US RE43,102 E1
Apparatus and method for displaying additional information
Jae Ryong Kim, Kyonggi-do (Korea, Republic of); Mun Youl Lee, Kyonggi-do (Korea, Republic of); Sung A Cho, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Sang Won Chung, Kyonggi-do (Korea, Republic of); and Se Jung Sohn, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/489,736.
Application 11/489736 is a reissue of application No. 09/492358, filed on Jan. 27, 2000, now 6,766,528, filed on Jul. 20, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 1999-2597 (KR), filed on Jan. 27, 1999; and application No. 1999-2598 (KR), filed on Jan. 27, 1999.
Int. Cl. H04N 5/445 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 725—113  [348/465; 348/563; 725/112] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
[ 22. An apparatus for displaying information on objects of a program in an Electronic Program Guide (EPG), the apparatus comprising:
a user input unit to receive a user's selection of a program;
a processor to receive broadcast signals, obtain the selected program and additional information from the broadcast signals, detect from the additional information any detail information on each of certain objects of the selected program, and decode the detail information into object information, wherein the object information includes an object table including program information;
a storage to store the object information;
a display unit to display the selected program; and
a controller to receive the user's selection of a particular object of the selected program and the user's request to view detail information on the selected particular object, and to control the display unit to display an object information stored in the storage unit,
wherein the controller connects to a different source to obtain the detail information requested by the user when said detail information is not included in the additional information.]