Program guide display controller and television receiver
US7051353B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 25, 1997 |
| Grant date | May 23, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 25, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/47211
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A program-guide-display controlling apparatus for displaying a plurality of program guides on a display unit in a matrix form by using one of the ordinate and the abscissa as a channel number axis and another one as a time axis comprises means for displaying to discriminate a time period in which a purchased program is present and a time period in which the purchased program is not present, so as to ensure that a situation in which two or more PPV programs which are broadcast during the same time period happen to be purchased is made difficult to occur.
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