| 摘要 |
AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE RECORDING OF TELEVISION PROGRAMS ARE DISCLOSE. THE APPARATUS DISPLAYS ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE INFORMATION SUPERPOSED ON A TELEVISION SIGNAL. THE APPARATUS ALLOWS A PLURALITY OF DESIRED PROGRAMS TO BE RESERVED FOR RECORDING BASED ON THE ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE INFORMATION (7). IF ANY OF THE RESERVED PROGRAMS OVERLAP, THE APPARATUS ALLOWS THE STARTING TIME AND/OR ENDING TIME OF ANY OF THE OVERLAPPED PROGRAMS TO BE CHANGED . THE APPARAUS MAY PERMIT A PROGRAM TO BE RESERVED FOR RECORDING BY INPUTTING RECORDING TIME AND RECORDING CHANNEL(5). IF A PROGRAM RESERVED FOR RECORDING BASED ON THE ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE INFORMATION (7) OVERLAPS A PROGRAM RESERVED FOR RCORDING BY INPUTTING RECORDING TIME AND RECORDING CHANNEL (5) , APREFERENTIAL SETTING ENABLES ONE OF THE OVERLAPPED PROGRAMS TO BE RECORDED. THE APPRATUS ADVANTAGEOUSLY CAUSES AN ICON TO BE CONTINOUSLY DISPLAYED ON A TELEVISION SCREEN (9) IN CONNECTION WITH THE TELEVISION PICTURE SIGNAL WHEN A PROGRAM IS RESEVERED FOR RECORDING. A CORRESPONDING METHOD IS DESCRIBE.
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