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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1995
Filed:
May. 23, 1994
Keiji Enomoto, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a television receiver in which, even when a broadcasting of a broadcasting station received and reproduced at an image display unit is ended and a non-signal state is presented, a video signal can be protected from being disturbed. This television receiver comprises a first video signal receiving apparatus, a second video signal receiving apparatus, an image display unit supplied with an output video signal from the first video signal receiving apparatus, and a circuit for supplying an output video signal of the second video signal receiving apparatus as an external output, wherein when the output video signal of the first video signal receiving apparatus is set in the non-signal state, the output video signal of the second video signal receiving apparatus is automatically supplied to the image display unit.