JPH1198434A - Audio multiplex broadcast receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To select a language desired by the user automatically among a plurality of broadcast languages and to sound a voice from a speaker by selecting any of the languages displayed on a screen, registering kind data to a storage means, extracting the voice signal when a voice signal in the language registered in a voice extract means is received and giving the voice signal to the speaker. SOLUTION: When the user sets a television receiver and starts it's use and applies power to the television receiver through the operation of a remote control switch 8, a menu item is displayed on a screen of a CRT 10. In the case that the user desires a voice signal in Spanish at all times, the user operates a cursor key to change the default. When the user depresses a registration key a control section 11 gives data 'SAP' to a memory 7 and registers the default of selecting the Spanish. When the user applies power to the television receiver, the control section 11 uses a stereo IC 3 to extract only a sub voice signal in Spanish and sounds out the voice to an R side speaker.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an audio multiplex broadcasting receiver such as a television receiver and a television integrated video tape recorder, and more particularly to a method of automatically selecting a language desired by a user from a plurality of broadcasting languages. The present invention relates to an audio multiplex broadcast receiver having a function of emitting sound from a speaker.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a television receiver or the like for receiving a multiplex audio broadcast, a menu item for audio selection is generally displayed on a screen of a cathode ray tube or the like so that a user's language can be selected. When bilingual broadcasting is performed in stereo, a first language (native language) is normally assigned to L of a stereo signal, and a second language (foreign language) is assigned to R. For example, in the United States, L's main voice is English,
The secondary voice of R is in Spanish. The television receiver that receives this broadcast uses the menu item “SEL
ECTTV AUDIO "followed by" STEREO ",
“SAP” and “MONO” are displayed (see FIG. 5). Here, when the user selects “STEREO”, the first
English that is the language of the sound from the speaker in stereo. "SAP" (SUB AUDIOPROGR)
When AM) is selected, English is played instead of English. Furthermore, when "MONO" is selected, English is emitted in the main audio during stereo broadcast.

However, the menu itself is initially set to the language used in the country where the product is shipped. For this reason,
If the user does not know the language of the country, they will not immediately know which item in the menu is the language setting,
There is a problem that it takes time to set a desired language. Therefore, there has been proposed a television receiver in which a language menu is always displayed on a screen when the television receiver is used for the first time (see JP-A-7-95492). In this television receiver, a special code different from a language code indicating a language that can be selected as an initial value is stored in a language code memory means. For this reason, when the special code is detected, a language menu is displayed first, and after a desired language displayed on the language menu is selected, a different language is stored in the language code memory means. The language code to represent is stored. Therefore, when the user starts using the language menu, the language menu is always displayed before the other menu is displayed, so that the user can easily select a desired language for displaying the other menu. .

[0004]

By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional television receiver, although a user can easily select a language that he / she wants to listen to in the area, it is necessary to separately set a received sound, which is extremely troublesome. there were. In the example of the United States of America, when stereo broadcasts in which the main audio is English and the sub audio is Spanish are received, the speaker is normally set to emit sound in English. For this reason, if the user wants to always listen to the Spanish language during the Spanish broadcast, the user must first set the audio selection again when setting the television receiver. In this case, display the menu on the screen by operating the remote control,
It is necessary to select and set “SAP” from the three types of voice selection items. As described above, in order for the user to watch the television, displaying the menu and performing the setting operation of the language selection and the voice selection is complicated and inferior to the improvement of the service of the user.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides an audio multiplex broadcast receiver capable of automatically selecting a language desired by a user from a plurality of broadcast languages and emitting sound from a speaker. It is intended to be.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a voice extracting means for extracting a plurality of voice signals from a radio wave received by a tuner, and a type of a language to be displayed on a screen. Selecting means for selecting, operating means for selecting any of the languages and registering the type data in the storage means, and when one of the languages is registered by the operating means, the registration in the voice extracting means And a control means for performing control to extract the audio signal and send the extracted audio signal to a speaker when an audio signal of the language is input. According to a second aspect of the present invention, when the second language is selected by the selecting means in the configuration of the first aspect, the voice extracting means outputs the main voice to the first language and the auxiliary voice to the second voice. When a composite audio signal in the second language is input, the control means causes the speaker to output an audio signal in the second language.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an electric block diagram showing an audio multiplex broadcast receiver according to the present invention.

This audio multiplex broadcasting receiver is applied to a television receiver. Radio waves received by an antenna of the television receiver are guided to a tuner 1 of a receiving circuit, and a signal of a selected channel is transmitted. It is provided to Y / C / A separation circuit 2. The Y / C / A separation circuit 2 is connected to a video processing circuit (not shown) and a stereo IC 3, and separates an input signal to send a video signal to the video processing circuit.
The audio signal is sent to the stereo IC3. An L-side speaker 4 and an R-side speaker 5 are connected to the stereo IC 3, and an audio signal extracted according to a command signal from the control unit 11 is transmitted to the pair of speakers 4 and 5.

A CRT 10 and the like are connected unidirectionally or bidirectionally to the control unit 11 via a stereo IC 3, a timer 6, a memory 7, a receiving unit of a remote control switch 8, and an OSD processing unit 9 according to each function. I have. Stereo I
C3 is an integrated circuit for audio type selection, and selects one of the specified audio types from a plurality of broadcasts received by the tuner 1, and selects three types of stereo, main audio and sub audio. One of them is extracted. For example, a U.S. television broadcast broadcasts two languages in stereo,
Normally, the native language English is assigned to L (main audio) of the stereo signal, and Spanish is assigned to R (sub audio). Also, Japanese TV broadcasts use stereo signal L (main audio).
Is assigned to Japanese and English is assigned to R (sub-voice). The timer 6 counts time and outputs time data to the control unit 11. The memory 7 stores the type data of the language selected by the registration operation of the remote control switch 8.

As shown in FIG. 2, the remote control switch 8 has a menu key on a screen 10a of the CRT 10 shown in FIG. 3 in addition to general function keys such as a power key 8a, a channel selection key 8b, and a volume control key 8c. A menu key 8d for displaying items, a cursor key 8e for selecting any one of the menu items displayed on the screen 10a, and the like are provided. This cursor key 8e
When a cursor mark is displayed together with a menu item as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, when one of the buttons is pressed, the cursor mark is moved to an arbitrary item. When a registration key is pressed at the position of the cursor mark, data corresponding to the item is transmitted to the memory 7 via the control unit 11. OSD (On Screen Display)
The processing unit 9 causes various screens to be displayed on the screen 10a of the CRT 10, and displays various menu items on the screen 10a based on a control signal output from the control unit 11 in response to the operation of the remote control switch 8.

In this television receiver, the display order of the screen 10a is set in advance, and the item of "language selection" is displayed first, and the first language may be the native language or the second language. It prompts you to choose to listen to a broadcast in a foreign language. In the United States, "SELECT LAN
GUAGE ”,“ STEREO ”,“ SAP ”(SUB
AUDIO PROGRAM) and "MONO" are displayed. In Japan, "Please select your language."
"First language (Japanese)" and "second language (English)" are displayed. Next, display the general items in the “Main Menu”, and select “Time Adjustment”, “Image Quality Adjustment”,
Individual menu items such as "TV sound" can be selected.

The control section 11 controls the operation of the entire apparatus, and controls the screen 10a of the CRT 10 in response to the power-on operation of the remote control switch 8 when the use of the television receiver is started.
Menu item is displayed, and then a default value (initial value) of the received voice is changed based on the received voice selection signal, and one of the languages corresponding to the voice signal is stored in the memory 7.
After the audio signal of the registered language is input to the stereo IC 3 after the registration, the audio signal is extracted and transmitted to the speaker. Note that a television receiver in the United States normally sets the default value of received audio to English broadcasting of “STEREO”. In this example, when a change instruction to Spanish is received, it is set to “SAP”. In other words, a program for extracting only Spanish when the main audio of the stereo broadcast is English and the secondary audio is Spanish is received.

Next, the operation of the television receiver will be described. First, when the user turns on the power by operating the remote control switch 8 when the user sets the television receiver and starts use, menu items as shown in FIG. 3 are displayed on the screen 10a of the CRT 10. Here, when the user wants to always listen in Spanish when broadcasting in Spanish, the user operates the cursor key 8e to change the default value. As shown in the figure, "SELECT LANGU
On the screen 10a displaying "AGE", the cursor mark is set to "ENGLISH" side in advance, so that "SP
When the registration key is pressed, the control section 11 sends the data of "SAP" to the memory 7 and registers the default value of Spanish selection.
Thereafter, when the user turns on the power when he wants to watch the television, when a stereo signal in which the main sound is English and the sub sound is Spanish is input to the stereo IC 3, the control unit 11 extracts only the sub sound by the stereo IC 3. Then, the signal is transmitted to the speaker 5 on the R side. Thus, the user can automatically watch the Spanish broadcast. After that, if the Spanish broadcast is received during the normal English broadcast, the Spanish will be emitted from the speaker at that point, so the user can operate the remote control without selecting the language and voice, A desired broadcast can be viewed.

By the way, when the user wants to select a language arbitrarily, when the main menu is displayed by operating the remote controller 8, the items shown in FIG. 4 are displayed. This "CLOC
When "TV AUDIO" (audio of a television) following "K" (time adjustment), "PICTURE" (image quality adjustment), etc. is selected, the menu shown in Fig. 5 is displayed on the screen 10a. “SELECT TV AUDI
O "(voice selection)," STEREO "," SAP ",
When “STEREO” is selected from “MONO”,
When receiving the English stereo broadcast, the control unit 11 causes the pair of speakers 4 and 5 to emit English. When the user selects and operates “SAP”, the control unit 11 causes the speaker 5 to emit Spanish when receiving a stereo broadcast in which the main audio is English and the sub audio is Spanish. When the user selects “SAP” while listening in English, the control unit 11 performs operation control so that the speaker 5 changes to English and Spanish is emitted from the speaker 5. Furthermore, when the user selects and operates “MONO”, when the main sound is English and the sub sound is Spanish stereo broadcast,
The control unit 11 causes the speaker 4 to emit English.

In the case of a Japanese TV receiver, when the TV receiver is installed and then turned on by the remote controller 8, menu items as shown in FIG. 6 are displayed on the screen 10b of the CRT 10. You. When "second language (English)" is selected with the cursor key 8e according to "Please select a language.", The control unit 11 registers the English type data in the memory 7. Thereafter, when a stereo broadcast in which the main sound is Japanese and the sub sound is English is received and input to the stereo IC 3, the control unit 11 extracts the sub sound signal and sends it to the speaker 5. Therefore, when an English broadcast is received during a normal Japanese broadcast, English is emitted from the speaker 5 at that time. Thus, a desired broadcast can be viewed as it is without performing language selection and voice selection operations. In the above embodiment, a case has been described where an audio multiplex broadcast receiver is applied to one television receiver.
Needless to say, the present invention can also be applied to various AV devices.

[0016]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, when one of the languages to be displayed on the screen is selected and one type is registered, the language of the language registered in advance is selected. When the audio signal is input to the audio extraction means, this language is emitted from the speaker, so that the user can automatically listen to the broadcast in the desired language simply by selecting the language displayed first on the screen, and use the menu as in the past. There is no need to perform language selection and voice selection setting operations after displaying, so that the convenience is greatly improved. According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the user selects the second language, the second language is emitted from the speaker when a composite audio signal of the first and second languages is input. There is an advantage that the broadcast in the second language can be automatically listened to without the need for complicated operations.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an electrical block diagram showing an audio multiplex broadcast receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a remote control switch as an operation means.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an English language selection menu displayed on a screen.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an English main menu displayed on a screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an English voice selection menu displayed on a screen.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a Japanese language selection menu displayed on a screen.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a Japanese main menu displayed on a screen.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a Japanese voice selection menu displayed on the screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Tuner 3 Voice extraction means 4, 5 Speaker 7 Storage means 8 Operation means 10a Screen 11 Control means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A voice extracting means for extracting a plurality of voice signals from a received radio wave of a tuner, a selecting means for selecting a type of a language to be displayed on a screen, and storing data of the type by selecting one of the languages. Operating means to be registered in the means, and when one of the languages is registered by the operating means, when a voice signal of the registered language is input to the voice extracting means, the voice signal is extracted and transmitted to the speaker. And a control unit for performing control. 2. When the second language is selected by the selection means, the main voice is output to the voice extraction means by the first language,
2. The audio multiplex broadcast receiver according to claim 1, wherein, when a composite audio signal whose secondary audio is a second language is input, the control unit causes the audio signal of the second language to be transmitted to a speaker.