AV PRESENTATION SYSTEM INCLUDING AN RCU FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE AV PRESENTATION DEVICE

• US 20100165196A1
• Filed: 12/29/2008
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Instrument Corporation (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: General Instrument Corporation (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bailey, Linda S., Hobrock, Lance
• Application Number:
  US12/344,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20100165196A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/554
• 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 21/42226 Reprogrammable remote control devices

Abstract

An AV presentation device that may be installed as part of an AV presentation system including a television display device includes an RCU for emitting a user signal in response to user actuation and a base unit for connection to the television display device. The base unit includes an input element for receiving the user signal and, responsive thereto, launching a browser application that runs on the base unit and generates a signal for displaying a browser window on the television display device. The base unit also includes a memory storing a file which, when opened by the browser application, displays in the browser window a document including instructions pertaining to the RCU.

Claims

1. An AV presentation device that may be installed as part of an AV presentation system including a television display device and comprises:

an RCU for emitting a user signal in response to user actuation, and

a base unit for connection to the television display device and that includes an input element for receiving the user signal and, responsive thereto, launching a browser application that runs on the base unit and generates a signal for displaying a browser window on the television display device,

and wherein the base unit includes

a memory storing a file which, when opened by the browser application, displays in the browser window a document including instructions pertaining to the RCU.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein the file contains a hyperlink to an animation.

3. A device according to claim 1, wherein the file contains a hyperlink to another file.

4. A device according to claim 1, wherein the base unit is an STB and the RCU comprises a memory storing codes for controlling operation of the television display device.

5. A device according to claim 1, wherein the RCU is a dual function RCU for controlling both an STB and a television display device.

6. A method of operating an AV presentation device that may be installed as part of an AV presentation system including a television display device, the method comprising:

receiving a user signal and, responsive thereto, launching a browser application than runs on the presentation device and generates a signal for displaying a browser window on the television display device,

accessing an HTML file containing instructions pertaining to the RCU,

employing the browser application to open the HTML file and display the instructions pertaining to the RCU in the browser window.

7. A computer readable medium containing software that, when executed by an AV presentation device installed as part of an AV presentation system including a television display device in response to a user signal from an RCU, causes the AV presentation device to:

launch a browser application than runs on the presentation device and generates a signal for displaying a browser window on the television display device,

access an HTML file containing instructions pertaining to the RCU, and employ the browser application to open the HTML file and display the instructions pertaining to the RCU in the browser window.