Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Takashi Ohtsu

Masaki Mukai

Hidekazu Tanigawa

Seiji Tsuji

Yoshio Nakano

Kouichi Yasutake

A program receiver for displaying a graphical interactive picture by receiving a program transmitted from a program transmitter, the program receiver comprising: a storage unit for storing a plurality of basic picture elements in advance, the plurality of basic picture elements being figures composing the graphical interactive picture manipulated by a user; a signal receipt unit for receiving a signal transmitted from the program transmitter, the signal being a multiplex signal including a program and data specifying a structure of the graphical interactive picture; a signal separation unit for separating the signal received by the signal receipt unit into a program signal and a graphical-interactive-picture-structure specification data signal; a first graphical interactive picture generation unit for generating the graphical interactive picture by combining the basic picture elements stored in the storage unit based on the graphical-interactive-picture-structure specification data signal from the signal separation unit; and a display unit for display the graphical interactive picture generated by the first graphical interactive picture generation unit.

Remote controller for a variety of appliances

A program receiver for displaying a graphical interactive picture by receiving a program transmitted from a program transmitter, the program receiver comprising: a storage unit for storing a plurality of basic picture elements in advance, the plurality of basic picture elements being figures composing the graphical interactive picture manipulated by a user; a signal receipt unit for receiving a signal transmitted from the program transmitter, the signal being a multiplex signal including a program and data specifying a structure of the graphical interactive picture; a signal separation unit for separating the signal received by the signal receipt unit into a program signal and a graphical-interactive-picture-structure specification data signal; a first graphical interactive picture generation unit for generating the graphical interactive picture by combining the basic picture elements stored in the storage unit based on the graphical-interactive-picture-structure specification data signal from the signal separation unit; and a display unit for displaying the graphical interactive picture generated by the first graphical interactive picture generation unit.

Graphical-interactive-screen display apparatus and peripheral units

An apparatus control system where a major terminal for inputting a user's request is connected via a communication path to at least one apparatus terminal which has an apparatus for implementing the user's request. Such apparatus control system comprises a request accepting unit for accepting the user's request written in a certain form, a storing unit for storing a correspondence table which corresponds a control procedure written in a certain rule to each request, a retrieving unit for retrieving the control procedure, a corresponding apparatus identifying unit for interpreting the retrieved control procedure to identify the apparatus, an implementation directing unit for transmitting to the identified apparatus a command which directs an implementation of the user's request, and an implementation controller for receiving the command and controlling an operation of the apparatus according to the received command.

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Yawata, Japan

Takashi Ohtsu