Television having a connecting terminal for connecting a player device

• US 8,120,705 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2008
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Onomatsu, Takehiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Kostak, Victor
• Application Number:
  US12/284,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20090086097A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,246 Days
• Field of Search: 348/552, 348/705, 348/706, 348/838, 348/839, 455/344, 455/346, 725/133, 725/141, 725/153, 386/218, 386/219, 386/230, 386/234, 386369-372, 345/168, 345/169, 715/704, 715/864
• US Class Current: 348/552
• 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 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• 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 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums

Abstract

The present invention discloses a television that includes a speaker; a display; a tuner for receiving television broadcasting signals and generates first sound signals and first image signals based on the television broadcasting signals; a connecting terminal for connecting to a player device having an operation panel generating operation commands according to user'"'"'s operations; an operation macro outputting unit for outputting an operation macro same as a plurality of the operation commands to the player device in order to make the player device perform consecutive operations, through the connecting terminal.

Claims

1. A television, comprising:

a speaker;

a display;

a tuner for receiving television broadcasting signals and for generating first sound signals and first image signals based on the television broadcasting signals;

a connecting terminal for connecting the television and a player device having an operation panel generating operation commands according to user'"'"'s operations;

an operation macro outputting unit for generating an operation macro including a plurality of command having functionality commensurate with the operation commands, the generated operation macro includes at least a first command for returning to a main menu of operation menus of the player device, a second command for shifting a selected item in a same class of the operation menus, a third command for moving to lower class of the operation menus and a fourth command for playing a selected item, and for outputting the generated operation macro to the player device in order to make the player device perform consecutive operations based on the generated operation macro, through the connecting terminal.

2. A television as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the operation macro outputting unit outputs the generated operation macro to make the player device select a media file to play and play the media file selected.

3. A television as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

the operation macro outputting unit outputs the generated operation macro to make the player device select the media file that was stored in the media player later than a predetermined time.

4. A television as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the operation macro outputting unit outputs the generated operation macro to make the player device select image files of the media file and perform a slide show of the image files selected.

5. A television as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a switching unit for switching the television from a normal mode that each of the speaker and the display outputs each of the first sound signals and the first image signals to a player device mode that at least one of the speaker and the display outputs one of the second sound signals and the second image signals, when the player device is connected to the connecting terminal.

6. A television, comprising:

a speaker;

a display;

a tuner for receiving television broadcasting signals and for generating first audio signals and first image signals based on the television broadcasting signals;

a connecting terminal for connecting the television and a player device having an operation panel generating operation commands according to user'"'"'s operations;

a detecting unit for detecting whether the player device is currently playing any media files;

an operation macro outputting unit for generating an operation macro including a plurality of command having functionality commensurate with the operation commands and for outputting the generated operation macro to the player device through the connecting terminal,

when the detecting unit detects that the player device is not playing any media files currently, the operation macro outputting unit generates the operation macro including at least a first command for returning to a main menu of operation menus of the player device, a second command for shifting a selected item in a same class of the operation menus, a third command for moving to lower class of the operation menus and a fourth command for playing a selected media file, and outputs the generated operation macro to the player device in order to make the player device select day the selected media file based on the generated operation macro; and

a switching unit for switching the television from a normal mode where the speaker outputs the first audio signals and the display outputs the first image signals to a player device mode where at least one of the speaker and the display outputs one of second audio signals and second image signals based on the media file played by the player device, when the player device is playing the selected media file.