公开(公告)号：EP0721253A2

公开(公告)日：1996-07-10

申请号：EP96300033.6

申请日：1996-01-03

申请人： SONY ELECTRONICS INC.

发明人： Noguchi, Fujio ,  White, Gail Karen ,  Gioscia, Richard ,  Jordan, Peter ,  Blaszkowski, Setsuko Watanabe ,  Akaiki, Kazuhiro ,  Schaffer, Mark ,  Kotabe, Noriko ,  Otani, Takashi ,  Kajiwara, Tadashi

IPC分类号： H03J1/04

CPC分类号： H04N21/4312 ,  H03J1/0016 ,  H03J1/0025 ,  H03J9/06 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N5/45 ,  H04N5/50 ,  H04N7/165 ,  H04N7/17363 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/2362 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/42204 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/4314 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/4345 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N21/4755 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： An easy to use on-line guide provides the user of a multiple channel television broadcast system with a wealth of programming information in a simple format that is easy to understand. The guide enables the user to easily select a particular program to watch. In particular, when the guide is presented to the user, the guide covers only a portion of the actual television screen or display. The remaining portion of the television screen continues to broadcast the audio and video of the currently selected program. As a user scans through the guide and moves the pointer from one station to another, the system responds by automatically tuning to the channel pointed to by the pointer and provides the audio and displays the video in the portion of the screen not covered by the guide. Furthermore, a written description of the program currently broadcasted on a station that the cursor currently points to is also shown. In addition, the system provides an innovative mechanism to enable the user to scan program information of channels that the user has designated as his favorite channels. In another embodiment, a program list that is oriented according to the program, instead of the channel, is presented.

摘要翻译： 易于使用的在线指南以简单易懂的简单格式为多频道电视广播系统的用户提供了丰富的节目信息。 该指南使用户能够轻松地选择要观看的特定节目。 特别地，当向用户呈现指南时，指南仅覆盖实际电视屏幕或显示器的一部分。 电视屏幕的剩余部分继续广播当前选择的节目的音频和视频。 当用户通过指南扫描并将指针从一个站移动到另一个站点时，系统通过自动调谐到指针指向的通道进行响应，并提供音频并将视频显示在未被指南覆盖的屏幕部分中 。 此外，还示出了当前在光标当前指向的站上广播的节目的书面描述。 另外，该系统提供了一种创新的机制，使用户能够扫描用户指定为他最喜欢频道的频道的节目信息。 在另一个实施例中，呈现根据节目定向而不是频道的节目表。