System for processing program information

Abstract

To provide a system for processing program information in which the display structure of a program table can freely be changed in accordance with a requirement or a taste of an audience, the system for processing program information is constructed to include program information storage means 1 for storing program information, and program table display means 4 for two-dimensionally displaying a program table following two axes in accordance with two attributes 102 and 103 among attributes given to each piece of program information, to make the program table 101 for two-dimensionally displaying programs with two axes of free attributes. For the audience, program tables of various constructions can be displayed on the display means at will and in respective program retrieval operations, the program table easy to look for a program can be obtained. An objective program can be found in a short time by coming up with ideas for the extraction of the program or the like, and this is useful for making a broadcast view plan of himself.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a system for processing program information capable of efficiently displaying program information to audience. [0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art [0004] In recent years, programs and image information are broadcast and transmitted through a large number of channels because of the spread and progress of satellite broadcasting, satellite communication and so on. In the case of sending information of such a program or the like, that is, program information (program guide) to audience, because of the large number of the channels, of course, the number of frames of a program table also becomes large. There are various proposals for sending or displaying easily to understand and efficiently this program table to the audience. As such a prior art, for instance, there is a program information processor (display device) shown in the Japanese Patent Laid Open No. 83888 / 1997. This program i...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] By this construction, although a conventional program table has merely the table structure in which time slots are arranged along the vertical axis and various channels are arranged along the horizontal axis, the program table having a free structure without being fixed to that can be displayed and the freeness of grasping and selecting a program for the audience increases.

[0010] The invention set forth in claim 1 is that a system for processing program information comprises program information storage means for storing program information, and program table display means for two-dimensionally displaying a program table following two axes in accordance with two attributes among attributes given to each piece of program information, and has the operation that the program table in accordance with a taste or a requirement of a user by arbitrarily establishing the two-axes attributes, is displayed and a program retrieval can easily and rapidly be carried out.

[0038] The invention set forth in claim 29 is that, in a system for processing program information according to claim 2, the system includes program information designation means for designating a subset as to a program information set stored in the program information storage means, relative key word extraction means for extracting a characteristic word set characterizing the subset from the subset of program information designated by the program information designation means, and program information extraction means for extracting characteristic word information from the designated subset by using the relative key word extraction means and extracting program classification information for discriminating and classifying program information similar to program information in the subset, and has the operation that a user can designate a proper program group and easily user-define new program classification information, and the trouble of designating a characteristic word can be omitted and a program can be classified more accurately because the characteristic word is extracted from actual program information.

Problems solved by technology

Furthermore, if the whole program table is displayed as the program table itself though a program in a specific time zone is to be searched, there is the defect that it is hard to search the aimed program because program columns of other time zones catch his eye.

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