System and method for communicating with a display device via a network

• US 20060288373A1
• Filed: 05/04/2004
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lanxess Deutschland GmbH (Lanxess AG), Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Angela, Renee, Grimes, Kevin Lloyd
• Application Number:
  US10/555,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20060288373A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0693 Calibration of display systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/006 Electronic inspection or testing of displays and display drivers, e.g. of LED or LCD displays testing individual LED's G01R31/2635; testing lamps G01R31/44; testing of optical features of LCD displays G02F1/1309
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1043 Gateway controllers, e.g. media gateway control protocol [MGCP] controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44231 Monitoring of peripheral device or external card, e.g. to detect processing problems in a handheld device or the failure of an external recording device configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network H04L12/2823; monitoring the status of connected device in data switched networks H04L43/0817
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

A system and corresponding methods are provided for enabling communication with an electronic apparatus via a network. The system comprises: a first device for transmitting a communication comprising identification parameters associated with a second device, wherein the communication is compatible with a communication protocol of a first electronic apparatus; a first electronic apparatus for communicating with the second device, wherein first electronic apparatus comprises a first interface for wirelessly communicating with the first device and a second interface for communicating with the second device via a network; and a second device for communicating with the first electronic apparatus, with the second device communicating the first electronic apparatus via the network.

Claims

1-44. -44. (canceled)

45. A method for producing a media object comprising the steps of:

determining a display parameter related to the display technology used for the display device;

generating a media object corresponding to a display technology in response to said parameter.

46. The method of claim 45, wherein said display parameter is communicated to a server that in response to said display parameter transmits back data that is generated as said media object.

47. The method of claim 45, wherein said display parameter indicates a display technology used is at least one of:

a cathode ray tube, organic light emitting diode, liquid crystal display, liquid crystal on silicon, digital light project, and plasma.

48. The method of claim 47, wherein said media object is encoded in a format optimized for said display technology.

49. The method of claim 48, wherein the media object has a visual attribute modified for said display technology, wherein said visual attribute is changed when said media object is to be displayed on a display device using a different display technology.

6. The method of claim 46, wherein said media object is transmitted on a sub-channel of a digital television broadcast system and the changed media object is transmitted on a different sub-channel.

50. A method for transmitting a media object comprising the steps of:

determining a device display parameter related to a display technology used for a display device, wherein the parameter is received as part of a request for a media object; and

transmitting the media object to the display device, wherein the media object corresponds to the display technology used for the display device.

51. The method of claim 50, wherein said parameter indicates the display technology used is at least one of:

a cathode ray tube, organic light emitting diode, liquid crystal display, liquid crystal on silicon, digital light project, and plasma.

52. The method of claim 51, wherein said media object is encoded in a format optimized for a display technology.

53. The method of claim 52, wherein the media object has a visual attribute modified for said display technology, wherein said visual attribute is changed when said media object is to be displayed on a display device using a different display technology.

54. The method of claim 53, wherein said media object is transmitted on a sub-channel of a digital television broadcast system and said changed media object is transmitted on a different sub-channel.