KR100237647B1 - Broadcasting information reservation method of internet television - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for reserving broadcast information of an Internet function TV, and in particular, using a specific home page of the Internet, that is, a home page for providing broadcast information, or using broadcast information e-mail (E-MAIL). The information was created to make it easy and accurate to make reservations on TV. The present invention comprises the steps of determining whether or not the home page of the broadcast information, if it is determined as the home page in the step of sequentially selecting the monthly, daily broadcast information, and if the desired broadcast information is selected in the determination of the input of the reservation key And repeatedly storing and storing the selected broadcast information when the reservation key is input.

Description

How to schedule broadcast information for Internet features TV

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to TVs, and more particularly, to a method for reserving broadcast information of an Internet function TV for reserving broadcast information using the Internet.

As the importance of information is emerging, many possibilities of the Internet are being sought. For example, the provision of household services for housewives and the like is not for professionals.

Such a home service can be used by pressing a corresponding button on a remote control on an Internet TV.

An object of the present invention is to provide a broadcast information reservation method of the Internet function TV, which can be easily made by selecting the desired broadcast information from the broadcast information provided on the home page of the Internet on the Internet TV. have.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a method for receiving and storing broadcast information by e-mail in a Web TV and storing the desired broadcast information in the memory and reserving it from the information.

That is, the present invention uses a specific home page of the Internet, that is, a home page that provides broadcast information or checks broadcast time and broadcast information by using broadcast information e-mail (E-MAIL) to easily and accurately make reservations on TV. To do it. The homepage of the Internet, that is, the homepage that provides broadcast information, or the broadcast information e-mail can be used to check the broadcast time and broadcast information so that the TV can be easily and accurately booked. .

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for reserving broadcast information of an internet function TV according to the present invention.

2 is an exemplary view showing a screen of broadcast information in an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a signal flow diagram for one embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a signal flow diagram for executing a reserved broadcast in the present invention.

5 is an exemplary view showing a format of broadcast information in another embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a signal flow diagram for another embodiment of the present invention.

7 is an exemplary view showing a screen of broadcast information in another embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a signal flow diagram for broadcast information reservation in another embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

101: tuner unit 102: video detector unit

103: image amplifier 104: audio processor

105: CRT tube 106: communication connection

107: Internet Information Processing Unit 108: Microcomputer

109: memory 110: key input unit

The present invention is to determine whether the home page of the broadcast information in order to achieve the above object, if it is determined as the home page in the step of sequentially selecting the monthly, daily broadcast information, and if the broadcast information is selected in the reservation Judging a key input;

When the reservation key is input, the step of reserving the selected broadcast information is repeatedly performed.

In addition, the present invention is to determine whether there is an e-mail of the broadcast information in order to achieve the above another object, storing the broadcast information if there is an e-mail, and determines whether there is input of a specific key for reservation And repeatedly displaying the stored broadcast information by a predetermined number when a specific key is input, and selecting and storing broadcast information desired for reservation among the displayed broadcast information.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a block diagram of an Internet TV according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a tuner unit 101 for tuning a desired channel from a received broadcast signal and outputting an intermediate frequency signal, and the tuner unit 101. An image detector 102 for separating the video signal and the audio signal from the output signal of the present invention, a voice processor 104 for processing the audio signal separated from the image detector 102, and transmitting an audio signal to the speaker; A communication connection unit 106 for performing data transmission and reception with the Internet, an Internet information processing unit 107 for processing the information received by the communication connection unit 106, and converting the information into a TV video signal, and the Internet information processing unit 107 Or an image amplifier 103 for processing the video signal of the image detector 102 and transmitting the image signal to the CRT 105, a memory 109 storing broadcast information, and detecting the image according to key input. part (102) to the microcomputer 108 that controls the operation of the image amplifying unit 103 and the Internet information processing unit 107, and controls the reserved broadcast operation by storing the broadcast information in the memory 109 when setting broadcast information reservation. Configure.

Referring to the operation and effect of the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

An embodiment of the present invention has been proposed under the condition that a broadcast station provides a home page for providing broadcast information.

The form provided on the broadcast information home page is illustrated in FIG. 2 in one embodiment and illustrated in FIG. 5 in another embodiment.

First, an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

When the Internet composite TV is to receive a general broadcast, when the corresponding channel is selected by the key input unit 110, the tuner unit 101 selects the corresponding channel from the broadcast reception signal and transmits the intermediate frequency signal to the image detector 102. .

In this case, the image detector 102 separates the intermediate frequency signal into a video signal and an audio signal, and transmits the intermediate frequency signal to the image amplifier 103 and the audio processor 104, respectively.

Accordingly, when the image amplifying unit 103 processes the video signal and transmits the video signal to the CRT 105, the image is displayed on the screen, and when the audio processing unit 104 processes the audio signal and transmits the audio signal to the speaker SP, the image is corresponding to the image. Audio is output.

If a user wants to search the home page of the Internet using the Internet composite TV, when a specific key is pressed in the key input unit 110, the Internet information processing unit 107 and the communication connection unit 106 are sequentially transferred to the Internet under the control of the microcomputer 108. Call to connect to the home page.

After that, when the home page is connected, the Internet information processing unit 107 processes the information data from the home page of the Internet received by the communication connection unit 106, converts it into a video signal for TV, and amplifies the converted video signal. The unit 103 is transmitted to the CRT 105.

Accordingly, the initial screen of the information transmitted from the home page is displayed on the CRT 105. For example, in the case of broadcast program information, the monthly broadcast information as shown in FIG. 2A is displayed on the initial screen.

At this time, if the user selects a random number example 1 as the key input unit 110 in the monthly broadcast information as shown in FIG. 2 (a), the broadcast information of xx month yy as shown in FIG. 105. If the user selects the PD handbook twice in such an information screen, the information as shown in (c) of FIG. 2 is displayed on the screen of the CRT.

Accordingly, when the user selects the reserved key from the key input unit 110, the microcomputer 108 stores the broadcast information displayed on the screen of the CRT 105, that is, the broadcast channel, the broadcast date, the broadcast start and end time, and the like. It is stored at 109.

If the user wants to reserve another broadcast information after reserving one broadcast information, the user returns to the screen as shown in FIG. 2A or 2B by using the key input unit 110 and performs the same operation as described above. The broadcast information is stored in the memory 109 to perform a reservation operation.

The operation described above is performed in the same process as the signal flow chart of FIG. 3. Whenever the Internet computer is connected to the home page, the microcomputer 108 performs a routine for searching general Internet information unless it is a broadcast reservation homepage. In the broadcast home page, the broadcast reservation information is displayed as shown in FIG. 2 according to a key input. When a reservation key is input, the broadcast reservation information is stored in the memory 109 to perform a reservation operation.

When the reservation of a specific broadcast is ended by the above operation, since there is a reservation, the microcomputer 108 performs the same process as the signal flow of FIG. 4 to record or receive a specific broadcast at any month and time.

That is, when there is a reservation of a specific broadcast, the microcomputer 108 reads a channel, a reservation date, a start and an end time of the specific broadcast stored in the memory 109, and then reads the current date to determine whether it matches the reservation date.

At this time, if the reservation date and the current date coincide with each other, the microcomputer 108 reads the current time and determines whether it matches the reservation time, and if the times coincide, the microcomputer 108 switches to the reserved broadcast channel and performs recording or receiving operation. The time is read and compared to match the end time.

Accordingly, if the current time does not match the end time of the scheduled broadcast, the microcomputer 108 continues to record or receive the corresponding scheduled broadcast. If the current time and the end time coincide, the microcomputer 108 ends the scheduled operation and ends the general broadcast program. Will run the routine.

The reservation operation is repeatedly performed whenever there is reservation information.

In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, when the broadcasting station transmits the broadcasting information by e-mail, the microcomputer 108 stores the broadcasting information in the memory 109 as the user receives the web-TV. When a specific key is input for the broadcast reservation, the broadcast information stored in the memory 109 is displayed to allow the user to select the broadcast information to be reserved to reserve the specific broadcast.

This embodiment of the present invention performs the same process as the signal flow of FIG. 6 and FIG.

When the broadcast information is received in an e-mail on the Web TV, and the microcomputer 108 determines that there is a new e-mail, the broadcast information included in the e-mail is detected.

Accordingly, when the start code is detected and determined to be broadcast information, the microcomputer 108 determines the information data until the next start code is detected, that is, the broadcast station code, the broadcast program name, the start date, and the start of the format shown in FIG. And an end time and the like in the memory 109.

This operation is repeatedly performed every time a start code is detected in the e-mail to store broadcast information in the memory 109.

In addition, when the user inputs a reservation key in the key input unit 110 while the broadcasting information transmitted by e-mail is stored as described above, the microcomputer 108 sets the index to '1' and the count value (count). ) To '4' and then read the broadcast information from the address 'start' area to determine the information after the start code is detected, namely, the station name, program name, broadcast date, start and end time, etc. It is displayed on the screen of the Brunun tube 105.

Thereafter, the index and the address addr are increased by '1', the count value is decreased by '1', and it is determined whether the count value is '0'.

Accordingly, if the count value is not '0', the microcomputer 108 repeats the above operation and displays the broadcast information on the screen of the CRT 105 as illustrated in FIG.

Thereafter, when four broadcast information of the screen of the CRT 105 is displayed and the count value is '0', the microcomputer 108 checks the output signal of the key input unit 110 to display the next screen. Will be judged.

At this time, when the user selects the numeric key corresponding to the index of the broadcast information that the user wants to reserve while viewing the screen of the CRT 105, the microcomputer 108 stores the broadcast information corresponding to the index in the memory 109. ) To perform the reservation operation.

If the broadcast information to be reserved remains and the user inputs a numeric key corresponding to the index of broadcast information to be reserved in the key input unit 110, the microcomputer 108 performs the same operation as described above to obtain the corresponding broadcast information. The memory 109 is stored in the memory 109.

When four broadcasting information is displayed on the screen of the CRT 105, when the user inputs a key for selecting the next screen from the key input unit 110 without inputting a numeric key, the microcomputer 108 again counts the count value. ) Is set to '4' and the index is set to '1', and then the four broadcast information are displayed on the screen of the CRT 105 in the same process as displaying the broadcast information on the screen after the information data of the previous screen. Will be displayed.

Thereafter, in the broadcast information displayed on the CRT 105, if there is broadcast information that a user wants to reserve, and the user inputs a numeric key corresponding to the index of the corresponding broadcast information at the key input unit 110, the microcomputer 108 displays the corresponding broadcast information. The memory 109 is stored in the memory 109.

Accordingly, by repeatedly performing the above operation, the user stores and reserves broadcast information to be reserved in the memory 109.

Accordingly, when the broadcast information is reserved by the above operation, the microcomputer 108 performs the reserved broadcast by performing the same process as that of FIG. 4.

As described in detail above, the present invention can provide a user convenience by selecting and reserving broadcast information desired for reservation on a home page provided with broadcast information by a simple key input.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of providing convenience to the user by storing the broadcast information provided by the e-mail and to select and reserve the desired broadcast information at any time.

Claims (2)

A first step of determining whether it is a home page of broadcast information; a second step of sequentially selecting broadcast information on a monthly and daily basis if it is determined as the home page; and inputting a reservation key when the desired broadcast information is selected above And repeating step 3 and repeating a fourth step of pre-storing and storing corresponding broadcast information when the reservation key is input. A first step of determining whether there is an e-mail of broadcast information, a second step of storing broadcast information if there is an e-mail, a third step of determining whether an input of a specific key for reservation is made, and the specific key above Is inputted, repeating the fourth step of displaying the stored broadcasting information by a predetermined number and the fifth step of selecting and storing the reserved broadcasting information from the displayed broadcasting information and storing the reservation repeatedly. How to schedule broadcast information.

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