Interactive video distribution systems – Operator interface – To facilitate tuning or selection of video signal
Reexamination Certificate
1998-12-01
2009-02-03
Lonsberry, Hunter B. (Department: 2623)
Interactive video distribution systems
Operator interface
To facilitate tuning or selection of video signal
C725S060000, C725S061000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07487529
ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, informational messages about the program or channel to which a television receiver is tuned and advertising messages are displayed simultaneously with the current television program.In another embodiment, an EPG is displayed in a composite with an advertising message. Before such display, the microprocessor substitutes a transparency value for the stored background color value used to display the EPG alone in the conventional fashion on a background of a solid color or colors.
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Lonsberry Hunter B.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Starsight Telecast Inc.
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