Television – Receiver circuitry – Tuning
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-29
2007-05-29
Lee, Michael (Department: 2622)
Television
Receiver circuitry
Tuning
C348S731000, C348S565000, C348S564000, C725S038000, C725S057000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10347186
ABSTRACT:
A channel tuning method and a television using a channel name auto completion function in which the entire channel name of a corresponding channel is automatically completed by inputting part of a channel name of a television broadcasting channel to be tuned using a predetermined inputting unit. The channel tuning method includes (a) searching similar channel names based on one or more of the characters of a channel name input by the inputting unit and displaying the searched channel names on a list from which selections can be made, and (b) in order to aid a user in selecting a channel, automatically tuning a corresponding channel among channels corresponding to the channel names displayed on the list for a predetermined interval of time and sequentially displaying the channels on a picture-in-picture (PIP) screen.
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Chin Dae-je
Kim Kyung-ah
Desir Jean W.
Lee Michael
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