Patent ID: 6778559
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
An information transmission and display method, wherein a display is formed by an information display apparatus which displays a television program display area and an icon display area on a display device in a first mode and displays the television program display area, the icon display area and a content display area on the display device in a second mode, the method comprising the steps of:multiplexing a broadcast signal with source information that specifies a source of certain content information, and an icon information, said source information not being included in other content information transmitted by the broadcast signal; transmitting the multiplexed broadcast signal; receiving the multiplexed broadcast signal; extracting the source information and the icon information from the multiplexed broadcast signal; retrieving the certain content information from the source, based upon the source information; displaying, in both of said first mode and said second mode, a picture of said television broadcast program in said television program display area and said icon information in said icon display area; displaying, in said second mode, at least a part of the certain content information received from the source, in said content display area; and moving from said first mode to said second mode in response to clicking on an icon in the icon display area, to open the content display area and displaying content information responding to said icon that was clicked.