Patent ID: 8009233

Claim:
A digital receiver comprising: a receiver which receives a video program and program information including a title of the video program; a decoder which decodes the program information; a memory which stores the program information; and a display controller which controls a display of the program information, the display having a first display zone which displays at least a part of the title included in the program information under control of the display controller and a second display zone which displays an entirety of the title included in the program information under control of the display controller; wherein the display controller includes an input data amount calculator to calculate an amount of an input data for the first display zone inputted from the memory, and a comparator to compare the amount of the input data calculated by the calculator with an amount of displayable data in the first display zone, and when the amount of the input data is larger than the amount of the displayable data in the first display zone, a part of the title and a symbol indicative of omission are displayed, and when the first display zone is selected, an entirety of the title in the selected first display zone is displayed in the second display zone.