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Method and apparatus for providing electronic program guide information from single electronic program guide server

A technology of electronic program guide and server, which is applied in the direction of TV, instruments, electrical components, etc., and can solve the problem of increasing the cost and additional throughput of graphic formats

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-05-04
PANASONIC CORP
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The disadvantage of this system is that the graphics format adds excessive overhead and additional throughput problems associated with such a large number of data blocks

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[0059] The present invention provides electronic program guide (EPG) information for requesting, receiving, processing and displaying to television viewers. The present invention requests program information from an Electronic Program Guide Provider (EPGS), receives the requested information and processes and displays the information to the viewer. The acquired information basically includes information about all TVs TVs that viewers are interested in. The information is based on a national, regional such as southeast or northwest, a triangular region, or a collection of cities within a region determined by the viewer's location. Examples of such information are: terrestrial broadcast TV listings, satellite service TV listings, cable company TV listings, telephone company delivery service TV listings, as well as program ratings, totals, abbreviated review, and the like.

[0060] figure 1 is a high level block diagram of the invention. Television receiver 100 requests EPG in...

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A method and apparatus for requesting, receiving, processing and providing information to television viewers from a single information source. The information provider is accessed via the communication link and specific data different and separate from the video signal received by the television receiver is downloaded to the television receiver. The information provided by the information provider is database data with minimal formatting and does not contain any additional graphics. Information may be requested from an information provider on command or at a preset time. The information provided is filtered by the information provider and / or the television receiver according to the type of program selected or the summary provided by the user.

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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to receiving information from a single service provider, and in particular to obtaining an electronic program guide (EPG) containing television schedule information from a dedicated electronic program guide server (EPGS) The table is for essentially all terrestrial broadcast television stations, essentially all cable television companies, essentially all satellite television transmission services, essentially all telephone television transmission services and essentially all other kinds of home-available television services. Background technique [0002] Currently, television receivers in North American homes are able to acquire electronic program guide (EPG) data through the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of the NTSC information. These are carried on dedicated terrestrial broadcast channels (typically local public broadcasting service (PBS) stations) or on dedicated cable stations. Starsight Telecast TM Is o...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04N7/173G06F13/00H04N7/025H04N7/03H04N7/035H04N7/16H04N21/258H04N21/262H04N21/2665H04N21/2668H04N21/45H04N21/454H04N21/84
CPCH04N7/163H04N21/25883H04N21/26283H04N21/2665H04N21/2668H04N21/4532H04N21/454H04N21/84H04N21/47
Inventor 赛普拉萨德·V·纳伊姆帕利
Owner PANASONIC CORP