JPH0575937A - Television broadcasting receiving equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To inform a program observing/recording state to a user when the user does not observe/record a program observed/recorded by the user every time. CONSTITUTION:A control circuit 11 detects channel information periodically observed by the user by checking channel information selected by a tuner part 3 at current time indicated by a timer circuit 12 and writes the detected information in a memory 13. A comparator 14 has a constitution for outputting judged information to a CRT 5 through an information generating circuit 15 or generating an alarm sound from a sound generating body 16 at the time of judging that a periodically observed channel stored in the memory 13 is not selected by the tuner part 3 at the time band concerned.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a domestic television broadcast receiving apparatus, and more particularly to a structure for providing information regarding programs which are periodically and repeatedly received.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, many television programs are continuously broadcast every week, and such programs can be viewed on a home television receiver every time, or can be viewed as a video. There are a considerable number of users who are recording with tape recorders (hereinafter referred to as VTRs). However, some users inadvertently forget the program they are watching every time and watch other programs, forget to turn on the TV set and miss it, or forget the timer reservation of the VTR and record. There may be no. However, in such a conventional television broadcast receiving device,
There was no effective way to prevent this kind of program from being missed.

[0003]

The conventional television broadcast receiving apparatus has no effective method for preventing the reception of the program that the user regularly watches, and the user cannot watch the program regularly. There were times when I accidentally missed a program I had, or forgot to record it.

Therefore, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks by automatically checking the program that the user receives regularly every time and not receiving the program that the user receives every time. It is an object of the present invention to provide a television broadcast receiving device that can notify the user.

[0005]

According to the present invention, in a television broadcast receiving apparatus for processing and outputting a video signal and an audio signal of a broadcast program selected and received by a tuner section, a user regularly receives the signal. Information collecting means for checking a program and collecting this information; and searching means for searching whether or not the program regularly received by the user by the information collecting means is in the current time zone, When the searching unit searches for the regularly received program, a judging unit for judging whether or not the tuner unit is currently selecting the same program as the searched program, and the judging unit. When the tuner unit determines that the program that is being regularly received is not selected, the notification unit that notifies the user of predetermined information is provided.

[0006]

In the television broadcast receiving apparatus of the present invention,
The information gathering means gathers this information by checking the programs that the user regularly watches in each time zone on each day of the week. The searching means searches whether or not the programs regularly watched by the user collected by the information collecting means are in the current time zone. When the searching unit searches for the program that is being watched regularly, the determining unit determines whether the tuner unit is currently selecting the same program as the searched program. The notifying unit notifies the user of predetermined information when the determining unit determines that the tuner unit has not selected the program that is being watched regularly.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment when applied to a television receiver of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 denotes a control unit that checks a program that the user regularly watches, and if the user does not watch the corresponding program even though he or she watches it every time, a control unit for notifying the program is shown.
Is a tuner unit for selecting and receiving a television broadcast channel, and 4 is a demodulated image intermediate frequency signal and an audio intermediate frequency signal input from the tuner unit 3 and performing various processes, thereby receiving an image on the cathode ray tube 5. , A video / audio processing circuit for outputting the received sound from the speaker 6, 5 for a cathode ray tube for displaying an image, 6 for a speaker for outputting an audio, 7 for a power supply circuit for supplying necessary power to each circuit, and 8 for a power supply circuit 7 It is a main power switch for turning on / off the main power supplied from the video / audio processing circuit 4 to the main unit. The control unit 1 also includes a control circuit 11 for collecting information on programs that are regularly watched, a timer circuit 12 for supplying time information such as a day of the week and date and time to the control circuit 11, information on programs that are watched regularly. A memory 13 that stores information for checking programs that are regularly watched, a program that is regularly watched by the user stored in the memory 13, and a program that the tuner unit 2 is currently tuning. Comparison circuit 1 for comparing whether or not
4. It has an information generating circuit 15 for generating a warning signal indicating that a program being watched on a regular basis has been missed, and a sounding body 16 for outputting the warning signal to the outside as a sound.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. For example, when the user is watching a broadcast program on the television broadcast receiving apparatus shown in FIG. 1, the control circuit 11 causes the tuner unit 3 to operate.
The channel position information selected at is input and collated with the time information such as the day of the week and the time supplied from the timer circuit 12, and the collation information is stored in the memory 13 as shown in FIG. Write on the table. For example, if the channel position selected by the tuner section 3 is 6 channels from 7:00 to 7:30 PM on Monday,
The information indicated by B is written in this table as shown in FIG. Further, when the channel position of the tuner section 3 from 8:30 pm to 8 pm on the same Monday is 8 channels, the information as shown in FIG. 2B is written in this table. At this time, for example, when the information of (i) is written, if the channel position is still 6 in the time zone from 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM on last Monday, the control circuit 11 causes the user to periodically perform this Monday. PM
It is determined that channel 6 is being watched during the time period from 7:00 to 7:30, and 6 is written in the learned channel item in the table shown in FIG. Also, last Monday's PM
If you have not watched channel 8 from 7:30 to 8:00, even if you watch channel 8 at the same time this Monday, you cannot judge that you are watching this channel on a regular basis. Nothing is written in the item of the learned channel of. The control circuit 11 checks, as described above, what channel the user is watching at what time of day and on what day.
The information is written in the table in the memory 13 as shown in FIG.

When the information is written in the table in the memory 13 as described above, the comparison circuit 14 determines that the channel position written in the learned channel item of the table in the memory 13 shown in FIG. Tuner part 3 on the day and time when the position is selected
It is checked whether or not the channel position selected by the tuner unit 3 and the channel written in the table shown in FIG. When the positions match, the comparison circuit 14 only performs the comparison operation and does nothing. However, if the two do not match,
The comparison circuit 14 informs the control circuit 11 of this. The control circuit 11 activates the information generation circuit 15 when the mismatch information is notified from the comparison circuit 14. Information generation circuit 1
5, the main power switch 8 is off and the video / audio processing circuit 4
Is not operating, a predetermined sound signal is sent to the sounding body 16 to generate a warning sound. On the other hand, the main power switch 8
When is turned on and the video / audio processing circuit is operating, the information generation circuit 15 superimposes a telop, such as "It is different from the channel X that I always watch. Is this all right?" To the video / audio processing circuit 4. Pause and display the telop on the screen of the cathode ray tube 5 for a predetermined time. When the user turns on the television broadcast receiving device and watches another program, the telop is displayed on the screen, so that he / she notices that he / she overlooks the program being watched at this time, and decides what to do. If the main power source of the television broadcast receiving apparatus is turned off and the television is not being watched, it is heard that the sounding body 16 emits a warning sound, and a program that is regularly watched during this time period is displayed. Recalling that there is one, he decides whether to turn on the television broadcast receiver and watch the program. To describe the operation of the comparison circuit 14 more specifically, when the comparison circuit 14 finds the channel 6 that the user regularly sees in the item of the learning channel shown in FIG. 2, the time information from the timer circuit 12 is displayed. It is compared whether or not the channel selected by the tuner unit 3 is the 6th channel in the time zone from 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM on Monday, and if not, the above operation is performed.

FIG. 3 shows the control circuit 11 and the comparison circuit 1 described above.
4 is a flowchart showing the operation of No. 4. First, in step 301, it is determined whether or not a predetermined time has passed based on the time information of the timer circuit 12, and when the predetermined time has passed, step 30
In step 2, it is determined whether the main power switch 8 is on and the television broadcast receiving apparatus is powered on.
As a result, if the broadcast receiving apparatus is powered on, the process proceeds to step 303, and if not, step 30
Go to 4. In step 303, the current channel selection channel information of the tuner unit 3 is written in the relevant portion of the table of FIG. 2 indicated by the day of the week information from the timer circuit 12, and the information of the programs that the user regularly watches is collected. To do.
In step 304, it is searched whether or not a channel that is regularly watched in the current day of the week and time zone is written in the table of FIG. 2, and if there is, the channel is read out and the process proceeds to step 305. In step 305, it is determined whether or not the channel currently selected by the tuner unit 3 and the channel read in step 304 match. If they do not match, the process proceeds to step 306. Return to 301. In step 306, the information generation circuit 15 is activated to generate a warning sound from the sounding body 16, or a warning message is displayed on the screen of the cathode ray tube 5 for a predetermined time, and then the process returns to step 301.

According to the present embodiment, the control unit 1 checks the program that the user regularly watches and stores it, and when the program the user is watching is different from the regularly watched channel. Displays a message notifying it on the screen of the cathode ray tube 5, or generates a warning sound if the main power of the receiver is not turned on at this time, and displays a program different from the program regularly watched by the user. You can be alerted to what you are watching or forgetting to watch a program you regularly watch. Therefore, the user never forgets to forget the program he is always watching, and can certainly collect the information.

In the above embodiment, the information for checking the program that the user is watching regularly is collected every 30 minutes as shown in FIG. 2, but the actual TV program is 15 pieces. Some of them are minutes, some are one hour,
By collecting the information by various methods as described below, it is possible to prevent the capacity of the memory 13 from being unnecessarily increased and suppress an increase in cost. (1) A certain specific time range, for example, from 18:00 to 23:00 is set as a time range for information collection. (2) The time for dividing information collection can be set to be different, such as 15 minutes in a certain time zone and 60 minutes in a certain time zone. (3) There is a method in which the receiver recognizes the life pattern of the user, and the time zone for collecting information and the time zone for division are automatically set on the basis of the pattern to effectively use the memory 13. .. It should be noted that the above embodiment is a case where the present invention is applied to a television receiver, but this is applied to a VTR so as to prevent forgetting to record a program which is regularly recorded. It is easy to do. In this case, the television receiver may be used as the notifying means as it is, or the VTR main body may be provided with a warning message display element or a sounding body that emits a warning sound.

[0013]

As described above, according to the television broadcast receiving apparatus of the present invention, the program that the user regularly receives is automatically checked and the program that is regularly viewed or recorded is viewed. , It is possible to inform the user of forgetting to record.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a television broadcast receiving apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a collection table of selected channel information written in a memory shown in FIG.

3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control circuit and the comparison circuit shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Control part 3 ... Tuner part 4 ... Video / audio processing circuit 5 ... CRT 6 ... Speaker 7 ... Power supply circuit 8 ... Main power switch 11 ... Control circuit 12 ... Timer circuit 13 ... Memory 14 ... Comparison circuit 15 ... Information generation circuit 16 … Sounding body

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A television broadcast receiving apparatus for processing and outputting a video signal and an audio signal of a broadcast program selected and received by a tuner section, and checks a program which a user regularly receives to check this information. Information collecting means for collecting information, a searching means for searching whether or not the programs regularly received by the user by the information collecting means are in the current time zone, and the searching means When the program received by the tuner is searched, the judging unit judges whether the same program as the searched program is currently selected by the tuner unit, and the judging unit causes the tuner unit to perform the periodical operation. A television broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: a notifying unit for notifying the user of predetermined information when it is determined that a program that is being received is not selected.