Patent ID: 8665379

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising a plurality of terminals, each of the plurality of terminals being based on a specific standard and being used for communicating with an external device, comprising: a transmission module configured to simultaneously transmit a power-on signal to a plurality of external devices connected to the plurality of terminals, upon turn on of the electronic apparatus; an acquisition module configured to acquire a physical address from one or more first external devices of the plurality of external devices by switching video input among one or more first terminals of the plurality of terminals, the one or more first external devices being turned on, the one or more first terminals being connected to the one or more first external devices; and a display control module configured to display device information of the one or more first external devices and terminal numbers of the one or more first terminals, wherein the device information corresponding to one of the one or more first external devices comprises at least one of a device type or a device name of the one of the one or more first external devices, wherein the acquisition module is configured to transmit power state acquisition commands to the plurality of external devices after the transmission module transmits the power-on signal, and to determine power states of the plurality of external devices one by one, based on responses from the plurality of external devices.