Television – Basic receiver with additional function – For display of additional information
Patent
1995-12-13
1998-10-13
Hsia, Sherrie
Television
Basic receiver with additional function
For display of additional information
348569, H04N 5445
Patent
active
058220143
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a process and to a device for selecting video programmes. It applies in the audiovisual sector and more particularly in the case in which a multitude of television channels are available from the same receiver.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The development of cable and satellite transmission offers the television viewer an ever larger number of channels. However, this increase in the choice of channels is accompanied by a rise in the complexity of the devices and processes for operating the receivers. Indeed, to take just one example, it may be noted that the ergonomics of a television remote control system designed to receive a small number of channels is entirely unsuitable for receiving a much larger number of channels. In the latter case the television viewer has developed a custom consisting in quickly skimming through the channels available so as to ascertain the programmes in progress, or else to watch several channels, jumping from one to the other repeatedly.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The aim of the invention is to propose a process for selecting video programmes allowing simple selection of programmes, even when they are available in large number.
The subject of the invention is a process for selecting programmes in a digital video reception system, characterized in that it includes the steps: elements, identified in the flows of data broadcast by transmitters, elements on a display means of the said reception system, element.
According to a particular embodiment, the process according to the invention comprises the step of selecting a programme by way of a means of control of the said system comprising selection means arranged in a similar manner to the identification elements, the actuation of a given selection means having as consequence the selecting of the programme identified by the identification element having the same position as the said selection means.
Thus, the arrangement of the elements representing at least some of the programmes is identical to that of the buttons serving to select them.
The term "programme" designates among other things a television channel or a particular transmission. In digital transmission systems, this term also designates services, assortments of services and events.
The term "selection" designates among other things the action of displaying the identified channel or transmission, the action of operating a recording apparatus such as a video recorder in order to record an identified transmission.
An identification element may comprise, inter alia, a text, graphics and/or a still or moving video image.
An identification element comprises for example a still image representing the channel, the transmission or the type of transmission to which the programme associated with this element corresponds.
The arranging of the identification elements can be performed at the level of the transmitter or dynamically at the level of the receiver device.
According to a particular embodiment of the invention, the means of control is a remote control, the selection means comprising buttons of the said remote control.
According to a preferred embodiment, the selection means comprise the buttons 1 to 9 of the remote control, arranged in three rows of three elements, nine identification elements being arranged on the screen at the same time, these nine elements also being arranged in three rows of three elements.
According to a variant embodiment, the remote control also includes buttons for leafing through several mosaics consecutively.
According to a particular embodiment, the arranging of the identification elements in a mosaic is performed at the level of the transmitter or dynamically at the level of the receiver device.
According to a particular embodiment, the said information relating the identifier elements to the programmes are contained,in a table of correspondences.
According to a particular embodiment, the said correspondence table associates each identification element with a broadcasting channel or vice
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Maetz Yves
Nguyen Jino
Steyer Jean-Marie
Tazine Nour-Eddine
Hsia Sherrie
Thomas multimedia S.A.
Tripoli Joseph S.
Wein Frederick A.
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