KR100448460B1 - Method for recording a broadcasting program - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for recording a broadcast program, wherein in a digital recorder including a large recording medium such as a hard disk (HDD), the broadcast program is previously set while recording a broadcast program by a scheduled recording operation. In case of extended broadcasting in excess of the reserved recording time or extended broadcasting by being replaced with another broadcasting channel, the broadcasting program can be continuously recorded by referring to the EPG information included in the broadcasting signal. By performing the extended recording operation or another reserved recording program recording operation selectively according to the priority information set in advance, even if the broadcasting program is extended or the scheduled recording is overlapped, the user wants to broadcast. Very useful inventor who can record programs normally A.

Description

How to record a broadcast program {Method for recording a broadcasting program}

The present invention relates to a broadcast program recording method, and more particularly, in a digital recorder including a large recording medium such as a hard disk (HDD), during a broadcast program recording, the broadcast program is extended or reserved. When the recording is duplicated, the present invention relates to a broadcast program recording method for allowing a user to normally record a desired broadcast program.

Recently, a digital recorder equipped with a large-capacity recording medium such as a hard disk has been developed and commercialized. In the digital recorder, a recording function of receiving and storing a broadcast program selected by a user and storing the recorded program on the hard disk is provided. For example, it performs a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) function.

In addition, a reservation recording function is provided to reserve recording of a desired broadcast program, and information necessary for the reserved recording operation, for example, broadcast recording channel number, broadcast program name, and recording time such as recording time, etc. To generate an OSD image for the user to set the input more conveniently, the output is displayed on the screen of the external connection device such as a television.

Then, through the OSD screen displayed as described above, the reserved recording information selected and input by the user is received and stored and managed in a nonvolatile memory provided in the device, and when the recording time included in the reserved recording information is reached, The broadcast channel is tuned to perform a series of scheduled recording operations for recording and storing the broadcast program set by the user to the hard disk.

Accordingly, the user having the digital recorder can record the broadcast program being watched on the hard disk, and can also record any broadcast program to be broadcasted on the hard disk by using the reserved recording operation. do,

However, since a general digital recorder records a broadcast program broadcasted at a corresponding recording time according to the reserved recording information set by the user as described above, the broadcast program being recorded is the same broadcast channel due to broadcasting station circumstances or broadcast program characteristics. Alternatively, when extended broadcasting through another broadcast channel, a problem arises in that it is impossible to record all corresponding broadcast programs.

In addition, in the digital recorder, when extended recording of a broadcast program received through a corresponding broadcast channel occurs, there is a problem in that it is impossible to record another important broadcast program set in a reservation recording time.

Accordingly, the present invention was created to solve the above problems, and when the broadcast program is extended during the recording of a broadcast program, the same broadcast channel or another broadcast channel on which the broadcast program is broadcast is tuned. In addition to providing extended recording, a broadcast program recording method for selectively performing an extended recording operation or another reserved recording program recording operation according to priority information preset by a user is provided. There is a purpose.

1 illustrates a configuration of a digital recorder to which a broadcast program recording method according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 illustrates an OSD screen output and displayed by the broadcast program recording method according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a broadcast program recording method according to the present invention.

※ Explanation of code for main part of drawing

10: storage 11: recording / playback system

12: Tuner 13: Micom

14: OSD generator 15: memory

16: timer

The broadcast program recording method according to the present invention for achieving the above object comprises the steps of tuning the broadcast channel, when the broadcast program being recorded is continuously broadcast through another broadcast channel; And two steps of continuously recording a broadcast program received through the tuned broadcast channel.

In addition, the broadcast program recording method according to the present invention, during the recording of any one broadcast program, when the recording time of another broadcast program preset by the user, the first step of searching and confirming the priority information; And two steps of continuously recording the currently recorded broadcast program or selectively recording another preset broadcast program based on the priority information.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a preferred embodiment of a broadcast program recording method according to the present invention will be described in detail.

1 shows a configuration of a digital recorder to which the broadcast program recording method according to the present invention is applied. The digital recorder includes a storage 10, a recording / playback system 11, a tuner 12, a microcomputer ( 13), the OS generating unit 14, the memory 15, and the timer 16 may be included, and the storage 10 may include a hard disk (HDD) capable of recording and storing broadcast programs for a long time. Can be.

On the other hand, the microcomputer 13 operates and tunes the tuner 12 according to a user's request, and selects a broadcast channel, and records / reproduces a broadcast program received through the broadcast channel. Operation 11 is performed to perform a general recording operation of recording and storing the hard disk 10.

In addition, the microcomputer 13 performs a scheduled recording setting operation according to a user's request. In this case, the OSD generator 14 controls the operation of the reserved OS information, so that the reserved recording information desired by the user can be more conveniently performed. An OSD image is generated to enable input setting, and output is displayed through a screen of an external connection device such as a television.

For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the ODS screen for input setting of the reserved recording information includes a plurality of programs for allowing a user to input a desired broadcast program name, its broadcast channel number, and a reserved recording time. In addition to the input fields of the output display, when the recording operation is duplicated, an input field for specifying the priority may be additionally displayed.

In addition, a 'setting confirmation' button for setting information selected and input by the user through the input fields as reserved recording information may be displayed. In the microcomputer 13, the user reserves recording information and priority information. After inputting the key, if the setting confirmation button is inputted, the reserved recording information and priority information are stored and managed in the memory 15.

In addition, the microcomputer 13 compares the current time counted by the timer 16 with the reserved recording time, and performs a series of operations for recording a reserved recording broadcast program, and the broadcast program being recorded is extended. When broadcasting, a series of recordings of the broadcast program are extended or recorded with another broadcast program having a high priority by referring to the priority information stored in the memory 14 and the EPG information provided through the broadcast signal. A broadcast program recording operation is performed, which will be described in detail below.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for recording a broadcast program according to the present invention. In the microcomputer 13, as described above, when the user requests a reservation recording setting operation, the OSD generation unit ( 14), the OSD video that allows the user to selectively input a desired broadcast program name, broadcast channel number, reserved recording time, and priority, etc., as shown in FIG. After the output is displayed through the screen of the device, the reserved recording information and priority information, which the user selects and inputs through the OS screen, are stored in the memory 15 (S10).

Subsequently, when the time counted by the timer 16 coincides with the reserved recording time (S11), the broadcast channel included in the reserved recording information is tuned to record the broadcast program on the hard disk 10. A series of scheduled recording operations are performed (S11).

In addition, the microcomputer 13 detects whether the current time counted by the timer 16 exceeds the reserved recording end time (S13), where the current time exceeds the reserved recording end time, or When the proximity is reached, priority information associated with the memory 14 is checked (S14).

When the priority information is set to '1' having the highest importance, whether the broadcast program being recorded will be extended on the same broadcast channel by referring to the EPG information received through the corresponding broadcast channel. Or it is checked whether or not to be extended through any other broadcast channel, for example, a cable broadcast channel (S15).

Meanwhile, as a result of the above check, when an extended broadcast is performed through another broadcast channel different from the current broadcast channel, an arbitrary cable broadcast channel is tuned with reference to the broadcast channel, for example, broadcast channel information provided in the EPG information. After that, the broadcast program received through the cable broadcast channel is continuously extended and recorded (S16).

On the other hand, in the case where the extension is broadcast through the same broadcast channel as the current broadcast channel, the broadcast program is continuously extended and recorded while maintaining the current broadcast channel (S18), after which the broadcast program ends broadcast. In operation S18, the recording end operation is performed, and a series of scheduled recording operations for recording another scheduled recording program are performed (S19).

Therefore, when the broadcast program currently being recorded is extended, the extended recording operation or another reserved recording broadcast program recording operation is selectively performed with reference to priority information and EPG information of the broadcasting program.

For reference, in the micom 13, when an advertisement broadcast or the like is received during the broadcast program recording operation as described above, the recording operation may be paused to prevent unnecessary commercial broadcasts from being recorded.

In addition, when a plurality of tuners are provided in the digital recorder, a plurality of broadcast programs broadcast in the same time zone may be simultaneously recorded using a recording method such as a time shift method, and the present invention provides a digital recorder. It can be applied to other various recorders.

Or more, preferred embodiments of the present invention described above, for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art, within the technical spirit and the technical scope of the present invention disclosed in the appended claims below, to further improve various other embodiments Changes, substitutions or additions will be possible.

The broadcast program recording method according to the present invention constituted and constructed as described above is performed in a digital recorder including a large recording medium such as a hard disk (HDD), while recording a broadcast program by a scheduled recording operation. When extended broadcasting exceeds this preset recording time or is extended by being replaced by another broadcasting channel, the extended program can be continuously recorded by referring to EPG information transmitted in the broadcast signal. In addition, the extended recording operation or another reserved recording program recording operation may be selectively performed according to the user's preset priority information, so that even if the broadcasting program is extended or the scheduled recording is duplicated, You can record the desired program normally. It will be very useful inventions.

Claims (5)

When the broadcast program being recorded is continuously broadcast through another broadcast channel, step 1 of tuning the broadcast channel; And And continuously recording a broadcast program received through the tuned broadcast channel. The method of claim 1, In the step 1, the EPG information received through the current broadcast channel is searched to identify another broadcast channel to which the broadcast program being recorded is continuously broadcast. The method of claim 1, In step 2, the user may determine whether to continuously record a broadcast program received through the tuned broadcast channel or to record another preset recording program set in advance. Broadcast program recording method characterized in that the selection to determine. Searching for and confirming priority information when recording time of another broadcast program preset by the user during recording of one broadcast program; And And recording the broadcast program currently being recorded, or selecting and recording another preset broadcast program on the basis of the priority information. The method of claim 4, wherein And the priority information is designated by a user's selection when setting reserved recording information.