Program display and selecting apparatus, digital broadcast receiver and digital broadcast receiving system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsYoshifumi Sakamoto, Hiroaki Kubo, Norio Fujita
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Abstract
A program display and selecting apparatus for displaying an electronic program guide (EPG) contained in a digital broadcast and for selecting a program to be monitored, a digital broadcast receiver for transmitting an EPG to the program display and selecting apparatus, and a digital broadcast receiving system comprising the program and selecting apparatus and the digital broadcast receiver.
Claims9
A digital broadcast receiving system consisting of separate and interchangeable modular components including a television monitor having a monitor screen for displaying selected programs comprising:
- a separate digital broadcast receiver having an infrared receiving and transmitting means for transmitting electronic program guide (EPG) data contained in a received digital broadcast data;
- a program display and selecting apparatus which is separately constituted and remote from said digital broadcast receiver having a receiving means comprising an infrared receiver and transmitter unit for receiving the EPG data transmitted from said infrared receiving and transmitting means of said digital broadcast receiver;
- said program display and selecting apparatus comprising a displaying means for concurrently displaying the received EPG data;
- said digital broadcast receiver periodically transmitting EPG data;
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- said program display and selecting apparatus comprises an operation means for operating said digital broadcast receiver, wherein the EPG data received from said digital broadcast receiver facilitates selection of a program for outputting thereof on said television monitor screen, in the absence of any display interruption caused by said EPG data, based upon the EPG data information which has been received.
A digital broadcast receiver comprising a transmitting means for transmitting EPG data contained in a received digital broadcast data;
- a program display and selecting apparatus separate and remote from said digital broadcast receiver and including a receiving means for receiving EPG data transmitted from the digital broadcast receiver;
- said program display and selecting apparatus comprising a display means for concurrently displaying said received EPG data, wherein the EPG data received from said digital broadcast receiver facilitates selection of a program for an uninterrupted outputting thereof on a monitor screen of a television monitor based upon the received EPG data information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.