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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2000
Nobuhiro Sekimoto, Tsukuba, JP;
Yoshito Nejime, Koganei, JP;
Takashi Hasegawa, Hachioji, JP;
Yasuhiro Akiyama, Ome, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of displaying program-related information while the user views a program video mainly and a broadcasting program displaying device to implement the method without making the user's operation complicated and confusing. A picture plane is constructed by two picture planes having a television picture plane (picture plane ) for displaying the program video which is outputted from a broadcasting program displaying device and further a property state picture plane as another picture plane (picture plane ). The program video is displayed to the picture plane and an operation picture plane of the broadcasting program displaying device and the program related-information are displayed to the picture plane A broadcasting program displaying device for two-screen construction has functions for display, recording, replay, reservation recording, and the like in response to an instruction from a device which the user operates.