Patent ID: 6817027
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A display interface for a television receiver comprising:a channel matrix having n columns and m rows for displaying a plurality of channel indicators exclusive of any other text or graphic information for at most nÃ—m channels, where n and m are positive integers greater than 2, each channel indicator corresponding to a respectively different position in the matrix and each representing a separate frequency, wherein the channels represented by the channel matrix are one group of channels among a plurality of channel groups; a channel group selector configured to be activated to switch the channel matrix among the groups of channels to select a current group of channels and to display a channel indicator of a base channel in the current group of channels; a cursor configured to be moved to positions along the rows and columns of the matrix; a channel status section which displays status information on a television channel corresponding to the indicator at the position of the cursor on the matrix; a channel selector which selects one of the nÃ—m channels by adding the channel indicator corresponding to the position of the cursor on the matrix to the channel indicator of the base channel.