ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT WITH DEMONSTRATION ROUTINE

• US 20110205432A1
• Filed: 10/29/2009
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TP Vision Holding BV (TPV Technology Co., Ltd. (f/k/a Nanjing Huadong Electronics Information & Technology))
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Mevissen, Perry Gerard, Hoogenstraaten, Willem Franciscus Johannes
• Application Number:
  US13/126,488
• Publication Number:
  US 20110205432A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/500
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43076 of the same content streams on multiple devices, e.g. when family members are watching the same movie on different devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/436 Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB or one or more peripheral devices inside the home
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to electronic equipment (2) capable of presenting a demonstration routine. The electronic equipment comprises a processing unit for receiving and processing a synchronization signal and a memory for storing a demonstration routine. The processing unit is adapted for presentation of the demonstration routine in accordance with the synchronization signal. A synchronous presentation of the demonstration routine may thereby be achieved on an ensemble of electronic equipment. In an embodiment the electronic equipment is an ensemble of TV-sets synchronously presenting an electronic sticker (3) overlaid on the display.

Claims

1. Electronic equipment comprising:

a processing unit (22) for receiving and processing a synchronization signal (27); and

a memory (23) for storing a demonstration routine (39);

wherein the processing unit is adapted for presenting the demonstration routine in accordance with the synchronization signal.

2. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein the electronic equipment further comprises a receiver unit (24) for receiving a signal (25) to be presented by the electronic equipment, and wherein the processing unit is further adapted for performing an analysis of the signal (25) and extracting the synchronization signal (27) from the signal (25).

3. The electronic equipment according to claim 2, wherein the analysis (33) of the signal (25) is based on extracting a signal feature (35) from the signal (25).

4. The electronic equipment according to claim 3, wherein the signal (25) is a video signal (30), and wherein the signal feature is an image property of an image or a sequence of images of the video signal (30).

5. The electronic equipment according to claim 3, wherein a criterion for extracting the signal feature is adaptively updated.

6. The electronic equipment according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit is further adapted for detecting an anomaly event in the signal (25) and upon detection of the anomaly event setting the synchronization signal (27) as a periodic signal triggered by the anomaly event.

7. The electronic equipment according to claim 2, wherein the signal comprises preformatted synchronization information;

and wherein the synchronization signal (27) is based on the preformatted synchronization information.

8. The electronic equipment according to claim 2, wherein the signal (25) comprises an imposed text signal;

and wherein the synchronization signal (27) is extracted from the imposed text signal.

9. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein the electronic equipment further comprises a communication module (26) and wherein synchronization signal (27) is received via the communication module.

10. The electronic equipment according to claim 2, wherein the electronic equipment is a node in a distribution network, and wherein an ensemble of distribution nodes in the distribution network receives a common signal to be presented by each electronic equipment in the ensemble of nodes.

11. The electronic equipment according to claim 1 selected from the group consisting of:

a TV-set, a monitor, a video recorder, a DVD player, a Blu Ray player, a projector, a hard disk recorder, a media centre, an audio player, a CD player, a radio, a computer device, a computer game device, a mobile phone, a set top box and a hi-fi system.

12. An ensemble of electronic equipment in accordance with claim 1, wherein each entity (20) in the ensemble of electronic equipment comprising:

a processing unit (22) for receiving a synchronization signal (27); and

a memory (23) for storing a demonstration routine (39);

so that each entity in the ensemble of electronic equipment present the demonstration routine in accordance with the synchronization signal (27).

13. A method for presenting a demonstration routine (39) with electronic equipment, the method comprising:

receiving and processing a synchronization signal (27); and

retrieving a stored demonstration routine;

wherein the demonstration routine is presented by the electronic equipment in accordance with the synchronization signal (27).

14. A computer program product, when in use on a processing unit, to cause electronic equipment to perform method of claim 13.