Digital broadcast receiver and method of providing program guide using the digital broadcast receiver

• US 20060053445A1
• Filed: 09/06/2005
• Published: 03/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Seok-chool
• Application Number:
  US11/218,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20060053445A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/39
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/782 on tape

Abstract

Provided are a digital broadcast receiver and a method of providing a program guide, which enable a user to easily watch in real time or time-record a broadcast program of his or her interest. The digital broadcast receiver includes a reading unit which reads program guide information from a data signal contained in a broadcast signal, and a control unit which extracts an item chosen by a user from the read program guide information and outputs the extracted item when a broadcast program that matches the extracted item is broadcasted.

Claims

1. A digital broadcast receiver, comprising:

a reading unit which reads program guide information from a data signal contained in a broadcast signal; and

a control unit which extracts an item chosen by a user from the read program guide information and outputs the extracted item when a broadcast program that matches the extracted item is broadcasted.

2. The digital broadcast receiver of claim 1, further comprising:

a user input unit into which a value chosen by the user is input; and

a memory unit which stores the read program guide information and the extracted item.

3. The digital broadcast receiver of claim 2, wherein the control unit extracts a predetermined text chosen by the user from the program guide information.

4. The digital broadcast receiver of claim 3, wherein, if program guide information containing the extracted item is received again, the control unit outputs at least one of channel information and start time information of a broadcast program specified by the program guide information at a predetermined location on a screen.

5. The digital broadcast receiver of claim 3, wherein, if program guide information containing the extracted item is received again, the control unit automatically switches a current channel to a channel of a broadcast program specified by the program guide information when the broadcast program specified by the program guide information begins.

6. A method of providing a program guide using a digital broadcast receiver, comprising:

reading program guide information from a data signal contained in a broadcast signal;

extracting an item chosen by a user from the read program guide information; and

outputting the extracted item when a broadcast program that matches the extracted item is broadcasted.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the extracting comprises outputting the read program guide information using a predetermined graphic user interface.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the extracting further comprises storing the extracted item.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the outputting comprises outputting the stored item and channel information and start time information of a broadcast program that matches the stored item.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising automatically switching a current channel to a channel of a broadcast program corresponding to the output channel information and the output start time information.

11. A method, comprising:

storing information related to a program that interests a user; and

displaying at least a part of the information related to the program that interests the user upon detecting a start time of the program that interests the user.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the displaying of at least a part of the information related to the program that interests the user upon detecting a start time of the program that interests the user comprises:

comparing the stored information with a second instance of the information related to the program that interests the user.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the comparing of the stored information with a second instance of the information related to the program that interests the user comprises:

comparing the stored information with information received with a broadcast signal.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving an indication of the program that interests the user.

15. A method, comprising:

storing information related to a program that interests a user; and

identifying a start-time of the program that interests the user by comparing the stored information with received information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the identifying a start-time of the program that interests the user by comparing the stored information with received information comprises:

comparing the stored information with information received in a broadcast signal.