Recording arrangement having key word detection means
View Patent ↗A recording arrangement ( 1 ) for receiving and recording a television signal (F) and for receiving an information signal (I) which contains television program information (FPI), for example, title information about future television programs. The recording arrangement ( 1 ) has a keyword detector ( 54 ) which derives at least one keyword characteristic of the fields of interest of the user from title information of a television program recorded by the recording arrangement ( 1 ). A selector ( 58 ) selects, from the title information of future television programs, which is contained in the television program information (FPI), the title information containing at least one detected keyword. Selected television programs can be displayed on a display device ( 3 ) or can be recorded automatically.
1. A recording arrangement comprising:
receiving means for receiving a television signal and an information signal including television program information;
recording means for recording a processed received television signal of a television program; and
selection means for selecting at least one television program having title information contained in the television program information, said title information comprising at least one given keyword,
characterized in that said recording arrangement further comprises:
keyword detection means for detecting, as a detected keyword, at least one item of title fragment information of the title information of the television program recorded by the recording means as the processed received television signal, said keyword detection means providing said at least one detected keyword to the selection means as said at least one given keyword.
2. The recording arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that said recording arrangement further comprises a keyword memory for storing said at least one keyword detected by the keyword detection means.
3. The recording arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that said recording arrangement further comprises a television program memory for storing television program information derived from a received information signal.
4. The recording arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that said recording arrangement further comprises:
display signal generating means, said display signal generating means being manually activatable for generating a display signal representing television program information of selected television programs;
output means for applying the display signal to display means capable of displaying a list of recording suggestions containing television program information of at least one selected television program; and
recording programming means for manually marking the television program information of one of the selected and displayed television programs, whereby the recording arrangement is programmable to record the marked television program.
5. The recording arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the keyword detection means detects as keywords only title fragment information having a minimum number of characters.
6. The recording arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that said recording arrangement further comprises an exclusion memory for storing at least title fragment information which is to be excluded as a keyword by the keyword detection means.
7. The recording arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the recording means automatically records a television program selected by the selection means.
8. The recording arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the receiving means is capable of receiving an information signal from a computer data network.