Hitachi, Ltd.

Tadashi Sube

Atsuhiko Urushihara

Atsushi Ishibashi

Atsushi Katayama

Atsuo Yoshida

Tadahiro Yamaguchi

Makoto Fukatsu

Kazunori Yanagisawa

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Shigeki Masatsugu

Yasunori Kawauchi

Tatsuo Murai

Masahide Aoki

Yukiko Iwama

Tsukasa Ariyoshi

Yasuhiro Kasahara

Tadashi Kitashima

Nobuo Fukuda

Yoshiki Igarashi

Hideo Sasajima

Shyoji Kondo

The present invention makes a variety of improvements on the conventional television receiver to enhance the home communication capability thereof, thereby making the television receiver available as an information terminal apparatus for household use. The novel television receiver that receives a television signal to display a television image on screen comprising: a memory; a microphone through which voice information is entered externally; writing section for writing at least one piece of the voice information entered through the microphone and additional information associated with the at least one piece of voice information into the memory; and a display device for reproducing the at least one piece of voice information stored in the memory and outputting the reproduced voice information through a speaker and displaying the additional information associated with the at least one piece of voice information onto the screen. The memory stores as a message the voice information entered through the microphone. The stored message is reproduced according to an externally given instruction and the reproduction is outputted to a speaker to transmit the message to other persons with ease.

Television receiver having multiple communication capabilities

Magnetic resonance imaging scanner

Video tape recorder

Cordless handset telephone

Growing community of inventors

Kodaira, Japan

Tadashi Sube