Patent ID: 7880816

Claim:
A television apparatus, comprising a plurality of input terminals and an input switching apparatus for selectively switching, among video signals supplied to respective ones of said plurality of input terminals, a desired one of said video signals to be input, wherein said input switching apparatus includes a display unit, icon display means for displaying, for each of said input terminals, an icon indicating type of the video signal supplied to the input terminal, superposed on the video signal at a specific position, which is assigned to each of the icons, on said display unit, selective input means for receiving, as an input, said video signal supplied to that one of said input terminals which corresponds to an icon selected based on an external instruction, among said icons displayed by said icon display means, and video display means for processing said video signal input from said selective input means and for displaying a video image based on the processed said video signal on the display unit; and said icon display means includes rearranging means for rearranging said icons displayed on said display unit based on an external operation instruction; said icon indicates a type of said video signal and a shape of the corresponding one of said input terminals; and every time an input switching instruction is input externally, said icons of said plurality of input terminals are switched successively and displayed at the specific position on said display unit.