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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2009
Toru Yamagishi, Yokohama, JP;
Toru Yamagishi, Yokohama, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Kanagawa-Ken, JP;
Abstract
Received by a program display apparatus are: programs for each of which a receiving time has been determined; digest views corresponding to the programs; and receiving-time information for the programs. The received digest views and receiving-time information are stored in a memory. A moving picture is displayed on a main screen zone of a monitor screen, with the digest views that have been stored in the memory on a sub screen zone of the monitor screen, as being superposed on the moving picture, according to the user's operation. Each digest view is allowed to be displayed on the sub screen zone when a remaining time of the program corresponding the digest view, obtained based on the receiving-time information, is longer than the reference time. The digest view is, however, inhibited from being displayed on the sub screen zone when the remaining time is equal to or shorter than the reference time.