the list of the first content data is displayed on the display unit as a program table arranged in time series for each channel, the predetermined content data is displayed in a display mode different from the other first content data, and the new content data is displayed. When the second content data list is displayed on the display unit after being recorded on the storage medium as the new second content data, the new second content data is displayed. Characterized in that it comprises a display control unit for displaying in a display mode different from the Ceiling data with other second content data.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display method in which a display control unit includes a plurality of first content data recorded in a first recording method in which a plurality of first content data is recorded on a storage medium at the same time. After the predetermined content data is recorded on the storage medium as new second content data of the second content data recorded by the second recording method for recording one second content data on the storage medium, the first content data is recorded. When the list is displayed on the display unit as a program table arranged in chronological order for each channel, the predetermined content data is displayed in a display mode different from the other first content data, and further as the new second content data When the list of the second content data is displayed on the display unit after being recorded in the storage medium, the new second content data is transferred to another Characterized in that it comprises a display control step of displaying in the content data and a display mode different.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily grasp content data whose recording method has been changed.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the television receiver according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed configuration example of the tuner according to the present embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a display processing example of a list of programs recorded by the loop recording method. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area after the program is moved to the PVR recording area. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a display processing example of a list of programs in the PVR recording system. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the PVR recording area when there is a program moved from the loop recording area to the PVR recording area. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the PVR recording area when there is no program moved from the loop recording area to the PVR recording area. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area after the program is copied to the PVR recording area. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a modification of the display example of the list of programs recorded in the loop recording area after the program is moved to the PVR recording area.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of a display device and a method according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the present embodiment, a television receiver having a recording function will be described as an example of a display device, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the present invention can also be applied to an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) recorder or an HDD + DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) recorder.

  First, the configuration of the television receiver according to the present embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the television receiver 100 according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, a television receiver 100 includes a tuner unit 101, a recording / playback unit 105, an HDD 110, an EPG (Electric Program Guide) processing unit 112, an EPG memory 113, an MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) decoder 114, a display. A control unit 115, a remote control reception unit 116, and a system controller 117 are provided.

  The tuner unit 101 receives a transport stream in which content data such as a program and control data are multiplexed from a broadcasting station. In the present embodiment, tuner section 101 includes tuners 101-1 to 101-N (N is a natural number), and receives transport streams of channels Ch1 to ChN, respectively. The tuners 101-1 to 101-N output the Ch1 to ChN transport streams to the recording / playback unit 105 and the EPG processing unit 112, respectively.

  Here, the details of the tuners 101-1 to 101-N of the present embodiment will be described using the tuner 101-1 as an example. Note that the details of the tuners 101-2 to 101-N are the same as those of the tuner 101-1, and thus the description thereof is omitted.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a detailed configuration of the tuner 101-1 according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2, the tuner 101-1 includes a channel selection unit 201, a separation unit 202, a descrambler 203, a separation unit 204, and an IC card 206.

  The channel selection unit 201 selects an antenna input, and outputs a transport stream of the selected channel to the separation unit 202 and the descrambler 203.

  The separation unit 202 separates the control data ECM multiplexed in the transport stream input from the channel selection unit 201 and outputs the separated control data ECM to the IC card 206. Further, the separation unit 202 outputs the transport stream input from the channel selection unit 201 to the separation unit 204. The separation unit 204 separates the control data EMM multiplexed in the transport stream input from the separation unit 202 and outputs the separated control data EMM to the IC card 206.

  The IC card 206 decrypts the scramble key using the control data ECM input from the separation unit 202 and the control data EMM input from the separation unit 204. The descrambler 203 descrambles the content data multiplexed in the transport stream using the scramble key decrypted by the IC card 206 and outputs it.

  In the present embodiment, each of the tuners 101-1 to 101-N is provided with the IC card 206, but a plurality of tuners may also be used as the IC card.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the recording / playback unit 105 extracts content data from the Ch1 to ChN transport streams, and performs recording and playback. The recording / playback unit 105 performs loop recording unit 106, PVR recording unit 107, and change unit 108. And a playback unit 109.

  The loop recording unit 106 (an example of a first recording unit) records content data on the HDD 110 in a loop recording method (an example of a first recording method) in which data is deleted after a predetermined time has elapsed. Specifically, the loop recording unit 106 records the content data in order from the top of the loop recording area 110A (an example of the first storage area) of the HDD 110, and when recording to the end, records again from the top. Further, the loop recording unit 106 deletes the content data recorded in the loop recording area 110A after a predetermined time has elapsed. The loop recording unit 106 may delete the content data recorded in the loop recording area 110A when the capacity exceeds a predetermined capacity.

  In addition, the loop recording unit 106 receives designation of a time zone for recording in the loop recording method from the system controller 117 described later, and loops recording a plurality of content data received by the tuner unit 101 within the designated time zone. To record in the loop recording area 110A. Further, the loop recording unit 106 receives designation of a plurality of channels to be recorded by the loop recording method from the system controller 117 described later, and a plurality of content data of the designated plurality of channels is stored in the loop recording area 110A by the loop recording method. record.

  A PVR recording unit 107 (an example of a second recording unit) records content data on the HDD 110 by a PVR recording method (an example of a second recording method) that is a normal recording method. Specifically, the PVR recording unit 107 records content data in the PVR recording area 110B (an example of the second storage area) of the HDD 110. Note that the PVR recording unit 107 stores the content data recorded in the PVR recording area 110B without erasing until a deletion is instructed from the system controller 117 described later.

  Note that the loop recording unit 106 and the PVR recording unit 107 include channel information indicating the channel of the program that recorded the content data, the program name of the program that recorded the content data, the recording date and time when the content data was recorded, the playback history of the content data, Information such as the remaining number of movements and the remaining number of copies of the content data is added to the content data and recorded in the HDD 110. In this embodiment, the loop recording area 110A and the PVR recording area 110B are secured in the HDD 110, but the loop recording area 110A and the PVR recording area 110B may be secured in separate HDDs.

  The changing unit 108 changes the recording method of content data recorded by the loop recording method to the PVR recording method. Specifically, the changing unit 108 moves or copies the content data recorded in the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B. At this time, the changing unit 108 updates the remaining movement count and remaining copy count added to the content data. Thereby, it is possible to determine the content data moved or copied from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B.

  The playback unit 109 outputs the content data extracted from the Ch1 to ChN transport streams and the content data recorded on the HDD 110 to the MPEG decoder 114 for playback.

  The EPG processing unit 112 extracts EPG information, which is program information (SI information) indicating a program in each time zone of each channel, from the transport stream of Ch1 to ChN, and stores it in the EPG memory 113. Further, the EPG processing unit 112 extracts EPG information from the transport streams Ch1 to ChN in order to constantly update the EPG information stored in the EPG memory 113, and stores the EPG information in the EPG memory 113 with the extracted EPG information. Update the stored EPG information.

  In the present embodiment, EPG information of each channel is extracted from each of the transport streams Ch1 to ChN as in Japanese terrestrial digital broadcasting, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, there are cases where EPG information of all BS channels is multiplexed on each channel as in BS (Broadcasting Satellite) digital broadcasting. In any case, the EPG processing unit 112 extracts EPG information for the number of channels that can be received by the own device, and stores the extracted EPG information in the EPG memory 113.

  Further, the EPG processing unit 112 receives a program guide display instruction from the system controller 117 described later, acquires EPG information stored in the EPG memory 113, and programs obtained by arranging the acquired EPG information in time series for each channel. The program guide data of the table is output to the display control unit 115.

  The MPEG decoder 114 performs an MPEG2 decoding process on the content data input from the recording / playback unit 105 and outputs it to the display control unit 115.

  The display control unit 115 outputs the program guide data output from the EPG processing unit 112 and the content data output from the MPEG decoder 114 to the display unit 120 as a television signal.

  In this embodiment, a list of content data recorded by the loop recording method is created in the program table format by the EPG processing unit 112 and displayed on the display unit 120 by the display control unit 115. A list of content data recorded by the PVR recording method is created by the recording / playback unit 105 and displayed on the display unit 120 by the display control unit 115.

  When the display control unit 115 displays a list of content data recorded in the loop recording method or a list of content data recorded in the PVR recording method on the display unit 120, the display unit 115 changes the PVR recording from the loop recording method. The content data changed to the system is displayed in a display mode different from other content data.

  Specifically, the display control unit 115 displays a list of content data recorded in the loop recording method or a list of content data recorded in the PVR recording method on the display unit 120 from the loop recording area 110A. The content data moved or copied to the recording area 110B is displayed with a symbol such as a mark.

  Whether the content data has been moved or copied from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B is determined by the recording / playback unit 105 referring to the remaining number of movements and the number of remaining copies added to the content data. Can be determined. For example, since the dubbing 10 can be moved once and copied nine times, the remaining number of movements of the content recorded in the PVR recording area 110B is 0 or recorded in the loop recording area 110A. If the remaining copy count of the content is less than 9, it can be determined that the content data has been moved or copied from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B. Then, the system controller 117 described below receives this determination result from the recording / playback unit 105 and instructs the display control unit 115 whether to display the content data with a mark or the like.

  The display unit 120 displays a program based on the television signal input from the display control unit 115, displays a list of content data recorded by the loop recording method, and a list of content data recorded by the PVR recording method. To do. The display unit 120 can be realized by a liquid crystal display, a plasma display, an organic EL display, or the like.

  The remote control receiving unit 116 specifies from the remote control 130 the time zone and channel for recording in the loop recording method, the recording instruction in the PVR recording method, the instruction to delete the content data recorded in the PVR recording method, and the loop recording area 110A. Instructions for moving or copying content data to the PVR recording area 110B, instructions for reproducing content data recorded in the HDD 110, a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area 110A, and programs recorded in the PVR recording area 110B A list display instruction or the like is received and notified to the system controller 117.

  The system controller 117 controls the entire television receiver 100. For example, the system controller 117 receives a notification from the remote control receiving unit 116 and performs control and instructions according to the notification from the remote control receiving unit 116 to each unit of the television receiving device 100.

  Next, the operation of the television receiver 100 of this embodiment will be described. Hereinafter, the operation of the television receiver 100 will be described by taking as an example the case where the loop recording unit 106 records programs of the six broadcasting stations A to F (channels) in the loop recording area 110A by the loop recording method. In this example, it is assumed that the program recorded in the loop recording area 110A can be stored for 3 days and deleted after 3 days.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of a flow of a procedure for displaying a list of programs recorded by the loop recording method.

  First, the system controller 117 receives an instruction to display a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area 110A from the remote control 130 via the remote control receiving unit 116 (step S100).

  Subsequently, the EPG processing unit 112 receives an instruction from the system controller 117, acquires EPG information of a program recorded in the loop recording area 110A from the EPG memory 113, and the display control unit 115 is operated by the EPG processing unit 112. A program table in which the acquired EPG information is arranged in time series for each channel is displayed on the display unit 120 as a list of programs (step S102).

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area 110A. In the example illustrated in FIG. 4, a program list in which programs broadcast from PM 5:30 to PM 11:30 are arranged for each broadcasting station A to F is displayed in a program table format such as an EPG screen. That is, in the example shown in FIG. 4, programs broadcast from PM 5:30 to PM 11:30 at the broadcasting stations A to F are recorded in the loop recording area 110A.

  Subsequently, the system controller 117 transfers from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B with respect to a predetermined program in the program list displayed in the program table format from the remote controller 130 via the remote control receiving unit 116. It is confirmed whether or not a movement instruction has been made (step S104).

  When an instruction to move from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B is confirmed (Yes in step S104), the changing unit 108 receives an instruction from the system controller 117 and records a predetermined program from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area. Move to area 110B (step S106). For example, when an instruction to move from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B is confirmed for the program 301 shown in FIG. 4, the changing unit 108 moves the program 301 from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B. To do.

  Subsequently, the display control unit 115 receives an instruction from the system controller 117 and displays a predetermined program in the program list with a PVR recording system mark (step S108).

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area 110A after the program 301 is moved to the PVR recording area 110B. In the example shown in FIG. 5, since the program 301 is moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B, the program 301 is displayed with a PVR recording method mark.

  If an instruction to move from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B is not confirmed for a predetermined program (No in step S104), the processes in steps S106 and S108 are not performed.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, in the program list recorded in the loop recording area 110A, the program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B is displayed with the PVR recording system mark. The user can confirm the program moved to the PVR recording area 110B and the program information at the same time.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a flow of a procedure for displaying a list of programs in the PVR recording system.

  First, the system controller 117 receives an instruction to display a list of programs recorded in the PVR recording area 110B from the remote control 130 via the remote control receiving unit 116 (step S200).

  Subsequently, in response to an instruction from the system controller 117, the recording / playback unit 105 determines whether there is a predetermined program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B among the programs recorded in the PVR recording area 110B. It is confirmed whether or not (step S202).

  When there is a predetermined program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B (Yes in step S202), the display control unit 115 displays the program recorded in the PVR recording area 110B created by the recording / playback unit 105. The predetermined program in the list is displayed with a loop recording mark added (step S204).

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the PVR recording area 110B when there is a program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B. In the example shown in FIG. 7, a list of programs recorded in the PVR recording area 110B and a movie of the program selected by the cursor are displayed, and the program 311 is moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B. Since this is a program, the program 311 is displayed with a loop recording mark. The program 311 is displayed at the top of the list of programs recorded in the PVR recording area 110B.

  If there is no predetermined program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B (No in step S202), the display control unit 115 is recorded in the PVR recording area 110B created by the recording / playback unit 105. A list of existing programs is displayed as it is (step S206).

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the PVR recording area 110B when there is no program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B. In the example shown in FIG. 8, since there is no program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B, any program is displayed without being marked with the loop recording method.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, in the program list recorded in the PVR recording area 110B, the program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B is displayed with the mark of the loop recording method. The user can confirm the program moved to the PVR recording area 110B and the program information at the same time. Further, since the program moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B is displayed at the top of the program list, it is easy for the user to notice.

  It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the above embodiments. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, constituent elements over different embodiments may be appropriately combined.

  For example, in the above embodiment, the movement of the program from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B has been described as an example, but the program can be copied by the same method.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area 110A after the program 301 is copied to the PVR recording area 110B. In the example shown in FIG. 9, since the program 301 is copied from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B, the program 301 is displayed with a copied mark.

  In this way, in the program list recorded in the loop recording area 110A, when a program copied from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B is displayed with a copy mark, the user copies to the PVR recording area 110B. And the program information can be confirmed at the same time. From the standpoint of content protection, the icon display mode may be changed depending on whether the program has been moved or copied, or only the management information has been changed without moving the program. The background color of the program column may be changed.

  Further, for example, in the above embodiment, when content data is moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B, PVR recording is performed on the program moved to the PVR recording area 110B in the list of programs recorded in the loop recording area 110A. Although the system mark is added and displayed, the program moved to the PVR recording area 110B may not be displayed.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of programs recorded in the loop recording area 110A after the program 301 is moved to the PVR recording area 110B. In the example shown in FIG. 10, since the program 301 is moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B, the program 301 is not displayed.

  In the above embodiment, both the list of programs recorded in the loop recording area 110A and the list of programs recorded in the PVR recording area 110B are moved from the loop recording area 110A to the PVR recording area 110B. The program is displayed with a mark, but it may be displayed with a mark only in one of the program lists.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Television receiver, 101 ... Tuner part, 101-1 to 101-N ... Tuner, 105 ... Recording / reproducing part, 106 ... Loop recording part, 107 ... PVR recording part, 108 ... Change part, 109 ... Reproducing part, 110 ... HDD, 110A ... loop recording area, 110B ... PVR recording area, 112 ... EPG processing unit, 113 ... EPG memory, 114 ... MPEG decoder, 115 ... display control unit, 116 ... remote control receiving unit, 117 ... system controller, 120 ... Display unit, 130 ... Remote control, 201 ... Channel selection unit, 202 ... Separation unit, 203 ... Descrambler, 204 ... Separation unit, 206 ... IC card

Claims (4)

Recording predetermined content data of the plurality of first content data recorded in the first recording method for simultaneously recording a plurality of first content data on a storage medium, and recording a second content data on the storage medium. After recording in the storage medium as new second content data of the second content data recorded by the two recording method, a list of the first content data is displayed on the display unit as a program table arranged in time series for each channel. When displaying the predetermined content data in a display mode different from the other first content data, and further displaying a list of the second content data on the display unit after being recorded as the new second content data in the storage medium. A display control unit for displaying the new second content data in a display mode different from that of the other second content data. Display device characterized by obtaining.   The display control unit is configured to display the predetermined content data with a symbol when the list of the first content data is displayed on the display unit after the recording of the new second content data. The display device according to claim 1.   The display control unit displays the new second content data with a symbol when the list of the second content data is displayed on the display unit after the recording of the new second content data. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display device is a display device. A display control unit stores predetermined content data of the plurality of first content data recorded by a first recording method for simultaneously recording a plurality of first content data on a storage medium, and stores one second content data. As a program table in which a list of first content data is arranged in time series for each channel after recording in the storage medium as new second content data of the second content data recorded in the second recording method for recording on the medium. When displaying on the display unit, the predetermined content data is displayed in a display mode different from the other first content data, and a list of second content data is displayed after being recorded on the storage medium as the new second content data. The new second content data is displayed in a different display mode from the other second content data. Display method characterized in that it comprises a display control step.

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