JPH0727883A - Audio/video equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To quickly terminate indication when a time is indicated by making all the operation keys for control the keys for terminating the indication. CONSTITUTION:At a set time, an audio signal for indication is generated from an indication sound generation circuit 8 by the signal from a timer controller 9 and simultaneously, a signal is sent from the controller 9 to a switch 5, and the switch 5 is switched over to start indication with the indication sound from a speaker 7. Upon starting the indication, a signal is sent from the controller 9 to a remote control receiver 11 and any signal generated by any operation key of the remote control transmitter 10 is judged as an indication termination signal and fed to the controller 9. Therefore, even any key of the main body or the transmitter 10 is operated during the indication, it is regarded as the indication termination command and the indication is terminated. By this, no specific key for indication operation termination is required and quick indication termination operation becomes possible.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a video / audio device having a function (time notification function) of notifying a specific sound or image when a preset time comes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an audio signal processing portion of a conventional television receiver with a time notification function. In the figure, 1 is an antenna, 2 is a channel selection circuit, 3 is a voice demodulation circuit, 4 is an external input terminal, 5 is an input selector switch, 6 is a voice amplification circuit, and 7 is a speaker. 8 is a notification sound generating device connected to the changeover switch 5, 9 is a timer control device, 10 is a remote control transmitter, and 1 is a remote control transmitter.
1 is a remote control receiver.

Next, the operation will be described. The television radio wave received by the antenna 1 is selected by the channel selection circuit 2, demodulated by the audio demodulation circuit 3, and sent to the changeover switch 5. An audio signal from a video tape recorder or the like from the external input terminal 4 is also input to the change-over switch 5, and either the sound 3 or 4 is selected by the switching by the user's selection and an appropriate sound is obtained by the sound amplifier circuit 6. The output level is obtained and output from the speaker 7 to obtain voice.

On the other hand, at a preset time, the timer control device 9 operates to start the notification sound generating circuit 8, and the changeover switch 5 is switched to the 8 side to output the notification sound from the speaker. When the user confirms the notification sound, a signal for stopping the notification sound is sent to the timer control device directly or via the remote control receiver 11 by the dedicated key provided for stopping the notification sound on the main body or the remote control transmitter 10. In addition, the announcement sound is stopped. A flowchart of this operation is shown in FIG.

[0005]

In the conventional television receiver with time notification as described above, when the set time comes and, for example, a sound is notified, if the sound is stopped, It is necessary for the user to find and operate the key dedicated to stopping the notification sound on the remote control transmitter,
It took an extra time to stop and the announcement sound was sometimes noisy.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and provides a video / audio device in which a user who confirms the notification can promptly stop the notification when the time is notified. The purpose is to get.

[0007]

A video / audio device according to the present invention stops notification in a video / audio device having a function of notifying by specific voice or video when a preset time comes. It is possible to stop the notification by operating any operation key for controlling the video / audio equipment, such as a channel key or a volume control key, without providing a dedicated key for performing the operation.

[0008]

In the video / audio device according to the present invention, if the preset time notification is activated, all the operation keys for controlling the video / audio device are made to be the keys for stopping the notification, so that the main body or the remote control transmitter is not specified. The notification can be stopped by operating any of the keys.

[0009]

【Example】

Example 1. Examples of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an audio signal processing portion of a television receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is denoted by the same reference numeral as that shown in FIG. 3 and is different from FIG. The point is that a signal is given to the remote control receiver 11, and neither the main body nor the remote control transmitter is provided with a dedicated key for stopping notification.

The operation of the present invention will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. At the set time (step 1), a signal is output from the timer control device 9 to generate a notification voice signal from the notification sound generation circuit 8, and at the same time, a signal is also sent from the timer control device 9 to the changeover switch 5 to switch the switch 5 Is switched to play the notification sound from the speaker 7, and the notification is started (step 2). Further, the timer control device 9 sends a signal to the remote control receiver 11 at the same time when the notification is started,
A signal from any operation key of the remote control transmitter 10 is determined to be a notification stop signal and is added to the timer control device 9. Therefore, during the notification, the main body or remote control transmitter 10
When any one of the keys is operated (step 13),
It is regarded as an instruction to stop the notification and stops the notification (step 4).

As described above, in the conventional device, in order to stop the notification, it was necessary to operate the key dedicated to the stop of the notification operation as in step 3 of FIG. 4, but in the present invention, the main body and the remote control transmitter are used. Since the notification can be stopped by operating any of the keys, the notification can be quickly stopped.

In the above embodiment, any of the operation keys of the remote controller is made to stop its original function during the notification operation. However, the notification operation stop function is also added without stopping the original function. You may have it. Further, in the above embodiment, an example of the notification by voice is shown.
The stop operation can be performed in the same manner in the case of notification by video. Further, although the television receiver is taken as an example in the above-mentioned embodiment, the present invention can be applied to other devices, for example, various devices such as radios and stereo devices equipped with a time notification device.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the notification is made at the preset time, the notification is stopped by operating any key of the remote control transmitter or the main body. Therefore, unlike the conventional case, it is not necessary to search for the notification stop key, and the operation for quickly stopping the notification is possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an audio signal processing portion of a television receiver with a time notification function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an audio signal processing portion of a conventional television receiver with a time notification function.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 antenna 2 channel selection circuit 3 audio demodulation circuit 4 external input terminal 5 input selector switch 6 audio amplification circuit 7 speaker 8 notification sound generation circuit 9 timer control device 10 remote control transmitter 11 remote control receiver

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A video / audio device having a function of notifying by a specific voice or video when a preset time comes, which operation of the main body of the video / audio device or a remote control transmitter when in a notification state. A video / audio device comprising a signal processing device that stops notification even when a key is operated. 2. The video / audio device according to claim 1, wherein the key of the video / audio device main body or the remote control transmitter has the original function of the key even in the notification state.