Patent ID: 8965178
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A program information display device comprising: an identification unit configured to obtain identification information for identifying a video program and a video program scene included in the video program, the video program and the video program scene being displayed in a video display device; an obtainment unit configured to obtain program information including first program information and second program information which are relevant to the video program identified by the identification information and are different in content from each other; a display unit configured to display the program information obtained by the obtainment unit; and a control unit configured to, in the case where the video program scene identified by the identification information transitions from a scene other than a commercial message (a non-CM scene) to a scene of the commercial message (a CM scene), switch the program information being displayed in the display unit, from the first program information to the second program information according to the transition from the non-CM scene to the CM scene.