Patent ID: 7289158

Claim:
A digital receiver to effect display of at least one of video program or character information of programs, comprising: a receiver provided in the digital receiver, which receives video program and program information including a title and time information of the video program; a video decoder provided in the digital receiver, which decodes the received video program; an information decoder provided in the digital receiver, which decodes the received program information; a menu-grid display controller provided in the digital receiver, to effect display of a menu of at least present and future programs for a plurality of channels in a grid; an omission display controller provided in the digital receiver, which compares whether a number of characters in the character information of the particular program is larger than a number of characters which can be displayed in a first prescribed zone indicative of a prescribed time period, and which omits a part of a character information extracted from the program information when the number of characters in the character information of a particular program is larger than the number of characters which can be displayed in the first prescribed zone indicative of the prescribed time period attached to a last tail part of the menu; a full display controller provided in the digital receiver, to control display of, in response to a predetermined selection, an entirety of the character information of a particular future program in a second prescribed zone; and an outputter provided in the digital receiver, which outputs the character information generated by the menu-grid display controller, the omission display controller and the full display controller.