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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2011
Koumei Kubota, Osaka, JP;
Koumei Kubota, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma-shi, JP;
Abstract
A sound control section () selects and outputs a text-to-speech item from items included in program information multiplexed with a broadcast signal; and starts or stops outputting the text-to-speech item, based on request from a remote controller control section (). A sound generation section () converts the text-to-speech item to a sound signal. A speaker () reproduces the sound signal. The sound control section () compares each item of information about a program currently selected by user's operation of the remote controller, with each item of information about the previous program selected just before the user's operation. If an item of the currently selected program information is the same as the corresponding item of the operation-prior program information, and text-to-speech processing has been already completed for the item after the last change in the item, the sound control section () stops outputting the item to the sound generation section ().