Patent ID: RE43052

Claim:
A graphic interface device usable in a digital TV, comprising: a receiving side for receiving user graphic environment data corresponding to various forms of user graphic environments displayable on a screen , the user graphic environment data including icon data corresponding to various icons; and a graphic interfacing side for parsing and decoding processing the user graphic environment data received at the receiving side, and allowing an end user to design a user-preferred user graphic environment including at least one user-defined icon using the user graphic environment data , wherein the graphic interfacing side displays an environment set menu, such that any one of the various forms of user graphic environments can be selected by the end user; and wherein said user graphic environment data are assigned with specific packet identifications (PIDs), and said displaying of the menu comprises: if a menu icon, in the environment set menu which can be selected by the end user, has been selected by the end user, parsing a data stream associated with the PIDs corresponding to various forms of menu icons; decoding the parsed stream to store the various forms of menu icons in a memory; performing a graphical user interface (GUI) process for the various forms of menu icons and text type of indication menu names which are to be set as the menu icons to be displayed in a menu fashion; if respective ones of the various forms of menu icons and the indication menu names have been selected by the end user, parsing a stream associated with the PID assigned to the selected icon; decoding the parsed stream to store the corresponding icon in the memory; and replacing the selected indication menu name with the corresponding icon and displaying the replaced icon.