Patent ID: 8145266

Claim:
A portable telephone comprising a portable telephone main body and a broadcast receiver unit removably attached to the portable telephone main body, the portable telephone main body comprising: a speaker; a display; a receiving unit for receiving an audio signal and/or a visible information signal from a telephone network; an audio signal processing unit for applying a signal processing to the audio signal received by the receiving unit for output to the speaker; a video signal processing unit for applying a signal processing to the visible information signal received by the receiving unit for output to the display; and a first interface unit connected to the audio signal processing unit and the video signal processing unit for connecting to the broadcast receiver, the broadcast receiver unit comprising: a second interface unit connected to the first interface unit of the portable telephone main body; and a signal feeding unit for feeding an audio signal and a video signal included in a received television broadcast signal to the second interface unit, wherein the audio signal processing unit of the portable telephone main body applies signal processing to the audio signal fed thereto from the broadcast receiver unit via the first interface unit for output to the speaker, while the video signal processing unit applies signal processing to the video signal fed thereto from the broadcast receiver unit via the first interface unit for output to the display with the broadcast receiver unit attached to the portable telephone main body.