Single touch launch of remote applications over video

• US 20050185102A1
• Filed: 10/29/2004
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fairhurst, Jon A.
• Application Number:
  US10/976,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20050185102A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/734
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

The current invention describes a remote display technology which, responsive to button activations from a wireless remote control to a television display device, routes signals to a host computer to activate the application button responsive to the specific remote control button pressed with the application appearing on the television display.

Claims

1. A system for activating and displaying an application on a display comprising:

a host computer having one or more applications operable thereon;

a remote display coupled to the host computer;

one or more buttons associated with and located at the remote display, each of said buttons further associated with an application operable on the host computer, whereby selection of the button at the remote display is communicated from the remote display to the host computer to cause activation of the application associated with the button selected; and

means for displaying display data on the remote display indicative of operation of the application on the host computer.

2. The system of claim 2, further including:

a wireless transmission device characterized by a remote control;

the one or more buttons associated with and located at the remote display being included on the wireless transmission device, each of said buttons operable to activate a unique wireless transmission signal when pressed; and

a wireless receiver in electronic communication with the remote display and adapted to receive the unique wireless transmission signals from the wireless transmission device.

3. The system of claim 3, further including a hotkey manager program operable on the remote display and adapted to assign program functions to the one or more buttons.

4. A method for displaying an application, operable on a host computer, on a display remote from the host computer, comprising:

receiving button activation signals at the remote display;

sending the activation signals to the host computer associated with the button pressed;

operating an application responsive to receipt of the activation signals; and

displaying the application at the remote display.

5. The method of claim 4, further including the step of determining at the remote display whether an open session exists with the host computer and notifying a user at the remote display with an indicator signal if no open session currently exists.

6. The method of claim 4, further including the step of determining at the remote display whether an open session exists with the host computer and transmitting a unique code to the host computer corresponding to the activation signal.

7. The method of claim 6, further including the step of transmitting a code from the host computer to the remote display indicating “

success”

or “

error”

.

8. The method of claim 6, further including the step of ceasing to display the application at the remote display responsive to a user selection at the remote display.

9. The method of claim 6, further including the steps of receiving a second button activation signal at the remote display corresponding to a second application and displaying the second application in place of the original application at the remote display.