Sony Corporation

Takao Itabashi

Hisafumi Yamada

Junya Saito

Norihito Ichikawa

Yoshio Osakabe

Shigeyuki Sano

Mitsumasa Saitoh

Yoshinori Komiya

Masayuki Miyagawa

Items related to the quality of an on-screen image such as brightness, sharpness, chroma, etc. and items related to the audio quality such as bass, treble, balance, etc. in a CRT display, such as a television receiver, are subject to adjustment by a user. These items are originally classified into those in a first class and those in a second class in accordance with the nature of a respective item, that is, whether a user must know the current analog value of the item before he or she adjusts it. When an instruction is input through user's manipulation to adjust the analog value of an item to be controlled, the system determines whether the item belongs to the first class or the second class. If it belongs to the first class, the system first confirms that the item and its actual analog value are displayed on a screen, then permits adjustment of the analog value in response to the instruction, and then displays a new analog value. If it belongs to the second class, the system permits immediate adjustment of its analog value and displays a new analog value.

Method of controlling first items that require prior CRT display and

A home-bus-information display system arranged such that the control status of each of a plurality of home apparatus can be monitored via home bus-lines and additively displayed over a video program on the picture screen of a television receiver to allow a viewer to monitor the control status of each of other home electric apparatus, a security system and so on in a centralized-control fashion.

Home-bus-information system

A method and apparatus for use with a television receiver that processes a television signal in digital form and that has the functional units of the receiver controlled by digital data stored in internal registers, in which a dedicated non-volatile memory is provided for storing initial data along with a control circuit for setting such initial data into the appropriate register so that when the receiver is adjusted for the first time following manufacture spurious data will not cause circuit elements of the receiver to be damaged.

Nonvolatile memory system for digital television tuner

Method and apparatus for use with a television receiver wherein a television signal is processed in a digital form and which includes a memory for storing data to control such processing, in which a circuit is provided for refreshing the data in the memory at successive vertical blanking periods and a circuit is also provided for writing input data into the memory at the appropriate location at any time new data is desired to be input by the user. An operating method is also provided to accomplish the functional tasks of the refreshing circuit and interrupt circuit.

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Takao Itabashi