SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECONFIGURATION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM CONTROLLING DEVICE

• US 20160191977A1
• Filed: 03/08/2016
• Published: 06/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Inventors: Arling, Paul D., Hayes, Patrick H.
• Granted Patent: US 9,883,226 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/281 indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home automation network for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• 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 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42225 characterized by types of remote control, e.g. universal remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42228 the reprogrammable keys being displayed on a display screen in order to reduce the number of keys on the remote control device itself
• 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 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4852 for modifying audio parameters, e.g. switching between mono and stereo
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

An entertainment device initiates a configuration process of a controlling device in response to a change in an audio visual entertainment system configuration in which at least one of a plurality devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual source and at least one of the plurality of devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual output destination for the entertainment device.

Claims

1. An entertainment system, comprising:

a controlling device; and

an audio/visual (“

A/V”

) device adapted to receive a media from an Internet server and to route the received media to a display device for rendering;

wherein the A/V device comprises a processing device and a non-transient, computer readable media having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the processing device, cause the A/V device to determine if a new display device has been coupled to an A/V output port of the A/V device and, when it is determined that a new display device has been coupled to the A/V output port of the A/V device, to use device identifier data received from the new display device to cause the controlling device to be configured to issue a volume control command to the new display device, via use of a command communication protocol recognizable by the new display device, in response to an activation of a volume control input element of the controlling device with the controlling device being otherwise configured to issue a transport control command communication to the A/V device, via use of a command communication protocol recognizable by the A/V device, in response to an activation of a media playback control input element of the controlling device with the transport control command communication being used by the A/V device to control a rendering of media that is being received by the AV device and that is being routed to the new display device.

2. The entertainment system as recited in claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the A/V device to determine if a new display device has been coupled to an A/V output port of the A/V device by causing the A/V device to monitor the A/V output port of the A/V device for indicia of a new display device

3. The entertainment system as recited in claim 2, wherein the indicia of a new display device comprises a detected change in a signal that is being provided to the A/V device via use of the A/V output port of the A/V device.

4. The entertainment system as recited in claim 2, wherein the indicia of a new display device comprises a detected addition of a cable being coupled to the A/V output port of the A/V device.

5. The entertainment system as recited in claim 2, wherein the indicia of a new display device comprises a detected change in device identifier data that is being provided to the A/V device via use of the A/V output port of the A/V device.

6. The entertainment system as recited in claim 2, wherein the indicia of a new display device comprises a detected change in device capability data that is being provided to the A/V device via use of the A/V output port of the A/V device.

7. The entertainment system as recited in claim 2, wherein the indicia of a new display device comprises a detected change in transmission bit rates that are being provided to the A/V device via use of the A/V output port of the A/V device.