JPH11127398A - Television receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate user's program selection by recording program information and a program itself on plural different recording media, counting how often each of them records them or reproduces them, and rearranging the programs in the order of the count and recording it on a recording medium that has high accessibility. SOLUTION: A count circuit 140 counts how often each broadcast program is recorded and reproduced on/from a primary recording and reproducing circuit 160 and a secondary recording and reproducing circuit 170. The circuits 160 and 170 have an operation that records and reproduces a broadcast program, and the circuit 160 is a recording and reproducing side which has better assembility. A control circuit 130 rearranges a broadcast program in order of the number of counts that are counted by the circuit 140 and records it on a recording medium that has high accessibility, i.e., the circuit 160. With this, it is possible to sequence a program that is wanted to be viewed most by a user.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a television receiver having means for recording and reproducing a received broadcast program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Currently, television broadcasts are received, recorded,
There is a video tape recorder (hereinafter abbreviated as VTR) as a general device for reproducing. In recent years, with the rapid development of semiconductor technology, the capacity of a semiconductor memory has increased, and conversely, the price has decreased, and the semiconductor memory has been incorporated into a television receiver. Furthermore, it has become possible to compress and record a large amount of information, expand it, and reproduce it by signal processing technology. Therefore, various techniques have been taken to make it easy for the user to operate the television receiver by utilizing these techniques. For example, a configuration of a conventional television receiver is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-38165.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a conventional television receiver. An antenna 5 for receiving a broadcast, a tuner 6, a recording / reproducing control device 9 for controlling the entire device, a keypad 7 for inputting operation contents, A character multiplex decoder 11 for separating and outputting the multiplexed additional information 3, an encoder 10 for compressing and encoding the program information 1, a disk recording device 12 for recording the program information 1 'and the additional information 3 in separate areas, and a program information 1' A decoder 13 for expanding the program and returning it to the original signal, a tape recording device 15a capable of recording the program information 1 for a long time, a switch 16 for switching between the disk recording device 12 and the tape recording device 15a, outputting audio and reproducing moving images. And a display device 14 for performing the operation.

[0004]

In this television receiver, the first recording device having fast access and the second recording device having large storage capacity are selectively used and displayed according to the time length of program information for recording. It is characterized in that the program information can be immediately reproduced by simply selecting a title indicating the program information without being aware of which recording device the program information is recorded on.

[0005] However, the user of the television receiving apparatus wants to watch a program that is frequently used, that is, a program that is frequently watched, regardless of the length of time.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve this problem, a television receiving apparatus according to the present invention provides a program receiving apparatus comprising program information including information such as a program name, a program broadcast date and time, a broadcast channel, a program genre, and a performer of the program. Receiving means for receiving the broadcasted program itself, recording means for recording the program information received by the receiving means and the program itself on a plurality of different recording media, and displaying the program or the program information on a screen. Display means, counting means for counting the number of times the program has been recorded in the recording means or the number of times the program has been reproduced from the recording means, and recording the programs in descending order of the number of counts on a recording medium with good accessibility in order. And control means for performing the operation.

[0007] As a result, programs that are more frequently used by the user of the television receiver are recorded on a recording medium with higher accessibility, and the user is most noticeable at the upper left corner on the screen of the television receiver. It is possible to rearrange from the position, and it is possible to facilitate the user's program selection.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A television receiver according to the present invention receives program information including information such as a program name, a program broadcast date and time, a broadcast channel, a program genre, and performers of the program, and the broadcasted program itself. Receiving means, recording means for recording the program information received by the receiving means and the program itself on a plurality of different recording media, display means for displaying the program or the program information on a screen, and recording the program A recording means for counting the number of times each of the means has been recorded or reproduced from the recording means, and a control means for rearranging and recording the programs having the largest number of times in a recording medium having good access in order. The more frequently used programs of the television receiver user are recorded on the more accessible recording medium, thereby facilitating the user's program selection. It has the effect of that.

[0009] Further, the television receiver of the present invention comprises:
Receiving means for receiving program information including the program name, program broadcast date and time, broadcast channel, genre of the program, performers of the program, and the broadcasted program itself; and receiving the program information and the program itself received by the receiving means. Recording means for recording on a plurality of different recording media; display means for displaying the program or the program information on a screen; and counting the number of times the program has been recorded on or reproduced from the recording means. Counting means for performing counting, a control means for rearranging and recording a program having a large number of times in a recording medium having good accessability in order, and displaying at least a part of an image of the program or program information on a screen according to the number of times of counting. Means for rearranging and displaying a predetermined area from the upper left corner, wherein the program is frequently used by the user of the television receiver. It is recorded in the very accessible good recording medium, also in the upper left portion of the screen of the television receiver,
It is possible to rearrange the program from the position where the user is most likely to see it, which has the effect of facilitating the user's program selection.

Further, in the television receiving apparatus of the present invention, at least one of the plurality of recording media is incorporated in the television receiving apparatus main body, and the recording medium and the peripheral This makes it possible to reliably exchange signals with the means and to protect the recording medium itself.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the configuration of a television receiving apparatus according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, an antenna 110 has the function of receiving broadcast radio waves. The broadcast waves include not only terrestrial waves (VHF and UHF) but also satellite broadcast waves (BS and CS).

Also, an example of receiving a broadcast program from an antenna has been described as an embodiment of the present invention, but a cable broadcast such as a CATV may of course be used. Further, it may be from a package medium such as a VTR. Receiving circuit 12
0 performs an operation of extracting only a necessary broadcast program from the broadcast received by the antenna 110. Note that this receiving circuit also has a circuit configuration that can support various input signals as described in the section of the antenna 110.

The control circuit 130 controls which broadcast program the receiving circuit 120 selects, and the primary recording / reproducing circuit 1
60 and the secondary recording and reproducing circuit 170
It has functions such as control of reproduction, collection of data collected by the counting circuit 140, and control of what display method the display circuit 150 uses. The counting circuit 140 has an operation of counting how many times each broadcast program has been recorded and reproduced. The display circuit 150 has a function of displaying a broadcast program on a display screen, and can realize various display patterns such as a single screen or a multi-screen.

The primary recording / reproducing circuit 160 and the secondary recording / reproducing circuit 170 have the function of recording and reproducing a broadcast program. The primary recording / reproducing circuit 160 is a recording / reproducing circuit having better accessibility, and If the secondary side is a semiconductor memory, the secondary side is a hard disk, or if the primary side is a hard disk, the secondary side is an optical disk or a VTR. It is. That is, a method of using a fast access speed on the primary side and using a large storage capacity (slow access) on the secondary side is used. With this configuration, the programs can be weighted even more, and the user can rank the programs most desired to view. Obviously, the circuit configuration also changes accordingly.

When recording a broadcast program, the data can be compressed after A / D conversion, and when reproducing, the data is decompressed and D / A converted and sent to the display circuit 150. You can also. As an embodiment of the present invention, the primary recording / reproducing circuits 160 and 2 are included in a television receiver.
Although the next recording / reproducing circuit 170 is inserted, it goes without saying that the primary side may be inside and the secondary side may be outside. Further, a tertiary, quaternary,.

Further, when the recorded program or program information is displayed on the screen, the user can easily select the program by rearranging the program or the program information from the most upper-left position on the screen of the television receiver. Is adopted.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, according to the above-described configuration, a program which is more frequently used by the user of the television receiver is recorded on a recording medium having higher accessibility.
In addition, it is possible to rearrange from the most visible position on the upper left side of the screen of the television receiver, which has an advantageous effect that the user can easily select a program.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a television receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a conventional television receiver.

[Explanation of symbols]

 110 antenna 120 receiving circuit 130 control circuit 140 counting circuit 150 display circuit 160 primary recording / reproducing circuit 170 secondary recording / reproducing circuit

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A receiving means for receiving program information including information such as a program name, a program broadcast date and time, a broadcast channel, a program genre, and performers of the program, and a broadcasted program itself, and a program received by the receiving means. Recording means for recording information and the program itself on a plurality of different recording media; display means for displaying the program or the program information on a screen; and the number of times the program has been recorded on the recording means or from the recording means. 1. A television receiving apparatus comprising: a counting means for counting the number of times of reproduction; and a control means for rearranging and recording a program having a high counted number on a recording medium having good accessibility in order. 2. A receiving means for receiving program information including information such as a program name, a program broadcast date and time, a broadcast channel, a program genre, and performers of the program, and a broadcasted program itself, and a program received by the receiving means. Recording means for recording information and the program itself on a plurality of different recording media; display means for displaying the program or the program information on a screen; and the number of times the program has been recorded on the recording means or from the recording means. Counting means for counting the number of times of reproduction; control means for rearranging and recording the programs with the highest number of times in order on a recording medium having good accessability; and at least an image or program information of the program according to the number of times of counting. Means for rearranging and displaying a part of the screen from the upper left on the screen for each predetermined area. 3. The television receiving device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of different recording media is built in a cabinet.