JPH03126387A - Program display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display the content of a program by reading a program display data to be displayed from a number display memory based on current information sent from a time counter and on information such as a position number and displaying the program name observed at present onto a CRT. CONSTITUTION:When an instruction revising a channel or displaying a program content enters, a screen display device 20 reads a data to be displayed from a program display memory 21 based on information of a position number sent from an input device 17 and on information of current time sent from a time counter 22 and displays a program name watched at present onto a CRT 14 via a mixer 13. Thus, the display of the program content is attained and a television receiver with convenience of use is realized.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a program display device for displaying the name of a program currently being watched on a television receiver.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In conventional television receivers, the channel number that is currently being watched can be known by displaying the channel number on the screen. This channel number has been input in advance by the user.

A conventional example will be explained using FIG. 2 and Table 2.

In FIG. 2, 11 is a tuner, 12 is a tuner 11
13 is a signal processing device that demodulates the output signal of [2]; a mixer that mixes display data with the output signal of [2]; [4]
is a CRT, Is is a tuner control device that controls the reception of the tuner 11, 16 is a channel memory that stores tuner data for reception, 17 is an input device that instructs reception, 18 is a channel display memo 1 for channel display data.
This is a screen display device taken out from the moon 9 and input to the mixer 13.

The m2 table shows an example of a memory map of the channel display memory 19. The numbers on the left side of Table 2 are position numbers,
It corresponds to the channel selection button on the remote control of a television receiver. The number to the right is the channel number entered by the user, and in this example, the user has preset channel 2 to position 1, and it is set to display 2 every time position 1 is selected. .

In FIG. 2, when a command to switch to position 2 is entered from input value ff117, the command is transmitted to tuner control device 15 and screen display device 18. The tuner control device 15 reads the preset tuner data corresponding to position 2 from the channel memory 16, and adds it to the tuner ]l.As a result, the tuner 11 receives the channel corresponding to position 2,
The received signal is demodulated by the signal processing device 12, mixed with the character signal of the channel display data by the mixer 33, and displayed on the CRT 14. In this case, as can be seen from Table 2, the image of channel 4 is projected.

On the other hand, the screen display device 18 receives the above command, takes out the display data (in this case, 4 as shown in FIG. 4) from the channel display memory 19, adds it to the mixer 13, and sends the characters to the CRT 14. indicate.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, with the above configuration, although it is possible to know the channel number of the program that is currently being watched, it is not possible to know the name of the program.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem, and aims to provide a program display device that allows a user to know the name of a program that was previously unknown.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the program display device of the present invention includes:
The television receiver is equipped with a program display memory, a time counting device, and a single screen display device, and the user inputs the contents of the program, start time, end time, day of the week, and child channel number in advance into the memory map of the program display memory. λ, when a command to change the channel or display program content is received, the screen display device reads the current time from the time counting device and displays the name of the program being broadcast on the designated channel at that time. It is configured to read the program contents from the program display memory and display the program contents on the CRT.

Operation With the above configuration, the screen display device reads the program display data to be displayed from the program display memory based on information such as the position number and the current time information sent from the time counting device, and displays the program display data currently being displayed on the CRT. Displays the name of the program being played. Therefore, it is possible to display program contents that were previously impossible, and a television receiver that is extremely easy to use can be obtained.

Embodiment Below, a program display device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be explained based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a program display device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and Table 1 shows a memory map of a program display memory of the program display device. Since 11 to 17 in FIG. 1 are the same as those in FIG. 2, detailed explanation thereof will be omitted. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 20 denotes a screen display device, and when a command to switch the position is received from the input value M17, program display data corresponding to the position at that time is inputted to the mixer 13, and the signal processing device 12 inputs the program display data corresponding to the position at that time. It is mixed with the demodulated video signal.

A program display memory 21 has a memory map in which program contents and broadcast times are stored in pairs for each position.

As shown in Table 1, this memory map has a storage area with storage numbers 1 to N for each position, and the size λ of N is determined by the size of the memory, and the larger the better. Furthermore, the area for each storage number is divided into an area for display content and an area for storing the day of the week and time.The area for display content stores the program name, and the area for spout and time is for the day of the week when the program is broadcast. and the start and end times are memorized. For example, in Table 1, position 1 indicates that the news center is broadcast every hour from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. 22 is a time counting device which outputs current time information. Therefore, the screen display device 20 is the input device 17.
The display contents can be determined from the information in the time counting device 22 and the program display memory 21.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be explained.

The screen display device 20 reads the data to be displayed from the program display memory 21 based on the position number information sent from the input device 17 and the current time information sent from the time counting device 22, and outputs the data to the CRT 14 via the mixer 13. Displays the name of the program you are currently watching. For example, if a command to change to position 2 is received from the input device 17 and the current time is 18:30 on Monday, then Mango ABC will be displayed from Table 1. If there is no display data corresponding to the current time, the current position number is displayed.

Incidentally, for convenience of explanation, a position number is displayed at ^ when the program contents are not stored, but it is also possible to write a channel number and display the channel number as before. Further, although the present embodiment has been described in terms of functional blocks, the tuner control device 15, screen display device 20, and time counting device 22 can be easily realized by a microcomputer.

Effects of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to display program contents that were previously impossible, and it is possible to provide a television receiver that is extremely easy to use.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a program display device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a conventional channel display device. 11... Tuner, 12... Signal processing device, 13
...Mixer, 14...CRT, 15...Tuner control device, 16...Channel memory, 17...Input device, 20...Screen display device, 21...Program display memory, 22... Time counting device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A program display memory that has a memory map in which the user inputs the program content, start time, end time, day of the week, and channel number in advance, and a time counting device that outputs current time information and allows users to change channels. , when a command to display program content is received, the current time is read from the time counting device, the name of the program being broadcast on the specified channel at that time is read from the program display memory, and the program content is displayed on the screen. A program display device comprising a screen display device for displaying images.