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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2006
Keisuke Matsuo, Nara, JP;
Takakazu Shiomi, Osaka, JP;
Keisuke Matsuo, Nara, JP;
Takakazu Shiomi, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An STB (), which reduces operating load of a user and causes a television () and an amplifier () to be appropriately linked, includes: a receiving unit () which receives a broadcast signal including an application program written in Java (registered trademark); a Java VM () which executes the application program; a CEC () which performs HDMI-CEC-compliant communication between each of the television () and the amplifier (); and a device control library () which performs conversion between data handled by an application program and data communicated by the CEC (), so that the television () and the amplifier () can be controlled by the application program executed by the Java VM ().