Patent ID: 9521352
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A television set comprising: a plurality of interfaces configured to receive a plurality of sources transmitted by a plurality of peripherals; a screen configured to display at least one of said sources; a generator of graphic indications configured to show on said screen indications relating to said plurality of interfaces and/or said peripherals; a control unit configured to control the functions of said television set; a control means configured to issue commands to said television set; a video memory configured to store a plurality of video images obtained by processing said sources coming from said peripherals; and a processing means configured to scale dimensions of said sources, in order to generate said plurality of video images and to associate said video images with respective graphic indications relating to said interfaces and/or said peripherals; wherein the television set is configured to display the result of said association as a whole on the screen, in the form of a general video image, in order to allow a user to identify which interface and/or peripheral is associated with the corresponding video image; wherein the television set is configured so that, after one of the video images is selected by a user, the contents of said selected video image are shown on said screen; and wherein said sources, before being supplied to said processing means, are transformed through appropriate transforming means into video signals having a frame rate of P times greater, where P is an integer greater than one, with respect to the original ones coming from said devices.