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Interactive television program guide with selectable languages

A technology for interactive TV and TV programs, applied in TV, color TV, selective content distribution, etc., can solve the problem of not allowing users to display program guide screen text, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2002-09-25
ROVI GUIDES INC
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The current program guide does not allow users to specify a single language for displaying program guide screen text (eg, help text, program list text, button labels, etc.) and playing sounds

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[0033] Attached figure 1 An exemplary system 10 according to the present invention is shown in FIG. The main device 12 provides program guide data to the interactive program guide device 17 from the data source 14 through the communication link 18. It is desirable that the interactive program guide device 17 has many kinds of components or devices, but in order to avoid attaching figure 1 Too complicated, only one is shown in this drawing.

[0034] The link 18 may be a satellite link, a telephone network link, a cable link or an optical fiber link, a microwave link, an Internet link, a combination of these links, or other links suitable for communication. If necessary, in addition to the data signal, a video signal can be transmitted on the link 18. Generally speaking, a relatively higher bandwidth link such as a satellite link is better than a relatively lower bandwidth link such as a telephone line.

[0035] The program guide data transmitted to the interactive program guide d...

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Abstract

An interactive television program guide is provided. The interactive television program guide provides a user with the opportunity to select a language for playing television programming and displaying program guide text. Television program audio in the desired language may be obtained from a SAP or digital audio track and played in the selected language. Television related information in the desired language may be obtained from a digital track. If television program audio or related information is not provided in the selected language, the program guide may use a default language. The program guide may coordinate program guide display screen text with languages available for television programs when the programs are broadcast to users.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an interactive TV program guide system, and more specifically, to an interactive TV program guide system in which a user can select a desired language to play a TV program and display screen text of the program guide. Background technique [0002] Cable (optical cable), satellite, and broadcast television systems provide television viewers with many television channels. Traditionally, the user holds a printed reference TV program list to determine the program to be played at a specific time. Recently, interactive TV program guides have been developed so that TV program information can be displayed on the user's TV set. [0003] The interactive TV program guide allows the user to use the remote control device to browse the list of TV programs. In a typical program guide, a list of different sets of TV programs is displayed in a predetermined or user-defined category. The program list is usually displayed in the form of a list...

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IPC IPC(8): H04B1/16H04H20/00H04N5/445H04N5/60H04N5/85H04N7/025H04N7/03H04N7/035H04N7/088H04N7/10H04N7/16
CPCH04N5/607H04N7/088H04N7/0884H04N7/0885H04N7/0887H04N21/47H04N21/4856H04N21/84
Inventor 迈克尔·D·埃利斯W·本杰明·赫林顿史蒂文·C·威廉姆森凯文·B·伊斯特布鲁克乔舒亚·A·罗森特霍尔戴维·M·鲁德尼克
Owner ROVI GUIDES INC
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