Patent ID: 6957446

Claim:
A multi-function television comprising: a television tuner for receiving a broadcasting signal as a cable/radio signal type, tuning the received signals in a frequency band selected by the user, transmitting the tuned analog type composite image signal and an audio signal; an image decoding unit for separating horizontal/vertical synchronous signals and a digital image signal from the analog composite image signal from the TV tuner and converting the signals, and transmitting the signals; a user's interface means for receiving the operation commands from the user; a multimedia processing unit for digitizing a digital image signal inputted from the image decoding unit and an analog audio signal inputted from the television tuner, capturing, encoding and storing the digitized data, and decoding the encoded data, outputting the image and audio signals for reproduction; a memory means for storing digital image and audio data, an internal function command code for encoding/decoding the image and audio data and temporary data for the processing of image and audio data; an image display means for receiving the image signal outputted from the multimedia media processing unit and displaying the image; an audio output means for receiving the audio signal outputted from the television tuner and outputting the audio; and a control unit for controlling the television tuner, the image decoding unit, the multimedia processing unit, the image displaying means and the audio output means according to the operation command inputted from the user's interface means.