JP5726025B2 - Screen display processing device during TV broadcast reception search - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention provides a TV broadcast reception that can eliminate the user's discomfort due to the fact that nothing is displayed on the screen during the search period when performing a search to receive a broadcast of a predetermined TV station. The present invention relates to a screen display processing device during a search.

  Since terrestrial digital broadcasting can be easily received appropriately even by a vehicle moving at a high speed, a terrestrial digital broadcasting receiver is often provided as a vehicle-mounted device. Also, unlike analog broadcasting, terrestrial digital broadcasting can receive data broadcasting, and can also receive various information such as information on programs currently broadcast, and can easily receive EPG (Electric Program Guide). Therefore, it is possible to capture a variety of information, and it is widely used from that point.

  However, terrestrial digital broadcasting has a limited range that can be covered by one broadcasting station due to the characteristics of radio waves, and even one broadcasting station has a relay station that relays radio waves to widen the transmission range of radio waves. The viewing area is reduced. In that case, the frequency is often the same, but sometimes a different frequency is used.

  Furthermore, broadcast stations that mainly produce broadcast programs have grouped local broadcast stations, for example, Nippon TV series, Fuji TV series, TBS series, and TV Asahi series. These affiliated stations often broadcast the same broadcast at the same time, for example, in live broadcasts and news, but may broadcast at different times, for example, in quiz programs.

  Therefore, a TV broadcast receiver installed in a vehicle searches for a relay station of the same broadcast station when the TV that is currently being received and watched cannot be received as the vehicle moves, and the same broadcast when there is no appropriate relay station The affiliated station of the station is searched and received and viewed. In order to facilitate this process, digital broadcasting uses the NIT (Network Information Table) information of each broadcasting station included in the program sequence information SI (Service Information) to create a relay station list of the broadcasting station that is the master station. At the same time, a list of affiliate stations is created using the BIT (Broadcaster Information Table) information affiliation-id (sequence identifier), and when it becomes impossible to receive the currently receiving broadcast station, each list is used. Then, the relay station search or affiliated station search is performed for reception.

  If the reception state of the broadcast being viewed by the first reception / playback unit is deteriorated by moving the service area, if the reception state of the second reception / playback unit is good, the second reception / playback unit By extracting information about the current location from the information of the broadcasting station being viewed, determining a channel that can be received at the current location from this information and the information of the broadcasting station previously stored in the storage means, and performing an affiliated station search Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for shortening the processing time required for channel selection for continuing viewing of a broadcast without using dedicated current location detection means such as GPS.

JP 2010-154447 A

  As described above, when receiving and viewing digital terrestrial broadcasting with a TV broadcast receiver mounted on the vehicle, when the radio wave of the broadcasting station currently being received cannot be received along with the movement of the vehicle, the relay station is searched. , Search for affiliates that are highly related to the station that is currently broadcasting, are likely to be able to continue watching the same program, and are likely to be able to see the program that they are always watching To go and continue watching.

  In order to perform such an affiliated station search, an affiliated station that is currently viewable is searched using GPS data, the affiliated station data included in the data broadcast is used, and a plurality of television receivers are provided. Various methods such as searching for an appropriate affiliated station in cooperation with each other as soon as possible and performing an affiliated station search for selecting an affiliated station with the best reception status when there are multiple affiliated stations that can be viewed. Is used.

  However, the use of various means as described above is not always sufficient, especially in high-rise buildings, tunnels, mountainous areas, etc., since it is no longer possible to receive currently received TV stations, There is a state in which a search is performed and an affiliated station cannot be found, or an affiliated station that should originally be able to be received cannot be received, and other stations cannot be received at all.

  In such a case, for example, as shown in FIG. 5 (a), when a radio wave condition received for various reasons as described above is deteriorated during the reception of a baseball television broadcast, the receiver receives a series. A station search will be performed. In that case, for example, as shown in the figure, almost nothing is displayed, so-called “black screen” and “searching” are displayed, and as shown in the example shown, an indication of elapsed time is displayed. Become.

  This state is good if the affiliated station can be received in a relatively short time. However, if it is difficult to receive even if it tries to receive the affiliated stations in order, it is possible to receive another because the affiliated station cannot receive. If you try to receive a broadcast station and you still cannot receive it, the black screen as shown in the figure will continue to be displayed, and the screen will be unpleasant for the user and will not be unpleasant. I do not get.

  Also, for example, when you want to receive TV when the navigation screen is displayed on the monitor of the vehicle, when you switch from the navigation screen to the TV display, you can use the resume function that a normal TV broadcast receiver has. The broadcast station that was last viewed from the present time will be received.

  In such a case, as shown in FIG. 5 (b), when switching to the reception of the television for the first time and finally receiving the 8 channels, the television broadcast receiver first receives 8 channels. It will attempt to receive the channel. At that time, when the 8 channels previously viewed cannot be received due to various reasons, the black screen as shown in the figure continues, and after this, processing such as affiliated station search is performed, and an appropriate station receives it. The state of the black screen will continue until it is possible, and the screen display that is unsightly for the user will continue, which is not preferable.

  Therefore, the present invention provides a new TV station when the TV station that was last viewed cannot be received when the TV reception is started, or when the affiliated station search is performed without receiving the TV station currently being viewed. The main object is to provide a screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search in which the display state of a screen on which substantially nothing is displayed continues until reception is possible, and the user is not made uncomfortable. .

  In order to solve the above problems, a screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search according to the present invention is a TV broadcast receiving means for receiving a digital TV broadcast, and a TV that captures TV information from data received by the TV broadcast receiving means. Information receiving means; receiving station search detecting means for detecting that a search is being performed for reception by a station receiving by the television broadcast receiving means; and receiving the television broadcast by the receiving station search detecting means. When the means detects that the search is being performed, it is formed by the searching TV screen display image forming means that takes in the TV information and forms an image to be displayed on the TV screen, and the searching TV screen display image forming means. TV display data output means for outputting an image of TV information to the TV display means is provided.

  Further, another screen display processing apparatus during a TV broadcast reception search according to the present invention stores the TV information captured by the TV information capturing means while being updated in the screen display processing apparatus during the TV broadcast reception search. TV information storage means is provided, and the searching TV screen display image forming means reads TV information stored in the TV information storage means to form a TV screen display image.

  Further, in another screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search according to the present invention, in the screen display processing device during the TV broadcast reception search, the television broadcast receiving means becomes incapable of receiving during the television broadcast reception. Sometimes, when searching for affiliated stations of broadcast stations that have been received so far, the television display data output means is searching for affiliated stations by the television broadcast receiving means, and TV information of programs that have been viewed up to now Is displayed.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search. In the screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search, the TV display data output means selects an affiliated station by the TV broadcast reception means. When searching, when it is detected that the time at which a program that has been viewed up to now has passed, a list of receivable stations is displayed.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search. In the screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search, the TV display data output means selects an affiliated station by the TV broadcast reception means. When a search for reception is performed and reception is impossible, a list of receivable stations is displayed.

  Further, according to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search, in the screen display processing device during the TV broadcast reception search, when the TV broadcast receiving means starts the operation of the TV broadcast receiving means. And a search for receiving the last received station stored in advance, and the television display data output unit displays the television information of the last watched television station stored in the television information storage means. It is characterized by that.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search. In the screen display processing device during a TV broadcast reception search, the television display data output means receives the last screen broadcast processing means. When a search for receiving the selected station is performed and reception is not possible, a list of receivable stations is displayed.

  Since the present invention is configured as described above, when the reception of the television station that was last viewed cannot be received when the reception of the television is started, the affiliated station search is performed without the reception of the currently viewed television station. In this case, until the desired television station can be received, the television information is displayed without continuing the display state of a screen on which nothing is substantially displayed, thereby making the user uncomfortable.

It is a functional block diagram of the present invention. It is an operation | movement flowchart of the television reception process in the Example. It is an operation | movement flowchart of the process at the time of reception impossible during television reception in the Example. It is a figure which shows the aspect of the screen display by this invention. It is a figure which shows the screen display mode of a prior art example.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram for implementing the present invention, and shows examples in which the present invention can be implemented in various modes. Therefore, the present invention can be implemented in various modes by selecting any of these functional blocks. Note that each functional unit in FIG. 1 can also be said to be a means for performing each function.

  In the example illustrated in FIG. 1, the television reception processing unit 1 receives a digital television broadcast by the television broadcast reception unit 2, and the television information data separation unit 3 transmits the digital broadcast as exemplified in the television information acquisition unit 11. The various types of television information that have been received are separated from the various types of television data received, and can be easily captured by the television information capturing unit 11 as will be described later. The television broadcast image data received by the television broadcast receiving unit 2 is output to the television broadcast received image output unit 19 of the television display data output unit 18 and is output to the television display unit 17 such as a monitor. The sound is output from a speaker (not shown).

  Various types of information transmitted by the digital television broadcast separated by the television information data separation unit 3 are captured by the television information capture unit 11 as described above. The television information at this time is exemplified in the figure. Further, data broadcasting, program information, EPG, receivable stations, etc., any of these may be selected and set in advance. Various data captured at this time may be captured every time the data image is updated, or may be captured at regular intervals.

  In the TV information fetching section 11 shown in FIG. 1, when this TV broadcast receiver can be connected to the Internet through the Internet connecting section 16, it is connected to the Internet periodically or according to a user instruction or the like, from the TV information providing department. For example, various information relating to a TV program can be taken in. In this case, the latest television information can be captured even if the television has not been received for a long time and the television cannot be received from the beginning.

  Various data as described above captured by the television information capturing unit 11 is stored in the television information storage unit 12 while being updated. Therefore, for example, when EPG data is captured by the television information capturing unit 11, by storing this, it is possible to capture and store program-related information for one week. Even if it is not possible to receive the television broadcast when trying to receive the television broadcast after that, the data can be used for display.

  The TV information stored in the TV information storage unit 12 is read by the TV information reading unit 13 according to an instruction from the searching TV screen display image forming unit 23 as described later, and the obtained TV information is used as it is. Or can be displayed on the television display unit 17 from the television display data output unit 18.

  The receiving station selection instructing unit 4 selects a receiving station to be received by the television broadcast reception processing unit 1 and gives an instruction to receive it. The automatic selection instructing unit 5 among them receives, for example, the television broadcast that has been received up to now. When searching for affiliated stations of the same broadcasting station when it becomes impossible to receive, if the affiliated stations are automatically searched in order based on the affiliated station data as described above, the automatic selection instructing unit 5 receives the receiving station. Make selections and instructions.

  Further, for example, when the TV of the receiving station storage unit 15 is turned off, or when the display on the monitor is switched from the TV receiving screen to the navigation screen or the like, the TV receiving broadcast station received so far is stored in the receiving station storage. When it is stored in the unit 15, when the TV broadcast is received thereafter, it is read by the receiving station reading unit 14, and when the station is automatically received, the automatic selection instructing unit 5 operates. It will be.

  On the other hand, in the manual selection instructing unit 6, the user directly instructs to select an arbitrary station. In this case, in addition to the user simply operating the channel instruction button, the program displayed on the screen, for example, There are various cases such as instructing an arbitrary station by looking at the table or instructing the program itself.

  The reception availability determination unit 7 determines whether or not reception is possible for the station that has received the reception instruction selected by the reception station selection instruction unit 4. In this case, the television information capturing unit 11 performs the reception. The television broadcast reception unit 2 tries to actually receive the television information use determination unit 8 that determines whether it is included in the received receivable station data and the station selected by the reception station selection instruction unit 4, An actual search discriminating unit 9 that discriminates that reception is impossible when reception is not possible within a predetermined time is provided.

  The television display data output unit 18 outputs data to be displayed on the television display unit 17, and as the data to be output here, the data received by the television broadcast receiving unit 2 that receives a normal television broadcast is taken in. An output unit for receiving steady television broadcast reception data 19 is provided.

  In addition, the TV display data output unit 18 is provided with an output unit for TV information related data 20, and when the user gives an instruction to display a data broadcast or a program table even during the regular TV screen display, The latest data broadcast and program table separated by the television information data separation unit 2 of the reception processing unit 1 are displayed.

  In addition, in the output section of the TV information related data 20, the receiving station search detecting section 22 is the TV broadcast receiving section 2 of the TV broadcast receiving processing section 1 and performs the receiving processing of a predetermined station according to the instruction of the receiving station selection instruction section 4. When it is detected that the current search is being performed, the latest TV stored in the TV information storage unit 12 read by the TV information reading unit 13 in the TV screen display image forming unit 23 during the search is detected. When the data separated by the information or by the television information data separation unit 3 is directly taken in here to form and output an image for television information display, the television information related data 20 is output from the output unit to the television display unit. Output is possible.

  Further, in the output section of the TV operation display data 21, as described above, for example, the current search is being performed by the data from the TV screen display image forming section 23 being searched or by a separate display means. The display output is performed based on data indicating what operation is currently being performed on the television, such as an indication of whether or not the channel is currently running, and which channel is currently being searched.

  In the program end detection unit 24, for example, when searching for affiliated stations in the TV broadcast receiving unit 2, especially if the affiliated stations that can be received are not easily found, the program that has been viewed up to now is over, and then Since it is often meaningless even if the station can be received, here, in the affiliated station search, the TV information reading unit 13 reads the data of the end time of the program that has been viewed up to now from the TV information storage unit 12, Whether or not the program end time has come can be monitored. When it is detected that the program end time is reached, a list of stations that can be viewed at present is displayed so that the user can select a station that the user wants to view.

  The present invention is operated according to the operation flow shown in FIG. 2, for example, according to the functional block shown in FIG. In the example of the television reception process shown in FIG. 2, the operation starts from the first television operation start process (step S1).

  The start of the operation of the television here means to turn on the power of the television and start the reception of the television broadcast. In addition to simply operating the television switch to turn on the power, for example, a vehicle monitor This is also included when the television receiving operation is started by instructing the display screen switching unit of the monitor to switch to the television screen when the navigation screen is being displayed.

  Next, a reception search is performed for the television station that was received last (step S2). This operation is a resume function adopted in a normal television broadcast receiver. In the example of FIG. 1, when the television is first received in the receiving station storage unit 15 and the television reception is completed, the reception is performed until then. The received station is stored here, and then the receiving station reading unit 14 reads this at the time of the operation of step S1, and the automatic selection instructing unit 5 of the receiving station selection instructing unit 4 It operates by instructing the television broadcast receiver 2 to automatically receive the station.

  Thereafter, in the example of FIG. 2, the television information is updated and acquired and stored (step S3). In this operation, the television information data separation unit 3 in the television broadcast reception processing unit 1 in FIG. 1 receives data broadcast, program information, EPG, etc. transmitted together with the regular broadcast of the station received by the television broadcast reception unit 2. The TV information capturing unit 11 separates the data and captures the data.

  As the TV information to be captured at this time, it is possible to capture the TV information of the currently receivable station, which is different from the station searched by the TV broadcast receiving unit 2 as described above, and to be currently receivable on the broadcast data. It is also possible to capture data of receivable stations. In addition, as described above, television information can be captured via the Internet connection unit 16 of FIG.

  Thereafter, in step S4, the latest television information stored is displayed on the screen. In this operation, when the receiving station search detecting unit 22 in FIG. 1 detects that the search is currently started for receiving a television broadcast, the searching TV screen display image forming unit 23 and the TV information reading unit 13 The latest television information stored in the television information storage unit 12 is read, a predetermined television information screen is formed by the data, and the television display is output from the output unit of the television information related data 20 of the television display data output unit 18. This is done by outputting to the department. Here, particularly, the television information that is displayed first is stored in the television information storage unit 12 because the television information of the station that was received last is stored and displayed.

  In the example shown in FIG. 2, when the television broadcast receiving unit 2 of the television reception processing unit 1 starts a search for reception, the television information screen displayed during the search is immediately displayed as described above. Although an example in which the screen being searched such as a black screen is not displayed as much as possible has been shown, other than that, after a predetermined time such as 3 seconds elapses after the search is started, as described above The television information may be displayed on the screen. FIG. 4B shows an example of switching to the television information display as shown in FIG. 4 when a so-called black screen display continues after a predetermined time such as 3 seconds has elapsed since the search was started.

  Thereafter, in the example of FIG. 2, it is determined whether or not data of a station that can be currently received has been acquired (step S5). In other words, here, when searching for the last station that was currently received by the resume function, the previously received station cannot be received, and processing to receive other stations must be performed. Considering this, the data of the receivable station is acquired here, and it is determined whether or not the station is receivable on the data. This data is received by a second broadcast receiving unit provided separately from the broadcast receiving unit that is currently receiving a television broadcast. This can also be done by taking in data of receivable stations.

  In addition, when it is known that there is no significant difference from the place where the television was previously received, and the data of the receivable station exists in the television information storage unit 12, it is read by the television information reading unit 13. It is also possible to acquire the information and make a determination in the television information use determination unit 8 of the reception availability determination unit 7. If it is determined in this step S5 that the data of the currently receivable station cannot be acquired, the process proceeds to step S7.

  In step S5, when the information on the currently receivable station can be acquired by the various methods as described above, the process proceeds to step S6, and whether or not the last received station is a currently receivable station is determined. Judgment is made based on the data of receivable stations that have been acquired. Here, when it is determined in the data that the currently searched station is a station that cannot be received in the current state, the process proceeds to step S9 in the example of FIG. It is determined whether or not it exists.

  On the other hand, when it is determined in step S6 that the last received station is a station that can currently be received in the data, the process proceeds to step S7 to determine whether the last received station has been received. To do. When it is determined that the signal has been received, the process proceeds to step S14, and the station that was received last is received and displayed.

  At this time, the display of the television information screen performed in step S4 is switched to regular television broadcast reception. Therefore, until the last received station is searched and the broadcast of the station can be actually received, the TV information can be displayed without displaying the so-called black screen as in the prior art. .

  After such a stationary television reception state is reached, the incapable reception process during television reception in FIG. 3 is started from step S1. As will be described later, this is the same as the processing in step S13 in FIG.

  In step S7, when it is determined that the station that has been received last has not been received, the process proceeds to step S8 to determine whether or not a predetermined time such as 15 seconds has elapsed since the search was started. . If it is determined that the time has not yet elapsed, the process returns to step S7 to determine whether or not the last received station has been received and can be received by a predetermined time such as 15 seconds. If it is not received, the operation is repeated until a predetermined time such as 15 seconds elapses.

  The station that was last received in step S8 should be able to be received on data, but when it has not been received even after a predetermined time has passed, the station that was last received in step S6 is When it is determined that the station cannot receive data, the process proceeds to step S9, and it is determined whether or not there is a station that can currently receive.

  In this determination, the TV information utilization determining unit 8 of the reception availability determining unit 7 in FIG. 1 searches for information on receivable stations stored in the TV information storage unit 13 and determines whether or not the information exists. This can be done by discriminating. In more detail, the actual search discriminating unit 9 of the reception propriety discriminating unit 7 includes a wide-ranging television station that is normally performed in the television broadcast receiving unit 1 including the affiliated station search of the station that was received last. Can be discriminated by performing an actual search such as searching in order.

  When searching for a receivable station at this time, in addition to searching all the receivable stations in the current state, following the search of the last received station, the affiliated station data is used to search for the station A station search may be performed, and a search for a receivable station as described above may be performed when there is no appropriate affiliated station.

  When it is determined in step S9 that there is no station that can currently receive, the process proceeds to step S16 to display that there is no station that can currently be received, and then determine whether or not the user turns off the TV. If the person decides to turn off the TV because he / she cannot receive the TV in this state, the process proceeds to step S18 to turn off the TV. In that case, a substantial OFF operation can be performed by displaying a navigation screen by operating a display unit or operation buttons of the monitor. When the user does not turn off the TV in step S17, the process returns to step S1 and the above operation is repeated.

  If it is determined in step S9 that there are currently receivable stations, the process proceeds to step S10 to display a list of currently receivable stations. Here, as will be described later, the same processing is performed from FIG. 3S29. Next, the user selects an arbitrary receivable station based on the display (step S11), receives the selected receivable station, and views it (step S12). Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S13, and in the same manner as step S15, the process proceeds to FIG.

  In the example of the unreceivable process during the TV reception shown in FIG. 3, as described above, in step S13 and step S15 in FIG. This process is performed while the received image is displayed. In this process, while continuously receiving the television station received as described above, the television information is updated and acquired and stored in the same manner as in step S3 in FIG. The end time of the current program is imported. This data is included in the television information, for example, EPG, program information, etc., and is shown separately here because the data is used in step S26 as described later.

  In this process, even if the receivable station has not been searched in step S3 in FIG. 2, an operation for acquiring some TV information by connecting to the TV information already stored or the Internet is performed. On the other hand, in step S1 of FIG. 3, since any one of the television stations has already been received, at least the television information can be received by data broadcasting. Accordingly, the latest information can always be captured and stored while being updated.

  Thereafter, it is determined whether or not the broadcast from the currently watched television station has become unreceivable (step S22). If it is determined that the reception is not disabled, the process returns to step S21 to continue the reception of the television broadcast and update and acquire and store the television information. Continue until you can no longer receive the broadcast.

  When it is determined in step S22 that the broadcast of the currently viewed television station can no longer be received, the process proceeds to step S23 in the example of FIG. 3 to search for the affiliated station of the currently viewed television station. However, when it is no longer possible to receive the broadcast of the currently receiving station, there is an operation to search for the relay station in addition to searching for the affiliated station immediately, and to receive the broadcast from the relay station when it exists. Here, this is omitted. Many of these relay stations have the same broadcast frequency, but there are also different relay stations.

  Next, in step S24, the TV information of the program that has been viewed so far is displayed when the affiliated station search is performed in step S23. This state is shown in FIG. 4 (a). When the baseball broadcast is first received and the broadcast cannot be received, the TV information of the program that has been viewed up to now is displayed. It is possible not to display a substantial black screen and to display contents related to a TV program to some extent.

  Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S25, and the affiliated station determines whether or not it has been received. If it is determined that the affiliated station has been received, the process proceeds to step S30, the reception is switched to the affiliated station, and a screen display for viewing this is displayed.

  In FIG. 4A, this state is shown as a state in which the affiliated station is received and the subsequent baseball broadcast is continuously received from the television information display screen during affiliated station search. Therefore, as shown in the figure, until the affiliated station can be searched by performing affiliated station search, the television information is displayed, and the affiliated station can be searched without displaying a substantial black screen. Viewing by receiving affiliated stations can be continued.

  If it is determined in step S25 that the affiliated station cannot be received, the process proceeds to step S26 in the example of FIG. 3 to determine whether or not the end time of the program being viewed has passed. When determining the end of the program, the data is reliably fetched in step S21 as described above, and this data can be used.

  When it is determined in step S26 that the end time of the program being viewed has not passed, the process returns to step S23 to continue the affiliated station search for the previously viewed television station, and during this search in step S24. The process of displaying the latest acquired television information is repeated, and thereafter the same operation is continued. Even when it is determined in step S26 that the end time of the program being watched has not passed, the affiliated station search is terminated when a relatively long affiliated station search such as 3 minutes is performed. Alternatively, it may be set to proceed to step S27.

  When it is determined in step S26 that the end time of the program being viewed has passed, information on stations that can be received is displayed in a list (step S27). This state is shown in FIG. 4 (c). As shown in FIG. 4, when baseball was first watched, it was not received midway, and when searching for affiliated stations, the screen was searched. In addition, the television information is displayed.

  As a result, it is the same as (a) in the figure that the conventional black screen is not displayed, but after that, it is detected that the program that has been viewed up to now has ended. Thus, an example is shown in which a list of currently receivable stations is displayed and a display prompting the user to select a receiving station is performed. In this operation, the program end detection unit 24 in FIG. 1 reads the end time data of the program that has been viewed from the TV information storage unit 12 by the TV information reading unit 13 and the program end time is reached when searching for affiliated stations. When it is detected that the program end time is reached, the TV screen display image forming unit 23 during search displays a list of stations that can be viewed at present.

  In the example shown in FIG. 3, in step S27, when the list of currently receivable stations is displayed, there is no station to display, that is, there is no station that can currently receive. In step S28, it is determined whether or not there is a currently receivable station. If not, the process proceeds to step S31, and the display of the latest television information is continued. In the example shown in the figure, the process returns to step S28.

  When it is determined in step S26 that there are currently receivable stations, that is, when a list of currently receivable stations is displayed by performing a process of displaying a list of currently receivable stations in step S27, In step S29, the process proceeds to step S10 in FIG. 2, and the same processing as described above is performed.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Television broadcast reception process part 2 Television broadcast reception part 3 Television information data separation part 4 Receiving station selection instruction | indication part 5 Automatic selection instruction | indication part 6 Manual selection instruction | indication part 7 Reception availability determination part 8 Television information utilization determination part 9 Actual search determination part 11 TV information capturing unit 12 TV information storage unit 13 TV information reading unit 14 Receiving station reading unit 15 Receiving station storage unit 16 Internet connection unit 17 TV display unit 18 TV display data output unit 19 Regular TV broadcast reception data 20 TV information related data 21 TV operation display data 22 Receiving station searching detecting unit 23 Searching TV screen display image forming unit 24 Program end detecting unit

Claims (5)

TV broadcast receiving means for receiving digital TV broadcast;
Internet connection means connectable to the Internet;
Captures TV information including at least one of data information, program information, EPG information, receivable station information, and Internet TV information obtainable via the Internet connection means included in data received by the TV broadcast receiving means. TV information capture means;
Detecting means for detecting whether or not an affiliated station of the receiving broadcast station is being searched when the television broadcast receiving means is unable to receive the received television broadcast ;
An image forming means for forming an image relating to the program information of the receiving television broadcast for displaying the television information when the detection means detects that the search is being performed;
An output means for outputting an image relating to the program information of the receiving television broadcast formed by the image forming means to the television display means during the search of the television broadcast receiving means ,
When the output means detects the end time of the program that was viewed before the affiliated station search start when the television broadcast receiving means is searching for affiliated stations, the output means receives receivable station information. Is a screen display processing device. The television information capturing means includes storage means for storing the television information,
The screen display processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image forming unit forms an image based on television information stored in the storage unit. The screen display processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the output unit outputs receivable station information when the television broadcast receiving unit cannot receive the affiliated station. The TV broadcast receiving means searches for the last received broadcast station when the TV broadcast receiving means starts operation,
The image forming unit forms an image based on the television information of the last received broadcast station stored in the storage unit, and the output unit forms an image based on the television information of the last received broadcast station. The screen display processing device according to claim 2, wherein The screen display processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the output unit outputs receivable station information when the television broadcast receiving unit cannot receive the last received broadcast station.

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