KR19990042481A - Internet Information Loading Control Method in Internet Television - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an Internet television that allows an Internet television to automatically reload Internet information about the site when the Internet information is not loaded for a predetermined time while accessing a specific site and loading the Internet information provided from the site. The present invention relates to a method for controlling the loading of internet information, comprising: a device capable of receiving a TV broadcast signal and reproducing a broadcast signal for a specific channel; In the site access control method of; A first step of attempting to access the site when the site to be accessed is designated by the control signal input unit 10 in the Internet mode; A second step of transmitting the Internet information loading request signal to the site when the corresponding site is connected by the access attempt to load the Internet information provided from the site; The third step of reloading the Internet information loading signal is transmitted to the site when the loading of the Internet information is stopped while the entire Internet information is not loaded when the Internet information is loaded.

Description

Internet Information Loading Control Method in Internet Television

The present invention relates to a method for controlling Internet information loading in an Internet television. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of controlling the loading of Internet information in an Internet television. The present invention relates to a method of controlling internet information loading in an internet television that allows reloading of internet information about the site.

With the development of communication technology, communication that enables information providers and users who are remotely available to exchange information through telephone lines, especially Internet communication, has become popular. After calling a specific server that provides Internet communication through the server, enter the site address of the sub server to search for data among the sub servers included in the server and search for various information data provided from the site. The information data can be backed up.

In addition, in the case of the Internet communication described above, only a personal computer with a built-in modem can be used to connect to a specific server that provides Internet communication. Therefore, a viewer who does not have such a personal computer uses the Internet communication. It was virtually impossible.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, a modem is embedded in a television having a normal TV broadcast signal reproducing function to enable internet communication using a television that is prevalent in a general home, and data for internet communication with a server is provided. Internet televisions have been developed that are equipped with a processor for performing a conversion and the like, and an automatic dial unit for automatically dialing a telephone number for a specific server when an internet network connection request is input through a control signal input unit of the television.

According to such an Internet television, when a viewer requests an Internet connection through a control signal input unit, a telephone number for a specific server is automatically dialed to call the specific server, and the Internet initial screen provided from the server is displayed on the CRT of the television. When the viewer selects a specific site based on the initial screen of the Internet, the site address of the site stored in the television is transmitted to the server through a modem, and the server sends the Internet information stored in the site address to the television. The transmission allows the Internet television to receive (load) certain Internet information.

Accordingly, the Internet TV processes the loaded Internet information to be reproduced and output through the CRT and the speaker, so that the screen or audio corresponding to the Internet information is output through the CRT and the speaker, thereby allowing the viewer to communicate with the Internet. Will be.

However, in the above-described Internet television, the state in which the Internet information provided from the connected site is loaded is shown as a percentage at the bottom of the CRT screen as the percentage of the total Internet information load as shown in FIG. In the state where the Internet information provided from the site is not received by the Internet TV frequently because of the overload of the communication line, etc. before the entire amount of the Internet information provided from the site is loaded.

In this case, the user must take the hassle of having to reload the Internet information for the previously accessed site in order to receive the full load of the Internet information provided from the previously connected site.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and when the Internet information is not loaded for a predetermined time while accessing a specific site from the Internet television and loading the Internet information provided from the site, the Internet for the site is automatically It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for controlling the loading of Internet information in an Internet television that enables reloading of information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for realizing the above object, there is provided a device capable of receiving a TV broadcast signal and reproducing a broadcast signal for a specific channel, and also includes a modem to perform internet communication. What is claimed is: 1. A method for controlling site access of an internet television; A first step of attempting to access the site when a site to be accessed is designated by the control signal input unit in the Internet mode; A second step of transmitting the Internet information loading request signal to the site when the corresponding site is connected by the access attempt to load the Internet information provided from the site; The third step of reloading the Internet information loading signal is transmitted to the site when the loading of the Internet information is stopped while the entire Internet information is not loaded when the Internet information is loaded.

According to the present invention consisting of the above steps, if the Internet information is not received for a predetermined time in a state in which the entire Internet information provided from the site designated by the viewer is not loaded, the reloading of the Internet information is automatically performed.

1 is a block diagram showing the main block configuration of the Internet television to which the Internet information loading control method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling internet information loading in an internet television according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display according to an internet information loading state of a conventional internet television.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: control signal input unit, 12: control unit,

16: tuner, 18: voice IF module,

20: video IF module, 22: A / V switching unit,

24: voice signal processing unit, 26: voice amplifier,

28: video signal processor, 30: video amplifier,

40: autodial section, 42: server, 44: modem, 46: processor, 50: interface section.

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

1 is a block diagram of an Internet television to which an Internet information loading control method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. In FIG. 10, reference numeral 10 denotes a conventional TV broadcasting signal reproduced in a corresponding Internet television. A control signal input unit comprising a plurality of TV control keys for inputting a command and a plurality of Internet setting keys for inputting a command according to the Internet connection provided in the Internet television. It may be employed as a keyboard as well as a remote control or a control panel.

Also, reference numeral 12 denotes a control unit which controls the entire apparatus to perform a normal TV broadcast signal reproducing operation in response to the control signal input from the control signal input unit 10 or controls the entire apparatus to perform an operation according to the Internet function. In the present invention, the control unit 12 is connected to the site specified by the control signal input unit 10 and then the Internet information in the process of loading the Internet information provided from the site before loading the entire amount of the Internet information If the loading is interrupted, control the reloading of internet information to the site.

Also, reference numeral 16 is a tuner for tuning a specific channel among a plurality of channels received through an antenna for performing a normal TV broadcast signal reproduction operation, and 18 is an IF amplified broadcast signal output from the tuner 16. Next, a voice IF module for detecting only an audio signal from the IF-amplified broadcast signal, and 20 denotes an image IF module for IF-amplifying a broadcast signal output from the tuner 16 and then detecting only a video signal from the IF-amplified broadcast signal. to be.

In addition, reference numeral 22 denotes that the switching state is controlled under the control of the control unit 12 so that the audio / video signals from the audio / video IF modules 18 and 20 are converted into the audio signal processing unit 24 and the video signal processing unit 28. The A / V switching unit is configured to set a path so that the Internet information applied through the interface unit 50 to be described later is applied to the audio signal processing unit 24 and the image signal processing unit 28.

Reference numeral 24 denotes a voice signal processor for reproducing the voice signal applied via the A / V switching unit 22 under the control of the controller 12, and 26 denotes the voice signal processor 24. An audio amplifier for amplifying the audio signal from the speaker so that the audio signal can be output through the speaker, and 28 is a playback process under the control of the controller 12 for the applied video signal through the A / V switching unit 22. And an image signal processor for outputting the RGB signal, and 30 denotes an image amplifier for amplifying the video signal from the image signal processor 28 so as to be reproduced and output through the CRT.

In the figure, reference numeral 42 denotes a server for providing predetermined Internet information to Internet subscribers connected to a plurality of sub-servers connected via a telephone line, 44 denotes a modem for converting / demodulating data, and 46 denotes a control unit ( Based on the control signal transmitted from 12), data conversion is performed so that predetermined data is transmitted through the modem 44, and recognition of the HTM file from the server 42 transmitted through the modem 44 is performed. A processor which performs an analysis processing operation and processes the Internet information provided from the HTM file so as to be processed by the interface unit 50, which will be described later. An interface unit for interfacing by performing a data conversion operation so as to be recognized.

First, the reproduction processing operation for the normal TV broadcast signal of the Internet television having the above-described configuration will be described.

When the channel selection signal is input from the control signal input unit 10, the Internet TV applies the tuning voltage VT corresponding to the channel selection signal to the tuner 16 so that a specific channel is selected. The broadcast signal of the channel tuned by the tuner 16 is applied to the voice IF module 18 and the video IF module 20, respectively, and the A / V switching unit 22 is detected after the audio / video signal is detected. Is applied to the audio signal processor 24 and the video signal processor 28, and the audio signal reproduced by the audio signal processor 24 and the video signal reproduced by the video signal processor 28 are respectively. It is applied to the audio amplifier 26 and the image amplifier 30, the audio signal and the video signal is amplified by the audio amplifier 26 and the image amplifier 30 to the speaker and the CRT of the Internet television Through the playback output.

Next, with reference to the flowchart shown in Figure 2 will be described in detail the Internet information loading control method in the Internet television according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the control unit 12 performs the reproduction process for the TV broadcast signal based on the control signal input from the control signal input unit 10 (step 60), and the control signal input unit 10 causes the Internet mode to be turned off. If it is determined (step 62) that the Internet mode is set (YES in step 62), the controller 12 performs a switching operation to the Internet mode, that is, the A / V switching unit 22. After the predetermined switching signal is applied to the video / audio signal from the interface unit 50 to be routed to the video signal processing unit 28 and the audio signal processing unit 24, the automatic dial unit 40 A predetermined control signal is applied to the telephone number for the specific server 42 to be automatically dialed, and the digit signal automatically dialed by the automatic dial unit 40 is transferred to the switch (not shown) through the modem 44. Sent to that exchange The server 42 is called by the server 42. When the server 42 responds to the call and the connection completion signal from the switch is applied to the processor 46 through the modem 44 and transmitted to the controller 12, the controller ( 12 recognizes the state in which the server 42 is connected.

Subsequently, when a site to be accessed is designated by the control signal input unit 10, the controller 12 controls the processor 46 and attempts to connect to the site, wherein the processor ( 46 reads the address of the corresponding site from the built-in site address and transmits the site address to the server 42 via the modem 44 to attempt to connect to the site by the server 42 ( Step 66).

If the connection attempt is successful due to the connection attempt and a connection success signal is transmitted from the server 42 (step 68), the Internet information provided from the site connected through the server 42 is transferred to the modem 44. Is transmitted to the processor 46, and the processor 46 recognizes / analyzes the Internet information, and controls the data amount of the entire amount of the Internet information and the data amount of the Internet information being loaded. (12).

Therefore, the control unit 12 converts the data amount of the entire amount of the Internet information and the data amount of the Internet information being loaded into a percentage so as to display the loading state of the Internet information at the bottom of the CRT screen by OSD processing ( Step 70).

Then, the controller 12 determines whether the loading of the Internet information is stopped based on the loading signal applied from the processor 46 (step 72), and as a result of the determination, the controller (44) 46, if a predetermined loading signal is not applied from the processor 46 because no internet information is transmitted to the processor 46, the controller 12 determines that the loading of the Internet information is stopped (YES in step 72) and starts the built-in timer. In operation 74, the predetermined time period is determined.

Then, when the determination in step 74 determines that the predetermined time has elapsed (YES in step 74), the total data amount and loading of the Internet information provided from the site based on the loading signal transmitted from the processor 46 is determined. It is judged whether the loading of the Internet information is completed by determining whether the data amount of the Internet information has been matched (step 76), and if the loading of the Internet information is completed (YES in step 76), the above-described series of processes are performed. On the other hand, if the loading of the Internet information is not completed (NO in step 76), a predetermined control signal is applied to the processor 46 to transmit the loading request signal according to the Internet accuracy transmission to the site. Attempt to load (step 78).

As described above, according to the Internet information loading control method in the Internet television according to an embodiment of the present invention, the loading of the Internet information is stopped for a predetermined time while the Internet information provided from the site designated by the viewer is not completely loaded. By automatically reloading the Internet information provided from the site, the user does not need to reload the Internet information if the loading is interrupted while the user is loading the Internet information.

Claims (3)

A site access control method of an Internet television, comprising: a device capable of receiving a TV broadcast signal and reproducing a broadcast signal for a specific channel; A first step of attempting to access the site when the site to be accessed is designated by the control signal input unit 10 in the Internet mode; A second step of transmitting the Internet information loading request signal to the site when the corresponding site is connected by the access attempt to load the Internet information provided from the site; In the Internet television characterized in that the third step of attempting to reload by re-transmitting the Internet information loading signal to the site if the loading of the Internet information is stopped while the whole of the Internet information is not loaded when loading the Internet information Internet information loading control method. The method of claim 1, wherein the third step comprises: determining whether the loading of the Internet information is stopped when the Internet information is loaded; Determining that the predetermined time elapses when the loading of the Internet information is stopped; Determining whether the Internet information from the corresponding site is in a loading completion state if the loading of the Internet information is not resumed after a predetermined time elapses; And reloading if the Internet information from the corresponding site is loaded, as a result of the determination. According to claim 2, If the information on the total amount of data provided in the initial transmission of the Internet information provided from the site in the step and the data amount of the loaded Internet information is matched to determine that the Internet information is in the loading completion state Internet information loading control method in the Internet television, characterized in that.