System and method for providing electronic program guide
First Claim
1. A system for providing an electronic program guide (EPG) about a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, comprising:
- a service information receiver unit receiving service information transmitted from the digital broadcasting system and extracting the EPG information from the service information, and storing the EPG information, wherein the EPG information includes sentence fragments corresponding to listings of information about the plurality of programs;
an EPG processor converting the EPG information stored in the service information receiver unit into speech EPG information, wherein the EPG processor converts the EPG information into characters and forms the same into complete sentences to produce the speech EPG information; and
a speech output unit producing the speech EPG information as speech, wherein the EPG processor classifies the EPG information for each program into higher-order and lower-order information, respectively converts them into higher-order and lower-order speech EPG information, outputs the higher-order speech EPG information to the speech output unit to reproduce it as speech, and selectively outputs the lower-order speech EPG information to the speech output unit in response to the user'"'"'s request to reproduce it as speech, wherein the higher-order information is a summary description of a corresponding program and the lower-order information is a more detailed description of the corresponding program.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system for providing an electronic program guide and a method of providing the same, the electronic program guide (EPG) being about a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, including the steps of receiving service information transmitted from the digital broadcasting system, and extracting the EPG information from the service information to store the EPG information; analyzing a user'"'"'s request and extracting EPG information that meets the user'"'"'s request from the stored EPG information to produce tailored EPG information; converting the tailored EPG information into speech EPG information; and reproducing the speech EPG information as speech to provide users with the EPG information.
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10 Claims
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1. A system for providing an electronic program guide (EPG) about a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, comprising:
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a service information receiver unit receiving service information transmitted from the digital broadcasting system and extracting the EPG information from the service information, and storing the EPG information, wherein the EPG information includes sentence fragments corresponding to listings of information about the plurality of programs; an EPG processor converting the EPG information stored in the service information receiver unit into speech EPG information, wherein the EPG processor converts the EPG information into characters and forms the same into complete sentences to produce the speech EPG information; and a speech output unit producing the speech EPG information as speech, wherein the EPG processor classifies the EPG information for each program into higher-order and lower-order information, respectively converts them into higher-order and lower-order speech EPG information, outputs the higher-order speech EPG information to the speech output unit to reproduce it as speech, and selectively outputs the lower-order speech EPG information to the speech output unit in response to the user'"'"'s request to reproduce it as speech, wherein the higher-order information is a summary description of a corresponding program and the lower-order information is a more detailed description of the corresponding program. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of providing an electronic program guide (EPG) in a system for providing the EPG on a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, comprising:
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(a) receiving service information transmitted from the digital broadcasting system, and extracting the EPG information from the service information to store the EPG information, wherein the EPG information includes sentence fragments corresponding to listings of information about the plurality of programs; (b) analyzing a user'"'"'s request and extracting EPG information that meets the user'"'"'s request from the stored EPG information to produce tailored EPG information and classifying the tailored EPG information for each program into higher-order information and lower-order information, wherein the higher-order information is a summary description of a corresponding program and the lower-order information is a more detailed description of the corresponding program; (c) converting the higher-order information and lower-order information into higher-order speech EPG information and lower-order speech EPG information, respectively, wherein the tailored EPG information is converted into characters and forms the same into complete sentences to produce the speech EPG information; and (d) reproducing the higher-order speech EPG information as speech and selectively reproducing the lower-order speech EPG information as speech in response to the user'"'"'s request to reproduce the lower-order speech EPG information as speech. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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