Patent ID: 6532590
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An electronic preview guide (EPG) display apparatus for use in a broadcast receiver, for selectively presenting viewers a broadcast schedule in a grid pattern with one or more rows each showing a TV channel number or a TV station name and an array of slots containing preview guide messages of the broadcast schedule extending in a direction of time axis, by using a preview guide data broadcast by each broadcast station and a present time, comprising a display controller for making an EPG slot at the present time or a viewer designated time wider than other slots of the EPG screen, wherein the display controller calculates a time difference between the present time or the viewer-designated time and the program start time, and then based on the calculated time difference, compresses the size of the slots in the EPG screen in a non-linear manner in the time-axis direction, so as to automatically change the amount of information to be displayed according to the size of the EPG slot in which the non-linear processing is performed.