KR19980043996A - How to schedule broadcast and screen status on TV - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for reserving broadcast and picture status in a television.

According to the television according to the present invention, a method for reserving broadcast and screen states allows the TV to reserve a broadcast state using KBPS and then reserves a screen state in relation to the reserved broadcast. As well as turning on the TV by the reserved broadcast channel, the screen state is adjusted accordingly accordingly.

Description

How to schedule broadcast and screen status on TV

The present invention relates to a method for reserving a broadcast and a screen state on a television, and in particular, by reserving the broadcast by using KBPS on a television and then reserving the screen state in relation to the reserved broadcast, The present invention relates to a method for reserving a broadcast and a screen state in a television such that the television is turned on as a reserved broadcast channel and the screen state is adjusted accordingly accordingly.

FIG. 1 is an internal configuration diagram of a conventional television. Referring to FIG. 1, a conventional television configuration includes a microcomputer 10 that controls each circuit block of a television in response to sensing an operation key selection on a remote controller or an operation panel. And a tuner unit 11 for outputting an intermediate frequency signal by tuning a high frequency signal input from the antenna ANT to a selected channel, and detecting the intermediate frequency signal from the tuner unit 11 and then outputting a television signal. A detector 12, an image chroma processor 13 for image-processing and outputting a television signal from the detector 12, and a television screen 14 for outputting a signal from the image chroma processor 13; It consists of.

In the conventional televisions made in this manner, there are some TVs that can reserve an arbitrary broadcast. However, there is no method of simultaneously reserving the screen state in consideration of the contents of the TV to be reserved.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems and to achieve an improvement.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to enable a television to be reserved for a broadcast channel at a scheduled broadcast time by allowing the television to reserve the broadcast using KBPS and then to reserve a screen state with respect to the reserved broadcast. Of course, there is provided a method for reserving broadcast and screen states in a television such that the screen state is adjusted to a reserved state accordingly.

As a technical means for achieving the above object of the present invention, the broadcasting and screen state reservation method in the television of the present invention, the microcomputer for controlling each circuit block of the television in response to the selection of the operation key on the remote control or the operation panel; A tuner unit which outputs an intermediate frequency signal by tuning a high frequency (RF) signal input from an antenna ANT to a selected channel, a detector which detects an intermediate frequency signal from the tuner unit and then outputs a television signal; In a television comprising a video chroma processing section for outputting a video signal by processing the signal from the detector and a television screen for outputting a signal from the video chroma processing section, selection of a reservation key on a remote controller or an operation panel is performed. A first step of detecting and reserving a corresponding broadcast (channel, broadcast time) according to KBPS; A second step of reserving a screen state in relation to the broadcast reserved in the first step; A third step of determining whether the television is turned on after the second step; A fourth step of determining whether the reserved time is reached when the television is turned on in the third step, and then proceeding to the next step when the scheduled time comes; A fifth step of checking a reserved time when the television is not turned on in the third step and turning on the television when the scheduled time comes; A sixth step after the fourth step and the fifth step, determining whether the channel is a reserved broadcast channel and changing the channel to the reserved channel if the channel is not a reserved channel; And in the case of the reserved channel, adjusting to a reserved screen state in this regard.

1 is an internal configuration diagram of a conventional television,

2 is an internal configuration diagram of a television for carrying out the present invention,

3 is a flowchart showing a method of reserving a broadcast and a screen state according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart showing a method of outputting a broadcast in a reserved screen state at a reserved time according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

20: microcomputer 21: tuner unit

22: detector 23: image chroma processing unit

24: TV screen 25: power supply

26 memory

Hereinafter, a configuration of an apparatus for performing a broadcast and screen state reservation method in a television according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 is an internal configuration diagram of a television for carrying out the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the television for carrying out the present invention detects each circuit block of the television as it detects an operation key selection on a remote control or an operation panel. A tuner for controlling and outputting an intermediate frequency signal by synchronizing with a selected channel a microcomputer 20 which performs reservation of broadcast and screen states according to a previously recorded program, and an RF signal input from an antenna ANT to a selected channel. The unit 21, a detector 22 for detecting an intermediate frequency signal from the tuner unit 21, and then outputting a television signal, and the microcomputer 20 for the signal from the detector 22. Under the control of the screen state control of the image chroma processing unit 23 for outputting the image signal, the television screen 13 for outputting the signal from the image chroma processing unit 23, and the control of the microcomputer 20.A power supply unit 25 for supplying power to each active processing block such as the tuner unit 21, the detector unit 22, the image chroma processing unit 23, and the like; The memory 26 stores screen states in pairs.

3 is a flowchart showing a method of reserving a broadcast and a screen state according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a method of outputting a broadcast to a screen state reserved at a reserved time according to the present invention.

Operation according to the method of the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail below based on the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 2, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the present invention will be described first. Referring to FIG. 1, the general operation of the television according to the present invention will first be described. The unit 21 outputs an intermediate frequency to the detector 22 by tuning to the selected channel, and the detector 22 detects the intermediate frequency signal from the tuner unit 21 and then displays the television signal. The chroma processing unit 23 outputs the video signal to the television screen 24 by processing the video signal according to the screen state control of the microcomputer 20 with respect to the signal from the detection unit 22.

In this way, a TV reservation operating according to the present invention and a screen state reservation such as brightness, contrast, tint, and the like according to the present invention are made. A method of outputting the broadcast is described below.

First, the brightness is the brightness of the fluorescent surface of the CRT, which is the DC bias voltage applied to the CRT grid, and the contrast is the ratio of contrast between the two points of the screen, and the maximum contrast ratio of the screen is It is called contrast. In addition, the tint refers to a tint of a color that is a change color of the same color to which white is applied.

Referring to FIG. 3, in the first steps 31, 32, and 33, the microcomputer 20 scans whether a reservation key is selected from a remote controller or an operation panel, and when the reservation key is selected, KBPS, similar to G-code provided from broadcasting stations, is used to find information about a broadcast and to reserve a desired panel, time, and the like, and the reserved broadcast information is stored in a specific area of the memory 26 shown in FIG. I remember.

Next, in the second steps 34 and 35, a screen such as brightness, contrast, tint, etc. as described above with respect to the broadcast reserved in the first steps 31, 32, and 33 may be used. The reservation is adjusted by the viewer, and the reservation screen state information is stored in pairs with the stored broadcast information in the memory 26 in which the reserved broadcast information is stored.

After reserving the desired broadcast and screen state in the first steps 31, 32, 33 and the second step 34, 35, the viewer is allowed to watch the broadcast in the reserved screen state at the scheduled broadcast time. The method is as follows. In the third step 41, it is determined whether the television is turned on. If it is not turned on, the process proceeds to the fourth step 42, 43, 44, and if it is turned on, the fifth step is made. Perform steps 45 and 46.

If the television is not turned on in the fourth step (42, 43, 44), the current time is the same as the reserved time while comparing the current time according to the internal timer (TIMER) operation with the reserved time stored in the memory 26. When the microcomputer 20 controls the power supply to the power supply unit 25, the power supply unit 25 supplies power to each active processing unit of the television to turn on the television.

In the fifth step (45, 46), when the television is turned on in the third step (42, 43, 44) while comparing the current time according to the internal timer (TIMER) operation with the reservation time stored in the memory 26 If the current time is the same as the reservation time, proceed to the next step.

In the sixth step (47, 48) is the next step of the fourth step (42, 43, 44) and the fifth step (45, 46), the microcomputer 20 for controlling the channel selection by the tuner unit 21 Comparing the current broadcast channel and the reserved broadcast channel stored in the memory 26 to determine whether the current broadcast channel is a reserved broadcast channel, if not the reserved channel, the microcomputer 20 is tuner unit ( 21) to convert the channel to the reserved broadcast channel.

Lastly, in the seventh step 49, a channel is converted into a broadcast channel reserved in the sixth step 47 and 48, and the screen is stored in the memory 26 in pairs with the reserved broadcast channel. After reading the information on the status, the screen of the reserved video chroma processing section 23 is controlled to adjust the screen of the reserved broadcast to the reserved screen state based on this information.

According to the present invention as described above, it is possible to reserve the screen state with respect to the reserved broadcast after the TV is reserved for the broadcast by using KBPS, so that the television is reserved to the reserved broadcast channel at the scheduled broadcast time. Of course, there is a unique effect that the screen state is adjusted to the reserved state as well as turned on.

The above description is only a description of one embodiment of the present invention, the present invention is capable of various changes and modifications within the scope of the configuration. In addition, one of ordinary skill in the art will readily recognize that the method of reserving broadcast and screen status in the television is not limited to the above-described embodiment.

Claims (1)

The microcomputer 20 which controls each circuit block of the TV and the high frequency (RF) signal input from the antenna ANT are tuned to the selected channel in response to the selection of the operation key on the remote control or the operation panel to output the intermediate frequency signal. The video signal processing is performed on the tuner unit 21, the intermediate frequency signal from the tuner unit 21, the detector 22 for outputting a television signal, and the signal from the detector 22. In a television comprising an image chroma processing unit 23 for outputting and a television screen 13 for outputting a signal from the image chroma processing unit 23, Detecting a reservation key selection from a remote controller or an operation panel, and then reserving a corresponding broadcast (channel, broadcast time) according to KBPS; A second step of reserving a screen state in relation to the broadcast reserved in the first step; A third step of determining whether the television is turned on after the second step; A fourth step of determining whether the reserved time is reached when the television is turned on in the third step, and then proceeding to the next step when the scheduled time comes; A fifth step of checking a reserved time when the television is not turned on in the third step and turning on the television when the scheduled time comes; A sixth step after the fourth step and the fifth step, determining whether the channel is a reserved broadcast channel and changing the channel to the reserved channel if the channel is not a reserved channel; A seventh step of adjusting the reserved screen state in the case of the reserved channel; Broadcast and screen status reservation method for a TV, characterized in that consisting of.