Patent ID: 7653548
Filing Date: 2010-01-26
Classification: G10L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A television receiver comprising: an OSD display section configured to display a desired OSD; a voice input section to which voices are inputted; a voice recognition section configured to recognize the voices inputted from the voice input section; a first storage section configured to store an agent program for assisting a user in inputting a command; a second storage section having prestored therein a control code associated with a voice representing a command to power ON/OFF, change channels or adjust a sound volume or an analogous command, and a call-up control code associated with a call-up voice for causing the OSD display section to display a character image in an OSD manner, the character image being defined in the agent program; a recognized voice processing section configured to read the control code or the call-up control code associated with the voice recognized by the voice recognition section out of the second storage section; and a control section configured to execute, out of the first storage section, the agent program to cause the OSD display section to display the character image when the recognized voice processing section has read the call-up control code associated with the call-up voice recognized by the voice recognition section out of the second storage section, wherein the control section instructs components of a receiver body to perform respective operations for executing the command according to the control code read out by the recognized voice processing section only during a time period during which the OSD display section displays the character image.