JPH0522673A - Tv program reservation method and television receiver with tv program reservation function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the television receiver with TV program reservation function receiving the broadcasting program table to be sent from the broadcasting station to be displayed on a television display screen at any time and capable of easily reserving a reception program by means of the displayed broadcasting program table. CONSTITUTION:The broadcasting program table transmitted from a broadcasting station is received by a reception part 11, and stored in a program storage part 12 for each broadcasting station. At the time of reserving a program, the program table stored in the program storage part 12 is read out, and displayed on a cathode-ray tube display part 20. The time display position of the program table to be reserved is touched. A decoder 17 discriminates the designated time based on the turned-on switch on a touch panel switch 21 arranged at the program time display position, and instructs a timer control part 13 to synchronize the reception part 11 with the program table display broadcasting station at the designated time, receiving and displaying a reservation broadcasting program.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a television program reservation method and a television receiver with a television program reservation function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional television receiver has only a function of receiving and displaying a program sent from a broadcasting station.
For this reason, in the past, looking at the TV program guides in newspapers or magazines that publish TV program guides for two weeks or one month,
I was checking the contents of the broadcast from the broadcasting station.

Therefore, when trying to watch a television broadcast, even if the program guide is searched, it is often not found. Also, in magazines, etc., manuscripts are created based on the program broadcasting schedule of several months ago or several weeks ago,
Often different from the actual broadcast program. In particular, when some kind of incident occurs, the broadcast schedule of the program may be suddenly changed, and in such a case, it cannot be dealt with at all. This is also true of newspapers.

Further, even if the broadcast program thus searched out is to be received, the start time is monitored until the broadcast time comes, and when the start time comes, the television is turned on to set the reception channel to the desired channel. I had to adjust to

[0005]

Therefore, if the user forgets to arrive at the broadcast time of the program he / she wants to watch and forgets it, he / she cannot watch the desired television program. further,
When the broadcast schedule of a broadcast program was changed, I couldn't cope with it because I couldn't watch the program I wanted to watch.

In the VTR device, recording reservation is possible, but since the operation of recording reservation is complicated, it has not been used up unless it is very skilled, and it is hardly used.

[0007]

The present invention has been made for the purpose of solving the above-mentioned problems, and has the following structure as one means for solving the above-mentioned problems. That is, a television receiver with a television program reservation function capable of receiving and displaying a broadcast program guide sent from a broadcast station, the display means displaying the broadcast program guide received from the broadcast station, and the display program of the display means. Designating means for designating the display time of the table, program reservation storing means for storing the designated time information by the designating means together with the broadcasting station assembly table transmission broadcasting station channel information and transmission date and time, and the storage time of the program reservation storing means And a program reservation control means for receiving and displaying the broadcast program of the storage channel.

[0008]

With the above structure, a program reservation can be made by simply displaying the received broadcast program guide from the broadcasting station at any time, observing the display of the program guide and designating the desired reception time from the program guide. It is possible to receive the channel broadcast of the program guide from the time.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

[0010]

[First Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a view showing the schematic arrangement of an embodiment according to the present invention. Hereinafter, a schematic configuration of the first embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, 10 is a television receiver of the present embodiment, 15 is a receiving antenna of the television receiver 10, 50 is a television broadcasting station, 51 is a program transmitting facility for transmitting a television broadcasting program of the television broadcasting station 50, 52
Is a transmitting antenna of the broadcasting station 50. Although only one broadcasting station (50) is shown in FIG. 1, this broadcasting station is not limited to one but all broadcasting stations that can be received by the television receiver 10 are targeted.

The television receiver 10 of the present embodiment has a function of receiving a television broadcast program from a broadcasting station, which is a television receiving tuner built in a normal television receiver, and displaying it on the cathode ray tube display section 20. , A receiving unit 11 having a function of receiving a television program guide sent from a broadcasting station 50, the details of which will be described later, and outputting it to the program storage unit 12, and storing up to n channels of the receiving television program guide from the receiving unit 11. The possible program storage unit 12, the time management for receiving the TV program guide by the receiver 10 of the present embodiment at the broadcast time of the TV program guide of the broadcasting station, and the reserved programs stored in the program reservation memory 18 are reserved. The program display control unit 14, which executes the display control of the CRT display unit 20 based on the instruction from the timer control unit 13 for receiving, the power switch 1
6. A plurality of touch panel switches 21a to 21n formed of transparent electrodes provided at each program broadcast time position of the program guide arranged in front of the program broadcast time display position when the program guide is displayed on the cathode ray tube display unit 20. Decoder 17 for detecting the ON position of the program and the program broadcast time, the decoder 1
The program broadcast time detected in 7 and the program storage memory 18 for storing the program guide transmission broadcast station channel number and date information, and the received television program are displayed and stored in the program storage unit 12 when instructed. It is composed of a cathode ray tube display unit (CRT) 20 for displaying a broadcast program guide, the touch panel switch 21 described above, and the like.

It should be noted that FIG. 1 shows a state in which a television program guide is displayed on the cathode-ray tube display section 20, and 22 is the broadcast content at the program broadcast time. This program guide can be displayed by inputting a program call button (not shown), and the program display control unit 14 receives the program call button input signal 25 when the program call button is input.
Is sent, the display on the cathode ray tube display unit 20 is changed from the received television broadcast display from the reception unit 11 to the display of the broadcast program stored in the program storage unit 12.

Reference numeral 26 designates a designation signal from a broadcasting station channel for transmitting a program (not shown) and a channel / time designation switch for designating a program table transmission time in the channel.
Is a printer output terminal, and by connecting a printer to the printer output terminal 27, the program guide can be printed out under the control of the program display controller 14 as needed. Also, 28 is a VTR that can output the broadcast channel and the broadcast time of the broadcast program reserved in the program reservation memory 18 to an external device, for example, a VTR device.
It is a terminal.

In the present embodiment, the touch panel switch 2 is provided in front of the program broadcast time display area 21 shown in FIG.
When the desired time display area is pressed, the switch at the position corresponding to the designated area is turned on, and the decoder 17 discriminates and detects the broadcast time of the broadcast program and sends it to the program reservation memory 18. To be At this time, the reception channel and the reception date and time are also set at the same time,
It is stored in the program reservation memory 18. The reserved program broadcast start time of the program reservation memory 18 of the timer control unit 13 box is monitored, and the designated program is automatically received and displayed at the reserved time. That is, the program reservation can be made by a simple operation of simply touching the desired reception time display area of the program guide, and the power-on control of the device can be automatically performed at the program broadcast time to perform the display control.

A printer output terminal 27 is connected to a printer so that a program guide can be printed out under the control of the program display control section 14 if necessary. FIG. 2 shows detailed configurations of the program display control unit 14 and the program storage unit 12 shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, 3
1 is a program call control for selecting and reading out a program guide of a designated broadcasting station channel from the program guides stored in the program storage unit 12 and displaying it on the cathode ray tube display unit 20.
Reference numeral 32 is an A / D converter that converts the broadcast program guide analog data, which is a still image from the broadcasting station 50 received by the receiving unit 11, into corresponding digital data and outputs the digital data to the program storage unit 12, and 33 is from the program storage unit 12. D / A that converts the read digital data of to the corresponding analog data and outputs
The converter 34 is a switching switch for switching between displaying the contents of general television broadcasting from the receiving unit 11 on the CRT display unit 20 or displaying the calling broadcast program guide from the program storage unit 12 selected by the program calling control 31. Yes, and is controlled by the program call control 31.

The operation of this embodiment having the above configuration will be described below with reference to the flow charts of FIGS. 3 and 4.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the processing of the timer control unit 13, and FIG. 4 reads out the program guide stored in the program storage unit 12 and displays it on the cathode ray tube display unit 20, and a desired program from the displayed program guide. 9 is a flowchart showing a process of the program display control unit 14 for making a reservation setting.

First, with reference to FIG. 3, the control of the timer control unit 13 for receiving the broadcast program guide sent from the broadcast station and storing it in the program storage unit 12 will be described. The timer control unit 13 has a built-in quartz crystal clock, and in steps S1 to S3, the current time is always the program guide reception time designated in the process described later, the program reservation time, or the channel / time designation switch. Is being monitored. When the program guide reception time designated in the process of FIG. 4 is reached, the process proceeds from step S1 to step S5, and the power of the television receiver 10 is turned on. If the power is already input, this step is invalid. Then, in the subsequent step S6, the designated channel registered in the program reception table is read in step S11, which will be described later, and the reception channel of the reception unit 11 is matched with the program table reception designated channel. Then, in step S7, the A / D converter 32 and the program storage unit 12 are activated, and in step S8, the program table (still image for a fixed time) of the broadcasting station transmitted from the broadcasting station and received by the receiving unit 11 is displayed in A The data is converted into digital data by the / D converter 32 and stored in the table corresponding to the designated channel in the program storage unit 12. Then, the process returns to step S1.

At this time, the image received by the receiver 11 is
FIG. 1 is a broadcast program guide to be broadcast subsequently to the broadcasting station as displayed on the CRT display unit 20, and the program storage unit 1 is a digital still image corresponding to this broadcast program guide.
Sent to 2. Since there are many broadcasting stations, the program storage unit 12
Has n tables for storing the channel designation and time designation, and n field memories for storing the program contents. At this time, the program guide is stored in the program storage unit 12 such that when the program guide is displayed on the cathode ray tube display unit 20, the transparent electrode positions of the touch panel switches 21a to 21n are exactly at the broadcast time display positions of the program guide. While laying out to match and memorizing,
When the time designated switch is input, the process proceeds from step S2 to step S10, and the channel number of the broadcasting station designated by the switch and the channel program guide reception time are fetched via 26. Then, in step S11, the program guide reception channel and the reception time taken in are registered in the program reception table. Then, the process returns to step S1. In addition,
When a new program guide is received and stored in the program storage unit 12, the previous stored program guide is automatically reset.

On the other hand, when the measured time reaches the program reservation time stored in the program reservation memory 18, the process proceeds from step S3 to step S15, the television receiver 10 is turned on, and the reception section 11 of the receiving unit 11 is operated at the following step S16. The reception channel is tuned to the channel designated to be received from the program reservation time stored in the program reservation memory 18. As a result, the channel program designated by the program reservation is displayed on the CRT display unit 20. At this time, the switching switch 34 is naturally in the position shown in FIG. Then, the process returns to step S1.

The program end time is the start time of the next program in the program table. In this case, in the case of controlling to automatically turn off the power, a function of turning off the power at the program end time of the program reservation time may be added. Next, the operation of the program display control unit 14 will be described with reference to FIG. When the power of the program display controller 14 is turned on, the step S5
0 to control the switching switch 34 to the position shown in FIG.
The reception information from the reception unit 11 is controlled to be displayed on the CRT display unit 20. Then, in step S51, it is monitored whether or not the program call button 25 is input. When the program call button 25 is input, the process proceeds to step S52, and the display channel designated by the program call button 25 is fetched. At the subsequent step S53, the D / A converter 33 and the program storage unit 12 are activated, and at step S54, the switching switch 34 is switched to the D / A converter 33 side. Then, in step S55, the broadcast program of the designated channel is read from the program storage unit 12. The read program guide is converted into a corresponding analog video signal by the D / A converter 33, and is displayed on the cathode ray tube display unit 20 via the switching switch 234.

Then, the subsequent step S60 and step S
In 61, is the touch panel switch 21 provided near the display screen of the CRT display unit 21 input, for example, the display end instruction input area which is the "program" display area position or the display area portion of the program broadcast time. Monitor whether or not. If there is an input in the display end instruction input area, the process proceeds from step S60 to step S62 to deactivate the D / A converter 33 and the program storage unit 12, and proceed to step S50.
Return to.

On the other hand, when the display area portion of the program broadcast time is input, step S61 to step S63.
Then, the decoder 17 detects the program time from the input switch position. For example, in the example of FIG. 1, the program broadcast start time is 6:00 when the position 21a is turned on, the program broadcast start time is 7:00 when the position 21b is turned on, and the program broadcast starts at 8:00 when the position 21c is turned on. When the 21n is turned on, 23:00 is the program broadcast start time. The digital data at the input position may be decoded and detected. The time data detected in step S64 and the display program receiving channel data are stored in the program reservation memory 18
To S60 for storage and return to step S60.

As described above, according to this embodiment, a television program of an arbitrary channel can be confirmed on the screen of the television receiver at any desired time, and a program can be reserved by a simple operation.
You can receive the desired TV broadcast at the reserved time. For this reason,
I never miss a TV program I want to watch. Also, you can receive the broadcast program guide from the broadcast station on the day,
Even when the broadcast time of the broadcast program is different from the original schedule, the actual broadcast program can be confirmed, and the desired broadcast program is not missed.

It should be noted that the accuracy of the built-in clock of the timer control unit 13 cannot be said to be completely in synchronization with the clock of the broadcasting station, and the broadcasting station side has a broadcasting program guide after 10 seconds to 30 seconds. It may be transmitted as still screen information of the screen. By doing so, the television receiver 10 of this embodiment
In addition to being synchronized with, the program guide can be recognized and understood by a person who is watching a television receiver that does not have the function of this embodiment.

[0025]

Second Embodiment The above description has been made for the case where the program guide transmitted from the broadcasting station is still screen information for one screen. However, the present invention is not limited to the above example, and control is performed so that a specific code pattern image indicating that the transmission information is a program guide is inserted in the program guide information transmitted from the broadcasting station. It is also possible to control so that the receiving side detects the specific code pattern and then stores it in the program storage unit 12.

A second embodiment according to the present invention which is controlled in this way will be described below. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a second embodiment according to the present invention, showing a circuit configuration inserted between the receiving unit 11 and the timer control unit 13 of the first embodiment described above, and other configurations are This is similar to FIGS. 1 and 2 of the first embodiment. In FIG. 5, 41 is a filter circuit for separating a specific code pattern, 42 is a monitor for whether or not the specific code pattern separated by the filter circuit 41 is continuously detected for a predetermined time, and is continuously monitored for a predetermined time or longer. It is a signal detection unit that notifies the timer control unit 13 as detection of the specific code pattern when detected. In the second embodiment, the timer control 13 uses the signal detecting section 42.
After receiving the detection notification from the above, the reception data of the reception unit 11 is controlled to be sent to the program storage unit 12. For this reason, in the second embodiment, the time stored in the timer control unit 13 is not restricted, and even if the contents of the program broadcast are suddenly changed, the changed broadcast program guide is transmitted at any time, You can receive this.

An example of this specific code pattern is shown in FIG.
In FIG. 6, reference numeral 61 is a specific code pattern indicating the transmission start timing of the program guide. In the above description, when a new broadcast program guide is sent, the previous broadcast program guide is automatically deleted, and only the new program guide is stored. However, in this case, the program storage unit 1
Even if control is performed so that a specific code pattern for erasing the stored program table of the corresponding channel of No. 2 is transmitted, and this pattern is transmitted to delete the stored program table of the corresponding channel of the program storage unit 12 Good. An example of the specific code pattern in this case is shown at 62 in FIG. Reference numeral 62 is a specific code pattern indicating the end (reset) of program guide transmission.

The channel / time designation switch and the program call button in the first and second embodiments described above may be provided on the front surface of the television receiver 10 or in the remote controller control section. In the above description, the example in which the reception control unit for the broadcast program guide is built in the television receiver 10 has been described, but the reception control unit may not be built in and may be a separate housing.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, the received broadcast program guide from the broadcasting station is displayed at any time, and only the desired time of reception is designated from the program guide by viewing the display of the program guide. Thus, it is possible to make a program reservation and receive the channel broadcast of the program guide from the designated time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a first embodiment according to the present invention,

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a program display control unit of the first embodiment,

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing timer control control of the first embodiment,

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing program display control of the first embodiment,

FIG. 5 is a block configuration diagram showing a configuration different from the first embodiment of the second embodiment according to the present invention,

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a specific code pattern indicating the start of transmission of a broadcast program guide in the second embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a broadcast program guide erasing instruction specific code pattern in another embodiment according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 TV receiver 11 Receiver 15 receiving antenna 12 Program storage section 13 Timer control section 14 Program display controller 16 power switch 17 Decoder 18 Program reservation memory 20 CRT display 21 Touch panel switch 22 Broadcast contents during program broadcast time 31 Program call control section 32 A / D converter 33 D / A converter 34 Switch switch 41 filter circuit 42 signal detector 50 broadcasting stations 51 Program transmission equipment 52 broadcasting station transmitting antenna

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A television receiver with a television program reservation function capable of receiving and displaying a broadcast program guide sent from a broadcast station, the display means displaying the broadcast program guide received from the broadcast station.
Designating means for designating the display time of the display program guide of the display means, program reservation storing means for storing the designated time information by the designating means together with the broadcast program guide transmitting broadcasting station channel information and the transmission date and time, and the program reservation A television receiver with a television program reservation function, comprising: a program reservation control means for receiving and displaying a broadcast program of a storage channel at a storage time of the storage means. 2. The television receiver with a television program reservation function according to claim 1, wherein the display means is arranged at each broadcast time display position constituted by a transparent electrode on the front face of the program broadcast time display position when the broadcast program table is displayed. A television receiver with a television program reservation function, comprising a switch provided, wherein the designating means sets the display time at the position where the switch is turned on at the display time position as the program reservation broadcast start time. 3. A television program display method for receiving and displaying a broadcast program guide sent from a broadcasting station, comprising: a television program reservation method for a television receiver; , The switch is provided at each broadcast time display position constituted by a transparent electrode provided on the front of the program broadcast time display position when displaying the broadcast program on the display means. The television program reservation method is characterized in that the display time is the program reservation broadcast start time, and the transmission program of the broadcast program guide transmission broadcasting station is reserved.