Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hayashi Itou

Tsuyoshi Ueno

Yoshihiro Noguchi

Takao Isogawa

Hideki Yasukawa

Fumiyuki Kato

Yutaka Tomioka

Masaki Hoshida

To provide a system for processing program information in which the display structure of a program table can be freely changed in accordance with a requirement of or the taste of an audience, the system for processing program information is structured to include program information storage meansfor storing program information, and program table display meansfor two-dimensionally displaying a program table employing as the two axes, two attributesandselected from among all of the attributes that have been given to each piece of program information, to make the program table. For the audience, program tables of various constructions can be displayed on the display means at will and in respective program retrieval operations, a program table that is easy to use to search for a program can be obtained. An specific desired program can be found in a short time by selecting key word(s) related to each program and extracting them from the program or the like. This is useful for an audience member to make a plan of desired broadcasts for himself.

System for processing program information

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Matsudo, Japan

Hayashi Itou