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TV program guide method and set top box

A navigation method and TV program technology, applied in the TV program navigation method and the field of set-top boxes, can solve the problems of missing, inaccurate channel program correspondence, incomplete electronic program guide, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-02-17
SHENZHEN IPANEL TECH LTD
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[0006] During the research and practice of the prior art, the inventor of the present invention found that the user would be attracted by other channel programs before switching and miss the program concerned; and the electronic program guide does not completely correspond to the channel program or does not Inaccurate, causing the program that the user cares about has already started, but the user does not know

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[0024] Embodiment 1, please refer to figure 1 It is a flowchart of an embodiment of a TV program navigation method of the present invention;

[0025] This embodiment is described by taking the set-top box with only one tuner and one decoder as an example.

[0026] Step 101, when playing the program of the current channel, obtain the signal of the channel to which the program concerned by the user belongs;

[0027] In most existing set-top boxes, there is only one tuner and one decoder; one tuner, with only one video source at a time, and when a channel is playing, said tuner gets it from cable The signal of the channel to which it belongs. At this time, if it is necessary to obtain the channel signal of the program that the user cares about, the channel signal can be obtained from the Internet Protocol (IP, Internet Protocol) network through the IP network connected to the set-top box.

[0028] Step 102, decoding the signal of the channel to which the program concerned by t...

Embodiment 2

[0037] Embodiment 2. This embodiment is described by taking a set-top box with multiple tuners and multiple decoders as an example;

[0038] Step 201, when playing the program of the current channel, use the second tuner to obtain the signal of the channel to which the program concerned by the user belongs;

[0039] When the set-top box has multiple tuners and multiple decoders, the source of the program and video decoding issues can all be handled directly using hardware. In this embodiment, there are two tuners and two decoders in one set-top box. In this case, for the source of the program, since there are two tuners in the set-top box, the set-top box can lock two channel signals at the same time, one tuner obtains the channel signal of the currently playing program, and the other tuner obtains user attention The signal of the channel to which the program belongs.

[0040] Step 202, decoding the signal of the channel to which the program concerned by the user belongs;

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Embodiment 3

[0048] Embodiment three, please refer to figure 2 It is a structural diagram of an embodiment of a TV set-top box of the present invention;

[0049] A channel signal acquiring unit 301, configured to acquire the signal of the first TV channel and the second TV channel concerned by the user;

[0050] The channel signal acquisition unit is a tuner, which acquires the signal of the second TV channel through the IP network when the first TV channel is played.

[0051] or,

[0052] When the channel signal acquiring unit is more than two tuners, the first tuner acquires the first TV channel signal for playing; the second tuner acquires the second TV channel signal.

[0053]a decoding unit 302, configured to decode a second television channel signal;

[0054] The decoding unit is a CPU.

[0055] or,

[0056] The decoding unit 302 is more than two video decoders, the first video decoder decodes the first TV channel signal, and the second video decoder decodes the second TV chann...

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Abstract

The invention discloses a TV program guide method which comprises the following steps: obtaining second TV program channel signals attended by a user when playing a first TV channel; decoding the second TV program channel signals; and reducing the decoded second TV program channel signals and then displaying. The embodiment of the invention also provides a corresponding TV set top box. The technical scheme of the invention is achieved as follows: when the current channel program is played, the channel signals attributed by the program attended by the user are obtained, decoded, reduced and displayed on corners of a TV screen, therefore, the user can know the state of the channel attributed by the program attended by the user in real time when the user is not influenced to watch the programof the current channel.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of digital television, in particular to a television program navigation method and a set-top box. Background technique [0002] In the existing digital TV, there are many channels, but TV users only pay attention to a few of them, and most of them do not. Like this, when the user wants to watch a concerned program completely, they can stay on that channel and wait for the start of the program, or switch to other channels, switch back again, constantly switch back and forth, see whether the concerned program starts. In this way, although users have more programs to choose from, they will still be forced to watch some irrelevant content, such as: [0003] 1. Users are forced to watch irrelevant content while waiting for the programs they care about [0004] 2. When the TV station inserts an advertisement during the program broadcast, it is forced to watch the advertisement [0005] Existing digital TVs prov...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04N5/445H04N5/00
Inventor 徐佳宏肖友能孔祥鹏汪国樑
Owner SHENZHEN IPANEL TECH LTD
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