Television set capable of identifying a plurality of peripherals and allowing to select and display the contents of one of the same

A television set comprising:

• a plurality of interfaces configured to receive a plurality of sources transmitted by a plurality of peripherals;
• a screen configured to display at least one of said sources;
• a generator of graphic indications configured to show on said screen indications relating to said plurality of interfaces and/or said peripherals;
• a control unit configured to control the functions of said television set;
• a control means configured to issue commands to said television set;
• at least one processing means configured to scale dimensions of said sources, in order to generate said plurality of video images and to associate said video images with respective graphic indications relating to said interfaces and/or said peripherals;
• and
• a plurality of video memories configured to store at least one scaled image of the plurality of video images obtained by processing said sources coming from said peripherals;
• wherein the television set is configured to display the result of said association as a whole on the screen through a read out instance by reading out sequentially said at least one scaled image from said plurality of video memories, in the form of a general video image or in the form of a general video image combined with a background signal, said background signal being from one of said peripherals or being a default background signal, in order to allow the user to identify which interface and/or peripheral is associated with the corresponding video image;
• and
• wherein the television set is configured so that, after one of the video images is selected by a user, the contents of said selected video image are shown on said screen;
• and
• wherein said sources, before being supplied to said processing means, are transformed through appropriate transforming means into video signals having a frame rate of P times greater, where P is an integer greater than one, with respect to the original ones coming from said devices.