Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Aya Minehara

Yukimi Kawaguchi

Ryuhsuke Watanabe

Yoshiyasu Ogasawara

Takayuki Suzuki

Keiichiro Sato

Yumiko Saimen

Yoshinori Oonishi

Takamasa Shimizu

Hitoshi Yoshitani

Masahiro Tai

Kazunori Yoshizawa

Akihiko Ito

Kinya Fujimoto

Michiharu Ozaki

Yoshinori Ohmura

Eriko Iguchi

Yuhji Ohi

Ai Terashima

Shunsuke Uesugi

The television () includes: an infrared radiation receiver () which receives from a user an instruction to select a program cell; and a CPU () which generates a user interface screen of an electronic program table to be displayed on an LCD (). The CPU () generates the user interface screen of the electronic program table such that a time zone item column located in a left direction of a selected program cell and a time zone item column located in a right direction of the selected program cell are indicated with deep blue, and other time zone item columns are indicated with light blue.

Display control device, television receiver, method of controlling display, display control program and recording medium

A television set () includes a determination section () and a notification section (). The determination section () determines, as program information to be notified to a user, a plurality of pieces of program information each of which matches a search condition set beforehand, from among a plurality of pieces of program information. The notification section () notifies the user of the television set () of the plurality of pieces of program information thus determined by the determination section ().

Program information notification device, television receiver, program information notification method, program information notification program, and recording medium

A display screen includes a video region in contact with a left side section of the display screen for performing a scaling display of an input video; a top region at the uppermost part of the display screen for displaying a plurality of items capable of being selected by a user; and a side region provided to the right or left of the display screen for displaying a plurality of items set at a lower level than an item selected by the user. Among the plurality of items displayed in the side region, an item currently selected by the user is so displayed as to be discriminated from the other items. After the item selected has been discriminatively displayed for a prescribed time period, a guidance describing the item being selected is displayed in the side region close to the item selected.

Display device, program, and storage medium

A television () is a content reproduction device for reproducing a video or a sound of content, and includes (i) a content analyzing section () for extracting a prescribed feature from the content, and (ii) an optical device controlling section () for controlling, in accordance with the feature extracted by the content analyzing section (), luminance of light to be emitted by an illumination section () incorporated in the television ().

Content reproduction device, television receiver, content reproduction method, content reproduction program, and recording medium

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Osaka, Japan

Aya Minehara