KR100590756B1 - Method of recording radio broadcasting in advance for digital multimedia player - Google Patents

Abstract

A radio broadcasting reservation recording method of a digital multimedia player is disclosed, comprising a tuner capable of listening to radio broadcasting, wherein the digital multimedia player capable of recording the radio broadcasting as a digital file comprises: (a) a scheduled recording time of the radio broadcasting; Setting up; (b) storing the information according to the radio broadcast reservation in a memory; (c) determining whether a recording start time of the radio broadcast reserved in step (a) is determined; (d) turning on the tuner at the scheduled recording time if the condition of step (c) is satisfied; (e) encoding a radio broadcast in accordance with the operation of the tuner; (f) inserting and storing the information according to the reservation into an ID3 tag; (g) determining whether the radio broadcasting recording end time; (h) if the condition of step (g) is satisfied, after the radio broadcasting encoding is completed, storing a file in the memory.

According to the present invention, since the user can easily manage the desired name, the recording date and time of the stored file, the channel and genre, etc., there is an advantage that it is easy to manage many files.

MP3 Files, ID3 Tags, Digital Multimedia Players

Description

Schedule recording of radio broadcasting of digital multimedia player {METHOD OF RECORDING RADIO BROADCASTING IN ADVANCE FOR DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA PLAYER}

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a reservation recording / playback apparatus for a vehicle according to the related art.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a reservation recording / reproducing method for a vehicle according to the related art.

3 is a typical ID3 tag editor display screen on a computer.

4 is a conventional file display screen on a computer.

5 is a schematic flowchart showing sequentially a radio broadcasting reservation recording method of a digital multimedia player according to the present invention.

Figure 6 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a digital multimedia player to which the radio broadcast reservation recording method of the digital multimedia player according to the present invention is applied.

7 is a menu screen showing a file name and music information setting screen.

8 and 9 are file display screens on a computer screen to which the present invention is applied.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

41.MPU

42.Timer

43. Display Keyboard

44. Power Supply

45. Memory

46. Buffer Memory

47.MPEG Encoder / Decoder

48.DAC

49. Tuner

50.ADC

The present invention relates to a radio broadcast reservation recording method of a digital multimedia player, and more particularly, a radio broadcast reservation recording of a digital multimedia player for enabling a user to easily manage data related to a desired file when converting a radio broadcast into a digital file. It is about a method.

Recently, with the spread of vehicle navigation devices and in-vehicle MP3 players, users can enjoy various functions in a vehicle, and a telematics device that can perform various functions to meet different tastes of the user is required. Conventional car MP3 players can only play MP3 files, and in order to use the recording function, a car cassette deck having a reservation recording function is used.

Figure 1 is added to the telematics device as described above to add the MP3 encoder / decoder function so that the user can enjoy a variety of sound sources, using the MP3 encoder function can be stored in the MP3 file of the desired audio output at the desired time as a vehicle reservation A block diagram showing the configuration of the recording / playback apparatus is shown.

As illustrated, the MP3 encoder / decoder 13 function is additionally implemented in the telematics device 30, and the car audio system 20 includes a timer 26 for the reservation recording function. .

The reservation recording / reproducing apparatus for a vehicle is largely comprised of the combination of the main system 10 and the car audio system 20.

The main system 10 has a touch screen 11 for receiving a user's command and an LCD 11 for viewing a current state of all functions, a GPS unit 16 for performing a navigation function, and a CD. And a CD player unit 14 capable of playing / MP3CD, and a CDMA unit 15 which can be used for receiving emergency rescue requests or other information, or for making voice calls with the other party.

In particular, the CDMA unit 15 has a structure that can automatically call the emergency call to the call center when a vehicle accident or an emergency occurs, MP3 encoder / decoder (13) Has the ability to record and play MP3 files.

The car audio system 20 has a structure in which a tuner (radio) 21, a tape deck 22, and a CD changer 23 can be connected. The equalizer 24 selects an audio channel output from the entire system. You can adjust the volume, change the sound quality. In addition, timer 26 is also provided for reservation recording and vehicle clock function.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a reservation recording / reproducing method for a vehicle.

As shown in the figure, when the user inputs the scheduled recording, the first step (S1 to S4) of storing the start time and the ending time in the memory and generating a time timer, and a timer interrupt occurs when the scheduled recording time arrives. If it is in operation and performing other functions, it terminates and operates the MP3 encoder to immediately perform the recording function. When the stop timer interrupt occurs, the second step of stopping the operation of the MP3 encoder, saving the MP3 file, and returning to the previous function (S11). S14), and when the timer interrupt occurs, when the vehicle start is turned off, the car audio system and the main system are powered on, and the MP3 encoder is operated to perform the recording function. To stop the encoder and save the MP3 file The third step (S5 ~ S10) for terminating the power is made.

Such a reservation recording / playback apparatus and method for a vehicle is disclosed in Korean Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2003-0068683 (2003. 08. 25).

By the way, the reservation recording and reproducing apparatus and method for a vehicle according to the related art according to the related art, which are programmed as described above, are normally programmed so that file numbers are designated in the order of serial numbers when recording radio broadcasting (common to analog tape or digital MPEG compression). There is a problem that it becomes difficult to manage when a large number of recorded files.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the report cannot know only when the music file shown on the computer PC is recorded or what data attributes are present.

As shown in FIG. 3, the MP3 file records information corresponding to the file, that is, information on the song, in a tag called ID3. This ID3 tag contains information such as title, artist, album name, year of composition, genre of music, and command. However, not all MP3 files have ID3 tags.

4 shows a recording state on a computer as an MP3 file.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides a radio broadcasting reservation recording method of a digital multimedia player that enables users to easily manage data related to a desired file when converting a radio broadcast into a digital file. There is this.

Radio broadcasting reservation recording method of the digital multimedia player of the present invention for achieving the above object is provided with a tuner capable of listening to the radio broadcast, in the digital multimedia player capable of recording the radio broadcast as a digital file, (a Setting a scheduled recording time of the radio broadcast; (b) storing the information according to the radio broadcast reservation in a memory; (c) determining whether a recording start time of the radio broadcast reserved in step (a) is determined; (d) turning on the tuner at the scheduled recording time if the condition of step (c) is satisfied; (e) encoding a radio broadcast in accordance with the operation of the tuner; (f) inserting and storing the information according to the reservation into an ID3 tag; (g) determining whether the radio broadcasting recording end time; (h) if the condition of step (g) is satisfied, after the radio broadcasting encoding is completed, storing a file in the memory;
In this case, the information according to the recording in step (b) includes the channel of the radio broadcast, the recording start time and end time, the characteristics of the radio broadcast being recorded, and the file storage in the step (h) The data is stored under the designated file name.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

5 is a schematic flowchart showing sequentially a radio broadcasting reservation recording method of a digital multimedia player according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 schematically shows a configuration of a digital multimedia player to which the method according to the present invention is applied. A block diagram is shown.

Referring to each of the drawings, prior to the description, the digital multimedia player applied to the radio broadcasting, in particular FM radio broadcast reservation recording method of the digital multimedia player according to the present invention, as shown in Figure 6, MPU (Micro Processing Unit) Tuner 49, which is controlled by (41) to listen to a radio broadcast, is provided, and the tuner 49 enables recording of a radio broadcast as a digital file. This will be described in more detail sequentially.

First, to operate the digital multimedia player as described above, turn on the power by operating the power supply 44, and then set a scheduled recording time for radio broadcasting. (Step 110) In this case, the MPU 41 It uses a timer 42 controlled by.

Subsequently, the information on the radio broadcast reservation is stored in the memory 45 (step 120).

Using the timer 42 of the radio broadcast reserved in step 110, it is determined whether it is a recording start time.

If the condition of the step 130 is satisfied, that is, if the recording start time, the tuner 49 is turned on at the scheduled recording time (step 140).

The radio broadcast according to the operation of the tuner 49 by the MPEG encoder / decoder 47 of the digital multimedia player is encoded (step 150).

In addition, the radio broadcast recording reservation information is inserted and stored in an ID3 tag (step 160).

Subsequently, it is determined by using the timer 42 whether it is the end of the radio broadcasting recording time (step 170).

If the condition of step 170 is satisfied, after the radio broadcast encoding is completed, the file is stored in the memory 45 (step 180).

When the storage is completed in this way, the power supply 44 of the digital multimedia player is turned off and the control ends.

On the other hand, when the reservation recording is set in step 110 to be performed directly on the display keyboard 43 made of a touch panel provided with a digital multimedia player.

The information according to the recording in step 120 includes a channel of the radio broadcast, a recording start time and an end time, characteristics of the radio broadcast recorded, for example, a host of the radio broadcast, a genre, a bit rate of recording, and the like. do.

In addition, the data encoded in the step 150 is encoded in the MP3, WMA, OGD and other digital audio formats, the file storage in the step 180, the data is stored in the designated file name.

The radio broadcast reservation recording period may be set to daily, weekly or monthly.

On the other hand, in FIG. 6, reference numeral 50, which is not described, is an ADC (A / D converter), and converts a radio signal transmitted from the tuner 49 to a digital signal and transmits it to the MPEG encoder / decoder 47. So that encoding is done.

Reference numeral 48 denotes a DAC (D / A converter) to convert the radio broadcast into an analog signal, to be transmitted to the AMP (amplifier) 51 to be output to the speaker 52.

Reference numeral 46 denotes a buffer memory, which is used as a temporary storage device, and is provided as a temporary storage place before finally storing in the memory 45.

As described above, the radio broadcasting reservation recording method of the digital multimedia player according to the present invention, when the desired broadcast program of the digital multimedia player, in particular, the FM radio broadcasting is scheduled recording of a digital program such as MP3, the stored file The broadcast time, channel number, and genre of content are set in advance and recorded in the ID3 TAG so that the user can easily distinguish them.

That is, in a digital multimedia player capable of pre-recording FM radio broadcasting, for example, in an MP3 player (or recorder), recording is performed by setting a channel, recording start time, recording end time, and recording characteristics of a radio broadcast to be recorded by a user. The name and various information of the city file are inserted into the ID3 tag area and recorded.

At this time, when setting the reservation recording, the display keyboard 43 is provided with a touch panel function and inputs a menu configuration so that a user can select a file name and information to be recorded on the screen as shown in FIG. 7.

8 illustrates an example of the method of the present invention, which shows a file display screen on the computer screen when the digital file recorded by the method of the present invention is stored (moved) to a computer. As shown in FIG. 8, it can be seen that data of the recorded file, that is, title, length (recording time), musician, composer, genre, etc., is displayed in detail.

9 shows another example of the method to which the method of the present invention is applied, showing a file name and music information (musician, album, rating, genre, size, bit rate, type, recording time, etc.) on a computer screen. . Therefore, you do not need to modify the data of the recording file moved to the computer can be used immediately.

Although the present invention has been described by applying general radio broadcasting, it can be applied to digital audio broadcasting (DAB) and digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB), respectively, which are next generation radio broadcasts.

As described above, the radio broadcasting reservation recording method of the digital multimedia player according to the present invention has the following effects.

When the radio broadcasting is converted into a digital file as in the prior art, by simply applying the file name to the serial number, the user can easily manage the desired name, the recorded date and time of the stored file, the channel and the genre, etc. Easy to manage

In addition, even if the recorded file is saved to a computer, the file name and ID3 tag information do not need to be modified.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and equivalent embodiments are possible. Therefore, the true scope of protection of the present invention should be defined only by the appended claims.

Claims (6)

In the digital multimedia player which is provided with a tuner capable of listening to the radio broadcast, the radio broadcast can be recorded as a digital file, (a) setting a scheduled recording time of the radio broadcast; (b) storing the information according to the radio broadcast reservation in a memory; (c) determining whether a recording start time of the radio broadcast reserved in step (a) is determined; (d) turning on the tuner at the scheduled recording time if the condition of step (c) is satisfied; (e) encoding a radio broadcast in accordance with the operation of the tuner; (f) inserting and storing the information according to the reservation into an ID3 tag; (g) determining whether the radio broadcasting recording end time; (h) if the condition of step (g) is satisfied, after the radio broadcasting encoding is completed, storing a file in the memory; At this time, the information according to the recording in the step (b), including the channel of the radio broadcast, the recording start time and end time, the characteristics of the radio broadcast being recorded, And storing the file in step (h), wherein the data is stored under a designated file name. The method of claim 1, The radio broadcasting reservation recording method of the digital multimedia player, characterized in that to perform directly on the display keyboard consisting of a touch panel provided in the digital multimedia player when setting the reservation recording in the step (a). delete The method of claim 1, And the data encoded in the step (e) is encoded into an MP3 file. delete The method of claim 1, The radio broadcast reservation recording method of the digital multimedia player, characterized in that for setting the schedule for recording the radio broadcast daily, weekly or monthly.

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