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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2003
Takahiro Katayama, Osaka, JP;
Manabu Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Takahiro Katayama, Osaka, JP;
Manabu Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
When a viewer does not make a request for displaying a menu screen, a CPU inserts a closed caption signal into LINEof a video signal and outputs the video signal to an analog television receiver. When the viewer changes the setting of the apparatus, the CPU performs so as to output a menu image, to generate a closed caption erase signal, and to insert the closed caption erase signal into LINEof the video signal. Thereafter, output of the menu image is continued until the menu erase signal is received or reception of digital broadcast signal is terminated and in the meanwhile, the closed caption signal is not output.