Control apparatus and image receiving apparatus

• US 20060225092A1
• Filed: 02/21/2006
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Takagi, Toshihiro, Iwahashi, Toshiya
• Application Number:
  US11/358,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20060225092A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42215 by measuring the time interval during which a key is pressed, e.g. for inputting sequences of digits when selecting a television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42638 involving a hybrid front-end, e.g. analog and digital tuners
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/46 for receiving on more than one standard at will deflecting circuits of multi-standard receivers H04N3/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control

Abstract

A receiving apparatus allowing a user to easily recognize whether input of channel number has been completed or not is provided. The receiving apparatus includes an input portion accepting a user instruction, an OSD generating a signal to display a channel number, a CPU controlling the OSD to generate a signal to display the channel number in a manner specific to a special time period during the special time period from the time when the input portion accepts an instruction to start input of channel number to the time when a condition for determining that the input of the channel number has been completed is satisfied, and to generate a signal to display the channel number in a manner different from the manner specific to the special time period during a time period other than the special time period, and an output portion outputting the signal generated by the OSD.

Claims

1. A control apparatus, comprising:

an accepting portion for accepting an instruction from a user;

a generating portion for generating a signal to display a channel number;

a first control unit for controlling said generating portion to generate a signal to display said channel number in a display color specific to a special time period during said special time period from the time when said accepting portion has accepted an instruction to start an input of a channel number to the time when a condition for determining that the input of the channel number has been completed is satisfied;

a second control unit for controlling said generating portion to generate a signal to display said channel number in a display color different from the display color specific to said special time period during a time period other than said special time period; and

an output portion for outputting the signal generated by said generating portion.

2. A control apparatus, comprising:

an accepting portion for accepting an instruction from a user;

a generating portion for generating a signal to display a channel number;

a first control unit for controlling said generating portion to generate a signal to display said channel number in a manner specific to a special time period during said special time period from the time when said accepting portion has accepted an instruction to start an input of a channel number to the time when a condition for determining that the input of the channel number has been completed is satisfied;

a second control unit for controlling said generating portion to generate a signal to display said channel number in a manner different from the manner specific to said special time period during a time period other than said special time period; and

an output portion for outputting the signal generated by said generating portion.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said manner includes a visually recognizable manner.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said visually recognizable manner includes a manner of a display color.

5. An image receiving apparatus including the control apparatus as recited in claim 2.