Sony Corporation

Makoto Hiyamizu

Kunio Hakamada

Satoshi Inashima

Koji Takeda

An image display apparatus such as a television receiver has a frame memory for storing video signals. The image display apparatus displays a combination of main and auxiliary images on a display raster based on the video signals stored in the frame memory. Specifically, the image display apparatus displays a plurality of auxiliary images surrounded by respective frames, and responsive to a control signal from a remote control unit, for example, individually changes the manner in which the frames are displayed respectively around the auxiliary images. For example, the color of the frame displayed around one of the auxiliary images is changed when that one auxiliary image is selected.

Image display apparatus for simultaneous display of a plurality of images

A television receiver of the type which simultaneously displays a main, live picture and one or more sub-pictures inset therein and which is provided with a step-by-step switch and associated circuitry which allows the user to operate the step-by-step switch and either display the main, live picture and as sub-pictures, a series of still pictures taken at different points in time from the main picture, or the main, live picture and as sub-pictures a series of still pictures taken at different points in time from a second video signal along with a live sub-picture of the second video signal.

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Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Hiyamizu