Method of controlling receiver and receiver using the same

• US 20080031595A1
• Filed: 02/06/2007
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Eun Hyung
• Application Number:
  US11/702,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20080031595A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/108
• 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: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A receiver and receiver control method facilitate user access to recorded content, including access for viewing, editing, and deletion, by providing means for improved file recognition so that recording items can be accurately and efficiently confirmed via a main screen without playing back any of the recording items in full. The method uses a recording list including at least one window, at least one progress bar, and additional information such as a program title and enables the recording list to be constructed from a received stream. The method includes steps of receiving at least one video program; and constructing a recording list from the received at least one video program, the recording list including at least one window, at least one progress bar, and additional information indicative of at least one feature identifying a corresponding video program of the recording list, each window corresponding to one video program of the recording list and each progress bar corresponding to one video program of the recording list, wherein at least part of a specified video program is displayed in a corresponding window of the constructed recording list in response to a user command for controlling a corresponding progress bar of the constructed recording list. A specific recording item (video program) may be selected in correspondence to a thumbnail image displayed as part of the recording list. The selected video program or a video sample thereof is displayed, after scaling, to occupy a screen area coinciding with a screen area previously occupied by the corresponding thumbnail image.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a receiver, the method comprising:

receiving at least one video program; and

constructing a recording list from the received at least one video program, the recording list including at least one window, at least one progress bar, and additional information indicative of at least one feature identifying a corresponding video program of the recording list, each window corresponding to one video program of the recording list and each progress bar corresponding to one video program of the recording list,

wherein at least part of a specified video program is displayed in a corresponding window of the constructed recording list in response to a user command for controlling a corresponding progress bar of the constructed recording list.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least part of the specified video program is selectively displayed as one of a thumbnail image representative of the specified video program and a video sample representative of the specified video program.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

outputting the recording list to a display module.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the recording list in response to a recording list display request.

5. The method of claim 4, said recording list displaying comprising:

displaying the additional information in a correspondence to each video program of the recording list; and

displaying, in response to the user command, a progress status of the specified video program being displayed in the corresponding window, the progress status indicated by a current position of an indicator of a corresponding progress bar with respect to a display length of the corresponding progress bar.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the received at least one video program includes an analog video signal and wherein the additional information corresponding to the analog video signal is set by a user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the received at least one video program includes a digital stream and wherein the additional information is extracted from the digital stream.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one window includes a specific window for each video program of the recording list and wherein the at least one progress bar includes a specific progress bar for each video program of the recording list.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one window includes a specific window for each video program of the recording list and wherein the at least one progress bar includes a common progress bar for the specified video program of the recording list.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one window includes a common window for the specified video program of the recording list and wherein the at least one progress bar includes a specific progress bar for each video program of the recording list.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one window includes a common window for the specified video program of the recording list and wherein the at least one progress bar includes a common progress bar for the specified video program of the recording list.

12. A method of controlling a receiver, the method comprising:

storing in a video storage device at least one stream of audio and video data corresponding to a plurality of frames, each stream including additional information indicative of at least one feature of a set of recording item details for identifying a recording item;

extracting recording item information included in each stream, the recording item information including the at least one recording item feature for each item of a recording list;

displaying, in response to a user command requesting display of the recording list, the stored at least one recording item feature and at least one window in association with the at least one recording item feature; and

displaying, in response to a user command selecting a specific recording item, at least part of the stream stored in correspondence to the selected recording item.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one stream is received by the receiver as a stream of audio and video data including a plurality of programs.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the stored at least one stream is arranged according to program.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the stored at least one stream is arranged according to source.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

storing the extracted recording item information in correspondence to the recording list,

wherein the extracted recording item information further includes at least one of a thumbnail image corresponding to each stream and a video sample corresponding to each stream.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the set of recording item details includes at least one feature specified by a user.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the specific recording item is selected by a user clicking on a screen area corresponding to a window displayed by said at least one window displaying.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the specific recording item is selected by a user clicking on a screen area corresponding to the at least one recording item feature.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the displayed at least part of the stream occupies a screen area coinciding with the at least one window.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the coinciding screen area corresponds to each recording item.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the coinciding screen area is a common video display window for selectively displaying a thumbnail and video sample corresponding to the selected recording item.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the displayed video sample has a length equal to a length of the selected recording item.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the displayed video sample runs for a predetermined period less than a length of the selected recording item.

25. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

executing, in response to an execution command input while a selected video sample is running, any one of a playback operation corresponding to one of the selected recording item and the selected video sample, an editing operation corresponding to one of the selected recording item and the selected video sample, and a deletion operation corresponding to one of the selected recording item and the selected video sample.

26. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying at least one progress bar in a screen area of the recording list in correspondence to each recording item.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the displayed at least one progress bar is a common progress bar displayed in correspondence to the selected recording item.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein each progress bar has a display length proportional to a recording time length of the corresponding recording item.

29. The method of claim 26, wherein each progress bar has a display length proportional to a recording time length of the corresponding video sample.

30. The method of claim 12, wherein the set of recording item details includes at least one recording item feature selected from the group consisting of a recording source, a program title, a program genre, a viewer rating, and recording time information.

31. A receiver, comprising:

a signal receiving section for receiving at least one video program; and

a system controller for constructing a recording list from the received at least one video program, the recording list including at least one window, at least one progress bar, and additional information indicative of at least one feature identifying a corresponding video program of the recording list, each window corresponding to one video program of the recording list and each progress bar corresponding to one video program of the recording list; and

a user interface for generating a user command for controlling a corresponding progress bar of the constructed recording list,

wherein at least part of a specified video program is displayed in a corresponding window of the constructed recording list in response to the user command.

32. The receiver of claim 31, wherein the recording list is output to a display module.

33. The receiver of claim 31, further comprising:

a display module for displaying the recording list in response to a recording list display request.

34. A receiver, comprising:

a video storage device for storing at least one video program including additional information indicative of at least one feature of each stored video program;

a recording item information extractor for extracting recording item information from each stream, the recording item information including the at least one video program feature for each item of a recording list; and

a system controller for outputting the recording list in response to a user command requesting display of the recording list, the output recording list including at least one window in association with the stored at least one video program feature, and for controlling, in response to a user command selecting a specific recording item, a corresponding window to display at least part of the video program according to the selected recording item.