JP2000287179A - Device and method for viewing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to select and view at least one program through the same operation among all viewing available programs without the need for the user to be conscious of broadcast programs and recorded programs. SOLUTION: A user can select a desired program among programs that are broadcast at present and programs recorded in a recording medium set at present, by means of one and same electronic program guide menu by integrating EPG data of programs that are broadcast at present resulting from broadcast signals and EPG data that are cross-referenced with recording addresses in a recording medium 61 in the case of past recording of the programs to the recording medium 61 into one electronic program guide and displaying the integrated electronic program guide.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a program viewing apparatus and method for performing comfortable zapping viewing of both a broadcast program and a recorded program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the number of receivable broadcast channels of a program viewing apparatus such as a television receiver and a television broadcast receiver combined therewith has been increasing due to diversification of television broadcasting systems such as satellite broadcasting and CATV. In addition, with the spread of storage devices such as video recorders, a viewing format in which a broadcast program is recorded and viewed later is also established, and the number of programs that can be viewed increases when the recorded program is added.

[0003] Regarding selection of a broadcasted program, EPG (Electronic Program Guide) data, which is program information data transmitted from a broadcasting station, is displayed on a receiver as an electronic program guide.
A method of directly selecting and viewing a program therefrom has been put to practical use. With regard to the recorded program, a method of displaying the recording date and time and the channel on the receiver as an electronic program guide for the recorded program on the receiver based on the data at the time of the recording operation, and directly selecting and viewing the program from there, has been put into practical use. ing.

[0004] If an electronic program guide is used, rough classification can be performed by a program title, category information to which the program belongs, summary information, performer information, and the like, which is useful for searching for an interesting program from many programs. . Also, from the list display of the date and time and the channel number of the recorded program, it is possible to search for the approximate recorded program.

[0005] However, both the electronic program guide and the recorded program electronic program guide are displayed on the receiver, and although the program selection operation can be performed by the operation on the screen, the functions are controlled by different devices. To use both, the user needs to switch the input signal to the television receiver. Also,
Even if you can switch easily, there is also a problem that both have different operability, and even if you use an electronic program guide, you can select an interesting program from all available programs including recorded programs It is difficult at present.

However, if only one of a broadcasted program and a recorded program is targeted, it is not always the case that a comfortable program selection can be made in the electronic program guide.
Since an electronic program guide requires several operations to select and view a program, it is not practical to use the electronic program guide every time a program is switched, especially in a viewing mode called zapping.

In zapping viewing, instead of deciding a program to be watched first and then tuning to a channel and continuing to watch the program, the user constantly switches channels to search for a program that suits the user's interests. (For example, comparing a baseball broadcast with a variety program) and performing an operation to view only the parts of interest, so that you do not have to do the trouble of opening the electronic program guide each time. Absent.

However, as described above, it is time-consuming and time-consuming to search for a program of interest by using only the conventional channel up / down buttons or to switch between programs with distant channel numbers. It takes. Also, even with the conventional channel direct button operation, if the channel number is 3 digits or more, it is difficult to remember the number, and it takes time to select, and in any case, the current It is difficult to do zapping comfortably.

[0009] Further, in the case of selecting only a channel having only a small number of terrestrial waves as in the prior art,
It doesn't always mean that you can get comfortable zapping. In the case of switching between two programs, the broadcast program proceeds regardless of the user's intention even during the switching, and there is a problem that important scenes of the program watched immediately before the switching are missed.

[0010]

As described above, in the current program viewing apparatus, a program selection operation is performed for all viewable programs including a large number of broadcast programs and recorded programs. Is tedious, you ca n’t quickly select the program you ’re interested in or switch between multiple programs,
Another problem is that important scenes are missed during program switching.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a program viewing apparatus capable of comfortably performing zapping viewing of either a broadcasted program or a recorded program.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION To solve these problems, the present invention relates to a receiving means for receiving a broadcast video signal in a program viewing apparatus for reproducing a video signal containing program information data. Recording means for pre-recording a video signal; program information data of the video signal received by the receiving means and program information data of the video signal recorded in the recording means, Selecting means for selecting a signal.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a program viewing apparatus according to the present invention.

A broadcast signal received by the antenna 1 is supplied to a tuner 2, where a reception channel is selected. When the broadcast to be received is CATV, a signal is directly supplied to the receiving tuner 2 from the cable. The reception signal of the channel selected by the reception tuner 2 is supplied to the signal processing unit 3 and the system control unit 5. The signal processing unit 3 performs necessary processing on the input received signal,
Recording device 6 and OSD (On Screen Dis)
play) output to the control unit 4.

The recording device 6 is a randomly accessible and exchangeable recording medium 6 such as a DVD-RAM, for example.
1 and a nonvolatile memory 62, and the signal output from the signal processing unit 3 is recorded (recorded) on the recording medium 61. Conversely, after the signal reproduced from the recording device 6 is input to the signal processing unit 3 to perform signal processing,
It can also be output to the control unit 4. Note that the audio signal is also separated by the signal processing unit 3 and recorded on the recording device 6, or output from, for example, a speaker, but not shown here.

The OSD control unit 4 includes a normal video signal (a video signal received / selected by the tuner 2 or a video signal reproduced by the recording device 6) supplied from the signal processing unit 3, The video signal of the electronic program guide output from the control unit 5 is switched or synthesized, and the monitor device 7
Displays an image signal supplied from the OSD control unit 4. In the embodiment, the monitor device 7 is built in the main body of the program viewing device. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be installed outside from the video output terminal via a cable.

The system control unit 5 obtains EPG data from the signal received by the tuner 2. The selected EPG data is stored in the memory 62. In addition, for a program recorded (recorded) on the recording medium 61, related EPG data is obtained in a similar manner. At this time, data such as where the program to be recorded is recorded on the recording medium 61 is associated with the EPG data and recorded on the recording medium 61.

The associated EPG data recorded in the recording medium 61 is also read and recorded in the memory 62, and is replaced each time the recording medium 61 is replaced.
Since the EPG data recorded in No. 1 is read,
The data in the memory 62 is also updated. If necessary, the system control unit 5 combines the EPG data of the currently broadcast program stored in the memory 62 and the program recorded on the recording medium 61 to generate an image of one electronic program guide. Then, the EPG is sent to the monitor device 7 via the OSD control unit 4.
Is displayed.

As described above, the system control unit 5 controls the display output of the EPG and the display thereof, while controlling the tuning operation of the tuner 2 and the control of each functional circuit unit such as the recording device 6 and the OSD control unit 4. Also do. Further, the system control unit 5 temporarily stores information on the video displayed immediately before and data of the video itself in the memory 62 and performs control relating to video recursion, which will be described later.

The system control unit 5 is provided with a receiving unit (not shown), and receives from the remote control unit 8 a signal of command information (for example, an infrared ray or a radio wave) corresponding to a key operation. The system control unit 5 executes the control operation of each functional circuit unit described so far based on the command information.

FIG. 2 shows, as a part of a key operation panel of the remote control unit 8, a portion where keys for performing various operations as described later are arranged. A key 82 and a cross cursor 83 are shown. The electronic program guide key 81 is used to turn ON / OFF the display of the electronic program guide on a normal screen (a screen obtained by receiving / selecting a channel by the tuner 2 or a screen of a video reproduced by the recording device 6). The key to do. Back key 82
Is a key for returning to the program selected immediately before switching from the currently displayed program (a program obtained by reception / selection by the tuner 2 or a program reproduced by the recording device 6).

The cross cursor part 83 has an up key 83
1, a down key 833, a right key 833, a direction key of a left key 834, and an enter key 835. The four direction instruction keys are keys for moving, for example, highlighting and tabs displayed in an electronic program guide in accordance with the respective key operation directions, and performing a channel selection operation on a normal screen. An Enter key 835 is a key for executing a command (for example, receiving or reproducing a program associated with the selected program information) of a portion selected by moving the highlighted display in the electronic program guide.

[First Processing Operation] FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a first processing operation in the program viewing apparatus of FIG. First, initial settings are performed when the power is turned on (step S1). Actually, the initial settings of various information (parameters) are limited to those relating to the gist of the present invention.
First, the video to be displayed is set. The setting of the electronic program guide automatically reads the EPG data included in the broadcast signal received by the receiving tuner 2. Further, when the recording medium 61 is inserted into the recording device 6, the EPG data which has been subjected to the processing of associating with the recording position in the recording medium 61 is also read from the recording medium 61, and the respective data are integrated and processed. 62.

The first image to be displayed on the monitor device 7 is the current program on the same channel if the image when the power was last turned off is currently being broadcast, and the current program stored on the recording medium 61 The setting is such as the video at the position where the reproduction was stopped last time.

When operations such as reproduction, fast forward, rewind, stop, and pause are performed on the video recorded on the recording medium 61, the operations are the same as those of a normal video player, but the description is omitted here. Also, the recording medium 61
If the video at the time the power was last turned off cannot be displayed, such as when the TV has been replaced since the last use, it can always be displayed and limited, for example, the program with the lowest channel number of the program being broadcast Video is displayed.

After the initialization, the system controller 5 waits for an input from the remote controller 8 (step S2).
It is determined whether or not the electronic program guide key 81 of the remote control unit has been pressed (step S3).
Then, the EPG data that has been integrated and stored in advance is read out from the PC 2 and displayed on the monitor device 7 as an electronic program guide (step S5). If the input is anything else,
In accordance with the input, for example, processing such as channel switching is performed (step S4).

FIG. 4 shows a system of the integrated EPG data recorded in the memory 62 in the step 1.
It is a conceptual representation. All programs are divided into groups by, for example, program categories (eg, news, movies, sports, etc.). These contents are displayed in step 5 as an electronic program guide as shown in FIG. Naturally, the structure of the grouping and arrangement order of the programs in FIGS. 4 and 5 is the same.

In FIG. 5, a tab is attached to each group, and a group title is displayed. Then, only the program information of the group corresponding to the selection tab 12 is displayed. The program information includes a channel number, a title, a broadcast time, and the like, and is displayed in a list in order of the channel number.
For the currently selected program, the corresponding program information is highlighted as in the highlighting section 13.

Also, as a feature of the present invention, the information of the program currently being broadcast and the program recorded on the recording medium 61 are simultaneously displayed in one electronic program guide. For example, an icon 14 that images a recording medium such as a DVD-RAM and a unique identification number 15 composed of, for example, the recording date and time are displayed, and are arranged below the information of the currently broadcasted program.

Here, as a method of grouping programs, a case where a program category (for example, news, movie, sports, etc.) in EPG data is used is shown as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this. The information of the program recorded on the recording medium 61 may be displayed in a display method of dividing the program into a different category (group) from the program currently being broadcast as shown in FIG. A method of expressing the system of FIG. 4 intuitively and easily by using expressions is also conceivable.

Next, it is determined whether any one of the direction keys of the cross cursor 83 has been pressed (step S6).
If pressed, the selection tab 12 or the highlighting unit 13 shown in FIG. 5 is moved according to the direction instruction of the cursor (step S7).

The content of the instruction given by the direction instruction key of the cross cursor part 83 is the right key 833 (or the left key 8).
34), the selection tab 12 is moved to the right (or left) tab by one, and an instruction is given to display only the program information belonging to the group corresponding to the selected tab, and the up key 831 (or When the down key 832) is pressed, the highlight display unit 13 is instructed to switch to the next higher (or lower) program information. When the selection tab 12 is switched, the highlighting unit 13 is instructed to switch to the program information located at the top of the group after the switching.

After the end of step S7 or
If none of the direction instruction keys has been pressed in step 6, it is determined whether or not the Enter key 835 of the remote control unit 8 has been pressed (step S8), and if pressed, the selected program (highlighted display). Is determined to be broadcast (step S9).
If it is a broadcasted program, the receiving tuner 2 is controlled so as to select a channel corresponding to the program. At the same time, the display of the electronic program guide is ended, and the video of the received program is displayed.

At this time, if the program displayed immediately before is a program reproduced from the recording medium 61, O
Control for switching the signal input to the SD control unit 4 to the signal from the tuner 2 is also performed at the same time (step S1).
0).

If the program selected in step S9 is not a broadcast program (in the case of a program recorded on the recording medium 61), video data corresponding to the program is searched from the recording medium 61, and at the same time, the electronic data is retrieved. The display of the program guide is ended, and the searched video is reproduced and displayed. At this time, if the previously displayed program is a video of a broadcasted program, the control to switch the signal input to the OSD control unit 4 to the signal from the recording device 6 is also performed (step S1). S11).

FIG. 8 shows a display state of the result of step S10, and FIG. 9 shows a display state of the result of step S11. At the upper right of each display screen, simple information 16 of the program being displayed is displayed. The simple information 16 displays the group to which the channel of the selected program belongs, and FIG.
Is an image reproduced from a recorded program, and is also distinguished from an image of a broadcast program by displaying an icon indicating the reproduced image. The simple information 16 is set so as to disappear in a few seconds and is considered so as not to disturb the program viewing, but it is not always necessary.

As described above, according to the first processing operation of the first embodiment, the EPG data of the currently broadcast program obtained from the broadcast signal and the EPG data of the program being recorded on the recording medium 61 in the past, One EPG table is displayed by integrating the EPG data that has been subjected to the association processing with the recording position in the recording medium 61. That is, the program currently being broadcast and the program recorded on the currently set recording medium can be selected and viewed from the same electronic program guide display.

As a result, it is not necessary to switch the input signal when switching between a broadcast program and a recorded program as in the prior art.
Even if you do not have the awareness of the recorded program, select at least one from all the programs that are currently viewable by the same operation,
You can watch.

Furthermore, since the electronic program guide displays programs in the same group only on a single screen, and the group switching operation can be easily performed only by using the direction key of the remote control unit. As in the conventional electronic program guide display, all programs are simply arranged in order of channel number, and groups are distinguished by colors or icons (FIG. 10). Can be viewed in a list, and quick program selection is possible.

That is, according to the present invention, the user can enjoy comfortable zapping viewing of any of the currently broadcasted program and the recorded program by operating the electronic program guide.

[Second processing operation] In the first processing operation,
The user displays the electronic program guide in order to quickly select and watch the program of interest from a large number of programs, and operates the remote control unit to switch the group or move the cursor to the target program while viewing the display. It is necessary to make a move or program selection decision. In the second processing operation, an interested program can be quickly viewed without displaying the electronic program guide.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a second processing operation in the program viewing apparatus of FIG. The contents of steps S21 and S22 are common to steps S1 and S2 of the first processing operation.

It is determined whether any one of the direction keys of the cross cursor 83 of the remote controller 8 has been pressed (step S23). If the key has been pressed, the monitor device 7 is instructed according to the cursor direction. Before switching the program to be displayed, it is determined whether the switched program is being broadcast (step S25), and if there is a broadcasted program, a channel corresponding to the program is selected. And controls the receiving tuner 2 to display the received broadcast video.

At this time, if the program displayed immediately before the switching is a video reproduced from the recording medium 61, the signal input to the OSD control unit 4 is the tuner 2
The control for switching to the signal from is also performed at the same time (step S26). If none of the direction instruction keys of the cross cursor 831 has been pressed in step 23, processing such as displaying an electronic program guide according to the input is performed (step S24).

If the switched program is not a broadcast program in step S25 (if it is a program recorded on the recording medium 61), video data corresponding to the program is searched from the recording medium 61, and the data is retrieved. Play and display the video. At this time, if the previously displayed program is a video of a broadcast program, the OSD control unit 4
Is switched to the signal from the recording device 6 at the same time (step S27).

When the right key 833 (or the left key 834) is pressed, the contents of the program switching instruction given by the direction instruction key of the cross cursor unit 83 are changed from the group 9 to which the currently displayed program 10 shown in FIG. The user is instructed to switch to the display of the program with the youngest channel number in the one right (or left) group. In FIG. 4, the program 11 having the youngest channel number among the groups on the right
Go to Up key 831 (or down key 83
When 2) is pressed, an instruction is issued to switch to the display of a program one level higher (or lower) than the currently displayed program 10.

The display state of the result of step S26 is the first
8 is displayed as in step S10 of the first processing operation, and the display state of the result of step S27 is displayed as in FIG. 9 similarly to step S11 of the first processing operation.

As described above, the above embodiment and the second embodiment
According to the processing operation of (1), when the EPG data of the currently broadcasted program obtained from the broadcast signal was previously recorded on the recording medium 61 in the past, the associating process with the recording position in the recording medium 61 was performed at the same time. By integrating EPG data,
Even if one piece of EPG data is configured and is not displayed as an electronic program guide, it can be operated with a cross cursor.

This eliminates the need to switch the input signal when switching between a broadcasted program and a program recorded on a recording medium as in the prior art. Even if the user does not have a consciousness of a program, at least one program can be selected and viewed from all the programs that can be viewed at the present time.

Further, since the programs of the EPG data are arranged in groups, the user can up / down the channel only within the same group. Group switching and channel up / down can be easily performed using the directional keys on the remote control unit.
Compared to the conventional channel up / down operation, in which all programs are simply arranged in order of channel number, the user can switch only to programs belonging to a group that is likely to be of interest, and can quickly Program selection becomes possible.

That is, according to the present invention, the user can enjoy comfortable zapping viewing by operating the EPG data with the cross cursor regardless of the currently broadcasted program or the recorded program.

[Third Processing Operation of the Embodiment] In the first and second processing operations, the user uses the EPG data in order to quickly select and watch an interesting program from many programs. In the case where the viewer frequently switches while comparing several programs, if the order of the programs to be switched is different or the group is different, the EPG
Operation from data is rather cumbersome. In the third processing operation, information about which program was viewed immediately before the currently viewed program and how much of the program was viewed are stored, and the program is recursively processed based on the information. Program switching.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a third processing operation in the program viewing apparatus of FIG. Although the contents of steps S31 and S32 are common to steps S1 and S2 of the first processing operation, the initial setting of the electronic program guide does not have to be performed as long as the processing is limited to the third processing operation.

Next, it is determined whether or not a program has been selected by the remote controller 8 (step S33). If a selection operation has been performed, the selected program is displayed on the monitor device 7 (step S35). ). If the input is other than the above, processing such as displaying an electronic program guide is performed according to the input (step S34). Note that the program selection operation may be any of the first or second processing operation or another method, and the processing operation at that time is omitted.

Simultaneously with the display of the selected program, it is determined whether or not the first displayed program is a broadcast program (step S36). If the program is a broadcast program, the channel of the program is marked. Then, recording is performed on the memory 62, and at the same time, recording of the data of the program itself is started from that point (step S37). FIG. 13 shows the currently displayed program as a result of being switched by the program selection operation,
The relationship with the program displayed immediately before that is shown.
Here, at the same time when the program 17 displayed immediately before is switched to the program 18 currently displayed, the program 1
The marking information of the channel No. 7 and the contents of the program 17 from that point are recorded in the memory 62.

The maximum time for recording a program is stored in the memory 6.
It is determined by the capacity of 2, but if it exceeds the maximum value,
The data from the past point is newly recorded on the data up to that point. In addition, in order to receive a program to be recorded and a program to be displayed, the tuner 2 needs to receive at least two programs at the same time.

In step S36, if the initially displayed program is not a broadcast program (if the program is reproduced from the recording medium 61), the reproduction position of the recording medium 61 at that time is marked. And records it in the memory 62 (step S38).

After the end of steps S37 and S38, the system again waits for an input from the remote control unit 8 (step S39). From here, the processing operation when the program selection operation is performed again is the same as the flow from step 33.

Next, the back key 82 of the remote control unit 8
Is determined (step S40), and if it is pressed, the program displayed immediately before the currently displayed program (the first displayed program in this case) is replaced with the step S37 or It is called by the data generated in step S38 and displayed on the monitor device 7 (the processing operation returns to step S35 again). In FIG. 13, the data of the program 17 displayed in a straight line is called, and the program 1 displayed immediately before is displayed from the program 18 currently displayed.
7 is recursed.

That is, if the program displayed immediately before is a broadcasted program, the program whose recording has been started since the previous program was switched is reproduced. At that time, the data of the reproduced portion is sequentially updated to the latest program, so that the user can continue to watch the continuation from the time when the previous program was switched. However, if the maximum value already recorded in the memory 62 has already passed, the continuation from the time when the program was previously switched is not necessarily continued. When the program displayed immediately before is recorded, the reproduction is performed from the marked portion when the previous program is switched.

If the back key 82 has not been pressed in step S40, the flow returns to step S33, and the program selection is repeated. At this time, the number of programs recorded up to the previous one is not limited. However, it is not preferable to record many programs, assuming a viewing mode in which several programs are compared and switched frequently.

As described above, according to the above-described embodiment and the third processing operation, when a program is selected, information indicating what program has been watched and how much has been watched, according to the state, can be obtained. The data of the program itself is automatically recorded, and based on the recorded data, the program that was being watched immediately can be temporarily stored by a simple operation of the remote control regardless of the program being broadcast or recorded. It is possible to watch again from the previous continuation as if it had stopped. As a result, you can switch between multiple programs without having to remember and select the channel number each time, as in the past, and switch between multiple programs, and miss important scenes while switching Is also gone.

That is, according to the present invention, the user can select either the currently broadcasted program or the recorded program.
A plurality of programs can be quickly and safely compared, and comfortable zapping can be performed.

Further, the processing in the embodiment of the present invention can be realized by a computer-executable program, and the program can be realized as a computer-readable storage medium.

The storage media in the present invention include a magnetic disk, a floppy disk, a hard disk, and an optical disk (CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD).
Etc.), a magneto-optical disk (MO or the like), a semiconductor memory, or any other storage medium that can store a program and that can be read by a computer.

An OS (operation system) running on the computer, database management software, MW (middleware) such as a network, etc., according to the instructions of the program installed in the computer from the storage medium, realize this embodiment. May be executed.

Further, the storage medium in the present invention is not limited to a medium independent of a computer, but also includes a storage medium in which a program transmitted via a LAN or the Internet is downloaded and stored or temporarily stored.

Further, the number of storage media is not limited to one, and a case where the processing in the present embodiment is executed from a plurality of media is also included in the storage medium of the present invention, and the configuration of the medium is any configuration. Good.

The computer according to the present invention is:
The computer executes each process in the present embodiment based on a program stored in a storage medium, and may have any configuration such as an apparatus such as a personal computer or a system in which a plurality of apparatuses are connected to a network. Is also good.

Further, the computer in the present invention is not limited to a personal computer, but also includes an arithmetic processing unit, a microcomputer, and the like included in an information processing device, and generically refers to devices and devices capable of realizing the functions of the present invention by a program. are doing.

[0071]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible for a user to quickly and safely compare a plurality of programs with any of a currently broadcast program and a recorded program. You can enjoy comfortable zapping viewing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a program viewing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a key operation unit of a remote control unit of the program viewing device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary view showing a first processing operation of the program viewing device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an E of the program viewing device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
The figure which showed the system of PG data conceptually.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary view showing a display example of an electronic program guide of the program viewing device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an exemplary view showing a display example of an electronic program guide of the program viewing device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is an exemplary diagram showing a display example of an electronic program guide of the program viewing device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a view showing a case where a broadcasted program is selected in the program viewing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a case where a recorded program is selected in the program viewing device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of an electronic program guide displayed in a conventional example.

FIG. 11 is an exemplary view showing a second processing operation of the program viewing device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is an exemplary view showing a third processing operation of the program viewing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is an exemplary view for explaining the relationship between the currently displayed program and the program displayed immediately before in the program viewing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention;

[Description of Signs] 1 antenna 2 tuner 3 signal processing unit 4 OSD control unit 5 system control unit 6 recording device 7 monitoring device 8 remote control unit

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A program viewing apparatus for reproducing a video signal including program information data, receiving means for receiving a broadcast video signal, recording means for prerecording the video signal, and said receiving means And a selecting means for selecting a desired video signal based on the program information data of the video signal received by the program and the program information data of the video signal recorded in the recording means. Viewing device. A display unit for displaying the program information data of the video signal received by the receiving unit and the program information data of the video signal recorded in the recording unit in an integrated manner. 2. The program viewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: 3. A recursive means for recursing to the first video signal immediately before switching when the selection means switches to switching from the first video signal to the second video signal. The program viewing device according to claim 1. 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: means for stopping the reproduction of the first video signal immediately before the switching for a predetermined time when the selection means selects the switching from the first video signal to the second video signal. 4. The program viewing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein: 5. When a selection to switch from a first video signal to a second video signal is made by said selection means, a portion to be reproduced of the first video signal immediately before switching is held, and 4. The program viewing / listening device according to claim 3, further comprising: means for starting reproduction when the selection for switching from the second video signal to the first video signal is made, using the portion to be reproduced as an initial value. 6. A program viewing method for reproducing a video signal containing program information data, comprising: receiving a broadcast video signal; prerecording the video signal in a recording means; and receiving the program information data of the received video signal. And selecting a desired video signal based on the program information data of the video signal recorded in the recording means.