Program guide displaying apparatus and method
First Claim
1. A program guide displaying apparatus for displaying a program table, in which a plurality of program information are displayed in a 2-dimension of a time axis and a channel axis, said apparatus comprising:
- a program information obtaining device for obtaining the program information including information indicative of a program name, a start time, a length of a program or an end time, a broadcasting channel and a broadcasting date of respective one of a plurality of programs;
a date setting device for setting a date of the program table to be displayed; and
a displaying device for extracting the program information corresponding to the date set by said date setting device from among the program information obtained by said program information obtaining device, displaying the extracted program information as the program table corresponding to the date set by said date setting device and, if the date of the program table is changed by said date setting device, displaying the extracted program information as the program table corresponding to the changed date with a display time band set in advance.
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Abstract
A program guide displaying apparatus (1) displays a program table, in which a plurality of program information are displayed in a 2-dimension of a time axis and a channel axis. The program guide displaying apparatus is provided with: a program information obtaining device (3 to 7) for obtaining the program information including information indicative of a program name, a start time, a length of a program or an end time, a broadcasting channel and a broadcasting date of respective one of a plurality of programs; a date setting device (12, 13, 17) for setting a date of the program table to be displayed; and a displaying device (9, 17, 200) for extracting the program information corresponding to the date set by the date setting device from among the program information obtained by the program information obtaining device, displaying the extracted program information as the program table corresponding to the date set by the date setting device and, if the date of the program table is changed by the date setting device, displaying the extracted program information as the program table corresponding to the changed date with a display time band set in advance.
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1. A program guide displaying apparatus for displaying a program table, in which a plurality of program information are displayed in a 2-dimension of a time axis and a channel axis, said apparatus comprising:
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a program information obtaining device for obtaining the program information including information indicative of a program name, a start time, a length of a program or an end time, a broadcasting channel and a broadcasting date of respective one of a plurality of programs;
a date setting device for setting a date of the program table to be displayed; and
a displaying device for extracting the program information corresponding to the date set by said date setting device from among the program information obtained by said program information obtaining device, displaying the extracted program information as the program table corresponding to the date set by said date setting device and, if the date of the program table is changed by said date setting device, displaying the extracted program information as the program table corresponding to the changed date with a display time band set in advance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A program guide displaying apparatus for displaying a program table, in which a plurality of program information are displayed in a 2-dimension of a time axis and a channel axis, said apparatus comprising:
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a program information obtaining device for obtaining the program information including information indicative of a program name, a start time, a length of a program or an end time, a broadcasting channel and a broadcasting date of respective one of a plurality of programs;
a displaying device for displaying the obtained program information as the program table including a plurality of program cells as for a predetermined display time range and a predetermined display channel range; and
a program cell selecting device for selecting one of the program cells within the displayed program table, wherein, if the selected program cell is changed in a direction along the time axis by said program cell selecting device and if the changed and selected program cell exceeds the display time range of the program table displayed before changing the selected program cell, said displaying device displays the program table in which the start time of the changed and selected program cell is positioned within a leading display time band. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A program guide displaying method of displaying a program table, in which a plurality of program information are displayed in a 2-dimension of a time axis and a channel axis, said method comprising:
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a program information obtaining process of obtaining the program information including information indicative of a program name, a start time, a length of a program or an end time, a broadcasting channel and a broadcasting date of respective one of a plurality of programs;
a date setting process of setting a date of the program table to be displayed; and
a displaying process of extracting the program information corresponding to the date set by said date setting process from among the program information obtained by said program information obtaining process, displaying the extracted program information as the program table corresponding to the date set by said date setting process and, if the date of the program table is changed by said date setting process, displaying the extracted program information as the program table corresponding to the changed date with a display time band set in advance. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A program guide displaying method of displaying a program table, in which a plurality of program information are displayed in a 2-dimension of a time axis and a channel axis, said method comprising:
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a program information obtaining process of obtaining the program information including information indicative of a program name, a start time, a length of a program or an end time, a broadcasting channel and a broadcasting date of respective one of a plurality of programs;
a displaying process of displaying the obtained program information as the program table including a plurality of program cells as for a predetermined display time range and a predetermined display channel range; and
a program cell selecting process of selecting one of the program cells within the displayed program table, wherein, if the selected program cell is changed in a direction along the time axis by said program cell selecting process and if the changed and selected program cell exceeds the display time range of the program table displayed before changing the selected program cell, said displaying process displays the program table in which the start time of the changed and selected program cell is positioned within a leading display time band. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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