VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING VIDEO

• US 20100165203A1
• Filed: 09/04/2009
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hirota, Atsushi, Ooi, Shinichi, Yamashita, Joji, Nakajima, Yumiko, Kimura, Yoshio
• Application Number:
  US12/554,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20100165203A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/570
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4135 external recorder interface circuits between an apparatus for recording television signals and a television receiver H04N5/775
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4263 involving specific tuning arrangements, e.g. two tuners
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control

Abstract

A video display apparatus includes: a tuner configured to receive a digital broadcast signal; an accepting module configured to accept a power-on command; a display module configured to simultaneously display first information that is included in the digital broadcast signal and second information that is not included in the digital broadcast signal when the accepting module accepts the power-on command.

Claims

1. A video display apparatus comprising:

a tuner configured to receive a digital broadcast signal;

an accepting module configured to accept a power-on command; and

a display module configured to simultaneously display first information that is included in the digital broadcast signal and second information that is not included in the digital broadcast signal when the accepting module accepts the power-on command.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first information is program information.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second information is information that is stored in an external apparatus that is connected to the video display apparatus.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the accepting module is configured to accept a selection command for selecting one of the first information and the second information, and

wherein the display module is configured to display the selected one of the first information and the second information to be emphasized.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the display module is configured to display a program on the same channel as a channel to which the tuner was tuned when the apparatus was powered off last time when the accepting module fails to receive the selection command within a given time period.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when a given time period has elapsed in a state where one of the first information and the second information is being selected, the display module displays detailed information of the selected one of the first information and the second information.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

a clock module configured to count current date and time;

a storage module configured to store a plurality of background images corresponding to respective time periods of the date and time; and

a background acquiring module configured to acquire from the storage module one of the background images corresponding to a current time period when the accepting module accepts the power-on command,

wherein the display module is configured to display the first information and the second information in a manner being superimposed on the acquired one of the background images.

8. A method for displaying video comprising:

accepting a power-on command; and

simultaneously displaying first information that is included in a digital broadcast signal and second information that is not included in the digital broadcast signal when the power-on command is accepted.