Patent ID: 7716701
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for displaying a program guide bar, comprising: a channel demodulation part configured to demodulate a received broadcast signal; a transport part configured to divide the broadcast signal outputted from the channel demodulation part into data related to program schedule information and a plurality of broadcast programs; a memory configured to store the divided broadcast programs; a decoder configured to extract the program schedule data from the data related to the program schedule information; a user interface display part configured to produce information for sliding additional information areas of the broadcast programs, the additional information areas being included in a guide bar having a fixed indicator that is fixed without varying with time, corresponding to the program schedule data and entering the guide bar from a right end in broadcast order so as to slide to a left end; a control part configured to record a broadcast program when an additional information area of the broadcast program passes through the fixed indicator; and an on-screen display part configured to convert the information input from the user interface display part into an on-screen display form, wherein the fixed indicator has a visual representation to display the present time at the moment of displaying on the fixed indicator and a length of a part of the guide bar located to a left of the fixed indicator is proportional to a capacity of the memory.