JP2007110304A - Television receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] To create a program table with good operability when viewing an Internet broadcast on a television. Furthermore, a method for searching for Internet broadcast channels such as digital broadcasts was necessary.
The Internet broadcast site has index information, searches for channels on the TV, searches on the Internet side, acquires bitmap information such as addresses and logos, and presses the TV program guide key. Then, the bitmap is displayed as a thumbnail, and Internet broadcasting is started by pressing the channel key.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a television receiver that receives digital broadcasting and Internet broadcasting, which have been rapidly increasing in recent years.

In recent years, digital broadcasting has increased rapidly, and terrestrial broadcasting has also started to be digitized. The function of the digital broadcast receiver is to demodulate the encoded video / audio signal with the digital tuner and display the MPEG2 composite on the display as the video / audio signal. Other functions include data broadcasting and electronic program. There are functions such as table and JPEG display. In the electronic program guide, various display methods are realized.
FIG. 5 shows the hardware configuration of the present invention, and FIG. 6 shows the display method of the embodiment.

  1 is a program channel and logo. 2 is time. 3 is a program title. Reference numeral 4 denotes bitmap data as a background. 6 is commercial data. Above that is an image of the channel that is selected. When the key of the electronic program guide is pressed with the remote controller, the channel, logo 1, time 2, program title 3, and background bitmap data 4 on the horizontal axis are displayed based on the arrangement position data. Since the background is mostly hidden in the data for the entire screen, the data to be stored is wasteful, so it may be displayed partially divided.

  In addition, the commercial data 6 of the business that sends the electronic program guide may be displayed separately. In addition, the video 7 of the selected channel may be displayed. FIG. 7 shows an embodiment when the Internet is displayed on a television.

Reference numeral 20 denotes a bookmark panel. Reference numeral 22 denotes an Internet screen display. Reference numeral 21 denotes an operation panel. Until now, televisions that watch the Internet have been mainly still images, and the method of following a link or calling a bookmark on the operation panel of 21 has been common. In some cases, the operation panel can access a small memory card and fetch a bookmark list, but in any case, the operation is complicated and there is a problem for general customers to use.
JP 2001-086421 A

  Since it was difficult to find and select a TV for watching the Internet, there was a problem that the operation for broadcasting video on the Internet had to be close to that of terrestrial digital broadcasting and BS digital broadcasting. It was.

  In the case of Internet video broadcasting, it seems that there is no need for a program guide that displays time on the vertical axis and channels on the horizontal axis. Instead, an easy-to-use program guide is required.

  In order to solve the above problems, the digital broadcast receiving apparatus of the present invention has a channel search function for fetching data from the Internet, and in the electronic program guide, a matrix in which keys of a remote controller are arranged when an Internet program is selected. It has an arrangement and is constructed based on the plurality of bitmaps.

  With the above configuration, the program table when switching to the Internet video broadcasting mode is configured to be easy to use.

  With the above configuration, an Internet broadcast program guide can be displayed with one program guide key, which is the same operation as other television broadcasts, and a channel can be selected with almost no arrow keys.

In addition, by indexing Internet broadcast sites,
Internet broadcast sites can be assigned by the same operation as conventional broadcasts.

(Embodiment 1)
An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 4 shows the hardware configuration of the present invention, and FIG. 1 shows the display method of the embodiment. First, the Internet broadcast key in the broadcast switching mode is pressed. Next time you press the program guide key,
The content video is started by pressing a key having the same location as the arrangement of the bitmap having a row and column content arranged in the same arrangement as the keys of the remote control. The flow is shown in FIG. 2 and FIG.

  FIG. 2 shows the control of the first embodiment.

Select TV channel search or Internet mode switching on the screen for searching for channels such as terrestrial digital broadcasting in the TV installation setting mode (step 1), and select the selected information to a specific Internet search site. Send (Step 2), search on the Internet side based on the index information given to a part of the broadcast site on the Internet (Step 6), and the resulting information such as address list and bitmap It is taken out and transferred to the television side (step 7), and when the program guide key is pressed on the television side, a program table displaying thumbnails is created (step 3). After that, the remote control key that matches the arrangement of the program thumbnails shown in FIG. 1 is pressed (step 4) to select the desired Internet address, and the video starts immediately. At that time, MPEG4 or H.264. A video stream such as H.264 is supplied to the television via the Internet, passed through the transport decoding unit 11 through the Ethernet (registered trademark) unit 12 shown in FIG. 4, passed through the MPEG decoding unit 14, and an image display unit as necessary. 13 is combined with the OSD and the image is displayed on the display.

Bit map and address information as program guide information is stored in the work memory 15 from the Ethernet (registered trademark) unit 12 through the CPU 10. The final result is stored in the flash memory 16. The program guide information is displayed on the display through the graphics drawing unit 12 from the work memory 15 through the CPU.
(Embodiment 2)
The second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  Instead of having an index for the Internet broadcast site, the Internet program guide is held on the Internet site (step 16), and after pressing the Internet mode switching key (step 11), the program guide of the remote control is pressed (step 11). 12) By selecting a bitmap on the thumbnail in the dedicated Internet program guide site (step 13), it is connected to the address of the video content, and the video stream is downloaded and decoded by the hardware configuration. start.

  The content bitmap may be periodically updated.

  The index information may be selected on the television side for each genre, channel search may be performed, and the Internet side may be searched.

  Other text information may be simultaneously transferred to the content bitmap.

  The television receiver according to the present invention performs a search on the Internet side by searching for a channel, obtains bitmap information such as an address and a logo, and presses a program guide key so that the bitmap is displayed as a thumbnail. Internet broadcasting is started by displaying and pressing a channel key, which is useful in a television receiver that receives digital broadcasting and Internet broadcasting.

The figure which shows the example of a display of the Example of this invention The figure which shows the control example 1 of the Example of this invention. The figure which shows the control example 2 of the Example of this invention Hardware configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention Hardware configuration diagram of conventional example The figure which shows the program schedule of the conventional Example. The figure which shows the example of a display of the conventional Example

Explanation of symbols

1 channel and logo data 2 hours 3 program title 4 first bitmap data 5 second bitmap data 6 commercial data 7 front end section 8 section filter section 10 CPU
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Transport decoding part 12 Graphics drawing part 13 Image display part 14 MPEG decoding part 15 Work memory part 16 Flash memory part 18 Small memory part card 20 Bookmark panel 21 Operation panel 22 Internet screen display

Claims (1)

A television receiver for viewing Internet broadcasts,
A selection means for selecting an Internet broadcast channel search on the channel search screen;
Communication means for connecting to an Internet search site according to an instruction from the selection means and receiving address list and bitmap information based on the index information of the broadcast site at the Internet search site;
A television receiver comprising: a program guide generating means for generating a thumbnail-displayed program guide for Internet broadcasting based on the information.

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