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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2002
Gaku Yamamura, Tokorozawa, JP;
Tsutomu Takahashi, Tokorozawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hasebe, Tokorozawa, JP;
Kazutomo Watanabe, Tokorozawa, JP;
Yoshitaka Tanaka, Tokorozawa, JP;
Yasuo Shirosaki, Tokorozawa, JP;
Ryuichiro Morioka, Tokorozawa, JP;
Masao Higuchi, Tokorozawa, JP;
Katsutoshi Inagaki, Tokorozawa, JP;
Kunihiro Minoshima, Tokorozawa, JP;
Gaku Yamamura, Tokorozawa, JP;
Tsutomu Takahashi, Tokorozawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hasebe, Tokorozawa, JP;
Kazutomo Watanabe, Tokorozawa, JP;
Yoshitaka Tanaka, Tokorozawa, JP;
Yasuo Shirosaki, Tokorozawa, JP;
Ryuichiro Morioka, Tokorozawa, JP;
Masao Higuchi, Tokorozawa, JP;
Katsutoshi Inagaki, Tokorozawa, JP;
Kunihiro Minoshima, Tokorozawa, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for reserving recording and viewing a broadcast program on a display screen includes the steps of extracting a broadcast program timetable; simultaneously displaying the broadcast program timetable and a viewing reservation timetable; waiting for a selection input to select a broadcast program on the display screen; waiting for an allocation input to allocate a selected program into the viewing reservation timetable; and generating recording instruction to instruct recording of the selected program and reproduction reservation instruction to instruct reproduction of the selected program at a time corresponding to a position at which the selected program is allocated in the viewing reservation timetable.