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US 5,459,522 AGranted
Method for acquisition and display of an on-screen program guide
AssigneeZenith Electronics Corporation
InventorCharles S. Pint
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Abstract
A method for translating the generic, raw information of a broadcast on-screen program guide service into a displayable screen signal that can drive TV electronics, utilizing the step of building a virtual generic screen before creating the displayable screen signal in order to ease the translation burden from generic to TV specific information.
Claims3
A method for acquisition and display of an on-screen program guide on a television comprising:
- A) receiving broadcast raw data of an on-screen program guide;
- B) processing the raw data to obtain data necessary to create a generic program guide screen;
- C) storing the data necessary to create the generic screen in memory;
- D) constructing a generic virtual screen of a program guide from the necessary data;
- E) translating the generic screen to a displayable screen;
- and
- F) displaying the screen on a TV.
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A method for acquisition and display of an on-screen program guide on a television comprising:
- A) receiving broadcast raw data of an on-screen program guide in the vertical blanking interval of a broadcast signal;
- B) removing the raw data from the vertical blanking interval of the broadcast signal;
- C) processing the raw data to obtain fragments necessary for the display of the on-screen program guide;
- D) storing the raw data fragments in a program guide memory;
- E) assembling the raw fragments into generic virtual screen blocks;
- F) assembling the generic virtual screen blocks into a generic virtual whole screen;
- G) storing the generic virtual whole screen in the program guide memory;
- H) translating the generic virtual whole screen into a displayable screen format understandable by the television display electronics;
- and
- I) displaying the displayable program guide on the television.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.