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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2009
David Boyden, Escondido, CA (US);
Rafael Calderon, San Diego, CA (US);
David Dykstra, San Antonio, TX (US);
Koji Kawashima, Tokyo, JP;
Duyet Pham, San Diego, CA (US);
David Boyden, Escondido, CA (US);
Rafael Calderon, San Diego, CA (US);
David Dykstra, San Antonio, TX (US);
Koji Kawashima, Tokyo, JP;
Duyet Pham, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A switching module, system and method facilitate communications between one or more non-CEC enabled devices and a television of an audio/visual (A/V) system. The switching module is able to accommodate both Consumer Electronic Control (CEC) enabled and non-CEC enabled devices for communication with the television. In response to user control of a user interface of the switching module, when a non-CEC enabled device is coupled to the switching module, a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) input port of the HDMI switching module is selected and a default HDMI device type and corresponding HDMI logic address is set for the non-CEC enabled device. This information is displayed for the user by the television.