Thales Avionics, Inc.

Ethan Trokie

Kevin Judd

A seat entertainment system includes a display unit, a handheld controller, and an entertainment system controller. The handheld controller includes an input interface with a grid of touch sensitive elements spaced apart on the input interface, and an interchangeable user input pad which overlays and covers the grid of touch sensitive elements and has indicia indicating locations of user selectable functions. The entertainment system controller includes a set of operational functions and a mapping of the operations functions to corresponding different user touch locations in the grid of touch sensitive elements. The entertainment system controller is operative to: receive signaling from the handheld controller indicating where a user has touch selected the interchangeable user input pad; identify one of the operational functions corresponding to the user touch location based on the mapping; and perform the operational function to control an operation of the seat entertainment system.

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Ethan Trokie