PXD, INC. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140123191 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE OPTIMIZED FOR USER CONVENIENCE - A method for displaying an electronic program guide (EPG), which includes one or more pages divided into a plurality of program name display regions, provides a list of names of currently-broadcast programs through each of the program name display regions such that a user may search all currently-broadcast programs. TV viewers may determine information on currently-broadcast programs through an effective display method with classification criteria, and quickly change a page screen through movement between columns. TV viewers may select a desired broadcasting program from the channels through a minimum key manipulation of a remote control. Program names are classified according to the classification criteria such as genres, recently watched channels, and favorite channels in the EPG. The classification criteria may be set by each user, or a separate item may be added, so that a user may easily acquire broadcasting program information. | 05-01-2014 |
20100275231 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE DISPLAYING METHOD - The present invention relates to an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) display technology. More particularly, the present invention relates to an intuitive and easy-to-use EPG display technology by which TV viewers can recognize the information about the current TV program, the next program and the later programs of a channel at a glance. When a viewer selects an item (CHANNEL MENU in Korean or EPG or GUIDE) of Main Menu, the list of current programs of the channels belonging to the selected menu item appears at the right side of the Main Menu. Only focused channel has the next program information adjacent to the current program, and only when the focus is moved to the next program, the list of later programs displays in order to reduce the information overload and to show exactly what viewers need, in the present invention. According to the present invention, viewers may easily find current and next programs for a channel, may identify information for previous channel in addition to current channel, which enables quick access for the program viewers want to watch, and may select a later program for recording or reminding by the list of the later programs of the selected channel. | 10-28-2010 |
20100229197 | DIGITAL BROADCAST WIDGET SYSTEM - Provided is a digital broadcast (digital TV) widget system. The digital broadcast widget system includes: a transmitter for providing widget information for generating a widget and for providing one or more of broadcast information (A/V stream), EPG information, VOD information and Internet information for digital broadcast; a receiver for displaying the widget on a TV screen by processing the broadcast information (A/V stream), the EPG information, the VOD information, the Internet information and the widget information; and a user input unit for enabling a user to input to the receiver information responding to the widget. The receiver includes an application platform which having a browser for processing information provided from the transmitter or the user input unit and for generating the widget corresponding to the widget information, based on the broadcast information (A/V stream), the EPG information, the VOD information, the Internet information, and device information of the receiver. | 09-09-2010 |