Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Eiichi Ashida

Kinya Kanno

Shoichi Goto

Kenji Ishikawa

In a television set that displays images of a specified broadcast channel out of broadcast waves received by a receiving unit ( ), a channel selection number corresponding to a broadcast channel to be selected is entered by a channel entering unit ( ) through operation keys ( to ) corresponding to respective integers from 0 to 9, and then the entry is received. If the channel selection number is an integer of an even number out of 0 to 9, a channel selection controlling unit ( ) arranges entered integers including the entered even number in the order in which they were entered and confirms the channel selection number. It directs the receiving unit ( ) to select a broadcast channel corresponding to the confirmed channel selection number.

Method for channel selection without confirmation operation by user

A video signal apparatus allows multiple pictures to be displayed. A plurality of input video signals are processed to produce a plurality of signals corresponding to a respective plurality of pictures. The plurality of pictures corresponding to the plurality of signals are displayed. At least one of the plurality of pictures which have been displayed is selected. First and second modifications are made to the selected picture. The first modification to the selected picture indicates that the selected picture is being provided with the second modification.

Multipicture video signal display apparatus with modified picture

A video display apparatus comprising a memory of fields for plural images, a device for judging whether even-number field or odd-number field, and a frame synchronizing device for reading and selecting fields, in which, if the input has one type of field only, these plural images are displayed simultaneously while keeping correct interlacing.

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Suita, Japan

Eiichi Ashida