JP6027160B2 - Wireless communication terminal - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal .

  As a background art in this technical field, there is JP 2009-055614 A (Patent Document 1). In this publication, “bidirectional communication is possible between the remote controller and the operation target device, so that reliable communication is performed by delivery confirmation, a complicated command system utilizing GUI operation is handled, Large-capacity data transmission such as video streaming can be performed using a wide bandwidth. ”

  Moreover, there exists Unexamined-Japanese-Patent No. 2010-130445 (patent document 2). This publication uses a viewing system including a digital broadcast display device and a remote controller device having a display means such as a touch panel. The display system display device displays digital broadcast image data. The character data is displayed by the means, and the character data is obtained by the character data processing means, and the character data is transmitted by the remote controller device by the transmission / reception means. Display means for displaying ".

JP 2009-055614 A JP 2010-130445 A

  Patent Document 1 discloses a method in which program information received by a display device is transferred to a wireless remote controller side by a wireless remote controller connected to a network, and an EPG is displayed on the wireless remote controller side. However, in the case of the invention described in Patent Document 1, since the program information on the display device side is used, the data transfer amount of the program information increases, and all data cannot be acquired at one time, so that the display becomes slow. There was a problem. Also, there is no disclosure of a method for confirming a program being viewed on a television or a program that has been reserved for recording. Furthermore, a method for changing the recording reservation is not disclosed.

  Patent Document 2 discloses an embodiment in which program information and operation information are transmitted from a display device to a remote controller, an EPG is displayed on the remote controller, and channel selection, reservation, and the like are performed. However, in the case of the invention described in Patent Document 2, since the program information and operation information on the display device side are used, the data transfer amount of the program information increases, and all data cannot be acquired at one time, so that the display becomes slow. There was a problem such as.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and its purpose is to reserve a program or a program that is being viewed without disturbing the viewing of the TV when the viewer is watching the TV broadcast. An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless communication terminal that can easily display a program on the terminal device side.

In order to solve the above problems, for example, the configuration described in the claims is adopted.
The present application includes a plurality of means for solving the above problems. To give an example, the present invention is a wireless communication terminal, which is reserved by program information and an external device authenticated by the wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication means for receiving the program reservation information wirelessly via a network, the electronic program guide generated based on the program information received by the wireless communication means, and the reservation information A display means for displaying information indicating a reserved program; an input means for accepting an operation from a user; and a control means, wherein the control means is an electronic program generated on the display means based on the program information. When a table and device information indicating an external device capable of communicating with the wireless communication terminal are displayed and the external device is selected by the input unit, the selected external device is further displayed. To display the information indicating the reserved program to be response, if the non-reservation of a program is selected by said input means, a screen for setting a reservation for the turn sets the selected unreserved on the display means When the reservation is set on the reservation setting screen, the reservation setting information is transmitted to the selected external device by the wireless communication means. When the reserved program is selected by the input means, control is performed so that reservation setting information related to the selected reserved program is displayed on the display means, and the displayed reservation setting information is changed. Then, the changed setting information is controlled to be transmitted to the external device by the wireless communication means.

According to the present invention, when a viewer is watching a television broadcast, information related to the broadcast program can be displayed without disturbing the viewing of the television by displaying the program guide on another terminal device. it can.

  Problems, configurations, and effects other than those described above will be clarified by the following description of embodiments.

It is a block diagram which shows one Example of the network terminal system which concerns on 1st embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the data format of program status information. It is a figure which shows an example of the detail of the attribute 104 of the program status information of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation | movement sequence for performing the identification display peculiar to EPG. It is a figure which shows an example of a screen display when displaying EPG on the television receiver. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an EPG screen displayed on the wireless terminal 15. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen display of EPG displayed on the radio | wireless terminal 15 which concerns on 2nd embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen display at the time of EPG starting displayed on the wireless terminal. It is a block block diagram which shows one Example of the network terminal system which concerns on 3rd embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the data format of reservation information. It is a figure which shows one modification of the data format of reservation information. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation | movement sequence at the time of the program reservation by EPG. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the reservation setting screen 203 when the program with the recording reservation mark 110 is selected in FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a reservation detail setting screen 206. FIG. 6 is a display example of a reservation setting screen 208 when a program being broadcast in FIG. 5 is selected. It is a block block diagram which shows one Example of the network terminal system which concerns on 4th embodiment. 6 is a display example of an EPG screen when a program 210 is selected on the EPG screen of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the reservation setting screen 213 of the connection apparatus currently authenticated. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the reservation setting screen 214 of the connection apparatus currently not authenticated. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the reservation detailed setting screen 215 of the connection apparatus which is not currently authenticated. It is a figure which shows an example of the channel arrangement | sequence information of the network terminal system which concerns on 5th embodiment.

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

  In the following, a television receiver with a digital broadcast receiving function for receiving a digital broadcast wave including program sequence information (event information) and displaying an electronic program guide (EPG) of the digital broadcast based on the received program sequence information, and a radio A description will be given by taking a network terminal system composed of apparatuses as an example.

  In BS digital broadcasting, CS digital broadcasting, and terrestrial digital television broadcasting operated in Japan, a plurality of transport streams (hereinafter abbreviated as “TS”) are multiplexed on one transponder (frequency channel). Is transmitting. The TS has a data structure that conforms to the standards of the Japan Radio Industry Association (ARIB), and for the element signal (ES: Elementary Stream) as the content data, the header is the program arrangement information as event information. It is composed of TS packets added as

  The data structure of the program sequence information conforms to ARIB STD-B10 “Program sequence information standard used for digital broadcasting” which is the ARIB standard. Program sequence information includes PSI (Program Specific Information), which is transmission control information defined in the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) -2 system standard, and SI (Service Information) for constructing EPG and the like. Information).

  There are four SIs: BIT (Broadcaster Information Table), SDT (Service Description Table), EIT (Event Information Table) and TOT (Time Offset Table). It consists of a table.

  The BIT describes information about a broadcasting station in the network. The SDT is divided into a TS information part and a service information part, and the TS information part includes a network ID for identifying the network and a TS ID (Identifier) for identifying the TS.

  Different network IDs are assigned to the BS network, the CS1 network, and the CS2 network, respectively. In the case of digital terrestrial broadcasting, network IDs having different values are assigned to different broadcasting stations in the same region. The service information part includes a service ID (so-called channel number) that is an identifier for identifying each service (channel) in the network.

  The EIT describes program information for each event (so-called program), and is divided into a service information section and an event information section. The service information part includes a service ID (so-called channel number) that is an identifier for identifying each service (channel) in the network. The event information section includes an event ID, an event start time, an event duration, an event name (so-called program title), an event genre, and the like. TOT describes the current time.

  A first embodiment according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the network terminal system according to the first embodiment.
The network terminal system according to this embodiment includes, for example, a television receiver 1, a wireless terminal 15, a wireless router 13, and an external network 14. In the illustrated example, a user of a wireless terminal 15, which is a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone as an information communication terminal, views the TV program with the TV receiver 1 at home or a store with the wireless terminal 15. It is an example when doing.

  The television receiver 1 includes a tuner 2, a signal separation unit 3, a system control unit 4, a channel selection control unit 5, an input means 6, program reservation data 7, a storage device 8, an EPG creation unit 9, a video output unit 10, and a display unit. 11 and a network control unit 12.

  The wireless terminal 15 includes a wireless network / communication control unit 16, a system control unit 17, an EPG creation unit 18, a display unit 19, an input unit 20, a signal separation unit 21, and a tuner 22.

  The wireless router 13 has a wireless LAN function such as Wi-Fi and can be connected to an external network via a communication line. The wireless router 13 is connected to the television receiver 1, the television receiver 24, the wireless terminal 15, and the external network 14, and the television receiver 1, the television receiver 24, or the wireless terminal 15 receives information from the Internet network. It can be obtained.

  Since the structure of each part of the television receiver 24 is the same as that of the television receiver 1, the description thereof is omitted here. The wireless router 13 is connected to the TV receiver 1 or 24 TV receiver via a wired LAN or a wireless LAN, and is connected to the wireless terminal 15 via a wireless LAN. Here, Wi-Fi is a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) standard established by the IEEE (American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standard “IEEE 802.11a / IEEE 802.11b”.

The tuner 2 is a part that acquires broadcast program data from radio waves received from a broadcast station by tuning to a desired service channel by the channel selection control unit 5.
The signal separation unit 3 separates the received broadcast data into video data, audio data, and caption text data, extracts program information, acquires program arrangement information SI, and passes it to other processing blocks Have When there is a data transmission request from another processing unit, the specified data is transmitted to the request source.

  The system control unit 4 receives a user operation request via the input unit 6, and receives a signal separation unit 3, a channel selection control unit 5, a storage device 8, an EPG creation unit 9, a video output unit 10, and a network control unit 12. Control each block. Further, it has a function of passing the SI of the program arrangement information separated from the signal separation unit 3 to the EPG creation unit 9.

  The channel selection control unit 5 receives an instruction to select a service via the input unit 6 and controls the tuner 2 to switch the channel to be selected in accordance with the instruction. Further, the channel selection control unit 5 can receive an instruction from the EPG creation unit 9 or the EPG creation unit 18, and the service (channel number) broadcasting the currently broadcast event (program) and the service belong to it. The tuner 2 is controlled to switch to the broadcast presentation unit.

The input unit 6 is an input unit that receives a user's operation on the television receiver 1 and inputs control information related to the input operation, and is realized by a pointing device such as a remote controller, a keyboard, and a mouse, for example.
The storage device 8 is controlled by an instruction from the system control unit 4, and stores in the program reservation data 7 reservation information reserved for a program such as a recording reservation by the EPG created by the EPG creation unit 9 by the input means 6.

  The EPG creation unit 9 creates an EPG screen based on the EIT included in the SI of the program arrangement information. The EPG screen displays a plurality of service lists belonging to the corresponding broadcast unit and a plurality of event lists.

  Here, the broadcast unit indicates BS digital broadcast, CS digital broadcast, and terrestrial digital broadcast. In this embodiment, the EPG creation unit 18 switches between BS digital broadcast, CS digital broadcast, and terrestrial digital broadcast. To create. Further, the EPG is a matrix in which event information (programs) is arranged for each service ID (channel number) in the horizontal direction and the event information is arranged in time order along the time axis in the vertical direction.

  The EPG creation unit 9 creates an EPG image signal so that a part corresponding to at least a part of services of the EPG relating to all services available in one broadcast unit is displayed on the display unit 11. The EPG creation unit 9 sends the created image signal of the EPG screen to the video output unit 10.

  The video output unit 10 receives the video data and the audio data separated from the signal separation unit 3 by the system control unit 5 and converted into the video signal and the audio signal, respectively, and outputs the video and audio to the display unit 11. To do. The video output unit synthesizes the EPG image created by the EPG creation unit 9 and the video signal.

  The display unit 11 is a part that displays a video or an EPG image, and displays a video or EPG such as a channel being viewed. The display unit 11 is configured by, for example, a television or personal computer display or a liquid crystal panel.

  The network control unit 12 is connected to the wireless router 13 by a wired LAN or a wireless LAN, and includes a network ID (so-called broadcast) of a specific program included in the program arrangement information SI obtained via the EPG creation unit 9 and a service ID. (So-called channel number) and event ID (so-called program) are used as identification information, and the identification information and the attribute of the program indicated by the identification information are transmitted to the wireless network / communication control unit 16 as program status information of the program.

  The wireless network / communication control unit 16 acquires the program status information output from the network control unit 12 and passes it to the system control unit 17. The wireless network / communication control unit 16 is connected to a communication network through the base station 23 and can perform data communication and the like.

  The system control unit 17 receives a user operation request via the input unit 20 and controls each block of the signal separation unit 21, the EPG creation unit 18, the display unit 19, and the wireless network / communication control unit 16. Further, the system control unit 17 has a function of passing the program arrangement information SI separated from the signal separation unit 21 to the EPG creation unit 18.

  Furthermore, the system control unit 17 can extract program information from the communication network through the external network 14 or the base station 23 via the wireless network / communication control unit 16 to obtain program arrangement information, and pass it to the EPG creation unit 18. It also has a function. In the present embodiment, an example in which the signal separation unit 21 extracts digital broadcast program information and acquires the program arrangement information SI will be described.

The EPG creation unit 18 creates an EPG screen based on the EIT included in the program arrangement information SI. This EPG displays a plurality of service lists belonging to the corresponding broadcast unit and a plurality of event lists on the display unit 19, and has the same function as the EPG creation unit 9.
The display unit 19 is a part that displays an EPG image or the like, and is configured by, for example, a touch panel.

The input unit 20 is an input unit that receives an operation on the wireless terminal 15 from the user and inputs control information related to the input operation. For example, a touch panel or the like can be used.
The signal separation unit 21 and the tuner 22 have the same functions as the signal separation unit 3 and the tuner 2 of the television receiver 1, respectively.

  Next, a data format related to the network terminal system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data format of the program status information.
As shown in FIG. 2, the program status information is configured in the form of a network ID 101, a service ID 102, an event ID 103, and an attribute 104.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the details of the attribute 104 of the program state information in FIG. An attribute 104 indicates a program state 105 such as viewing or reservation of the television receiver 1. Here, “0” is the program currently being viewed on the television receiver, “1” is the program reserved for recording, “2” is the program reserved for viewing, and “3” is the current time. The program currently being broadcast, “4”, indicates that it is a program that is reserved for automatic video recording.

  Next, an example in which the input unit 20 receives an operation from the user and the wireless terminal 15 activates the EPG will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 3, and 4.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation sequence for performing identification display unique to the EPG.
When the system control unit 17 receives an EPG activation command from the input unit 20 (S 401), the system control unit 17 passes the program arrangement information SI separated from the signal separation unit 21 to the EPG creation unit 18. The EPG creation unit 18 creates an EPG screen based on the EIT included in the program arrangement information SI (S402), and displays the EPG on the display unit 19. Further, the system control unit 17 requests the television receiver 1 to transmit program state information (S403).

  The system control unit 4 uses the network ID, service ID, and event ID information of the program that is currently being viewed and the program with the program reservation and the attributes thereof as program status information of the program via the radio network / communication control unit 16 of the radio terminal 15. To the system control unit 17. The system control unit 17 receives the program status information transmitted from the system control unit 4 (S404), and the network ID, service ID, and event ID among the programs in the program arrangement information separated from the signal separation unit 21 are: If there is a program that matches the network ID 101, the service ID 102, and the event ID 103 of the received program status information (S405: YES), the EPG creation unit 18 uses the program's attribute 104 included in the received program status information. As shown in FIG. 5, a unique identification display is performed for the program.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display when an EPG is displayed on the television receiver 1. The mark 106 or the mark 107 is a mark indicating a viewing reservation or a recording reservation, respectively, so that the reservation state of the program displayed on the EPG can be determined. A square frame 108 indicates a program currently being viewed. In the description of the present embodiment, FIG. 5 is for comparison with the EPG screen displayed on the wireless terminal 15, and the operation and description of the operation are omitted.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an EPG screen display displayed on the wireless terminal 15. The mark 109 or the mark 110 corresponds to the mark 106 or the mark 107 in FIG. The square frame 111 corresponds to the square frame 108 in FIG. In the present embodiment, the same mark shape or frame shape is used as a unique identification display example in the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 15, but they may be different shapes. In addition to changing the display of the mark and the form of the frame line, it is possible to distinguish between programs that do not have the attribute 104 and programs that have the attribute 104, such as adding a color to the frame or changing the program name font. do it.

  As described above, the EPG displayed on the television receiver 1 shown in FIG. 5 and the EPG displayed on the wireless terminal 15 shown in FIG. 6 are matrixed depending on the display capability (display aspect, display pixel number, etc.) of the screen that can be displayed. Event information (programs) arranged in a shape may differ in arrangement.

  Further, the number of service IDs (channel numbers) and event information (programs) that can be displayed simultaneously in the display area of the EPG may be different between the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 15. In this embodiment, the horizontal service ID ( The channel number) and the time axis display in the vertical direction are 5 channels and 3 hours respectively for the television receiver 1 and 3 channels and 4 hours for the wireless terminal 15, respectively. Since the information on the program that is viewed or reserved displayed in FIG. 15 is shared, the user can view the program that is viewed or reserved without comparing both the EPG of the television receiver and the EPG of the wireless terminal. Can be recognized.

Hereinafter, a second embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 7 and 8.
In the present embodiment, a description will be given with emphasis on differences from the first embodiment.
The network terminal system in this embodiment is similar to that in FIG. 1 in the first embodiment.
The television receiver 1, the wireless terminal 15, the wireless router 13, and the external network 14 are configured. Here, since the configuration of each part of the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 15 is the same as that of the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an EPG screen displayed on the wireless terminal 15 in the present embodiment.
The system control unit 17 of the present embodiment includes a network ID 101, a service ID, and an event ID 103 of the received program status information among the programs of the program arrangement information separated from the signal separation unit 21. If there is a service ID including a program whose attribute 104 is “currently broadcast”, the event ID (program) of the EPG created by the EPG creation unit 18 is included. The service ID (channel number or broadcasting station) is displayed on the display unit 19 so as to be arranged in the center of the EPG display with priority over other service IDs (channel number or broadcasting station).

  In this embodiment, the EPG arranges events (programs) for each service ID (channel number or broadcasting station) in the horizontal direction, but a service ID (broadcasting) that includes the currently broadcast program 111 (goddess market). The program 112 of the station: Totele is displayed so as to be arranged in the center of the EPG display with priority over other service IDs (broadcast stations). When even-numbered stations are arranged in the horizontal direction of the EPG screen, for example, in the case of four-station display, they may be arranged near the second or third center from the left.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating another example of the screen display at the time of EPG activation displayed on the wireless terminal 15 in the present embodiment.
There is a program in which the network ID, service ID, and event ID of the program of the program arrangement information separated from the signal separation unit 21 match the network ID 101, service ID 102, and event ID 103 of the program status information, and the attribute 104 is currently being viewed. If the program is a program, the program details of the program are displayed as an initial display at the time of activation.

In the example of FIG. 8, since the program 111 (goddess market) is currently being viewed, the program details of this program are displayed as an initial display at the time of activation.
In this way, by preferentially arranging the program currently being viewed on the television receiver in the center of the EPG, it is possible to check the program information of the channel currently being viewed, As for the broadcast program of the channel, it is possible to search for a program to be viewed centering on the currently viewed program or the channel, or to make a program reservation.

Hereinafter, a third embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 9 to 15.
In the present embodiment, a description will be given with emphasis on differences from the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of the network terminal system according to the third embodiment.
The network terminal system in the present embodiment includes the television receiver 1, the wireless terminal 15, the wireless router 13, and the external network 14 as in FIG. 1 in the first embodiment.

  The television receiver 1 includes a tuner 2, a signal separation unit 3, a system control unit 4, a channel selection control unit 5, an input means 6, program reservation data 7, a storage device 8, an EPG creation unit 9, a video output unit 10, and a display unit. 11 and a network control unit 12.

  The wireless terminal 15 includes a wireless network / communication control unit 16, a system control unit 17, an EPG creation unit 18, a display unit 19, an input unit 20, a signal separation unit 21, a tuner 22, a storage device 25, and program reservation data 26. The

In the present embodiment, the wireless terminal 15 has a storage device 25 and recorded program data 26 compared to the first embodiment.
The storage device 25 is controlled by an instruction from the system control unit 17, and temporarily stores in the program reservation data 26 reservation information reserved for a program such as a recording reservation by the EPG created by the EPG creation unit 9 by the input unit 20. The reservation information received from the system control unit 4 via the network control unit 12 and the wireless network / communication control unit 16 is temporarily stored in the program reservation data 26.

  The system control unit 17 temporarily stores in the program reservation data 26 reservation information such as a recording reservation that is reserved by the EPG created by the EPG creation unit 18 using the input means 20. Further, the reservation information received from the system control unit 4 via the network control unit 12 and the wireless network / communication control unit 16 is temporarily stored in the program reservation data 26. Furthermore, reservation information stored in the program reservation data 26 can be transmitted to the system control unit 4 via the wireless network / communication control unit 16 and the network control unit 12.

  The system control unit 4 stores in the program reservation data 7 reservation information such as a recording reservation reserved by the EPG created by the EPG creation unit 9 using the input means 6. In addition, the reservation information of the program reservation data 26 temporarily stored in the storage device 25 is received via the wireless network / communication control unit 16 and the network control unit 12 and stored in the program reservation data 7 or overwritten. Have. Further, the reservation information stored in the program reservation data 7 of the storage device 8 is transmitted to the system control unit 17 via the network control unit 12 and the wireless network / communication control unit 16 in response to a request from the system control unit 17. Can do.

  Next, a data format related to the network terminal system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of the data format of the reservation information.
As shown in FIG. 10, the reservation information includes a program name 201, date, time, channel 202, recording mode, and viewing / recording data.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a modification of the data format of the reservation information.
The data format of the reservation information in FIG. 11 does not have a program name 201 as compared with FIG. 10, but information accompanying the program other than the channel 202 such as the program name is an EPG created by the EPG creation unit 18 of the wireless terminal 15. Program information on the screen can also be used. By doing so, the amount of communication data between the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 15 can be reduced, and when the program arrangement information can be obtained from an external network or a communication network, a large amount of program information is displayed in detail. If possible, it can be handled.

  Next, an example in which a user activates an EPG of the wireless terminal 15 to make a program reservation will be described with reference to FIGS.

  Similar to the first embodiment, upon receiving an EPG activation command from the input unit 20, the system control unit 17 passes the program arrangement information SI separated from the signal separation unit 21 to the EPG creation unit 18. The EPG creation unit 18 creates an EPG screen based on the EIT included in the program arrangement information SI, and displays the EPG on the display unit 19. Further, the system control unit 17 requests the system control unit 4 of the television receiver 1 to transmit program state information.

The system control unit 4 of the television receiver 1 uses the network ID / service ID / event ID information of the program currently being viewed, the program with program reservation, and the like and the attributes thereof as program status information of the radio terminal 15. The data is transmitted to the system control unit 17 via the communication control unit 16. The system control unit 17 has a network ID, a service ID, and an event ID that match the network ID, the service ID, and the event ID of the received program status information, among the programs of the program arrangement information separated from the signal separation unit 21. If there is a program, the EPG creation unit 18 displays a mark indicating viewing reservation and recording reservation for the program as shown in FIG. 5 of the first embodiment according to the attribute.
Next, a case where a program with a program reservation mark is selected by the input means 20 will be described.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of an operation sequence at the time of program reservation by EPG.
The processing until the identification mark is displayed on the EPG display (S405) is the same as the description of FIG. After the identification mark is displayed on the EPG display, the program on the EPG screen is selected by the input means 20 (S1201). When the program has a recording reservation mark (S1202: YES), the system control unit 17 4 is requested to transmit reservation information (S1203). The system control unit 17 receives the reservation information transmitted from the system control unit 4 (S1204), and displays a reservation setting screen as shown in FIG. 13 (S1205).

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a display example of the reservation setting screen 203 when a program with the recording reservation mark 110 in FIG. 6 is selected.
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a display example of the reservation detail setting screen 206.
In FIG. 6, when a program “Flat part” with a recording reservation mark 110 is selected, a reservation setting screen 203 is displayed as shown in FIG. 13. Since the program with the recording reservation mark is a program already reserved by the television receiver 1, the system control unit 17 of the wireless terminal 15 acquires reservation information from the television receiver 1 according to the procedure of FIG. The program is temporarily stored in the program reservation data 26 of the storage device 25.

The system control unit 17 displays the reservation setting screen 203 shown in FIG. 13 on the display unit 19 via the EPG creation unit 18 based on the reservation information temporarily stored in the program reservation data 26. The reservation setting screen 203 includes a “reservation button” 204 for shifting to the reservation detail setting screen 206 of FIG. 14 for setting the recording mode and the distinction between viewing / recording.
A “reservation button” 207 in FIG. 14 is a button for re-registering a reservation after setting change or the like on the reservation detail setting screen 206. When the “reservation button” 207 is selected, the system control unit 17 uses the reservation setting state as reservation information via the wireless network / communication control unit 16 by the system control unit 4 of the television receiver 1 to store the storage device 8. Reservation information is overwritten and saved in the program reservation data 7.
Next, the case where a program without a program reservation mark is selected by the input means 20 will be described.

Since the program without the program reservation mark is a program that is not reserved by the television receiver 1, the system control unit 17 of the wireless terminal 15 is based on the program information on the EPG screen created by the EPG creation unit 18. Reservation information is created, temporarily stored in the program reservation data 26, and the data is stored in the program reservation data 7 of the storage device 8 by the system control unit 4 of the television receiver 1 via the wireless network / communication control unit 16. Reservation information is newly saved.
Next, a case where a program currently being broadcast is selected by the input means 20 will be described.

FIG. 15 is a display example of the reservation setting screen 208 when the program being broadcast in FIG. 6 is selected.
A difference from FIG. 13 is that a “channel selection button” 209 is added. The “channel selection button” is displayed when a currently broadcast program is selected. By selecting this button, the channel selection information is transmitted to the system control unit 4 in the same manner as the reservation information, and the system is selected. The control unit 4 can control the tuner 2 via the channel selection control unit 5 and display the selected broadcast program on the display unit 11.

Here, as an example of the channel selection information, it is composed of a service ID (channel number).
In this way, it is possible to easily register a program reservation for a television receiver on the wireless terminal side, or to easily change a reserved program reservation, and to reduce the amount of data communication between the wireless terminal and the television receiver. be able to.

Hereinafter, a fourth embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
In the present embodiment, a description will be given with emphasis on differences from the third embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing an example of the network terminal system according to the fourth embodiment.
The network terminal system according to this embodiment includes the television receiver 1, the wireless terminal 15, the wireless router 13, and the external network 14 as in FIG. 1 in the third embodiment.

  The television receiver 1 includes a tuner 2, a signal separation unit 3, a system control unit 4, a channel selection control unit 5, an input means 6, program reservation data 7, a storage device 8, an EPG creation unit 9, a video output unit 10, and a display unit. 11, a network control unit 12, and a device authentication unit 27.

  The wireless terminal 15 includes a wireless network / communication control unit 16, a system control unit 17, an EPG creation unit 18, a display unit 19, an input unit 20, a signal separation unit 21, a tuner 22, a storage device 25, program reservation data 26, and device authentication. The unit 28 is configured.

In the present embodiment, as compared with the third embodiment, the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 15 have a device authentication unit 27 and a device authentication unit 28, respectively.
The device authentication unit 28 is controlled by the system control 17 and receives authentication information such as a user and a password set in advance in the television receiver 1 in order to receive authentication from the television receiver 1. Then, the data is transmitted to the device authentication unit 27 via the network control unit 12.

If the authentication information from the device authentication unit 28 is correct authentication information, the device authentication unit 27 permits the device authentication unit 28 to connect. On the other hand, if the authentication information is incorrect, the device authentication unit 27 does not permit the device authentication unit 28 to connect.
Next, a case where a program reservation is made from the program guide displayed on the EPG screen of the display unit 19 by the input means 20 will be described.
The input means 20 displays the EPG screen shown in FIG.

  FIG. 17 is a display example of the EPG screen when the program 210 is selected on the EPG screen of FIG. The program 210 indicates a selected portion in the present embodiment, and is surrounded by a broken-line square frame.

  The system control unit 17 performs device authentication for the television receiver 1, and displays the authentication device display 211 or 212 on the EPG screen of the display unit 19 when the authentication information is correct. In the EPG screen of FIG. 17, the authentication device displays 211 and 212 indicate that the television receiver 1 and the television receiver 24 are authenticated or have been authenticated in the past, respectively. Authentication (solid line frame) indicates that the television receiver 24 has been authenticated in the past (broken line frame), and an authentication history is also displayed at the same time.

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating a display example of the reservation setting screen 213 for the currently authenticated connected device. In FIG. 17, when the program 210 “Wednesday Premium” is selected, a reservation setting screen 213 is displayed as shown in FIG. 18, and a program reservation can be made as in the third embodiment. The reservation operation is the same as in the third embodiment, and detailed description thereof is omitted.
Next, the case of the television receiver 24 that has been connected in the past but is not currently authenticated will be described. Such an example assumes a case where the connected device is in a distant place where Wi-Fi communication is not possible, a standby mode in the sleep mode, or a case where program information is obtained from a communication network outdoors. Yes.

  In FIG. 17, the authentication display 212 of the television receiver 24 is displayed in a broken line frame, indicating that it has been authenticated in the past (broken line frame). Currently connected devices are selected by default, so it is usually not necessary to select a connected device. However, in the case of an unauthenticated connected device, it is necessary to select the connected device prior to reservation. .

  FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a reservation setting screen 213 for a connected device that is not currently authenticated. FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating a display example of the reservation detail setting screen 214 of the connected device that is not currently authenticated.

17, when the program 210 “Wednesday Premium” is selected as described above, the reservation setting screen 214 is displayed as shown in FIG. 19, and when the “reservation button” 204 is selected, the detailed setting screen 215 is displayed as shown in FIG. Is done.
Here, when the “Reserve button” 207 in FIG. 20 is selected, the reservation information is temporarily saved in the program reservation data 26 of the storage device 25 because the connected device is not authenticated, and the reservation operation is completed. To do.

  Thereafter, when the wireless terminal 15 becomes accessible, for example, when it enters the area from outside the Wi-Fi communication area, the device authentication unit 27 of the television receiver 24 and the device authentication unit 28 of the wireless terminal 15 perform mutual authentication. The system control unit 17 transmits the reservation information stored in the program reservation data 26 to the television receiver 24 via the communication control unit 16, and is stored as the program reservation in the program reservation data 7 of the television receiver 24. . If the reservation information stored in the program reservation data 26 has a start time that is earlier than the current time or is a past reservation information, an error occurs before the reservation data is transmitted to the television receiver 24. Information can also be displayed on the display unit 19.

  In the present embodiment, the connection of two television receivers has been described as an example, but there is no limitation on connecting a plurality of television receivers to the network. Further, in the example in which the reservation information stored in the program reservation data 26 is automatically transmitted to the television receiver 24 when the television receiver 24 can be authenticated, the television receiver 24 The reservation information may be transmitted manually when authentication becomes possible. Furthermore, when the reservation information is temporarily stored in the program reservation data 26, the temporary storage state may be displayed by an icon or the like to indicate the state.

  In this way, when a program to be recorded is found, such as when program information is acquired from a communication network outdoors and a program is searched on the EPG screen, a reservation can be made on the spot. When you get home, you can automatically (or manually) transfer the program reservation to the TV receiver when you can connect to the home network.

The fifth embodiment according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.
In the present embodiment, a description will be given with emphasis on differences from the first embodiment.
The network terminal system in this embodiment is similar to that in FIG. 1 in the first embodiment.
The television receiver 1, the wireless terminal 15, the wireless router 13, and the external network 14 are configured.
Here, since the configuration of each part of the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 15 is the same as that of the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

  The EPG creation unit 9 creates a matrix-like EPG in which event information (program) is arranged for each service ID (channel number) in the horizontal direction and event information is arranged in time order on the time axis in the vertical direction.

  FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating an example of channel arrangement information. The channel arrangement includes a method of arranging digital broadcasts in the order of analog broadcast channels and a method of arranging digital broadcasts in service ID (channel number) order. FIG. 21- (a) is the former, and FIG. 21- (b) is the latter.

  The system control unit 4 acquires channel arrangement information of the service ID (channel number) in the horizontal direction from the EPG screen created by the EPG creation unit 9. The channel arrangement information is transmitted to the system control unit 17 via the network control unit 12, the wireless router 13, and the wireless network / communication control unit 16. The system control unit 17 passes the received channel arrangement information to the EPG creation unit 18 and displays the EPG screen on the display unit 19 with the same channel arrangement information as the EPG of the television receiver 1.

5 and 6 of the first embodiment show the EPG channel arrangement of the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 15 in the present embodiment, respectively.
As described above, even when the channel arrangement is different between the television receiver or the wireless terminal, the channel arrangement on the EPG screen is the same, so that the EPG screen can be operated with the same feeling and the usability is improved.

Hereinafter, a sixth embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 9, 13, and 14.
In the present embodiment, a description will be given with emphasis on differences from the third embodiment.
The network terminal system in the present embodiment includes the television receiver 1, the wireless terminal 15, the wireless router 13, and the external network 14 as in FIG. 9 in the third embodiment.
Here, since the configuration of each part of the television receiver 1 and the wireless terminal 15 is the same as that of the third embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

  In the present embodiment, the system control unit 4 transmits the EPG data of the EPG created by the EPG creation unit 9 and the program status information of the program to the system control unit 17 via the wireless network / communication control unit 16. It has a function. The system control unit 17 has a function of creating an EPG screen by the EPG creation unit 18 based on the received EPG data, and displaying the EPG screen and the program status information of the program on the display unit 19.

The system control unit 17 temporarily stores reservation information such as a recording reservation reserved by the EPG created by the EPG creation unit 18 in the program reservation data 26, and the saved reservation information is stored in the wireless network / communication control unit. 16, and can be transmitted to the system control unit 4 via the network control unit 12.
Thus, by acquiring EPG data from the television receiver, it is possible to make a program reservation in the same manner as in FIGS. 13 and 14 in the third embodiment.

In addition, this invention is not limited to an above-described Example, Various modifications are included.
For example, the above-described embodiments are described in detail for the entire system in order to explain the present invention in an easy-to-understand manner, and are not necessarily limited to those having all the configurations described. Further, a part of the configuration of one embodiment can be replaced with the configuration of another embodiment, and the configuration of another embodiment can be added to the configuration of one embodiment. Further, it is possible to add, delete, and replace other configurations for a part of the configuration of each embodiment.

  Each of the above-described configurations, functions, processing units, processing means, and the like may be realized by hardware by designing a part or all of them with, for example, an integrated circuit. Each of the above-described configurations, functions, and the like may be realized by software by interpreting and executing a program that realizes each function by the processor. Information such as programs, tables, and files for realizing each function can be stored in a recording device such as a memory, a hard disk, an SSD (Solid State Drive), or a recording medium such as an IC card, an SD card, or a DVD.

  Further, the control lines and information lines indicate what is considered necessary for the explanation, and not all the control lines and information lines on the product are necessarily shown. Actually, it may be considered that almost all the components are connected to each other.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the embodiment has been described using the TV 1, TV 2, etc. provided with the display unit 11, but the present invention can be similarly implemented by a recorder provided with the display unit outside. it can.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Television receiver 2 Tuner 3 Signal separation part 4 System control part 5 Channel selection control part 6 Input means 7 Program reservation data 8 Storage device 9 EPG creation part 10 Video output part 11 Display part 12 Network control part 13 Wireless router 14 External network DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 15 Wireless terminal 16 Wireless network / communication control part 17 System control part 18 EPG preparation part 19 Display part 20 Input means 21 Signal separation part 22 Tuner 24 Television receiver 25 Storage device 26 Program reservation data 27 Equipment authentication part 28 Equipment authentication part

Claims (5)

A wireless communication terminal,
Wireless communication means for wirelessly receiving program information and reservation information of a program reserved by an external device authenticated by the wireless communication terminal via a network;
Display means for displaying information indicating an electronic program guide generated based on the program information received by the wireless communication means and a reserved program generated based on the reservation information;
An input means for accepting an operation from the user;
Control means;
With
The control means includes
When the display unit displays an electronic program guide generated based on the program information and device information indicating an external device capable of communicating with the wireless communication terminal, and the external device is selected by the input unit And displaying information indicating the reserved program corresponding to the selected external device,
If unreserved program is selected by the input means, a screen for setting a reservation for <br/> the unreserved turn sets said selected controlled to be displayed on said display means, said reservation When the reservation is set on the screen for setting, the reservation setting information is controlled to be transmitted to the selected external device by the wireless communication means,
When the reserved program is selected by the input means, control is performed so that reservation setting information related to the selected reserved program is displayed on the display means, and the displayed reservation setting information is changed. A wireless communication terminal that controls the wireless communication means to transmit the changed setting information to the external device. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein
The wireless communication terminal, wherein the external device is a device having a track record of authentication with the wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 2,
The wireless communication terminal transmits the reservation setting information to the selected external device when entering the area from outside the area communicable with the selected external device. . The wireless communication terminal according to claim 3,
The communicable area is an area capable of Wi-Fi communication. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 4,
If the selected external device is not authenticated with the wireless communication terminal when the wireless communication terminal enters the area from outside the area that can communicate with the selected external device, A wireless communication terminal that performs authentication with the selected external device before transmitting the setting information to the selected external device.

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