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Title:
PROGRAM AUTOMATIC CHANNEL SELECTION DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2002084469
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a program automatic channel selection device that continuously makes automatic channel selection at one setting of a channel selection condition and allows a viewer to select a program when there are programs in matching with the channel selection condition.

An entry means 27 such as a remote commander sets and enters a channel selection condition and a memory 17 stores the entered channel selection condition. Channel selection conditions may be set. A channel selection condition retrieval section 20 generates an automatic channel selection schedule on the basis of the channel selection condition and program information stored in the memory 17. After the channel selection condition is once entered, a control section 19 periodically and automatically generates and stores a schedule. When there are programs in matching with the channel selection condition, it is displayed on an OSD and a slave screen to urge a viewer to select any of them.


Inventors:
NISHIYAMA NORIYUKI
Application Number:
JP2000271175A
Publication Date:
March 22, 2002
Filing Date:
September 07, 2000
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SHARP KK
International Classes:
H04B1/16; H04H20/00; H04H60/43; H04H60/65; H04N5/44; H04N5/445; H04N5/45; H04N5/76; H04N7/025; H04N7/03; H04N7/035; (IPC1-7): H04N5/44; H04B1/16; H04H1/00; H04N5/445; H04N5/45; H04N5/76; H04N7/025; H04N7/03; H04N7/035
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Eisuke Fujimoto