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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hyoung-Joo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348563 ; 348569 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for use in a digital multichannel television (TV) receiver and for displaying subchannel information, such that the method includes the steps of detecting the list of broadcasting programs of the subchannels of a currently selected RF channel to check whether the number of the programs are changed, and displaying the information about newly added programs on the TV screen when the number of the programs are changed. When a new program is added, a corresponding icon displayed on a screen of the digital multichannel TV receiver includes a title and/or a channel (program) number of the newly added program.