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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2015
Applicant:

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Manabu Nishizawa, Tokyo, JP;

Yuki Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Kensaku Ishizuka, Tokyo, JP;

Koji Kanai, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus provide for: displaying a program guide on a display device, the program guide being such that respective program frames for a plurality of programs are arranged in a display area having a time axis of one or more time slots and a channel axis; displaying a cursor on the display device and allowing a user to move the cursor, highlight desired ones of the program frames, and select from among the plurality of programs in the program guide; and displaying detailed program information regarding content of one of the programs of one of the program frames that is highlighted and/or selected by the user via the cursor, where the detailed information is displayed by enlarging the one of the program frames as compared with others of the program frames.


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