Program Guide Display with Priority-Based User Interest Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing program information displaying apparatuses face challenges in intuitively displaying user-selected programs within the program guide without narrowing the display range and in efficiently managing multiple user interests, as they often require additional space and fail to clearly indicate the position of user-searched programs.
Innovation Solution
A program information displaying program that sets priorities for user information and registers it with program information, allowing for the depiction of user interests in a tabular form, with options to change priorities and display methods such as color or design based on user selection, enabling clear representation of user preferences within the program guide.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If user-selected programs are displayed in a separate area different from the program guide, then user interests can be highlighted, but the displayable range of the program guide is narrowed and additional space is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the display of user-selected programs with the program guide by overlaying user information on the program guide display. The user information is superimposed on the corresponding program guide entries, allowing both the program guide and user interest indicators to occupy the same display space, thereby eliminating the need for separate display areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new visual dimension by overlaying user information on the program guide display. Instead of using separate spatial areas, the system uses visual layering and color coding to represent user interests within the existing program guide structure, effectively adding information in a dimensional rather than spatial sense.
2Loss of information
If user-selected programs are displayed in a separate area, then user interests can be highlighted, but it becomes difficult to intuitively know the correspondence between the program guide and user-searched programs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by associating specific visual characteristics with user information at specific locations on the program guide display. Each user-selected program receives distinct visual markers (such as color coding or icons) at its exact position in the program guide, making the correspondence immediately recognizable without requiring separate display areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses visual markers and color coding as intermediaries to connect the program guide entries with user interest information. These visual elements serve as mediators that directly indicate which programs have been selected by users, making the correspondence intuitive and easily detectable.
3Loss of information
If color or font changes are used to discriminate user-selected programs, then user interests can be highlighted, but it fails to disclose how to display them when multiple users perform searches or checks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the user information display by assigning distinct visual characteristics to different users. Each user is assigned a unique color or icon set, allowing their selected programs to be visually differentiated from other users' selections. This segmentation enables clear identification of individual user interests even when multiple users are involved.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by assigning specific visual characteristics to specific users at specific locations on the display. Each user's selected programs are marked with their unique visual identifier at the exact position in the program guide, allowing clear differentiation between multiple users' interests without confusion.
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AI summary
A program information displaying apparatus includes a CPU, and displays a plurality of program information in tabular form. For example, users register accounts as user information in the program information that the user is interested in. A priority and a display manner are set for each of the plurality of accounts, and the program information in which the account is registered is depicted in the display manner on the basis of the priority. When a first depicting method is selected, the program information is depicted in a display manner of the account with the highest priority. When a second depicting method is selected, the program information is depicted such that the display manners are layered in order of the priority.