METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHING TV/WEB SCREEN AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system for automatically switching screen, with which a desired web site or the like can be automatically and immediately displayed on a TV screen when a user desires web access or the like. SOLUTION: When the system is started by the user, present one frame of a TV broadcasting signal is stored in frame memory storage means 203. A pattern comparing means 205 searches a pattern coincident with designated character string image data for reference out of two-dimensional image data by pattern matching. The characters of an image connected to a coincident image part are recognized and made into character string code by a character code replacing/effective length extracting means 207, and the character string data of an effective length just before a designated terminal character are extracted. URL information is prepared from these character string data by a URL preparing means 208 and transferred by a web browser start/URL transfer means 208 after a starting command is sent to the web browser.