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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1995
Yukiko Ohkura, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Otani, Saitama, JP;
Noriko Kotabe, Chiba, JP;
Hiroyuki Hanaya, Saitama, JP;
Kazumasa Okumura, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Yamazaki, Chiba, JP;
Tomoko Shudo, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A television signal receiver equipped with a picture display controller and adapted for selecting a desired program quickly from a multiplicity of broadcast programs. In response to designation of a browsing mode, many subsidiary pictures are displayed successively under a main picture in a manner to be scrollable in any of predetermined directions. When a desired subsidiary picture is displayed within a cursor, the program being displayed on the relevant subsidiary screen is registered in a bookmark list by actuating a bookmark button switch incorporated in a remote commander. A bookmark is additionally displayed relative to the picture of the program registered in the bookmark list. Then the program thus registered is received and displayed as a main picture in response to an actuation of a jump button switch, whereby any desired one of many broadcast channels can be selectively received with rapidity and certainty. It thus becomes possible for a user to find the contents of programs in many other broadcast channels.