METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING, STORING AND PROCESSING ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE DATA FOR ON-SCREEN DISPLAY
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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 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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59 Claims
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31. An electronic program guide comprising:
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a memory configured to store program guide data, the program guide data including a plurality of program listings; a tuner configured to receive a transmission including a plurality of programs, the tuner coupled to a display, the tuner configured to display one of the plurality of programs in a PIP window of the display; a microprocessor coupled to the memory, the microprocessor configured to access the program guide data, the microprocessor further coupled to the tuner; a video processor coupled to the microprocessor, the video processor configured to display program listings for currently available programs and program listings for programs available in the future in a listings area of the display; and an input device coupled to the microprocessor, the input device configured to highlight a listing in the listings area, wherein if the PIP window displays a first program and the highlight is moved from a first listing to a listing for a currently available program, the tuner continues to tune to the first program corresponding to the first listing. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A method for processing program guide data comprising:
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receiving a transmission comprising a plurality of programs; storing program guide data in a memory, the program guide data including a plurality of program listings; retrieving the program guide data from memory; displaying a first program from among the plurality of programs in a PIP window of a display; displaying program listings for currently available programs and program listings for programs available in the future in a listings area of the display; highlighting a first listing in the listings area, wherein the first listing corresponds to the first program displayed in the PIP window;
wherein, if a second listing for a currently available program is highlighted, the first program corresponding to the first listing continues to be displayed in the PIP window. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. An electronic program guide comprising:
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a memory configured to store program guide data, the program guide data including a plurality of program listings; a tuner configured to receive a transmission including a plurality of programs, the tuner coupled to a display, the tuner configured to display one of the plurality of programs in a PIP window of the display; a microprocessor coupled to the memory, the microprocessor configured to access the memory to recover the program guide data, the microprocessor further coupled to the tuner; a video processor coupled to the microprocessor, the video processor configured to display program listings for currently available programs and program listings for programs available in the future in a listings area of the display; an input module coupled to the microprocessor, the input module configured to receive input from a viewer input device including instructions to highlight a listing in the listings area and to move the highlight from program listing to program listing; and wherein if the PIP window displays a first program and if the highlight is moved from a first program listing to the second program listing, the PIP window continues to display the first program corresponding to the first program listing.
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