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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1996
Ichiro Kubota, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Niijima, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information display method of transmitting predetermined information through a transmission path, receiving the transmitted information by a receiving apparatus, recording the information received by the receiving apparatus onto a recording medium, and displaying the information recorded on the recording medium to a display apparatus. Titles of a plurality of information are displayed. Only a predetermined number of predetermined ones of the titles are designated. The designated information is automatically and sequentially displayed. The information is associated with genres and the information is designated every genre. The information is multimedia news articles. In a state in which the designated information is automatically and sequentially reproduced, when it is instructed to display the previous or subsequent information, more detailed information, or titles of the information that is being displayed at present, such information or titles are displayed and, after that, the apparatus is returned to the state in which the designated information is automatically and sequentially displayed.