Program guide displaying apparatus and method

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20010016946A1
SERIAL NO

09731974

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A program guide displaying apparatus (1) displays a program table, in which a plurality of program information are displayed in a 2-dimension of a time axis and a channel axis. The apparatus (1) is provided with: a program information obtaining device (3 to 7) for obtaining program information including information indicative of a program name, a genre name, a start time, a length of a program or an end time, a broadcasting channel and a broadcasting date of respective one of a plurality of programs; a genre specifying device (12, 13, 17) for specifying a genre among a plurality of genres; a displaying device (8, 9, 200) for displaying the program table such that the programs belonging to the specified genre are displayed in a first display manner, the programs other than the programs belonging to the specified genre are displayed in a second display manner different from the first display manner, and one program is displayed as a selected program among the programs belonging to the specified genre on the basis of the obtained program information; and a movement specifying device (12, 13, 17) for specifying a movement of the selected program in a time axis direction along the time axis or in a channel axis direction along the channel axis, on the displayed program table.

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PIONEER CORPORATION28-8 HONKOMAGOME 2-CHOME BUNKYO-KU TOKYO 113-0021

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Inoue, Tatsu Tokyo-to, JP 10 434

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