Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yoshiyasu Ogasawara

Ryuhsuke Watanabe

Aya Minehara

Kazunori Yoshizawa

Takeshi Yarita

Masahiro Tai

Kazuma Naito

Yukimi Kawaguchi

Shunsuke Uesugi

The present invention includes (i) a tuner () for preferentially receiving broadcast waves () for carrying television programs () list-displayed near a television program () carried by a broadcast wave () rather than a broadcast wave for carrying television programs which are list-displayed away from the television program () and (ii) an information obtaining section () for obtaining thumbnails () representing the television programs () from the broadcast waves () received by the tuner ().

Display device and method for controlling display device to selectively display images with content

The present invention provides a television including first to fourth keyword candidate acquiring sections for acquiring a plurality of keyword candidates according to algorisms different from each other; a keyword determining section for causing a display section to display thereon a keyword list including the plurality of keyword candidates thus obtained by the keyword candidate acquiring means, and for determining that a search keyword is to be a keyword candidate selected from the keyword list by an input instruction; and a search scope determining section for causing the display section to display a search scope list of a plurality of search scopes different from each other, and for determining that a search scope to be used for search process with the search keyword is to be a search scope selected from the search scope list by an input instruction.

Display device, television, search method and recording medium for searching based on keyword and search system

A television set () includes a determination section () and a notification section (). The determination section () determines, as program information to be notified to a user, a plurality of pieces of program information each of which matches a search condition set beforehand, from among a plurality of pieces of program information. The notification section () notifies the user of the television set () of the plurality of pieces of program information thus determined by the determination section ().

Program information notification device, television receiver, program information notification method, program information notification program, and recording medium

'Reservation with a recorder' is decided by a remote control operation of a TV () and an operation target device is decided (). To the decided operation target device (recorder), key transmission is carried out from the TV (). When the recorder receiving this key transmission is on standby, a power supply is turned on (). Next, the recorder makes display request of an electronic program guide to the TV (). Based on this, in the TV side, input switching is performed to HDMI of which display request is made from the recorder side (). Meanwhile, in the recorder, a program guide display operation is performed (). Various key operations () performed for the TV is sent to the recorder side (), and in the recorder, various operations in the recorder side are performed () in response to the various key operations. Based on the electronic program guide which is displayed, recording reservation of a desired program can be made from the TV side. When the processing of the recorder side is completed (), a notice of completion/input switching request is provided () to the TV from the recorder. The TV which receives this performs input switching to return to its original state (), and the power supply is turned off in the recorder side ().

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshiyasu Ogasawara