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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1997
Tomihisa Kamada, Tokyo, JP;
Access Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An Internet television device having a capability of connecting to the Internet. An HTML document received from a WEB server includes a definition of assigning operation buttons of a remote controller to hot spots, the definition containing button identifiers indicative of the operation buttons. An Internet television device interprets the received HTML document to develop an image on an image memory. During this interpretation, the button identifiers of operation buttons of the remote controller are recognized so as to create a button assignment table which correlates the recognized button identifiers with hot spots corresponding to anchor tags in the HTML document. The HTML document also includes display information as to which button is assigned to each hot spot. When a user presses an operation button corresponding to a desired hot spot on the display screen, the Internet television device recognizes which hot spot has been designated by referring to the button assignment table and then selects the hot spot. Thus, it is possible to select a desired hot spot on a WEB browser screen in such a manner as in the channel selection of the TV set.