KR19990026839A - How to set up a reservation for a satellite broadcast receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a reservation setting method of a satellite broadcast receiver capable of automatically re-booking a program that is periodically repeated using a menu screen including various reservation modes and reservation periods in a satellite broadcasting receiver through a single reservation setting process. The reservation menu screen may include a reservation mode selection menu for setting reservation recording, reservation storage, or reservation viewing for the specific program, and a reservation period selection menu for repeatedly performing the reservation mode at each predetermined period. The method may further include displaying the reservation menu screen when a specific program for reservation setting is selected among the plurality of programs while a program guide screen including a plurality of programs is displayed according to an input of a program guide key signal. The first step, the plurality of reservation mode A second step of checking whether a key signal for selecting one of the reservation menus is input, and a third step of checking whether a key signal for selecting one of the plurality of reservation period selection menus is input; And a fourth step of storing information on the selected specific program and reservation mode and a reservation period when the reservation mode and a reservation period key signal are input, and when the completion key signal for the reservation setting is input, selecting the reservation. A fifth step of turning off the menu screen.

Description

How to set up a reservation for a satellite broadcast receiver

The present invention relates to a satellite broadcast receiver, and more particularly, to a reservation setting method of a satellite broadcast receiver suitable for effectively setting reservation recording and reservation viewing for various programs in a satellite broadcast receiver.

In recent years, the broadcast method using satellites, which is rapidly expanding its use, is a method of providing broadcast signals to a wider area by using satellites (communication satellites) located at an altitude of about several thousand to tens of thousands of kilometers from the surface of the earth. In this satellite broadcasting system, for example, an old band RF signal having a frequency band of 11.7 GHz to 12.0 GHz is used.

To this end, the antenna for satellite broadcasting reception is provided with a low noise blockdown converter for converting a radio frequency (RF) signal of a very high frequency into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal, which is a high frequency RF signal. Is converted into an IF (intermediate frequency) signal in the hundreds to thousands of MHz bands (e.g., 950 MHz-2050 MHz) receivable by a satellite broadcasting receiver (receiver).

Therefore, in the satellite broadcasting tuner provided in the satellite broadcasting receiver (receiver), the IF signal received through the low noise converter is inputted to tune the channel selected by the user. The satellite broadcasting receiver maximizes channel utilization, image and sound. Along with the improvement of signal quality and the ease of transmitting additional digital service data, the significant improvement of the user interface is a big advantage.

In addition, the bit stream provided from the satellite includes various information such as broadcast signals (video data and audio data), event information table (EIT), and time data table (TDT) for each channel. Information about broadcast channels, that is, channel names for broadcasting stations and program information for each channel is included and displayed on a screen according to a user's request.

In addition, the user may set a scheduled viewing or a reservation recording for a specific program or a specific time to automatically perform a scheduled operation at the corresponding program or a corresponding time.

However, such a conventional reservation mode (reservation viewing, reservation recording) is performed for a program that is set by the user or once for a scheduled time zone, and the set reservation is released. When setting a reservation, there was an inconvenience of having to set the same reservation every time.

In other words, in order to schedule and watch a program that is broadcast periodically on a specific day of the week, the user must make a reservation setting of the same content every week. There was an inconvenience to repeat.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for setting a reservation of a satellite broadcast receiver, which is capable of periodically and repeatedly performing the reservation contents set in a satellite broadcast receiver periodically by a user's selection. There is this.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method of setting a reservation mode for a specific program by displaying a reservation menu screen of a predetermined type in a satellite broadcast receiver receiving a plurality of broadcast programs provided from a satellite. The screen includes a reservation mode selection menu for setting reservation recording, reservation storage, or reservation viewing for the specific program, and a reservation period selection menu for repeatedly performing the reservation mode at each predetermined period. In response to a program guide screen including a plurality of programs being displayed according to an input of a program guide key signal, if a specific program for reservation setting is selected among the plurality of programs, a first step of displaying the reservation menu screen is provided. One of the many reservation mode selection menus A second step of checking whether or not a key signal for selecting a reservation mode is input; a third step of checking whether or not a key signal for selecting one reservation period from among the plurality of reservation period selection menus is input; And a fourth step of storing information on the selected specific program and reservation mode and a reservation period when a reservation period key signal is input, and when a completion key signal for the reservation setting is input, turn off the reservation selection menu screen. It provides a reservation method of a satellite broadcast receiver comprising a fifth step.

1 is a block diagram of a satellite broadcast receiver suitable for applying a reservation method of a satellite broadcast receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a view for explaining a reservation method of a satellite broadcast receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a reservation process of a satellite broadcast receiver according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

10: key input unit 20: tuner and demodulation unit

30: micom 40: MPEG decoder

50, 55: first and second memory sections 60: OSD section

The above and other objects and various advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the preferred embodiments of the present invention described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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

1 is a block diagram of a satellite broadcast receiver suitable for applying a reservation method of a satellite broadcast receiver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and includes a key input unit 10, a tuner and demodulator 20, a microcomputer 30, An MPEG decoder 40, first and second memory units 50 and 55, and an OSD unit 60 are included.

Key input unit 10 is composed of key metrics on the remote control or its own panel to generate a corresponding key signal by the user's operation to provide to the microcomputer 30, in particular for setting the reservation mode for various satellite broadcasting programs It is configured to include function keys.

The tuner and demodulator 20 receives a satellite broadcast signal received through a satellite antenna (not shown), tunes a bitstream of a channel corresponding to the tuning control signal of the microcomputer 30, and demodulates it again to perform an MPEG decoder ( 40).

The MPEG decoder 40 separates and decodes a broadcast signal provided from the tuner and the demodulator 20 into an audio signal, a video signal, and various program information, and then provides the signal to a signal processing unit, not shown, to display on a monitor. Data for various menu screens provided from the OSD unit 60 are also provided to the signal processing unit after a predetermined signal processing process.

In addition, the microcomputer 30 controls a control signal for tuning a broadcast channel, a control signal for tuning a broadcast channel, and a control for driving the OSD unit 60 based on a key signal from the key input unit 10. A signal is generated and various program information and menu screen information separated from the MPEG decoder 40 are stored in the first memory unit 50.

In addition, the reservation information set by the user is separately stored in the second memory unit 55, which will be described later, and is read based on the key signal provided from the key input unit 10, and then the corresponding operation is performed.

That is, the first memory unit 50 stores various types of information provided from the satellite broadcasting system under the control of the microcomputer 30, and the second memory unit 55 is also set by the user under the control of the microcomputer 30. Only one reservation is stored.

The OSD unit 60 configures a control signal and various data provided from the microcomputer 30 as a menu screen of a predetermined type and provides the same to the MPEG decoder 40 described above, thereby displaying on a monitor not shown.

In the satellite broadcasting receiver configured as described above, the user selects a broadcast program that the user wants to reserve by referring to a program guide screen for each channel or inputs a broadcast channel and a reservation time of the corresponding program, and is provided in the key input unit 10. When the reservation key is input, the microcomputer 30 reads the reservation menu screen information stored in the first memory unit 50 based on the key signal and provides the reserved menu screen information to the OSD unit 60.

In addition, the OSD unit 60 configures menu screen information provided from the microcomputer 30 as OSD data to provide the MPEG decoder 40, and the MPEG decoder 40 provides the input OSD data with a predetermined signal processing process. The reservation selection menu screen is displayed by providing to the monitor not shown through the drawing.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a reservation selection menu screen displayed through such a process, so that a reservation mode including reservation viewing, reservation memory, reservation recording, and a reservation cycle such as once, daily, and weekly can be selected. It is composed.

In detail, in the reserved viewing mode, when the broadcasting time or broadcasting program set by the user is received, the satellite broadcasting receiver is automatically turned on and then the broadcasting signal of the set channel is tuned, and the reserved storage mode is set by the user. When a broadcast time or a broadcast program is received, a predetermined guide message (for example, it is a reserved time) is displayed.

In the reserved recording mode, when a broadcast time or a broadcast program set by a user is received, a program for a corresponding channel is automatically tuned and recorded on an image recording medium (eg, a video tape).

In addition, if each reservation period is selected as the above-described reservation mode for each set period, that is, 'once', the reservation mode set for the time or program set by the user is performed only once, and 'daily' Automatically executes the scheduled mode set by the user or the program every day, and 'weekly' automatically performs the scheduled mode set by the user or the program every week.

As a result, the user can select the reservation mode and the reservation period by referring to the reservation selection menu screen as shown in the drawing, and can automatically repeat the reservation viewing or reservation recording for the desired program according to the desired period. .

3 is a flowchart illustrating a reservation setting process of a satellite broadcast receiver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, which will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

While the operation of the satellite broadcasting receiver is performed in a normal viewing mode or a standby mode in which a broadcast signal of a channel selected by the user is tuned and displayed through a predetermined signal processing process (step 301), the user may perform a broadcast program for each channel. When a program guide key signal is input to refer to the information (step 303), the microcomputer 30 reads program information for each channel stored in the first memory unit 50 to display a broadcast program guide screen for each channel. (Step 305).

When the user selects a broadcast program to be reserved by referring to the displayed program guide screen (step 307), the reservation selection menu screen as shown in FIG. 2 is displayed again by the control of the microcomputer 30. (Step 311).

Meanwhile, the user may set the broadcast program that he / she wants to reserve using the program guide screen as in steps 303 to 307 described above. Alternatively, the user may directly input the broadcast channel and the reserve time to reserve. have.

After setting the program or reservation time to be reserved through this process, and after the reservation selection menu screen as shown in FIG. 2 is displayed through the above-described step 311, the reservation mode is selected by the user (step 313). If the period is selected (step 317), the microcomputer 30 stores all the reservation information set by the user, that is, the reservation program, the reservation mode, and the reservation time in the second memory unit 55 (step 323).

If a key signal for selecting a reservation mode or a reservation period does not occur within a predetermined time set in the above-described steps 313 and 317 (steps 315 and 319), a menu currently displayed under control of the microcomputer 325 The screen is automatically turned off and the operation of the satellite broadcast receiver is switched to the normal viewing mode or the standby mode as in the initial step 301.

On the other hand, in the state where all the reservation information set by the user through the above-described process (step 321) is stored in the second memory unit 55, the user inputs the reserved key signal through the operation of the key input unit 10 or When the predetermined time elapses (step 323), similarly, the menu screen currently displayed is automatically turned off under the control of the microcomputer 30, and the operation of the satellite broadcasting receiver is in the normal viewing mode as in the initial step 301 or The standby mode is switched to (step 325).

After the reservation is set for a specific program or a specific broadcast time through this process, the microcomputer 30 checks the current time every minute from the internal counter of the satellite broadcast receiver (not shown) to be the broadcast time of the program that the user reserves or reserves. When the set time is reached, the set recording mode is executed.

In this case, when the preset reservation cycle is performed once, the microcomputer 30 deletes the reservation reservation information set in the second memory unit 55 after performing the preset reservation mode, and the reservation cycle is performed every day or every week. If it is set, the internal counter is checked to repeat the reservation at every set period.

As a result, a reservation mode such as reservation recording or reservation viewing of the satellite broadcasting receiver can be repeatedly performed at specific periods.

As described above, according to the present invention, an efficient reservation setting function can be performed by automatically repeating a reservation mode every time through a single reservation setting process for a program that is repeatedly broadcast on a satellite broadcasting receiver. .

Claims (7)

A method of setting a reservation mode for a specific program by displaying a reservation menu screen of a predetermined type in a satellite broadcast receiver receiving a plurality of broadcast programs provided from a satellite, the method comprising: The reservation menu screen, A reservation mode selection menu for setting reservation recording, reservation storage, or reservation viewing for the specific program, and a reservation period selection menu for repeatedly performing the reservation mode at each predetermined period; The method, A first step of displaying a reservation menu screen when a specific program for reservation setting is selected among the plurality of programs while a program guide screen including a plurality of programs is displayed according to an input of a program guide key signal; A second step of checking whether a key signal for selecting one of the plurality of reservation mode selection menus is input; A third step of checking whether a key signal for selecting one of the plurality of reservation period selection menus is input; A fourth step of storing information on the selected specific program and reservation mode and a reservation period when the reservation mode and a reservation period key signal are input; And a fifth step of turning off the reservation selection menu screen when a completion key signal for the reservation setting is input. The reservation setting method of claim 1, wherein the reserved storage mode of the reserved mode selection menu displays a message indicating that the reserved program is received when the reserved specific program is received. The method of claim 1, wherein the reservation period selection menu comprises a one-time menu for performing the reservation mode only once, a one-day menu for performing the reservation mode daily, and a main menu for repeatedly performing the reservation mode once a week. Reservation setting method of the satellite broadcast receiver, characterized in that consisting of. The method of claim 1, wherein in the first step, the specific program is selected by inputting a broadcast channel and a broadcast time to be reserved. The reservation of the satellite broadcasting receiver according to claim 1, wherein the second step further comprises a step of turning off the reservation menu screen when the key signal for selecting the reservation mode is not input within a predetermined time. How to set up. The reservation of the satellite broadcasting receiver according to claim 1, wherein the third step further comprises the step of turning off the reservation menu screen when the key signal for selecting the reservation period is not input within a predetermined time. How to set up. The reservation setting method of claim 1, wherein the fifth step further comprises turning off the reservation menu screen when the reservation setting end key signal does not occur within a predetermined time.