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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1993
Filed:
May. 16, 1991
Osamu Oda, Saitama, JP;
Toshio Amano, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A monitor television apparatus equipped with a plurality of input terminals for AV signals and adapted to serve as an output apparatus selectively for a plurality of AV appliances by switching the input terminals, wherein command signals for the AV appliances connected to the input terminals are registered together with input terminal data corresponding thereto. And when any registered command signal is detected, the input terminal switching operation is controlled automatically to produce an output signal from the AV appliance corresponding to the detected command signal. Meanwhile, even when the detected command signal is not any of the registered ones, the relevant input terminals are automatically selected if the detected signal is included in the group stored previously in the memory means and at least one of such grouped command signals is registered correspondingly to the input terminals, hence achieving remarkable enhancement in the handling facility while realizing high efficiency in the manipulation for registration.