Programmes in a digital video receiver system
First Claim
1. Method for selecting programmes in a digital video reception system adapted to receive digital data streams, said method comprising the steps of:
- receiving information corresponding to programme identification elements,displaying said identification elements in the form of a mosaic of elements (10) on a display means (18) of said reception system, the arranging of identification elements (10) in said mosaic being performed before transmission;
receiving information describing the location of each programme thus identified in a data stream broadcast by a transmitter (15);
selecting one of the programmes by selecting at least one identifier element.
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Abstract
There is disclosed a method for selecting programs in a digital video reception system adapted to receive digital data streams. The method comprises the steps of receiving information corresponding to program identification elements; displaying the identification elements in the form of a mosaic of elements (10) on a screen of the reception system, where the arranging of identification elements (10) in the mosaic is performed before transmission; receiving information describing the location of each program thus identified in a data stream broadcast by a transmitter (15); and selecting one of the programs by selecting at least one identifier clement. A device for selecting programs in a digital video reception system is also disclosed.
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19 Claims
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1. Method for selecting programmes in a digital video reception system adapted to receive digital data streams, said method comprising the steps of:
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receiving information corresponding to programme identification elements, displaying said identification elements in the form of a mosaic of elements (10) on a display means (18) of said reception system, the arranging of identification elements (10) in said mosaic being performed before transmission; receiving information describing the location of each programme thus identified in a data stream broadcast by a transmitter (15); selecting one of the programmes by selecting at least one identifier element. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19)
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16. Device for selecting programmes in a digital video reception system, said device comprising:
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means for receiving a signal representing a data stream transporting compressed video data (21), means for demodulating said signal (22) to provide demodulated data, means for decoding the demodulated data (17), means (17) for extracting from the demodulated data information corresponding to programme identifier elements (10, 23,
24) arranged under the form of a mosaic before transmission and information indicating the location of the programmes corresponding to said identifier elements in the stream of demodulated data. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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