Patent ID: 6369861
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: H03J

Abstract:
A program selection apparatus for a digital television receiver comprising:means for controlling the receiver to tune to a frequency corresponding to a channel signal containing a multi-program bit-stream; means for recovering the multi-program bit-stream from the channel signal; means for generating a program correspondence table from the recovered multi-program bit-stream, said program correspondence table directly identifying each program in the multi-program bit-stream with corresponding components of the program in the bit-stream; and program selection means, including means responsive to a first program in the program correspondence table, for selecting the components of the first program from the multi-program bit-stream to be decoded and displayed on the digital television receiver and means, responsive to the program correspondence table and to a program selection key, for selecting the components of a second program from the bit-stream using the program correspondence table, the second program being adjacent in the program correspondence table to the first program.