Home audio video display device (AVDD) as sensor monitor

• US 9,473,728 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2015
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Jiang, Libiao, Li, Adam, Liu, Aixin, Nguyen, Djung, Zustak, Frederick J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Trang U
• Application Number:
  US14/595,463
• Publication Number:
  US 20150124169A1
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 348563-565, 348/569, 348/552, 348/734, 700 19- 20, 700 65- 66, 700/90, 725/108, 725/132, 725/140, 725/152
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0461 integrated or attached to an item closely associated with the person but not worn by the person, e.g. chair, walking stick, bed sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/182 Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4131 home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42201 biosensors, e.g. heat sensor for presence detection, EEG sensors or any limb activity sensors worn by the user input arrangements for interaction with the human body based on nervous system activity detection G06F3/015
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• 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 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

Method, computer storage device, and system that establish communication with at least first and second sensors, receive information from the sensors, and determine whether the information from the first sensor satisfies a first alert threshold. It is also determined whether the information from the second sensor satisfies a second alert threshold. Responsive to a determination that the information from the first sensor satisfies the first alert threshold and that the information from the second sensor does not satisfy the second alert threshold, an alert signal is not generated. On the other hand, responsive to a determination that the information from the first sensor satisfies the first alert threshold and that the information from the second sensor satisfies the second alert threshold, the alert signal is generated for output thereof to a display device.

Claims

1. Apparatus, comprising:

at least one computer memory that is not a transitory signal and that includes instructions executable by at least one processor to configure the processor to;

send to at least one sensor an application programming interface (API) defining one or more of;

(a) content in information received from the at least one sensor to be presented on a display, (b) where the content is to be presented on the display, (c) when the content is to be presented on the display;

receive information from the at least one t sensor conforming to the API; and

present the information from the at least one sensor on the display in accordance with the API.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the API defines, relative to the information from the at least one sensor, two or more of:

content in the information from the at least one sensor to be presented on the display, where the content is to be presented on the display, and when the content is to be presented on the display.

3. An audio video device (AVD), comprising:

at least one processor;

a computer memory accessible to the processor and programmed with instructions that cause the processor to;

send to at least one sensor an application programming interface (API) defining one or more of (a) content in information received from the at least one sensor to be presented on a display, (b) where the content is to be presented on the display, (c) when the content is to be presented on the display;

receive information from the at least one sensor conforming to the API; and

present the information from the at least one sensor on the display in accordance with the API.

4. The AVD of claim 3, wherein the API defines, relative to the information from the first sensor, two or more of content in the information from the first sensor to be presented on the display, where the content is to be presented on the display, and when the content is to be presented on the display.