JPH10222889A - Reservation video recording device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply and surely perform reservation video recording and to prevent program information by space from requiring by providing a program reserving information storage means storing program information of a TV program selected with a reservation program selection means and a video recording means video recording the TV program based on the program information stored in the program reserving information storage means. SOLUTION: When a user instructs the reservation of the video recording to a reservation video recording device by a remote control transmitter 105, a program display control signal is transmitted from the remote control transmitter 105 to a CPU 104. The CPU 104 receiving the program display control signal inputs an information data restore command signal to a program information memory 103, and inputs a display command signal to an on-screen display circuit 108 to display the program information 101 on a screen. The CPU 104 stores the program information of a reserved program in a program reserving memory 106. When the program information is stored, the CPU 104 executes the video recording of a prescribed channel.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to recording of a television program, and more particularly to so-called scheduled recording, in which a television program to be recorded is automatically designated and broadcasted automatically.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A scheduled recording of a desired program using a video tape recorder (hereinafter abbreviated as "VTR") is performed on a daily basis regardless of age or gender, for example, because it cannot be watched during a broadcast time. It is an act that is performed. In order to make a scheduled recording of a desired program, it is necessary to input program information including the time and channel for broadcasting the program to a VTR or the like by some method and record it. However, a television receiver and a VTR are used by a wide range of people. It is desirable that the operation is as simple as possible.

Conventionally, a user obtains desired program information from a television column of a newspaper or the like, and directly sets a broadcast time and a channel to VT.
There is a scheduled recording input to R or the like. However, according to this reservation recording, many key inputs cannot be avoided, so that it cannot be said that anyone can easily do it, and it is also difficult to avoid an erroneous reservation due to an input error. Conventionally, program recording represented by a barcode is read by a barcode reader, and program information (G code) represented by a numeric string is stored in a VTR.
And so on. These are relatively simple and reliable scheduled recordings.

[0004]

However, in each of the above-mentioned conventional examples, a space on which program information such as newspapers and magazines is described is required. In other words, it is necessary to purchase newspapers, magazines, and the like even if the user simply makes a scheduled recording.

[0005] An object of the present invention is to provide a timer recording apparatus which can easily and surely perform timer recording and does not require program information on paper.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a reservation recording apparatus according to the present invention stores program information including a broadcast time and a broadcast channel of a television program broadcast within a predetermined period. A program information input unit that receives electronic data, a program information storage unit that stores the program information, a display unit that displays the program information on a screen, and a program that the user desires from the program information displayed by the display unit. Reserved program selecting means for selecting a TV program, program reserved information storing means for storing the program information of the television program selected by the reserved program selecting means, and the program information stored in the program reserved information storing means. Recording means for recording a television program based on the program.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A configuration of a timer recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In the present embodiment, a VTR will be described as an example of a timer recording device.

[0008] The program information 101 is a unit of a certain period such as one day, one week, or one month, and is information relating to the broadcasting time and the broadcasting channel of a television program broadcasted on a receivable channel within the period. Supplied as

FIG. 2 shows an example of the program information 101. This example is one-day program information of channels A, B, and C, and includes a program name of each program, a broadcast channel, a broadcast start time, and a broadcast end time.

The supply form of the program information 101 is as follows. Supply by recording medium. The program information 101 is recorded on a magnetic disk, a CD-ROM, or the like and distributed to users. Supply via telephone line etc. The program information 101 is stored in the data server, and the reservation recording apparatus accesses the data server as necessary to receive the program information 101. Supply by multiplex broadcasting. The program information 101 is transmitted using the vertical blanking period of the television signal.

The program information input circuit 102 corresponds to a program information input means, and is constituted by a device corresponding to the supply form of the program information 101 and a circuit for decoding the supplied program information 101.

The program information memory 103 corresponds to a program information storage means, and stores the program information 101 decoded by the program information input circuit 102.

CPU (Central Process)
(ing Unit) 104 controls each component of the timer recording apparatus to execute a predetermined operation. Also, program information 1
When 01 is supplied as an HTML document, it functions as an HTML processing unit.

The remote control transmitter 105 corresponds to a reserved program selecting means, and the user operates the remote control transmitter 105 to reserve the recording of a television program.

The program reservation memory 106 corresponds to program reservation information storage means. The program reservation memory 106 stores the program information of the television program reserved by the remote control transmitter 105, and the CPU 104 records the television program with reference to the stored program information.

The VTR main circuit 107 corresponds to recording means.

The on-screen display circuit 108 processes the data received from the program information memory 103 and the VTR main circuit 107, outputs the processed data as a video signal, and displays it on a display means (not shown).

Next, an operation performed by the timer recording apparatus of the present embodiment when a desired television program is scheduled to be recorded will be described with reference to FIG.

Prior to a reservation for recording, program information 101 is received by a program information input circuit 102 according to a supply mode (S1). The received program information 101 is decoded and stored in a program information memory 103. (S
2). The procedures of S1 and S2 are repeatedly executed by the CPU 104. The execution timing may be based on an arbitrary instruction from the user, may be repeated every predetermined period, may be based on the instruction of the source of the program information 101,
It is executed at least one of these timings. As a result, the CPU 104 stores the program information memory 10
3 is updated.

When the user instructs the reservation recording device to make a reservation for recording using the remote control transmitter 105, a program display control signal is transmitted from the remote control transmitter 105 to the CPU 104. Upon receiving the program display control signal, the CPU 104 inputs the information data restore command signal to the program information memory 103 and inputs the on-screen display command signal to the on-screen display circuit 108 to display the program information 101 on the screen ( S
3). At this time, the program information 101 is in HTML (Hype)
In the case of a text markup language (text markup language) document, a detailed description of each program can be added. For example, when a program name is selected by a pointing device such as a direction key and a trackball provided on the remote control transmitter 105, an introduction article of the program content is displayed.

When the program information 101 is displayed, the user selects a program to be recorded from the displayed programs by using a pointing device such as a direction key and a trackball provided on the remote control transmitter 105. . The remote control transmitter 105 transmits a program reservation setting signal of the selected program to the CPU 104, and upon receiving this, the CPU 104 stores the program information of the reserved program in the program reservation memory 106 (S4, S5).

When the program information of the reserved program is stored in the program reservation memory 106, the CPU 104 inputs a recording control signal to the VTR main circuit 107 and executes recording on a predetermined channel from the broadcast start time to the broadcast end time. Do (S
6).

The preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described above, taking a VTR as an example of the timer recording apparatus.
However, the present invention is not limited to this.
A recording device such as an digital versatile disc) can be used.

[0024]

As described above, the present invention has an effect that a user can always check new program information by supplying program information on an electronic medium.

Further, according to the present invention, since the recording reservation can be made by confirming the input program information on the screen, there is an effect that the reservation processing can be performed simply and accurately as compared with the conventional manual input.

Although the present invention has been described based on the embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is understood that changes and improvements can be made within the ordinary knowledge of those skilled in the art. Of course.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a timer recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an example of program information 101.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an operation performed by the scheduled recording apparatus of the present embodiment when a desired television program is scheduled to be recorded.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 Program Information 102 Program Information Input Circuit 103 Program Information Memory 104 CPU 105 Remote Control Transmitter 106 Program Reservation Memory 107 VTR Main Circuit 108 On-Screen Display Circuit

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A reservation recording apparatus for recording a television program at a time and a channel designated by a user, wherein a program information including a broadcasting time and a broadcasting channel of a television program to be broadcast within a predetermined period is converted into electronic data. A program information input means received by the program information, a program information storage means for storing the program information, a display means for displaying the program information on a screen, and a television program desired by a user from the program information displayed by the display means. Reserved program selecting means to be selected; program reserved information storing means for storing the program information of the television program selected by the reserved program selecting means; television based on the program information stored in the program reserved information storing means. A timer recording apparatus, comprising: a recording unit for recording a program. 2. The timer recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
The program information is in HTML (Hypertext Mar)
kup Language) document, and HTML
A timer recording device comprising an HTML processing means for processing a document. 3. The reservation recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said program information input means comprises: a telephone line connection means for receiving said program information via a telephone line; and a recording on which said program information is recorded. A scheduled recording apparatus comprising at least one of a recording medium reading means for reading a medium and a multiplex broadcast receiving means for receiving the program information by multiplex broadcast. 4. The program recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said program information input means updates said program information stored in said program reservation information storage means at predetermined time intervals. A timer recording device, characterized in that: 5. The reserved recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said reserved program selecting means includes a pointing device. 6. The timer recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display means is a television receiver.