METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SETTINGS OF A DEVICE FOR PLAYBACK OF A CONTENT ITEM

• US 20120212672A1
• Filed: 10/25/2010
• Published: 08/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• 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: Mels, Frank Kamiel Irena
• Application Number:
  US13/497,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20120212672A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/554
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44029 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4854 for modifying image parameters, e.g. image brightness, contrast

Abstract

A method for controlling settings of a rendering device (100) for playback of a content item, said rendering device (100) being connectable to at least one source device (110), said at least one source device (110) providing at least one content item, the method comprising the steps of: generating a plurality of entries (220_—1 to 220_—9) for one or more of said at least one source device (110), each of the plurality of entries (220_—1 to 220_—9) corresponding to a different profile, each profile comprising settings for playback of a content item received from the corresponding source device (110); enabling a user to select one of said entries; and controlling settings of said rendering device (100) for playback of the received content item according to the profile corresponding to said selected entry.

Claims

1. A method for controlling settings of a rendering device (100) for playback of a content item, said rendering device (100) being connectable to at least one source device (110), said at least one source device (110) providing at least one content item, the method comprising the steps of:

generating a plurality of entries (220_1 to 220_9) for one or more of said at least one source device (110), each of the plurality of entries (220_1 to 220_9) corresponding to a different profile, each profile comprising settings for playback of a content item received from the corresponding source device (110);

enabling a user to select one of said entries; and

controlling settings of said rendering device (100) for playback of the received content item according to the profile corresponding to said selected entry.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

enabling a user to select a plurality of entries (220_1 to 220_9) from a plurality of candidate entries to be associated with said one or more of said at least one source device (110).

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of entries represents at least one of playing back a movie, playing back music and playing a game.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said profiles comprises at least one of video latency settings and audio latency settings.

5. A computer program product comprising a plurality of program code portions for carrying out the method according to claim 1.

6. Apparatus (100) for playback of a content item, the apparatus (100) comprising:

at least one input (110) connected to at least one source device (110), said at least one source device (110) providing at least one content item, one or more of said at least one input having a plurality of entries, each of said plurality of entries corresponding to a different profile, each profile comprising settings for playback of a content item received from the corresponding source device (110);

a user interface (109) for enabling a user to selecting one of said plurality of entries; and

a controller (107) for controlling settings of said apparatus (100) for playback of said received content item according to the profile corresponding to said entry.

7. Apparatus (100) according to claim 6, wherein the user interface (109) further enables a user to select a plurality of entries from a plurality of candidate entries to be associated with said one or more of said at least one input.

8. Apparatus (100) according to claim 6, wherein at least one of said plurality of entries represents at least one of playing back a movie, playing back music and playing a game.

9. An apparatus (100) according to claim 6, wherein at least one of said profiles comprises at least one of video latency settings and audio latency settings.