MULTIMEDIA ARRANGEMENT

• US 20100146278A1
• Filed: 06/04/2008
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
• Original Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
• Inventors: Maier, Ferdinand
• Application Number:
  US12/663,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20100146278A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/171
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4182 for identification purposes, e.g. storing user identification data, preferences, personal settings or data restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code in combination with an additional device, e.g. dongle or smart card G06F21/123
• 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 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42212 Specific keyboard arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42218 for mapping a matrix of displayed objects on the screen to the numerical key-matrix of the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• 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 21/4415 using biometric characteristics of the user, e.g. by voice recognition or fingerprint scanning cryptography using biological data H04L9/3231; authentication in networks using biometric H04L63/0861
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time

Abstract

The invention relates to a multimedia arrangement comprising a remote control (1) having a keypad (4) with only six control buttons (5-10). All functions of the multimedia device (2) can be controlled via three menu levels, an object group being selectable in the first menu level, an object being selectable in the second menu level, and an action to be performed with the object being selectable in the third. Elements of the object groups, objects, and actions are displayed in fields on the display device in a vertical column (31) and a horizontal line (32), the column (31) and the line (32) intersecting in a focus field (33). The elements of the fields can be moved by the control buttons (5-8) in the fixed focus field, and can be activated there by a selection button (9). Selection and arrangement of the elements is done by a user database (20) in the multimedia device depending on data determined by an identification device of the remote control.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A multimedia arrangement comprising:

a remote control comprising an input device, a first microprocessor, at least one first memory, an identification device which contains biometric data for a person, and a first communications unit for data transmission;

multimedia equipment comprising a second microprocessor, a second communications unit for receiving data from the first communications unit, at least one interface, and at least one user database for storing a user profile; and

display equipment, which is connected to the multimedia equipment;

wherein the input device of the remote control is designed to call up control functions, whose functions of;

“

ON”

,

“

OFF”

,

“

LEFT”

,

“

RIGHT”

,

“

SELECT”

, and

“

BACK”

are assigned;

wherein all the functions of the multimedia equipment can be controlled on three menu levels, whereby

a subject group at the first menu level,

a subject at the second menu level, and

an action to be performed with the subject at the third menu level can be controlled,

such that elements of the subject groups, elements of the subjects, and elements of the actions are arranged on each menu level in fields of a matrix,

such that only the elements of a single vertical column and elements of a single horizontal row from the matrix fields are depicted on the display equipment;

wherein the second microprocessor delivers, upon receiving control signals from the remote control, depending on actuation of the input device, such signals to the display equipment, that a single element of the matrix is placed in a focus field that is arranged in the circular area of the column formed and of the row formed;

wherein the focus field is set up permanently, depending on the user profile;

wherein an element found in the focus field can be activated by the selection function of the input device; and

wherein the elements displayed in the column field and the row field are configured, depending on the signals from the identification device, together with the user profile stored in the user database.

11. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 10, wherein the remote control comprises a SIM-card reader into which a SIM card can be inserted and wherein the remote control and the multimedia equipment only activate a communications connection between the first and the second communications unit if a prespecified SIM card is inserted into the SIM-card reader of the remote control.

12. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 11, wherein the microprocessor of the multimedia equipment is configured such that signals from the input device are only processed if the identification device of the remote control has transmitted to the multimedia equipment predetermined signals which correspond to signals in the user database.

13. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 11, wherein the multimedia equipment comprises a SIM-card reader and the microprocessor of the multimedia equipment is so configured that activation of the communications connection only results when a SIM card is inserted into the SIM-card reader of the multimedia equipment.

14. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 11:

wherein the following data are stored on the SIM card of the SIM-card reader of the remote control;

a first pair of digital keys,

a second pair of digital keys,

a personal identification code (PIC), and

personal data for at least one user;

wherein the memory of the multimedia equipment holds the following data, based on a first initialization;

only one key of the first pair of digital keys,

only one key of the second pair of digital keys,

with only one key of which in the second pair of digital keys are encrypted biometric data and personal data, as well as the personal identification code;

wherein, upon setting up a connection between the remote control and the multimedia equipment, the identification device feeds in biometric data for the user and adds these to the personal identification code (PIC) and to the other key of the second pair of digital keys, reads out from the memory unit the encrypted biometric data, the encrypted personal data, and the encrypted personal identification code (PIC) and decrypts them using the other key of the second pair of digital keys, compares the decrypted personal identification code received with the decrypted personal identification code stored and if they agree, compares the decrypted biometric data received with the decrypted biometric data stored and only activates the multimedia equipment if they agree.

15. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 14, wherein biometric data determined are compressed by the identification device of the remote control before transmission to the multimedia equipment.

16. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 15, wherein the compression is performed in accordance with Huffman coding.

17. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 14, wherein the data record to be transmitted is block-encoded from the remote control to the multimedia equipment.

18. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 14, wherein the data record to be transmitted is provided by the remote control to the multimedia equipment with forward error correction.

19. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 11, wherein the multimedia equipment comprises a SIM-card reader, and the microprocessor of the multimedia equipment is so configured that activation of the communications connection only results when a SIM card is inserted into the SIM-card reader of the multimedia equipment.

20. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 12:

wherein the following data are stored on the SIM card of the SIM-card reader of the remote control;

a first pair of digital keys,

a second pair of digital keys,

a personal identification code (PIC), and

personal data for at least one user;

wherein the memory of the multimedia equipment holds the following data, based on a first initialization;

only one key of the first pair of digital keys,

only one key of the second pair of digital keys,

with only one key of which in the second pair of digital keys are encrypted biometric data and personal data, as well as the personal identification code;

wherein, upon setting up a connection between the remote control and the multimedia equipment, the identification device feeds in biometric data for the user and adds these to the personal identification code (PIC) and to the other key of the second pair of digital keys, reads out from the memory unit the encrypted biometric data, the encrypted personal data, and the encrypted personal identification code (PIC) and decrypts them using the other key of the second pair of digital keys, compares the decrypted personal identification code received with the decrypted personal identification code stored and if they agree, compares the decrypted biometric data received with the decrypted biometric data stored and only activates the multimedia equipment if they agree.

21. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 13:

wherein the following data are stored on the SIM card of the SIM-card reader of the remote control;

a first pair of digital keys,

a second pair of digital keys,

a personal identification code (PIC), and

personal data for at least one user;

wherein the memory of the multimedia equipment holds the following data, based on a first initialization;

only one key of the first pair of digital keys,

only one key of the second pair of digital keys,

with only one key of which in the second pair of digital keys are encrypted biometric data and personal data, as well as the personal identification code;

wherein, upon setting up a connection between the remote control and the multimedia equipment, the identification device feeds in biometric data for the user and adds these to the personal identification code (PIC) and to the other key of the second pair of digital keys, reads out from the memory unit the encrypted biometric data, the encrypted personal data, and the encrypted personal identification code (PIC) and decrypts them using the other key of the second pair of digital keys, compares the decrypted personal identification code received with the decrypted personal identification code stored and if they agree, compares the decrypted biometric data received with the decrypted biometric data stored and only activates the multimedia equipment if they agree.

22. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 15, wherein the data record to be transmitted is block-encoded from the remote control to the multimedia equipment.

23. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 16, wherein the data record to be transmitted is block-encoded from the remote control to the multimedia equipment.

24. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 15, wherein the data record to be transmitted is provided by the remote control to the multimedia equipment with forward error correction.

25. The multimedia arrangement according to claim 16, wherein the data record to be transmitted is provided by the remote control to the multimedia equipment with forward error correction.