Display apparatus informing of programmed recording

• US 5,285,265 A
• Filed: 10/21/1991
• Issued: 02/08/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Seung L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Murrell, Jeffrey S.
• Application Number:
  US07/779,989
• Time in Patent Office: 841 Days
• Field of Search: 358/310, 358/335, 358/183, 358/22 PIP, 358/194.1, 358/191.1, 358/21 R, 358/181, 360/33.1
• US Class Current: 348/565
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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 21/43622 Interfacing an external recording device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• 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 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

A display apparatus informing of a programmed recording comprises a message generator for providing the programmed recording information a is displayed few seconds immediately prior to correspondence between a programmed before the present recording time and the current time in response to the inputting display interruption signal, an input selecting switch for selecting tuner signals and VCR regenerating signals, a picture-in-picture part for generating the main and sub-screens, and a Y/C processing part for processing the output signals of the PIP part outputting them to an output jack and a TV RF converter, respectively, wherein the interruption in watching TV is eliminated, and the troublesome key manipulations are eliminated.

Claims

1. A display apparatus for informing of a programmed recording in a video tape recorder having a picture-in-picture function for simultaneously generating main screens and sub-screens, a remote function, and a programmed recording function, the apparatus comprising:

memory means for storing program information for a programmed recording;

timer and control means for automatically providing said program information from said memory means together with time countdown data, representative of a difference between a current time and a programmed recording time, for a predetermined time period before said programmed recording time or in response to user input of a display interruption signal;

a display selecting switch for selecting sad program information for display in a sub-screen;

an input selecting switch for selectively providing one of tuner signals and regenerating signals as selected signals;

picture-in-picture means for generating video signals representing main screens and sub-screens in response to said selected signals and said program information provided by said timer and control means; and

luminance and color processing means for processing luminance and color portions of said video signals from said picture-in-picture means for provision into an output jack and a radio frequency converter of a television.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprised of said timer and control means providing said program information from said memory means immediately in response to input of said display interruption signal regardless of said programmed recording time.

3. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said program information includes a name of a programmed broadcasting program.

4. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the name of said programmed broadcasting program is provided to said timer and control means by a character selecting function of a remote controller with consonants and vowels by manipulating channel selection buttons of said remote controller.

5. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein an alarm signal is provided for a few seconds before the programmed recording time.

6. A display apparatus for a video tape recorder, said apparatus comprising:

user input means for enabling user entry of a recording start time, a recording stop time, and program information for a recording operation of said video tape recorder;

memory means for storing said program information for said recording operation;

timer and control means for storing said recording start time and said recording stop time, and for comparing said recording start time to a current time and providing record imminent signals at a predetermined time period before said recording start time equals said current time, and for automatically providing said program information from said memory means together with time countdown data, representative of a difference between said current time and said recording start time, for said predetermined time period;

a display selecting switch for selecting said program information for display in a sub-screen;

an input selecting switch for selectively providing one of tuner signals and regenerated signals as selected signals;

picture-in-picture means for receiving said selected signals, and for generating video signals by mixing a visual indication of said program information and said time countdown data into said selected signals in response to said record imminent signals; and

luminance and color processing means for processing luminance and color portions of said video signals from said picture-in-picture means for provision into an output jack and a radio frequency converter of a television.

7. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, further comprised of said timer and control means providing said recording start time and said recording stop time to said picture-in-picture means, and said picture-in-picture means mixing visual indications of said recording start time and said recording stop time into said selected signals to generate said video signals in response to said record imminent signals.

8. A display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, further comprised of said timer and control means generating display interrupt signals in response to user control and said picture-in-picture means mixing visual indications of said recording start time and said recording stop time into said selected signals in response to said display interrupt signals to generate said video signals.

9. A method for controlling change-over to a pre-programmed recording operation in a video tape recorder in response to a user programmed record start time, said method comprising:

enabling user entry of said record start time;

comparing said record start time to a current time to provide record imminent signals at a predetermined time period before said programmed recording time will correspond to said current time; and

displaying a visual indication to inform a user that change-over to said pre-programmed recording operation is imminent on a display device in response to said record imminent signals, said visual indication including a display of a length of time before said programmed recording time corresponds to said current time.

10. A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein displaying said visual indication includes displaying a visual indication of said record start time on said display device.

11. A method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising enabling user disablement of said pre-programmed recording operation.

12. A method as claimed in claim 9 further comprising enabling user disablement of said pre-programmed recording operation.