Patent ID: 7242439

Claim:
A television receiver comprising: an other-apparatus-code storage section which stores a control code for an electric apparatus other than the television receiver, an operation of the other electric apparatus being controlled by transmitting the control code by radio to the other electric apparatus by a remote controller; successive operation definition means for setting a conditional correspondence, as defined by a user, between a specific operation of the television receiver and a specific operation of the other electric apparatus controlled by a specific control code stored in the other-apparatus-code storage section, said specific operation is independently executed by the television receiver or the other electric apparatus without being conditioned upon each other but for the conditional correspondence; an other-apparatus-code output processing section which carries out a processing for transmitting the control code for the other electric apparatus by radio; a successive control section which outputs the specific control code for the other electric apparatus corresponding to the specific operation of the television receiver as defined via the successive operation definition means by the user, to the other-apparatus-code output processing section, successively with the specific operation of the television receiver; a transmission section which transmits the specific control code after processed by the other-apparatus-code output processing section to the other electric apparatus by radio; and a control section which controls operations of the television receiver, wherein the specific control code corresponding to the specific operation of the television receiver defined via the successive operation definition means is transmitted from the transmission section successively with the specific operation of the television receiver, thereby controlling said specific operation of the other electric apparatus.