Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Kiyoshi Awano

Yoshinori Hama

Masako Wakisaka

Takaya Nonomura

Tadashi Shiono

Takashige Wakamatsu

Yoshikazu Mihara

Motoaki Asao

Masatoshi Yuasa

Hideaki Watanabe

A television broadcast receiver has an operation section including up, down, left, and right cursor keys and a function of displaying an operation guide composed of contents of a plurality of pages. In the television broadcast receiver, in a state in which contents of an arbitrary page among the contents of the plurality of pages composing the operation guide are displayed, a function as a key for changing a displayed page to a previous page is assigned to a first key which is one of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys, and a function as a key for changing the displayed page to a next page is assigned to a second key which is one of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys and which is other than the first key.

Television broadcast receiver

A digital television receiver includes a CS receive circuit (). This CS receive circuit receives a digital television broadcast signal. The digital television broadcast signal contains video data from which first video data is created as well as EPG data from which second video data is created. First and second video compression circuits () respectively compress first and second video data and output first and second compression video signals. The first and second compression video signals are composited together by a video compositing circuit (). Consequently, on the monitor () are displayed EPG and broadcast video picture in a 2-screens form.

Digital television receiver for receiving a digital television broadcast signal and simultaneously displaying a video picture and information contained therein

A television including a CS digital circuit to receive a CS digital television broadcast signal. A micom circuit detects a broadcast mode of the digital television broadcast. Where the broadcast mode is in a first mode, or usual broadcast mode, the power supply to a video output section and audio output section, for example, is turned on to output video images and sound respectively through a CRT and a speaker. Also, where the broadcast mode is in a second mode, or radio broadcast mode, the power supply to the video output section is turned off. Where the broadcast mode is in a third mode, or data broadcast mode, the power supply to both the image output section and the audio output section is turned off.

Television receiver

The present invention relates to a television receiver capable of receiving at least digital satellite broadcasting such as CS broadcasting. The television receiver according to the present invention comprises first means for displaying a plurality of program guides in a matrix shape on a display device utilizing one of the horizontal axis and the vertical axis as a channel number axis and utilizing the other axis as a time axis, and second means for displaying air times for the program guides displayed on the display device in the shape of a bar graph that is long along the time axis.

A digital broadcast receiver for realizing functions approximately corresponding to those of a VCR by utilizing a time shifting service broadcasting the same program on a plurality of channels which are time-shifted from one another in broadcasting the program by varying periods of delay time. For example in resuming viewing after an interruption of viewing on the desired one of the channels to realize the function of pause, the channel is determined the delay time of which relative to the channel initially viewed is greater than and most approximate to the interruption period, and the initial channel is automatically changed over to the channel thus determined.

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Hirakata, Japan

Kiyoshi Awano