Electronic appliance
AssigneeVictor Company of Japan, Ltd.
InventorMasahiro Kitaura
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Abstract
A video camera picks up an image of an operator. The picked-up image is subjected to a mirror image conversion. An image for operation, including operation buttons and the operator's image that is subjected to the mirror image conversion are mixed and displayed on a screen of a television receiver. The operator selects a desired operation button by using a universal remote controller with light emitting portions, and executes the operation on the screen. A detecting portion in the television receiver detects which operation button is operated, and executes a control operation corresponding to the operated operation button.
Claims5
An electronic appliance comprising:
- a display device;
- a video camera that picks up an image of an operator positioned in front of the display device;
- a mirror image converter configured to execute a mirror image conversion of the image picked up by the video camera;
- an operation image generator configured to generate an image for operation, including an image of at least one operation button;
- a mixer configured to mix an image signal of the image that underwent the mirror image conversion with an image signal of the image for operation;
- a detector configured to detect a predetermined selecting operation for selecting one of the at least one operation button made by an operator displayed on a screen of the display device using an on-hand control unit having light emitting portion, with a mixed image obtained by the mixer displayed on the screen of the display device;
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- a controller configured to execute a control operation corresponding to the selected operation button for which the predetermined selecting operation is detected by the detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.