JPH11145864A - Information receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information receiver, with which the time and load of a user can be reduced when displaying received and stored information. SOLUTION: An information receiver for receiving and displaying character information transmitted from external information transmission equipment while utilizing the radio waves of teletext broadcasting is provided with a receiving means 50 for receiving the transmitted character information, a storage means 51 for storing the received character information together with an attribute showing information contents, a display means 51 for displaying the stored information, an attribute selecting means 53 for selecting the attribute of information to be displayed by the display means 52, and a display control means 54 for displaying the stored information in the order of new or of old information, when the number of pages of the said stored information is less than a prescribed value on the display means 52, while for displaying the information contained in the attribute selected by the attribute selecting means 53, when the number of pages of the stored information more than the prescribed value.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information receiving apparatus which is mounted on, for example, a vehicle and receives and displays character information transmitted from an external information transmitting apparatus by using a radio wave of text multiplex broadcasting.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in text multiplex broadcasting using FM radio waves or the like, information transmitted from an information transmitting apparatus is defined as one screen composed of a fixed format (for example, three lines of 15 characters per line). A plurality of pages constitute one program, and the programs include traffic information, weather information, program information, and the like.

[0003] Some of the receiving devices for receiving the teletext include a function of storing received text information for a predetermined number of pages and displaying the stored content when necessary. In such a receiving apparatus, normally, the stored character information is displayed one screen at a time in the order from the newest one by turning on a predetermined page break key.

[0004] In some cases, received information is stored in a different storage area for each item (menu number), and necessary items are designated and displayed.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional receiving apparatus, the stored information is displayed in order from the newest one by operating a predetermined return key for each page. When the information of a plurality of pages before is displayed in such a case, there is a problem that it takes time and effort for key operation.

Further, in the case of displaying information stored in different areas by designating items, it is necessary for the user to store the items in which necessary information is stored, which increases the burden on the user. There is also.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has as its object to provide an information receiving apparatus capable of reducing a user's trouble and burden when displaying received and stored information.

[0008]

As shown in FIG. 7, according to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided information for receiving and displaying character information transmitted from an external information transmitting apparatus by using a radio wave of a text multiplex broadcast. In the receiving apparatus 2, a receiving means 50 for receiving the transmitted character information, a storage means 51 for storing the received character information together with an attribute indicating the information content, and a display means 52 for displaying the stored information And the display means 52
Selecting means 53 for selecting the attribute of the information to be displayed by using
When the number of pages of the stored information is less than a predetermined value, the display means 51 displays the stored information in a new or old order, and when the number of pages of the stored information is a predetermined value or more, Display control means 54 for displaying information included in the attribute selected by the attribute selection means 53.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the attribute has a hierarchical structure including an upper attribute and a lower attribute, and the display control means 54
When the number of pages of the information included in the selected upper attribute is less than a predetermined value, the information of the attribute is displayed in a new order or an old order, and when the number of pages included in the selected upper attribute is equal to or more than a predetermined value. Is characterized in that the storage information included in the next selected lower attribute is displayed in the order of newest or oldest.

[0010] The invention of claim 3 is characterized in that, in claim 2, the upper attribute is a broadcast station name or a frequency, and the lower attribute is a program title.

[0011]

According to the information receiving apparatus 2 of the first aspect, when the number of pages of information received by the receiving means 50 and stored by the storage means 51 is less than a predetermined value, the stored information is displayed and controlled. Means 54 causes display means 52 to display in the newest or oldest order.

When the number of pages of information received by the receiving means 50 and stored by the storage means 51 is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the display control means 54 displays information included in the attribute selected by the attribute selecting means 53. Means new to means 52,
Or display them in chronological order.

As described above, the received information and its attributes are stored, and when the total number of pages of the stored information is less than a predetermined value, all the pages are displayed as they are in order. Since the information included in the selected and designated attributes is displayed in order, there is an effect that the user's labor for displaying information of desired contents can be reduced when the stored information is large.

According to the information receiving apparatus 2 of the present invention, when the number of pages of the information included in the upper attribute selected by the attribute selecting means 53 is equal to or more than a predetermined value, the lower attribute selected next. The display control means 54 causes the display means 52 to display the stored information included in.

As described above, according to the second aspect of the present invention, when the number of information pages included in the selected upper attribute is equal to or more than a predetermined value, the lower attribute of the selected attribute is further selected and designated. Since the storage information included in the specified lower attribute is called and displayed, there is an effect that the user's labor for displaying desired information from among many storage information can be further reduced.

According to the third aspect of the invention, when the selected upper attribute, for example, the storage page of a certain broadcasting station is equal to or more than a predetermined value, only the next selected lower attribute, for example, only a page of a certain program title is displayed in order. Therefore, there is an effect that the user can more easily call a desired page, and the usability of the user can be improved.

[0017]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An information receiving apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 7 are diagrams for explaining the information receiving apparatus. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a teletext broadcasting apparatus including the receiving apparatus. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a specific example of the receiving apparatus. 3 is a diagram illustrating a display example of the receiving device, FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the receiving device,
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of data stored in the receiving device.
6 and 7 are views showing display examples of the storage information of the receiving device.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a broadcasting device for performing text multiplex broadcasting by FM broadcasting.
The vehicle includes an information receiving device 2 mounted on a vehicle for receiving and displaying character information, and an information transmitting device 3 for wirelessly transmitting predetermined character information to the receiving device 2.

Specifically, the receiving apparatus 2 includes a teletext-only receiving apparatus 2 shown in FIG.
There is provided a display 6 which functions as a display means for displaying the received character information.

The display 6 has display units 6a to 6c for displaying the character information in three lines, and the display position, display time, and the like of the character information on the display 6 can be arbitrarily changed. I have.

The receiving device 2 has a predetermined program name,
Broadcast station names and frequencies are registered, and operation function keys (preset switches) F1 to F4 as attribute selection means for selecting attributes of display information by operation thereof.
(Representative symbol 11), a direction key (cursor key) 12 for moving a cursor, etc., and the preset switch 11
A power switch 4 and a volume switch 5.

The character information transmitted from the transmitting device 3 and displayed on the display 6 has a format shown in FIG. 3, and displays a header 8 indicating a source of the information and the contents of the information. One screen composed of the text 9 is defined as one page,
One program is composed of a plurality of pages.

As shown in FIG. 4, the receiving device 2 includes an antenna 16 as a receiving means for receiving the teletext signal transmitted from the transmitting device 3, and a tuner unit 1.
8, a demodulation unit 19 for demodulating FM multiplexed data from the received signal, and a CPU 20 for controlling reception by the tuner 18 and controlling display of the received character information on the display 6. I have.

The CPU 20 is connected with a RAM 24 as storage means for storing the received teletext data together with its attributes, and a ROM 23 for storing predetermined data such as a control program.
24, data input and output are performed.

In the RAM 24, together with character information,
Attribute list data shown in FIG. 5 including a broadcast station name (frequency), a program title, and the number of pages are stored as the attributes. In each of the attribute information, an attribute number for displaying information based on the attribute is set.
When selecting and displaying the ski report information transmitted from Osaka, title No. 1 is selected after broadcast station No. 1.

The CPU 20 is connected to a voice converter 26 for converting the received character information into a voice signal. The converted voice signal is supplied to an amplifier 27.
The character information received via the speaker 28 is output by a speaker 28 as audio output means for outputting the character information by voice.

The CPU 20 is connected to the RAM 24
Has a function as display control means for retrieving predetermined information stored in the display unit under predetermined conditions and displaying the information on the display unit 6.

In the receiving apparatus 2 of the present embodiment, when a call display of the stored character information is instructed, the total number of pages of the stored information is detected. It is displayed on the display 6 and is updated in a new order (or an old order) every predetermined time.

If the total number of pages of the storage information is equal to or more than a predetermined value, a selection screen of a higher attribute including a broadcast station name is displayed, for example, as shown in FIG. Is selected, the total number of pages of information included in the selected higher-level attribute is detected.

If the total number of pages of the information included in the selected upper attribute (FM Osaka) is less than a predetermined value, the information of the selected upper attribute (FM Osaka) is called and displayed on the display 6. Then, it is updated at a predetermined time in a new order (or an old order).

If the total number of pages of information included in the selected upper attribute (FM Osaka) is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, for example, the selected upper attribute (broadcast) shown in FIG. A selection screen of the lower attribute of the (station name) is displayed, and the information included in the lower attribute (for example, “ski report”) selected by the user is displayed on the display 6 as shown in FIG.
Are updated at predetermined time intervals in a new order (or an old order).

As described above, it is possible to select whether the character information is stored together with the attribute, and the character information is displayed in sequence according to the total number of pages of the stored information, or only the page having the above attribute is displayed. Thus, even when the amount of stored information is large, it is possible to reduce the trouble and burden when displaying the information of the content desired by the user.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a text multiplex broadcasting device including an information receiving device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a specific example of the receiving device.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a display example of the receiving device.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the receiving device.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an attribute list stored in the receiving device.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a selection screen of storage information of the receiving device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the claims of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 information receiving device 3 information transmitting device 6 display (display means) 11 function keys (attribute selecting means) 16 antenna (receiving means) 18 tuner section (receiving means) 20 CPU (calling means) 24 RAM (storage means)

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An information receiving apparatus for receiving and displaying character information transmitted from an external information transmitting apparatus by using radio waves of teletext broadcasting, a receiving means for receiving the transmitted character information, Storage means for storing received character information together with an attribute indicating information content; display means for displaying the stored information; attribute selection means for selecting an attribute of information to be displayed by the display means; When the number of pages of the stored information is less than a predetermined value, the stored information is displayed in a new or old order, and when the number of pages of the stored information is more than a predetermined value, the information is selected by the attribute selecting means. And a display control means for displaying information included in the selected attribute. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the attribute has a hierarchical structure including an upper attribute and a lower attribute, and the display control means causes the display means to display a page of information included in the selected upper attribute. When the number is less than a predetermined value, the information of the upper attribute is displayed in a new order or an old order, and when the number of pages included in the selected upper attribute is equal to or more than a predetermined value, the information is included in the next selected lower attribute. An information receiving apparatus for displaying stored information in a new order or an old order. 3. The information receiving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the upper attribute is a broadcast station name or a frequency, and the lower attribute is a program title.