WO2015033448A1

WO2015033448A1 - Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and control program

Info

Publication number: WO2015033448A1
Application number: PCT/JP2013/074144
Authority: WO
Inventors: 博明伊藤; 山下　道生; 智貴中川
Original assignee: 株式会社東芝; 東芝ライフスタイル株式会社
Priority date: 2013-09-06
Filing date: 2013-09-06
Publication date: 2015-03-12
Also published as: JPWO2015033448A1

Abstract

This invention implements a resume feature that, given that playback may be stopped or paused and restarted, is meaningful to a user when selecting a program or scene from the results of a search performed on a large number of programs and scenes recorded on a recording medium and playing back the selected program or scene. In this electronic device, whereby a desired program or scene is selected from among a plurality of programs recorded on a recording medium and a plurality of scenes in each of said programs and the selected program or scene is outputted by being played back, a list of programs or scenes is displayed on a screen in response to user input requesting the display of said list, playback of a program or scene is started in response to user input selecting said program or scene from the aforementioned list, and in response to user input requesting the display of the list while the aforementioned program or scene is being played back, the playback of said program or scene is stopped and the list is redisplayed.

Description

Electronic device, electronic device control method, and control program

Embodiments described herein relate generally to an electronic apparatus, an electronic apparatus control method, and a control program.

In a device for recording a television signal (electronic equipment such as a television receiver and a recording / reproducing device including a recording medium), a recording medium for signal recording has a large capacity. For this reason, a large number of programs can be recorded on the recording medium.

On the other hand, many techniques for searching for a desired program or scene from a large number of programs recorded on a recording medium have been proposed. Along with this, it is assumed that the user pauses playback for some reason and instructs to resume playback while selectively playing back any program or scene from the search results of programs and scenes. Therefore, there is a demand for a resume function that is convenient for the user.

JP 2008-148077 A JP 2009-71623 A JP 2009-118168 A

In a conventional electronic device, when selecting and playing back from the search results of many programs and scenes recorded on a recording medium, it is meaningful for the user in consideration of executing playback stop, interruption, and playback restart. An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device that realizes a resume function, a control method of the electronic device, and a control program.

In this embodiment, a list display operation of a list of programs or scenes is performed in an electronic device that selects and reproduces an arbitrary program or scene from a plurality of programs recorded on a recording medium and a plurality of scenes of each of the programs. List display means for displaying the list on the screen in response to input, and playback start to start playback of the program or scene in response to an operation input for selecting any program or scene from the list displayed on the list display means And a list redisplay means for stopping the reproduction of the program or scene and redisplaying the list in response to an operation input for list display input during reproduction of the program or scene.

Further, playback of the program or scene is stopped in response to a playback stop operation input input during playback of the program or scene, and playback is started from the stopped position in response to a playback operation input. Resume means is provided.

According to the configuration of the present embodiment, in consideration of performing playback stop, interruption, and playback restart when selecting and playing back one of a number of programs and scenes recorded on a recording medium. It is possible to provide an electronic device, a control method for the electronic device, and a control program that realize a resume function meaningful to the user.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a television receiver to which the embodiment is applied. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a program guide. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a program table and a plurality of subtitle scenes in a broadcast program broadcast based on the program table. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a main part in the apparatus of FIG. 1 together with an operation example when receiving a broadcast signal. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a main part in the apparatus of FIG. 1 together with an operation example at the time of recording signal reproduction. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an image displayed on the display unit in the operation of the apparatus of FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing another example of an image displayed on the display unit in the operation of the apparatus of FIG. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the apparatus of FIG. FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of a configuration when the reproduction display unit is separated and independent from the apparatus of FIG. FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining a list display and list selection / playback procedure according to the embodiment. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the flow of the resume processing of stop / restart after the list selective playback of FIG. FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram showing the resume process shown in FIGS. 10 and 11.

Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of a television receiver to which the embodiment is applied. The embodiment can be applied not only to a television receiver but also to a recording / reproducing apparatus, a personal computer, a server, a set top box, and the like.

The television receiver shown in FIG. 1 will be described as a representative. The television receiver has a digital tuner device 102. The digital tuner device 102 includes a plurality of tuners that receive, for example, scrambled digital terrestrial broadcast signals. There are 4-8 tuners, for example, and each can receive broadcast signals of different channels. The digital tuner device 102 may be included in a tuner (not shown) for receiving BS / CS digital broadcasting, for example.

The broadcast program signal received by the tuner device 102 is input to the TS processing unit 122, and TS (Transport Stream) of a plurality of channels (CH) is remultiplexed into one TS. The multiplexed TS includes a packet sequence of broadcast programs for each channel. Identification information for channel and packet identification is added to the packet of each channel. The multiplexed TS is input to the storage device 111. In the TS input to the TS processing unit 122, a packet including control information (sometimes referred to as a control packet or a service information packet) is input to the control unit 200 and processed. The TS also includes a packet including electronic program guide (EPG) data. EPG data can be used to construct a program guide.

The storage device 111 includes, for example, a hard disk drive and an optical disk recording / reproducing device. The optical disc includes a digital versatile disc (DVD (registered trademark)), a Blu-ray disc (BD (registered trademark)), and the like.

In the hard disk of the storage device 111, for example, all programs broadcast on a plurality of channels can be stored (automatically recorded) for two to three weeks. By adding a hard disk drive, all programs for one to four months may be automatically recorded. Of the recorded programs, programs other than those designated specially are automatically deleted from the oldest ones. The specially designated program is a program designated by the user as a permanently stored program. In the special designation, for example, the user selects a special program finger button on the menu screen. Then, a program guide is displayed. When the user selects a desired program in the program guide with the cursor and presses the enter button, a special program is designated.

The packet sent from the TS processing unit 122 to the control unit 200 is, for example, a table describing ECM (Entitlement Control Message) that is encryption information of a broadcast program and event information such as a program name, performer, and start time. Information such as EIT (Event Information Table) and EPG (Electric Program Guide) data are included. EPG data can be used to construct a program guide.

The video data included in the packet is encoded by, for example, MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) system, AVC (Advanced Video Coding) system, or the like. The audio data in the audio packet is encoded by, for example, a PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) method, a Dolby method, an MPEG method, or the like.

The TS processing unit 122 includes a packet separation unit, which separates a video packet and an audio packet of a program, and separates and outputs a packet including other control data and EPG data.

The packet including the audio data separated by the TS processing unit 122 is input to the audio decoder 123, and is decoded according to the encoding method. The audio data decoded by the audio decoder 123 is subjected to synchronization processing, volume adjustment, and the like by the audio data processing unit 124 and is supplied to the audio output unit 125. The audio output unit 125 performs stereo separation processing or the like according to the speaker system, and supplies the output to the speaker 126.

The packet including the video data separated by the TS processing unit 122 is input to the video decoder 131 and is decoded according to the encoding method. The video data decoded by the video decoder 131 is subjected to synchronization processing, luminance adjustment, color adjustment, and the like by the video data processing unit 132. The output of the video data processing unit 132 is supplied to the video output unit 133.

The video output unit 133 can multiplex data, graphics, a program guide, etc. from the control unit 200 into the main video signal. In addition, the video output unit 133 sets the scale, resolution, number of lines, aspect ratio, and the like corresponding to the display device 134 with respect to the output video signal, and outputs them to the display device 134.

Note that pay program audio packets and video packets may be encrypted. In this case, there is a processing system for decrypting encryption using the key information, but it is omitted here.

The control unit 200 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 201, an EPG data processing unit 202, a communication control unit 203, an operation device management unit 204, a command analysis unit 205, and the like.

The CPU 201 adjusts the entire operation sequence of the control unit 200.

The EPG data processing unit 202 can generate a program table for display using the received EPG data. Various data included in the EPG data can be stored in association with the program.

The communication control unit 203 can communicate with the outside and take in operation commands, data, contents, and the like. The captured content and data can be stored in, for example, the storage device 111 or a non-volatile memory (also referred to as a storage unit or a storage device) 240. The communication control unit 203 can transmit data, content, and the like from the television receiver 100 to the outside.

The communication control unit 203 is connected to the wireless communication transmission / reception unit 113 and the wired communication transmission / reception unit 112. The wired communication transmitting / receiving unit 112 can transmit / receive data to / from a remote server or home server via the Internet. The wireless communication transmission / reception unit 113 can transmit and receive data to and from the plurality of

portable terminals

500 and 501 and is for short-range communication. The television receiver 100 can also receive an operation signal from the remote controller 115 via the receiving unit 114.

The operation device management unit 204 can grasp and manage device identification data such as the

mobile terminals

500 and 501 and the remote controller 115 that give an operation signal to the control unit 200.

The command analysis unit 205 can analyze an operation command input from the outside and reflect an operation corresponding to the command to the television receiver 100.

Further, the control unit 200 includes a caption processing unit 231, a caption scene keyword list creation unit 232, a scene list creation unit 233, and a display control unit 234. The control unit 200 also includes a memory 240 for building a database file.

The memory 240 can store various data and applications stored in the control unit 200. The data file 242 stores EPG data. The EPG data is regularly updated every week or every two weeks. When there is a sudden program change, automatic data updating is performed in accordance with the control signal.

The subtitle processing unit 231 takes out data including subtitle data generated from subtitles included in a program (mainly automatically received programs) and time data data indicating the time when the subtitles are displayed as subtitle scene data. This caption scene data is stored in the database file 243 in the memory 240.

The subtitle scene keyword creating unit 232 extracts at least subtitle data from a program being played or received (mainly a program selected by the user through an operation), and extracts a character string of the subtitle data as a subtitle scene keyword. The extracted subtitle scene keywords are stored in the database file 244 in the memory 240 in units of “nouns”, for example.

The scene list creation unit 233 performs an operation when the user selects any keyword by an operation in a state where a plurality of the above-described caption scene keywords are displayed on the display unit 134.

At this time, the scene list creation unit 233 accesses the database file 243 based on the selected keyword. Then, a scene selection item of a subtitle scene corresponding to the selected keyword is created and output to the display unit 134 as a scene list via the display control unit 234. The selection items at this time can be created for each program, and a plurality of selection items can be created within one program.

With the above configuration, the database file and 243 can store, as subtitle scene data, data including subtitle data generated from subtitles included in a program and time data indicating the time when the subtitles are displayed.

The database file 244 can extract at least caption data from a program being played or received (a program being viewed), and can store a character string (noun) of the caption data as a keyword. Therefore, if the program playback time or reception time is shorter than the playback or reception time, the accumulation of keywords is small.

The keyword list creation unit 232 displays a plurality of keywords stored in the database file 244 when an operation signal (command) for displaying the keywords is input during reproduction or reception (viewing a program). Can be output for use.

When an arbitrary keyword is selected from a plurality of keywords displayed on the display 134, the scene list creation unit 233 outputs a selection item of a plurality of scenes having subtitles corresponding to the selected keyword as a scene list display. can do. When a past keyword display function is provided, it is possible to see the history and transition of keywords that the user is interested in.

The database file 245 is used for storing other data. For example, a keyword selection history may be stored. Then, for example, statistical data of keywords selected by the user during the last one to two weeks may be stored.

The display control unit 234 can generally control the video signal displayed on the display 134 via the video output unit 133. The display control unit 234 can also be referred to as an OSD (On （screen display) controller. The display control unit 234 can also perform adjustment processing on the resolution, display size, display area, and the like of the image signal. In addition, a video signal of a program table created using EPG data and a menu video signal created in the control unit 200 according to an operation signal can be supplied to the video output unit 133.

The

portable terminals

500 and 501 can also remotely control the television receiver 100.

The

mobile terminals

500 and 501 can access the server via a base station (not shown), the Internet, or the like. It is possible to download various applications and game software as well as contents provided by the server and transfer them to the control unit 200 via the wireless communication transmitting / receiving unit 113. In addition, the

mobile terminals

500 and 501 can transfer information for acquiring content (for example, a web server address, a mail address, a network address, and the like) to the control unit 200 via the wireless communication transmission / reception unit 113. is there.

<Web server address, e-mail address, etc.> Furthermore, moving images, still images, photographic images, etc. may be referred to herein as "recommended information" or "interesting information".

The menu video signal for display, the program guide video signal, and the like are stored and / or managed in the database file 245, for example. When menu display and program guide display are performed, menu screen data and program guide video signals are read from the data storage unit (memory or hard disk) based on the control of the display control unit 234. As a result, the menu image and the program guide image are displayed on the display 134.

The menu video signal for display, the program guide video signal, and the like can be transmitted to the

portable terminal

500 or 501. When the portable terminal 501 or 502 requests a menu video signal, a program guide video signal, etc., the control unit 200 can transmit the menu video signal and the program guide video signal. A keyword list, a scene list, and the like described later may be transferred to the

portable terminal

500 or 501.

The portable terminal 501 or 502 can display the menu video signal and the program guide video signal on the screen of the touch panel, and the user touches the operation button displayed on the screen of the touch (or point) panel. An operation command signal can be given to the television receiver.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a program table created using EPG data. This program guide is displayed on the display 134 under the control of the display control unit 234 when the “program guide” button of the remote controller 115 is pressed. In the illustrated example, time is shown in the vertical direction, and channels CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4... Are shown in the horizontal direction. By operating a scroll button (button with an arrow indicating the scroll direction) of the remote controller 115, it is possible to scroll in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction to display the program column of the next time and the next channel. it can.

In the example shown,
Channel CH1 broadcasts programs such as program P11 (news), program P12 (weather forecast), program P13 (news), program P14 (baseball broadcast), program P15 (movie), program P16 (news), and so on. It is shown that.
On channel CH2, programs such as program P21 (accident site relay), program P22 (weather forecast), program P23 (drama A), program P24 (today's news-Mt. Fuji World Heritage registration), etc. are broadcast. It is shown that.
Channel CH3 indicates that programs such as program P31 (traffic information), program P32 (quiz program), program P33 (music program),... Are broadcast.
Channel CH4 indicates that programs such as program P41 (New York sightseeing spot introduction), program P42 (world heritage introduction of Mt. Fuji), and so on are broadcast.

The user can move the cursor to the position of the program that the user wants to watch by operating the remote controller while the program guide is displayed. When the cursor is at the position of the desired program and the determination button on the remote controller is pressed, the program can be viewed.
The program guide data includes a program guide for past programs, a program guide for current (today) programs, and a program guide for future programs (a program guide after 1-2 weeks). However, in the figure, for the sake of easy understanding, only the program schedule for today is shown, and it is assumed that the current time is, for example, 22:00.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining what processing is performed when the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 automatically records a program.

The television receiver according to the embodiment includes a caption processing unit 231. For this purpose, for example, when the program P14 (baseball broadcast) shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 is recorded, caption processing is performed. In the caption processing, caption data generated from captions included in a program and data including time data indicating the time when the captions are displayed are extracted as caption scenes. This caption scene data is stored in the database file 243 in the memory 240.

Suppose now that the baseball game broadcasted on program P14 will be held at New York Fuji (NY-FUJI) vs. Los Angeles team Los Angeles-EVEREST. In the program P14, it is expected that words (keywords) such as “New York” and “Fuji” frequently appear as subtitles. In addition, the words (keywords) such as “Los Angeles” and “Everest” are expected to appear frequently.

Thereby, the subtitle scene data of the subtitle “New York” scene and the subtitle “Los Angeles” scene are stored in the database file 243 in the memory 240.

In this case, since a lot of other subtitle scene data is obtained, when the data is stored in the database file 243, restriction processing is performed. Various conditions can be set as the limiting condition.

For example, in one program, a plurality of terms having the same appearance term (keyword) and having a high appearance frequency, for example, 20 to 30 are selected from the top. Alternatively, a preference determination unit (not shown) registers a term (keyword) (described later) selected by the user in the past as a registered term. When the caption processing unit 231 detects the “term”, if the detected term is the same as the registered term registered in the preference determination unit, a preference point (for example, +1) is assigned to the term. Append. Thereby, a ranking can be set between a plurality of terms appearing in large numbers. In this case, points (+5, +4, +3, +2, +1, +0) are also added to the above-mentioned frequently occurring terms according to the ranks, and the ranks of a plurality of terms are determined together with the preference points. Condition may be sufficient.

When a keyword having the highest point is determined in one program, this keyword may be used as a representative keyword of the program. As the representative keyword, a word that is equal to or similar to the program name may be selected.

Next, it is assumed that the program P41 (New York sightseeing spot introduction) is recorded. In this case, a scene including the caption “New York” is frequently displayed. In addition, for example, a scene including the subtitle “building” is also frequently displayed. In addition, a relatively large number of scenes including subtitles “street” and “park” are displayed.

As a condition for narrowing display candidates from a large number of subtitle scenes, points given to each program may be different for each genre, broadcast time zone, and broadcast station. Moreover, you may perform the preservation | save classified according to a genre, a broadcast time slot | zone, or a broadcast station.

FIG. 4 shows blocks related to the operation when the broadcast signal (assumed to be the program PX) is automatically recorded in the recording / reproducing apparatus 111 in the apparatus shown in FIG. The subtitle stream included in the broadcast signal is taken into the subtitle processing unit 231. The subtitle processing unit 231 reads subtitle data (subtitle character string, display time data) from the subtitle of the subtitle stream, and outputs the subtitle data to the database file 243 as subtitle scene data.

Also, the caption processing unit 231 performs morphological element analysis on the caption character string data, extracts “nouns”, and outputs them to the database file 244 as caption scene keywords. In this case, the database file 244 stores a subtitle scene keyword of a program currently being broadcast or a program currently being reproduced. Accordingly, the subtitle processing unit 231 stores the subtitle scene keyword of the program currently being broadcast or currently being reproduced and extracted from the character string data once stored in the database file 233 in the database file 244. May be.

In other words, the subtitle scene data is stored in the database file 233 from the subtitle processing unit 231 and the keywords are stored in the database file 244 as described above. May be. One form is a form in which data is stored in parallel to the database file 233 and the database file 244 from the caption processing unit 231, and the other form is to create a keyword from the caption scene data once stored in the database file 233. Thus, the data is stored in the database file 244.

Since a large number of subtitle scene keywords are also obtained for the above keywords, when subtitle scene keywords are stored in the database file 244, restriction processing is performed in the same manner as described above.

During the automatic recording, subtitle scenes and subtitle scene keywords are stored in the database files 243 and 244 regardless of the user's operation.

Here, it is assumed that the user operates through the remote controller 115 to display the keyword. Then, the subtitle scene keyword creating unit 232 and the display control unit 231 shown in FIG. 1 select the keywords with high priority (several) related to the program PX constructed in the database file 244 and display them on the display 134. Process to do.

As described above, the apparatus according to the present embodiment can display, for example, a plurality of keywords having a high appearance frequency among a plurality of keywords obtained from subtitles of a currently viewed program. Here, it is assumed that the user selects any one keyword based on the operation of the remote controller and presses the enter button for the purpose of displaying the scene list.

Then, the scene list creation unit 233 generates a scene list of a plurality of subtitle scenes having subtitles corresponding to the selected keyword with reference to the first database file, and outputs the scene list for display. Thereby, the display 134 is switched to the scene list display state. The scene list includes a plurality of scene selection items.

Next, what kind of keyword list the subtitle scene keyword list creation unit 232 creates and what kind of scene list the scene list creation unit 233 creates will be described.

FIG. 5 shows a case where the program P14 (baseball broadcast / New York / Fuji (NY-FUJI) vs. Loss / Everest) recorded in the storage device 111 is played back in the apparatus shown in FIG. ing.

The subtitle processing unit 231 does not need to extract a subtitle scene to be stored in the database file 243 from the reproduction signal during reproduction. However, on the other hand, since it is in the automatic reception state, the caption scene data of the program is extracted from the broadcast signal being received and sequentially stored in the database file 243.

Here, it is assumed that the user operates through the remote controller 115 to display the keyword. Then, the subtitle scene keyword creation unit 232 and the display control unit 231 shown in FIG. 1 select the keywords with high priority (several) related to the program P14 constructed in the database file 244 and display them on the display 134. Process to do. As a result, for example, “New York”, “Fuji”, “Batter”, “Los Angeles”, “Everest”, “Pitcher”,... Is done.

Here, it is assumed that the user is interested in, for example, “New York”. It is assumed that the user operates the remote controller, selects the keyword “New York”, and presses the enter button. Then, the scene list creation unit 233 detects subtitle scene data including “New York”. For example, the scene list creation unit 233 displays a scene list indicating scene selection items included in the program P41 (New York sightseeing spot introduction) and scene selection items of other programs (programs including New York subtitles). Create as. This is because the program P41 (New York sightseeing spot introduction) includes many subtitles “New York”.

When the user selects a scene selection item included in the program P41 (New York sightseeing spot introduction) by operating the remote controller and presses the enter button, the playback operation shifts to the playback state of the program P41.

In the above description, the relationship between the program P14 and the program P41 has been described in order to facilitate understanding. However, in fact, there is a possibility that there are many other subtitle scene data including “New York”. high. In such a case, selection items of related scenes of a large number of programs can be displayed as a scene list. The number of selection items displayed on the screen is, for example, 5 to 6, but other selection items can be displayed on the screen by a scroll operation.

Now, assume that the program P14 is being played and the keywords “New York”, “Fuji”, “Batter”, and “Los Angeles” are displayed as the keyword list. Assume that the user selects “Fuji” here. Then, a scene list including selection items for selecting scenes of the program P24 (news ... Mt. Fuji world heritage registration) and program P42 (introduction of the world heritage Mt. Fuji) is displayed. Here, the user can determine which program he / she wants to view by looking at the scene list.

In the above description, when the keyword “Fuji” is selected, the scene list displays representative scene lists of all related programs. However, various methods can be used as the method for displaying the scene list and the method for using the scene list, and will be described below.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a method for using a scene list in the apparatus shown in FIG. On the screen 134-1, the keywords “New York”, “Fuji”, “Los Angeles”, “Everest” and “Pitcher” included in the caption data of the program P14 are displayed. Assuming that the user has selected the keyword “Fuji”, as shown in the screen 134-2, “Display scene list of program being viewed?” Or “Display related scene list of all programs?” A comment asking if you want to do is displayed. Now, when the user selects a comment “Display scene list of program being viewed?” By operating the remote controller and presses the enter button, the screen is switched to the screen 134-3.

On this screen 134-3, the selection items of the plurality of scenes created in the “baseball broadcast” of the program P14 are displayed. In this example, selection items such as “NY-FUJI player introduction”, “NY-FUJI successive managers”, “NY-FUJI expedition schedule”, “NY-FUJI championship” are displayed. At the same time, a selection button for selecting whether to perform “cue playback” or “play from the beginning of the program” is also displayed. When the “play from the top of program” button is selected, playback from the top of the program P14 is started. If any of the scene selection items and “Cue playback” is selected, or if any one of the selection items is selected and the Enter button is operated, the cue playback from the selected scene is performed. Executed.

In the screen 134-2, when the user selects “display related scene list of all programs”, as shown in the screen 134-4, the representative selection item of the program P24 (Mt. Fuji is a World Heritage site) and the program P42 Representative selection items (Mt. Fuji history) are displayed.

In the database file 243, a representative subtitle scene is determined for each program. There are various ways to determine a representative scene. For example, a scene in which a caption with the highest frequency in a program appears is designated as a representative scene, and caption scene data is created together with time information of the scene.

In the screen 134-4, there are two scene list selection items, but in the actual device, more selection items are displayed. On this screen, one of the programs is selected by operating the remote controller (in the example shown in the figure, program P42 “Introduction of World Heritage Mt. Fuji” is selected). Then, for example, as shown in the screen 134-5, it shows that the program P42- "Introduction of World Heritage Fuji" is selected, and is used to decide whether to perform cue playback or playback from the beginning of the program. A button is displayed.

When the playback button is selected from the top by operating the remote controller and the enter button is pressed, playback from the top of the program P42 is started. Select the desired selection item "Mount Fuji History" or "Mount Fuji Trail" or "Four Seasons Mt. Fuji" or "Mount Fuji Photo Exhibition" and press the OK button by remote controller operation. Cue playback from the scene starts.

That is, when the above-described scene list creation unit 233 creates a plurality of scene selection items for scene list display, the scene list creation unit 233 records the selection items for cueing a plurality of scenes in the same program and / or a storage medium. It is possible to create a selection item for scene selection that can selectively designate scenes of a plurality of programs. When a scene selection item for cueing a plurality of scenes in the same program is selected, jump playback is performed in the same program. If one of the scene selection items of a plurality of programs is selected, jump playback between programs can be obtained.

Also, a return button is displayed on the screen, so selecting the return button and pressing the enter button allows you to return to the previous screen.

In addition, the scene list creation unit 233 can display a selection button that indicates whether or not the program corresponding to the scene selection item is to be played back from the beginning while the scene list is displayed.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing another example of an image displayed on the display device in the operation of the apparatus shown in FIG. If, for example, a “subtitle scene” button on the remote controller 115 is pressed while viewing a playback video of a program, a plurality of keywords (for example, 1-5) are displayed. When any one of the keywords is selected by the cursor by operating the remote controller and the remote controller determination button is pressed, the scene list display state is entered. The example of FIG. 7 is an example in which a list of related scenes of all programs is displayed. For example, “golf” is selected as the keyword. Thereby, a scene list of programs related to golf is displayed. In the selection items of the scene list, a program name, a broadcast time zone, and the like may be described.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the apparatus shown in FIG. For example, when the user presses a key labeled “Subtitle Scene” on the remote controller, a caption scene keyword is extracted and a list of caption scene keywords is displayed (steps SA1 to SA3). Here, when the user operates the remote controller and selects a desired keyword, a scene list display is obtained (steps SA4 and SA5). Further, when the user selects a desired scene selection item from the scene list, playback of the program of the selected scene is started.

In the above embodiment, the keyword list is created from the program that the user is currently viewing. This keyword list is not a keyword extracted by examining past program keywords or user preferences. For this purpose, a scene list is created based on the keywords that the user is currently interested in.

When building preference data, for example, keywords selected in the past may be stored in the data file 245, and the preference may be determined from the number of selected keywords. In addition, the keywords selected by the user may be collected in units of one week and accumulated as history data along with the time axis. A change in user preference can be read from the history data of the selected keyword.

In the above description, the control unit 200 in FIG. 1 has been described as being integrated with a television receiver. However, the tuner device 102, the TS processing unit 122, the storage device 11, and the entire control unit 200 may be configured as independent devices. Alternatively, the caption processing unit 231, the caption scene keyword creation unit 232, the scene list creation unit 233, the display control unit 234, the memory 240, and the like in the control unit 200 may be configured as independent devices.

FIG. 9 shows an example of the configuration when the reproduction display unit is separated and independent in the apparatus shown in FIG. The system of this embodiment includes a server 1101 and a viewer 2101. Video and audio can be viewed with a dedicated viewer 2101. Video, audio, and the like are transmitted from the server 1101 to the viewer 2101 via the transmitter 1102. The viewer 2101 receives transmitted video, audio, and the like via the receiver 2102.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining the list display and list selection / playback procedure of the embodiment. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the flow of the resume processing of stop / restart after the list selective playback of FIG. FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram showing the resume process shown in FIG. 10 and 11, the same parts as those in FIG. 8 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted here.

First, in FIG. 10, the feature of the present embodiment is that, in step SA7, a subtitle scene is searched and playback is started, and in step SA8, “the user selects a subtitle scene list key by remote controller operation”. When the button is pressed, playback is stopped in step SA9, the last viewed subtitle scene list is displayed on the screen in step SA10, and the series of processing ends, whereby the user can select the subtitle scene list key during playback. By simply pressing, the playback is stopped without pressing the stop key, and the subtitle scene list is immediately displayed, so that the operation can be simplified.

Next, in FIG. 11, the feature of the present embodiment is that, in step SA7, in a state where the reproduction of the searched subtitle scene is started, in step SA11, the user presses the stop key by operating the remote controller ( * 1) When the reproduction is stopped in step S12, the apparatus enters a standby state. Here, in step SA13, when the user presses the reproduction key by operating the remote controller, reproduction is resumed from the stop position of * 1 in step SA14. As a result, when the user presses the stop key during playback, the user can immediately resume playback from the interrupt position by pressing the playback key, thereby simplifying the operation.

Summarizing the processes shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, the resume process as shown in FIG. 12 is realized. In FIG. 12, when an arbitrary keyword search scene of a certain program is selected, playback is started from that scene. Here, when the subtitle scene list key is pressed at an arbitrary time, the subtitle scene list is stopped at the reproduction position, the last viewed subtitle scene list is displayed on the screen, and the next selection instruction input is awaited. If the stop key is input during playback, the stop position is held. If the playback key is input again, playback starts from the stop position. As described above, in the present embodiment, a plurality of resume functions can be realized in accordance with the key operation input during reproduction, and an operation procedure meaningful for the user can be realized.

It has been described that the apparatus of the above-described embodiment uses the caption data of the caption sent together with the broadcast signal. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is also possible to use character data converted by voice / character conversion processing.

In the above description, it is a matter of course that the “unit” may be replaced with “device”, “vessel”, “block”, and “module” within the scope of the present invention. Furthermore, in each constituent element of the claims, even when the constituent element is expressed in a divided manner, when a plurality of constituent elements are expressed together, or when they are expressed in combination, they are within the scope of the present invention. Even when the claims are expressed as a method, the apparatus of the present invention is applied.

This embodiment can also be applied as a computer-readable information storage medium or a program.

That is, it is a computer-readable information storage medium, and stores the following instructions or a program including these instructions as instructions for the computer.

A command for storing data including subtitle data generated from subtitles included in a program and time data indicating a time at which the subtitles are displayed, as data for a scene list in a storage unit;
An instruction to extract at least subtitle data from a program being played or received, and to store a character string of the subtitle data as a keyword in the storage unit;
When an operation signal for displaying a keyword is input during reproduction or reception, a command for creating a plurality of keywords stored in the storage unit for display;
When an arbitrary keyword is selected from a plurality of keywords displayed on the display unit, subtitle data corresponding to the selected keyword is stored using data stored as data for the scene list in the storage unit And a command for creating scene selection items for a plurality of scenes including for the scene list. In addition, instructions for executing each operation described in the above embodiment are stored.

Although several embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments are presented as examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalents thereof. *

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Television receiver, 102 ... Digital tuner apparatus, 111 ... Memory | storage device, 122 ... TS processing part, 123 ... Audio decoder, 124 ... Audio data processing part, 125. ..Audio output unit 131... Video decoder 132... Video data processing unit 133... Video output unit 134. Processing unit 203 ... Communication control unit 204 ... Operation device management unit 205 ... Command analysis unit 231 ... Subtitle processing unit 232 ... Subtitle scene keyword creation unit 233 ... Scene list creation unit, 234... Display control unit, 240.

Claims

In an electronic device that selects and reproduces an arbitrary program or scene from a plurality of programs recorded on a recording medium and a plurality of scenes of each of the programs,
List display means for displaying the list of the program or scene according to an operation input for list display;
Playback start means for starting playback of the program or scene in response to an operation input for selecting any program or scene from the list displayed by the list display means;
List redisplay means for stopping reproduction of the program or scene in response to an operation input for list display input during reproduction of the program or scene, and redisplaying the list;
An electronic device comprising:
Further, playback of the program or scene is stopped in response to a playback stop operation input input during playback of the program or scene, and playback is started from the stopped position in response to a playback operation input. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising: a resume unit configured to resume.
The list display means includes:
A first database file that stores subtitle data of a subtitle in a received program and data including time data indicating a display time of the subtitle as data for a scene list;
A second database file for storing a subtitle data character string of a program being viewed as a keyword;
When a keyword display command is input during viewing of a program, a keyword list creation unit that reads a plurality of keywords corresponding to the program being viewed from the database file and creates them for display;
When an arbitrary keyword is selected from a plurality of displayed keywords, scene selection items of a plurality of scenes including subtitle data corresponding to the selected keyword are used for the scene list using the scene list data. A scene list creation section to create as
An electronic device according to claim 1.
The scene list creation unit
The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein when the scene selection items of the plurality of scenes are created for display of a scene list, the plurality of scene selection items are created for selective heading of a plurality of scenes in the same program.
The scene list creation unit
When creating the selection items of the plurality of scenes for scene list display,
Multiple scene selection items can be created and / or scenes of a plurality of programs recorded in a storage medium can be selectively designated for selective cuing of a plurality of scenes in the same program The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of scene selection items are created.
4. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein the scene list creation unit outputs a selection button for display indicating whether or not to reproduce from the head of the program corresponding to the scene selection item in a state where the scene list is displayed.
The data for the scene list of the first database file is created from the caption data extracted from a plurality of program streams received by a digital tuner device that simultaneously receives a plurality of channels. Electronics.
The first database file, the second database file, the keyword list creation unit, and the scene list creation unit are provided in any of a digital television receiver, a recording / playback apparatus, or a server. Item 4. The electronic device according to Item 3.
In a control method of an electronic device that selects and reproduces an arbitrary program or scene from a plurality of programs recorded on a recording medium and a plurality of scenes of each of the programs,
The program or scene list is displayed on the screen in response to an operation input for list display,
In response to an operation input for selecting any program or scene from the list displayed by the list display means, playback of the program or scene is started,
An electronic device control method for stopping reproduction of the program or scene and redisplaying the list in response to an operation input for list display input during reproduction of the program or scene.
Further, playback of the program or scene is stopped in response to a playback stop operation input input during playback of the program or scene, and playback is started from the stopped position in response to a playback operation input. The method for controlling an electronic device according to claim 9.
A control method for creating the list,
Data including subtitle data of subtitles in the received program and time data indicating the display time of the subtitles is stored in the storage unit as data for the scene list,
Stores the character string of the caption data of the program being viewed as a keyword in the storage unit,
When a keyword display command is input during viewing of a program, a plurality of keywords corresponding to the program being viewed are read from the storage unit and created for display,
When an arbitrary keyword is selected from a plurality of displayed keywords, scene selection items of a plurality of scenes including subtitle data corresponding to the selected keyword are used for the scene list using the scene list data. Create as,
The method for controlling an electronic device according to claim 9.
The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein when creating scene selection items for the plurality of scenes for scene list display, the plurality of scene selection items are created for selective heading of a plurality of scenes in the same program. Control method.
When creating the selection items of the plurality of scenes for scene list display,
Multiple scene selection items can be created and / or scenes of a plurality of programs recorded in a storage medium can be selectively designated for selective cuing of a plurality of scenes in the same program The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 11, wherein a plurality of scene selection items are created.
12. The method of controlling an electronic device according to claim 11, wherein a display selection button indicating whether or not the program corresponding to the scene selection item is to be reproduced is output in a state where the scene list is displayed.
A program that can be executed by a computer and that selects and reproduces an arbitrary program or scene from among a plurality of programs recorded on a recording medium, and a plurality of scenes of each of the programs.
A list display command for displaying the list of the program or scene according to an operation input for list display;
A playback start command for starting playback of the program or scene in response to an operation input for selecting any program or scene from the list displayed by the list display command;
A list redisplay command for stopping reproduction of the program or scene in response to an operation input for list display input during reproduction of the program or scene, and redisplaying the list;
A control program for an electronic device comprising:
Further, playback of the program or scene is stopped in response to a playback stop operation input input during playback of the program or scene, and playback is started from the stopped position in response to a playback operation input. 16. The control program for an electronic device according to claim 15, further comprising a resume command for performing the operation.
The list display command is:
A command to store data including subtitle data of subtitles in a received program and time data indicating display time of the subtitles in a storage unit as data for a scene list;
A command for storing a character string of subtitle data of a program being viewed in a storage unit as a keyword;
When a keyword display command is input during viewing of a program, a command for reading a plurality of keywords corresponding to the program being viewed from the storage unit and creating it for display;
When an arbitrary keyword is selected from a plurality of displayed keywords, scene selection items of a plurality of scenes including subtitle data corresponding to the selected keyword are used for the scene list using the scene list data. 16. An electronic device control program according to claim 15, further comprising: an instruction to be generated as: