Program guide display controller and television receiver

Details Program guide display controller and television receiver Program guide display controller and television receiver

2006-05-23

2006-05-23

Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2676)

Interactive video distribution systems

Operator interface

To facilitate tuning or selection of video signal

C725S029000, C725S047000, C725S086000, C725S104000, C348S563000, C348S569000, C348S901000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07051353

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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