KR19990042301A - How to Display the Guide Screen of a Satellite Broadcast Receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of displaying a guide screen of a satellite broadcast receiver that can provide a user with a more convenient environment by displaying an accurate start time for each program in the program guide screen for each channel provided by the satellite broadcast receiver. In response to a key signal for a program guide screen for each channel being input during the normal viewing mode of the receiver, a first step of reading a preset guide screen format among the stored various guide screen formats; A second step of determining whether the read guide screen format is a guide screen format to be displayed including detailed information about each program; A third step of reading the program information for each channel and the detailed information of each program and displaying the guide information in a predetermined form in the case of the guide screen format including the detailed information about each program and displaying the result; ; A fourth step of reading the program information for each channel and the start time information for each program if the guide screen format is not displayed and includes detailed information about each program as a result of the determination; And a fifth step of displaying a guide screen in a form including a start time for each read program in the respective program item.

Description

How to Display the Guide Screen of a Satellite Broadcast Receiver

The present invention relates to a satellite broadcast receiver, and more particularly, to a method of displaying a guide screen of a satellite broadcast receiver, which is suitable for displaying an accurate start time of each program in a channel-specific program guide screen provided by a satellite broadcast receiver.

As is well known, satellite broadcasting is capable of receiving broadcast signals from ground stations (broadcasting earth stations) using broadcast satellites in a stationary orbit about 36,000 kilometers above the equator, and receiving them directly from the satellite receiving antennas in each home. The broadcasting system is a broadcasting system in which the selection range of information is greatly expanded compared to the conventional terrestrial or cable broadcasting system.

The satellite broadcast receiver used for the satellite broadcast receives the bit stream provided from the satellite, processes the broadcast signal of the selected channel, and then provides it to a display device (for example, a TV).

In this case, the bit stream provided from the satellite includes various information such as broadcast signals (video data and audio data), event information table (EIT), and time data table (TDT) for each channel.

Accordingly, a general satellite broadcast receiver is provided with various menu screens for displaying such various information. Among such menu screens, a broadcast program guide screen for guiding a broadcast program received in each channel is included.

4 is a diagram illustrating a guide screen of a program for each channel provided by the conventional satellite broadcast receiver. The program guide screen for each channel is also provided in various forms as shown in the drawing.

First, FIG. 4A displays the program information for each channel and detailed information about the program for the on-screen cursor, that is, the title of the program, the type of program, the class, and the start time and end time of the program. Done.

FIG. 4B is another form of a program guide screen for each channel. As shown in the drawing, program information for each channel and a brief description of the program for the cursor are displayed. FIG. 4C shows only a part of the screen. It relates to a guide screen for displaying program information for each channel by using.

Such a conventional broadcast program guide screen for each channel typically displays information about broadcast programs of each channel for each time zone, and the user moves the cursor on the screen through a selection key provided in the key input unit to display each channel and time. By scrolling each program on the screen, a program guide for each channel can be received.

However, the time axis 401 in the various types of program guide screens of the related art are displayed at intervals of 1 hour or 30 minutes as shown in FIG. 4A, and detailed information 401 for the corresponding program is shown in FIG. 4A. Unlike the guide screen in which the information is displayed together), as shown in FIG. 4B or 4C, in the guide screen in which detailed information about the corresponding program is not displayed, there is a problem that the user does not know the exact start time of the specific program. .

That is, a program that starts between a specific time zone (9:00) and another specific time zone (10:00) without matching the time displayed on the time axis 402, as in the case of 'Program 1' shown in the drawing. In this case, it becomes difficult for a user to grasp the exact start time of the corresponding program, and accordingly, there is a lot of inconvenience when trying to set the reservation recording and the reservation viewing.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above, and provides a method for displaying a guide screen of a satellite broadcast receiver that can be displayed including the exact start time for each program in the program guide screen for each channel of the satellite broadcast receiver. Its purpose is to.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a satellite broadcasting receiver for receiving satellite broadcast signals of various channels provided through satellites, program information for each channel extracted from each broadcast signal, detailed information about each program, and various forms. In the guide screen display method for pre-store the guide screen format information and display it at the request of the user, if the key signal for the program guide screen for each channel is input during the normal viewing mode of the receiver, A first step of reading a preset guide screen format among guide screen formats; A second step of determining whether the read guide screen format is a guide screen format to be displayed including detailed information about each program; A third step of reading the program information for each channel and the detailed information of each program and displaying the guide information in a predetermined form in the case of the guide screen format including the detailed information about each program and displaying the result; ; A fourth step of reading the program information for each channel and the start time information for each program if the guide screen format is not displayed and includes detailed information about each program as a result of the determination; A method of displaying a guide screen of a satellite broadcasting receiver comprising a fifth step of displaying a guide screen of a type including a start time of each read program in each program item.

1 is a block diagram of a satellite broadcast receiver suitable for applying a method for displaying a guide screen of a satellite broadcast receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating a guide screen of a satellite broadcasting receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of displaying a guide screen of a satellite broadcasting receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a diagram illustrating various guide screens provided by a conventional satellite broadcasting receiver.

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10: key input unit 20: tuner and demodulation unit

30: demultiplexer 40: micom

50: memory 60: OSD

The above and other objects and various advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the preferred embodiments of the present invention described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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

1 is a block diagram of a satellite broadcasting receiver suitable for performing a method for displaying a guide screen of a satellite broadcasting receiver according to the present invention, and includes a key input unit 10, a tuner and demodulator 20, a microcomputer 30, and an MPEG decoder ( 40), a memory unit 50, and an OSD unit 60.

The key input unit 10 is composed of key metrics on a remote controller or its own panel to generate a corresponding key signal to the microcomputer 30 by a user's operation, and the microcomputer 30 is provided from the key input unit 10. Based on the key signal, a control signal for performing a corresponding function, a tuning control signal for tuning a broadcast channel, and a control signal for driving the OSD unit 60 are generated.

Then, the tuner and demodulator 20 tunes the bit stream of the channel corresponding to the tuning control signal of the microcomputer 30 in the bit stream from the satellite received through the antenna (not shown), and then demodulates it and then decodes the MPEG decoder. Provide to 40.

The MPEG decoder 40 separates a broadcast signal provided from the tuner and the demodulator 20 into an audio signal, a video signal, and various program information, and then displays the audio signal and the video signal through a predetermined signal processing process, and various programs. Information is provided to the microcomputer 30.

The memory unit 50 stores various program information and various guide screen formats decoded and output from the above-described MPEG decoder 40 under the control of the microcomputer 30, and the programs stored under the control of the microcomputer 30 again. Will print the information.

When the user manipulates the key input unit 10 to call the program guide screen for each channel of the satellite broadcast receiver in the satellite broadcast receiver configured as described above, the microcomputer 30 may program information for each channel stored in the memory unit 50. The program guide screen of the predetermined type is displayed on the monitor (not shown) through the OSD unit 60 by reading the.

In this case, when the type of the guide screen to be displayed is not a guide screen including start time information for each program, that is, a guide screen including detailed information about each program as shown in FIG. 4A, the memory unit 50 may be used. The program information stored in the program is read and the start time for each program is displayed together.

FIG. 2 relates to a method for displaying a program guide screen of a satellite broadcasting receiver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. First, referring to FIG. 2A, a user may view a guide screen of the type shown in FIG. 2A, that is, for each program. When a guide screen including only program information for each channel and a brief description of the program (contents of the program) is called without detailed information, the microcomputer 30 stores the program information for each channel stored in the memory unit 50 and each program. As shown in the drawing, the start time of each program is read and displayed, including the start time (in minutes) for each program.

Therefore, the user can know the exact start time of the program he wants to select by referring to the start time of each program displayed in each program item.

On the other hand, when the type of program guide screen for each channel called by the user's key operation is a guide in the form of displaying only program information for each channel without other additional information using only a portion of the screen as shown in Figure 2b As shown in FIG. 2A, the microcomputer 30 reads program information for each channel and start information for each program stored in the memory unit 50, and shows the start time (minutes) for each program as shown in the drawing. Unit) in each program item to be displayed.

As a result, when the form of the guide screen called by the user is a guide screen in a form that does not include detailed information (program start time information) for each program, the start time information for each program is included in each program item. Each of the guide screen types described above is pre-stored in a predetermined area of the memory unit 50 and changed adaptively by a user's guide screen change key signal.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of displaying a program guide screen of a satellite broadcasting receiver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the series of processes described above with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail.

While the operation of the satellite broadcasting receiver is performed in the normal viewing mode in which a broadcast signal for a specific channel selected by the user is received and displayed on a monitor (not shown) through a predetermined signal processing process (step 301), the user's key manipulation is performed. When the program guide key signal for each channel is input (step 303), the microcomputer 30 reads preset guide screen format information among various types of guide screen formats stored in a predetermined area of the memory unit 50 (step 305). ).

The above-described preset guide screen format indicates a guide screen format set by a user or a guide screen format most recently displayed. Such information is stored in a predetermined area of the memory unit 50 immediately before the receiver is turned off. Stored.

In the meantime, the microcomputer 30 displays the guide screen information read in step 305 described above with the basic screen format as shown in FIG. 4A, that is, detailed information about each program and program information for each channel in a general satellite broadcasting receiver. It is discriminated whether or not the guide screen information is in the form (step 307).

As a result of the determination at this time, when the guide screen information read in the above-described step 305 is the guide screen information of the basic form, the guide screen of the basic form as shown in FIG. 4A is displayed (step 309). In the case where the guide screen information read in step 305 is not the guide screen information in the basic form, but the guide screen format information in which the detailed information for each program is not displayed as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, the microcomputer 30 stores the memory. The program information for each channel stored in the unit 50 and the start time information for each program are read together (step 311).

Subsequently, the modified guide screen (FIG. 2A or 2B, etc.) corresponding to the guide screen format information read in step 305 described above is displayed (step 313). That is, as shown in the figure, the start time of each program is displayed in each program item in minutes.

On the other hand, if a key signal for changing the shape of the displayed guide screen is input while the guide screen of the basic form or the guide screen of the changed form is displayed through the steps 309 or 313 as described above ( In step 315, the microcomputer 30 reads the guide screen format information of the next type stored in the predetermined area of the memory unit 50 (step 316), and by repeating the above-described step 307, the screen is displayed. A guide screen of a form corresponding to the change key signal is displayed.

If the guide screen change key signal is not generated in step 315 and the guide screen off key signal is input or a predetermined time elapses (step 317), the current display is controlled by the control of the microcomputer 30. The guide screen is automatically turned off (step 321), and the operation of the receiver is switched to the normal viewing mode of the initial step 301 described above (step 323).

As a result, when the program guide screen for each channel is called by the user, the microcomputer 30 may check the format of the preset guide screen and adaptively display start time information for each program.

As described above, according to the present invention, by displaying the broadcast start time information for each program in the program guide screen for each channel in the satellite broadcast receiver, there is an effect that can provide a variety of functions for the guide screen, Therefore, there is an effect that can satisfy the needs of various users.

Claims (4)

In the satellite broadcasting receiver that receives satellite broadcasting signals of various channels provided through satellites, program information for each channel extracted from each broadcasting signal, detailed information about each program, and various types of guide screen format information are stored in advance. In the guide screen display method for displaying this on demand, A first step of reading a preset guide screen format from among the stored various types of guide screen formats when a key signal for a program guide screen for each channel is input during the normal viewing mode of the receiver; A second step of determining whether the read guide screen format is a guide screen format to be displayed including detailed information about each program; A third step of reading the program information for each channel and the detailed information of each program and displaying the guide information in a predetermined form in the case of the guide screen format including the detailed information about each program and displaying the result; ; A fourth step of reading the program information for each channel and the start time information for each program if the guide screen format is not displayed and includes detailed information about each program as a result of the determination; And a fifth step of displaying a guide screen including a start time of each read program in the respective program item. The method of claim 1, wherein the third step, When a key signal for changing the displayed guide screen of the predetermined type is input, a process of repeating the process after the second step by reading guide screen format information of the next type among the previously stored guide screen formats of various types; Guide screen display method of the satellite broadcast receiver further comprising. The method of claim 1, wherein the fifth step, And displaying start time information of each program in minutes. The method of claim 1, wherein the fifth step, When a guide screen change key signal is input while a guide screen including start time information for each program is displayed, the second step is performed by reading guide screen format information of the next type among the previously stored guide screen formats. The method of displaying a guide screen of a satellite broadcasting receiver further comprising the step of repeating the following process.