Patent ID: 8122382

Claim:
A television broadcast receiver comprising: a monitor for displaying a received image; a remote control transmitter for operating said television broadcast receiver, having a plurality of operation keys including up, down, left, and right cursor keys for allowing a user to select a selection item on a menu; a unit arranged to display operation guides for explaining various operation methods of the television broadcast receiver on the monitor, each of the operation guides being comprised of html contents of a plurality of pages, and wherein each of said plurality of pages include four figures corresponding to dispositions of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys in the remote control transmitter, respectively, letter strings associated with the respective figures, each of the letter strings describing a function assigned to the cursor key corresponding to each of the four figures, a schematic diagram showing dispositions of each key in the remote control transmitter, and a caption for explaining an operation method; and a unit arranged to reproduce audio guidance corresponding to html contents of each page, wherein in a state in which among the html contents of the plurality of pages comprising the operation guide for describing an operation method selected by the user from among various operation methods for the television broadcast receiver, html contents of a page other than a last page are displayed: a unit arranged to change a displayed page to a previous page is assigned in a predetermined manner for each one of said plurality of pages to a first key which is one of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys, a unit arranged to change the displayed page to a next page is assigned in a predetermined manner for each one of said plurality of pages to a second key which is one of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys and which is other than the first key, and a unit arranged to reproduce audio guidance is assigned in a predetermined manner for each one of said plurality of pages to a third key which is one of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys and which is other than the first key and the second key, and in a state in which html contents of the last page are displayed: a unit arranged to change a displayed page to a previous page is assigned in a predetermined manner to a first key which is one of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys, a unit arranged to reproduce audio guidance is assigned in a predetermined manner to a second key which is one of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys and which is other than the first key, and unit arranged to transition to a screen for performing an operation which is explained in the operation guide is assigned in a predetermined manner to a third key which is one of the up, down, left, and right cursor keys and which is other than the first key and the second key.