Abstract: With the present invention, based on prescribed characteristic information of an event scheduled to be recorded being entered and set via a key entry unit 2 before receiving an electronic program guide listing program information of a program of the event scheduled to be recorded, an event determining unit 9 searches for and specifies reception of program information of a program of the event based on similarity between the characteristic information and program information in a latest received electronic program guide, making programmed recording possible of a program of the event based on the specified program information, thereby allowing recording by advance presetting of a program of an event scheduled to be recorded whose broadcast channel and time are unknown, before being listed in the electronic program guide.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a user interface of an electronic apparatus capable of ensuring better operability and greater convenience and a method for controlling the user interface.

Abstract: The invention provides a picture/sound output device with automatic output adjustment function which can reproduce an output level set in a predetermined time zone, and when a user changes the output level manually, can automatically adjust the output level of the subsequent time zones thereafter by using an output changing fraction. In the present invention, a signal processing section 1 reproduces signals, an output calculation section 6 calculates the output level of the subsequent time zone based on the three values consisting of a time zone output data level set in the present time zone stored in a storage section 2, a time zone output data level set in the subsequent time zone, and the present output level data, and then a control section 7 automatically adjusts the output level of the subsequent time zone to the output level calculated immediately before the time zone advances.