Patent ID: 7810118

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus comprising: a receiver to receive electronic program guide (EPG) data containing video data and character data associated with TV programs; a memory to temporary store the EPG data received by the receiver; and a display controller to control displaying of an EPG with the EPG data by adjusting a size of the video data at least in either a first direction of height or width in the EPG or a second direction in which a time axis lies, the second direction intersecting the first direction, as an integer multiple of a size of the character data, for each TV program, based on the EPG data stored in the memory, the EPG having a time axis in the second direction that intersects the first direction, the data associated with the TV programs being aligned in the first direction, a length of each data associated with respective TV programs in the second direction depending on the duration of the respective TV programs.