Patent ID: 8856836

Claim:
A device for providing information of image data stored in a digital image display apparatus, the device comprising: a channel list generator to search for a broadcast channel received through the digital image display apparatus and to generate channel list data, the channel list data is electronic program guide (EPG) data for an electronic program guide to be displayed on the digital image display apparatus; and a linker to link image data and information data, respectively, with the channel list data, the image data and the information data being included in broadcast data, the broadcast data and the information data being stored in the digital image display apparatus in response to a broadcast data storing signal received for recording a program corresponding to the image data, wherein the information data includes a textual description of the stored image data, wherein: the channel list data is outputted through the digital image display apparatus to display link information of the image data and the information data, and the stored information data corresponding to the image data is displayed as a result of the stored information data being linked with the image data when the image data is selected from the channel list data, wherein the linker links the image data and the information data, respectively, to the channel list data by providing a tag into a portion of the channel list data generated by the channel list generator and including a link point connected to the tag in the stored image data and the stored information data, the tag being information that indicates a program is tagged, and the link point being information that indicates a point that is linked with the tag.