Abstract: The present invention relates to, in a broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving broadcast in multiple channels, controllability of setting of desired programs out of multiple programs being broadcast, and various manipulations and selections about such programs, inspection of the charge amount situation, and prevention of wrong use about connection to a telephone circuit, and these manipulations are effected in an interactive manner with the screen display shown in appropriate display format, layout, shape and color, considering psychological effects, according to the natural flow of thought of general users who manipulate.

Abstract: A data sending/receiving system with which a data user receives data provided through a data provider by a data receiving apparatus via one of a computer network line and a broadcasting, has a construction where a provider that provides data via a broadcasting, broadcasts (i) as to a data provided via a broadcasting, information about a broadcast channel and a broadcast time of the data related to its identifier, as additional information, and (ii) as to a data provided via a computer network line, a description of a location of the data related to the identifier, on a computer network; and a provider that provides data via a computer network line sends on a computer network line (iii) as to a data provided via a computer network line, a description of a location of the data related to its identifier on a computer network line, and (vi) as to a data provided via a broadcasting, information about the provider of the data.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the provision of an input device for inputting coordinates that is natural to operate. In the present invention, coordinate input device outputs one- or higher-dimensional coordinates of an object placed in close proximity thereto or in contact therewith, and pressed or not-pressed information indicating whether said object is pressed or not pressed thereon. Cursor generating device accepts at its inputs the coordinates and the pressed or not-pressed information output from the coordinate input device, repositions the cursor in accordance with the input coordinates, and outputs an image with the external appearance of the cursor changed in accordance with the pressed or not-pressed information. Further, image generating device outputs a synthesized image synthesized by combining an image output from the cursor generating device and an image input at an image input terminal.

Abstract: A device having a calculation part and memory part which can directly deal with a word of a fuzzy set data type, that is, which can deal with a combination of an element and a grade corresponding to the element, to thereby obtain high speed general calculating ability for fuzzy sets. The calculation part has a grade operating unit and an element operating unit, and the data is input and output in a word type such that it has an element field and a grade field which are processed by the corresponding operating unit. The memory part is an associative type memory in which a search can be executed using an element as a key, and which, at a data writing, compares new data and stored data and stores the result of the comparison. Alternatively, the memory part can realize fuzzy set calculation under the same procedure as data transfer by using a function to execute fuzzy logical calculations on the memory module in addition to data transfer, to thereby obtain very high speed calculating ability for fuzzy sets.