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US 8,558,954 B2Granted
Video display device, video display system, and video display method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorTaichi Yuki
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Abstract
A video display device including: an external tuner video reception unit that obtains, from an external device having a reception tuner to receive a video signal, a video signal received by the reception tuner; an internal reception tuner that receives a video signal; a video control unit that controls so that the external tuner video reception unit receives a video signal of each channel; and a display control unit that controls to display a video signal received by the external tuner video reception unit in real time and the video signal received by the internal reception tuner at the same time on a screen.
Claims11
A video display device comprising:
- an external tuner video reception unit that receives, from an external device including a reception tuner to receive a video signal, a video signal received by the reception tuner of the external device, the external device being separate from the video display device;
- an internal reception tuner that receives a video signal corresponding to a channel;
- a video control unit that transmits information corresponding to the video signal received by the internal reception tuner to the external device, and controls the external tuner video reception unit to receive a video signal of each channel from the external device, the video signal of each channel being different from the channel corresponding to the video signal received by the internal reception tuner;
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- a display control unit that controls simultaneous real-time display of a video signal received by the external tuner video reception unit and the video signal received by the internal reception tuner as icons on a screen in a list of channel information corresponding to each of the channels from the external device and the channel of the internal reception tuner, each row in the list including a channel number, a corresponding icon and a corresponding program title.
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A video display system comprising:
- a video display device including
- an external tuner video reception unit that receives, from an external device including a reception tuner to receive a video signal, a video signal received by the reception tuner,
- an internal reception tuner that receives the video signal corresponding to a channel,
- a video control unit that transmits information corresponding to the video signal received by the internal reception tuner to the external device, and controls the external tuner video reception unit to receive a video signal of each channel from the external device, the video signal of each channel being different from the channel corresponding to the video signal received by the internal reception tuner, and
- a display control unit that simultaneously displays in real time the video signal received by the external tuner video reception unit and the video signal received by the internal reception tuner as icons on a screen in a list of channel information corresponding to each of the channels from the external device and the channel of the internal reception tuner, each row in the list including a channel number, a corresponding icon and a corresponding program title;
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- the external device including
- a control unit that receives video information related to the video signal received by the internal reception tuner from the video control unit, and
- a video transmission unit that transmits a video signal corresponding to different channels from the channel corresponding to the internal reception tuner to the external tuner video reception unit.
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A video display method comprising:
- receiving a video signal at an internal reception tuner, the video signal corresponding to a channel;
- transmitting information regarding the video signal received by the internal reception tuner to an external device;
- receiving in real time, from the external device including a reception tuner to receive a video signal, a video signal of each channel received by the reception tuner of the external device that is different from the channel corresponding to the video signal received by the internal reception tuner;
- simultaneously displaying in real time the video signal received from the external device and the video signal received by the internal reception tuner as icons on a screen in a list of channel information corresponding to each of the channels from the external device and the channel of the internal reception tuner, each row in the list including a channel number, a corresponding icon and a corresponding program title.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.