Portable information terminal apparatus, information processing method, computer-program storage medium, and computer-program
First Claim
1. A portable information terminal apparatus comprising:
- acquiring means for acquiring a plurality of pieces of program information;
first display controlling means for controlling display on a display screen of said program information acquired by said acquiring means;
extracting means for extracting a time included in said program information;
retrieving means which, based on the time extracted by said extracting means, retrieves other program information about programs to be broadcast in a time slot relative to said program information; and
second display controlling means for controlling display on said display screen of said other program information after retrieval by said retrieving means.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a portable information terminal apparatus for additionally displaying information about other programs broadcast in the same time slot as a user-selected program. A TV program recording preset program under control of an I/O control program receives input of a user-selected start time of a given TV program. In turn, the TV program recording preset program extracts from a program list memory not the user-selected time but the start and end times of the TV program relative to the selected time, and retrieves information about all TV programs to be broadcast between the extracted start and end times so as to create a table of TV programs available in the designated time slot. The table is output to a display unit for display under control of the I/O control program.
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7 Claims
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1. A portable information terminal apparatus comprising:
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acquiring means for acquiring a plurality of pieces of program information;
first display controlling means for controlling display on a display screen of said program information acquired by said acquiring means;
extracting means for extracting a time included in said program information;
retrieving means which, based on the time extracted by said extracting means, retrieves other program information about programs to be broadcast in a time slot relative to said program information; and
second display controlling means for controlling display on said display screen of said other program information after retrieval by said retrieving means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An information processing method comprising the steps of:
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acquiring a plurality of pieces of program information;
firstly controlling display on a display screen of said program information acquired in said acquiring step;
extracting a time included in said program information;
retrieving, based on the time extracted in said extracting step, other program information about programs to be broadcast in a time slot relative to said program information; and
secondly controlling display on said display screen of said other program information after retrieval in said retrieving step.
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6. A computer-program storage medium which stores a computer-program which is readable by a computer, said computer-program comprising the steps of:
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acquiring a plurality of pieces of program information;
firstly controlling display on a display screen of said program information acquired in said acquiring step;
extracting a time included in said program information;
retrieving, based on the time extracted in said extracting step, other program information about programs to be broadcast in a time slot relative to said program information; and
secondly controlling display on said display screen of said other program information after retrieval in said retrieving step.
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7. A computer-program for causing a computer to execute the steps of:
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acquiring a plurality of pieces of program information;
firstly controlling display on a display screen of said program information acquired in said acquiring step;
extracting a time included in said program information;
retrieving, based on the time extracted in said extracting step, other program information about programs to be broadcast in a time slot relative to said program information; and
secondly controlling display on said display screen of said other program information after retrieval in said retrieving step.
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