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US 5,212,553 AGranted
Television receiver with selective menu display
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKazuhisa Maruoka
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Abstract
A television receiver with a menu display function has a BS tuner for producing a video signal and a sound signal from a received television signal that is broadcast from a satellite. The television receiver has a microcomputer for adding a menu display signal to the video signal so that menu information can be displayed on a display unit. The menu display signal represents a plurality of menu items in each of selectable menu modes, and the menu items are selectively erasable from the display unit.
Claims4
A television receiver comprising:
- circuit means for receiving a television signal and producing a video signal and a sound signal from said received television signal;
- display means for displaying an image based on said video signal;
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- control means for controlling said circuit means, said control means comprising means for adding to said video signal a menu display signal representing a plurality of menu items and for selectively deleting said items under the direction of a user of the apparatus, whereby all or only selected ones of said menu items can be displayed on said displayed means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.