KR20000032176A - Method for displaying program lists played-back of optical system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for displaying played-back states of programs of an optical system is provided in order for a user to easily select a program which is not played-back by displaying played states of the programs. CONSTITUTION: In a method for displaying program lists for displaying played-back states of programs of an optical system, it is first determined if a script selection key is input(S2), and, when the script selection key is input, contents of the stored scripts are displayed(S3). Next, a program to be played-back is selected(S5), and a script store key is input(S7) after watching the program(S6). Finally, the script representing played-back date and time is stored(S8). When the script selection key is not input, recorded program lists are displayed(S4).

Description

How to display the contents of the reproduced program in the optical system

The present invention relates to a method of displaying a table of contents of a reproduced program of an optical system, and more particularly, titles and viewing dates of programs reproduced in a DVD player. The present invention relates to a method of displaying a table of contents of a reproduced program of an optical system to display a table of contents of a viewed program representing total viewing time and the like.

In general, the DVD player is mainly composed of an optical system, a motor drive system and a signal system. In other words, the data engraved on the pit of the compact disc is irradiated through the optical signal, and is read out by using the light quantity difference of the beam returned by the irradiated beam. In such a compact disc player, the data format structure of the disc D inserted in the tray E of the compact disc player is as shown in FIG. That is, the disc D is composed of a lead-in area B, a program area B ', and a lead-out area C. The disc D has a disc inside the lead-in area B, which is an inner circumferential part of the disc D. The number of songs recorded, the time and total time of each song, and a TOS (TOC: Table of Content) in which the address of the first part and the index part of each song are recorded are recorded, of which TOS is repeatedly recorded in the lead-in area. do.

Meanwhile, a configuration of a compact disc player in which a disc having the above structure is inserted and operated will be described with reference to FIG. 2. That is, the key input unit 70 is composed of a plurality of buttons to input a signal according to the search and playback operation, the microcomputer 71 controlling the overall operation of the DVD by the key signal of the key input unit 70, and RF amplification unit 73 for amplifying information recorded on the disc according to the control signal of the microcomputer 71 and outputting the amplified signal, and processing the amplified signal as a digital signal and transmitting the digital signal to the audio / video system 80. A signal processing unit 75 to control the driving of the pick-up actuator P according to the control signal of the microcomputer 71, a loading motor according to the control signal of the microcomputer 71 The servo control unit 79 controls the drive of the spindle motor.

The disc of the DVD player thus constructed is transferred into a deck not shown. That is, in order to insert the disc by the tray, the user pushes the tray with a certain force or presses a specific button, thereby actuating the not shown tray drive motor, thereby transferring the disc of the tray into the deck.

At this time, after the tray has reached a predetermined position, the pick-up base is raised to clamp the disk to the turn table, and clamped according to the clamp. The microcomputer 71 generates a control signal for stopping the driving of the loading motor (not shown). The control signal is supplied to the loading motor, whereby the driving of the loading motor is stopped.

The microcomputer 71 generates a control signal for transferring the actuator P in the inner circumferential direction of the disc, the control signal is supplied to the actuator driver 77, the actuator driver 77 is optical pickup The actuator P is transferred in the inner circumferential direction of the disk.

At this time, a control signal for controlling the spindle motor is output from the microcomputer 71, the control signal is supplied to the servo controller 79, and the servo controller 79 drives the spindle motor. At the same time, the exciter P conveyed in the inner circumferential direction of the disk reads the thioscis data detected in the lead-in area of the disk as it moves in the outer circumferential direction of the disk, and the read thiosi data is supplied to the signal processor 73. do.

The signal processing unit 73 processes the read Toxy data into a digital signal. Subsequently, the actuator transfers from the inner circumference of the disk to the outer circumferential direction to read the sub cue signal among the data recorded in the program area. The read sub cue signal is input to the microcomputer 71. The microcomputer 71 outputs a control signal for reproducing a program having a sub cue signal corresponding to the key signal input through the key input unit 70.

That is, the actuator is transferred to a track of a program having a sub cue signal corresponding to the song selected by the user, and the data is read. The read data is supplied to the RF amplifier 73, and the RF amplifier 73 amplifies the read data to output an amplified signal.

The amplified signal is supplied to the signal processor 75, the signal processor 75 is processed into a digital signal, and the processed digital data is output to the audio / video system 80.

However, in the conventional optical system as described above, when the viewer leaves the seat during playback of the disc, the title of the watched program, the date of viewing, and the total clock time must be found by the viewer's memory. When a long time has elapsed, the viewer has to inconvenience manually having to manually find all the programs recorded on the disc in order to find the program being played.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to store all contents necessary for retrieval of a program upon re-review, such as the total viewing time, title of the program, and the viewing date of the program being used, It is intended to provide a method of displaying a table of contents of a reproduced program of an optical system that can improve the convenience of the system.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an initial step of inserting a disc in which a program to be viewed is recorded, and a script selected by the user to display a title, a viewing date, a total viewing time, etc. of a program played from the disc. A script selection key input determination step of determining whether a selection key has been input, a script content display step of displaying script contents stored in a memory when it is determined that the script selection key is input at the script selection key input determination step, and the script selection key A program table display step of displaying a table of contents of a program recorded in thio city when it is determined that the script selection key is not input in the input determination step, a program selection step of selecting a program to be viewed from the contents of the script and the program list; , A viewing step of viewing a selected program, a script storing key input step of inputting a script storing key by a user after viewing of a program is completed, and contents of a script indicating a title of the program, a viewing date, and a total viewing time of the program. Characterized by consisting of the script content setting step of selecting and storing.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig. 1 is a view for explaining an area of a disc mounted in a general disc player.

2 is a view showing a playback apparatus of a compact disc player according to a conventional disc insertion.

3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a disc reproducing apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

4 is a view showing a state in which the contents of the playback signal is displayed in FIG.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying a table of contents of a reproduced program according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings>

1: Key input unit 3: Microcomputer

5: Servo controller 7: RF amplifier

8: actuator driving unit 9: signal processing unit

11 memory unit 13 display unit

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

As shown in FIG. 3, a disc reproducing apparatus to which the method of the present invention is applied includes a script selection key K1 and a script storage key K2, and includes a key input unit for inputting a signal according to a search and playback operation ( 1), a microcomputer 3 for controlling the overall operation of the CDP by the key signal of the key input unit 1, and a servo controller for controlling the driving of the spindle motor and the loading motor according to the control signal of the microcomputer 3; (5), an actuator driver 10 for controlling the transfer operation of the optical pickup actuator P for reading optical information recorded in a predetermined area of the disc according to the control signal of the microcomputer 4, and the pick-up extractor RF amplification unit 7 for amplifying information recorded on the disc detected by the actor P and outputting an amplified signal, and a signal processing unit for digitally processing the amplified signal and supplying the amplified signal to an audio / video system (A / V). (9) and the control signal of the microcomputer (3) Memory section 11 for storing the script contents indicating the viewing date and the total viewing time of the program according to the selection of the script storing key K2, and the stored script contents of the memory section 11 as the script selection key ( And a display unit 13 for displaying according to the input of K1).

Looking at the operation of the disc player according to the above configuration to which the present invention is applied as follows.

First, in order to insert the disc D by a tray (not shown), the disc is transferred into the deck as the user pushes the tray with some force or pushes a particular button.

At this time, after the tray has reached a predetermined position, the pick-up base is raised to clamp the disk to the turn table, and clamped according to the clamp. The microcomputer 4 generates a control signal for stopping the driving of the loading motor (not shown). The control signal is supplied to the loading motor, whereby the driving of the loading motor is stopped.

The microcomputer 4 generates a control signal for transferring the optical pickup actuator P in the inner circumferential direction of the disc, and the control signal is supplied to the actuator driver 8, and the actuator driver 8 is optical. The pick-up actuator P is transferred in the inner circumferential direction of the disc.

At this time, a control signal for controlling the spindle motor is output from the microcomputer 4, the control signal is supplied to the servo controller 5, and the servo controller 5 drives the spindle motor. At the same time, the optical pickup actuator P transported in the inner circumferential direction of the disk reads the thio data detected in the lead-in area of the disk as it moves in the outer circumferential direction of the disk, and the read thio data is read by the RF amplifying unit 7. After amplification through the signal is supplied to the signal processor (9).

The signal processing unit 9 processes the read Toxy data into a digital signal. Subsequently, the actuator transfers from the inner circumference of the disk to the outer circumferential direction to read the sub cue signal among the data recorded in the program area. The read sub cue signal is input to the microcomputer 4. The microcomputer 4 outputs a control signal for reproducing a program having a sub cue signal corresponding to the key signal input through the key input unit 1.

That is, the actuator is transferred to a track of a program having a sub cue signal corresponding to the song selected by the user, and the data is read. The read data is supplied to the signal processing section 9, the signal processing section 9 is processed into a digital signal, and the processed digital data is transmitted to an audio / video system (A / V).

On the other hand, when the script selection key K1 is input by the user after the disk is inserted, the microcomputer 3 generates a control signal for controlling the memory unit 11, and the control signal is supplied to the memory unit 11. do. Therefore, the title of the program watched, the date of viewing. The script contents indicating the total viewing time of the program and the like are output from the memory unit 11.

Such script contents are supplied to the display unit 13 under the control of the microcomputer 3, and the display unit 13 displays the script contents as shown in FIG.

As described above, the operation of the table of contents display method representing the reproduced program according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 5.

The user executes an initial step S1 of inserting a disc on which a program to be watched is recorded, and after executing the initial step S1, a script selection key input determination step S2 is performed. In the script selection key input determination step (S2), it is determined whether the script selection key has been input by the user.

At this time, when it is determined that the script selection key is input in the script selection key input determination step (S2), the script content display step (S3) proceeds, and the script content display step (S3) displays the script contents stored in the memory unit 11. Display.

On the other hand, if it is determined in the script selection key input determination step (S2) that the script selection key has not been input, the program table display step (S4) proceeds, and the program table display step (S4) is a table of programs recorded in Tiosi. The program selection step S5 and the viewing step S6 are sequentially performed. In the program selection step S5 and the viewing step S6, the program to be viewed is selected from the contents of the script and the contents of the program, and the selected program is viewed.

After the viewing of the program is completed, the script storage key input step S7 is performed, and the script storage key input step S7 inputs the script storage key K2. After the input of the script storage key K2, the script content setting step S8 is reached. The script needle setting step S8 selects and stores script contents indicating a viewing date of a program, a total viewing time of the program, and the like.

As described above, the method of displaying a table of contents of a reproduced program of the optical system according to the present invention visually recognizes the title, the date of viewing, and the total viewing time of the program, which are not previously viewed, by visually recognizing the user. The selection of this incomplete program has an easy effect.

Claims (1)

Inserting a disc with a recorded program to be watched; A script selection key input determination step of determining whether a script selection key selected by a user is input to display a title, a viewing date, a total viewing time, etc. of a program played from the disc; A script content display step of displaying script content stored in a memory when it is determined that a script selection key is input in the script selection key input determination step; A program contents display step of displaying a table of contents of a program recorded in Tiosi when it is determined that the script selection key is not input in the script selection key input determination step; A program selection step of selecting a program to be viewed from the contents of the script and the contents of the program; A viewing step of watching the selected program; A script storage key input step of inputting a script storage key by a user after viewing of a program is completed; And a script content setting step of selecting and storing a script content indicating a program title, a viewing date, a total viewing time of the program, and the like.