JPS6259468A - Remote control adjusting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve an operability with a reduced number of keys by providing a character pattern generating part and a synthesizing part in a TV receiver and respective equipments, by generating a signal and a cursor meaning the contents of an operating of the respective equipments and synthesizing, and providing a remote control transmitter for a remote control. CONSTITUTION:In a TV receiver 2 and an equipment such as a VTR 4 connected to the receiver 2, a character pattern signal and a cursor meaning the contents of an operating required for the respective equipments are generated in character pattern generating parts 2-13, 4-16 and synthesized in a synthesizing part 4-8. Its output signal is displayed on a screen of a CRT 2-7 of the receiver 2. In order to remote control the respective equipments including the receiver 2, a remote control transmitter 3 is provided a remote control signal from the transmitter 3 is received by a remote control amplifier 2-10 or 4-13, a code is decoded and control signals 2-8 or 4-12 are generated. Thereby, the respective equipments can be controlled by the reduced number of keys and an operability can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote control device for a television receiver and equipment connected to the television receiver.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Conventionally, a remote control transmitter for controlling a television receiver has keys corresponding to each operation, and each key has each operation function (for example, power on, off, channel, up, channel, etc.).

They were assigned names (down, volume up, volume down, etc.) and had a one-to-one correspondence with each operation function.

In addition, if you connect other devices to the television receiver (for example, a video tape recorder (VTR), video disc player, etc.), each device will have a remote control transmitter (hereinafter abbreviated as the remote control transmitter). are attached and each can be used individually.

FIG. 6 shows the configuration of a VTR and a television receiver to which the VTR can be connected. In the figure, 9 is a television receiver, 9-15 is an antenna input terminal, 9-1 is a distributor that divides the RF television signal into two, 9-2 is a tuner, and 9-3 is a video intermediate frequency amplification circuit (hereinafter referred to as (abbreviated as VtF), 9-4 is a tuning section, 9-5 is a signal processing section, 9
-7 is a cathode ray tube (hereinafter abbreviated as CRT); 9-8 is a control signal generation unit that controls the channel selection unit 9-4; 9-9 is a signal switching unit; 10 is a television that encodes and transmits remote control signals. 9-10 is a remote control and amplifier for amplifying the remote control signal; 9-11 is a waveform shaping unit;
9-12 is a code decoding unit that determines a coded remote control signal, 9-16 is an output terminal for one output signal of the distributor 9-1, and 9-19 and 9-20 are respective video signal input terminals. .

Further, 11 is a VTR, 11-18 is a signal input terminal from the output terminal 9-16, 11-1 is a 2-way divider, 11-2 is a tuner, 11-3 is a DiF, 11-4 is a signal processing section, 1
1-5 is a recording processing unit, 11-6 is a recording head, 11-7
11-9 is a channel selection section, 11-9 is a signal switching section, 11-10 is a playback processing section, 11-11 is a playback head, 11-2 is a control signal generation section, 12 is a remote control transmitter for VTR, and 11-13 is a remote control. Amplifier, 11-14, waveform shaping section, 11-15
is the code decoding part. Since the operation of each part is well known, it will be omitted here.

Here, each device (in this example, a television receiver and VTR)
) a separate remote control transmitter for each 10.
12 is required. Figure 7 shows TV remote control transmitter 1.
The key configuration of VTR remote control transmitter 12 is shown in Figure 8.
Each key configuration is shown below.

Problems that the invention seeks to solveHowever, with such a remote control transmitter,
As the number of functions to be controlled increases, the number of operation keys increases, resulting in a large transmitter, resulting in high costs. The user has to read the characters (characters that appear on the screen), which worsens operability.

Furthermore, when other devices are connected to the television receiver, it is necessary to use remote control transmitters attached to each device, resulting in poor operability.

The present invention solves these problems and proposes a remote control device that is inexpensive, has good operability, and can also control other devices with a single remote control transmitter.

Although it has only 8 operation keys, it can control various operation functions of the television receiver and other devices connected to the television receiver.

Display the device menu of the device in an easy-to-understand pattern, move the cursor up/down/left/right and select the device you want to operate (stop the cursor on the device pattern and operate the input command keys). The operating functions of the selected device (for example, a VTR) will now be displayed on the CRT screen, and in the same way as when selecting the device, move the cursor to the desired operating function pattern display and operate the input command keys. This allows the desired function to operate.

Function The remote control device of the present invention is capable of operating all functions of multiple devices with a small number of operation keys on the remote control, and displays the menus and menus of each device on the CRT screen of the television receiver. It is very easy to see because the contents to be operated are displayed, and anyone can easily operate it because it is an operation guidance type.
It is also possible to operate other devices such as VTRs and video disc players (VHD).

Embodiment Hereinafter, a remote control device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention.

1 is an antenna, 2 is a television receiver, and 2-1 is a distributor, one of which sends the RF input signal from antenna 1 to tuner 2-2, and the other to the television receiver via output terminal 2-16. Each of the signals is transmitted to other devices connected to 2.

Further, 2-3 is a video intermediate frequency amplification unit (ViF) which converts the RF multiplied signal from the tuner 2-2 into a composite video signal. The composite video signal is demodulated and processed by the signal processing unit 2-6 via the video signal switching unit 2-9, and the switching unit 2-6 superimposes and superimposes it on the character pattern signal from the character generation unit 2-13. and output to the CRT 2-7.

Further, 2-4 is a tuning section for controlling the tuner 2-2, and 3 is a remote control transmitter. FIG. 2 shows a detailed front view of this remote control transmitter 3.

In FIG. 2, 5-1 is a power ON/OFF control key for the television receiver 2, 5-2, 5-6, 5-
3, 5-5 are keys for moving the cursor (6-5 in Figure 3) displayed on the screen of the CRT 2-7 up, down, left and right, and 5-4 is an input command key, which corresponds to the cursor. Input when operating the function corresponding to the character pattern. 5-7 is a key for turning on or off the menu display, and 6-8 is a key for turning on or off the cursor display.
This is the key to

The encoded remote control signal transmitted from the remote control transmitter 3 in FIG. 1 is received by the remote control and amplifier 2-10,
The waveform shaping unit 2-11 converts the waveform into a pulse waveform, and the code decoding unit 2
-12, the code is determined according to which key of the remote control transmitter 3 is operated, and the code is determined by the character generator 2-13 via the control signal generator 2-8 as shown in FIGS. 3, 4, and 5. Generates a unique character pattern.

First, operate the menu display key 5-7 to bring up the device menu character pattern screen shown at 6 in FIG. 3, and then press the cursor movement keys (15-2, 5-
e, 5-3, 6-5) to move the cursor 6-5 onto the character pattern of the device to be operated.

In the example of FIG. 3, the cursor 6-5 is placed entirely on the character pattern 6-2 indicating the television receiver. When the input command key 5-4 in Fig. 2 is operated in this state, the CRT
The screen changes to the television character pattern screen numbered 7 in FIG. Similarly, move the cursor 6-5 onto the character pattern you wish to operate and input the input command key 6-4. In the example of FIG. 4, the cursor 6-5 is located on the channel 20 character pattern 7-4, so when the input command key 5-4 is operated, channel 2 is selected. At the same time, the color of this character pattern 7-4 is changed to the color of other character patterns (indicated by diagonal lines in FIG. 4) to indicate that channel 2 is currently being received.

In Figure 3, 6-1 indicates the character pattern of the television and the AVC9 equipment connected to the television, and 6-
2 is a television, 6-3 is a VTR, 16-4 is a VHD character pattern.

In Fig. 4, 7-1 indicates a character pattern indicating the operation contents of the TV, and 7-2 indicates power ○N, OFF.
, 7-s to 7-14 are channel numbers, 7=15.7-
21 is the volume up and down, 7-16.7-22 is the brightness up and down, 7-17, 7-23 is the color up and down, 18.7-24 is the tint amp and down, 7 -20 is mute ON and O
FF and 7-26 are character patterns that mean ON and OFF of the off timer.

In addition, 7-27 is a character pattern indicating the end, and when this is selected, a character pattern screen T showing the operation contents of the TV is displayed.
disappears and the screen returns to the device menu pattern screen 6 shown in FIG.

Figure 6 shows the VTR character pattern 6-3 in Figure 3.
Match 6-5 1″″: VTR1 selected
.

This figure shows a character pattern screen showing the operation contents of the VTR in case of a case. In Fig. 5, 8-1 is a character pattern indicating the operation contents of the VTR, 8-2 is the power ON/OFF, 8-4 to 8-15 are channel numbers, and 8-16
8-17 is a character pattern representing playback, 8-17 is a stop, 8-18 is a recording, 8-19 is a pause, and 8-20 is a frame-by-frame advance. Furthermore, the character pattern 8-3 for "End" is a character pattern to be selected when this character pattern screen 8 is no longer needed.Move the cursor 6-6 to this character pattern and press the input command key 5- in FIG.
If an input command is given in step 4, the screen returns to the character pattern screen 6 of the equipment menu shown in FIG.

Returning to FIG. 1, numeral 4 indicates a VTR.

The input terminal 4-1 of the VTR 4 is connected via the RF multiplied signal output terminal 2-16 from the distributor 2-1 of the television receiver 2.
8 to the distributor 4-1.

Then, the tuner 4-2 converts the signal by IF, and ViF4
-3, it is converted into a composite video signal, demodulated and signal-processed in the signal processing section 4-4, and then further processed in the recording processing section 4-4.
-5, the recording process is performed and the VT is transmitted through the recording head 4-6.
Recorded on R tape.

Also, information from the tape is extracted by the playback head 4-11, passed through the playback processing section 4-10, further via the signal switch 4-9, and then sent to the synthesis section 4-8 from the character generation section 4-16. The character pattern signal is synthesized and output through the output terminal 4-20.
The signal is input from the input terminal 2-19 of the television receiver 2 to the signal processing section 2-5 via the signal switching section 2-9, and is displayed on the CRT 2-7 as described above.

Further, 4-7 is a tuning section for controlling the tuner 4-2.

The remote control transmitter 3 is displayed on the VTR character pattern screen 8 in Figure 5.
When 8-16 reproduction character patterns are selected by
1, the code is decoded by the code decoder 2-12, and the signal is decoded by the control signal generator 2-8 via the terminal 2-18, and then from the terminal 4-21 via the pass line to the control signal generator 4- in the VTR 4.
Sent to 12. In response to the sent control data, the control signal generating section 4-12 switches the signal switch 4-9 all the way down to perform reproduction processing, and displays the reproduced image of the VTR 4 on the CRT 2--r.

Here, terminals 2-17 and 2-18 of TV 2 have through-in and through-out terminals for connecting to other devices.
VTR4(7)4-21.4-22 also has similar terminals.

Further, the video recorders 177 and 77 4-13, the waveform shaping section 4-14, and the code decoding section 4-15 in the VTR 4 may not be provided in this example. Further, the control signal generating section 4-12 controls the character generating section 4-16'i, controls each function of the VTR 4, and performs input/output data processing of signals to the data bus. The control signal generating section 2-8 of the television receiver 2 also controls each section of the television and processes input/output data of signals to the data bus.

Further, 2-14 and 4-17 are memories for storing character patterns, and the output signal YS of the character generating section 2-13 of the television receiver 2 superimposes the character pattern signal on the video signal. This is a switching signal for

In the conventional example, two remote control transmitters as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 were required, and 47 keys were required just to operate the TV and VTR, but the remote control transmitter shown in FIG. 3, all functions of each device can be operated with 8 keys, making it much easier to operate. Furthermore, even if the V) ID function is added, the transmitter shown in FIG. 2 can still be operated using eight keys.

As described above, the remote control device of the present invention can be operated with a small number of keys even if there are many devices to be controlled and many operation functions, and the operation contents can be displayed in a large size on the CRT screen. This makes it possible to create an easy-to-understand and inexpensive system without requiring separate remote control transmitters for each device.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a remote control device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a detailed front view of the remote control transmitter shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a front view showing a character pattern screen of a device menu. 4 is a front view showing a function menu character pattern screen of a TV, FIG. 5 is a front view showing a function menu character pattern screen of a VTR, FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional example, and FIG. 6 is a detailed front view of one remote control transmitter shown in FIG. 6, and FIG. 8 is a detailed front view of the other remote control transmitter shown in FIG. 2...Television receiver, 2-1...
・Distributor, 2-2...Tuner, 2-3...
...ViF, 2-4...Tuition selection section, 2-6...
...Signal processing section, 2-6...Switching section, 2-7
... Cathode ray tube, 2-8 ... Control signal generation section, 2-9 ... Signal switching section. 2-10...
...Remote control amplifier, 2,11...Waveform shaping, 2-12...Code decoding section, 2-13...
...Character generation section, 2-14...Memory, 3...
...Remote control transmitter, 4...Video tape recorder, 4-1...Distributor, 4-2...
Tuner, 4-3...ViF, 4-4...
... Signal processing section, 4-5 ... Recording processing section, 4-6
... Recording head, 4-7 ... Tuning section, 4
-8...Composition section, 4-9...Signal switching section, 4-10...Reproduction processing section, 4-11...
...Playback head, 4-12...Control signal generation section, 4-16...Character generation section, 4-1A...
··memory. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person 2nd
Figure 3 X Figure 5 Figure 6 Mouth Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Claims] The television receiver and the devices connected to the television receiver each include a character pattern generation section that generates a character pattern signal and a cursor that indicate the operation details required for each device, and a character pattern generator that generates a cursor and a character pattern signal that indicates the operation content required for each device, and a character pattern generator that generates a cursor and a character pattern signal that indicates the operation content required for each device, and a character pattern generator that generates a cursor and a character pattern signal that indicates the operation content required for each device. A combination means for combining the pattern signal and the cursor is provided, and the output signal of the combination means is configured to be displayed on the cathode ray tube screen of the television receiver,
A remote control transmitter is provided for remotely controlling each device including the television receiver, and at least a control means for receiving and decoding a remote control signal sent from the remote control transmitter to generate a command signal is provided. The control means is provided in one device, and the control means controls the character pattern generating section of the device according to the content of the remote control signal via a bidirectional data bus line connecting each device, and also controls the character pattern generation section of the device according to the content of the remote control signal. A remote control device characterized in that it controls each device so that its functions operate.