EP0889647A2
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System for processing program information
Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1998-07-03
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2018-07-03
Abstract
Abstract To provide a system for processing program information in which the display structure of a program table can freely be changed in accordance with a requirement or a taste of an audience, the system for processing program information is constructed to include program information storage means (1) for storing program information, and program table display means (4) for two-dimensionally displaying a program table (101) following two axes in accordance with two attributes (102) and (103) among attributes given to each piece of program information, to make the program table for two-dimensionally displaying programs with two axes of free attributes. For the audience, program tables of various constructions can be displayed on the display means at will and in respective program retrieval operations, the program table easy to look for a program can be obtained. An objective program can be found in a short time by coming up with ideas for the extraction of the program or the like, and this is useful for making a broadcast view plan of himself. <IMAGE> <IMAGE>
Inventors
- 👤 Hideki Yasukawa
- 👤 Yoshihiro Noguchi
- 👤 Masaki Hoshida
- 👤 Tsuyoshi Ueno
- 👤 Fumiyuki Kato
- 👤 Yutaka Tomioka
- 👤 Hayashi Itou
- 👤 Takao Isogawa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
—
Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 11:26
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N21/00; H04N21/40; H04N21/47; H04N21/20; H04N21/25; H04N21/251; H04N21/258; H04N21/25866; H04N21/43; H04N21/431; H04N21/4312; H04N21/433; H04N21/4334; H04N21/434; H04N21/4348; H04N21/435; H04N21/45; H04N21/4508; H04N21/4532; H04N21/466; H04N21/472; H04N21/47214; H04N21/4722; H04N21/475; H04N21/4755; H04N21/482; H04N21/4828; H04N21/60; H04N21/65; H04N21/658; H04N21/6582; H04N21/80; H04N21/81; H04N21/812; H04N21/8126; H04N21/8133; H04N21/83; H04N21/84
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 31
Claim 1
Independent Claim
48 words
A system for processing program information
comprising program information storage means for storing
program information, and program table display means for a
two-dimensional display according to a designation of two-axes
attributes when two attributes from among program
information attributes are used for two axes of a program
table.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
76 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in claim 1, further comprising attribute input
means through which the two-axes attributes used for two-dimensionally
displaying the program table are input, and
program table making means for retrieving program
information in program information stored in the program
information storage means on the basis of said input
attributes to make the program table, said program
information display means displaying the program table
from the program table making means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
36 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein the program table making means
has the functions of retrieving program information stored
in the program information storage means and classifying
said program information.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
31 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein another attribute is selected
or add to the two-axes attributes of the program table to
change over the display.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
32 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein the display is possible at the
condition of culling a portion needless to be displayed
when displaying the program table.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
24 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 5, wherein the original program table can
be restored when displaying the program table.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
26 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein an attribute relative to the
program can be selected to change over the display.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
46 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein a new attribute can be added
to and an attribute can be deleted from the program table
in accordance with a selection of the attribute by a user
or an input from another system.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
27 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 1, wherein information registered by a
user can be designated as an attribute of the program
table.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
63 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein, when there are plural
programs in a same time zone, they can be used for a
program check of the same time zone without expanding the
display area by displaying them one upon another as they
are shifted rearward little by little, and displaying them
at the front one by one.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
30 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein three-axes attributes of the
program table are selected by a user to display
information as a three-dimensional shape.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
32 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein the attributive structure of a
word relative to an attribute of the program table can be
extracted from program information.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
31 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein an outline so far, pictures or
sounds of a program can be stored to display and play back
them.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
73 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein, when a channel or a program
is selected as an attribute of the program table, it is
possible that the channel is changed over to the picture
of the program and program relation information is
displayed if the program is on the air at present, and
only information relative to the program is displayed if
the program is off the air.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
42 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein, a channel is selected as an
attribute of the program table, advertisements and program
relation information can be displayed in accordance with
the time schedule of programs in the channel.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
38 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein program information, program
relation information, program information renewal
information, information registered by a user, a program,
a picture, or a sound can be transmitted and received.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
34 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein an image sequence made by a
user can be transmitted and received to be displayed in a
portion of the program table.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
55 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein it is possible that program
information selected by a user is transmitted and the
number of people viewing the same program is calculated to
display the result in a portion of the program table as an
audience rating or the number of audience.
Claim 19
Independent Claim
21 words
A system for processing program information, wherein
program information including an index for retrieving a
program can be transmitted and received.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
39 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 19, wherein a user attribute is
maintained at the receiver side to retrieve program
information including an index for retrieving a program,
on the basis of the user attribute.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
53 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 19, wherein, when a retrieval was
unsuccessful with program information including an index
for retrieving a program, at the receiver side, a
retrieval and an automatic classification are carried out
at the transmitter side and the result is transmitted to
the receiver side.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
65 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 20, wherein, when a retrieval as claimed
in Claim the user attribute was unsuccessful with program
information including an index for retrieving a program,
at the receiver side, a retrieval and an automatic
classification according to the user attribute are carried
out at the transmitter side and the result is transmitted
to the receiver side.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
38 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein a designated program can be
recorded, reserved for recording or played back in
accordance with a designation of a user or an input from
another system.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
28 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein programs recorded or reserved
for recording can be displayed along the time of the
program table.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
52 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein a recorder is provided for
recording information of the program viewed by a user, and
a relationship with recorded program information is
examined in all programs and the program is displayed when
it is judged that the relationship is high.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
29 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein it can be shown whether a
performer of the program appears on a certain day or not.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
133 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein the system has fitting degree
calculation means for calculating a fitting degree between
program information and each piece of program
classification information, and program classification
means in which, to one given piece of program
classification information and a program information set,
a fitting degree of each piece of program information in
the program information set to program classification
information, is calculated by using the fitting degree
calculation means to obtain a subset of the program
information set having a fitting degree not less than a
given threshold value, and a line of the program
classification predetermined or designated by a user is
taken as one or more attributes of the program table to
display it by the program table display means.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
144 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, wherein the system has fitting degree
calculation means for calculating a fitting degree between
program information and each piece of program
classification information, and program classification
means in which, as to one given piece of program
classification information and a program information set,
a fitting degree of each piece of program information in
the program information set to program classification
information, is calculated by using the fitting degree
calculation means to obtain a subset of the program
information set having a fitting degree not less than a
given threshold value, and the program table display means
displays only a program classified into a program
classification predetermined or designated by a user so
that it can be distinguished from another program in the
program table without depending on the form of the program
table.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
101 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 2, further comprising program information
designation means for designating a subset as to a program
information set stored in the program information storage
means, relative key word extraction means for extracting a
characteristic word set characterizing the subset from the
subset of program information designated by the program
information designation means, and program information
extraction means for extracting characteristic word
information from the designated subset by using the
relative key word extraction means and extracting program
classification information for discriminating and
classifying program information similar to program
information in the subset.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
63 words
A system for processing program information as
claimed in Claim 27, wherein program classification
information is transmitted from a user side terminal to a
server side terminal, program information is classified by
the program information classification means at the server
side, and only program information classified into program
classification information transmitted from the user side
terminal is transmitted to the user side terminal.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
18 words
A television receiver including a system for
processing program information according to any one of
the preceding claims.
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