JPH11275482A - Interlock display device of program information and tv picture - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interlock display device of program information and TV picture by erasing the picture display of an electronic program table (EPG) from a display screen, making the table into an icon and displaying a television picture while enlarging it when selecting any television channel. SOLUTION: When a user performs the selection of any TV channel while using a remote controller or the like, a TV picture receiving part 110 receives a report showing the selection of any channel from a display control part 102, prepares the TV picture (enlarged picture) and dispatches it to a display image preparing part 104. A program preparing part 106 makes the program table into an icon and the display image preparing part 104 synthesized the icon and the TV picture, prepares a picture image to be displayed on the display screen and dispatches it to the display control part 102. The display control part 102 displays that picture image on a display part (display screen) 103. Thus, when any television channel is selected, the display of the EPG picture is erased from the display screen, that table is made into an icon and the television picture is displayed while being enlarged.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an interlocking display device of TV information and program information for simultaneously displaying a television screen and an EPG (electronic program guide) on the screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, digital broadcasting as well as analog broadcasting has become widespread, and with this, television broadcasting has been multi-channeled. As the number of channels increases, the range of selection by the viewer increases, and at the same time, it becomes difficult for the viewer to select a desired program efficiently. In order to enable a viewer to efficiently select a desired program from such multi-channel broadcast programs, information on programs of a plurality of channels is displayed as a program table on a display screen of a television receiver. An electronic program guide (EPG) has been put into practical use that allows a user to select a program while displaying the program information while checking the program information in the program table.

As a conventional display device for performing such an electronic program guide operation, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-504165.
The one disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. H10-260, 1993 is known. This special table 6
Japanese Patent Publication No. 504165 discloses a TV program screen on a display screen and a program table displaying program information (program titles and the like) for several channels in a matrix of time and channel. When a channel is selected, the TV program screen is switched to the TV program screen of the selected channel and the program information is switched to the program table centering on the selected channel.
An interlocking display device for a V screen is disclosed.

[0004] Here, in the linked display device of the program information and the TV screen disclosed in this document, the size of the area displaying the television broadcast on the display screen automatically changes even if a channel is selected. Do not do
After selecting a channel, the program guide (EPG) is no longer needed,
The EPG is displayed as it is on the display screen. Accordingly, in order to erase the program guide and view the television broadcast on a large screen from such a display state of the screen, the user operates the remote controller or the like to erase or reduce the program guide and to display the television broadcast. The displayed area must be enlarged.

[0005]

As described above, in the conventional program information and TV screen linked display device for simultaneously displaying a television screen and an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) on the screen, the display is performed even when a channel is selected. The size of the area displaying the television broadcast on the screen is not changed, and the EPG is still displayed on the display screen even after the channel is selected. The EPG is deleted and the television broadcast is viewed on a large screen. In order to do so, the user must operate a remote controller or the like to erase or reduce the program guide and expand the area displaying the television broadcast,
There is a problem that it is inconvenient for the user.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and when a program is selected on the EPG, the EPG screen can be automatically erased on the display screen, and the size of the area displaying the television broadcast can be reduced. Information and TV that can expand
It is an object of the present invention to provide a screen interlock display device.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an interlocking display device of program information and a TV screen according to the present invention (claim 1) has a television screen and an electronic program guide on a display screen. EPG) Program information and TV that simultaneously display screens
The screen interlocking display device is provided with a screen display control means for deleting the display of the EPG screen from the display screen when the television channel is selected, and for enlarging and displaying the television screen.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an interlocking display apparatus for displaying program information and a TV screen according to the first aspect of the present invention. When a request to display the EPG screen is made in a state where the television screen is displayed in an enlarged manner, an EPG screen including the television channel being enlarged and the previous and subsequent channels centered on this channel is displayed on the display screen. To display.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiment 1 Hereinafter, an interlocking display device of program information and a TV screen according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an interlocking display device of program information and a TV screen according to the first embodiment.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 101 denotes an input unit for receiving an external input from a remote controller or the like; 102, a display control unit;
103 is a display unit, 104 is a display image creation unit, 105
Is a TV screen receiving unit, 106 is a program table creating unit, 107 is a search unit, 108 is a program table information storage unit, 109 is a TV screen selecting unit, and 110 is a TV screen creating unit.

Next, the operation of the linked display device of the program information and the TV screen according to the present embodiment will be described. After the power is turned on, the search unit 107 searches the program table stored in the program table information storage unit 108 to obtain a program table of a time zone including a program being broadcast at the current time, and obtains a program table creation unit 106 Pass to. The program guide creating unit 106 creates a program guide for several channels before and after the channel having the smallest channel number, and transfers the created program guide to the display image creating unit 104.

The TV screen selecting section 109 causes the TV screen receiving section 105 to receive the channel having the smallest channel number, and passes a screen signal to the TV screen creating section 110. T
The V screen creating unit 110 creates a TV screen (reduced screen) according to the screen size of the EPG display state, and transfers the created TV screen to the display image creating unit 104.

The display image creating unit 104 includes a program table screen received from the program table creating unit 106 and a TV screen creating unit 1.
A screen image to be displayed on the display screen is created by synthesizing the TV screens received from 10 and passed to the display control unit 102. The display control unit 102 displays the screen image received from the display image creation unit 104 on the display unit (display screen) 103.

FIG. 2 is a view showing an example of a screen image displayed on the display unit 103 by the above operation. This figure 2
In the example, the channel with the smallest channel number is channel 2, and a program table for one channel before and after the channel is created and displayed. Next, the operation when the TV screen is displayed by selecting a TV channel from the EPG display state will be described.

When the user selects a TV channel using a remote controller or the like, input unit 101 outputs a selection input indicating the selected TV channel to display control unit 102. Upon receiving the selection input from the input unit 101, the display control unit 102 notifies the TV screen selection unit 109 of the selected channel, and also displays the TV screen creation unit 110,
Then, it notifies the program guide creation unit 106 that the channel has been selected. Upon receiving the notification of the selected channel from the display control unit 102, the TV screen selecting unit 109
The screen receiving unit 105 receives the selected channel and passes a screen signal to the TV screen creating unit 110. Upon receiving the notification that the channel has been selected from the display control unit 102, the TV screen creation unit 110 creates a TV screen (enlarged screen) according to the screen size of the TV screen display state, and sends the TV screen to the display image creation unit 104. hand over. When receiving the notification that the channel has been selected from the display control unit 102, the program guide creating unit 106 converts the program guide into an icon and transfers the icon to the display image creating unit 104. The display image creation unit 104 creates a screen image to be displayed on the display screen by synthesizing the icon received from the program guide creation unit 106 and the TV screen received from the TV screen creation unit 110, and transfers the screen image to the display control unit 102. . The display control unit 102 displays the screen image received from the display image creation unit 104 on the display unit (display screen) 103.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image displayed on the display unit 103 by the above operation.
In the example, the case where channel 4 is selected on the EPG display screen shown in FIG. 2 is shown. Next, an operation when the TV screen display state is changed to the EPG display state will be described.

When a user uses a remote controller or the like to
When the G icon is clicked, the input unit 101 outputs to the display control unit 102 a program table display request signal indicating that a program table display request has been made. Upon receiving the program guide display request signal from the input unit 101, the display control unit 102
The screen creation unit 110 and the program guide creation unit 106 are notified that there is a display request for the program guide. Display control unit 10
Reference numeral 2 further notifies the program table creation unit 106 of the currently displayed channel. Upon receiving the notification that the program guide display request has been made, the program guide creating unit 106 searches the search unit 107
To retrieve a program table stored in the program table information storage unit 108 to obtain a program table of a time zone including a program being broadcast at the current time, and to display the current screen displayed on the current screen notified from the display control unit 102. A program guide is created for several channels before and after the TV channel that is present and passed to the display image creation unit 104. The TV screen selecting section 109 keeps the TV screen receiving section 105 receiving the TV channel currently displayed on the screen as it is, and passes the screen signal to the TV screen creating section 110.
When receiving the notification that the display of the program guide has been requested, the TV screen creating unit 110 creates a TV screen (reduced screen) according to the screen size of the EPG display state, and passes it to the display image creating unit 104. The display image creation unit 104 creates a screen image to be displayed on the display screen by synthesizing the program guide screen received from the program guide creation unit 106 and the TV screen received from the TV screen creation unit 110, and the display control unit 102 Pass to. The display control unit 102 displays the screen image received from the display image creation unit 104 on the display unit (display screen) 103.

FIG. 4 is a view showing an example of a screen image displayed on the display unit 103 by the above operation. As described above, in the linked display apparatus of the program information and the TV screen according to the present embodiment, the linked display apparatus of the program information and the TV screen, which simultaneously displays the television screen and the electronic program guide (EPG) screen on the display screen, When the television channel is selected, the display of the EPG screen is erased from the display screen to make it an icon, and the display control unit 102 for enlarging and displaying the television screen is provided. When a program is selected, the EPG screen can be automatically erased on the display screen, and the size of the area displaying the television broadcast can be enlarged. it can.

The program information and the TV according to the present embodiment are
In the screen interlock display device, the display control unit 10
2 is an EPG screen including the television channel being enlarged and the previous and subsequent channels centered on this channel when the display of the EPG screen is requested in a state where the television screen is enlarged. Is displayed on the display screen, so that it is possible to realize an interlocking display device of the program information and the TV screen, which can display the user-friendly program guide display screen when the television screen is changed from the display state to the EPG display state. .

In the above embodiment, the EPG icon is displayed on the display screen when the TV screen is displayed. However, the EPG icon is left on the display screen when the TV screen is displayed. Instead, the EPG screen may be completely erased and displayed. In this case, the request for displaying the program guide may be made by pressing the EPG button provided on the remote controller instead of clicking the EPG icon.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention (claim 1), a television screen and an electronic program guide (EP) are displayed on a display screen.
G) In a display device for linking program information and a TV screen which simultaneously displays a screen, when a television channel is selected, the display of the EPG screen is deleted from the display screen to make it an icon, and the television screen is displayed. Is provided with screen display control means for enlarging and displaying
When a program is selected on the PG, the EPG screen can be automatically erased on the display screen, and the size of the area displaying the television broadcast can be enlarged. There is an effect that can be realized.

Further, according to the present invention (claim 2), in the display device for linking program information and TV screen according to claim 1, the screen display control means may display the television screen in an enlarged display. When an EPG screen is requested to be displayed on the display screen, an EPG screen including the enlarged and displayed television channel and the previous and subsequent channels centered on this channel is displayed on the display screen. There is an effect that it is possible to realize a linked display device of program information and a TV screen that can display a program guide display screen that is easy for the user to use when the screen is switched from the screen display state to the EPG display state.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an interlocking display device of program information and a TV screen according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining the operation of the interlocking display device of the program information and the TV screen according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining the operation of the interlocking display device of the program information and the TV screen according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining the operation of the interlocking display device of the program information and the TV screen according to the first embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 input unit 102 display control unit 103 display unit 104 display image creation unit 105 TV screen reception unit 106 program table creation unit 107 search unit 108 program table information storage unit 109 TV screen selection unit 110 TV screen creation unit

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Atsushi Horioka 1006 Kazuma Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture Inside Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An interlocking display device for displaying a television screen and an electronic program guide (EPG) screen at the same time on a display screen, wherein a television channel is selected from the display screen when a television channel is selected. An interlocking display device of program information and a TV screen, comprising a screen display control means for deleting the display of the EPG screen and enlarging and displaying the television screen. 2. The interlocking display device of the program information and the TV screen according to claim 1, wherein the screen display control unit receives a request to display the EPG screen while the television screen is displayed in an enlarged manner. An interlocking display device for program information and a TV screen, wherein an EPG screen including a television channel which is enlarged and displayed and channels before and after this channel is displayed on a display screen.