KR19990021203U - Telephone number recording and retrieval apparatus using television - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus capable of implementing a phone book function in a television with an OSD function. In other words, it is designed to use a television as a phone book by adding a function to record, change and delete a telephone number on the OSD screen of a television. The present application proposes a scheme for allowing a user to use a remote controller to control and record information about a telephone number stored in an EEPROM combined with a microcomputer of a television. It is a devise related to a television with a phone book function that can record, search, modify or delete a phone number by forming a font in Korean or English according to the memory capacity of the microcomputer's built-in TV and memory of IPIROM. .

Description

Telephone number recording and retrieval apparatus using television

The present invention relates to a device capable of recording and retrieving telephone numbers on a television. Telephone number recording and retrieval apparatus using a television that records information about a telephone number in EEPROM combined with a microcomputer embedded in the television and allows a user to record and retrieve the telephone number using a remote controller (A telephone number recording and searching apparatus using television).

The method of recording and retrieving phone numbers of relatives and friends at home is generally used by handwriting the numbers in paper numbers. However, such a recording and retrieval method of the phone number has a problem in that the phone number notebook is worn due to frequent use, and the notebook is inadvertently lost.

The present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional telephone number recording method, the object of the present invention is to combine the microcomputer and EEPROM (EEPROM) built in the television to record the phone number information The present invention provides a phone number recording and retrieval apparatus using a television that allows a user to record a phone number and retrieve a remote controller while viewing an OSD screen displayed on a screen.

1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a television having a telephone numbering function of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of an OSD processing unit which is a main part of the present invention of FIG. 1.

3 is an exemplary view of retrieving a telephone number from a television in which a telephone number of the present invention is recorded.

<Description of Symbols for Main Parts of Drawings>

1 antenna 2 tuner part

3: Tuning device 4: IF detector

5: P / S separator 6: voice signal processor

7: voice amplifier 8: speaker

9: Image signal processing unit 10: Image output unit

11: CRT 12: Receiver

13: micom 14: OSD processing unit

15: EEPROM 20: OSD position setting unit

30: Video RAM 40: Character Generator ROM

50: shift register 60: OSD control unit

70: output buffer

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings for an embodiment of the present invention suitable for achieving the above object of the present invention will be described in detail the configuration and operation of the design.

For reference, in current television receivers (hereinafter referred to as televisions), the functions are changed on the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) so that the viewer can easily recognize the control state of the television according to the function selected by the viewer and the operation of each function. It is common to adopt an OSD function that displays an image as an image, and in particular, in recent years, as the television becomes more versatile, the operation of the television of the viewer through the menu screen is implemented as an OSD screen to improve the convenience of the television operation by the viewer. A menu method that allows execution is adopted.

1 is a block diagram of a television having a telephone number recording apparatus of the present invention. Antenna 1 for receiving a composite video signal transmitted from a broadcasting station, amplifying the composite video signal of a plurality of broadcasting stations received from the antenna 1 to perform high frequency processing, and broadcasting to be watched according to the operation of the tuner 3. A tuner section 2 for tuning channels, an IF detector section 4 for detecting and amplifying intermediate frequencies in the composite video signal applied from the tuner section 2, and an IF detector section 4 for application from the IF detector section 4 The P / S separation unit 5 which separates and outputs the audio signal and the composite signal from the composite video signal, and removes the residual color components from the applied audio signal separated from the P / S separation unit 5 to perform audio processing. From the voice signal processor 6, the voice amplifier 7 for power amplification and output to the speaker 8 by receiving the output signal from the voice signal processor 6, and the P / S separator 5 The luminance signal (Y) and the color signal (C) are separated from the applied image signal. Control of an external device such as a video signal processor 9, a video output unit 10, a remote controller and the like which perform color processing on the video signal applied from the video signal processor 9 and output it to the CRT 11 A receiving unit 12 for receiving a signal, a microcomputer 13 for controlling a television system such as the tuning device 3 or the like according to an application signal from the receiving unit 12 described above, and an EEPROM containing telephone number information. (15) to the OSD processing unit 14 which performs signal processing so that the telephone number information stored in the YPIROM 15 can be displayed on the CRT 11 as an OSD screen by the control signal of the microcomputer 13; It is composed.

The operation of the embodiment of the present invention described above will be described. The ypyrom 15 contains information on a telephone number for recording, modifying, searching, and deleting the telephone number. When a user wants to record a telephone number using a television, the remote controller displays an OSD screen on the television. In this case, the displayed OSD screen relates to a menu capable of recording a telephone number contained in the EPI rom 15. For example, the OSD screen consists of menus that record names and phone numbers in order with Arabic numerals.

When the OSD screen related to phone number recording appears, the user records and saves the name and phone number using the remote controller. Repeat the above recording and storage process to record all the phone numbers you want to record. If the memory capacity is insufficient, the font should be used in English instead of Korean.

When a user wants to search for a telephone number recorded on the television, a telephone number search command is applied to the receiver 12 of the television using a remote controller. When the telephone number search command signal is input, the microcomputer 13 outputs telephone number information stored in the EEPROM to the OSD processor 14 so that the telephone number recorded in the EPIROM 15 is OSD. Displayed on the screen to allow the user to search.

2 is a detailed block diagram of the OSD processing unit 14 for explaining the OSD processing unit 14 which is the main part of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 20 denotes an OSD position setting unit which sets OSD position by storing OSD data DATA applied from the microcomputer 13, and reference numeral 30 denotes address data stored by the microcomputer 13; Based on the ADR and the color data, the video RAM 30 outputs predetermined character data from the character generation ROM 40 to be described later and controls the output buffer unit 70 to control the color of the OSD output. to be.

Reference numeral 40 denotes a character generator ROM in which various character data are stored, and 50 denotes character characters applied from the character generator ROM 40 in sequence according to a clock signal from the OSD controller 60 to be described later. The shift register is outputted, and reference numeral 60 denotes OSD data such as position and magnification data corresponding to the OSD screen stored in the OSD position setting unit 20, OSD clock (OSD CLK), and horizontal / vertical synchronization signals (H, V). OSD control unit for controlling the data output timing of the video RAM 30 and the shift register 50, the reference numeral 70 corresponds to the output data of the shift register 50 under the control of the video RAM (30). The output buffer unit generates color of the OSD screen by outputting the R, G, and B signals.

In the configuration of FIG. 2, when the YPIROM 15 is read by the microcomputer 13 of FIG. 1, the address data and the OSD data are stored in the video RAM 30 and the OSD positioning unit 20. In addition, the video RAM 30 accesses the character generating ROM 40 to output predetermined character data, and also controls the output buffer 70 to control the color of the OSD screen. The OSD controller 60 controls the color of the OSD screen. The OSD positioning unit 20 may display the OSD screen on the screen by controlling the data output timing of the video RAM 30 and the shift register 50 based on the stored OSD data.

3 is an exemplary view of an OSD screen for outputting information on the telephone number to the OSD in a television with a telephone number recording apparatus of the present invention.

3A illustrates an example of displaying an OSD screen for a menu on a television using a remote controller when a user records or retrieves a telephone number on the television. 3B is an OSD screen for recording status of a telephone number displayed on the screen when the user selects "telephone number" using the remote controller in the menu of FIG. 3A. When the user wants to record a phone number in the state of FIG. 3B, after switching to the recording mode by operating the phone number recording key provided in the remote controller, the name of the person to record in English or Korean using the keyboard of the remote controller And phone number.

As can be seen from the above description, the present invention allows a user to control the recording, modification, retrieval, and deletion of information about a telephone number stored in an EEPROM combined with a microcomputer of a television by using a remote controller. There is an effect that the user can easily search for a telephone number through the television, and also by storing the telephone number on a fixed television, it is possible to keep a telephone directory without fear of loss.

Claims (2)

In the device capable of recording a telephone number using the OSD screen of the television, A telephone number recording command signal input means for authorizing a telephone number recording command by using a remote controller to the television; Recording screen display means for displaying an OSD screen in which a phone number can be recorded on a screen of a television upon receiving an input signal from the input means; Telephone number information recording means for storing telephone number recording information displayed on the OSD screen and reading the recorded telephone number; An apparatus for recording and retrieving a telephone number using a television, comprising: an input means, a display means, and a control means capable of controlling an information recording means. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display means comprises: an OSD position setting unit (20) for setting the size and position of an OSD screen by receiving OSD data applied by the control means; Character generation ROM (40) for storing various character data to be implemented on the OSD screen, A shift register 50 for sequentially outputting the character data applied from the character generation ROM 40 in accordance with a clock signal from the OSD control unit 60 to be described later; An output buffer unit 70 for generating colors of the OSD screen by outputting R, G, and B signals corresponding to the output data of the shift register 50 under the control of the video RAM 30; On the basis of the address data ADR and color data stored by the control means, the predetermined character data is output from the character generation ROM 40 to be described later, and the output buffer unit 70 is controlled to control the color of the OSD output. The video RAM 30 for controlling the, The video RAM 30 based on OSD data such as position and magnification data corresponding to the OSD screen stored in the OSD position setting unit 20, OSD clock (OSD CLK), and horizontal / vertical synchronization signals (H, V). And an OSD control unit (60) for controlling the data output timing of the shift register (50).