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7624345 Apparatus and method for controlling display of electrical program guide  
An improved apparatus is provided to attain enhanced convenience in controlling display of an electrical program guide with a smaller number of manipulating keys. An EPN mode for displaying the...
7620966 Digital broadcasting receiver capable of changing the ratio of the display areas and assigning priority to the display areas  
Both a received program video and an electronic program guide can be simultaneously displayed in one screen of a monitor by a scaler/OSD circuit, and a user can change the ratio of the display...
7607153 Transmitter system and transmitting method, receiver system and receiving method and transmission media  
There is provided a system which allows information related to a broadcasting program to be processed efficiently. The program related information related to the certain program created on the...
7607150 Information providing device and method  
The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Information for indexes is obtained through a network, and information screens are...
7594255 Television receiver and display control method thereof  
A television receiver which allows a user to view at least an image of a broadcast program, includes a first display unit adapted to display a video of a broadcast program upon selection of a first...
7594243 System and method for grazing television channels from an electronic program guide  
A television system comprises an electronic program guide (EPG) including a picture-in-picture (PIP) window and means for returning to a last channel viewed full screen (LCF) in a television...
7584214 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program  
Each program content has a plurality of program states, such as “already recorded”, “not recorded”, “preset for recording”, “not preset for recording”, and “not received”...
7580702 Systems and methods for discovering features in a communication device  
Systems and methods for discovering features of a communication device. The features of a communications device are tracked or monitored. Features that are unused or undiscovered are identified....
7568210 Method and apparatus for locally targeting virtual objects within a terminal  
A method and an apparatus are used to target virtual objects to subscribers in a television delivery system. Programs are selected and virtual object locations are defined in the selected programs....
7564905 System and method for providing terrestrial digital broadcasting service using single frequency network  
Provided is a system and method for terrestrial digital broadcasting service using a single frequency network without additional equipment. The system and method synchronizes input signals into...
7562376 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, broadcast system, storage medium, and computer program  
An information processing apparatus has the capability of making a registration for timer-controlled automatic viewing/recording not only in units of programs but also in units of sub-programs. The...
7558469 Method and apparatus to display graphically recording timer conflicts  
The present invention is a method and apparatus for displaying conflicts between two or more recording timers. These conflicts are displayed graphically for the user to resolve. Other features and...
7543320 Television schedule system and method of operation for multiple program occurrences  
An improved television guide system. According to one embodiment of the invention, television guide information is provided that includes multiple occurrences of a single show. The guide system of...
7530087 System for displaying programming guide information  
A method is provided for displaying programming information. A video comprising a plurality of frames is displayed on a portion of a display. A first panel is displayed in response to a first...
7519982 Efficient delivery of interactive program guide using demand-cast  
Techniques to efficiently deliver interactive program guide (IPG). In one aspect, if an IPG page is requested by a viewer and not already transmitted, only the guide portion for the requested page...
7517098 Method, system, apparatus and software product for presentation notes mode  
A method, apparatus, system, and software product are presented for displaying notes to a presenter, in order to facilitate narration of a presentation. The items such as slides are shown seriatim...
7515207 Television broadcast receiving apparatus, program information processing method and program information processing program  
A television broadcast receiving apparatus includes a first receiver operable to receive a first television broadcast; a second receiver operable to receive a second television broadcast; a...
7503057 Client and server system  
An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system includes a server and a client...
7493641 Method and system for displaying advertisements in an electronic program guide  
A system and method for displaying an electronic program schedule guide is provided. The system has areas for displaying program schedule information. In addition, the system also has areas that...
7493639 Interactive program summary panel  
The present invention includes a method of displaying for a viewer summary information relating to programming available on an interactive television or televideo system. In a preferred embodiment,...
7467186 Interactive method of communicating information to users over a communication network  
The invention concerns an interactive method for communicating data to users ( 1 ) of a communication network ( 3 ). Each user ( 1 ) is provided with a computer equipment ( 2 ) connected to the...
7464394 Music interface for media-rich interactive program guide  
Techniques for providing a music interface in a media-rich interactive program guide. In one implementation, an interactive music interface page includes one or more (e.g., two) display regions, a...
7454777 Satellite system/internet system with display option palette with multiple filtering options  
An integrated DS S/WebTV receiver is communicatively connected to an Internet service provider, a DSS service provider, and (optionally) a local broadcast station to provide a display of DSS...
7451469 Electronic program guide displayed simultaneously with television programming  
A system for displaying an electronic program guide (EPG) to a viewer. The system includes displaying one or more data slices representative of broadcast programming to a viewer. In response to...
7434245 Electronic program guide system using images of reduced size to identify respective programs  
A technique for transmitting and receiving an electronic program guide which identifies programs that are to be transmitted. Electronic program guide (EPG) data includes image data representing...
7433833 Information service method for purchasing utilizing a remote control  
Program data and information associated with at least a consumer commodity that appears in a program of the program data are synchronously transmitted. The program data and the information...
7421724 Systems and methods for displaying information regions in an interactive electronic program guide  
A system and method for displaying an electronic program schedule guide is provided. The system has areas for displaying program schedule information. In addition, the system also has areas that...
7398478 Controlled non-proportional scaling display  
An adjustment is made to the size of an original graphic data object in a substantially rectangular original screen to obtain a target graphic data object on a substantially rectangular target...
7395514 System and method for accessing, manipulating and viewing internet and non-internet related information and for controlling networked devices  
A system and method are disclosed for accessing, generating, presenting and manipulating Internet and non-Internet related information, data and content, including information netcast over the...
7363645 Interactive electronic program guide for use with television delivery system  
An interactive electronic program guide is disclosed for use with a television delivery system. The guide is generated by a set top terminal that receives a television signal from an operations...
7328450 Method and system for displaying targeted advertisements in an electronic program guide  
The present invention is an improvement over previous Electronic Programming Guides (“EPG”) in that it provides, among other things: Improved viewer interaction capabilities with the EPG;...
7293276 Interactive television program guide for recording enhanced video content  
Interactive television systems and methods are provided for enhancing program guide content using recording and alert features for video related to promotions, advertisements, and other selectable...
7287267 Program guide system with advertisements  
An interactive television program guide is provided in which advertisements may be displayed on program guide screens. Banner advertisements may be displayed above and below program listings. Panel...
7284257 Announcing the availability of an electronic programming guide to receivers of enhanced television transmissions  
A unique session identifier may be utilized to announce the availability of an electronic programming guide to users of an enhanced television distribution system. In some embodiments, the unique...
7283059 Remote control multimedia content listing system  
A remote control multimedia content listing system for providing an updated content listing of various media within a remote control. The remote control multimedia content listing system includes a...
7269837 Interactive television advertising method  
A method of providing advertising from a central database server connected to a global computer network to distributed sites via interactive television. A representative icon is presented to a...
7266835 Method and apparatus for secure transactions in an interactive television ticker  
A user can perform secure transactions via an interactive television ticker. While viewing an advertisement scrolling in the ticker, the user can select that advertisement to initiate an on-line...
7266833 System and method for utilizing EPG database for modifying advertisements  
A system and method for utilizing data stored in an EPG database for modifying advertisement information. In this way, a service provider and/or an advertiser can transmit a single advertisement to...
7245665 Wireless remote operation system  
A remote operation system includes a server and a client. In the server, a video-audio data conversion-into-common-format section converts data in a format unique to application software into data...
7237252 Method and apparatus to invoke a shopping ticker  
A shopping ticker can be invoked when the viewer presses a BUY button on a remote control while a television program is being shown. The television program, which can be a commercial, may not...
7231268 Method of assigning audio channel identification, method for selecting audio channel using the same, and optical recording and reproducing apparatus suitable therefor  
A method of assigning a channel identification (ID) of an audio signal by which it is possible to follow up and select the audio channel selected by a user even though a program or an audio data...
7225456 Gateway screen for interactive television  
A gateway screen for interactive television includes a television content panel and an internet content panel. The gateway screen is displayed by an interactive television (ITV), e.g., when the ITV...
7212249 Television schedule system with pop-up action menu and icons  
The present invention includes an interactive computer system which provides television schedule information and displays an action pop-up listing actions which can be scheduled. In the preferred...
7200854 Television program length indicator  
The invention relates to a television or electronic program guide (EPG) of the type which is displayed on the screen of a television set to indicate channels, and programs, which are available for...
7181756 Television/internet terminal user interface  
A viewer of television programming is alerted to the availability of content related to the programming (e.g. an associated Internet web page) by an icon momentarily displayed on the screen. Using...
7178161 Method and apparatus for creating a connection speed detecting movie and rich media player customization on the fly  
A master movie and player are created on the fly. The master movie is created based on characteristics of a movie or other asset to be viewed by the player. The player is constructed from a...
7178159 Information providing apparatus  
A system is arranged by a service providing apparatus 109 for storing a plurality of contents data 110 and capable of transmitting the contents data via network interfaces 116 a /116 b and a...
7178158 Transmitter system and transmitting method, receiver system and receiving method and transmission media  
There is provided a system which allows information related to a broadcasting program to be processed efficiently. The program related information related to the certain program created on the...
7146628 Messaging protocol for interactive delivery system  
Efficient messaging techniques that facilitate interactive program guide (IPG) delivery and allow a terminal to specifically designate requested items of information from a server. The IPG can be...
7143428 Concurrent viewing of a video programming and of text communications concerning the video programming  
A system in which a video signal, such as a television program, is received and displayed to a viewer. The system has a user-selectable chat option in which the viewer can enter text messages that...
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