# US 8,542,321 B2 · TV set and TV program processing method thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,542,321 B2 - Document ID: US8542321B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/379,000 - Filed: 2009-06-19 - Published: 2012-04-19 - Granted: 2013-09-24 - Earliest claimed: 2009-06-19 - Assignees: Shenzhen Tcl New Technology Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Yaoyuan Fu; Yihua Chen; Tongjun Wang - Inventors: Yaoyuan Fu; Yihua Chen; Tongjun Wang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8542321B2 ## CPC - H04N 5/45: Picture in picture {, e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen} - H04N 7/165: {Centralised control of user terminal (subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345); Registering at central (by two-way working H04N7/17309)} - H04N 21/42204: {User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor (constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205)} - H04N 21/4314: {for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid} - H04N 21/4316: {for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window} - H04N 21/440263: {by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA} - H04N 21/4532: {involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences (monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18)} - H04N 21/4542: {Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes} - H04N 21/47: End-user applications - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract A TV set and a TV program processing method thereof are provided in the present disclosure. The TV set includes a control code receiving unit for receiving a control code and a TV program multiple-picture displaying unit for displaying TV program multiple-pictures according to the received control code. The TV program processing method includes the following steps: receiving a control code by a TV set, wherein the control code comprises an instruction of displaying current TV programs in a multiple-picture format; and displaying the current TV programs in the multiple-picture format according to the control code received. The TV set and the TV program processing method thereof of the present disclosure allow for displaying three or more TV programs on a same TV screen simultaneously, and also allow for displaying TV programs according to classifications of contents thereof, making it convenient to watch and use the TV set. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A television (TV) program processing method, comprising the following steps of: step a: receiving a control code by a TV set, wherein the control code comprises an instruction of displaying current TV programs in a TV program multiple-picture format; and step b: displaying the current TV programs in the TV program multiple-picture format according to the control code received; wherein the step b further comprises the following steps of: step b1: resolving the control code received, wherein data resolved from the control code comprises data related to the number of TV program multiple-pictures and TV program content classification displaying data; step b2: obtaining the number of the current TV programs and a size of a current TV display screen; step b3: calculating a displaying size of each of the TV program pictures on the TV display screen according to the size of the current TV display screen and the number of TV program multiple-pictures obtained; and calculating the number of scrolling pages of the TV program multiple-pictures displayed on the TV display screen according to the number of TV program multiple-pictures and the number of the current TV programs obtained; and step b4: displaying the TV program multiple-pictures on the TV display screen according to the TV program content classification displaying data. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The TV program processing method of claim 1, wherein the multiple-picture displaying includes three or more pictures. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The TV program processing method of claim 1, wherein the control code in the step a is transmitted by a TV remote controlling device or triggered by a control panel of the TV set. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The TV program processing method of claim 1, wherein the process of obtaining the number of the current TV programs in the step b2 comprises the following step of: obtaining the number of the current TV programs by scanning a PID code received by the TV set. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The TV program processing method of claim 1, wherein the process of obtaining a size of a current TV display screen in the step b2 comprises the following step of: scanning a display profile of the current TV display screen and calculating the size of the TV display screen according to the display profile. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The TV program processing method of claim 5, wherein when the display profile is of a rectangular form, the size of the current TV display screen is obtained by scanning lengths of two adjacent sides of the rectangular form. ### Claim 7 A TV set, comprising a control code receiving unit for receiving a control code, wherein the TV set further comprises a TV program multiple-picture displaying unit configured to display TV program multiple-pictures according to the control code received by the control code receiving unit; a control code resolving unit is configured to resolve the control code received by the control code receiving unit wherein data resolved from the control code comprises data related to the number of TV program multiple-pictures and TV program content classification displaying data; a current TV program number obtaining unit is configured to obtain the number of the current TV programs; a current TV display screen size obtaining unit is configured to obtain a size of a current TV display screen; a TV program picture displaying size calculating unit is configured to calculate a displaying size of each of the TV program pictures on the TV display screen according to the number of TV program multiple-pictures and the size of the current TV display screen obtained by the current TV display screen size obtaining unit; a TV program multiple-picture scrolling page number calculating unit is configured to calculate the number of scrolling pages of the TV program multiple-pictures displayed on the TV display screen according to the number of TV program multiple-pictures and the number of the current TV programs obtained by the current TV program number obtaining unit; a the TV program content classification displaying unit is configured to display the TV programs on the TV display screen according to the TV program content classification displaying data.