KR20150123750A - Broadcast receiver and pvr control method - Google Patents
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Abstract
A broadcast receiving apparatus and a PVR control method are disclosed. Here, the broadcast receiving apparatus may include a plurality of tuner units tuning each of a plurality of different broadcast channels, a storage medium storing respective broadcast streams tuned by the plurality of tuner units, and a plurality of tuners, A PVR unit for storing the requested broadcast stream in the storage medium and extracting a requested broadcast stream from the storage medium when a PVR (personal video recorder) reproduction request is received from the user, and a plurality of tuner units and a PVR And a control unit for receiving the PVR reproduction request from the input unit and transmitting the PVR reproduction request to the PVR unit and outputting the requested broadcast stream provided from the PVR to the connected display device.
Description
The present invention relates to a broadcast receiving apparatus and a PVR control method.
Although a TV with a personal video recorder (PVR) function called a time machine has already been popularized and used, there is a pity for the function corresponding to one channel that is being watched.
In addition, a broadcast program broadcasted at a time when the TV is turned off or in which a preview is not made in advance can not be viewed. In other words, in the currently watched channel, you can return to the previous time, but when you switch the channel at that point, you will see the current broadcast of the switched channel. What the user wants is a function that can not be used at present because he wanted to watch another channel broadcast at that point of time but there is no pre-recorded content.
In the existing PVR function, there is a problem in that it is impossible to switch the channel at the time point because there is no recorded content at the time of switching from one channel to another at the previous time, although the channel can be paused or paused from the previous time.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a broadcast receiving apparatus and a PVR control method capable of watching TV broadcast contents without regard to time.
According to an aspect of the present invention, a broadcast receiving apparatus includes a plurality of tuner units for tuning a plurality of different broadcast channels, a storage medium for storing respective broadcast streams tuned by the plurality of tuner units, A PVR unit that stores each tuned broadcast stream in the storage medium and extracts a requested broadcast stream from the storage medium when a PVR (personal video recorder) playback request is received from the user, A plurality of tuner units and the PVR unit are operated so that the PVR playback request is received from the input unit and transmitted to the PVR unit after the power is turned on and the requested broadcast stream provided from the PVR is output to the connected display device .
Wherein the plurality of tuner units comprise:
A plurality of broadcasting channels may be provided for a predetermined number of the plurality of terrestrial broadcast channels.
The PVR unit
It is possible to periodically monitor the remaining storage space of the storage medium, and if there is no remaining storage space, it is possible to delete the broadcast stream of the predetermined capacity among the pre-stored broadcast streams.
The PVR unit includes:
When each of the tuned broadcast streams is stored, if the remaining storage space is insufficient, the currently tuned broadcast stream may be overwritten on the storage space of the oldest broadcast stream among the previously stored broadcast streams.
The broadcast receiving apparatus includes:
A data communication unit connected to a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to which a plurality of different broadcast receiving apparatuses are connected and communicating with one or more different broadcast receiving apparatuses; and a receiving unit receiving the requested broadcast stream from one or more broadcast receiving apparatuses connected to the peer- Further comprising a non-penetration control section,
The PVR unit includes:
If the requested broadcast stream is not stored in the storage medium, the piconet controller may request and receive a search for the requested broadcast stream, and then transmit the requested broadcast stream to the controller.
The above-
And a relay server that receives and manages broadcast stream hold information stored in the storage medium by the plurality of different broadcast receiving apparatuses and the plurality of different broadcast receiving apparatuses,
The above-
And a broadcast receiving unit that periodically collects broadcast stream storage information stored in the storage medium from the PVR unit and transmits the stored broadcast stream storage information to the relay server, Requesting and receiving the requested broadcast stream to a receiving apparatus, extracting a broadcast stream requested by one or more broadcast receiving apparatuses from the storage medium, and transmitting the extracted broadcast stream.
The above-
Broadcasting the request for searching for the requested broadcast stream to one or more different broadcast receiving apparatuses connected to the peer-to-peer network, receiving the requested broadcast stream from one or more broadcast receiving apparatuses having the requested broadcast stream, When the search request of the broadcast stream is received through the network, the broadcast stream requested to be searched from the storage medium may be transmitted to the broadcast receiving apparatus that transmitted the search request.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a PVR control method is a PVR (personal video recorders) control method of a broadcast receiving apparatus, in which a broadcast stream received through a plurality of tuner units is processed, compressed and stored in a storage medium A step of tuning a broadcast channel according to a user input signal and then performing signal processing and image processing and outputting the broadcast channel to a screen when the power is turned on; Extracting a broadcast stream corresponding to a time point corresponding to the user input signal from the storage medium, and outputting the extracted broadcast stream to a screen.
After the step of outputting to the screen,
Receiving a user input signal for moving to another broadcasting channel while the broadcasting stream corresponding to the broadcasting channel is displayed on the screen, tuning the other broadcasting channel received in real time and outputting the tuned broadcasting channel to the screen; Receiving a user input signal moving to a previous time while a channel is output on a screen, extracting a broadcast stream corresponding to the previous time from the storage medium, and outputting the extracted broadcast stream to a screen .
Wherein the extracting from the storage medium comprises:
Determining whether the corresponding broadcast stream is stored in the storage medium, extracting the corresponding broadcast stream from the storage medium if the broadcast stream is stored, and if the broadcast stream is not stored in the storage medium, And receiving the corresponding broadcast stream from one or more broadcast receiving apparatuses connected to the peer-to-peer network by requesting the retrieval of the corresponding broadcast stream.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to conveniently view a moving picture that is broadcast on a channel at the time point while freely switching channels from a past time point.
In addition, unlike the related art, the PVR-related configuration maintains the operation even when the screen is not displayed, that is, even when the power is turned off, so that the user can watch the last broadcast of any broadcast channel even if the user does not specify the reserved recording of the specific broadcast channel . That is, since the channel allocated per tuner is continuously recorded without special reservation recording, the channel can be tuned to a channel that was not seen in the past while moving to the previous time with the rewind button or the left direction key.
In addition, when the user wants to view the contents of another channel broadcasted at the previous time, if the contents are not stored in the receiver, the content is transmitted from another receiver storing the contents of the corresponding channel in the corresponding time slot by using the peer- So that the user can view the content. Particularly, since the domestic terrestrial channels are five channels of KBS1, KBS2, MBC, SBS and EBS, and their audience ratings are overwhelmingly higher than those of other channels, a certain number of receivers implementing the PVR function according to the present invention Naturally, there are a lot of receivers that store contents of terrestrial channels, so that it is not difficult to supply contents to a peer-to-peer network, and thus a time constraint factor for watching TV broadcasts can be conveniently solved.
1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a PVR control method of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a storage medium management operation of the PVR unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a storage medium management operation of the PVR unit according to another embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a PVR control method of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a PVR control method of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a flowchart illustrating a PVR control method of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.
8 shows a PVR control screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.
Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.
Also, the terms of " part ", "... module" in the description mean units for processing at least one function or operation, which may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software.
Hereinafter, a broadcast receiving apparatus and a PVR control method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, the
The
A plurality of tuner units (101) tunes each of a plurality of different broadcast channels. A plurality of
At this time, since the domestic terrestrial channels are KBS1, KBS2, MBC, SBS, and EBS5 channels, the 5-channel broadcasting channels may be tuned for every time zone. In other words, you can record all channels at any time with a receiver with five tuners.
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When the PVR playback request is received from the
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When the remaining storage space is insufficient in the
If the broadcast stream requested by the
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The peer-to-peer (P2P)
The peer-to-
Upon receiving a broadcast stream request from one or more broadcast receiving apparatuses connected to the peer-to-peer network, the peer-to-
The peer-to-
The peer-to-
The PVR control method of the
2 is a flowchart illustrating a PVR control method of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 2, the
The
The
When the power is turned on, the
Then, when the PVR request signal is inputted from the input unit 109 (S117), the
Also, steps S105 to S107 are continuously performed even when the power is turned on.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a storage medium management operation of the PVR unit according to an embodiment of the present invention, and may be additionally included in step S109.
Referring to FIG. 3, the
At this time, if the storage space is insufficient, the compressed digital video signal is overwritten and stored in the existing space (S203).
On the other hand, if the storage space is insufficient, the compressed digital image signal is stored in an empty space, that is, the remaining space (S205).
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a storage medium management operation of the PVR unit according to another embodiment of the present invention, and may be added at any stage in FIG.
Referring to FIG. 4, the
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a PVR control method of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention, and may be a detailed step included in step S119 of FIG.
5, when the PVR request signal is inputted from the input unit 109 (S401), the
At this time, it is judged whether or not it exists in the storage medium 115 (S405). If it exists, the corresponding broadcast stream is extracted from the
On the other hand, if it is not present in the
The peeping
FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a PVR control method of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.
At this time, the peer-to-peer network comprises a plurality of different
Referring to FIG. 6, the first
Thereafter, the
In step S509, the relay server (not shown) inquires of the broadcast receiving apparatus having the broadcast stream requested to be searched in step S505 based on the received broadcast stream information of each broadcast receiving apparatus. Then, the device information is returned to the first broadcast receiving apparatus 100 (S511).
The
The
At this time, the peer-to-peer connection technique of the first
FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a PVR of a broadcast receiving apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention, and is a detailed example of step S413.
Referring to FIG. 7, the
At this time, the
If it is determined in step S603 that it does not exist, the step ends.
If it is determined in step S603 that the broadcast program exists, the broadcast stream requested in step S601 is extracted from the
8 shows a PVR control screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 8, the PVR control interface P1 (UI / UX) is output according to the operation of the
The
At this time, the PVR control interface P1 (UI / UX) has an item (P3) for moving to a channel before the current channel, for example, a channel 6 which is the front channel of the channel 7, An item P5 for moving to the channel 8 which is the next channel of channel 7, and an item P7 indicating the current channel.
Also, the PVR control interface P1 (UI / UX) includes an item P9 indicating the storage location of the currently output broadcast stream (the time point at which the currently output broadcast stream is located among the entire broadcast programs). An item P11 indicating the entire broadcast program, and an item P13 indicating the position occupied by the currently output broadcast stream in the entire broadcast program.
The embodiments of the present invention described above are not implemented only by the apparatus and method, but may be implemented through a program for realizing the function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium on which the program is recorded.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, It belongs to the scope of right.
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A storage medium for storing the broadcast streams tuned by the plurality of tuner units,
A PVR unit for storing each broadcast stream tuned by the plurality of tuner units in the storage medium and for extracting a requested broadcast stream from the storage medium when a PVR (personal video recorders) reproduction request is received from the user, and
Controlling the plurality of tuner units and the PVR unit to operate even when the power source is turned off, receiving the PVR playback request from the input unit and transmitting the PVR playback request to the PVR unit after the power is turned on, And outputs the stream to the connected display device
And the broadcast receiving apparatus.
Wherein the plurality of tuner units comprise:
Wherein a plurality of broadcast receiving channels are provided for a plurality of specified number of terrestrial broadcast channels.
The PVR unit
And periodically monitoring a remaining storage space of the storage medium and deleting a broadcast stream of a predetermined capacity among the pre-stored broadcast streams when there is no remaining storage space.
The PVR unit includes:
Wherein the tuner is configured to overwrite a currently tuned broadcast stream on a storage space of the oldest broadcast stream among the previously stored broadcast streams when the remaining storage space in the storage medium is insufficient when storing the tuned broadcast streams.
A data communication unit connected to a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to which a plurality of different broadcast receiving apparatuses are connected and communicating with one or more different broadcast receiving apparatuses, and
Further comprising a peephole control unit for receiving the requested broadcast stream from one or more broadcast receiving apparatuses connected to the peer network,
The PVR unit includes:
And requests the peer-to-peer control unit to search for the requested broadcast stream if the requested broadcast stream is not present in the storage medium, and then transmits the request to the control unit.
The above-
And a relay server that receives and manages broadcast stream hold information stored in the storage medium by the plurality of different broadcast receiving apparatuses and the plurality of different broadcast receiving apparatuses,
The above-
And a broadcast receiving unit that periodically collects broadcast stream storage information stored in the storage medium from the PVR unit and transmits the stored broadcast stream storage information to the relay server, Requesting and receiving the requested broadcast stream to a receiving apparatus, and extracting a broadcast stream requested by the at least one broadcast receiving apparatus from the storage medium and transmitting the broadcast stream.
The above-
Broadcasting the request for searching for the requested broadcast stream to one or more different broadcast receiving apparatuses connected to the peer-to-peer network, receiving the requested broadcast stream from one or more broadcast receiving apparatuses having the requested broadcast stream, And transmits a broadcast request for a search request from the storage medium to a broadcast receiving apparatus that has transmitted the search request when a search request for the broadcast stream is received through the network.
Processing and compressing a broadcast stream received through a plurality of tuner units in a power off state and storing the signal in a storage medium,
When the power is turned on, tuning a broadcast channel according to a user input signal, performing signal processing, image processing, and outputting to a screen,
Receiving a user input signal moving to a previous time while a broadcast stream corresponding to the broadcast channel is output to a screen,
Extracting a broadcast stream corresponding to a time point corresponding to the user input signal from the storage medium, and
Outputting the extracted broadcast stream to a screen
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After the step of outputting to the screen,
Receiving a user input signal for moving to another broadcasting channel while the broadcasting stream corresponding to the broadcasting channel is displayed on the screen, tuning the other broadcasting channel received in real time and outputting the tuned broadcasting channel to the screen,
Receiving a user input signal moving to a previous time while the other broadcast channel is output on a screen,
Extracting a broadcast stream corresponding to the previous time from the storage medium, and
Outputting the extracted broadcast stream to a screen
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Wherein the extracting from the storage medium comprises:
Determining whether the corresponding broadcast stream is stored in the storage medium,
Extracting the corresponding broadcast stream from the storage medium, if it is stored; and
Requesting the retrieval of the corresponding broadcast stream by a peer-to-peer (P2P) network and receiving the corresponding broadcast stream from one or more broadcast receiving apparatuses connected to the peer-to-peer network if it is not stored in the storage medium
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