JPH0818527A - Wired broadcast request processing unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent reproduction and broadcast of a music different from an intended music by a subscriber by automating a series of processing from the reception of a requested music, reproduction and broadcast of the requested music. CONSTITUTION:Plural request terminal equipments 2 are connected via a network line 1, a CD automatic changer 3 is connected to any request terminal equipment 2 and a sound output of the CD automatic changer 3 is fed to a voltage equipment 4. Furthermore, a request music common database is provided to each request terminal equipment 2, a 1st window 2a to retrieve a music to be requested and a CD selection command section retrieving a CD including a selected request music by the 1st window 2a.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wired broadcast request processing device, and more specifically, it relates to a series of devices required for selecting and broadcasting a requested song in response to a wired broadcast request. The present invention relates to a novel wired broadcast request processing device for automatically performing processing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been provided a cable broadcasting system in which a corresponding music is reproduced in response to a request for a desired music by a subscriber to perform cable broadcasting. In this cable broadcasting system, a subscriber requests a desired song by telephone, and at a cable broadcasting center station, an operator records, music tape, an optical disc, a compact disc (hereinafter referred to as a music disc containing the requested song. , CD, etc.) is retrieved from the storage shelf and taken out, and the requested music is reproduced using the reproducing device to perform cable broadcasting.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional cable broadcasting system, the request music is accepted, the CD containing the accepted request music is searched, and the searched CD is searched.
Since most of the work is done manually by the operator, such as playing the requested song by setting the etc. on the playback device, not only does this work take a long time, but it also depends on the operator's memory. Since these operations are performed, there is an inconvenience that unrequested songs are reproduced and broadcast. In particular, since the number of songs that can be broadcast by cable broadcasting is extremely large, and moreover, there are a large proportion of song titles that are similar to each other and song titles that are the same as each other, so when such songs are requested, Inconvenience is likely to occur.

Therefore, there is a demand for automating a series of operations from the reception of the requested music to the reproduction of the requested music and the broadcasting. However, an apparatus that automates the series of operations is not provided at all, Moreover, no proposal has been made. Also, since the operator's work load from receiving the requested song to playing the requested song and broadcasting is large, and in general, the number of songs waiting for the order of playing and broadcasting is quite large. It is practically impossible to listen in detail and change the broadcast order, set the broadcast time of the corresponding song, etc., and such a service is not actually provided.

[0005]

[Purpose] The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and from the reception of a requested song to the reproduction of the requested song
A first object of the present invention is to provide a cable broadcast request processing device that can automate a series of operations up to broadcasting and prevent the inconvenience of playing and broadcasting a song different from the requested song. A second object of the present invention is to provide a cable broadcast request processing device that can also perform editing processing such as changing and setting the broadcast time of a song.

[0006]

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a wired broadcast request processing device, a wired broadcast song database storing information on songs that can be broadcast by wire, a request receiving unit for receiving a wired broadcast request, and a received wired line. A searching means for searching the cable broadcasting song database for information on the corresponding cable broadcasting song based on the broadcast request; and a cable broadcasting song reproducing broadcasting means for reproducing and broadcasting the cable broadcasting song corresponding to the search by the searching means. have.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a wire broadcasting request processing device, wherein the request receiving means includes a first display area for displaying a song on a wire broadcasting as an icon and a second display area for displaying information for editing as an icon. The display device further includes display means including a display area, and editing means for editing the broadcast attribute information of the corresponding song in response to dragging and dropping the icon of the desired song to the second display area. .

Here, the icon means a small area set to visually display a specific meaning and content, and drag means to select one of the icons using a pointing device such as a mouse. (Specifically, for example, pressing the click button) means moving the pointing device in that state, and the drop means
This means returning the pointing device to the icon non-selected state (specifically, releasing the pressing of the click button) after the pointing device is moved by dragging. Examples of broadcast attribute information include the broadcast order of requested songs, the broadcast time of the requested songs, that only part of the requested songs should be broadcast, whether or not fade-in / fade-out of the requested song is required, and deletion of the requested song it can. These definitions are also valid in the following description.

[0009]

According to the wired broadcast request processing device of claim 1, in response to the wired broadcast request being made,
Upon selecting and broadcasting the requested song, the wired broadcasting song database that stores information about the songs that can be broadcast by wire and the request receiving means accepts the wired broadcasting request,
Based on the received wired broadcast request, the search means retrieves the information of the corresponding wired broadcast song from the wired broadcast song database, and in response to the search by the search means, the wired broadcast song playback broadcast means plays the corresponding wired broadcast song. To broadcast. Therefore, it is possible to automate a series of processes from the reception of the requested song to the reproduction of the requested song and the broadcast, and also to prevent the occurrence of the inconvenience that the song different from the requested song is played and broadcast. You can

According to another aspect of the wired broadcast request processing device of the present invention, as the request receiving means, the first display area for displaying the songs in the wired broadcast as icons and the information for editing as icons are displayed. Further comprising a display means including a second display area, and an edit means for editing the broadcast attribute information of the corresponding song in response to dragging and dropping the icon of the desired song to the second display area. Since, since the desired icon is dragged and dropped in the second display area, the editing process can be instructed, and in this state, the broadcast attribute information can be edited by the editing means. It is possible to achieve the same effect as that of claim 1.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings showing embodiments. FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing an embodiment of a wired broadcast request processing device of the present invention. A plurality of request terminal devices 2 are connected via a network line 1, and any one of the request terminal devices 2 is connected. Is connected to the CD auto changer 3, and the audio output from the CD auto changer 3 is supplied to the broadcasting device 4.

Each of the request terminal devices 2 has a request song sharing database (not shown) and an internal processing device (not shown). And
Each request terminal device 2 has a display unit 2c including a first window 2a for requesting a desired song and a second window area 2b for editing the broadcast attribute information of the requested song.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display in the first window 2a, which is a keyword designation window 2a1 for designating a search keyword for a request.
And a search result display window 2a2 for displaying the search result of the request song sharing database based on the keyword specified in the keyword specifying window 2a1 as an icon. The keyword designation window 2a1 displays a plurality of keywords, and at least one keyword selected by a pointing device (not shown) is designated.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display in the second window 2b, which is a channel name display area 2b1 for displaying a channel name of cable broadcasting and an on-air display area 2b2 for displaying an icon of a song currently being broadcast. And a request queue display area 2b3 for displaying icons of songs waiting for broadcast (tunes that have been requested and have not been broadcast yet). And, it is preferable that the second window 2b is provided for each channel of cable broadcasting,
It is also possible to provide only one second window 2b and sequentially display information corresponding to each channel. Also, this second window 2b can be shared and viewed by all request terminal devices 2 on the network, and the contents changed by editing in any request terminal device 2 can be viewed in real time by all other request terminals. It is adapted to be displayed in the second window 2b of the terminal device 2.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram functionally showing the main part of the request terminal device 2. In the request song shared database 11 that holds information of all songs that can be broadcast by wire, and the keyword designation window 2a1. A search unit 12 that searches the requested song sharing database 11 by inputting the specified keyword, iconizes information of all songs that match the keyword, and displays it in the search result display window 2a2 for selecting the requested song, and a search A confirmation necessity setting unit 13 that sets whether or not to confirm the selected song corresponding to the icon selected in the result display window 2a2, a confirmation unit 14 that confirms the selected song as a request song, and a confirmed request song Request queue 15 that temporarily holds the information of A CD selection instructing section 16 for reading out the music information having a high priority (for example, the first music piece in the request queue 15) and supplying a CD selection signal to the CD autochanger 3 so as to select the CD including the corresponding music, and a desired music piece. And an editing unit 17 that edits the broadcast attribute information of the corresponding song in response to the icon of the song being dragged and dropped in the second window 2b.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart schematically showing the operation of accepting the requested music piece in the request terminal device 2, waiting until a keyword is designated in step SP1 and corresponding in step SP2 based on the designated keyword. All songs are displayed as icons in the search result display window 2a2. However, when the number of the corresponding songs is too large to be displayed in the search result display window 2a2 at the same time, they are sequentially displayed by using a scroll function or the like.

Then, in step SP3, it waits until any of the icons displayed in the search result display window 2a2 is selected, and in step SP4, it is determined whether or not it is instructed to reproduce and check the corresponding song. If it is determined and instructed, the corresponding music is reproduced for confirmation in step SP5. Step S
If the process of P5 is performed, or if it is determined in step SP4 that playback and confirmation have not been instructed, it is instructed in step SP6 to determine the corresponding song as a request song. It is determined whether or not it is instructed not to determine, and if it is instructed not to be determined, the process of step SP1 is performed again.

On the other hand, if it is instructed to decide at step SP6, information on the corresponding song is stored in the request queue at step SP7, and it is determined at step SP8 whether or not the drag / drop processing has been performed. Determine. Then, if the drag / drop processing has not been performed, the processing of step SP1 is performed again to accept the next requested music piece. Conversely, step S
If the drag / drop processing is performed in P8, the broadcast attribute information of the music corresponding to the icon for which the drag / drop processing is performed is edited in step SP9, and the processing in step SP1 is performed again.

However, in order to be able to perform the edit processing accompanying the drag / drop processing at an arbitrary timing, for example, the drag / drop processing is interrupted, and in response to this interrupt processing, the above-mentioned Step SP
The process of 9 may be performed. Therefore, it is possible to simplify the work of requesting a song by simply operating the icon, and by ensuring that the subscriber can request the song as intended by playing the song as necessary. be able to.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart schematically showing the request song reproduction and broadcast operation in the CD autochanger 3. In step SP1, it is judged whether or not there is a request song to be reproduced, and if there is no request song to be reproduced. , The process of step SP1 is performed again. If it is determined in step SP1 that there is a requested music piece to be reproduced, the CD containing the first music piece of the request queue 15 is recorded in step SP2.
Move to the playback section of the autochanger 3, and then step SP
In 3, the corresponding song is reproduced and sent to the broadcasting device 4.

Then, in step SP4, it is determined whether or not there is a music piece to be reproduced next, and if there is a requested music piece to be reproduced next, a preparatory operation for reproducing the corresponding music piece is performed in step SP5. Step SP5
If it is determined that the requested music piece to be reproduced next does not exist in step SP4, the music piece (step SP6)
Wait until the reproduction and transmission of the music started to be reproduced in (3) are completed, and the process of step SP1 is performed again.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. For example, instead of incorporating a request song shared database in each request terminal device 2, a request song independently connected to the network line 1 is provided. In addition to being able to provide a database, it is possible to employ a control device that does not have a request music reception function and has only a CD autochanger control function. Furthermore, instead of the CD autochanger, voice recording other than CD is possible. It is possible to adopt a reproducing device that sequentially exchanges the medium and reproduce, and it is also possible to adopt, as the request terminal device 2, a request terminal device 2 that has an input device that can directly input the song title, such as a keyboard. In addition, various design changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. That.

[0023]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a series of processes from the reception of the requested song to the reproduction of the requested song and the broadcasting can be automated, and the song different from the requested song is reproduced and broadcast. There is a unique effect that the occurrence of such inconvenience can be prevented in advance.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a desired icon is secondly displayed.
The editing process can be instructed by dragging and dropping in the display area, and in this state, the broadcast attribute information can be edited by the editing means, and the same effect as that of claim 1 can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing an embodiment of a wired broadcast request processing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display in a first window.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display in a second window.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram functionally showing a main part of a request terminal device.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart schematically showing an operation of accepting a request music piece in the request terminal device.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart schematically showing a request song reproduction and broadcast operation in a CD auto changer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2a First window 2b Second window area 2c Display section 3 CD auto changer 4 Broadcasting apparatus 11 Request song shared database 12 Search section 13 Confirmation necessity setting section 14 Confirmation section 15 Request queue 16 CD selection instruction section 17 Editing section

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cable broadcasting request processing device for selecting and broadcasting a requested song in response to a cable broadcasting request, wherein a cable broadcasting song database (1) that stores information on songs that can be cabled. 11) and request acceptance means (12) (1) for accepting a wired broadcast request.
3) (14), search means (15) (16) for searching the information of the corresponding cable broadcasting song from the cable broadcasting song database (11) based on the received cable broadcasting request, and responding to the search by the searching means. A cable broadcasting request processing device, comprising cable broadcasting song reproducing / broadcasting means (3) (4) for reproducing and broadcasting the corresponding cable broadcasting song. 2. A display means (2c) including a first display area (2a) for displaying a song being broadcast on a cable as an icon and a second display area (2b) for displaying information for editing as an icon. ) And the icon of the desired song in the second display area (2
The wired broadcast request processing device according to claim 1, further comprising: an edit unit (17) that edits broadcast attribute information of a corresponding song in response to dragging and dropping to b).