Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a monitor device including: a first port configured to receive videos output from an external switching device, the external switching device being connected to first input sources; a second port configured to receive a video output from an external source device as a second input source; and a display module configured to display: information about the first input sources, as a group, obtained through the external switching device; and information about the second input source, as a port name of the second port and/or apparatus information about the external source device, obtained from the external source device, wherein a switching operation between the first input sources and the second input source is performed in accordance with a switching instruction sent from an external manipulation device having a button to perform the switching operation.

Abstract: A broadcast receiver including: a storage configured to store pieces of program information of digital broadcast programs; a user interface configured to receive input of characters relating to digital broadcast programs when a search relating to digital broadcast programs is to be performed using broadcast waves or the Internet; a selecting module configured to select a keyword that is stored in the storage and considered to match the input characters; and a search module configured to perform a program-related search using the selected keyword.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a recorder includes a recording module, a first display module, a selector, a second display module, and a processor. The recording module simultaneously records programs of a plurality of channels with a plurality of tuners. The first display module displays past program information indicating the programs simultaneously recorded by the recording module as past programs. The selector selects a past program, with respect to which a function related to the past program is to be performed, from the past programs indicated by the past program information. The second display module displays a selection screen containing an image for selecting the function to be performed with respect to the past program selected by the selector and information on the past program. The processor performs the function selected through the image on the selection screen with respect to the past program selected by the selector.

Abstract: A broadcast receiving system according to an embodiment of the invention, is equipped with a module for displaying an on-timer setting menu, and a control module for referring to an internal clock which is corrected with reference clock information obtained from the outside and performing power control in accordance with the contents, input from a user via an operation module, on the on-timer setting menu. The control module allows selection of either of utilization and non-utilization of the clock information in the on-timer setting menu. The control module corrects the internal clock using the clock information and allows the power-on time to be set if the clock information is received from the outside and the utilization of the clock information has been selected and to allow the time until power on to be set without correcting the internal clock if the non-utilization of the clock information has been selected.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display device includes a super resolution converter, a moving-image improving module, and a demonstration mode controller. The super resolution converter performs, on receipt of a first video signal with first resolution, super resolution conversion on the first video signal to obtain a second video signal with second resolution that is higher than the first resolution. The moving-image improving module performs moving-image improvement on the second video signal to double the frames of video per second. The demonstration mode controller controls activation of first demonstration mode for displaying, on a display module, demonstration related to the super resolution conversion and second demonstration mode for displaying demonstration related to the moving-image improvement.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of making it possible to identify the connection of an external device reliably, the method comprises transmitting a command to check the connection of an external device to a logical address to which no physical address has been caused to correspond in an address list, if there has been a response to the command to check the connection, transmitting to the logical address a command to obtain a physical address allocated to an external device to which the logical address has been allocated, and registering a physical address included in a response to the command to obtain the physical address so as to correspond to the logical address to which the command to check the connection has been transmitted in the address list stored in a storage unit.

Abstract: An address list updating apparatus includes: a memory that stores an address list that indicates correspondence between a physical address and a logical address of each of HDMI-CEC-compliant equipments; a reception unit that receives notification regarding the logical address and the physical address from each of the HDMI-CEC-compliant equipments; a transmission unit that, when the reception unit receives the notification containing a physical address that is registered in the address list, issues an inquiry to a target HDMI-CEC-compliant equipment having a logical address corresponding to the registered physical address; and an update unit that updates the address list by adding information included in the notification received from the target HDMI-CEC-compliant equipment when a response to the inquiry is received, and by deleting information regarding the target HDMI-CEC-compliant equipment when no response is received.

Abstract: An address number of “1” in a logic address is firstly set, and polling is performed. When there is a response to the polling, a physical address and a device name as response contents are written to and registered in an address list so as to correspond to the address number of “1” in the logic address. When some address numbers in the logic address for each of which no connection confirmation is performed exist in a next device type, the smallest address number in the logic address is selected, and an operation returns back to Step S11. Next, when the connection confirmation for each of all the device types is completed, the polling is performed for each of the remaining address numbers in the logic address. When there are responses to the polling, the physical addresses and the device names about the connections each making the response to the polling are written to and registered in the address list.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display system receiving a broadcast video signal to perform display according to the video signal includes: a main apparatus including at least a display displaying video according to the video signal and a controller controlling an operation of the main apparatus; one or a plurality of sub apparatuses each including at least a tuner receiving a broadcast video signal and a controller controlling an operation of the sub apparatus by transmitting/receiving a control signal to/from the main apparatus; and a video signal line and a control signal line disposed between the main apparatus and the sub apparatus, the video signal line being for transmission of the video signal from the sub apparatus to the main apparatus and the control signal line being for transmission of the control signal between the main apparatus and the sub apparatus.

Abstract: A video display apparatus which causes phosphors coated on a screen to emit light, thereby displaying images on the screen, the video display apparatus comprises a storage section which stores a plurality of pictorial patterns, a pattern displaying function which displays the pictorial patterns stored in the storage section on the screen sequentially, and a start-up section which causes the pattern displaying function to start automatically when a preset start condition is satisfied and carry out a pictorial pattern displaying process.