JP5730263B2 - Information equipment and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information device and a program for easily grasping content information.

  Conventionally, a program recording / reproducing apparatus for recording a program according to a viewer's preference based on preference information weighted according to a viewer's preference for each electronic program guide information such as genre, channel, performer, etc. Is known (see Patent Document 1).

JP 2006-80974 A

  In the program recording / reproducing apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1, programs that are not viewed in the past according to the preference of the viewer are sequentially recorded as long as the capacity of the storage medium included in the program recording / reproducing apparatus permits. It will be.

  By the way, when a viewer wants to watch a recorded program in which a specific person appears, select the recorded program to be viewed based on the program name, broadcast channel and broadcast date and time displayed in a list from multiple recorded programs To do. Here, when a viewer selects a recorded program in which a specific person appears, the viewer recognizes that the specific person appears in the recorded program based on the program name displayed in the above list. The choice is easy. However, if the viewer does not recognize that a specific person appears in the recorded program depending on the program name displayed in the above list, the viewer plays the recorded program once, It is troublesome because it is necessary to confirm whether or not a specific person is appearing or to confirm the performer information of a recorded program that is separately displayed by an operation to view the target recorded program. This becomes conspicuous as the number of programs to be recorded increases as the number of programs to be broadcast increases and the capacity of the storage medium provided in the apparatus increases.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and is an information device for easily grasping recorded program information in which a specific person appears and grasping whether or not the program information can be viewed. The purpose is to provide.

In order to solve the above problems, an information device according to the present invention includes a content recording unit that records content, a person specifying information recording unit that records a group to which the person belongs as person specifying information for specifying a person, When content information that matches the person identification information is included in the content information to be displayed, display means for displaying a list of content identification information for specifying contents related to persons belonging to the group corresponding to the person identification information, and display by the display means It is characterized by comprising selecting means for selecting content specifying information, and reproducing means for reproducing content when the content specifying information is selected by the selecting means.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily grasp recorded program information in which a specific person has appeared and whether or not the program information can be viewed.

It is a schematic diagram showing the functional block in the information equipment of the embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic diagram showing the functional block of the content recording part in the information equipment of embodiment of this invention, and a person specific information recording part. It is a schematic diagram showing the example of a display of the display screen of the information equipment of embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram showing the example of a display of the display screen of the information equipment of other embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart showing the process sequence in the information equipment of embodiment of this invention.

  An information device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, a configuration in which a broadcast program is recorded in a storage device such as a hard disk built in a personal computer (PC) equipped with a TV broadcast receiving tuner is described as an example. For example, the system configuration is such that a program stored in a server installed on a broadcasting station or provider side is viewed using a so-called cloud computing technology and viewed via network communication. May be. The information device is not limited to a PC, and may be a portable information terminal such as a smartphone or a home television set compatible with terrestrial digital broadcasting.

  Further, in the present embodiment, as described above, a configuration for automatically playing a broadcast program recorded in a storage device of an information device has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, A configuration for reproducing moving image content or still image content recorded on a DVD, a Blu-ray disc, or the like may be combined.

  Functional blocks of the information device 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The information device 1 of this embodiment includes a transmission / reception unit 11, a content recording unit 12, a person specifying information recording unit 13, a display unit 14, a selection unit 15, an electronic program guide recording unit 16, and a reproduction unit 17. The control unit 18, the I / F 19, and the internal bus 20 are included.

  The transmission / reception unit 11 is a television broadcast tuner connected to a broadcast station. The transmission / reception unit 11 receives broadcast program content and program information associated therewith from a broadcast station. The accompanying program information is, for example, electronic program guide (EPG) data transmitted together with broadcast waves. In the present embodiment, the connection between the information device 1 and the broadcasting station may be either wired or wireless.

  The content recording unit 12 is a large-capacity recording device such as an HDD that records (records) received broadcast program content. Needless to say, the larger the capacity of the content recording unit 12, the more broadcast program content can be recorded. Details of the content recording unit 12 will be described later.

  The person specifying information recording unit 13 records person specifying information. The person identification information is literally information for identifying a person, for example, the name of a person appearing in the above-mentioned broadcast program content, a group to which the person belongs, or a face photograph of the person To do. In the present embodiment, the viewer preliminarily registers the person specifying information in the person specifying information recording unit 13, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, each program information of the electronic program guide data described above in the past is used. The one extracted from may be registered.

  The display unit 14 displays the above-described broadcast program content on the display screen of the information device 1 by reproduction by the reproduction unit 17 described later, but this person appears (appears) with the name of the person as main information. A list of the titles of a plurality of recorded broadcast program contents is displayed on one screen. Details of the list display will be described later.

  The selection unit 15 is a selection unit that selects various icons on the screen by operation icons represented by arrow marks displayed on the display screen of the information device 1, for example. The viewer moves this operation icon by operating an input device such as a mouse, and presses the left click of the mouse when reaching the frame of the title display icon of the desired broadcast program, thereby selecting the desired broadcast program. select. In the present embodiment, when a broadcast program title display icon is selected by the viewer, playback of the broadcast program is started by the playback unit 17 described later.

  The electronic program guide recording unit 16 records the electronic program guide data received together with the broadcast program content by the transmission / reception unit 11. The electronic program guide data includes, for example, various information such as the title of each broadcast program content, program content, performers, broadcast time, broadcast channel, and broadcast station.

  For example, the reproducing unit 17 receives the broadcast program content title display icon selection process described above and reproduces the predetermined broadcast program content.

  The control unit 18 includes a ROM that stores various programs and a RAM that temporarily stores parameters and the like required by the control unit 18 when driving the information device 1. The control unit 18 drives the information device 1 by executing a program stored in the ROM.

  The I / F 19 is an interface for inputting / outputting data by connecting a recording device such as an external HDD or a DVD recorder. The internal bus 20 is used to electrically connect the above-described components of the information device 1 so that the control unit 18 can access other components and to move data between the components. .

  Next, details of the content recording unit 12 and the person specifying information recording unit 13 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The content recording unit 12 includes a content image recording unit 121 and a content information recording unit 122. The content image recording unit 121 records broadcast program content. The content information recording unit 122 records program information accompanying the broadcast program content.

  The person specifying information recording unit 13 includes a person name recording unit 131, a group recording unit 132, and a face image recording unit 133. The person name recording unit 131 records the name of a predetermined person. The group recording unit 132 records attribute information for categorizing the predetermined person, such as a group name of the group to which the predetermined person belongs, according to the setting of the viewer. Note that the group recording unit 132 may record information extracted from the electronic program guide data in the case of a prominent group name such as a part of the program title. Further, the face image recording unit 133 records a face image of a predetermined person.

  Next, an example of a screen mode displayed on the display screen of the information device 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In the screen mode 200 of the present embodiment, in the uppermost column, a face image display 201 and a person identification display 202 (here, “Nda Atsuko”) are used as information for identifying a predetermined person (this is the main information). ) Is displayed. In addition, when the viewer clicks the mouse or the like with the arrow-shaped operation icon 228 overlaid on the scroll icons 203 arranged above and below, the display in the uppermost column changes.

  For example, in the example shown in the figure, before the scroll icon 203 is clicked, information on “actor” and “born on December 12, 199X” is displayed as information accompanying “Nada Atsuko”. Clicking on the icon 203 displays additional information that was hidden and not visible. On the other hand, by clicking the scroll icon 203, the mode may be changed from “N-Tadako” to information specifying another person.

  An edit icon 204 is arranged at the upper right of the uppermost column, and a scroll bar 205 representing a relative display position relationship with respect to the entire display of the displayed screen is arranged at the right end. The relative display position is determined by a scroll meter 2051 indicated by hatching in the drawing. The scroll meter 2051 has a shorter length in the vertical direction as the display content displayed in the column increases. When the mouse is clicked with the operation icon 228 overlaid on the edit icon 204, an edit screen for editing information for specifying a person is displayed separately. Although not shown in the edit screen, for example, other information associated with “Nda Atsuko” is newly added, information on a new person is added, or “Nda Atsuko” information is unnecessary. You can delete it when it becomes.

  In the screen mode 200 of the present embodiment, data related to the main information is displayed in the lower column that occupies the lower 2/3 of the screen. Here, each column of the appearance series 211, the program information 221 and the person attribute information 231 indicating the attribute of the person is displayed in a filter. The filter display here is a concept of classifying and displaying data related to main information for each attribute. Note that scroll icons 212 are also arranged above and below this column, and other filters not displayed here can be displayed by operating the scroll icons 212. Furthermore, although the scroll bar 214 is arranged at the right end of this column, since it is the same mode as the scroll bar 205 in the top column mentioned above, description is abbreviate | omitted.

  The viewer uses the triangular filter display icons 213, 222, and 232 arranged at the right end of each column to display the detailed contents of each column or to hide the detailed contents. That is, the viewer transitions from the non-display state to the display state by clicking the mouse on the filter display icon of the filter for which the operation icon 228 is to be displayed. At this time, the filter display icon, which is in an inverted triangle shape in the non-display state, changes to a triangle shape.

  In the screen mode 200 of this embodiment, since the column of the appearance series 211 is not displayed, the detailed contents are not displayed, and only the “appearance series (1/1)” is displayed as a band. The display icon 213 has an inverted triangle shape.

  On the other hand, the column of the program information 221 is in a display state, and as the detailed contents, the program display icon 224 of “N Rado The High School” in which “Nda Atsuko” appears and the program display icon of “Quarterly NKB” 225 is displayed together with the band display of “appearance program (10/10)”, and the filter display icon 222 has a triangular shape.

  It should be noted that a reproducible display icon 226 indicating that this program can be viewed is displayed at the upper right of the program display icon 224 of “N Roughly The High School”, and a program display icon 225 of “Quarterly NKB”. A recording display icon 227 indicating that the program is being recorded is displayed on the upper right of the screen.

  In the column of program information 221, only the two programs “N-Loo The High School” and “Quarterly NKB” are displayed, but the remaining eight program information is displayed on the left and right sides of the column. The arranged scroll icon 223 can be displayed by operating in the same manner as described above and scrolling left and right. Here, since the program display icon 225 of “Quarterly NKB” being recorded is the terminal display, the scroll meter 2291 of the scroll bar 229 arranged at the bottom of the column is displayed at the right end.

  When the viewer operates the mouse to superimpose the operation icon 228 on the program display icon 224 and selects the mouse by left-clicking, playback of “N the higher the high school” is started. In addition, “quarterly NKB” is still being recorded, but by selecting in the same manner as described above, it is possible to perform so-called “chase playback” in which the content recorded before the selection is viewed.

  Further, the column of the person attribute information 231 is in a display state, and as a detailed content, the group display icon 234 of “NKB37” to which “Nda Atsuko” belongs is displayed together with the “group (1/1)” band display. The filter display icon 232 has a triangular shape. Also, scroll icons 233 are displayed on the left and right in this column. However, since the group data in this column is only “NKB37”, the display content does not change even if the scroll icon 233 is operated, and the scroll bar is displayed. Do not show. If “Nda Atsuko” belongs to a plurality of different groups, a group display icon with a different group name is displayed in addition to the group display icon 234 of “NKB37”. Thereby, the user can grasp | ascertain comprehensively the group name of the group to which a specific person belongs. The person attribute information 231 is not limited to the above group. For example, if the person is a talent, it may be an affiliated office.

  In the present embodiment, the main information is “Nda Atsuko” as the person name described above, but this is changed to the group name “NKB37” as the person attribute information 231 by the edit icon 204 described above. It is also possible. In this case, a program display in which other members belonging to “NKB37” appear is displayed in the program information column regardless of the program in which “Nda Atsuko” appears.

  In addition, when the main information is changed from “Nda Atsuko” to “NKB37” as described above, the names of members including “Nda Atsuko” belonging to “NKB37” are changed to other embodiments in FIG. A list may be displayed as shown in the screen mode 300. 4 will be specifically described according to the description of FIG. 3 described above, but the description overlapping with that of FIG. 3 will be omitted.

  In the screen mode 300 according to another embodiment in FIG. 4, “NKB37” is displayed as the group name information 301 in the uppermost column. Note that “idle group” indicating the group attribute of “NKB37” and “200X formation” indicating the formation year of “NKB37” are displayed as information accompanying “NKB37”.

  In the screen mode 300 according to another embodiment in FIG. 4, each column such as the appearance series 311, the program information 321, and the person information 331 is displayed in a filter in the column that occupies about 2/3 at the bottom of the screen. ing. The program information 321 is generally the same as the description of FIG. 3, but in this embodiment, a program display icon of a program in which a group specified by a group name as main information appears is displayed. Moreover, in addition to the program information display icon of the program in which the group appears, the program display icon of the program in which the member who belongs to the group appears may be displayed. As a result, program display icons of programs that cannot be specified by the group name are also displayed, so that the user can comprehensively grasp related program information.

  Further, in the person information 331, member names of members belonging to “NKB37” are displayed in a list together with a band display of “member (10/10)”. Here, the member name information icon 334 of “Nda Atsuko” who is a member belonging to “NKB37”, the member name information icon 335 of “Mariko Shi Nda”, and the member name information icon of “Mayor Watanabe” 336 is displayed. In this embodiment, as member name information icons displayed in the person information 331, member name information icons of all members belonging to “NKB37” may be displayed as a list. On the other hand, only the member name information icons of members who appear in the program specified by the program display icon displayed in the above-described program information 321 field may be displayed in a list. Even if the member belongs to “NKB37”, the member who does not appear in the program is not displayed, so that the user can surely understand only the member information appearing in the program.

  Subsequently, a processing procedure in the information device 1 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. First, a plurality of broadcast program contents are sequentially recorded in the content recording unit 12 by an automatic recording function such as “automatic recording” (step S1). For example, in the above-described example, broadcast program contents including “N Ryo The High School” and “Quarterly NKB” in which “Nda Atsuko” appears are sequentially recorded.

  Next, information specifying a person is recorded (registered) in the person specifying information recording unit 13. For example, in the above example, the face images of “Nda Atsuko” and “Nda Atsuko” and “NKB37” as person names are recorded (registered) (step S2).

  Next, the control unit 18 collates the program information as the content information attached to the recorded broadcast program content with the person specifying information recorded in the person specifying information recording unit 13, and the person specifying information is included in the program information. It is determined whether or not the same information is included (step S3). For example, it is determined whether or not there is a name “N-Tadako” in the program information of “N Ryo The High School”. When the above-mentioned program information includes information that matches the person specifying information (step S3, Yes), the process proceeds to the next step S4.

  Next, the display unit 14 associates the person identification information with the title name (content identification information) of the program included in the program information as the content information and displays it on the display screen of the information device 1 (step S4). That is, it is displayed as shown in FIG.

  The viewer selects a program display icon representing the title name of the program as the content specifying display via the selection unit 15 (step S5). For example, the program display icon 224 of “N Naru, The High School” is selected.

  In response to the selection of the program display icon 224, the playback unit 17 starts playback of “N: The High School” (step S6).

  On the other hand, when the program information does not include information that matches the person identification information (No in step S3), the process in step S3 is repeated again.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, since the person specifying information and the content specifying information can be displayed in association with each other, even if a large number of programs are recorded by automatic recording or the like, It is possible to easily grasp program information in which a person appears, and it is possible to quickly reproduce a program in which a specific person appears.

  Each of the above-described embodiments is a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, the above function can be realized by a computer-executable program written in a programming language such as an assembler or C language.

  Further, in the present embodiment described above, a mode has been described in which desired program information including information that matches a person name or group name as person specifying information is displayed, but the present invention is not limited to this, For example, the program information on the broadcast program content that matches the face image of a specific person extracted by performing image recognition processing on the recorded broadcast program content and the face photo recorded as the person specifying information is displayed. It is good.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information apparatus 11 Transmission / reception part 12 Content recording part 13 Person specific information recording part 14 Display part 15 Selection part 16 Electronic program guide recording part 17 Playback part 18 Control part 19 I / F
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 20 Internal bus 121 Content image recording part 122 Content information recording part 131 Person name recording part 132 Group recording part 133 Face image recording part 200,300 Screen mode 201 Face image display 202 Person specific display 203,212,223,233,303,312 323, 333 Scroll icon 204, 304 Edit icon 205, 214, 229, 305, 314, 329 Scroll bar 211, 311 Appearance series 213, 222, 232, 313, 322, 332 Filter display icon 221, 321 Program information 224, 225, 324, 325 Program display icon 226, 326 Playable display icon 227, 327 Recording display icon 228, 328 Operation icon 231 Person attribute information 234 Group display icon 3 1 group name information 331 person information 334,335,336 member name information icon 2051,2141,2291,3051,3141,3291 scroll meter

Claims (6)

Content recording means for recording content;
Person specifying information recording means for recording a group to which the person belongs as person specifying information for specifying a person;
Display means for displaying a list of content specifying information for specifying content related to a person belonging to the group corresponding to the person specifying information when content information accompanying the content includes information matching the person specifying information ; ,
Selecting means for selecting the content specifying information displayed by the display means;
An information device comprising: a reproducing unit that reproduces the content when the content specifying information is selected by the selecting unit. The information device according to claim 1, wherein the person specifying information includes a person name of the person. The person identification information, according to claim 1 or 2 information device according to, characterized in that it comprises a face image of the person. 4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a list of person names of persons belonging to the group when displaying the group and the content specifying information in association with each other. 5 . Information equipment. The display means, information equipment according to claim 1, any one of 4, characterized by further displaying the attribute information indicating an attribute of a person identified by the person identification information. A content recording process for recording content;
A person specifying information recording process for recording a group to which the person belongs as person specifying information for specifying a person;
A list display process for displaying a list of content specifying information for specifying content related to a person belonging to the group, when content information associated with the content includes information that matches the person specifying information;
A selection process for selecting the displayed content identification information;
A reproduction process for reproducing the content based on the selection of the content identification information ;
A program that causes a computer to execute.

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