apparatus for generating an electronic program guide, television set, butt converter, method for generating an electronic program guide, computer program, and storage medium

摘要

APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE, TELEVISION APPLIANCE, APPLIANCE TOP CONVERTER, METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE, AND, STORAGE MEDIA A device (100) and method are provided to generate . Apparatus 100 is configured to produce data for generating an EPG in which upcoming programs are shown as blocks of a uniform size, regardless of the duration of the program or how much of the program has elapsed. The EPG also has a highlighted portion that is associated with a particular channel at any given time. When a command is received to move forward or backward by the EPG, data is produced to move the highlighted portion of the EPG in the corresponding direction. The blocks representing programs in the EPG are also shifted thus to be based on the start time of the next or previous program (depending on user input) in the channel associated with the highlighted portion.