INTELLIGENT TASK BASED USER INTERFACE FOR TELEVISION

• US 20100013998A1
• Filed: 07/17/2008
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric US Incorporated (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric US Incorporated (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Mortensen, Peter
• Application Number:
  US12/174,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20100013998A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• 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 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• 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 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

Systems and methods for the implementation of a task or activities based user interface on a television on screen display (OSD) and a remote control unit. As provided in the embodiments described herein, the embodiments utilize the device auto detect mechanisms incorporated in HDMI 1.3 (CEC) and 1394 compliant televisions and other audio-video components to provide a user interface on the OSD or remote control unit providing activities or tasks based control.

Claims

1. A television system comprising comprising

a television having a control system adapted to detect an HDMI/CEC or 1394 compliant audio-video (A-V) device connected to the television and prompt the A-V device to transmit its task-based control features to the television, and

a remote control unit bi-directionally wirelessly coupled to the television and having a display screen and a control system coupled to the display screen, where the television control system is configured to cause the task-based control features received from an A-V device coupled to the television to be transmitted to the remote control unit, and wherein the remote control unit control system is configured to add the task-based control features from the A-V devise the user interface displayed on the display screen of the remote control unit.

2. The television system of claim 1 wherein the control system of the television comprises a central processing unit, an image display system couple to a screen, and an onscreen display controller.

3. The television system of claim 2 where in the central processing unit includes non-volatile memory.

4. The television system of claim 3 where in the control system further comprises system software stored in the non-volatile memory and executable on the central processing unit, wherein the system software includes a set of instructions.

5. The television system of claim 2 where in the television further comprises a bi-directional transmitter-receiver coupled to the control system.

6. The television system of claim 5 where in the remote control unit comprises a bi-directional transmitter-receiver coupled to the control system and wirelessly coupled to the bi-direction transmitter-receiver in the television.

7. The television system of claim 6 where in the control system of the remote control unit comprises a central processing unit and a display controller coupled to the central processing unit.

8. The television system of claim 7 where in the central processing unit includes non-volatile memory.

9. The television system of claim 8 where in the control system further comprises system software stored in the non-volatile memory and executable on the central processing unit, wherein the system software includes a set of instructions.

10. A method of implementing task based control in a television system comprising a television, a remote control bi-directionally wirelessly coupled to the television, and one or more HDMI/CEC or 1394 compliant audio-video input devices coupled to the television, comprising the steps of

detecting the one or more HDMI/CEC or 1394 compliant audio-video input devices coupled to the television,

prompting the one or more HDMI/CEC or 1394 compliant audio-video input devices to transmit its task based control features to the television,

transmitting the task based control features of the one or more HDMI/CEC or 1394 compliant audio-video input devices to the remote control device,

incorporating the task based control features of the one or more HDMI/CEC or 1394 compliant audio-video input devices into the user interface displayable on a screen of the remote control device, and

displaying the user interface with the incorporated task based control features of the one or more HDMI/CEC or 1394 compliant audio-video input devices on the screen of the remote control unit.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of transmitting a task based activity selected by a user and corresponding to the task based control feature of one of the one or more HDMI/CEC or 1394 compliant audio-video input devices to the television.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising the step of implementing the task based activity.