Patent ID: 7508452

Claim:
An image display control system comprising a terminal for transmitting a signal including at least a pair of video and acoustic signals, and an image display for receiving the signal from said terminal and displaying a corresponding image, wherein said terminal includes: (a) request means for detecting a program specification held in said image display upon powering on said terminal, and when program download is determined to be necessary from the detected program specification, requesting program download of said image display; (b) determination means for determining, according to a response from said image display for the request of the program download, whether or not the program download can be executed; and (c) control means for executing the program download if the program download is determined to be able to be executed, and sequentially executing a power-on operation including receipt of a hardware specification from said image display without executing the program download if the program download is determined not to be able to be executed, and wherein said image display includes program update means for storing, in a corresponding program memory of said image display, the downloaded program transmitted subsequently upon reception of the program download request.