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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2006
Applicant:

Junichi Tsukamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Junichi Tsukamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/93 (2006.01); H04N 5/92 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An electronic equipment device that includes a storage section storing data for creating a menu screen. A metadata acquisition section acquires metadata for displaying a menu item for operating external equipment, from the external equipment. The metadata having data for defining a type of the menu item and transition of a menu focus. A remote commander operation detection section detects operation performed on a remote commander. A menu screen generation processing section adds the menu item based on the metadata to the menu screen, for assembly; and a notification processing section notifies the external equipment of the menu item selected on the menu screen.


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