Patent ID: 6310656
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A television apparatus for displaying a first picture plane and a second picture plane onto a same picture plane, characterized in thatsaid television apparatus has a signal processing means for magnifying or reducing an input signal of a program on a different channel or an input signal other than a signal displayed at present on said first picture plane by interpolation,said magnified or reduced input signal is displayed in said second picture plane, andsaid signal processing means comprises:first interpolating means for performing an interpolation when a reduced image is displayed;a memory in which the image from said first interpolating means is written;control means for designating a portion of the image to be written into said memory on the basis of a write start position and a writing range and reading out the portion of the image written in said memory on the basis of a read start position and a reading range; andsecond interpolating means for performing an interpolation of the portion of said image read out from said memory when a magnified image is displayed.