Method and apparatus for displaying television programs and related text
AssigneeGemstar Development Corporation
InventorsHenry Yuen, Daniel Kwoh, Roy Mankovitz, Elsie Leung
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Abstract
A television viewer uses a PIP format for display of program related information such as television program listings from a program schedule data base in the background and moving, real time or stored video clip images of a program selected from the displayed listings in the PIP window. All the text of the background information lies outside the PIP window. In one embodiment, as the viewer selects a particular program from the display of current television program listings by means of a cursor or a code number, the corresponding program automatically appears in the PIP window.
Claims19
1-30. (canceled)
A system comprising:
- a video display;
- a video signal tuner;
- a memory that stores program listings for a plurality of television programs;
- means for displaying a plurality of program identifiers, each related to one of the program listings, in a schedule area of the video display;
- means for displaying a cursor highlighting a first program identifier in the schedule area;
- means for displaying substantially all of an image output by the video signal tuner in a video area of the video display;
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- means for displaying in a description area of the video display, additional information from the program listing related to the first program identifier highlighted by the cursor in the schedule area, wherein the additional information comprises information not in the first program identifier, and wherein the plurality of program identifiers, the image output by the video signal tuner and the additional information are simultaneously displayed.
A method for using a video display, a video signal tuner and a memory, comprising:
- storing program listings for a plurality of television programs in the memory;
- displaying a plurality of program identifiers, each related to one of the program listings, in a schedule area of the video display;
- displaying a cursor highlighting a first program identifier in the schedule area;
- displaying substantially all of an image output by the video signal tuner in a video area of the video display, the video area being arranged so that the schedule area does not significantly overlap the video area;
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- displaying in a description area of the video display, additional information from the program listing related to the first program identifier highlighted by the cursor in the schedule area, wherein the additional information comprises information not in the first program identifier, and wherein the plurality of program identifiers, the image output by the video signal tuner and the additional information are simultaneously displayed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.