Abstract: An information processing device with a TV function, which is capable of visually presenting information necessary for a viewer when viewing a TV picture on a main display screen. A power supply control IC discriminates which switch button is pressed for the information processing device or the TV. When the switch button for TV was pressed and start control is turned ON only for the TV, the power supply control IC supplies electric current to only the TV function block and sets a TV tuner and a NTSC decoder. It sets a display controller and an amplifier portion so that display data and sound data of the TV function block can be output. The power supply control IC manages and converts the current TV channel number and channel information into displayable codes and sends the codes to a display controller that in turn internally develops the received code on a bitmap and display the codes on a small display device.

Abstract: When a type of a connected channel is to be detected, a CPU of a communication device sets a channel in an off-hook state by closing a channel closing section, and an existence of the DC current supplied through the cable channel is detected based on an output from a DC current detecting circuit. The CPU sets the connected channel in the off-hook state by switching a switching section to the radio channel, and detects an existence of a dial-tone signal transmitted through the radio channel via a modem. The CPU determines which one of the cable channel and the radio channel is connected to the communication device, or none of them are connected. The described arrangement enables an automatic detection of a type of a connected channel without using a special adaptor for each channel that is required in the conventional communication device provided with the automatic detecting function of the type of the channel, and also enables a reduction in cost and size of the communication device.