摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrict the viewing and listening of a harmful program to a child and at the same time to enable viewing and listening to a useful program at the timing for viewing and listening confinement. <P>SOLUTION: A controller 18 reproduces the useful program saved in a video recording reproducing unit 40, and displays on the screen of a TV monitor 15 when the receiving program corresponds to the harmful program as a result of retrieving EPG data from that the result authenticated by a personal authentication unit 26 is the child for which the viewing and listening confinement is set beforehand based on a televiewer's face image photoed by a camera unit 25. In this case, when a plurality of the useful programs are saved in the video recording reproducing unit 40, the list of the useful program is displayed on the screen of the TV monitor 15, and arbitrary useful programs can be selected from the list by the child. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI</p> |