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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1999
Yoshinori Hama, Kyoto, JP;
Takashige Wakamatsu, Amagasaki, JP;
Takaya Nonomura, Higashiosaka, JP;
Masako Wakisaka, Osaka, JP;
Tadashi Shiono, Osaka, JP;
Kiyoshi Awano, Hirakata, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a television receiver capable of receiving at least digital satellite broadcasting such as CS broadcasting. The television receiver according to the present invention comprises first means for displaying a plurality of program guides in a matrix shape on a display device utilizing one of the horizontal axis and the vertical axis as a channel number axis and utilizing the other axis as a time axis, and second means for displaying air times for the program guides displayed on the display device in the shape of a bar graph that is long along the time axis.