Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Program guide displaying method, apparatus and computer program
- Patent Title (中): 节目指南显示方式,装置和电脑程式
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Application No.: US11039999Application Date: 2005-01-24
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Publication No.: US07962936B2Publication Date: 2011-06-14
- Inventor: Kazuhiro Fukuda , Tetsuo Maruyama , Kiyohiro Takenaka
- Applicant: Kazuhiro Fukuda , Tetsuo Maruyama , Kiyohiro Takenaka
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation,SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation,SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McCelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2004-055164 20040227
- Main IPC: H04N5/445
- IPC: H04N5/445

Abstract:
To display a program guide for making an efficient search for a desired program, there are provided a program guide displaying method and apparatus, and a computer program which controls a computer to carry out the program guide displaying method. The program guide displaying method includes the steps of receiving information on programs to be broadcast on at least one day from a plurality of stations; and placing a plurality of cells in which pieces of the program information are to be displayed, respectively, in a two-dimensional program guide having time and date axes and displaying, in the cells, program information pieces whose airtimes overlap each other on the same airdate, in such a manner that they will not overlap each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20050251825A1 Program guide displaying method, apparatus and computer program Public/Granted day:2005-11-10
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