Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kazunori Yoshizawa

Keiichiro Sato

Yoshiyasu Ogasawara

Aya Minehara

Yoshinori Oonishi

Yumiko Saimen

Yukimi Kawaguchi

Masahiro Tai

Akihiko Ito

Kinya Fujimoto

Yuhji Ohi

Ai Terashima

Yoshinori Ohmura

The present invention includes (i) a tuner () for preferentially receiving broadcast waves () for carrying television programs () list-displayed near a television program () carried by a broadcast wave () rather than a broadcast wave for carrying television programs which are list-displayed away from the television program () and (ii) an information obtaining section () for obtaining thumbnails () representing the television programs () from the broadcast waves () received by the tuner ().

Display device and method for controlling display device to selectively display images with content

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

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Osaka, Japan

Kazunori Yoshizawa