1. An electrolytic gas generation device for generating ozone gas consisting essentially of: an anode chamber in which the ozone gas and oxygen is generated; a cathode chamber in which hydrogen gas is generated; a solid electrolyte ion exchange film separating the anode chamber from the cathode chamber; a porous anode provided at a first side of the ion exchange film in the anode chamber; a porous cathode provided at an opposite side of the ion exchange film in the cathode chamber; a power source for imposing a potential difference between the porous anode and the porous cathode; a pure water supply source for supplying pure water to a mixer; a carbon dioxide supply source for supplying carbon dioxide to the mixer; and the mixer for mixing the pure water and the carbon dioxide to form carbonated water and supplying the carbonated water to the anode chamber.
2. An electrolytic gas generation device according to claim 1, wherein the mixing means in which the pure water is changed to carbonated water is such that pure water is introduced to one side of a film and carbon dioxide is introduced to an opposite side of the film, so that the carbon dioxide dissolves in the pure water via said film to change the pure water to carbonated water.
3. An electrolytic gas generation device according to claim 1, wherein the carbonated water contains carbon dioxide.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An electronic program guide (EPG) for viewing on a display screen comprising:
a table or grid containing a plurality of cells, each cell being individually selectable by a user to allow navigation of the table or grid, one or more of the cells containing information relating to one or more programs, characterised in that at least one of said cells is capable of containing information relating to more than one program.
2. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 1 wherein one or more preset criteria are used to determine the number andor type of programs displayed in a single cell of the EPG.
3. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 2 wherein the preset criteria is based on any or any combination of the following: I) the time duration of a program in relation to a predetermined time period; ii) a program rating In relation to a predetermined rating; iii) positive or negative indication that information relating to a program should be contained in a cell with information relating to one or more other programs; iv) a recommendation of the program from a user or third party; v) a start time of a program in relation to a pre-determined time or time period; vi) the authority of a user to watch a program; vii) presentation information; viii) user andor operator preferences; ix) input controller type; x) program content type.
4. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 1 wherein the size of a cell in the table or grid is substantially proportional to or relates to a particular preset criteria relating to the program or a time period for which one or more programs contained in the cell are shown for.
5. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 2 wherein EPG processing means are provided to process the EPG data and determine, based on the preset criteria, whether program information is to be displayed in a single cell alone or concatenated in a cell or block with information relating to other programs.
6. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 5 wherein if the time duration of a block is more than a predetermined value, the block is subdivided according to one or more predetermined rules.
7. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 1 wherein where a number of different programs are contained within a single cell or block, the programs are arranged according to or the predetermined rules are any or any combination of chronological order of the programs, time duration of the programs, program rating, user definition of the programs, program genre or successive episodes of the same program series.
8. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 5 wherein the cell or block containing a plurality of different programs is provided with an indicator relating to a characteristic of one or more or all the programs indicated therein.
9. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 8 wherein the indicator is or includes an advertisement, a logo andor a link to a related program or programs.
10. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 1 wherein a leading edge of the cell containing a plurality of different programs is substantially aligned with an indicator corresponding to the earliest start time of the programs listed in the cell.
11. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 1 wherein the cell containing a plurality of different programs is selectable by a user to allow navigation andor actions to be undertaken with respect to any program of the plurality of programs indicated in the cell.
12. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 1 wherein the cell containing a plurality of different programs is selectable by a user to allow navigation andor an action to be undertaken with respect to all the programs indicated in the cell.
13. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 11 wherein the action includes recording, playback andor selection of a special offer or promotion.
14. A method of creating an electronic program guide (EPG) for viewing on a display screen, comprising the steps of:
generating a table or grid containing a plurality of cells, each cell containing information for a particular program and being individually selectable by a user to allow navigation of the table or grid, analysing program andor schedule data in one or more cells of the table or grid, characterised in that data relating to two or more programs is concatenated into a single cell in the table or grid.
15. A method according to claim 14 wherein one or more preset criteria are used to determine the number of programs displayed in a single cell of the EPG.
16. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 6 wherein where a number of different programs are contained within a single cell or block, the programs are arranged according to or the predetermined rules are any or any combination of chronological order of the programs, time duration of the programs, program rating, user definition of the programs, program genre or successive episodes of the same program series.
17. An electronic program guide (EPG) according to claim 12 wherein the action includes recording, playback andor selection of a special offer or promotion.