Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Eiichiro Naito

Hirofumi Takemasa

Hiroyuki Maeno

Mitsuru Takami

Junichi Yamada

Tadakazu Narikawa

Toru Higashibata

Hiroshi Yonekura

Yusuke Morita

Atsushi Onuma

Yoshinori Harada

Tadashi Sumino

Masaaki Fujita

Emiko Maekawa

Sozo Yamamoto

Yoshikazu Hirai

Chie Hirose

Masamitsu Takagi

Ayako Monma

Yasushi Yoshida

The present invention relates to, in a broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving broadcast in multiple channels, controllability of setting of desired programs out of multiple programs being broadcast, and various manipulations and selections about such programs, inspection of the charge amount situation, and prevention of wrong use about connection to a telephone circuit, and these manipulations are effected in an interactive manner with the screen display shown in appropriate display format, layout, shape and color, considering psychological effects, according to the natural flow of thought of general users who manipulate. More specifically, the menu panel showing manipulation items in layers is displayed characters and expression of proper size suited to the broadcast receiving apparatus, and the layer index is attached to the menu panel, so that the layer of the present manipulation may be known at a glance, and moreover in the program list display, an official program name display column is displayed in a predetermined specific position, outside of the program list display column, and the display state of this official program name display column is maintained if the picture is changed to the broadcast content briefing picture or reserve condition customize picture. In addition, the access to the modem or IC card is indicated by the indicator, and the charge amount detail can be known from the IC card.

Broadcast receiving apparatus

A television receiver comprises a tuner for receiving a television video signal; data storage device including a data storage unit for storing the video signal received by the tuner, for its storage capacity, a writing pointer for time-sequentially writing the video signal into the data storage unit, and a reading pointer for reading the stored video signal; select circuit for selecting and outputting one of the reproduced video signal output from the data storage means device and the video signal received by the tuner; and control circuit for controlling the data storage device and the select circuit in response to an external input signal.

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Hyogo, Japan

Eiichiro Naito