INTERACTIVE SPECIAL EVENTS VIDEO SIGNAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process and hardware by which a viewer may be informed of events that are available currently or will in the future be available. PSOLUTION: A system interactively controlled by a TV viewer remote control transmitter displays current or future programming information superimposed over the normal programming displayed on any channel accessible to the viewer's display screen. Identification signal data are accessed and generated by the computer for durations defined in the identification signal data either automatically or in response to the TV viewer remote. Information signal data are accessed and generated by the computer in response to the TV viewer remote. A signal combiner superimposes the identification signal or the information signal over the viewer usable signal of any selected channel from the tuner. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT