Patent ID: 8032906

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a demultiplexer configured to extract from a transport stream a first elementary stream including a first set of encoded guide slices representing a guide region of a first program guide page of a plurality of program guide pages, a second elementary stream including a second set of encoded guide slices representing a guide region of a second program guide page of the plurality of program guide pages, and a third elementary stream including a first set of encoded video slices representing a first video region common to each of the plurality of program guide pages; a decoder configured, in response to a selection of the first program guide page, to combine the first set of encoded guide slices and the first set of encoded video slices into a single encoded video stream, and decode the single encoded video stream to produce image representative data of said first program guide page; and a processor configured to generate a presentation signal including said image representative data of said first program guide page.