Method for presenting electronic program guide
AssigneeTeco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorsHoung-Jyh Wang, Yi-Chun Wang, Yao-Ching Huang
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Abstract
A multi-page electronic program guide displays the program information for only one selected channel on each screen. The names of various channels are labeled in channel cells at the left side of the screen when the program information of the selected channel is displayed on the major screen. Thereby, the user can select other channels from the channel cells. Once a specific channel is selected, the program displayed in various time zones are completely displayed on one screen.
Claims30
An electronic program guide having a plurality of pages, each of the pages comprising:
- a channel cell being labeled with one of a plurality of channels on one side of the page;
- a cursor;
- a plurality of time cells aligned in a line perpendicular to the side for defining a plurality of time zones;
- and
- a plurality of program blocks, each of the program blocks being corresponding to one of the time zones for showing a program name of the channel in the corresponding time zone.
An electronic program guide, comprising:
- a plurality of channel cells aligned in a line, each of the channel cells being labeled with one of a plurality of channels;
- a cursor, operative to select one of the channel cells to display program information of the selected channel;
- a plurality of time cells aligned in a line perpendicular to the channel cells for defining a plurality of time zones;
- and
- a plurality of program blocks, each of the program blocks being corresponding to one of the time zones for showing a program name of only the selected channel in the corresponding time zone.
A method of presenting an electronic program guide, comprising the following steps:
- selecting one channel from a plurality of channels;
- displaying a plurality of program names of the selected channel and not displaying program names of unselected channels;
- selecting one of the program names;
- and
- displaying program information of the selected program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.