Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Takashige Wakamatsu

Yoshinori Hama

Masako Wakisaka

Mitsunobu Enomoto

Kiyoshi Awano

Takaya Nonomura

Tadashi Shiono

Yuji Hase

Nobuo Kuchiki

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

The present invention relates to a television receiver capable of receiving at least digital satellite broadcasting such as CS broadcasting. The television receiver according to the present invention comprises first means for displaying a plurality of program guides in a matrix shape on a display device utilizing one of the horizontal axis and the vertical axis as a channel number axis and utilizing the other axis as a time axis, and second means for displaying air times for the program guides displayed on the display device in the shape of a bar graph that is long along the time axis.

Television receiver

Internet information displaying apparatus and internet information

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Toyonaka, Japan

Takashige Wakamatsu