JPH1155594A - Receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily identify a selected icon by changing the shape of a display design of a selected selection item with time when plural selection items are shown on a screen. SOLUTION: An area 50 for an image of television signals is prepared on a display 10 shows an image, and also an area 100 that shows selection items is prepared. As for an icon that is selected when a user operates a cursor, moving image information, i.e., image information of several kinds of designs is sent to a moving image icon creating part, e.g. in 10 to 30 times as many intervals as a vertical scanning interval, and about the other icons, still images are sent. The user can confirm a selected icon at one glance because the icon that is now selected is shown like a moving image and the other icons are shown like still images among ten icons which are prepared to select a character information program.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus for displaying, on a display of a television receiving apparatus, an icon for selecting a character information program and program contents, in addition to the broadcast video being viewed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There has been proposed a television receiver which displays a text broadcast program or the like and an icon for selecting the broadcast program in addition to a broadcast video on a display of the television receiver.

[0003]

For example, in digital broadcasting and the like, various types of character information can be simultaneously transmitted together with digitized video and audio signals. The information to be transmitted includes programs of various genres, such as news, weather forecast, stock market conditions, and sports programs. The user performs an operation of selecting various provided programs and displaying them on a display. By categorizing programs by genre and displaying them by icons or the like, user operability is improved. However, when the number of prepared icons and the like increases, it may be difficult to instantly identify the currently selected icon. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a receiving device that improves the discrimination of a selected icon.

[0004]

A receiving apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of selection items displayed on a screen, and among the selection items, the shape of the display pattern of the selected selection item changes over time. It has the function of changing to The selection items are displayed on the same screen as the image of the television signal. In the selected item, the shape of the displayed picture changes at a cycle that is an integral multiple of the vertical scanning cycle of the television signal. Further, the selection item returns to the initial state when the selection is released.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In addition to displaying a television image in full size on a display screen, a receiving apparatus according to the present invention provides a television image on a part of the screen and a text broadcast selection on another part. It has a function of displaying items (hereinafter, referred to as “icons”) and contents of teletext.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a display screen on a display 10 of a receiving apparatus 1 according to the present invention. An area 50 for a television signal image is prepared on the display 10 to display an image. , A case where an area 100 for displaying a selection item is prepared is shown.

FIG. 2 shows a case where a television image 50 (a region for displaying a television image) and a region 150 for displaying the contents of teletext are displayed on the screen 10. TV picture 50
An icon 160 for controlling teletext is provided below the text box. In an area 100 for displaying a selection item, ten icons 101 to 110 indicating the selection item are displayed.

The icon 101 selects a sports program, the icon 102 selects a news program, and the icon 103 selects a cooking program. Icon 104 and Icon 108
Is an icon prepared for a program selected by the user. Icon 105 is a stock program, icon 106 is an event program, icon 107 is a horse racing program, icon 1
09 is a weather forecast program, and the icon 110 is for selecting a lottery program.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation unit of a remote controller (remote controller) used for the receiving apparatus of the present invention. The remote controller 200 includes a power button 201, an input switching button 202, a button group 203 for sound deletion and the like, a button group 204 for CS broadcasting, a button group 20 for multi-screen control.
6, a cross cursor button 210 is provided. The cross cursor button 210 has a cursor up button 211, a cursor down button 212, a cursor left button 213, and a cursor right button 214, and operates a cursor on the screen. In order to determine the content of the icon selected by the cursor, a determination button 215 is provided at the center. Access window button 220, volume control button 23
0 is also provided. Channel buttons group 2 for terrestrial broadcasting stations
40, satellite channel selection button group 25
0 etc. are prepared.

When the upper cover 208 of the remote controller 200 is opened, a menu button 260 shown in FIG. 4 appears. Pressing the access window button 220 of the remote control switches to the screen of FIG. The selection of the icon is operated using the cursor button 210. Button 211,
By pressing 212, 213, 214, the cursor moves up, down, left and right, and moves to each icon.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an animation pattern displayed in the sports program icon 101 when the icon 101 is selected. In this embodiment, six different patterns from the pattern A1 to the pattern A6 are prepared. In the present embodiment, these patterns are sequentially switched and displayed at intervals of, for example, 10 to 30 times the vertical scanning period in this embodiment. Repeat until done. The user selects one of the ten character information program selection icons. The currently selected icon is displayed as a moving image, and the other icons are displayed as still images. You can check with. In this embodiment, the number of moving picture patterns is six, but different numbers of pictures may be prepared according to the types of icons.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a main part of a receiving apparatus according to the present invention. The video processing unit 20 processes a television signal sent from the outside, converts it into an image signal, and
The data is sent to the synthesizing unit 24 via the reducing / moving unit 40. If there is no display instruction of the selected item (icon), the display is displayed on the display 10 as a full screen of the television program.

When the user instructs the display of the character information icon by the remote controller, the remote controller receiving unit 32 receives the instruction and sends it to the microcomputer 28. The microcomputer 28 sends a user command to the moving picture icon creation unit 26. The moving image icon creation unit 26 includes a moving image memory 30 for each icon. For the icon selected by the user operating the cursor, the moving image information, that is, the image information of the patterns A1 to A6, is sent to the moving image icon creating unit 26, for example, at one vertical scanning period.
The image is sent at a cycle of 0 to 30 times, and a still image is sent for other icons. These moving images and still images are sent to the synthesizing unit 24 and displayed on the display 10 together with the television screen.

[0014] The selected icon, as described above,
Switch from a still image to a video. The user can easily identify the currently selected icon by displaying the moving image. When the selection of the icon is released (the cursor moves to another position), the icon returns to the initial pattern (for example, the pattern of A2) and is displayed again as a still image. When confirming the selection of the icon, the user presses the enter button 215. When the enter button 215 is pressed, the contents 151 of the selected text program are displayed in the icon area as shown in FIG. A button group 160 for controlling character information is provided below the television screen 50.

[0015]

As described above, the present invention is directed to a receiving apparatus for displaying textual program information and the like in addition to the currently viewed broadcast video on a display. Of the plurality of icons to be displayed, the currently selected icon is switched from a still image to a moving image and displayed, so that the user can easily identify the selected icon. In addition, since the content indicated by the icon is displayed as an animation, the meaning of the icon can be easily understood. Since the user of the television receiver views the screen away from the screen, it may be difficult to identify the currently selected icon from a large number of icons. However, according to the present invention, the icons are displayed as moving images, so that the discrimination is high, and it is particularly convenient for users with low visual acuity.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a screen display of a receiving device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a display of a selected text program.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing operation buttons of a remote controller used for the receiving device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing operation buttons of a remote controller used for the receiving device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a moving image surface of an icon.

FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram of a main part of the receiving device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Receiving apparatus 10 Display 50 Broadcast image 101-110 Icon 151 Character information 200 Remote control 210 Cross cursor button 220 Access window button

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Maki Furui 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside the Multimedia Systems Development Division of Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Inventor Tadashi Sube 1-chome, Higashi Koikebo, Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo 280 Hitachi Design Research Institute, Inc. (72) Inventor Gen Nagai 1-280 Higashi Koikekubo, Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo (72) Hitachi Design Inc. (72) Junichi Takesue 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken Hitachi Image Information Systems, Ltd.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A receiving apparatus in which a plurality of selection items are displayed on a screen, wherein the shape of a display picture of a selected one of the selection items changes with time. 2. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said selection items are displayed on the same screen as an image of a television signal. 3. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the shape of the display pattern of the selected selection item changes at a period that is an integral multiple of the vertical scanning period of the television signal. 4. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selection item returns to an initial state when the selection is released.