Device and method for displaying TV listings
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1. A TV listing display device for displaying a TV listing of scheduled programs which are scheduled to be broadcast from TV stations, comprising:
- a reception unit for receiving broadcast data from said TV stations and demodulating the broadcast data to obtain television signals representing currently broadcast programs;
an acquisition unit for obtaining program information representing program titles of said scheduled programs;
a capture unit for capturing a signal having a specified length from said television signals, and storing the signal as program image data in an image memory;
a read unit for reading said program image data corresponding to said scheduled programs respectively from said image memory to prepare program images; and
a display unit for displaying said program titles together with said program images respectively in the TV listing.
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Abstract
A television signal of a certain TV program is captured for a specified period and memorized in an image memory as a representative image of that TV program. The representative image is read from the image memory when, for example, the same kind of the TV program is found in a TV listing (list of scheduled programs). The representative image is then attached to the program title in the TV listing. Since the representative image presents visual information, a user can learn more about a scheduled program from the TV listing.
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1. A TV listing display device for displaying a TV listing of scheduled programs which are scheduled to be broadcast from TV stations, comprising:
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a reception unit for receiving broadcast data from said TV stations and demodulating the broadcast data to obtain television signals representing currently broadcast programs;
an acquisition unit for obtaining program information representing program titles of said scheduled programs;
a capture unit for capturing a signal having a specified length from said television signals, and storing the signal as program image data in an image memory;
a read unit for reading said program image data corresponding to said scheduled programs respectively from said image memory to prepare program images; and
a display unit for displaying said program titles together with said program images respectively in the TV listing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A TV listing displaying method for displaying a TV listing of scheduled programs which are scheduled to be broadcast from TV stations on a screen of a display device, comprising the steps of:
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A) capturing a signal having a specified length from a television signal representing each of programs broadcast from said TV stations to store the signal as program image data in an image memory;
B) acquiring program information representing program titles of said scheduled programs respectively;
C) reading said program image data from said image memory based on said scheduled programs to prepare program images; and
D) displaying said program titles together with said program images respectively in the TV listing. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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