Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

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Ian Charles Matthews

Robert Hardacker

Djung N Nguyen

Behram Mario Dacosta

Milton Massey Frazier

Peter Rae Shintani

Thomas Patrick Dawson

Leo Pedlow

Rolf Toft

Ludovic Etienne Douillet

Takaaki Ota

Edgar Allan Tu

David Alan Desch

George Edward Williams

David Boyden

Takashi Hironaka

Rajesh Rao

Mark Hanson

Nicholas James Colsey

Jason R Meerbergen

Leo Mark Pedlow, Jr

Robert L Hardacker

Rajesh K Rao

George Williams

Mark A Hanson

A TV-set is equipped with HDMI and USB connections that allow it to display and run audio-video content from a variety of conventional consumer devices. The TV-set is further equipped to provide a secure HDMI-USB interface that will allow the transfer of licensed high definition content and Internet subscriber services. Such secure HDMI-USB interface also enables a selection of proprietary application modules to be attached. Downloadable user interface templates, much like XML style sheets, are rendered to a user interface displayed on the screen. These are associated with corresponding thumbnails and URI's that allow a user to surf through lists and catalogs of materials, and then to play them in the appropriate formats and provide the machine with a customized controller. A remote commander is simplified, yet expanded to control all the attached devices through interactions with the user interface. The functions of the remote commander's keys change depending on where the user is navigating and what device is being controlled, similar to so-called soft-keys.

Automatically reconfigurable multimedia system with interchangeable personality adapters

A system and method are disclosed that accepts different types of signals from multiple sources and routes the signals to the appropriate devices for conversion or other processing so that each signal is in a common or desired format, such as the MPEG standard. The individual signal streams are packetized so that each signal stream carries identifying information associated with it originating signal source and then multiplexed onto a single digital transport stream for storage. Such a system allows overlapping signals of different types from multiple sources to be processed and stored in a single storage device. Each of the signals can then be subsequently retrieved for playback or display.

Multiple source recording

Home network resources and communication paths are managed using network path bandwidths, network storage capacities, and quality of service.

TV-centric system

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Escondido, CA, United States of America

Ian Charles Matthews