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Program information display apparatus with program selection input

AssigneeFujitsu Ten Limited

InventorMasahiro Kamiya

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Abstract

The disclosure relates to program information display apparatus including a program data receiving unit for receiving program data of digital broadcasting, and a program in-depth information creating unit for extracting in-depth information of a predetermined program from the program data received by the program data receiving unit, and creating program in-depth information thereof. The program information display apparatus is equipped with a program selection input unit for allowing a user to select and display in-depth information of one program when in-depth information of another program is being displayed, and a program in-depth information display changing unit for displaying program in-depth information of a program selected through the program selection input unit when the program is selected.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A program information display apparatus comprising:

a receiver operable to receive program data of digital broadcasting;
a first creating section operable to create an electronic programming guide (EPG) including a schedule of a plurality of TV programs based on the received program data;
a second creating section operable to create a description regarding one of the TV programs based on the received program data;
and
a display section operable to control a display having a screen,
wherein the display section controls the display to display the EPG on the screen in response to an instruction by a user;
wherein the display section controls the display to display the description regarding the one of the TV programs on the screen in place of the EPG when the user selects the one of the TV programs from the EPG;
and
wherein the display section controls the display to display another description regarding another of the TV programs on the screen in place of the description regarding the one of the TV programs when the user selects the other of the TV programs while the description regarding the one of the TV programs is displayed on the screen.

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Facts

Application: 10/431,373Filed 8 May 2003
Priority: JP 2002-1327518 May 2002
Published: US 2003/0210350 A113 Nov 2003
Granted: 1 Dec 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04N 21/47
Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof: end-user…
H04N 21/42203
Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]: sound input…
H04N 21/42204
Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]: user interfaces…
H04N 21/431
Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g.…:…