Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Nobuo Kuchiki

Mitsunobu Enomoto

Yuji Hase

Yoshinori Hama

Takashige Wakamatsu

Masashi Yagi

An Internet information displaying apparatus comprising character signal generating means for generating a character signal and displaying it on the screen of the displaying means, and character signal generation controlling means for detecting the state of transmission and reception of digital data of the digital data transmitting and receiving means, and controlling the character signal generating means so as to generate a character signal to indicate the transmission or reception state. The state of transmission or reception of the digital data of the digital data transmitting and receiving means, in other words, the state of connection to the provider is displayed on the screen.

Internet information displaying apparatus and internet information displaying method

An Internet information displaying apparatus, comprising: a video intermediate frequency detector ( ) for extracting a first picture signal from a video signal and outputting it; a gate array ( ) for converting the digital data taken in from the Internet into a second picture signal, and for compressing the second picture signal in the horizontal direction of the screen of a CRT ( ); a TV picture horizontal compression unit ( ) for compressing the first picture signal in the horizontal direction of the screen of the CRT ( ); the gate array ( ) for compressing the second picture signal in the horizontal direction of the screen of the CRT ( ); a picture right and left composing unit ( ) for composing the picture signals compressed by the unit ( ) and the gate array ( ), respectively, in a row; and switching units ( ) for switching the picture signal to be displayed on the screen of the CRT ( ) into any of the first picture signal, the second picture signal, and the picture signal composed by the picture right and left composing unit ( ). Television program and the Internet screen are displayed simultaneously.

Internet information displaying apparatus

Internet information displaying apparatus and internet information

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Nobuo Kuchiki