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EP0790738A2
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Display of electronic program guide
Assignee: Sony Corp
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Filing: 1997-01-31
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2017-01-31
Abstract
Abstract Program information can be obtained quickly and accurately. An area (X1) on which date and day are displayed is disposed at the left end of a screen and an area (X2) in which time is displayed is disposed adjacent to the area (X1) in the right-hand side. An area (Y) in which title of program, etc., are displayed is disposed adjacent to the area (X2) in the right-hand side. An area (Z) in which genre is displayed is disposed adjacent to the area (Y) in the right-hand side. Information displayed on the respective areas are sequentially arranged in the longitudinal direction. A user can select information of a desired program by moving cursors (100X1, 100X2, 100Y, 100Z) of the respective areas.
Inventors
- 👤 Yukiko Ohkura
- 👤 Hideo Terasawa
- 👤 Yuji Morimiya
- 👤 Tetsuya Kohno
- 👤 Keiji Yuzawa
- 👤 Yuriko Kishitaka
- 👤 Kazuhiro Akaike
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
—
Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 10:37
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N21/00; H04N21/40; H04N21/47; H04N21/482; H04N5/00; H04N5/44; H04N5/445
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 20
Claim 1
Independent Claim
129 words
An electronic program guide display control apparatus for controlling a manner in which an electronic program guide for selecting a program is displayed on a display apparatus, comprising: date displaying means for displaying a broadcast date of said program in a first area of a plurality of areas which result from dividing a display area of said program in the longitudinal direction; title display means for displaying a title of said program on a second area of a plurality of areas which result from dividing a display area of said display apparatus in the longitudinal direction; designating means for designating a predetermined one from display on said area; and changing means for changing display of said second area to a title of a program of said designated broadcast date.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
29 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, in which said title display means displays titles of said programs in the longitudinal direction in the sequential order of channel number.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
24 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, in which said date display means displays date and time of said broadcast date on independent areas.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
27 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, in which said date display means displays a past broadcast date of said broadcast data in a different display fashion.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
29 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, in which said designating means further includes inhibiting means for inhibiting said past broadcast date of said broadcast data from being designated.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
41 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising genre display means for displaying genre of said programs on a third area of a plurality of areas which result from dividing a display area of said display apparatus in the longitudinal direction.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
40 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, in which said changing means changes display on said second area to a title of said program of a designated genre when a predetermined genre of genres on said third area is designated.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
118 words
An electronic program guide display control method of controlling a manner in which an electronic program guide for selecting a program is displayed on a display apparatus, comprising the steps of: displaying a broadcast date of said program in a first area of a plurality of areas which result from dividing a display area of said program in the longitudinal direction; displaying a title of said program on a second area of a plurality of areas which result from dividing a display area of said display apparatus in the longitudinal direction; designating a predetermined one from display on said area; and changing display of said second area to a title of a program of said designated broadcast date.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
44 words
An electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 6, in which said genre includes a movie genre, a sport genre, a news genre, a drama genre, a music genre, a children genre, a preference genre, a present-channel genre and/or a book-mark genre.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
24 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, in which said title display means includes a starting time and a finishing time corresponding to a program.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
29 words
An electronic program guide display control apparatus according to claim 1, in which said title display means includes a channel number and a station logo corresponding to a program.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
149 words
An electronic program guide display control method for controlling in a manner in which an electronic program guide for selecting a program is displayed on a display apparatus, comprising the steps of: display a broadcast data of said program in a first area of a plurality of areas which result from dividing a display area of said program in a longitudinal direction; displaying a title of said program in a second area of a plurality of areas which result from dividing a display area of said display apparatus in a longitudinal direction; displaying a genre of said program in a third area of a plurality of areas which result from dividing a display area of said display apparatus in a longitudinal direction; designating a genre on said third area; and changing display of said second area to titles of programs corresponding to said designated genre on said third area.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
66 words
An electronic program guide display control method according to claim 8, further comprising the steps of: selecting one of said programs on said second area; displaying a picture corresponding to said program on a screen when said program is being broadcasted at this time; and displaying a program information corresponding to said program on said screen when said program is not being broadcasted at this time.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
25 words
An electronic program guide display control method according to claim 13, wherein said program information includes broadcast date and contents corresponding to said selected program.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
29 words
An electronic program guide display control method according to claim 13, wherein when said program is not being broadcasted at this time, command icons are displayed on said screen.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
29 words
An electronic program guide display control method according to claim 15, wherein said command icons includes a return icon, a book-mark icon, a timer icon and a purchase icon.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
30 words
An electronic program guide display control method according to claim 8, wherein said titles of said programs are displayed in a longitudinal direction in a sequential order of channel number.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
24 words
An electronic program guide display control method according to claim 8, wherein data and time of said broadcast data are displayed on independent areas.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
26 words
An electronic program guide display control method according to claim 8, wherein a past broadcast data of said broadcast is displayed in a different display fashion.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
24 words
An electronic program guide display control method according to claim 8, wherein a past broadcast data of said broadcast is inhibited from being designated.
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