CN85107502A - The information display circuit that the charged TV system user uses - Google Patents
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A kind of is the information display system of user's explicit user unique information of charge communication system.This system comprises the plate page receiving device that is connected with communication system, for receiving model page or leaf as the form of user's unique information, also comprise the storage device that is connected with the model receiving system, for storing the model page or leaf and comprising the logic device that is connected with storage device with communication system, produce and preserve the information of some at least user's uniquenesses for the part.For showing that to the user logic device makes up user's unique information and model page or leaf.
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The present invention is the problem about charge communication system aspect substantially, particularly at the information display circuit of charge communication system, for user's simplification information shows.
Charge communication system (as TV and special broadcast program) is admitted widely, becomes the effective means that the public can select various information and theatrical items.This system generally collects fixing moon usage charges, and the user can receive the prescribed program in the whole month.By the payment surcharge, many systems also provide Movie Channel or special series passage.Though some user only wanted to watch one, two film or special series in one month, yet he must pay whole additional costs.In full in the situation payment of only watching partial programme is uneconomic, often causes many users only to order the reception prescribed program, and therefore, the quality of other program can not get abundant assurance.
Charged TV system should allow the user not only select him to want the passage that receives, and is chosen in this passage him and wants the program seen.In order to obtain maximum flexibility, assent family allowable and select at any time, and needn't broadcast system operator explanation before watching specific program.Reasonably system should allow the user obtain all programs, allows him only to pay the program of in fact being watched simultaneously again.This conception of species is commonly referred to " program payment ".
In charged TV system with " program payment " characteristics, for reasonable payment, the user is the user-selected program of reporting system operator ceaselessly, therefore, and data feedback channel or other communication lines that this system need be from the user to the Systems Operator, nature, the user can hold the whole set program table, and in order to keep accounts, the user sends the Systems Operator with listing termly, but this booking procedure is shady, and this does not gear to actual circumstances for the system with multi-user.The user can return to the Systems Operator with online mode with selecting the programme of watching, but this returning makes system complicated greatly, and greatly increases the investment of system.
In charged TV system with " program payment " characteristics, must be to his accounts situation of user notification, available common telex system provides this information, in this system, the digit pulse of representative data head end from system during the shadow that vertically disappears of TV signal sends, this data representation alphanumeric and figure, the user utilizes the television receiver that is fit to the reception text optionally to show these data.Particularly the user uses the remote keyboard that joins with receive-only page printer (ROPP), and request shows one page information specific.Receiver is being waited for that one page up to the channel transfer request, then information is existed in the page or leaf buffer register, is presented on the video screen by the content of character generator with register.
In telex system in the past, except that on the fixed position of the page, adding the page number, before page or leaf shows, transmission page is not obviously revised, especially, common telex system stipulates that the addressee must not side information, because it can change the meaning or the translation of transmission information.Therefore, the information of specific user's special use, as charging information should be created in the head end or the access end of system, and in order to send number to the user, this has just increased the complexity of system.Therefore, in the system with " program payment " characteristics, still want standby some devices, be used for the programme that reporting system operator user watches, this requirement has further increased the complexity and the price of system.
Catalogue of the present invention provide a kind of information displaying scheme, the information that it simplifies the charged TV system user shows.
Specific purposes of the present invention are for the charged TV system user provides information display circuit, utilize the model page or leaf (as data format) that sends from system's head end, show the information (as the bill sum) that this machine produces on receiver user.
In addition, specific purposes of the present invention are for charged TV system provides information display circuit, utilize the model page or leaf (as data format) that sends from system's head end to show the parameter relevant with system mode.
In addition, specific purposes of the present invention are to equip improved accounting system for charged TV system, and it allows the user to select program, and only are this program payment.
Also have, specific purposes of the present invention are to equip improved accounting system for charged TV system, and it allows the user to select program and pays the bill for this reason, in advance the notification system operator.
Another object of the present invention is to equip improved accounting system for charged TV system, and it allows the user to obtain the information list of accounts through request.
Have, specific purposes of the present invention are for the charged TV system user carries information display circuit again, utilize the model page or leaf (as data format) that sends from system's head end to show the information that this machine produces, and same model page or leaf can be used for many users.
In the charged TV system that sends the TV programme that is formed by hash (signal is delivered to the decoder of user family), the present invention has special purposes.In decoder, microcomputer determines that according to the subscriber's account of user selected program and storage which kind of signal is not mixed and disorderly, can watch.Billing data is from the head end input microcomputer of system, the usage charges of its reflection user prepayment, microcomputer automatically deduct the price of selecting the program watched from user's balance of account, as Sorry, your ticket has not enough value, be no more than the price of program or the limited credit of approval, then microcomputer does not stop program to mix.The user sends to the Systems Operator and appends the prepayment usage charges, just can increase user's balance of account.
The balance of account information that microcomputer is preserved is the bill information that is stored in the microcomputer, can be used to user's demonstration and combined with the model page or leaf that transmits from system's head end, and for example, the model page or leaf may include only the bill title.
Consult accompanying drawing and the detailed description of device according to qualifications of the present invention, be appreciated that purpose of the present invention, characteristics and other design philosophy.
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Fig. 1 is the calcspar of pay TV decoder, has microcomputer in deciphering according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the calcspar of model page or leaf circuit, in order to show the information that is produced by this machine according to the present invention.
Fig. 3,4 and 5 is to show the information that is produced by this machine according to the present invention on the model page or leaf.
Concrete according to qualifications detailed description of installing
Consult Fig. 1, this calcspar shows a kind of decoder that is used for charged TV system, and it comprises a microcomputer, is used to control the work of decoder and the account information of storing the user.The autograph of registration is the United States Patent (USP) NO.507 of " Code And Decode of TV signal " in July 23 nineteen eighty-three, and 565 have described this decoder example.
As shown in Figure 1, TV signal MAC at first enters demultiplexer 300, it isolates luminance and chrominance information from TV signal, and audio frequency, synchronously, the Shi Tonghe telegraph signal, luminance signal is sent into the storage of brightness storage 302(CCD line) compress, enter low pass filter 304 then, the brightness analog signal is defeated by output interface 306, time generator 308 produces the required sampling pulse of compression, is defeated by brightness memory 302 by two clock drivers 310.
From the carrier chrominance signal of demultiplexer 300 also is the line storage at brightness memory 312(also) in compress, the output of separating is two different colored signals, output interface 306 is defeated by in 314 filtrations through two low pass filters, and the sampled signal that time generator 308 produces is by three clock drivers, 310 output brightness memories 312.
Demultiplexer also will not comprise the signal of the colourity of brightness to be separated from the MAC TV signal, and these signals comprise audio frequency, text, synchronously and the time system signal.Audio frequency, text and synchronizing signal are defeated by demultiplexer 316 by one of low-pass filtering 318, the time system signal of fixed frequency is defeated by demultiplexer 316 by low pass filter 320, demultiplexer 316 separates these signals, audio signal is defeated by audio demodulator 322, synchronously and the time signal of uniting be defeated by clock and synchronization recovery circuit 324 and time generator 308.Be divided into four the tunnel from the audio signal of demultiplexer 316 outputs through demultiplexer 322, again by audio process 326 outputs.Telegraph signal is by clock and synchronization recovery circuit 324 input character generators 328.Decode operation carries out under microcomputer 330 controls, by bi-directional bus 334,336 and 338, and microcomputer and time and synchronization recovery circuit 324, textual character generator 328 communicates between the random access memory (RAM) 332.
Output interface 308 receives the textual character signal of character-generator 326 outputs, the carrier chrominance signal of the luminance signal of low pass filter 304 outputs, low pass filter 314 outputs, the time signal of time generator 308 outputs.Its output is standard N TSC colour TV signal.
Fig. 2 is according to model circuit block diagram of the present invention, as shown in the figure, and in order to control the operation of decoder, the microcomputer 330 that available microcomputer 360 replaces among Fig. 1.The square 350 of Fig. 2 is data recovery unit, and its data channel from decoder (decoder for example shown in Figure 1) recovers information data and model page data.Be defeated by page selected cell 351 from the data that data recovery unit 350 recovers, it is selected data and it is stored in the page register 352.For control data is selected and is stored in the page register 352, microcomputer 360 is connected with page register 352 with page or leaf selected cell 351.Keyboard interface 354 is connected with microcomputer 360, for the operation of controlling microcomputer with will resemble the such information of program that the user desires to watch and be defeated by microcomputer, keyboard interface 354 is arranged, and is connected with microcomputer 360, is used to insert keyboard operation platform or other device by user's operation.Microcomputer 360 also be connected (being also illustrated on Fig. 1) with character generator 328, it handles the information from page register 352 and microcomputer 360,306(is also illustrated on Fig. 1 by output interface), on video screen, show these information, can control output interface 306, what select to be defeated by TV screen is the television video frequency signal of standard or from the literal vision signal of character generator 328.
According to the present invention, in the charged TV system with " program payment " characteristics, the user posts to system operation page or leaf money item, and the moon usage charges that it equals to fix add additional cost, this additional cost is as subscription fee, and the user can be scheduled to not be included in the special series in the prescribed program.The operator on passage transmission information to the user, how many funds are the custom system of announcement receive, this information storage is in microcomputer 360, in order to preserve user's bill remaining sum, microcomputer 360 can be done the accounts clearing, receives the payment information correction user's who comes remaining sum money there from the Systems Operator.Microcomputer can determine that also the user watches the price of program.
In these pricing informations also can be issued microcomputer and are stored in by the Systems Operator.
The price of the program that user's selection is watched automatically deducts the user balance in being kept at microcomputer, when Sorry, your ticket has not enough value, is no more than the price of program or is no more than predetermined line of credit, and microcomputer does not just stop program to mix.Microcomputer also is provided with the inner mark relevant with each watching program.The user prepays after the additional usage charges, and user's balance of account just increases.
The user shows diversified report or page or leaf by keyboard operation platform interface 354 order microcomputers 360 on TV screen, shown in Fig. 3～4, the accounts situation of Fig. 3 explicit user, in this example, developing comprises A district and the B district that is with frame, for convenience of explanation, draw frame around in the A district, distinguish, can find out with B, the information in B district is descriptor or title, to each user is identical, thereby the B district is as the model or the title of A district information, and these information are unique for each user, because all identical, can on fax and other passage, send at synchronization to those users to many user B district.On the other hand, for each user, the information that is positioned at the A district is unique, and the microcomputer 360 that is connected with decoder can more effectively produce and preserve these information.
What Fig. 4 showed is system's control page or leaf, and it shows the state of the various parameters relevant with decoder.Developing separated into two parts A and B equally, for convenience of explanation.As mentioned above, the B district is a descriptor, as the model or the form of A district information, is identical to many users.The information in A district is provided by microcomputer 360.
According to the present invention, Fig. 5 is further developing example, as above-mentioned identical, also be divided into A and B district, this developing is listed the special series and the price of watching, in order to produce inventory and the price thereof that these developing model pages or leaves comprise the available whole programs of user, when microcomputer 360 is received this inventory, it can determine that those programs do not possess corresponding inner mark, and this shows that the user had not watched those programs.The price of these programs is printed on " * * * * " and shows that this program do not order on the numeral of these program prices on the developing.
Shown in Fig. 4～5, effectively utilize model or form principle according to information display system of the present invention and go to show that to the specific user be not unique information, because the type to many these information of user is identical, would rather produce these information at this machine, mail to each user from the master of system point of departure at synchronization, those are that unique information can more effectively be produced and be preserved by microcomputer in user family to each user, thereby the present invention avoids sending unique information from the head end of system to each user, in a big system, for example utilize 1,000,000 users' of satellite relay system, it is very favorable not sending unique information from head end to whole users.
Information display system of the present invention has overcome in the pay TV system that in the past had " program payment " characteristics significant inefficient, in common system, need data feedback channel, phone for example, or alternate manner allows the user to the means of communication of Systems Operator's return information, the user correctly ordered see program. In system of the present invention without any need for returning communication. System is operated in downlink mode, so the uncomplicated and easy maintenance of system, in addition, owing to have the microcomputer that is connected with decoder can finish all management work in user family, select program, automatically check out, therefore, the load of system is not too heavy, can utilize more fully, and additional program is provided. System of the present invention also allows the user ceaselessly to monitor and shows the duty of looking decoder.
For preferentially specifically installing, described the present invention in detail, still, specifically install only as an example, the present invention is not subjected to its restriction. The personnel of speciality are arranged in this respect after the reading technique specification, will be understood that within the scope of the present invention and can also make those variations and remodeling. Scope of the present invention is determined by the claim in the appendix.
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1, a kind of information display system shows user's unique information in the charged TV system to the user, and this information display system comprises:
The display unit that is connected with communication system connects the information of receiving for showing from communication system
The plate page receiving device that is connected with communication system, for receiving the model page or leaf, it is as the form of user's unique information;
Store the storing apparatus of model page or leaf;
The logic device that is connected with communication system display unit and storing apparatus, for the part produces and the some at least user's unique informations of preservation, above-mentioned logic device makes up user's unique information and model page or leaf, shows on display unit.
2, according to claim 1, the above-mentioned logic device in the information display system is a microcomputer.
3, according to claim 1, the information of the user's uniqueness in the information display system comprises user's sequence information.
4, according to claim 1, the information of the user's uniqueness in the information display system comprises system status information.
5, according to claim 1, in information display system, the model page or leaf transmits on the fax passage of communication system.
6, charged TV system has transmitting device, give impurity elimination random decoder the mixed and disorderly video signal transmission of representing TV programme, also has radiovisor, the random signal of the impurity elimination of receiver decoder output, in this charged TV system, the information of above-mentioned radiovisor explicit user uniqueness, above-mentioned display system comprises:
The plate page receiving device that is connected with above-mentioned decoder, in order to receive the model page or leaf, it is as the form of the information of user's uniqueness;
Store the storing apparatus of above-mentioned model page or leaf
The logic device that is connected with above-mentioned storing apparatus with decoder is the information that produces some at least user's uniquenesses, and above-mentioned logic device makes up user's unique information and model page or leaf, shows on above-mentioned radiovisor.
7, according to claim 6, information display system also comprises the input unit that is connected with above-mentioned logic device, allows the user select TV programme, and above-mentioned logic device comprises storage device, stores many selecteed programs.
8, according to claim 7, above-mentioned logic device compares each project and the above-mentioned model page or leaf of above-mentioned record in information display system, show that according to result relatively the information of above-mentioned user's uniqueness, the information of above-mentioned user's uniqueness show that the user has selected those programs.
9, according to claim 6, the above-mentioned logic device of information display system comprises:
The accounts checkout apparatus, the paying signal that is used to preserve the balance of account and receives the makeup user-pay;
Program selecting apparatus is used to receive the programme signal of the selected program of representative of consumer;
With the pricing device that above-mentioned program selecting apparatus is connected, be used to provide the price signal of the price of the user-selected program of cost;
With the arithmetic unit that above-mentioned accounts checkout apparatus is connected with above-mentioned pricing device, from the above-mentioned balance of account, deduct price signal and add above-mentioned paying signal;
With the comparison means that above-mentioned accounts checkout apparatus is connected, when the above-mentioned balance of account was lower than predetermined value, it provided comparison signal; And
Respond the restraining device of above-mentioned comparison signal, when comparison signal occurred, it suppressed to disappear mixed and disorderly.
10, according to claim 7, the logic device of information display system comprises allows the user according to the place an order device of information of the program of selecting, and the information of above-mentioned user's uniqueness comprises the above order information.
11, give the method for user's explicit user unique information of charged TV system, ratio method comprises the following step;
The local information that produces some at least user's uniquenesses,
Provide from communication system model page or leaf, as the form of user's unique information;
Temporary above-mentioned model page or leaf, and
Relatively the information and the above-mentioned model page or leaf of user's uniqueness show to the user.
12, in the method for claim 11, the above-mentioned local step that produces some at least user's unique informations comprises the local step that produces sequence information.
13, in the method for claim 11, the above-mentioned local step that produces some at least user's unique informations comprises the local step that produces system status information.
14, in the method for claim 12, the above-mentioned local step that produces sequence information comprises the following steps:
For the user preserves the balance of account;
Deduct the price of user-selected program from the above-mentioned balance of account;
Add the expense that the user pays for the above-mentioned balance of account.
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