Patent ID: 6367080
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An internet information displaying apparatus, comprising:picture signal outputting means for extracting a first picture signal from a video signal and outputting it; data converting means for converting digital data including character information taken in from the Internet through a communication line into a second picture signal; a displaying apparatus for displaying a picture signal on a screen; first horizontal direction compressing means for compressing said first picture signal in said horizontal direction of the screen of said displaying apparatus; second horizontal direction compressing means for compressing said second picture signed in the horizontal direction of the screen of said displaying apparatus; picture composing means for composing the picture signals compressed by said first horizontal direction compressing means and said second horizontal direction compressing means, respectively, in a row; switching means for switching the picture signal to be displayed on the screen of said displaying apparatus into any of said first picture signal, said second picture signal, and said picture signal composed by said picture signal composing means; storing means for storing said digital data as the second picture signal taken in from the Internet corresponding to the picture signal of at least one frame; second horizontal direction compressing means compressing said digital data as the second picture signal stored in said storing means in the horizontal direction of the screen of said displaying apparatus; displaying means for displaying the picture signal from said picture composing means on the screen of said displaying apparatus; judging means for judging whether the first picture signal extracted from said video signal is non-interlace or interlace; and controlling means for controlling in a manner to output the digital data stored in said storing means to said second horizontal direction compressing means by adjusting with the field of said first picture signal when judged to be interlace by said judging means, and to output the digital data stored in said storing means to said second horizontal direction compressing means on each field when judged to be non-interlace by said judging means, wherein said judging means judges by comparison as to whether the present field and the preceding field of the picture signals are the same fields of odd number or even number or the different fields, and wherein said controlling means, when said judging means judges to be non-interlace, controls to output the digital data of the different field on the field of said second picture signal respectively to said second horizontal direction compressing means from the digital data stored in said storing means.