Controller device to be connected to hard disk recorder via IEEE 1394 serial bus

• US 20060036653A1
• Filed: 08/15/2005
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Senoo, Jyunya
• Application Number:
  US11/203,098
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036653A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2516 Hard disks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

When a user selects a program file using a remote controller and enters a command to delete all together program files with the same program title as the selected program file using the remote controller, a microprocessor in a set-top box (controller device) repeats searching for a program file with the same program title as the selected program file and sending a control command to delete a program file found as a result of the searching to an AVHDD (hard disk recorder) in which the found program file is stored until no more program files with the same program title as the selected program file are found. Accordingly, the set-top box can eliminate the need for a user to select individually all of program files with the same program title before deletion when all of the program files with the same program title are to be deleted.

Claims

1. A controller device to be connected via an IEEE 1394 serial bus to a hard disk recorder capable of sending and receiving a control command conforming to the IEEE 1394 standard, the controller device comprising:

an IEEE 1394 interface for sending and receiving a control command conforming to the IEEE 1394 standard, a reply to the control command, and stream data between the controller device and the hard disk recorder;

list creating means for creating a list of program files stored in the hard disk recorder;

display means for displaying the list created by the list creating means;

selection means for selecting a program file among the program files in the list displayed on the display means;

delete-all command input means for entering a command to delete all together program files with the same program title as the program file selected by a user through the use of the selection means;

search means for searching for a program file with the same program title as the user-selected program file among the program files stored in the hard disk recorder;

delete means for deleting the program file found as a result of the searching by the search means; and

delete-all operation control means for, when a user selects a program file using the selection means and enters the command to delete all together program files with the same program title as the selected program file using the delete-all command input means, repeating the searching by the search means and the deleting by the delete means until no more program files with the same program title as the program file selected using the selection means are found as a result of the searching by the search means.

2. The controller device according to claim 1, wherein two or more hard disk recorders are connected to the controller device via the IEEE 1394 serial bus.

3. The controller device according to claim 1, wherein the controller device is a set-top box.

4. The controller device according to claim 1, wherein the hard disk recorder connected to the controller device via the IEEE 1394 serial bus is an AVHDD that is a hard disk recorder capable of recording and reproducing data in response only to a control command conforming to the IEEE 1394 standard.

5. A controller device to be connected via an IEEE 1394 serial bus to a hard disk recorder capable of sending and receiving a control command conforming to the IEEE 1394 standard, the controller device comprising:

an IEEE 1394 interface for sending and receiving a control command conforming to the IEEE 1394 standard, a reply to the control command, and stream data between the controller device and the hard disk recorder;

list creating means for creating a list of program files stored in the hard disk recorder;

display means for displaying the list created by the list creating means;

selection means for selecting a program file among the program files in the list displayed on the display means;

delete-all command input means for entering a command to delete all together program files with the same program title as the program file selected by a user through the use of the selection means;

search means for searching for a program file with the same program title as the user-selected program file among the program files stored in the hard disk recorder; and

delete-all operation control means for controlling a delete-all operation to delete all of the program files with the same program title as the user-selected program file,

wherein, when a user selects a program file using the selection means and enters the command to delete all together program files with the same program title as the selected program file using the delete-all command input means, the delete-all operation control means carries out;

sending, by the IEEE 1394 interface, a control command to delete the program file selected using the selection means to the hard disk recorder in which the selected program file is stored; and

repeating the searching by the search means and sending of a control command to delete a program file found as a result of the searching to the hard disk recorder in which the found program file is stored until no more program files with the same program title as the program file selected using the selection means are found as a result of the searching by the search means.

6. The controller device according to claim 5, wherein two or more hard disk recorders are connected to the controller device via the IEEE 1394 serial bus.

7. The controller device according to claim 5, wherein the controller device is a set-top box.

8. The controller device according to claim 5, wherein the hard disk recorder connected to the controller device via the IEEE 1394 serial bus is an AVHDD that is a hard disk recorder capable of recording and reproducing data in response only to a control command conforming to the IEEE 1394 standard.