TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING A TELEVISION USER INTERFACE FOR A SECONDARY DEVICE

• US 20120079532A1
• Filed: 09/29/2010
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Wong, Ling Jun, Xiong, True
• Application Number:
  US12/894,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20120079532A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/37
• 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 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4222 Remote control device emulator integrated into a non-television apparatus, e.g. a PDA, media center or smart toy remote control device for a television receiver integrated into a mobile phone H04M1/72415
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42226 Reprogrammable remote control devices

Abstract

Techniques for developing a television user interface for a secondary device include creating a set of user interface rules and a plurality of user interface objects. The set of user interface rules are applied to the plurality of user interface objects to create a mapping between the inputs and output of the user interface of the secondary device to television remote control commands.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

creating a set of user interface rules;

creating a plurality of user interface objects;

applying the set of user interface rules to the plurality, of user interface objects; and

creating a mapping between the inputs and outputs of the user interface object to commands according to the user interface rules.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving one or more inputs from a user interface of an extendable computing device;

converting the one or more inputs into one or more commands for a television using the mapping; and

sending the one or more commands to the television.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more commands are Sony Integrated Remote Control System (SIRCS) commands.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

converting the one or more inputs into information for the television; and

sending the information to the television.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the information is sent to the television is an hypertext transfer protocol (http) request.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the plurality of user interface objects comprises:

specifying user interface elements; and

specifying inputs of the user interface elements.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein creating the plurality of user interface objects further comprises:

placing one or more of the user objects; and

specifying one or more attributes of one or more user interface objects.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein specifying one or more attributes of one or more user interface objects comprises one or more of choosing an image, a size, a color, a font, an animation of one or more of the user interface objects.

9. One or more computing device readable media having computing device executable instructions which when executed perform a method comprising:

creating a set of user interface rules;

creating a plurality of user interface objects; and

applying the set of user interface rules to the plurality of user interface objects to create a mapping between the inputs and outputs of a user interface of an extendable computing device to television remote control commands.

10. The one or more computing device readable media having computing device executable instructions which when executed perform the method of claim 9, wherein creating the plurality of user interface objects comprises:

specifying user interface elements; and

specifying inputs of the user interface elements.

11. The one or more computing device readable media having computing device executable instructions which when executed perform the method of claim 9, wherein creating the plurality of user interface objects further comprises:

placing one or more of the user objects; and

specifying one or more attributes of one or more user interface objects.

12. A system comprising:

an extendable computing device including a configurable user interface; and

a development computing device including a television user interface tool to create a set of user interface rules, create a plurality of user interface objects of the configurable user interface, to apply the set of user interface rules to the plurality of user interface objects and create a mapping between the input and output of the user interface objects to television remote control commands according to the user interface rules.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein extendable computing device is a smart phone, cellular phone, personal digital assistant, handheld gaming device, game console, netbook, ebook reader, tablet computers, laptop computer, portable music player, or portable video player.

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein the configurable user interface includes a display.

15. The system according to claim 12, wherein the configurable user interface includes a touch screen.

16. The system according to claim 12, wherein the configurable user interface includes an accelerometer.

17. The system according to claim 12, wherein the configurable user interface includes a virtual keyboard implemented on a display.

18. The system according to claim 17, wherein the virtual keyboard is configurable to support any one of a plurality of languages.

19. The system according to claim 12, wherein the television user interface tool further creates a television user interface utility on the extendable computing device to implement the set of user interface rules applied to the plurality of user interface objects and creates a wrapper library on the extendable computing device to map the input and output of the user interface objects to television remote control commands according to the user interface rules.

20. The system according to claim 12, wherein one or more rules include batch processing of inputs for implementing shortcuts, macros and scripts.