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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
May. 12, 2004
Tatsuya Narahara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Asazu, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Kanagwa, JP;
Kazuhito Sumiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Narahara, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Asazu, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Kanagwa, JP;
Kazuhito Sumiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
Each program content has a plurality of program states, such as 'already recorded', 'not recorded', “preset for recording”, “not preset for recording”, and “not received” states. In response to the selection of a related program on a starting-program-related information page, a detailed operation screen for the related program is presented. When the program state of the related program is “already recorded”, reproduction or erasure of the recording is presented on the detailed operation screen as a method of operation. When the program is not preset for recording yet, presetting for recording is presented on the detailed operation screen as a method of operation. Information related to a program that is being watched and listened to can be supplied without making the user less interested in something which the user was attracted to while watching the program, and the user can be smoothly guided to a subsequent preset recording operation.