JPH11127397A - Television receiver with on-screen display function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inform a user of unconnection of an antenna. SOLUTION: When an automatic channel program is execute din an unconnected state of an antenna and a broadcasting channel cannot be detected, character data 14 'the broadcasting channel cannot be detected. Check the connection of the antenna.' are displayed on a screen to have a user to check the connection state of the antenna.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a television receiver equipped with an on-screen display function and having an automatic channel program function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional television receiver, when an auto channel program is executed without an antenna connected, nothing is programmed and the process is terminated. Did not.

[0003]

In this case, it is expected that the user may be confused as to why nothing was programmed in spite of executing the auto channel program. Since there was no function to suggest that you check the status directly, if the cause was "unconnected antenna", it takes time to deal with it, especially when purchasing a new television receiver, elderly users There was a problem that caused confusion.

[0004]

[MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] To solve this problem, the present invention uses the on-screen display function to inform the user that "broadcast channel was not found. Please check the antenna connection." Features introduced.

[0005] With this, it is possible to execute the auto channel program without connecting the antenna, and to inform the user of the connection state of the antenna even if a broadcast channel is not found.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS According to a first aspect of the present invention, when an auto channel program is executed without an antenna connected, an "on-screen display function" is used. And tell the user. Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 shows an on-screen display system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes an on-screen display,
Is microcomputer hardware, 13 is RA for on-screen display
M and 14 are character data.

[0008] The operation of the on-screen display system configured as described above will be described below.
In FIG. 1, the on-screen display 11 has character data 14 set in the display RAM 13 and is displayed by the microcomputer hardware 12. With the above configuration, the message content to the user can be displayed on-screen.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the on-screen display according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 21 denotes a branch whether the auto channel program has been completed, 22 a branch whether a broadcast channel has been found, and 23 a setting of the character data 14 in FIG. so,
Reference numeral 24 denotes an on-screen display of the character set in the display RAM 13.

[0010] Regarding the flow configured as described above,
This will be described below. In FIG. 2, when the auto channel program ends at branch 21, the program goes to branch 22 to determine whether a broadcast channel has been found. If the broadcast channel is not found in the branch 22, the program goes to 23 and stores the character data 14 in the on-screen display RAM
Set to Then, at 24, the character set in the display RAM 13 is displayed on-screen.

With the above configuration, the user can be informed of the content such as "Broadcast channel not found. Please check the antenna connection." In addition, for television receivers for overseas markets, "No broadcast channel was found. Please check the antenna connection."
nations found. Please inserter
tthe aerial. "Was displayed. Of course, besides English, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Czech, French, Danish, Turkish, Romanian, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, etc. Any language display may be used. In the embodiment of the present invention, a total of 16 languages can be displayed. At that time, the display language selection can be switched by a menu.

The present invention is not limited to the message display when the antenna is not connected, and it goes without saying that any message can be displayed when any external input signal line is not connected.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, the automatic
On a television receiver with an on-screen display function equipped with a channel program function, if the auto-channel program was executed with the antenna disconnected, the following message was displayed using the on-screen display function. Please check the antenna connection. "Has a useful effect of reducing user confusion when a broadcast channel is not found.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exemplary diagram of an on-screen display system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of on-screen display according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 On-screen display 12 Microcomputer hardware 13 On-screen display RAM 14 Character data 21 Branch whether or not the auto channel program has been completed 22 Branch if broadcast channel has been found 23 Character data 14 to the on-screen display RAM 13 Setting 24 On-screen display of characters set in display RAM 13

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A television receiver characterized in that, when an auto channel program is executed without connecting an external signal line, items desired by the user are displayed on-screen. 2. The television receiver according to claim 1, wherein an external signal line is used as an antenna.