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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8448208 | System and method for construction, delivery and display of iTV applications that blend programming information of on-demand and broadcast service offerings A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within a single hierarchy of a designated category. The blending may further... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8413191 | Program guide with a digital storage device An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to select a program for recording onto the digital storage device. The program guide may then provide the user a list of programs that includes... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8413190 | Television receiver The present invention relates to a television receiver having a display to indicate a banner thereon, and a controller to adjust a position of the banner on the display. Further, the controller is capable of adjusting the position of the banner on the display accord... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8402487 | Program selection support device When searching for programs similar to a program designated by a viewer, a program selection support device not only searches for similar programs based on program-related information such as program contents, but also determines an algorithm used for similarity jud... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8402488 | Systems and methods for creating custom video mosaic pages with local content Systems and methods for providing custom video mosaic pages are provided. The custom pages may be locally-generated, remotely-generated, or partially locally-generated and partially remotely-generated. The custom pages may include local content, such as content reco... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8381248 | Program guide system with combination category search An interactive television program guide system is provided in which the program guide may provide the user with a selectable list of combination categories. Combination categories are composed of multiple simple categories such as sports, news, comedy, movies, child... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8365221 | Selective search and display for categorized channels in a subscriber television system In a subscriber television system, assigning categories to a channel as an entity reduces the searching requirements associated with searching a database of thousands of individual program records, identifying the channel on which an identified program will be displ... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8365222 | Animated station identifier in program guides A television program guide is displayed having a station identifier portion in a first location. A determination is made as to when a user navigates in the television program guide between past programs and future programs. In response to the user navigating in the ... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8365223 | Device control processing apparatus and method, display processing apparatus and method, and computer program An apparatus and method capable of selecting and providing content while reducing the load on a user are provided. A controlled device is determined based on content identification information. Control information corresponding to the determined controlled device is... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8341673 | Information processing apparatus and method as well as software program The present invention concerns an information processing apparatus, a method thereof, and a program for allowing the audience to easily search for intended television programs. A server stores characteristic words extracted from television program information in a c... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8332891 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program An interface receives a file containing information about a plurality of characteristic words representing characteristics of television programs. A display section of an information processing apparatus displays one of the plurality of characteristic words in a dif... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8332890 | Efficiently identifying television stations in a user friendly environment A method, system and computer program product for identifying television stations in a user-friendly environment. An entertainment unit configured to receive broadcast signals for a plurality of television stations may display folders, e.g., news folders, where each... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8321891 | Method and system for assigning categories to channels in a subscriber television system In a subscriber television system, assigning categories to a channel as an entity reduces the searching requirements associated with searching a database of thousands of individual program records, identifying the channel on which an identified program will be displ... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8316395 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program An information processing apparatus includes a content metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain content metadata; a determination unit configured to determine the category of the content metadata; an editing unit configured to edit the content metadata so that, ... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8302125 | Apparatus and method for providing EPG, and terminal and method for displaying EPG Provided are an apparatus and method for providing en electronic program guide (EPG) and a terminal and method for displaying the EPG. The apparatus includes an information extracting unit extracting the information about the electronic program guide, which specifie... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8302126 | Interactive program guide navigator menu system An interactive program guide system is provided. The program guide system has a logically flat navigator menu structure made up of program guide categories and selectable program guide options. Program guide categories correspond to fairly broad groups of program gu... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8281339 | Customizable flip and browse overlays in an interactive television system Systems and methods are provided for customizing the display of interactive television overlays. A condition related to the display of an overlay on top of video for a television channel may be defined for each of a plurality of television channels. A default set of... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8245254 | Information processing apparatus and method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain program information on programs that are to be broadcast in a predetermined time period; an extraction unit configured to extract keywords indicating the content of the programs from... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8220021 | Television viewer interface system A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. In... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8176516 | Video recorder having user extended and automatically extended time slots The present invention is directed to a video recorder having user extended and automatically extended time slots. An embodiment of the present invention includes a set-top box having an internal storage device, such as a hard drive where broadcasts are transferred f... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8156527 | System and method for providing a unified programming guide A method includes receiving data representative of a plurality of multimedia channels and associating channel numbers with at least a subset of the plurality of multimedia channels to generate a first channel numbering set. The method further includes providing, in ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8132207 | Universal programming system and method for EPG with localized interactive content An EPG to display programming information in a variety of ways including using 3-D images, alphanumeric text, and video data. In addition, non-EPG objects, such as interaction objects, may be conflated with the presentation of the world and with the program schedule... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8104061 | Universal programming system and method for electronic programming guide An EPG displays programming information in a variety of ways including using 3-D images, alphanumeric text, and video data. A presentation engine allows viewers and/or programmers to select between varying programming worlds. In addition, non-EPG objects, such as in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095953 | User interface for the image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a receiver which receives a broadcasting signal of a program corresponding to at least one of a plurality of categories; a UI generator which generates a UI having at least one of a p... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8087049 | Network-based service to provide on-demand video summaries of television programs A network-based device allows customers to receive television programming and to view summaries of the programming. A method of providing the summaries comprises: dividing a received program into program segments each identified by index marks, summarizing each prog... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8042134 | Apparatus for managing selection and display of graphic user interface (GUI) information An information processing apparatus includes: a managing module configured to manage pieces of image information corresponding to types of applications; a determination module configured to determine whether a present time satisfies a preset temporal condition; an i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037494 | Cross-channel interstitial program promotion According to the invention, a method for generating a personalized menu promoting other video programs available from a video content delivery system is disclosed. The video content delivery system provides a plurality of channels of video content simultaneously. In... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7987484 | Managing media content with a self-organizing map Self-organizing media content is described. In embodiment(s), a self-organizing map can be applied to metadata that corresponds to television media content. A media content array of television media content choices can then be generated based on the mapped metadata ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7958528 | System and method for construction, delivery and display of iTV applications that blend programming information of on-demand and broadcast service offerings A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within a single hierarchy of a designated category. The blending may further... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7941819 | Time-based graphical user interface for multimedia content A graphical user interface (“GUI”) for a content management system is provided, such as to present information associated with various forms of multimedia content. In some situations, the GUI includes information presented simultaneously using at least first and... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7900228 | Maintaining a graphical user interface state that is based on a selected piece of content A graphical user interface (“GUI”) for a content management system is provided, such as to present television program information and/or information associated with other forms of multimedia content. In some situations, the GUI displays various types of informat... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890976 | Digital television and channel setting method thereof The present invention relates to a video display device, and more particularly, to a digital television and channel setting method thereof that enables a setting of preferred channels according to genre by selecting a channel label. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7856647 | Standarized theme handling for digital television Genre or theme assignment data (104) for a program in a digital television or other data transmission is recovered by a receiver (100) and mapped to a genre in a standardized genre assignment schedule (240). A country associated with the transmi... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7849481 | Notification for interactive content A system may provide a video program or information associated with the video program on a video display device, and provide an interactive content icon on the video display device. The interactive content icon may indicate that interactive content is available for ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7774812 | Interactive television program guide system with pay program package promotion A system is provided that allows a user to select a pay program for purchase from a program guide. The program guide determines whether the selected program is part of a package of pay programs. If the selected program is part of a package, information regarding the... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774811 | Method and system for use in displaying multimedia content and status The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in controlling the display of information relative to the playback of programming content and displaying programming guide data. Some embodiments provide a method for use in controlling the di... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7739710 | Method for registering and displaying digital multimedia broadcasting channels in a mobile terminal with a function for receiving digital multimedia broadcasting A method is provided for registering and displaying digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) channels in a mobile terminal capable of receiving DMB. A selection of DMB mode is detected and electronic program guide (EPG) information is received. The received EPG informa... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7703116 | System and method for construction, delivery and display of iTV applications that blend programming information of on-demand and broadcast service offerings A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within a single hierarchy of a designated category. The blending may further... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7657906 | Program recommendation apparatus, method and program used in the program recommendation apparatus A program recommendation apparatus that recommends a program to a user that is in accordance with the user's preference, by taking into account the importance of keywords used in classifying programs' contents into correct categories. The program recommendation appa... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7640563 | Describing media content in terms of degrees A media classification system receives media content descriptions from one or more description providers. The media classification system generates a description of media content based on descriptions of the media content received from one or more description provid... | 12/29/2009 |
