METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING TELEVISION PROGRAMS AND RELATED TEXT
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Abstract
A television viewer uses a PIP format for display of program related information such as television program listings from a program schedule data base in the background and moving, real time or stored video clip images of a program selected from the displayed listings in the PIP window. All the text of the background information lies outside the PIP window. In one embodiment, as the viewer selects a particular program from the display of current television program listings by means of a cursor or a code number, the corresponding program automatically appears in the PIP window.
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1-30. -30. (canceled)
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31. A method for displaying a program and related information, comprising:
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simultaneously displaying on user equipment, including a display screen; a currently shown program in a first area of a screen; a program description of the currently shown program displayed in the first area of the screen in a second, nonoverlapping, area of the screen; and additional information, related to the currently shown program displayed in the first area of the screen, in a third, nonoverlapping, area of the screen;
wherein the additional information is delivered to the user equipment contemporaneously with the currently shown program and decoded separately therefrom.
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