Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Corporation

Tetsutaka Yabuta

Kazuhiro Ieda

Masaki Kanbe

Tsuneyasu Inukai

Yasukazu Kamei

Chieko Mitsui, Legal Representative

Ichiro Kajitani

Yukinori Tokazu

Ko Matsuoka

The present invention provides a mobile communication terminal having broadcast reception function, capable of preventing occurrence of a situation in which sound comes out due to the activation of a television function even though the phone's silent mode is set. When the phone's silent mode is set in a television watching state, a CPUdetermines that it is a television silent mode. Similarly, also when an ON operation is performed on a television function activation key in a state where the phone's silent mode is set, the CPUdetermines that it is the television silent mode. When the CPUdetermines that it is the television silent mode, the CPUmutes television sound.

Mobile terminal with cellular and broadcast reception, audio muting and closed captioning

A user photographs an area including a desired portion of a television program schedule (with G-code numbers) in a newspaper, and the like, with a digital camera functional portion () of a mobile telephone device (). A CPU () performs, for example, a data transmission/reception by a mobile telephone functional portion () (a communication process, an Internet connection process, electronic mail transmission and reception processes), and control of each of functional portions based on received data. Moreover, the CPU () performs a character recognition process on an image photographed with the digital camera functional portion () and on an image received by electronic mail by the mobile telephone functional portion (), and executes a video recording reservation process based on the G-code number obtained by the recognition process.

Mobile telephone device

A decoder device is provided which is able to output audio and video in sync without a counter synchronized with a clock reference value. The decoder device retrieves PES and PCR from TS, and decides the timing of an audio output section and a video output section, referring to PTS appended to the PES. A local counter output section counts in a predetermined count-up cycle without an adjustment control on the PCR. A PCR & local-counter list management section generates a table paring up a counter value, when the PCR is received, with the PCR. The audio & video output sections calculate a latency time of an access unit, using both a first difference, which is between a counter value, when PTS is referred to, and the counter value in the table, and of a second difference, which is between PTS of PES and the PCR in the table.

Decoder device

Broadcasting is received in a desk peripheral, to store coded video data in a memory card. A portable viewing apparatus decodes the coded video data stored in the memory card, to display video on a liquid crystal display panel. Channel selection information for receiving the broadcasting in the desk peripheral is fed from the memory card. The portable viewing apparatus stores the channel selection information in the memory card by user entry. The portable viewing apparatus is supplied with charging power from the desk peripheral.

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Osaka, Japan

Tetsutaka Yabuta