JP3522149B2 - Program reservation recorder - Google Patents

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Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a program reservation and recording apparatus, and more particularly, to an apparatus for receiving and recording a broadcast to which electronic program guide data is added, and a receiving apparatus. The present invention relates to a program reservation recording device that records in combination with a recording device. 2. Description of the Related Art A conventional program reservation and recording apparatus (not shown) allows a user to make a reservation when a radio wave reception state is poor during recording of a program or a power failure occurs at the time of recording reservation. Channel, program name, start time, end using an electronic program guide (hereinafter referred to as EPG) that confirms the recorded content, schedules rebroadcast recording, and displays a list of program information sent from the broadcast station on the TV screen. In the case of program reservation using information such as time, it can be done simply by selecting a program from the program list displayed on the screen, there is no input of start date and time and end time etc. is there. [0003] Since the CS digital broadcast to which the EPG is added is suitable for multi-channel broadcasting, a program having the same contents may be broadcast several times a day, and may be repeatedly broadcast on a weekly or monthly basis. Information such as the broadcast of the episode of the episode is added to the name, and a reservation using the EPG can be made if the tuner and the recording device are integrated, but if the tuner and the recording device are separate, the tuner makes a reservation using the EPG. It is necessary to separately reserve the start time, end time, specification of the connected terminal, etc., but the recording device generates a remote control code of the VCR at the reservation time and synchronizes the reservation, VCRs equipped with an input terminal that starts recording in conjunction with the video signal output to the computer have been commercialized. Beam accessible hard disk drive, is also an apparatus for digital recording, such as the DVD-RAM has been developed. [0004] As described above, in the conventional program reservation and recording apparatus, for example, CS digital broadcasting and the like have weak radio waves and are affected by the weather. If the screen is temporarily disturbed and reception cannot be performed, and if a power failure occurs at the scheduled time and the scheduled recording cannot be executed, the user must confirm the recorded content and schedule a rebroadcast. If the user is away from home for a few days and cannot check the contents of the recording, there is a problem that the patient endures the recording result that could not be recorded normally. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a program reservation / recording apparatus which retrieves a rebroadcast of a program from an EPG, automatically sets a recording reservation, and obtains the best recording result. [0006] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a program reservation and recording apparatus of the present invention receives broadcast waves of a program to which EPG data of an electronic program guide is added, and reproduces an image. A tuner section for outputting, a recording device for recording a video output from the tuner section,
Means for monitoring the reception level, and EPG data of the reserved program
And a backup memory for storing the recording device
Means for recording a reserved program by recording, and recording of the recording device
Sometimes there is an abnormality in the reception level by the monitoring means
Means to determine whether the reception level is abnormal
Sometimes EPG data stored in the backup memory
Search for a rebroadcast based on the
Means for recording the broadcast, and
The reception level of the monitoring means and the
The recording level of the receiver with the lower reception level.
Means for deleting . Next, a program recording reservation apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a program recording reservation device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a reservation recording operation of the program recording reservation device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the program recording reservation device according to the first embodiment of the present invention after the recovery from the power failure. As shown in FIG. 1, in a program recording reservation apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention, a receiving apparatus 106 includes a tuner section 101, a control section 103, and a backup memory 10.
4. Power supply unit 105 and reception monitoring means 15 for the present invention
0, the case where the scheduled recording is performed in combination with the external recording device 107 constituted by the power monitoring unit 151. Next, the operation of the program recording reservation device according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the operation of the program recording reservation apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention is as follows. , it is stored in the backup memory 104 (step 201), the user and comes recording time reserved by setting the timer recording mode when performing reservation recording (step 202), the control unit 103 of the tuner unit 101 in the reserved recording Reception monitoring means 150 for monitoring the reception level
In monitoring, by monitoring even during recording the reception level to be used when the antenna adjusting the tuner section 101, monitors the like sudden level variation and absolutely can not receive (step 202). Thereafter, if there is a problem with the monitored reception level, the date and time of occurrence and the reception level data of the reception level are stored in the backup memory 104 (step 203), and this reception level monitoring is repeated during scheduled recording. (Step 204) It is determined whether there is a problem with the reception level data of the reception level during the recording after the end of the scheduled recording (Step 205). As a result of monitoring the reception level, if there is a problem, a rebroadcast is searched from the EPG to search the same channel (step 206), and a search is performed using information on the name and contents of the program. Indicates the episode of the episode, so that the data is also used as a comparison target. When searching for other channels, the same program may have slightly different program names and contents in the EPG. Whether or not the user
But the set, and if you have not found in the within a week EPG is set up to search continues. Further, an EPG search (step 206)
It judged by whether or not the re-broadcast data there has been carried out (step 207), if applicable data is there, set a broadcast date and time of the re-broadcast that was found from the EPG to the recording reservation (step 208), integrated In the case of the device 100, the control unit 103 controls the tuner unit 101 and the recording device unit 102, but in the case of the separation type device 106, the control unit 103 generates a remote control code and records it on the recording device 107, and The rebroadcast is recorded by using the recording device 107 that starts recording in synchronization with the video output. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, the operation of the control unit 103 in the event of a power failure is as follows: the reservation contents and the time of the power failure are stored in the backup memory 104, the power monitoring unit 151 detects the recovery from the power failure, check the reservation content that the user is reserved (step 301), to determine whether the current time is past the scheduled recording time set by the user (step 302), the recording if the current is being recorded reservation time Starting (step 303), the reception level is monitored. Therefore, it is checked whether there is any time during which the recording could not be performed, and the time during which the power failure occurred and the recording time reserved by the user are compared (step 304). power failure time data is stored in the backup memory 104 (step 30
5), it is determined whether there is this power failure time data and the reception level data (step 306), the steps of FIG. 2 20
The EPG is searched in the same manner as in the processing of steps 5 to 208, and if there is a corresponding rebroadcast, it is set as a recording reservation (steps 306 to 3
09). Next, a program recording reservation apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a program recording reservation device according to a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a recording result comparison operation of the program recording reservation device according to the second embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, a program recording reservation apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention comprises a tuner section 101, a recording apparatus section 102, a control section 103, a backup memory 1
04, power supply unit 105, reception monitoring procedure 1 for the present invention
50, and a power supply monitoring procedure 151. Next, the operation of the program recording reservation device according to the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the operation of the program recording reservation apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention is an integrated apparatus in which the recording unit 102 is a hard disk, a DVD-R.
In the case of a device capable of random access, such as AM, are those you do not want to remove the bad data, leaving the good data to compare the data, which was retaken by the recorded data and the re-broadcasting before reduce the recording area, scheduled recording After the end, check whether there is any previously recorded data
Data, the reception level data, searches the power failure time data (step 501), if that apply are found,
Comparing the previous recording recorded data and present recording the recording data (step 502), compared with to have the recording and could not be recorded in the power failure power failure time of the reception level state recorded monitored during recording. Thereafter, the previously recorded video recording data is compared with the currently recorded video recording data (step 5).
03), delete the recorded data with the previous problem when there is no problem in this time recorded the results (step 504), which also performs a comparison of the case where there is a problem (step 505),
Delete recorded data when you can clearly judge that the result is inferior
(Step 506), when, for example, it can not be clearly as the first section blackout could not be recorded in the recording results and recorded there is radio wave reception level abnormality in the latter part results, because it can solve the problem by editing, deleting You can also select settings that you do not want. As described above , according to the present invention, the user can confirm the scheduled recording result and, if there is a problem, search for a rerun and make a reservation again. This makes it possible to obtain better recording results when leaving the house for a long time on a trip or a business trip.
Of the data recorded first and the data
Recording capacity by leaving good ones and deleting bad ones
Recording can be left in a good recording state without increasing the number of broadcasts.
Effective for devices such as video servers that store and store sets
There is . [0028]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a program recording reservation device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a reservation recording operation of the program recording reservation device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation after a power failure recovery of the program recording reservation device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a program recording reservation device according to a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a recording result comparison operation of the program recording reservation device according to the second embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Integrated type device 101 Tuner unit 102 Recording device unit 103 Control unit 104 Memory 105 Power supply unit 106 Separate type device 2 107 Recording device 150 Reception monitoring means 151 Power supply monitoring means

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claim 1] A tuner section for receiving a broadcast wave of a program to which EPG data of an electronic program guide is added and outputting a video, and recording a video output from the tuner section Monitoring the recording level of the recording device and the reception level of the tuner unit
Means for storing EPG data of a reserved program
And a recording memory for controlling the recording device to record a reserved program.
Means for performing the recording, and
For determining whether there is an error in the reception level
Backup when the reception level is abnormal.
Rebroadcast based on EPG data stored in
Search and control the recording device to record the rebroadcast
And receiving the monitoring means at the time of recording the rebroadcast.
Level and the reception level at the time of recording the reserved program.
Means to delete the recording with the worse reception level.
Program reservation recording device according to claim that there were example.