Patent ID: 9277160
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A program listing display control apparatus, comprising: a processing device configured to: control a display apparatus to display said program listing picture as a two-dimensional grid of framed regions defined by the two coordinate axes and corresponding, respectively, to the program time slots, in which each of only those framed regions of the framed regions to which at least one of the broadcast programs correspond is displayed with a shaped mark corresponding to the at least one of the broadcast programs, wherein the broadcast programs are from a plurality of program lists associated with respective different shaped marks that are displayed as the shaped marks respectively in said those framed regions; input control information for controlling the acquisition of additional information to be added to said program listing picture; and acquire program identification information for identifying the programs to which said additional information is added and the additional information regarding the programs identified by said program identification information, based on the control information; and exercise control of the display apparatus to display a user selection by movably highlighting an area within the two-dimensional grid, in which the highlighted area has a length including at least two adjacent framed regions in their entirety along one of the two coordinate axes or a width including at least two adjacent framed regions in their entirety along another of the two coordinate axes such that, in response to at least one of the framed regions corresponding to the programs identified by said program identification information being selected, the additional information corresponding to the selected program is displayed by said display apparatus as a pop-up covering at least part of the two-dimensional grid of the program listing picture.