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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Astrid M. F. Dobbelaar, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of and apparatus for displaying an electronic program guide. The method includes the step of displaying an axis ( ) on the screen ( ) which corresponds to a particular program attribute (e.g. channel name, broadcast time, program category, program title). The user may select a value from the axis, causing a pictogram ( ) to be displayed, showing information about programs corresponding to the selected value. The pictogram's position corresponds to the position of the selected value. A new value may be selected by dragging the pictogram and/or shifting the axis.