Electronic program guide feature for AV system
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorsPeter R. Shintani, Hisafumi Yamada
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for displaying broadcast history information of a plurality of episodes of a program on an audio-visual system, which enable a viewer to select a program for which the history information of each episode will be stored. In response to the viewer's selection, the audio-visual system stores the history information for the episodes of the selected program that has been received by the audio-visual system. The audio-visual system can display the history information when the viewer watches the current episode of the program in a future time.
Claims20
A method for receiving and displaying history information using an audio-visual system regarding a program having a plurality of episodes, comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving both a broadcast of a particular episode of the program and history information, in electronic form, regarding the particular episode;
- (b) determining whether the history information for any previous episodes of the program was stored in the audio-visual system;
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- (c) if any previous episodes were stored in the audio-visual system, automatically storing the history information for the particular episode in the audio-visual system.
A method for displaying information on an audio-visual system comprising the steps of:
- selecting a program manually;
- selecting automatically future episodes of the program;
- receiving content descriptive information in electronic form regarding an individual episode of the program automatically each time an individual episode is selected automatically;
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- storing the received content descriptive information regarding selected individual episodes of the selected program as history information locally in the audio-visual system at an end user location;
- interactively displaying the history information on the audio-visual system after storing it.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.