Patent ID: 7540010

Claim:
A television signal receiver comprising: a tuner for receiving said television signal; a video processor for processing a television signal received by said tuner and outputting a video signal corresponding to a single program; a selection screen generator for producing a selection screen used to select a desired program out of a plurality of programs by using electronic program guide information; a mixer for combining said video signal output from said video processor and said selection screen produced by said selection screen generator and for outputting a combined signal simultaneously representing at least a portion of said video signal and said selection screen; cursor moving means for moving a cursor on said selection screen in order to designate an unselected program; and a controller for controlling said tuner and said video processor to select and process a video signal corresponding to said unselected program designated by the cursor; wherein the controller controls the tuner to receive the unselected program designated by the cursor on the selection screen before the unselected program is selected.